Any idea what rifle Val Kilmer carried in the movie?

Here's what I was able to find out about John Patterson.

"Patterson writes in his account that he wounded the first lion with one bullet from a Martini-Enfield chambered in .303 caliber. This shot struck the lion in the hindquarters, but it escaped. Later, it returned at night and began stalking Patterson as he tried to hunt it. He shot it with a .303 Lee Enfield several times, tracked it the next morning, and found it dead. The second lion was shot five times with a .303 Lee Enfield, but it got up and charged him in severely crippled condition, whereupon he shot it three more times with the Martini-Henry carbine, twice in the chest, and once in the head, which killed it. "

I think in the movie Val Kilmer carried a Martini-Enfield. All I know is that whatever rifle he was carrying, it didn't look big enough to me!

Val Kilmer carried a Lee Speed in the movie except in the thicket scene where he was carrying a Farquharson.

I agree with Huvius regarding the movie.

Check out www.nitroexpress.com as they have a forum devoted to the Lee Speed. Might be of interest to you.

RCG

The next time you have time to visit the Field Museum in Chicago stop in and see Patterson's cats.