This was a great read.. I really enjoy hearing all these opinions.. While I am not a writer, I liked O'Connor as a kid, but as I got older Elmer and Bob Hagel were my favorites. Met Elmer a couple times, and Bob once.. Elmer was easy to visit with.. While Bob was very friendly but not much on conversation..
moosemike, I think the great difference in Jack's success with the older bullets and Elmer's was the game they were after.. Jack seemed to hunt often with guides, and in more open country.. Bullet placement was easier.. Read some of Elmer's stuff and he was concerned a great deal with elk in heavy timber..While Elmer took many fine trophies, he was a meat hunter.. He depended on that especially in the early years to balance the budget!! He wanted success at any angle..
I have one of Elmer's books from the 50's or 60's.. In it he favored big bores, but he was not so dogmatic about it as in his later work.. I think his feud with Jack had more to do with hating the .270 than the caliber itself..
I liked Elmer's life style, although I would not have wanted to endure the hardship he did.. Not only that, but he was a deadly shot with rifle, sixgun, and shotgun.. Something very few of us every achieve..
As far has his typing, he never corrected, he only typed.. I think he replied often to 150 letters per months.. I have some of his letters. I must put these with his books.. I also have a book with letters Elmer wrote over the span of his life.. There is one handwritten one and the spelling is almost perfect, if it isn't perfect.. I think his skill with the typewriter was much of the problem..
This as mentioned was a great read and very informative..Thanks..
