Elmer Keith's guest appearances

Elmer Keith

The John1911 Podcast

The Resistance Library from Ammo.com

Jim Acosta

Ron Paul

Michelle Obama

Mark Thornton

Betsy Ross

Jason Hartman

Matthew Larosiere

Tim Kennedy

Lysander Spooner

Jeffery Epstein

Ted Nugent

Thaddeus Russell

Edward Snowden

Ronald Reagan

Burt Reynolds

OwlTail

This is the second installment of the stories with Doc while driving back from the range. The sound isn't prefect since we are riding in my truck. But hopefully it's not terribly distracting.    Marky  John1911.com "Shooting Guns &amp; Having Fun"

This is the second installment of the stories with Doc while driving back from the range. The sound isn't prefect since we are riding in my truck. But hopefully it's not terribly distracting.  Marky  <a href="http://John1911.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">John1911.com</a> "Shooting Guns &amp; Having Fun"

Doc's Stories #2 - Jack O'Conner vs Elmer Keith

In this week’s episode of the Resistance Library podcast, Molly and Sam discuss Elmer Keith, the famous wildcatter and gun writer who created the magnum rounds.  There’s really no two ways about it: They don’t make them like Elmer Keith anymore. He was known for wearing big Stetson hats, smoking big cigars, and hunting big game with handguns long before anyone else did. In Keith’s day, handgun rounds were either big and slow or fast and small. Confronted with this kind of ballistics market, Keith sought to make bigger rounds go faster. This is how Keith became the father of the magnum cartridges that we use today: the .357, the .41 and the .44. Keith was perhaps most associated with the .44 magnum, with which he could dispatch a mule deer at 600 yards. He was also a prolific wildcatter of both pistol and rifle rounds, who was always looking for ways to make big rounds bigger. Indeed, Keith was very vocal about his distaste for smaller rounds, and would even express it to contemporaries such as Jack O'Connor who championed the 270 Winchester. Keith was born and raised in Hardin, Missouri, right on the Western frontier, and had the opportunity to meet many gunfighters and Civil War veterans. He claimed, in fact, that it was the town barber, a former gunfighter, who taught him how to shoot using linoleum in back of the shop.   To learn more about Elmer Keith and his role in America’s obsession with wheel guns, to read Sam’s article at Ammo.com’s Resistance Library.   For $20 off your $200 purchase, go to https://ammo.com/podcast (a special deal for our listeners). Follow Sam Jacobs on Twitter: https://twitter.com/SamJacobs45 And check out our sponsor, Libertas Bella, for all of your favorite 2nd Amendment shirts at LibertasBella.com.     Helpful Links:    Elmer Keith: The Forgotten History of the Firearms Author and Father of Big Bore Handgunning  History of the 44 Magnum  The Resistance Library  Molly Carter  Sam Jacobs 

In this week’s episode of the Resistance Library podcast, Molly and Sam discuss Elmer Keith, the famous wildcatter and gun writer who created the magnum rounds. There’s really no two ways about it: They don’t make them like Elmer Keith anymore. He was known for wearing big Stetson hats, smoking big cigars, and hunting big game with handguns long before anyone else did. In Keith’s day, handgun rounds were either big and slow or fast and small. Confronted with this kind of ballistics market, Keith sought to make bigger rounds go faster. This is how Keith became the father of the magnum cartridges that we use today: the .357, the .41 and the .44. Keith was perhaps most associated with the .44 magnum, with which he could dispatch a mule deer at 600 yards. He was also a prolific wildcatter of both pistol and rifle rounds, who was always looking for ways to make big rounds bigger. Indeed, Keith was very vocal about his distaste for smaller rounds, and would even express it to contemporaries such as Jack O'Connor who championed the 270 Winchester. Keith was born and raised in Hardin, Missouri, right on the Western frontier, and had the opportunity to meet many gunfighters and Civil War veterans. He claimed, in fact, that it was the town barber, a former gunfighter, who taught him how to shoot using linoleum in back of the shop. To learn more about Elmer Keith and his role in America’s obsession with wheel guns, to read Sam’s article at <a href="http://Ammo.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ammo.com</a>’s Resistance Library.  For $20 off your $200 purchase, go to <a href="https://ammo.com/podcast" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://ammo.com/podcast</a> (a special deal for our listeners). Follow Sam Jacobs on Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/SamJacobs45" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/SamJacobs45</a> And check out our sponsor, <a href="https://libertasbella.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Libertas Bella</a>, for all of your favorite <a href="https://libertasbella.com/collections/2nd-amendment-t-shirts" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">2nd Amendment shirts</a> at <a>LibertasBella.com</a>.   Helpful Links: <ul> <li> <a href="https://ammo.com/articles/elmer-keith-firearms-author-father-of-big-bore-handgunning-history" rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener" target="_blank"> Elmer Keith: The Forgotten History of the Firearms Author and Father of Big Bore Handgunning</a></li> <li> <a href="https://ammo.com/handgun/44-magnum-ammo#caliber-history" rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener" target="_blank">History of the 44 Magnum</a></li> <li> <a href="https://ammo.com/articles" rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener" target="_blank">The Resistance Library</a></li> <li> <a href="https://ammo.com/our-team#molly-carter" rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Molly Carter</a></li> <li> <a href="https://ammo.com/our-team#sam-jacobs" rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Sam Jacobs</a></li> </ul>

Elmer Keith: The Forgotten History of the Firearms Author and Father of Big Bore Handgunning