Stewart Granger - Wesley Richards aficionado

[PerH]

And his best movie which he is costar in the one about ngo groups and large corporations , the one called Wild Geese also one to see .
As story goes he got a safari as part of the contract for it .

 

[skydiver386]

Wild Geese is the movie that inspired me to join the Army and jump out of airplanes at high altitudes.

 

[mdwest]

Wild Geese is the movie that inspired me to join the Army and jump out of airplanes at high altitudes.

One of my all time favorites as well…

 

[PerH]

A murder she wrote episode with him and Cesar Romero in

 

[Ontario Hunter]

For those of you that own heirloom quality guns that you never intend to sell, I have a question. Why not pay a couple grand to inlay the stock with your kill records so the kiddos and grandkiddos can add to the tallys? I really love they did that on the Granger gun.

If I had started that sixty years ago today when I was first old enough to hunt, my Springfield 03A3 would be almost gold plated with inlays. Best to keep good photos and write/record the story for each. A blob of metal pushed into the stock really doesn't tell any story.

After a long stalk I got the drop on this buck. He wouldn't stop doinking a yearling fawn and mama had spotted me. So I shot him on top of the doe. Through the heart, knocked him off, and he never got up. Sent him to heaven with a smile on his face. I shot the bull elk in the back of the head going away at 70 yards. Tied him up to gut him then dragged him or road him down the mountain 1.5 miles ... by myself. Those are stories that you won't read in a rifle stock.

 

[Clodo Ferreira]

Hi,

I like very much Stewart Granger. By the way, I had in my hands his H&H Mauser 375. Showed to me by the London H&H manager a few years ago. He also showed the book with the order for the rifle by SG.

 

[Clodo Ferreira]

 

[Clodo Ferreira]

 

[Clodo Ferreira]

This was the rifle.

 

[HankBuck]

Malcolm Lyell, then manager of the Westley Richards London shop, recalled of Granger as customer: “Soon after the 2nd World War he bought an estate near Haslemere and purchased a pair of Westley Richards best single trigger guns. In 1950, he came to tell me that he and Deborah Kerr were going to star in the film King Solomon’s Mines. He said ‘when I’m off set with Deborah, I want to get in among the buffalo.’ So I fitted out Jimmy with a best quality Westley Richards single trigger .577 double rifle, a .375 Holland and Holland Magnum magazine rifle, as well as a .240. He was a big man and very powerful. He handled that big .577 as if it were a .22! He used the rifles in Kenya, Uganda and the Congo, while on location and went back to East Africa in the years afterwards.”

@skydiver386 - I am a very big old movie buff and familiar with many of Stewart Granger’s movies but did Not know Stewart Granger was a real hunter ….Now, I like his movies even better.

 

[skydiver386]

 

[skydiver386]

 

[HankBuck]

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@skydiver386 - great photo and clearly from a time-gone-by because today that single photo would End His Career. Nice to know that there was “once” a time when Hollywood was almost Normal.

 

[Fixfire]

Handwritten note by Malcolm Lyell of Wesley Richards.
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Cool!!! Thanks!!

 

[Troubleshooter]

He was a class act...and actor!

 

[pjaln]

I think read before that the elephant charge at the beginning of king Solomons mines is for real

 

[Rare Breed]

I thought it was in Horn of the Hunter by Roark

 

[Red Leg]

I thought it was in Horn of the Hunter by Roark

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Here is another of those images from what was likely his home. Pretty sure the black rhino horn did not come from Goodwill.

 

[Clodo Ferreira]

Hi pjaln,

I remember to have read the same.

 

[pjaln]

Hi pjaln,

I remember to have read the same.

it certainly looks it