Historical long range shooters.

[pavementends]

Funny how in any thread there are some that cannot acknowledge accomplishment without denigrating the achiever. Shooting, music, hunting, food etc. There must be a class taught that one cannot comment on a post without including something negative. When I met Elmer Keith he was very personable. Jack O not so much. Maybe we should remember Thumpers mothers advice in the movie Bambi "If you can't say something nice, don't say ****"

 

[Rotten]

436. Yes I am very proud of my father he has some very funny stories about going into boot camp and only being able speak German. Although he never really talks about what he did in Vietnam. But one time up at his cabin when he was drinking and I asked him and that's the last time I ever asked again. Thank you for the correction all have to go back and re read some as my mind does get things mixed up more and more lately.

 

[Rosebud]

Wow…..and that's what I always thought of O'Conner, though "no" knockers! memtb

Yeah! O'Connor came off as a known it all as well. And he did have a vast amount of knowledge. But people loved to read his stories in the outdoor mags. He and Keith weren't the best of friends. But thousands upon thousands of .270 Winchester rifles were sold because of him.

 

[HARPERC]

When I met Elmer Keith he was very personable. Jack O not so much.

I have found that statement to be consistent locally among those interacting with both men.

 

[22250imp]

I know it was just a movie, but ol' Gus and his lever rifle when he took the "cock a doodle doo" out of that dude!!

 

[mdmiller]

For 'entertainment' I shoot a Pedersoli made replica of the 1874 Sharps in 45/70. Saturday 12 of us shot various models of the Buffalo hunting Era rifles using black powder loaded cartridges.

I think that the Unertl scope wasn't around then???

 

[MtPockets]

Article on Carlos Hathcocks

A QUIET MAN UNIQUELY QUALIFIED TO STALK AND KILL

It was 1967. In a clearing near the border between Laos and North Vietnam, Carlos Hathcock lay on his side in grass three feet high. He had been crawling for 24 hours, but was only 500 yards from t…

www.chicagotribune.com

Very interesting article.
Thank you for posting it.

 

[cvixx]

Freeman Bull. He was the gent who perfected the Buffington trapdoor sight and then went on to won numerous long range awards using it in competition. Went on to work on sights for the Krag and '03.

 

[Critter Picker]

Not Elmer Keith, he was a giant A hole. Not sure about his brass knockers.

When I had the great fortune to meet Elmer in 1978 I thought he was a really nice person. Autographed a book for me. Had a coffee break with him. Absorbed everything he told me.

 

[memtb]

Funny how in any thread there are some that cannot acknowledge accomplishment without denigrating the achiever. Shooting, music, hunting, food etc. There must be a class taught that one cannot comment on a post without including something negative. When I met Elmer Keith he was very personable. Jack O not so much. Maybe we should remember Thumpers mothers advice in the movie Bambi "If you can't say something nice, don't say ****"

^^^^^^^ This ^^^^^^^^

While I never met either, I have met a few folks that have.

Elmer seemed to be just a good ole country boy/cowboy/shootist. Jack seemed to come off as an educated, somewhat pompous @#$……er, I mean individual! memtb

 

[FEENIX]

Funny how in any thread there are some that cannot acknowledge accomplishment without denigrating the achiever. Shooting, music, hunting, food etc. There must be a class taught that one cannot comment on a post without including something negative. When I met Elmer Keith he was very personable. Jack O not so much. Maybe we should remember Thumpers mothers advice in the movie Bambi "If you can't say something nice, don't say ****"

Sad but true. My late parents used to say the same things along the same lines. I would be honored to have met JOC and Elmer Keith.

 

[Rosebud]

When I had the great fortune to meet Elmer in 1978 I thought he was a really nice person. Autographed a book for me. Had a coffee break with him. Absorbed everything he told me.

Everyone has a good day occasionally!. He was very condescending towards myself and and a friend in Dallas at a NRA convention. Made several remarks about dumb a@s people from the South that ask stupid questions. Maybe we did, asked about him blowing up revolvers, maybe he had been asked that one time to many.

 

[memtb]

Everyone has a good day occasionally!. He was very condescending towards myself and and a friend in Dallas at a NRA convention. Made several remarks about dumb a@s people from the South that ask stupid questions. Maybe we did, asked about him blowing up revolvers, maybe he had been asked that one time to many.

Wow, yep maybe having a bad day!

And, while a ways from the gulf……he was born in Missouri, I think!
You'd think that he'd be a bit more tolerant of us Southerners! memtb

 

[Rosebud]

Wow, yep maybe having a bad day!

And, while a ways from the gulf……he was born in Missouri, I think!
You'd think that he'd be a bit more tolerant of us Southerners! memtb

I was in my late teens at the time, my friend was a couple of years older. He ask how many revolvers he'd blown up using a 44 special? Must of hit him wrong. Or the fact that we were so young, think he died within a decade of that. Remember the big hat and cigar in his mouth, if i remember correctly he was in the S&W booth. Those guys were bigger than life though, have to hand them that.