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 Grade Douglas barrel, ivory and ebony inlays in the stock, basket weave carving on both sides of the forearm and pistol grip,
 Redfield Jr. mounts, Redfield  X – X variable scope. (–)
+Despite this impressive array of weaponry, Rusty selfishly fails his son by his
+lack of a sportsmanlike hunter’s ethics. Later in the novel, it is only by divesting themselves of all weapons and other equipment that DJ and his best
+friend Tex Hyde are able to experience a transcendent oneness with nature.
+In a similar situation but without the devastating irony, Hemingway
+equips the title character in “The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber”
+with a - rifle and  grain solid slugs for lion and Cape buffalo. The
+professional hunter, Robert Wilson, based on the famous Philip Percival with
+whom Hemingway had hunted in Africa, carries a “shockingly big-bored”
+. Gibbs “with a muzzle velocity of two tons” (). Here, Hemingway
+makes an error in nomenclature and physics, since muzzle velocity is measured in feet per second, and muzzle energy in foot pounds.Yet the . Gibbs,
+a highly specialized big game hunting rifle of which only eighty were ever
+manufactured, presents a very impressive picture in the mind’s eye. Finally,
+in one of the greatest examples of controlled ambiguity in literature, Macomber’s wife Margot, “shot at the buffalo with the . Mannlicher” (),
+killing her husband. This . mm Mannlicher (a fine sporting arm quite different from the rough, mass-produced Mannlicher Carcano of Farewell and
+Oswald’s Tale) is the instrument of a death which lives forever in the shadowy ambiguity of Margot Macomber’s true intent, and which brings to a
+close the short, happy, existential life of the protagonist.