Recently watched Clint Eastwood in "White Hunter, Black Heart" again. It's the fictionalized story of movie producer John Ford ( or was it John Huston?) during the time he was making a movie in Africa. Some great scenes of wildlife and elephant up close. Story line is the usual Hollywood drivel. There are about 3 or 4 different double rifles the actors carry in various scenes, some with beaver tail type fore ends and others with the slimmer type, and some with ribs and others without. Any guesses as to what they are?

Forget the guns, was the gunshop scene filmed in a real London gunshop or was it filmed in a studio?

I must admit there have been some nice SXS.s in those african movies

Back when I seen the movie I wouldn't have known what the manufacturer of the rifle was if they had a close up of it.

It does make you wonder what happens to all those rifles they use in movies though. Do the actors just take them home?

As an aside, I thought the elephant (non)shooting scene was stupid as well as the whole walk up to the elephant.

I did like Eastwoods explanation of why he wanted to shoot an elephant though - something like ... shooting elephant is not a crime its worse. Its a sin which is precisely why I want to do it ... but you wouldn't understand that would you? Of course not, because I don't understand it myself.

"It's not a crime to shoot an elephant. It's bigger than that. It's a sin to kill an elephant. It's the only sin that you can buy a license and go out and commit..."

If I recall the last time this came up, it was sort of concluded it was the real H&H store where the sequence was shot.

It matters little what the quote was exactly, it is just another example that reveals the guilt ridden life of bleeding heart liberals.

I play with modifying guns for films for a friend that rents them. Most guns are rentals. Just did a blank firing UZI(not full auto). Handy little thing.

Not sure how they did it in the old days, but today, there are several sub-specialities within the "prop" business in the Hollywood film industry. Firearms is one of them.

There are currently three or four armorers who can supply almost any firearm on the planet for whatever the script requires. ( The armorers are paid a daily rate AND the guns they provide are rented. ) Unless it's some science fiction type ray gun made especially for the script, most prop guns are real and rendered unable to discharge live ammo, although there have been a few AD's along the way with blanks and submunitions.

I don't know enough about doubles to recognize what was used in the Eastwood movie, but they looked authentic and high end to me.