{"id":5440,"date":"2015-02-28T21:00:01","date_gmt":"2015-02-28T21:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/candrdigital.com\/index.php\/2015\/02\/28\/elmer-keiths-revolver-number-5\/"},"modified":"2020-07-22T17:17:42","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T22:17:42","slug":"elmer-keiths-revolver-number-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2015\/02\/28\/elmer-keiths-revolver-number-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Elmer Keith&#8217;s Revolver Number 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"youtubomatic-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/r-ef3z9Sv3s?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Sold for $80,500.<\/p>\n<p>Elmer Keith&#8217;s No.5 Single Action Army is arguably the most famous custom revolver ever made. Keith had it built in 1928 after developing a friendship with Harold Croft, another revolver enthusiast. Croft had shown Keith his own custom revolvers, which he had numbered 1 through 4. Croft had been trying to make an ideal pocket gun, and Keith used several of his ideas along with some of Keith&#8217;s own to put together a revolver for general-purpose field use. In recognition of Croft&#8217;s work, Keith called his gun Number 5. It featured an extended flat top with windage-adjustable sights, an improved mainspring, redesigned cylinder pin, custom hammer spur, and modified Bisley grip. It was chambered for the .44 Special\/.44 Russian cartridges (the Russian being a slightly shorter version of the Special), and it was Keith&#8217;s favorite shooting piece until the .44 Magnum cartridge was introduced in the late 1950s. He described this gun in detail in a 1929 American Rifleman article entitled &#8220;The Last Word&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forgottenweapons.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.forgottenweapons.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Theme music by Dylan Benson &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/dbproductioncompany.webs.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/dbproductioncompany.webs.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sold for $80,500. Elmer Keith&#8217;s No.5 Single Action Army is arguably the most famous custom revolver ever made. Keith had it built in 1928 after developing a friendship with Harold Croft, another revolver enthusiast. Croft had shown Keith his own custom revolvers, which he had numbered 1 through 4. Croft had been trying to make&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2015\/02\/28\/elmer-keiths-revolver-number-5\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Elmer Keith&#8217;s Revolver Number 5<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":5441,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[89,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-content","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5440"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15628,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5440\/revisions\/15628"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}