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Think I kicked this off on another post, glad to see somebody noticed. Elmers shot was with a .44 mag, a M29, not sure of bbl length. The load was likely his "Keith SWC" which was 250 gr cast lead w/ 21 grs of 2400. For some reason I want to say it had a gas check.
I cannot for the life of me find my copy of "Hell I was There" but I spent a lot of time reading that book and here's my recollection.
The elk was already hit by another hunter....it may have been his old pal Judge ......Parker (?) ...maybe, not sure. The names in the book. He shot several times, and could see the bullet strikes, or so he said. Seems like it was on a hillside, so there would have been some backdrop. From memory now, seems like the elk crested the hill and went out of sight. They got up there and found it on the back slope.
KEITH took a HUGE amount of guff over writing that up. Seems like I read later that he went back with his witness, and a surveyor, and they measured the dang site off.
Elmer's thing was revolvers, and he is credited with helping to push the gun industry into releasing the .44 mag. He was INTO long range revolver shooting, and mentions in other books about lobbing six gun slugs at old out houses over long distances on the prairie. In the same "....I was There" book, he talks about a group of Army officers during WWII not believing about long range handgun shooting. He took the lot out to a range there at the arsenal, ( he was inspecting weapons) and shot a snow drift up way out there with a GI 1911 .45 automatic. The comment was made by somebody to go out there and lay down beside it (the drift). Nobody did of course.
There are some old pics floating around of Elmer shooting a .357 at a target way out there too.....hard to believe type distances. Keith shot more firearms, shot more stuff, more places, than most of us ever will, ever. He was from an era and a lifestyle, that most of us will never get our heads and our hands around.
I don't doubt for a minute he did it. And I encourage everybody to read that book, an absolute great read.
Think I kicked this off on another post, glad to see somebody noticed. Elmers shot was with a .44 mag, a M29, not sure of bbl length. The load was likely his "Keith SWC" which was 250 gr cast lead w/ 21 grs of 2400. For some reason I want to say it had a gas check.
I cannot for the life of me find my copy of "Hell I was There" but I spent a lot of time reading that book and here's my recollection.
The elk was already hit by another hunter....it may have been his old pal Judge ......Parker (?) ...maybe, not sure. The names in the book. He shot several times, and could see the bullet strikes, or so he said. Seems like it was on a hillside, so there would have been some backdrop. From memory now, seems like the elk crested the hill and went out of sight. They got up there and found it on the back slope.
KEITH took a HUGE amount of guff over writing that up. Seems like I read later that he went back with his witness, and a surveyor, and they measured the dang site off.
Elmer's thing was revolvers, and he is credited with helping to push the gun industry into releasing the .44 mag. He was INTO long range revolver shooting, and mentions in other books about lobbing six gun slugs at old out houses over long distances on the prairie. In the same "....I was There" book, he talks about a group of Army officers during WWII not believing about long range handgun shooting. He took the lot out to a range there at the arsenal, ( he was inspecting weapons) and shot a snow drift up way out there with a GI 1911 .45 automatic. The comment was made by somebody to go out there and lay down beside it (the drift). Nobody did of course.
There are some old pics floating around of Elmer shooting a .357 at a target way out there too.....hard to believe type distances. Keith shot more firearms, shot more stuff, more places, than most of us ever will, ever. He was from an era and a lifestyle, that most of us will never get our heads and our hands around.
I don't doubt for a minute he did it. And I encourage everybody to read that book, an absolute great read.