ELMER KEITH PHOTO'S

[tew3006]

Great story! Thanks for posting it. I can't wait to see more pictures and hear the story behind them.

[jayhawker]

Fantastic post. Thanks for sharing.
JB

[maxcactus]

Outstanding story and photos (as usual), sixshot!!! And what a fortuitous find as well. Hope you and your son shared a beer after finding and perusing those.

[jayhawker]

Elmer also had Gaylord high ride holsters with sight guards. But bet the sixgun was a .44.
Jayhawker Bob

[sixshot]

Sorry for the silence, my computer got nailed with a virus over the weekend, just got it up & running tonight.
I found 2 more photo's of Elmer Keith's trophy room, I don't think I had the nerve to get one of us together back then!
I'll get them posted tomorrow. This is a bull elk I shot in the early 70's with the Ruger OM flattop I'm wearing in the Lawrence #7 shoulder holster. The hillside was so steep I could hardly stand up! I had made a bad hit on him earlier, hit him too far back, he humped up & ran out of sight in the dark timber. I ran ahead of him quite a ways & then started climbing up the steep ridge line hoping to find him. When I had climber 100 yds or so I found a game trail & started sneaking back towards the last place I"d seen the bull, after going a short distance I spotted him walking towards me, when he spotted me he whirled & try to shuffle back down the trail, he was only 20 yds away.
I'd read before that shooting an animal at the root of the tail was deadly if performed correctly, thats where I aimed & at the shot he immediately dropped off the trail & rolled down the hill. When I got over to him he was dead as a rock but instead of hitting him at the root of the tail I had hit him in the back of the head, the big Keith 250 gr slug had exited his fore head & knocked one eye out! So much for my good shooting, I was lucky to get him. I was along & had to drive home to get some help getting him off the mountain.



This is a nice bull taken in 1986, my oldest son & I both shot him using 257 Imp. mine was a Ruger #1 & his was a custom mauser.



A dandy mess of rockchucks taken on a early spring hunt using a 222 Sako, this was about 1977.



A late season doe in the Salmon river country, taken with my Ruger OM 44 flattop & the 250 gr Keith using 21 grs of 2400. Several doe's were feeding on a sidehill & a coyote came trotting through the herd, they weren't real nervous but did keep their eyes on him. As he worked on past them I lined up on this doe as she faced directly away from me. The big Keith slug hit her just to the side of the donut hole & exited through the center chest. I've taken 3 deer using cast slugs that were shot lengthways.



Dick

[sixshot]

This is a Red Wolf I shot in 1966-67 just west of Sherman, Texas where I was stationed in the Air Force, I believe they are extinct now, not sure. I wrote up the story in the old Northwest Fishing & Hunting News.



A nice bobcat taken with a Marlin 39A at about 12 feet!



A nice mess of bullfrogs, I always shot them with my recurve target bow, the target arrow would just pin them to the mud & I"d drop them in a burlap bag. I had a good sack full one night & got home around midnight, I hosed the sack down good & left it on the lawn by the swimming pool. About 2am the land lady was about to beat my door down, several of the frogs were still alive, they had escaped the bag & were swimmin in her pool, some were dragging their guts behind them as them swam, she was quite excited & I had to put my swimsuit on & start running down those croaking bullfrogs! I never did that again!
To give you an idea of the size of those frogs, thats a metal garbage can lid they are laying on, true story!



A nice raccoon that really gave me a bad time one day when I was woods bumming. I spotted him on a limb several feet off the ground & pinned him to the tree with my Bear Kodiak recurve bow, he wasn't hurt but he was sure mad, he fell out of the tree & hit the ground running, I chased him over to another tree & he went through a hole in the bottom of it, the tree was about 12-15 feet high.
I scrounged around & found an old limb & stuck it into a fork in the tree where the coon was hiding, I eventually broke the top of the fork off & by standing on one of the limbs I had broken off I could just barely peek down into the hollow log, the coon was down there & didn't seem to be enjoying himself all that much. I stepped off my perch & found a long limb & climbed back up & started boinking him on the noggin, that really got him fired up, he jumped straight up at me & almost got me in the face, it scared the "Pelosi" out of me & I fell off the limb onto my back.
Well now both of us were mad, I climbed back up there & pulled out my model 28 S&W & gave him 3-4 down that hole, that had a rather calming effect on him & I was able to pull him out the bottom hole. Just a couple of more inches & he would have nailed me good, the growling coming up out of that hole was enough to give you nightmares!


A Texas turkey, taken at Brownwood, Texas with a Remington 308 & a cast bullet, #311291, I only used 5 grs of Unique & a little pinch of kapok, I'd just shoot them in the breast, you could eat the bullet hole.



Dick

[hyvltge]

Love the bul frog story!

[Mountaineer]

Wonderful photograph collection and great stories to go along with them, sixshot! We're all envious of your visits to Elmer Keith, I'm sure. Thanks for posting.

[Frank V]

Sixshot, thanks for a great post I enjoy hearing of long ago hunts. The photo's of Elmer Keith are fantastic.
Frank