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Can you I.D. This Man?
27 June 2010, 04:14
blackbearhunterCan you I.D. This Man?
27 June 2010, 04:23
Steve AhrenbergElmer Keith ?
Formerly "Nganga"
27 June 2010, 04:35
AfricanHunterElmer Keith or his cone!
27 June 2010, 04:35
505 gibbsI like his "hat rack"
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Elmer Keith...big caliber and bullet weight over high-velocity. My kind of man!
27 June 2010, 04:46
JHunter...calibre?...looks like a 1-h; so 458wm?...
27 June 2010, 04:47
MARK H. YOUNGYou have to be fairly young to not recognize old Elmer Keith arch nemesis of Jack O'Conner.
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GeoffM24Elmer Keith cigar and all!
27 June 2010, 05:16
John FrederickA rare shot of him without a hat.
27 June 2010, 05:29
Idaho Sharpshooterin 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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27 June 2010, 05:48
blackbearhunter
27 June 2010, 05:50
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27 June 2010, 06:02
blackbearhunter
27 June 2010, 06:04
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27 June 2010, 06:16
mauser93Among his many other fine attributes, Mr. Keith was a great admirer of Westley Richards firearms.
27 June 2010, 06:21
blackbearhunter
27 June 2010, 06:24
blackbearhunterHope you guys enjoyed the pics
27 June 2010, 06:24
Larry SellersBBH - 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?
Larry Sellers
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27 June 2010, 06:26
RBHuntquote:
Originally posted by MARK H. YOUNG:
You have to be fairly young to not recognize old Elmer Keith arch nemesis of Jack O'Conner.
Mark
+1
27 June 2010, 06:36
blackbearhunterHey Larry,I wish you all the luck in the world,i hope you get a big'en
That 'ol 300H&H sure is a dandy, i'am glad its got a good home,its a sweetie shooter for sure
I 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
Be safe & have fun
27 June 2010, 09:43
Michael RobinsonThanks for these photos - and memories.
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27 June 2010, 10:59
graybirdThat looks like the display in the Boise Cabelas.
Graybird
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27 June 2010, 12:22
shakariDoes 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!
27 June 2010, 17:57
ravenror 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
27 June 2010, 18:15
PSmithThanks, those are great photos.
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27 June 2010, 18:50
RobinOLocksleyI 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.
Best-
Locksley,R.
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27 June 2010, 19:24
BaxterBquote:
That looks like the display in the Boise Cabelas.
You'd be right...
27 June 2010, 20:09
blackbearhunterI 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
27 June 2010, 20:21
blackbearhunterI know you hunter's love a good blade much as i do..here's the "Keith style blade"...I want one
SWWWEETTT..
Isn't there a magazine piece about Mr. Keith being on a commercial airliner when an on-board bomb exploded?
Dabney
27 June 2010, 21:15
scruffyI 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.
27 June 2010, 23:24
L. David KeithI'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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28 June 2010, 02:21
JBrownquote:
Originally posted by scruffy:
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.
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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28 June 2010, 03:12
Leanwolffquote:
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.
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28 June 2010, 03:17
Use Enough GunEnjoyed the pics. Recognized Elmer right off!
28 June 2010, 09:15
465H&Hquote:
Originally posted by blackbearhunter:
I can honestly say "Hell, I was there!"
Who else on here can say that? Please step up.
465H&H
28 June 2010, 11:26
BaxterBI 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.
28 June 2010, 11:32
Matt Grahamquote:
Originally posted by Idaho Sharpshooter:
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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