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Post by Stump Buster on Dec 10, 2014 12:38:31 GMT -5
I thought I'd post some (44) pictures of the Elmer Keith Museum for those who didn't get a chance to make it before Cabela's closed it down. The pics would have been much better if... 1- I had a better camera 2- The displays weren't behind glass and already illuminated and 3- I had ANY photography talent at all With that said, I hope this is a benefit to those who couldn't see it in person.       |
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Post by Stump Buster on Dec 10, 2014 12:40:32 GMT -5
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Post by Stump Buster on Dec 10, 2014 12:42:27 GMT -5
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Post by Stump Buster on Dec 10, 2014 12:44:50 GMT -5
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Post by Stump Buster on Dec 10, 2014 12:47:58 GMT -5
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Post by Stump Buster on Dec 10, 2014 12:50:19 GMT -5
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Post by Stump Buster on Dec 10, 2014 13:24:15 GMT -5
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Post by gjn on Dec 10, 2014 13:37:55 GMT -5
A sincere thank you for posting these pictures. I had hoped to eventually see this myself but now that its gone I appreciate the opportunity to see what was there.
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Post by jiminyt on Dec 10, 2014 13:52:16 GMT -5
Yeah, thanks so much for posting these!!
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Post by Woodrow F Call on Dec 10, 2014 14:04:02 GMT -5
Thanks for sharing. Lots of awesome stuff there!
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Post by Fowler on Dec 10, 2014 14:32:00 GMT -5
Thanks there were a lot of photos there of stuff I havnt seen in others photo essays of the museum. Too bad it had to go away...
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Post by bradshaw on Dec 10, 2014 15:02:38 GMT -5
Stump buster.... very much appreciate your photo essay. To take photos of objects in a museum setting represents a near thankless challenge, as it so difficult. You prove the effort is worth it. Perhaps the display aspect conserves an instrument's importance in history. Early among my postings, guns on display at the Indian museum on the Mall in Washington, D.C., including old Colt Peacemakers, a Colt Patterson, Indian revolvers and rifles, and a Winchester Model 1866 presented to Chief Sitting Bull by President Ulysses S. Grant.
Keith's Colts and Smith & Wessons bridge an era to our time that began with Sam Colt's revolving pistols.
A sacred trust we must continue,
David Bradshaw
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Post by sixshot on Dec 10, 2014 16:57:20 GMT -5
I got the chance to hold some of those guns in Elmers shop in the mid 70's, I've posted one where he's holding one of his Ruger #1's thats engraved. We were out backof his house where he had all his mounts & did his writing. Sure wish I would have taken more photo's. Hate it that the museum is closing, some will never get to see it.
Dick
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Post by klnc on Dec 10, 2014 21:20:53 GMT -5
Why did Cabelas decide to close it? Where is everything going? FOUND THE ANSWER IN ANOTHER POST.
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Post by contender on Dec 10, 2014 23:24:49 GMT -5
What other post as to why Cabelas chose to close the museum?
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