Ever wonder what happens to firearms that are stars

[Jeepnik]

Pretty sad condition for a firearm that was as famous and the man who carried it. But it has outlived him.

 

[contender]

Nice one. I don't care what the condition is,, I'd GLADLY own that one. It was a "working gun" and it took a lot of abuse being filmed. I call it "character.!"

 

[Snake45]

Nice one. I don't care what the condition is,, I'd GLADLY own that one. It was a "working gun" and it took a lot of abuse being filmed. I call it "character.!"

Or "patina." :wink:

 

[Mike Armstrong]

Am I going blind or is this more typical Hollywood "technical director" nonsense? THOSE cartridges in THAT carbine????? (Or were they maybe for his sidearm?).

In a nation of gunnuts, you'd think they'd try a little harder....

 

[Snake45]

Am I going blind or is this more typical Hollywood "technical director" nonsense? THOSE cartridges in THAT carbine????? (Or were they maybe for his sidearm?).

In a nation of gunnuts, you'd think they'd try a little harder....

TV was B&W in those days, and non-HD, and the screens were tiny. To get across the idea of "bullet," you had to show a BIG bullet. :lol:

 

[gunzo]

http://theselvedgeyard.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/steve-mcqueen-xkss3.jpg?w=700&h=926

Two worlds collide.

 

[Jimbo357mag]

Am I going blind or is this more typical Hollywood "technical director" nonsense? THOSE cartridges in THAT carbine????? (Or were they maybe for his sidearm?).

In a nation of gunnuts, you'd think they'd try a little harder....

He just carried those 45-70 bullets around for his Buffalo hunting buddy that you never see. :mrgreen:

 

[Jeepnik]

It was the innocent age of TV. Folks understood it was just escapism entertainment and didn't over think things.

Six guns that shot twenty times, leverguns that never ran dry, single shot rifles that fired all day without reloading. Yea, it wasn't correct, it wasn't real, but it was good TV. Especially when compared to the "more realistic" (yea right) stuff on today.

 

[Mike Armstrong]

Hey, Jeep--you mean "CSI Miami" ain't realistic? You mean Miami crime scenes aren't clean enough for designer clothes? I'm shocked.

 

[Fox Mike]

I read in blurb somewhere that the carbine was actually a 44-40 but they used the 45-70 cartridges in the belt for "effect".

 

[contender]

A common TV mistake. Show one thing,,, but use another. It's been known for a long time that they used 45-70's as the "display" ammo so TV viewers could "see" ammo on his belt.

 

[Jeepnik]

Hey, Jeep--you mean "CSI Miami" ain't realistic? You mean Miami crime scenes aren't clean enough for designer clothes? I'm shocked.

A good deal of it was filmed in Southern California. I once saw two of the Hummers being driven past Los Angeles Air Station in El Segundo Ca.

Many of the marina scenes were filmed in Marina Del Rey.

 

[Mike Armstrong]

I knew an evidence tech in my former home of Troy, NY (they didn't have "Crime Scene Technicians"). She drove an ancient City pool station wagon, didn't carry a weapon, and wore a jump suit that had hazmat specs. She called it her "full body condom." Seeing some of the alleys she got to search, I thought that was a good idea. She was about as far from Hollywood as you can get and I suspect most civilian techs in real police departments are about as glamorous as she was--single mom, working hard at a dirty, demanding job. Kinda ruined "CSIs" for me, but the TV franchise grows on.... I expect a "CSI Indio" or "CSI Gilroy" any day now.

These days the camera hardly does anything BUT lie!

 

[toysoldier]

Was that a real Winchester they chopped or a well-used Spanish "El Tigre?"

 

[6GUNSONLY]

I'm betting it was a really '92. They weren't that hard to come by back then.

 

[Galaxiedan]

Where do you store the tax stamp for that short barreled rifle with that rig?

 

[Jeepnik]

Where do you store the tax stamp for that short barreled rifle with that rig?

Good question. I suppose the Autry Museum has lawyers to handle stuff like that.

 

[RSIno1]

I prefer the patina to having a famous gun restored.
https://www.nrablog.com/articles/2017/5/history-in-a-handgun-dirty-harrys-44-magnum-smith-and-wesson/
Nicely reblued, #S206921 was the Model 29 revolver presented to NRA Board Member and director John Milius as a gift from Clint Eastwood and Warner Brothers for his writing assistance on Dirty Harry, and also for writing the screenplay for Magnum Force. Inlaid into the left grip panel is a shield that is inscribed: ”To John Milius from Warner Brothers and Clint Eastwood for Dirty Harry & Magnum Force 1973.”

 

[coach]

Where do you store the tax stamp for that short barreled rifle with that rig?

I did read that the gunsmith/gun wrangler on Wanted: Dead or Alive with Steve McQueen, had some 'splaining to do to the ATF after someone noticed his cut down weapon on the show.

 

[Mike Armstrong]

Most of those "movie guns" have had so many 5-in-1 blackpowder blanks fired thru them that they are technically smoothbores; "sawed off shotguns"! Before the studios actually employed armorers, NOBODY cleaned the "guns of the stars," unless it was the star himself....

 

[ifithitu]

Out lived this guy

http://pic20.picturetrail.com/VOL1619/13746657/24743180/413426281.jpg

 

[Ale-8(1)]

http://theselvedgeyard.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/steve-mcqueen-xkss3.jpg?w=700&h=926 Two worlds collide.

Wonder if he could drive that thing while wearing those spurs?

:mrgreen: :lol: :lol: :mrgreen:

 

[JOHNNY WACKO]

they got find by the ATF for making that mare's leg .But then got the permission to make like 3 more for the show. It was Steve's idea for the 45/70 ammo for looks. and I think he designed the 1 in the picture with the tear drop lever and oct. barrel to replace the D ring lever.

the le tiger Spanish copy 92 was used on the rifleman for seen were it was thrown or broken but a 92 Winchester was the 2 main rifles he used in the show.

 

[TCGuy]

http://theselvedgeyard.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/steve-mcqueen-xkss3.jpg?w=700&h=926

Two worlds collide.

Jay Leno did a video with that car - it is amazing!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ai0uSj_OVE

 

[ruger357]

When I first seen this i thought it may be from the Series The Riflemen W/ Chuck Conner , Imagine my surprise to see Steve McQueen. Q: did he use this in a movie ?

 

[Jeepnik]

No movie. It was his signature firearm in the TV show Wanted Dead or Alive. He played a bounty hunter named Josh Randall. It was really almost a comedy western as Randall was always getting himself into one problem after another.

By the way, any of you know how Rutger Hauer is connected to Josh Randall?

 

[steveodtw]

http://theselvedgeyard.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/steve-mcqueen-xkss3.jpg?w=700&h=926

Two worlds collide.

Great Photo.

 

[Jeepnik]

I want to see how they load 45/70's into that!

Hey, it's TV anything is possible.