Elmer Keith

I'm like, oh.

So I start diving into the archives and reading Keith and Skelton and all these different deals.

I'm like, oh, I don't have to load this thing.

to mock Jesus as Caleb getting says, but, uh, and I started getting this accuracy that I couldn't replicate.

That's a H&G 258.

They cast out to about 225, and that's the casting mold.

MP Molds makes a replica of it, and Matt's Bullets uses it, and that's the mold that Elmer Keith – did all the cool 41 work with long nose, good cross-sectional density.

And these I lube them with basically beeswax, carnauba and a little bit of candle dye and some other stuff that I mix in a pot and I'll, I'll pan lube them or run it through a lubricizer to four 11, but, or four 10, but these, I only shoot through guns.

To my knowledge, and I have researched, there is nothing that matches these creatures, unless one considers old legends and folktales of were-creatures.

To conclude, I have to fall back on Elmer Keith's famous line, Hell, I was there.

My name is Kevin, and I'm from Tennessee, born and raised.

We moved to the property that's still our family home when I was 13.

To my knowledge, and I have researched, there is nothing that matches these creatures, unless one considers old legends and folktales of werecreatures.

To conclude, I have to fall back on Elmer Keith's famous line, Hell, I was there.

My name is Kevin and I'm from Tennessee, born and raised.

We moved to the property that's still our family home when I was 13.

That,

that, that didn't, that, uh, I don't think that second guess ever came to Elmer Keith.

He was.

all of them you want him and truman fowler i've got his

You're just going to lose more.

Cool.

Well, I think, I think I've, I've always had a lot of romance with, In the hunting and the weapon side, it was Jack O'Connor and Elmer Keith.

And I actually leaned the Elmer Keith way.

And I said, if I can attach my name to something that is nearly timeless, I'd be a happy man to do so.

And considering the names that have come through that book, Elmer Keith, Warren Page, Jack O'Connor, you know, and now I've got you and Craig Boddington and Ron Spomer and, you know.

my heroes, the guys, you know, instead of reading the social studies book in high school, I had, you know, Peterson's honey or one of your magazines in the, in the folder.

What are you doing? Nothing, sir.

Okay, let that sink in for a second.

Okay, the .44 Magnum developed in some part by Elmer Keith and largely as a, and primarily as a hunting handgun caliber.

Now, I know a ton of hunting is done with .357 Magnum.

I get that.

And so Colt, back in, in the late 1800s, developed a grip frame and hammer and trigger combination on the Single Action Army that was designed to really be ideal for that type of competition and the shooting style that they used.

So fast-forward a little, a few years around in the 1920s, Elmer Keith, he worked with a custom gunsmith, and they came out with his number five revolver, and he basically made it a Colt Bisley grip frame with a Single Action Army grip frame.

Mm.

He kinda made a hybrid, and that was kind of, like, the top of the line custom revolver for a long time.

Well, fast-forward to the 1980s, Bill Ruger, who was friends with Elmer Keith, he came up with his own Bisley grip frame that was kind of a, an, a progression from the Elmer Keith thing.

It wasn't as an extreme grip angle as the original Colt Bisley, but it was a little bit more of a modified one.

And it, what they found was that that grip frame, being a little bit longer and a little bit more of a straight-down grip, really handled recoil well.

So it's just a, it's something that's, it's kind of a nuanced deal.