Very interesting, the fotos and the guns. My favorite of Hemingway's books is "Green Hills of Africa" and I have likened Karl in that story to Kurtz in my favorite of Joseph Conrad's books; "Heart of Darkness" set in Africa during the Boer Wars. There is also a great B graded movie based on that British Fubar Op- "Breaker Morant" and the famed "Rule 303" op. code--
I have read Patrick Hemingway's edited book "True At First Light" which may have been a re-write of Green Hills, but re-set in Africa 20 years later. In that saga, Hemingway uses his favorite 12 gauge M12 with No. 8 birdshot to dispatch a wounded leopard in a mangrove tangle. His description of that "twice burned up and restocked pumpgun as being 'The best friend a man gave have' speaks volumes to me- I am a lifelong Model 12 man.
Later in that book he writes about dispatching a favorite aging horse "Old Kite" in the American West, then leaving the carcass to bait eagles- and later dispatching a Bald Eagle (very protected species by the way) with a .22 Winchester- and running down the wounded bird, crasping it by the legs and smacking its head against a rock- and I thought Hemingway mistreated his wives- how did he ever get away with a Federal crime like that I wonder?
In the Hotchner book "Papa" Hemingway shot an owl in Idaho, then restored it and kept it as a house pet. Strange man--
