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Offline IOWA DON

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MOVIE - DEATH HUNT
« on: February 18, 2011, 03:29:03 PM »
Today I watched the Charles Bronson movie Death Hunt. I liked the Model 99 Savage he used. I wonder if those doing the movie had a caliber in mind for that rifle?
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Re: MOVIE - DEATH HUNT
« Reply #1 on: February 18, 2011, 05:29:03 PM »
These are all vague memories, but I think the movie was based on an actual event. I think I read a book about that event and the book said his Savage was a 303 Savage.
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Re: MOVIE - DEATH HUNT
« Reply #2 on: February 19, 2011, 01:18:08 PM »
I seem to remember the Savage 99 in the movie was in 30-30, and I also remember reading about the actual subject of the film using a Savage 30-30 rifle.  The movie wasn't very historically accurate, but the guns used in the film were period correct as far as I know.
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Re: MOVIE - DEATH HUNT
« Reply #3 on: February 19, 2011, 01:35:35 PM »
Did any one notice the amount of large loop winchesters in that  movie
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Re: MOVIE - DEATH HUNT
« Reply #4 on: February 19, 2011, 03:21:24 PM »
In the book he used a savage 99 in 30-30.

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Re: MOVIE - DEATH HUNT
« Reply #5 on: February 20, 2011, 09:46:47 AM »
I'm a little dissapointed. I was thinking it might have been a .300 Savage or a .250/3000.
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Re: MOVIE - DEATH HUNT
« Reply #6 on: February 21, 2011, 03:47:04 PM »
Just a little more info on this. I thought I had a copy of the book in my library and I did. It's titled " the blue parka man" and it states in the book his rifle was a savage 99 in 30-30.

The events all took place near Fairbanks ,AK. Except he was sent out to serve some of his time. So the movie is not historically accurate as someone already said.

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