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Phillip
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.577 "Papa" Hemingways....
      #177166 - 15/03/11 11:35 AM

Sold today for $295K plus buyer fee....Wow! Man,own a piece of history!!







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Edited by NitroX (18/03/11 02:46 AM)

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500Nitro
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Re: .577 "Papa" Hemingways.... [Re: Phillip]
      #177167 - 15/03/11 12:06 PM


Not for that much !!!

Nice rifle though.

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AkMike
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Re: .577 "Papa" Hemingways.... [Re: 500Nitro]
      #177168 - 15/03/11 02:21 PM

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Not for that much !!!




Somebody thought it was worth that much though..

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Re: .577 "Papa" Hemingways.... [Re: AkMike]
      #177169 - 15/03/11 02:27 PM

Quote:

Quote:


Not for that much !!!



Somebody thought it was worth that much though..



And good on them.

Just not for me.

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Re: .577 "Papa" Hemingways.... [Re: 500Nitro]
      #177171 - 15/03/11 04:07 PM

Nor me!

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Re: .577 "Papa" Hemingways.... [Re: AkMike]
      #177172 - 15/03/11 04:39 PM

For anyone else left head scratching and seemingly out of touch (as I was by the first post) it was this one:-

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Lot 1139: *THE IMMORTAL ERNEST HEMINGWAY'S WESTLEY RICHARDS BEST QUALITY HAND DETACHABLE SINGLE TRIGGER EJECTOR DOUBLE RIFLE W/ORIGINAL CASE. Auction House: James D. Julia
Auction Location: Fairfield, ME, USA
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203 Skowhegan Road
Fairfield, ME
USA
04937
Phone: 207 453 7125
Fax: 207 453 2502
Email: info@jamesdjulia.com

.Auction Title: Important Firearms Auction Event, Day One
Auction Date: March 14, 2011
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Description: SN 17425. Cal..577 Nitro Express. 750 gr. bullet, 100 gr. cordite. The Westley Richards Best quality rifle with hand detachable lock action (droplock) is as highly regarded among rifle connoisseurs as the Holland Royal and the Rigby Rising Bite. To find one of these iconic rifles in the .577 750 gr nitro caliber is very unusual. Added to this is the fact that this particular rifle was owned and used by Ernest Hemingway, a man of great charisma, a Nobel Prize winning, innovative author; war correspondent; uncompromising outdoorsman; hunter, fisherman, and acknowledged Man's man; makes this fine rifle virtually priceless.......<snip>




http://www.artfact.com/auction-lot/the-immortal-ernest-hemingway-s-westley-richards-0-s-hzukd09lah

Edited by Dr_Deer (15/03/11 04:56 PM)

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NitroXAdministrator
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Re: .577 "Papa" Hemingways.... [Re: Dr_Deer]
      #177284 - 17/03/11 08:24 PM

The rhino engraving looks a little like a rabbit.

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Re: .577 "Papa" Hemingways.... [Re: NitroX]
      #177308 - 18/03/11 01:40 AM





















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Re: .577 "Papa" Hemingways.... [Re: NitroX]
      #177309 - 18/03/11 01:42 AM

























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Re: .577 "Papa" Hemingways.... [Re: NitroX]
      #177311 - 18/03/11 01:44 AM















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Re: .577 "Papa" Hemingways.... [Re: NitroX]
      #177346 - 18/03/11 05:10 PM

$295 OMG ,that rhino looks like a baby one out of a kids story book ,the tiger looks like a bird dog and a single trigger ,nuh

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Re: .577 "Papa" Hemingways.... [Re: 500Boswell]
      #177350 - 18/03/11 06:30 PM

I was thinking of an appropriate crit on the images but fear of the wrath of the great god of bangsticks Mehumdul restrained me.

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Re: .577 "Papa" Hemingways.... [Re: kamilaroi]
      #177354 - 19/03/11 12:09 AM

Very interesting, but both the weight and the price are a bit heavy for me.

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Re: .577 "Papa" Hemingways.... [Re: 500grains]
      #183429 - 11/06/11 11:29 AM

I can't believe it is a sigle trigger gun!

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Ben
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Re: .577 "Papa" Hemingways.... [Re: MagnumHunter]
      #183430 - 11/06/11 12:35 PM

I love the photo of the Cape buffalo.

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Re: .577 "Papa" Hemingways.... [Re: Phillip]
      #183572 - 13/06/11 08:11 PM

This rifle (I belive unless he had another 577...) figures rather promiently in his last/unfinished novel "True at First Light" about this disasterous 1953-54 safari. Leading to one of his more memorable line, "There is nothing wrong with Senator McCarthy that a .577 bullet would not fix."

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Re: .577 "Papa" Hemingways.... [Re: Chasseur]
      #183574 - 13/06/11 08:41 PM

You could say he had McCarthy 'bang to rights'.

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Re: .577 "Papa" Hemingways.... [Re: Paul]
      #183592 - 14/06/11 01:08 AM

He certainly didnīt shoot the buff with the .577, promo picture I think, he didnīt like it and didnīt shoot it well. I remember somewhere one of his wives telling someone he tried to ring a church bell with it in Italy or Spain and missed, from all accounts he was never a big bore fan, best, Mike

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Re: .577 "Papa" Hemingways.... [Re: Mike_Bailey]
      #184046 - 18/06/11 09:01 AM

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well. I remember somewhere one of his wives telling someone he tried to ring a church bell with it in Italy or Spain and missed, from



Ah, the long gone good old days...when it was ok to have a little fun in town...

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