{"id":68956,"date":"2023-09-08T13:15:51","date_gmt":"2023-09-08T18:15:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/?p=68956"},"modified":"2023-09-08T13:15:51","modified_gmt":"2023-09-08T18:15:51","slug":"know-your-firearms-history-lessons-and-lore-from-elmer-keith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2023\/09\/08\/know-your-firearms-history-lessons-and-lore-from-elmer-keith\/","title":{"rendered":"Know Your Firearms History: Lessons and Lore from Elmer Keith"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Lessons and Lore from Elmer Keith<\/a><\/h1>\n

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For those of you who are just joining us, this \u201cElmer\u201d guy is Elmer Keith, known to some as the Sage of Salmon, Idaho, and Dean of American Gunwriters to others. He was a cowboy, hunter, packer, guide, shooter, prolific experimenter, and gun writer during most of the 20th<\/sup>\u00a0century. He was the driving force behind the creation of the\u00a0.44 Magnum<\/a>, the\u00a0.338 Winchester Magnum<\/a>, the Winchester Model 70 bolt action rifle, the .41 Magnum, a style of bullet that bears his name to this day, and countless other things during his lifetime. He was born in 1899, during an era the likes of which we\u2019ll never see again. His mentors were those men who fought on the frontier and during the Civil War, men who knew more about living and dying with the gun than most do today.<\/h2>\n

In the tactical and self-defense training sectors today, there is a lot of talk about shooting on the move, shooting at multiple targets (since bad guys usually run in packs,) point shooting, shooting at close and long range, and generally \u201cbeing one with the gun.\u201d The way it\u2019s read, you\u2019d think that this is all some new knowledge that\u2019s just been discovered in the last 20 years or so since we had a couple of big shooting wars in that time. Well, I hate to tell you, but it\u2019s all been said before, and Elmer said it.<\/h2>\n

In 1955 Elmer Keith wrote the classic shooting book, \u201cSixguns by Keith.\u201d It was more or less a treatise on all things having to do with shooting the handgun, from choosing the right handgun for the job, learning to shoot it, competition, gunfighting, quick draw, point shooting, shooting at long range, holsters, modifying the handgun, and choosing the right cartridge. It was literally a one-stop shop for the new pistol shooter. Elmer Keith was not the last word by any means, but he was smart enough to learn from others the skills needed to stay alive in a dangerous world. He was able to combine that with his own vast amount of personal experience and to put it into words.<\/h2>\n

Let\u2019s take a look at a few things Elmer talked about almost 60 years ago, and how they apply today.<\/h2>\n

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Lessons and Lore from Elmer Keith   For those of you who are just joining us, this \u201cElmer\u201d guy is Elmer Keith, known to some as the Sage of Salmon, Idaho, and Dean of American Gunwriters to others. He was a cowboy, hunter, packer, guide, shooter, prolific experimenter, and gun writer during most of the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[3786,5445,1307,6199,6200,6133,981,475,6096,6135,6644,24,1309],"tags":[9380,658,16437,13838,16222,8798,6528,16438,16439,660],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68956"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68956"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68969,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68956\/revisions\/68969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}