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I thought Robert Redford did quite well for an actor in the lion charge scene in 'Out of Africa' - pulling out the spare pair and quietly getting ready for the charge with his Lancaster .450 DR ...

... then in steps La Streep with her bolt action, held up to the shoulder like a crutch, not a rifle and finishes the bugger orf! Not very lady-like!

Tim

While we're on the subject of guns on film and TV.
One of my favourite films is 'Shout at the devil'
I still cringe when Lee Marvin and Roger Moore are caught poaching, they throw their double rifles into a river before running away.

Another gem is in an old British feature film from a rather violent, gritty 70's cop show called The Sweeney.
(Cockney rhyming slang, Sweeney Todd - Flying squad )
In the film, the police are hunting down some ruthless armed robbers. In one scene, a bank manager has a sawn off shotgun stuffed in his face and if I remember correctly, the robber goes on to say...
'You are privileged to be looking down the barrels of a gold plated Purdey shotgun squire !
Now, as a bank manager, I'm sure you'll appreciate that any man capable of cutting a gun like that in half wouldn't hesitate to cut you in half ! '
Ah, they don't make films like that anymore

I attended a police auction of confiscated firearms about 20 years ago in Houston. Most expensive gun sold for $700, a Winchester 21 with 18" barrels.

How about the movie "Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels". You've got to like a movie that has as a major subplot the reuniting of a matched pair of Holland & Holland's.

Does anyone recognize the express rifle Michael Douglas had in "The Ghost and the Darkness"? In that one, Val Kilmer shot one of the lions with a Howdah Pistol.

There's always the John Wayne film "Big Jake", where he refers to his doubles as "Greeners"...

The Michael Douglas character in that movie was a Hollywood invention. And Patterson didn't kill either lion with a Howdah. But in many respects, not a bad attempt. Robert Stack--an actor who knew his way around guns--starred in a 50's version of the story of the Tsavo maneaters called "Bwana Devils". Early 3D movie.

Wife and I saw "The Ghost and the Darkness" together. She nudged me in one scene where a lion is carrying off a victim and whispered "A lion can't do that!" Pointed out to her that a leopard, which is a bunch smaller, can do that--as reported by Corbett in some of his maneater hunting stories. Reinforced later on when she saw our mouse catcher in chief trotting across the yard with a full-grown rabbit in his mouth, weighed about as much as he did.

Show this to your wife,and then-- don't go near the water

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBNYwxDZ_pA

Larry,

I should have said "shot at" one of the lions. The lions are mounted and displayed in the Field Museum in Chicago. They were maneless males, but the mounts are reportedly kind'a pieced together. They don't look too bad, but it's been several years since I saw them..

That jag/croc set-to is awesome. And I don't use that word lightly.

SRH

A movie scene I remember was a Clint Eastwood western. A bad guy is sniping from what looks like 1/2 a mile away. Good ole Clint fetches a case from his horse, removes a takedown bolt rifle, attaches a scope, looks through it, does a couple of adjustments to the scope and blows the guy off with one shot.

the movie was Joe Kidd -