22 caliber Colt automatic pistol, Woodsman model, with a five-inch barrel and a box of shells. Hemingway followed with this admonition, “The rifle and the pistol are still the equalizer when one man is more of a man than another, and if … he is really smart … he will get a permit to carry one and then drop around to Abercrombie & Fitch (New York gun shop) and buy himself a. 22 caliber, but he obviously wanted to emphasize his point. 22 caliber Colt automatic pistol, shooting a bullet weighing only 40 grains and with a striking energy of 51 foot pounds at 25 feet from the muzzle, I will guarantee to kill either Gene Tunney or Joe Louis before they get to me from the opposite corner.” It was certainly strange indeed that the old master used this macabre scenario to illustrate his implicit faith in the. 22 Long Rifle, for which he once claimed boldly, “… standing in one corner of a boxing ring with a. And it would not have happened without the owner of this very special Colt Woodsman, Harry Selby, who carried the pistol daily on nearly a half-century of safaris.Īlthough largely recognized as a big-game hunter with a penchant for big-bore rifles, Ernest Hemingway also held certain small-bore chamberings in high esteem. Horn of the Hunter by Robert Ruark is regarded as one of the greatest hunting books ever written.
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