|
04-05-2014, 08:48 PM | #53 | |||||||
|
Quote:
(Sorry, I just could'nt help myself).
__________________
Wag more- Bark less. |
|||||||
The Following User Says Thank You to Daryl Corona For Your Post: |
04-30-2014, 10:48 PM | #54 | ||||||
|
Hemingway, who did not have the best eyesight, as did TR, hated scopes. He removed one from his Griffin and Howe '03 30/06, a rifle that he loved, and shot for the remainder of his life. As the story goes it was stolen from Jack's home in Ketcham, Idaho.
I like peep sights too and while I have a scope, a Leupold 4 pwr on my Ruger 77 in .257 Rbts, I like to shoot thru or over iron sights. Most game is shot close. No need for a scope. |
||||||
06-24-2014, 11:32 PM | #55 | |||||||
|
Quote:
Thanks for pointing it out. Larry |
|||||||
07-01-2014, 10:28 PM | #56 | ||||||
|
I purchased a Parker VHE 20 ga. with a Miller trigger in Alabama a few years ago. The shield read EH. The authors of Hemingway's Guns did their research but could not find any reference of him ever owning such a Parker. I was also told that two Parkers once owned by him were sold from the family but don't know anything of what they were or who purchased them. Anyone know of any way to add to the mystery of the EH 20 ga.? I probably need to order a letter on it.
|
||||||
07-01-2014, 11:13 PM | #57 | ||||||
|
Yep, you probably need to order a letter on it.
|
||||||
Not "Jack" but Patrick had the G&H 30-06 Spfld. |
07-01-2014, 11:14 PM | #58 | |||||||
|
Not "Jack" but Patrick had the G&H 30-06 Spfld.
Quote:
Patrick, first born of the two sons Pauline Pfeiffer Hemingway (heiress to the Richard Hudnut cosmetics fortune) provided husband Ernest, was the avid hunter, like his father, and later became a PWH in Africa, under the guidance of Phillip Percival. Page 81- Hemingway's Guns: "Two years after his death, Papa's treasured .30-06, G&H Serial No. 956, was one of the two rifles and two shotguns that Mary (Welsh) Hemingway consigned to A&F to be sold. The A&F ledger indicates that its selling price would be $!50. However, Mary withdrew the Springfield two weeks later and then kept it at the house in Ketchum until she finally gave it to Patrick. ---- It was stolen from his home in Montana in the late 1970s."
__________________
I am pleased to be here! |
|||||||
07-01-2014, 11:16 PM | #59 | ||||||
|
There were a lot of guys with the initials EH besides Ernest Hemingway. I've got an uncle named Estel Hoffard, maybe it's his gun......
DLH
__________________
I was as virtuously given as a gentleman need to be; virtuous enough; swore little; diced not above seven times a week; went to a bawdy-house once in a quarter--of an hour; paid money that I borrowed, three of four times; lived well and in good compass: and now I live out of all order, out of all compass. Falstaff - Henry IV |
||||||
07-01-2014, 11:38 PM | #60 | ||||||
|
You're killing me! If Mr. Hoffard would like a Parker with his initials already engraved and some swamp land in North Texas, I can make him a sweet deal.
|
||||||
|
|