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Elmer Keith ?


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Elmer Keith or his cone!
 
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I like his "hat rack"
 
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Hell! He was there!


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Elmer Keith...big caliber and bullet weight over high-velocity. My kind of man!
 
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...calibre?...looks like a 1-h; so 458wm?...
 
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You have to be fairly young to not recognize old Elmer Keith arch nemesis of Jack O'Conner.

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Elmer Keith cigar and all!
 
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A rare shot of him without a hat.
 
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in all of the visits I made to his home, he never wore a hat indoors. It WAS in his left hand by time he opened the screen door though. Note the hatrack behind him.

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Among his many other fine attributes, Mr. Keith was a great admirer of Westley Richards firearms.
 
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Hope you guys enjoyed the pics tu2

 
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BBH - How in the World are you? Thanks for posting some really great pics of Elmer and his collections.


BTW the .300 H&H is being readied for a Bull Elk hunt here in the New Mexico Unit I live in. First elk tag I have drawn in 5 or 6 years I guess?

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You have to be fairly young to not recognize old Elmer Keith arch nemesis of Jack O'Conner.

Mark


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Hey Larry,I wish you all the luck in the world,i hope you get a big'en tu2
That 'ol 300H&H sure is a dandy, i'am glad its got a good home,its a sweetie shooter for sure tu2I sure miss it..You Take care & give us a hunt report when you get back home from the elk hills & glad you enjoyed the neat pics tu2Be safe & have fun tu2
 
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Thanks for these photos - and memories.


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That looks like the display in the Boise Cabelas.


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Does anyone else remember how he described resetting his own broken nose with two pencils and some sticky tape in 'Hell I Was There'?

He must have been a really tough bugger!






 
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or the recovery of injuries from the boarding house fire,or knocking his hip out of joint lifting a wagon......
don't make em' like him anymore
 
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Thanks, those are great photos.


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I have never seen these pictures.Thank you very much for sharing.

Amazing what a man can achieve and accumulate if he sets the mind to it.

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That looks like the display in the Boise Cabelas.


You'd be right...
 
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I know you guys like seeing Biggame trophy's as much as i do,,,i found a pic to share of one of his Cape buff heads
& beautiful Rams..awsome stuff!
Did he help invent the 338win.mag.& 458win.mag?I discovered he had his own style of knife also,will try to post a pic of his blade style..no they don't make 'em like "Papa Keith" anymore forsure tu2

 
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I know you hunter's love a good blade much as i do..here's the "Keith style blade"...I want one hilbilySWWWEETTT..

 
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Isn't there a magazine piece about Mr. Keith being on a commercial airliner when an on-board bomb exploded?
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I remember reading, "Hell I Was There ' ... and at the end of the book he mentioned that a person should tell a person if he enjoyed (been 30 years so I am a bit vague on the exact words) what a person had written ... you should tell them and not wait until they are dead. I agreed instantly and grabbed my telephone .. got his phone number from some operator and phoned Idaho to tell the fellow how much I did enjoy his writings and his latest book .. The lady that answered the phone said that Mrs. Keith had gone to visit her husband where ever he then was after that horrible stroke .. Damn. Frowner
 
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I'm using that same white pine to remodel my home/trophy room. Thanks for the pics BBH, I now know what I'm looking forward too and I like it.
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I remember reading, "Hell I Was There ' ... and at the end of the book he mentioned that a person should tell a person if he enjoyed (been 30 years so I am a bit vague on the exact words) what a person had written ... you should tell them and not wait until they are dead. I agreed instantly and grabbed my telephone .. got his phone number from some operator and phoned Idaho to tell the fellow how much I did enjoy his writings and his latest book .. The lady that answered the phone said that Mrs. Keith had gone to visit her husband where ever he then was after that horrible stroke .. Damn. Frowner


I am still really, really regretting not sending a letter to Finn Aagaard telling how much his writing meant to me. I sure told myself that I would quite a few times.

I have had a few chances to speak to Craig Boddington a few times and I made sure to out of my way to tell him that it was his writing that sent me to Africa.


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Hunting in Africa is an adventure. The number of variables involved preclude the possibility of a perfect hunt. Some problems will arise. How you decide to handle them will determine how much you enjoy your hunt.

Just tell yourself, "it's all part of the adventure." Remember, if Robert Ruark had gotten upset every time problems with Harry
Selby's flat bed truck delayed the safari, Horn of the Hunter would have read like an indictment of Selby. But Ruark rolled with the punches, poured some gin, and enjoyed the adventure.

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That looks like the display in the Boise Cabelas.



Yep, surely is. Interesting exhibit, too. It was set up there with the advice of gun writer John Taffin, plus the guns, mounts, office settings, etc., being loaned to Cabela's by Elmer Keith's son, who lives here in Boise.

Anyone visiting Boise should take a time to visit Cabela's and see the Elmer Keith Exhibit.

L.W.


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Enjoyed the pics. Recognized Elmer right off! Big Grin
 
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I can honestly say "Hell, I was there!"

Who else on here can say that? Please step up.

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I remember working at Intermounain Outdoors when a lot of that stuff was in there pretty cool to see all of it in one place now though, especially the guns.
 
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in all of the visits I made to his home, he never wore a hat indoors. It WAS in his left hand by time he opened the screen door though. Note the hatrack behind him.

Rich
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