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Big Screen Hunters: 10 Movies With Memorable Hunts

by NRABlog Staff - Monday, October 19, 2015

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The Deer Hunter

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Robert De Niro is an accomplished hunter whose life and those of his friends are changed forever when they go to war in the 1978 epic drama The Deer Hunter.

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I Am Legend

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In 2007's I Am Legend, Will Smith is seen hunting deer in a post-apocalyptic Manhattan after a virus transforms nearly all of humanity into mutants.

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Last of the Mohicans

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Set during the French and Indian War, 1992's historic epic Last of the Mohicans opens with Daniel Day Lewis skillfully hunting a deer with his adopted American Indian family.

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Wedding Crashers

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Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson had a memorable, but rather unsuccessful quail hunt in the 2005 comedy Wedding Crashers.

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The Hunger Games

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Jennifer Lawrence is extremely skilled with a bow in 2012's The Hunger Games and regularly hunts to provide food for her family.

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The Ghost and the Darkness

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Michael Douglas and Val Kilmer play seasoned hunters in 1996's The Ghost and the Darkness, based on a true story of a pair of lions who terrorized workers building a railroad through East Africa.

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Jeremiah Johnson

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Robert Redford's titular character in the 1972 western Jeremiah Johnson becomes a legendary mountain main whose proficiency in both hunting and trapping keep him alive.

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Out of Africa

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Meryl Streep falls for Robert Redford, a professional big game hunter, in the 1985 romantic drama Out of Africa.

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Dances With Wolves

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The 1990 western masterpiece Dances With Wolves stars Kevin Costner as a frontier soldier who slowly assimilates into a tribe of American Indians and features a memorable buffalo hunt.

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The Lost World: Jurassic Park

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Pete Postlethwaite plays a big game hunter who meets his match when he sets his sights on dinosaurs in 1997's The Lost World: Jurassic Park.

There are nearly 14 million hunters in the United States. But for all of the excitement that draws almost a fifth of our country to the sport, Hollywood rarely puts hunters up on the big screen. Above, we've put together a list of some of the most memorable hunters you've probably seen on film.

Did we leave your favorite movie hunter off the list? Tell us in the comments below.

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The Deer Hunter

I Am Legend

Last of the Mohicans

Wedding Crashers

The Hunger Games

The Ghost and the Darkness

Jeremiah Johnson

Out of Africa

Dances With Wolves

The Lost World: Jurassic Park

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