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Originally Posted by Mark Parela
O&R don't forget Hemmingway killed himself with a WC Scott pigeon gun.
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-- rumor was that his wife then, Mary Welsh Hemingway, claimed it was an accident while he was cleaning it. But his father also took his life in 1928 with a Civil War Colt that Ernest Hemingway's Grandfather (paternal) carried as a Colonel in the Union Army in The war of northern Aggression! Hemingway is spelled with one M, like Remington. What a great writer- and his best short story- IMO: "The Short, Happy Life of Francis MaComber" again proves the reason why women don't belong in the man's world of hunting and guns-- If only MaComber had taken the bolt out of that Mannlicher-Schoenaur 6.54 mm carbine before he and Wilson left to finish off the wounded buff. That story had always made me want to own a .505 Gibbs on the Mauser 98 Magnum action- close, but no cigar- I have a .416 Rigby with express sights instead, and will use it some day in Alaska for a Kodiak- my dream hunt. If that doesn't happen, I will devastate some of the feral pigs in Mecosta Co. with it-- like Jim Rikhoff once said to some society broad at a fancy-schmancy NYC cocktail party, when asked by her why he liked to hunt and shoot large animals- his laconic reply- "I guess I just like to hear the smack of large bullets against some solid flesh and bone"--
Hemingway is proof however, albiet in a most tragic manor, of the truth in Aesop's words: "Those whom the Gods bless with great gifts, they also curse with a great and exceeding madness". Have you read Art Wheaton's stellar review of the new book about Hemingway and his guns yet?
