375 H&H case necked down with some of the body taper removed. I have a few, and in one Elmer wrote that he was "getting on, and I'd best get over the mountain and on '.270 Jack's' grave while I still can." That was a time when people still wrote real letters, not emails. And, yes, he really did hate Jack O'Connor, although history suggests that O'Connor didn't reciprocate. And woe to the young editor who misunderstood his meaning! But we got on well, mostly from a distance. The first task, then, was to try to figure out exactly what he was saying.
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The spelling wasn't bad at all, but a Keith manuscript was full of run-together words and occasional missing letters - our theory was that his typewriter had some malfunctioning keys. By the time I had the, er, pleasure of turning his raw copy into magazine articles, age probably didn't help much (he was 80 by then). After all, O'Connor had been an English professor and novelist. Elmer, well, he looked like Elmer, and he was genuinely happy to be there and delighted to talk to everyone. Jack could be stand-offish in a crowd and looked like the college professor he once was - a little bit uncomfortable. Elmer was at one end of the Petersen Publishing booth, Jack O'Connor at the other. I was stationed at Camp Pendleton, so that was probably 1975.
The first time I ever saw Elmer Keith was when the NRA Convention was held in San Diego. He was equally expert with rifle, handgun and shotgun, and during his long career he made significant contributions in all three arenas. He was completely honest about walking his shots into the buck, and I'm sure it happened just the way he wrote it.Īside from how genuinely friendly he was, Elmer's magic was that he really knew his stuff. Someone else had wounded the buck, and Elmer was trying to keep it from getting over the next ridge. He was criticized for years, but put it in context. Take for instance the controversy when he wrote about his 600-yard shot on a mule deer with his.
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