Elmer Keith collection up for auction.

remington jim said:
Yup ! My Hero Elmer Keith :d RJ
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X2 and I wish I had the means to bid on a few items. Meeting and spending a day at his home in Salmon Idaho with him in the mid 70's was the highlight of my hunting and shooting years. I'll have to make do with an Elmer Keith commemorative S&W I acquired a short while back. My avatar is a photo I took of him as I was getting ready to head back home.



However, with a little luck on the next LOTTO 649 draw............... . ;)Doesn't hurt to dream.
 
Thanks for posting Ted - a trip down memory lane. My father followed Keith and O'Connor's verbal sparring so there was always a healthy helping of both of their writing laying around when I was a kid.

I remember the .476 nitro from one article, but if I could pick just one i could have it just might be the .338
 
Johnn Peterson said:
X2 and I wish I had the means to bid on a few items. Meeting and spending a day at his home in Salmon Idaho with him in the mid 70's was the highlight of my hunting and shooting years. I'll have to make do with an Elmer Keith commemorative S&W I acquired a short while back. My avatar is a photo I took of him as I was getting ready to head back home.



However, with a little luck on the next LOTTO 649 draw............... . ;)Doesn't hurt to dream.
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Me pense yer slipp'in a wee bit there Mr. Johnn................
 
wow ....

born on another continent and a little later than most of you guys lol i didnt follow the Elmer Jack fights but if i remember Jack has got similar caliber guns than Elmer especially for the rifles ... what were really the differences betwen them?
 
medvedqc said:
wow ....

born on another continent and a little later than most of you guys lol i didnt follow the Elmer Jack fights but if i remember Jack has got similar caliber guns than Elmer especially for the rifles ... what were really the differences betwen them?
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My take is that O'Connor was primarily a deer/sheep hunter and that Keith was a thick timber elk hunter.

Keith reminds me of Don Cherry, right about a lot of things but with a persona to maintain.
 
MiG25 said:
My take is that O'Connor was primarily a deer/sheep hunter and that Keith was a thick timber elk hunter.

Keith reminds me of Don Cherry, right about a lot of things but with a persona to maintain.
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And applicable to both and their careers, to use one of my quotes of note;), "Sure beats workin' in a pulp mill:p."
 
medvedqc said:
wow ....

born on another continent and a little later than most of you guys lol i didnt follow the Elmer Jack fights but if i remember Jack has got similar caliber guns than Elmer especially for the rifles ... what were really the differences betwen them?
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In the Elmer/Jack fight, I sided with Jack.
Jack O'Connor was the most common sense gun writer I have ever read.
Outdoor Life magazine was struggling to keep a few hundred thousand readers when Jack took over as shooting editor. Virtually because of him, Outdoor Life grew to a monthly circulation of over three million!
Jack just made common sense out of situations. For example he once wrote that you could have a lifetime of experience with a 270 and with a 30-06, but in the field you could not tell the difference between them.
He also once told of how many hundreds of big game animals he had either shot, or seen shot, with the 7x57 and how many hundred animals he had either shot, or seen shot, with the 7mm Remington magnum and he could really not distinguish any difference between the two, in actual killing power. Good hit, dead animal, poor hit, wounded animal.
Elmer Keith on the other hand, was very biased and opinionated. In his big game hunting book he remarks that people often ask him why he runs down the 30-06 calibre so. He states it is because he has seen more game wounded with a 30-06 than with any other calibre!
Anyway, it always seemed to me that Jack had the best, most practical and above all, a common sense solution to hunters and shooters problems. I guess it didn't hurt that in expressing himself, he had the background of being a university language professor, before going full time into the shooting world.
Sorry Johnn!
 
:)I respect your opinion and right to express it.;) No offence taken. ;)Don't tell Elmer but I also have items from Jacks list, 7x57, 270 and 30-06 to name a few. I think perhaps the biggest rationale behind my Keith choice stems from his diverse contribution to and use of a wide range of not only rifles but also shotguns and especially handguns. Overall, if I have to make a choice between a bigger heavier calibre and something smaller and faster, especially in some of those less than ideal circumstances on game, I gotta' go with Elmer.
;)There was that 'educational' level difference between the two that's for sure. After spending that day visiting him, later that evening on the way south to Twin Falls Idaho where I visited Herrett's, I parked my truck & camper in a gravel pit for the night. After I cleaned up supper dishes, I read a few pages from one or two of his books. While I'm sure he had someone go over his spelling etc, the way the dialogue was put down, it was just like he spoke.
 
Keith and O'Connor are well remembered these days - when I was a boy I rather liked Warren Page of Field and Stream. And his 7MM Mashburn Magnum.
 
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