...Ernest Hemingway...He was damn near indestructible...

[ParadiseRoad]

...Hemingway and Son...1941...

...author Ernest Hemingway and his son in Sun Valley in 1941...

 

[ParadiseRoad]

..."While sightseeing in Africa, Hemingway's plane hit a utility pole and crash landed, leaving him with a not insignificant head wound.

He shrugged it off, then boarded another plane the next day, which exploded at take-off, causing burns and another concussion.

Then he brushed the dirt off his shoulders and casually walked over to a local hospital to recover, much to the surprise of reporters who had already published his obituary. Oh, and just a couple months later, he went on a fishing expedition and got caught in a bushfire that gave him second degree burns just about everywhere.

The sum total of his injuries? Two cracked discs, kidney and liver rupture, a dislocated shoulder, and a broken skull. And he barely slowed down. Your move, death"...

 

[turnerriver]

He apparently enjoyed shooting with his sons.
Regards,
turnerriver

 

[ParadiseRoad]

...Hemingway on Bug Repellant...

...100 Proof...a little on the outside...a little on the inside...

 

[Ivan the Butcher]

That will work with Vodka and Gin, but I would not try that with any Rum and especially Cuban Rum!

Ivan

 

[Ivan the Butcher]

I know at the time of his death, E.H. had a Beretta SO2 shotgun (I think 20 gauge), but that O/U is defiantly isn't a sidelock!

Ivan

 

[Ivan the Butcher]

Some people liked to have "Adventure" then write about it, while lessor authors just wrote about adventure!

Ivan

 

[Sistema1927]

And after all that he pisses his life away with suicide by shotgun.

 

[old bear]

My Great-Great Grandfather, his son, and my grand father were all lumber brokers who did business with Mr. Hemingway. None of them had anything positive to say about the man.

 

[rwsmith]

It seem to......

And after all that he pisses his life away with suicide by shotgun.

It seemed to seriously be a genetic problem.

Seeing how he was working on "Islands in the Stream", one of my favorite books, he still had a lot to write that I would like to read.

 

[robvious]

I always got the feeling he spent most of his life trying to kill himself by going out in a "blaze of glory"... and finally just did it himself...

 

[Warren Sear]

Dude was waaaaaaaaaay over rated IMHO.

 

[Watchdog]

Hemingway was just another macho bully boy author, like Ruark and Mailer. My opinion.

Irwin Shaw and James Jones put them all to shame, as does John Del Vecchio, whose novel The 13th Valley did for Vietnam what Jones's From Here to Eternity and The Thin Red Line did for the Pacific war in WWII. Again, just my opinion, mind you. I've lost track of the number of times I've read The Thin Red Line. It still gives me chills, and I can only read The 13th Valley a little bit at a time.

 

[PeterJ]

Hah,,, Hemingways problems were nothing compared to what Eddie Rickenbacker went through. That guy took some severe beatings. Plane wrecks, lost at sea,,, he was one tough dude.

 

[pawncop]

Several years ago, Mrs. Pawncop and I toured his home in Key West. I purchased a copy of the book “The Guns of Hemingway”. Interesting and informative book with some background regarding his family life and lifestyle.

Definitely a complex individual. He certainly had good taste in firearms.

 

[Watchdog]

Several years ago, Mrs. Pawncop and I toured his home in Key West. I purchased a copy of the book “The Guns of Hemingway”. Interesting and informative book with some background regarding his family life and lifestyle.

Definitely a complex individual. He certainly had good taste in firearms.

Quoting from an article in Garden and Gun that mentions that book:

"When Ernest Hemingway took his own life on July 2, 1961, it was reported in Life magazine that he had done so with a 'double-barreled shotgun.' Further reports specified the gun was a Boss that he had purchased from Abercrombie & Fitch, and for years this has been widely accepted as fact.

But a fascinating new book, Hemingway's Guns, by Silvio Calabi, Steve Helsley, and Roger Sanger (Shooting Sportsman Books), makes the case that Hemingway never owned a Boss, and that the suicide gun was actually made by W. & C. Scott & Son. It was Hemingway's pigeon gun, a long-barreled side-by-side that traveled with him from shooting competitions in Cuba to duck hunts in Italy to a safari in East Africa.

By all accounts it was a favorite."

 

[JayFramer]

I don’t have any sympathy for a man that takes his own life.

In my personal belief system, doing so means you squander it all, and that will not be the end of your suffering, not by a long shot.

 

[italiansport]

He apparently enjoyed shooting with his sons.
Regards,
turnerriver

Nothing like shooting sharks with a Thompson SMG then having a couple and taking a nap to make your day!!
Jim

 

[Rudi]

As I remember, when he was with the OSS in WWII, they got near Paris. He was yelling, "I want a machinegun!" He was given one, and a jeep. He and a couple other guys were some of the first Americans to enter Paris. He managed to get on a rooftop and fired off a magazine at some Germans. One of my favorite authors. His stories of hunting in Africa are incredible.

 

[amazingflapjack]

That dog...

..."While sightseeing in Africa, Hemingway's plane hit a utility pole and crash landed, leaving him with a not insignificant head wound.

He shrugged it off, then boarded another plane the next day, which exploded at take-off, causing burns and another concussion.

Then he brushed the dirt off his shoulders and casually walked over to a local hospital to recover, much to the surprise of reporters who had already published his obituary. Oh, and just a couple months later, he went on a fishing expedition and got caught in a bushfire that gave him second degree burns just about everywhere.

The sum total of his injuries? Two cracked discs, kidney and liver rupture, a dislocated shoulder, and a broken skull. And he barely slowed down. Your move, death"...

did not care for the photographer!