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A BIG thanks to 24 Hour Campfire member "Grogel_Deluxe" who told me about these photos!!!!---------------------------------- ---------------------------------- ---------------------------------- [img] http://www.bunduki.com/bob/osa/osa-mauser/04a.jpg[/img] [img] http://www.bunduki.com/bob/osa/osa-mauser/04b.jpg[/img] ---------------------------------- I believe these may be publicity photos for the movie "I Married Adventure". Cheers! -Bob F.
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Great piece of history. Thanks for sharing it all.
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Bob, that is super neat. Without the history, that is one beautiful rifle, but the fact that it was owned by Osa puts it over the top. As Seyfried said: "I love hunting with ghosts!"
Thank you again for sharing with the rest of us!
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One more photo. -Bob F.
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Great photos of Mrs. Johnson
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I really wish I was good with photoshop. I would show you what rifle that would look like with a GAP camo McMillan, green cerakote, and a scope with 50 mm objective lens and turrets.
That would get another three pages of comments right quick. Or get you arrested for public perversion
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Bob, I guess that's about as meaningful as a firearm can get. I guess the only thing that would top it for me would be something like Hemingway's 6.5 Mannlicher. But really there is no difference. What history!
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Wow! Great find, Bob! Enjoy your time, as caretaker of that rifle....what a treasure! The urge to take that baby back to Africa, must be unbearable! Jeff
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that's some cool stuff, bob... the rifle for sure, with all of it's history... thanks for sharing your trip to chanute as well...
i do think that it would be great if you wished to take that rifle to africa...
i suspect though, that you have rifles of your own with african history... rifles that you've invested some of yourself into.... those are just as cool.....
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Did you ever meet the couple, or just through film and reading? She sounds a lot like the kind of lady we need in today's world, very pretty and well, very accomplished.
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Did you ever meet the couple, or just through film and reading? Just know of them through film and reading. Martin Johnson died in 1937 and Osa died in 1953. I was born in 1954. -Bob F.
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nice to see your interest in them and the honour you pay the rifle as hers. Randy
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This thread just keeps getting better!
til later
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Wow! That's an incredible find Bob. I'm sure glad that wound up in the hands of some one that appreciates the history and firearms. I'd buy the steaks and beer just to take a shot with that beauty. Some one mentioned the 1895 Winchester and you can see that her husband has one in the first set of shots Bob posted. Very cool and I now have that museum on my list of places to go.
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I thought some here might enjoy seeing a few photos of Osa with other rifles: "Osa pictured in the Serengeti with her new Springfield rifle, 1928." Winchester Model 1895 in .405 Winchester Winchester Model 1895 in .405 Winchester Thomas Bland double rifle in .470 Nitro Express (Black Rhino on the ground) Possibly her Mauser in 9.3x62 - can't tell for sure. [img] http://www.bunduki.com/bob/osa/m198512570218-a.jpg[/img] Possibly her Mauser in 9.3x62 - can't tell for sure. I'd say Osa had pretty good taste when it came to rifles!! Cheers! -Bob F.
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Pretty cool to see guns and cameras were a great combo even back in the day. The shot with Osa setting on that buff with the 1895 is one of my favorites. Thanks for sharing theese Bob.
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Where can I find the book "I Married Adventure" by Osa Johnson? I looked in an electronic card catalog and it isn't listed for her.
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Where can I find the book "I Married Adventure" by Osa Johnson? I looked in an electronic card catalog and it isn't listed for her.
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amazon.com has new copies (paperback) available. Also try www.abebooks.comOR go to the Safari Museum's gift shop and help support the museum with your purchase! http://www.safarimuseum.com/museum_shop_cart.htm(scroll down the page to find the books) I also recommend "Four Years in Paradise" by Osa. It's about four of the years they spent in East Africa. -Bob F.
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Thanks ! I ordered the "Four Years in Paradise". The library had that one.
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