m113a3
.240 Incinerator
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Post by m113a3 on Sept 10, 2014 21:52:11 GMT -5
I recently was in Arizona and decided to watch the remake of 3:10 to Yuma and was happy to see an 1851 Colt Navy conversion along with several other great American arms.
So I decided to see what movies you all enjoyed that had one or more of your favorites.
Cheers
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Post by oregon45 on Sept 10, 2014 22:02:23 GMT -5
Dirty Harry: Magnum Force. Great 29 and Colt Python action.
Point Blank: Lee Marvin and a 4" M29.
There are others, but if I want to watch a modern wheel gun movie, those are the first two I look to.
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Post by nolongcolt on Sept 10, 2014 22:19:31 GMT -5
Quigley Down Under, Sharps 1874
Tell them Valdez is Coming, Sharps Carbine
Dirty Harry of course. Don't forget his using the ridiculous .458 Win mag as a counter sniper rifle!
Winchester '73
Saving Private Ryan, all the WWII guns!
Any African safari movie for all the doubles and big bore bolt guns.
Macomber Affair, believe they were shooting Sedgley Springfield's in it among others
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Post by oregon45 on Sept 10, 2014 22:24:03 GMT -5
Ghost and the Darkness: can't find a Lee Speed rifle to save my life but I want one bad!
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Paden
.375 Atomic
Lower Goldstream Creek
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Post by Paden on Sept 10, 2014 22:34:55 GMT -5
McQ: MAC-10
Pale Rider: 1858 New Army
Quigly Down Under: 1874 Sharps
Army of Darkness: Stoeger 12 Gauge "boomstick"
Point Break: FA 83
Firefly; Whitefall: Blaser R93 LRS2
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Post by nolongcolt on Sept 10, 2014 22:41:30 GMT -5
Ghost and the Darkness: can't find a Lee Speed rifle to save my life but I want one bad! I have close to it. LSA Enfield Sporter, commercial model, .303 Brit. Forgot about the movie, just watched it recently too. Old timers disease setting in! |
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Post by oregon45 on Sept 10, 2014 22:41:58 GMT -5
And a great look at old Seattle. Wayne was also carrying a Colt Diamondback in the opening scene when he makes the long shot down the pier. |
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Post by nolongcolt on Sept 10, 2014 22:46:08 GMT -5
And a great look at old Seattle. Wayne was also carrying a Colt Diamondback in the opening scene when he makes the long shot down the pier. Now we're going down memory lane. I was born and raised in Seattle (1953), and the scenes where Wayne is shooting at the bad guys at the marina is my Uncle's marina, called Fremont Boat! My uncle and his then wife have tiny bit parts in the movie as well, in a scene downtown in a café. They are sitting at a table reading the paper! Everybody in my family got to meet the Duke but me, not sure where I was but not there, dammit! |
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Post by oregon45 on Sept 10, 2014 22:51:04 GMT -5
And a great look at old Seattle. Wayne was also carrying a Colt Diamondback in the opening scene when he makes the long shot down the pier. Now we're going down memory lane. I was born and raised in Seattle (1953), and the scenes where Wayne is shooting at the bad guys at the marina is my Uncle's marina, called Fremont Boat! My uncle and his then wife have tiny bit parts in the movie as well, in a scene downtown in a café. They are sitting at a table reading the paper! Everybody in my family got to meet the Duke but me, not sure where I was but not there, dammit! That is too cool! |
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Post by oregon45 on Sept 10, 2014 22:57:14 GMT -5
For great 1911 and 38 snub-nose handling, "The Way of the Gun" is hard to beat.
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Post by nolongcolt on Sept 10, 2014 23:02:24 GMT -5
 Ghost and the Darkness: can't find a Lee Speed rifle to save my life but I want one bad! Here ya go. Read it and weep! Not many of these rifles around unfortunately. |
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Post by oregon45 on Sept 10, 2014 23:04:19 GMT -5
View AttachmentGhost and the Darkness: can't find a Lee Speed rifle to save my life but I want one bad! Here ya go. Read it and weep! Not many of these rifles around unfortunately. You're kill in' me!  |
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Post by oregon45 on Sept 10, 2014 23:10:06 GMT -5
Tom Selleck's "Crossfire trail" has some great Western gun handling, including Selleck's use of an 1876 Winchester.
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rgp
.30 Stingray
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Post by rgp on Sept 10, 2014 23:26:06 GMT -5
Dirty Harry wasn't the only one reasonable enough to use a .458 as a sniper rifle. I believe a Winchester Model 70 in .458 Win. was also used by a South American indian as a sniper rifle in "Doc Savage, Man of Bronze" which nobody is likely to claim to have seen.
My new all time favorite rifles though are Winchester 71's. I think the only time I ever saw a Model 71 on film was when Ricky Ricardo went hunting in an episode of "I love Lucy."
Moving to Australia did tend to kill off my liking for "Quigley Down Under" because they had too many aborigines in one location. Aborigines generally do not get along well with other aborigines and in a remote area you will not find that many in one location unless they're yelling at each other telling the others to leave.
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Post by oregon45 on Sept 10, 2014 23:30:36 GMT -5
Two good lever gun movies, featuring the little seen Savage 99: "Joe Kidd', and "Death Hunt." The latter stars Lee Marvin and Charles Bronson. Need I say more?
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