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Martin and Osa Johnson spent four years at "Lake Paradise" in Northern Kenya on the Eithiopian (then Absynnia) border. This was their second sojourn to the Lake to take photos and film of the wildlife.

They armed themselves with the following 'arsenal':

3 English Blands - .470 NE - double barrel
1 English Bland - .275 - Mannlicher action
1 American Springfield - .303 - Mauser action
1 English Rigby - .505 - Mauser action
3 American Winchesters - .405 - lever action
1 American Winchester - .32 - lever action
2 English Jeffrey's - .404 - Mauser action
1 American Winchester shotgun - 12g - repeating
1 American Parker - 12g - double barrel
1 American Ithaca - 20g - double barrel
1 American Ithaca - 20g - sawed off shotgun, called riot gun
1 .38 Colt revolver
1 .45 Colt revolver

Reference: "I Married Adventure" by Osa Johnson, 1940

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"Osa & Martin Johnson's Lake Paradise arsenal"
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A couple of revolvers.

A .32 lever action. And the 3x .405 lever action.

I think in the early days when aggressive natives, cannibals, headhunters, might be encountered a revolver and a large tube magazine lever action in the same cartridge would have been the close quarters "assault rifle" of the day. Before semi autos and autos were available.

A .44, .45, or .38 revolver and lever action, very useful.

I've never seen a reference to similar in African writings. Any one seen anything?

The repeating , pump action?, shotgun loaded with buckshot would be a useful deterent, as well as for hunting.



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John aka NitroX

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Edited by NitroX (07/09/23 04:45 PM)

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