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Trail of the No. 5
by Fermin Garza
In 1929, Elmer Keith wrote of a sixgun he called No. 5—a Colt SAA transformed into a state-of-the-art revolver. He also called it The Last Word. It stands even today among the finest in existence. In 1955, Keith wrote “Sixguns.” This is a must-read for students of the sixgun. The preface states Keith’s book was “scented with the pungence of sage brush campfires, cold for more than half a century.”
I wanted to build my No. 5 to honor Elmer Keith. So I sought out the finest craftsman and challenged him to build, from scratch, the finest sixgun in the land—a sixgun to last a lifetime, to answer any call, and to prove that even decades after the time of Elmer Keith, the old-world craftsmanship and the Keith legacy still live on.
