When I was a kid, I saw him shooting trap at a gun club, but don't recall getting to meet him.
I did, however, get to meet "Hopalong Cassidy" as a young lad. He was great with the kids.
The vinyl flooring of my 2nd-grade classroom had the imprint of a cowboy with a big white hat and a horse in a repeating pattern. I didn’t know who it was as I had never seen a TV. Then, during that same year, I saw my first TV program. The cowboy and horse on screen look amazingly like the imprint on the floor at school. To this day I can here the tv identifying him as “Hopalong Cassidy”. You can imagine the impression that made on me.