Garden & Gun ran a short piece on Ernest Hemingway’s guns last year, and linked to a slideshow of the famous author (who killed himself 50 years ago today) with his guns. From the article—
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.
Not long after that tragic day in Ketchum, Idaho, the gun was given to a local welder to be destroyed. “The stock was smashed and the steel parts cut up with a torch,” the authors write. “The mangled remnants were then buried in a field.” Roger Sanger visited the welding shop, which is still in business and being run by the grandson of the original proprietor. Amazingly, the welder still had a few pieces of the gun in a matchbox, and Sanger’s immediate reaction to the evidence was, “This is no Boss.” After showing pictures to a number of experts and collectors, he confirmed that it was most likely Hemingway’s beloved W. & C. Scott that had been the suicide gun.
Biblioklept 
TRAGIC……………….No matter what type of gun used.
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wow so that’s what that one rick and morty joke was talking about goddamn
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Ernest had several serious head injuries involving burning airplane, car crashes… real serious problems that are now known through psychological study to provoke severe personality changes involving emotional violence and poor judgement. This in connection to his fathers depression and suicide. He was receiving electroshock treatments at Mayo Clinic at the time. He could no longer remember things deeply nor write.
He could never return to his beloved boat Pila in Cuba and lost absolutely everything in Cuba. He also lost the house in Key West because it belonged to Pauline. So his incredible connection to the sea was lost.
His writing style had been declared obsolete and he was married to a woman who was certainly using him.
Whatever rifle he used you know it was done with great forethought and even sacred intent. His life was made fully unlivable and he shot himself right in the absolute correct spot for killing a horse humanely. He had to go and he did it his way… the Hemingway Way.
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