Most of those names i can believe, but I am genuinely surprised to hear that about Avril Lavigne (in a good way).
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Heck, the idiot PETA types even attacked Steven Spielberg for hunting and posing with an endangered animal in the picture below. It was entertaining to read the hate vitriol.
I believe Gary Cooper was a true outdoorsman - fine horseback rider, skeet shooter, possibly a real Hunter. Gable? He might not of had the time to hunt - as he screwed half the leading ladies in Hollywood but then so did Errol Flynn and he also hunted (friends with know archer Howard Hill after they filmed Robin Hood in 1938). Kirk Douglas, always liberal, (didn’t get along w/John Wayne) became more liberal in later years and eventually denounced hunting (Wayne did some hunting - had a gun made for him by Roy Weatherby). Still, I’d have loved to go hunting with any of them !!
That's an eastern gray squirrel. You need to shoot at least four, usually with a .22, to make a pot pie.
Interesting and I’d like to “think” a few of the more athletic & “fun” Hollywood stars of the 1930s-40s went hunting - very little evidence to Prove they did....and back then No One cared either way, only if it added to an “image” Hollywood wanted to create would there be articles about it. Everything about Hollywood is planned, scripted, and “fake”. Images were carefully crafted - actors contracted and controlled. While many female actresses were accomplished equestrians - None are well documented Hunters (having hunted once or been photographed w/a gun does not = Hunting. But — what has this go to do with AFRICA Hunting?? (Although the “African Queen” was really filmed in Africa under tough conditions.
Shit not gonna lie a rex would be more up my alley if we are talking dino trophies.
After Jurassic Park, Spielberg had two Italian shotguns made. Not sure if he did it himself, or if it was a gift. I was told by a friend of his - the guy was slumming and I met him at a shooting club - that the shotguns had Jurassic Park dinosaurs engraved on the receiver and that the shotguns were made of titanium and cost more than $300,000 each. The fellow offered to show me his fancy shotguns of similar provenance that were in the trunk of his Mercedes. He also told me that if Tolstoy were alive that he would be making movies like himself, and his friends. I politely demurred, finished one of his very excellent Cuban cigars that he consumed and shared like bubble gum, and shortly retired for the evening.
