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Clark Gable & Carole Lombard Hunting.
Unread 09-03-2010, 10:12 PM   #1
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Default Clark Gable & Carole Lombard Hunting.

Watertown, South Dakota, Oct 5- MOVIE STARS GO A HUNTING- Carole Lombard and her husband, Clark Gable, took time out from their Hollywood work for some upland game shooting in South Dakota. Both Miss Lombard and Gable are holding cock pheasants; part of the bag they obtained in what Gable described as excellent shooting.

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Unread 09-03-2010, 10:20 PM   #2
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Hey Mike,
Do you know what year that was?
How times have changed! Clark Gable was then as Brad Pitt and George Cloney are today. Could imagine either of them with thier wives or girlfriends posing for a hunting photo?

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Hey Mike,
Do you know what year that was?
How times have changed! Clark Gable was then as Brad Pitt and George Cloney are today. Could imagine either of them with thier wives or girlfriends posing for a hunting photo?

Mark
Sorry no I don’t Mark; if anyone knows please let us all know.
It is indeed a great picture.
I would love to find the picture of Mr. Gable
Looking down the barrels of the double he is holding.
(found it, posted below)

Mike

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1934. He may be using the gun Carole was holding.

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OK, she's got a squareback Remington with a Cutts and Monte Carlo stock and Clark has the same Parker that he was shooting on the cover of a Parker Pages. It is obvious because of the Mershon pad and beavertail. I think it is a 20 gauge from the clearer image on the PP cover. I wonder if there are pictures of Carol L. shooting the DHE that she was famous for owning. I remember seeing the Carol Lombard DHE (corrected to say that this gun was Joan Bennet's gun, not Carol Lombard's) at an early NRA show in Washington, DC on Herb Glass' table actually advertised for sale at a payable price. I recall the price being $1250.00.

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This got me curious, so I did some surfing. Gable and Lombard married in 1939, and she was killed in 1942 - so the picture was in October of '39-'41.

While searching, I learned that Lombard had a boyfriend killed in a gun accident. A search of Russ Columbo + death will bring it up. Fascinating.

Murphy, you're old enough to remember when A-1s were available from the factory.
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I have to back up. The DHE I was describing is Joan Bennett's DHE, not Carol Lombard's. Is anyone able to compute the length of barrel or barrel diameter of the gun on the cover of PP?
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This is a scan of a photocopy, but here is Clark Gable with a few guns from his collection from the July 1939, issue of National Sportsman --

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May as well throw in this picture of Clark and another guy known to own a few Parkers as well --

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The second is Clark with Elliott Ness aka/ Robert Stack. Two of my favorite actors.

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