Thanks for asking the question!
I learned a lot today.
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You can read the whole story of the two lions from Colonel Patterson's book, "The Man-Eaters of Tsavo". It's a very short book but tells how a railroad engineer ended up hunting the lions. The Michael Douglas character didn't exist in the real story. I had the good fortune of seeing the lions in the Field Museum in Chicago about a dozen years ago where I also bought a copy of the book. They aren't what you would expect with the thick manes of a trophy lion but they were very capable of killing a LOT of railroad workers.
Val Kilmer's Lee-Speed from The Ghost & the Darkness is at the top of my "I WANT!" movie gun list.
I can forgive them fabricating Michael Douglas' character as it allowed them to verbalize the thoughts Patterson had while hunting alone for the audience. Where they REALLY screwed up was when they showed Kilmer sitting by the campfire loading that rifle with spitzer point MKVII ammo - which didn't exist for about another decade at that point - but A for effort.:lol:
Now if I can go afield with that over my shoulder and Brendan Fraser's Triple Lock Smith from The Mummy on my hip, I'll be set. . .
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All the guns in all the movies. ;o)
Tom Selleck movies seem to be very correct historically as far as guns. I do believe like John Wayne he uses some of his own collection.