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Posted: 1/19/2006 8:57:24 PM EDT

Posted: 1/19/2006 9:08:02 PM EDT

[#1]

Quoted:
photos.ar15.com/WS_Content/ImageGallery/Attachments/DownloadAttach.asp?sAccountUnq=1729&iGalleryUnq=419&iImageUnq=44597

I have no idea... staring at it and I am at a loss.

Posted: 1/19/2006 9:09:32 PM EDT

[#2]

i dunno, but that is a beautiful rifle

Posted: 1/19/2006 9:15:30 PM EDT

[#3]

I'd hazard a guess that EVERYONE on this forum knows who he is.

Posted: 1/19/2006 9:15:44 PM EDT

[#4]

Is he or was he a politician?

Posted: 1/19/2006 9:17:02 PM EDT

[#5]

ED SR!!!!!

Posted: 1/19/2006 9:17:23 PM EDT

[#6]

Quoted:
Is he or was he a politician?

Nope.

First clue: Photo is from WWII.

Posted: 1/19/2006 9:17:24 PM EDT

[#7]

Ronald Regan?

Posted: 1/19/2006 9:17:34 PM EDT

[#8]

Tell me that's not Skerry.

Posted: 1/19/2006 9:18:30 PM EDT

[#9]

Quoted:
Tell me that's not Skerry.

Not a chance.

Picture is from 1944.

Kerry's DOB is 11 December 1943.

Posted: 1/19/2006 9:21:27 PM EDT

[#10]

Eugine Stoner

Posted: 1/19/2006 9:22:24 PM EDT

[#11]

Is it Bill Guarnere?

Posted: 1/19/2006 9:22:54 PM EDT

[#12]

Lee Harvey Oswald. Same smile, same thin little fingers.

Posted: 1/19/2006 9:23:03 PM EDT

[#13]

Robert Dole????

Posted: 1/19/2006 9:23:26 PM EDT

[#14]

Quoted:
Eugine Stoner

Nope.

Posted: 1/19/2006 9:23:27 PM EDT

[#15]

George Herbert Walker Bush

Posted: 1/19/2006 9:23:55 PM EDT

[#16]

Quoted:
George Herbert Walker Bush

Nah, he was in the Navy.

Posted: 1/19/2006 9:23:57 PM EDT

[#17]

Quoted:
Is it Bill Guarnere?

Nope.

Posted: 1/19/2006 9:24:03 PM EDT

[#18]

Quoted:
George Herbert Walker Bush

He was a pilot

Posted: 1/19/2006 9:24:24 PM EDT

[#19]

Audie Murphy?

Posted: 1/19/2006 9:24:24 PM EDT

[#20]

Quoted:
George Herbert Walker Bush

He was a navy aviator.

Posted: 1/19/2006 9:24:49 PM EDT

[#21]

Audie Murphy?

ETA: Doc beat me to it.

Posted: 1/19/2006 9:24:56 PM EDT

[#22]

Quoted:
Lee Harvey Oswald. Same smile, same thin little fingers.

Lee Harvey Oswald — Date of Birth: 18 October 1939

Again photo was taken during WWII.

Posted: 1/19/2006 9:25:16 PM EDT

[#23]

hmm.. Audie Murphy?

Posted: 1/19/2006 9:25:17 PM EDT

[#24]

Quoted:
Quoted:
George Herbert Walker Bush

He was a navy aviator.

But they went through boot camp and learned to shoot.

Posted: 1/19/2006 9:25:26 PM EDT

[#25]

Quoted:
Audie Murphy?

Not a bad guess, but no.

Posted: 1/19/2006 9:25:33 PM EDT

[#26]

Again, Robert Dole???????

Posted: 1/19/2006 9:25:48 PM EDT

[#27]

Al Pacino and the gun he used in Heat.

What do I win

Posted: 1/19/2006 9:26:27 PM EDT

[#28]

lee marvin? mr rogers? Captain kangaroo?

Posted: 1/19/2006 9:27:12 PM EDT

[#29]

Quoted:
Al Pacino and the gun he used in Heat.

What do I win

A cruise with footyumpire

Posted: 1/19/2006 9:27:28 PM EDT

[#30]

how about some hints?

Posted: 1/19/2006 9:28:30 PM EDT

[#31]

Sloan Wilson?

Posted: 1/19/2006 9:29:17 PM EDT

[#32]

G. Gordon Liddy?

Posted: 1/19/2006 9:29:40 PM EDT

[#33]

Quoted:
Quoted:
Quoted:
George Herbert Walker Bush

He was a navy aviator.

But they went through boot camp and learned to shoot.

It's not Bush. It's not any politician.

Posted: 1/19/2006 9:29:42 PM EDT

[#34]

Dick Winters?

Posted: 1/19/2006 9:30:13 PM EDT

[#35]

Quoted:
Again, Robert Dole???????

Nope. Not any politician.

Posted: 1/19/2006 9:30:15 PM EDT

[#36]

Hugh Hefner

Seriously though, Hef was a Private in the Army just after WWII IIRC.

Posted: 1/19/2006 9:30:59 PM EDT

[#37]

Quoted:
Hugh Hefner

Seriously though, Hef was a Private in the Army just after WWII IIRC.

Damn, bet that's it!!!

Posted: 1/19/2006 9:31:04 PM EDT

[#38]

Quoted:
how about some hints?

Second clue. He married his first wife prior to joining the army in WWII.

Posted: 1/19/2006 9:31:17 PM EDT

[#39]

Quoted:
Quoted:
Al Pacino and the gun he used in Heat.

What do I win

A cruise with footyumpire

Posted: 1/19/2006 9:33:20 PM EDT

[#40]

Richard Burton

Posted: 1/19/2006 9:33:44 PM EDT

[#41]

Cooper?

Posted: 1/19/2006 9:33:49 PM EDT

[#42]

Quoted:
lee marvin? mr rogers? Captain kangaroo?

No. Not John Denver either.

Picture was taken in 1944. He was about 18 in the picture.

Posted: 1/19/2006 9:34:00 PM EDT

[#43]

Ed McMahon?!?!?!?!

Posted: 1/19/2006 9:34:05 PM EDT

[#44]

Lee Marvin.

Posted: 1/19/2006 9:34:34 PM EDT

[#45]

Mel Brooks?

Posted: 1/19/2006 9:35:56 PM EDT

[#46]

Charlton Heston?

Posted: 1/19/2006 9:36:22 PM EDT

[#47]

Quoted:
Hugh Hefner

Seriously though, Hef was a Private in the Army just after WWII IIRC.

Correct but wrong but wrong on the second point. Hef joined the army in 1944. Served from 1944-46.

Posted: 1/19/2006 9:36:22 PM EDT

[#48]

Is he still alive?

Posted: 1/19/2006 9:36:47 PM EDT

[#49]

charles heston

Posted: 1/19/2006 9:37:29 PM EDT

[#50]

Gene Hackman

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