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Interesting how time passes faster and faster. I think of Elmer as a generation or two removed from me, but he's farther back than that. Sounds like his son did well in life. Good on him.
Last edited by Tokarev; 09-12-2019 at 08:59 AM.
We are diminished, sounds like he was quite a man in his own right.
#RESIST
Sounds like he had a full life.I grew reading Elmer's stuff,as a kid in the 60's.
He is the reason i still shoot and load the .41 Magnum.
Like others I studied his writing. I bought my first Gun Digest in 1957. Elmer had a feature article in it about the .44 Mag. For some reason he and Cooper did not get along.
I don't believe Elmer and Jack O'Connor thought along the same lines either.
I loved reading the stuff from both authors and will admit that the two of them plus Skeeter Skelton fueled the fire of my firearms passion starting when I was 8 years old.
It's fun to dig up that old stuff and read it now. A few weeks ago, I went to the library to check out "Hell, I was there" again, but found it is no longer available. I dug up some Jack O'Connor to scratch the itch and found some text where he recommended a dry fire practice of swinging on the hubcaps of passing cars to practice for shooting at running game. It was a different time...
If Elmer's son was half the man he was, he was one helluva man...