Elmer would have liked Glocks...

Considering that the only poster in the thread who actually knew Elmer Keith...

... says he thinks Elmer Keith would have appreciated anything functional and reliable, I'm not inclined to say he wouldn't have liked Glocks. I'll accept BeauHooligan's assessment.

I doubt they'd have been his favorites, but I can believe he wouldn't have disliked them.
 
Elmer NO way, Jeff Cooper, Maybe

I honestly could never imagine Elmer with a Glock or any other ghetto / plastic sideways blaster. Maybe and I really mean Maybe, Jeff Cooper would at the Ranch, but I would bet in private he would scoff the plastic ghetto gangbangers guns.

:D:eek:

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Gringo
 
Ever watch the original Death Wish, and then watch Death Wish III?

In the original, he slyly hunts down the bad guy with a Walther PPK. (I think? It was small) By the third movie, he's shooting guys off of buildings with the Wildey and RPG's.
 
What I can't understand is.......

Why doesn't Glock offer a replacement barrel for their own guns, that is conventional rifling, perhaps stainless? I mean, about 5 or 6 independant companies supply after market barrels FOR Glocks? For military contracts, Glock could still supply just hammer beaten hex rifled barrels, but how good would it be to us sporting shooters & reloaders to buy a Glock with both barrels, a hex & a conventional? I would be in that :D Glock could even just have conventional barrels made in house, or even buy aftermarket ones they endorse & sell them as a Glock part?:D
 
The only auto pistols Elmer ever said anything nice about were:
•The 1911, which had to be kept scrupulously cleaned and oiled.

•The Luger, which pointed well despite it's anemic caliber and had a fixed barrel.

•The S&W 39, which would have been a hum dinger if chambered in .45 caliber. I was surprised when the 645 came out that S&W did not attribute any credit to Elmer. He concieved it back when he wrote Sixguns.

I have read many, many of elmers articles, his books and a biography and I think that he would have hated and despised the Glock and questioned the sanity of anybody carrying one.

Elmer was about quality, not quantity of lead flying.
To his way of thinking a half dozen 240s at 1400 fps beat a magazine full of lesser rounds.
He said so in "Hell, I was there."
 
I doubt he would have liked it but I'm sure he would have been interested.

There are a lot of surprising things about him, some because they're forgotten and some because he was, like all of us, a man of his times. He mentioned Lugers a lot because, even then, it had been around for a long time and it was relatively common, maybe even as common as Colt .45s (which is a stretch, I know), many of which were brought back after the wars. He was first especially interested in the Colt Single Action Army because at the time, it wasn't an antique and nothing was a reproduction until the Great Western came along, which was even before Navy Arms. He certainly didn't like everything new by any means, including the M1, but he was certainly interested in finding out everything he could about new things.

He was also a man who held his own opinions about things and was not given to going along with the crowd. You might even call him opinionated. He probably didn't think much of people who didn't agree with him either, yet he seemed to have an affinity for what we would call characters and many are mentioned in his books, along with their photographs. I mentioned in another post this morning that we don't seem to tolerate characters too well anymore.

There were a lot of famous gun writers who were his contemporaries but I can't think of any of them who were quite like him.
 
I don't think he would have liked Glock's for personal use or for hunting. However, I think he'd appreciate them as a duty / issue weapon for peace officers, especially when chambered in .40 s&w.
 
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