Lonesome Dove.

[tom black]

Got home from work about an hour ago, sat down on the couch to chill out for a little bit. I started channel surfing and caught the last hour of Lonesome Dove. Been a while since I've last seen it and don't have a clue how many times I've watched it. Lord, what a fine, fine western. If not the best western ever made it has to be close.
Tom Black

 

[Bear Paw Jack]

Tom, I have to agree with you on that. I used to read the book a couple of times a year, now I've misplaced it. Need to find another one.

 

[WAYNO]

Also one of my favorites. I've watched it many times, but each time, I still find something new in it, and I am always entertained.

 

[Poco Oso]

We don't rent pigs. :mrgreen:
One of my all-time favorites too.

 

[chuck]

I agree it's one of my favorites but have any of you seen HANNEY COULDER with Racarol welch?

 

[GLASSMAN]

Tom, we must have settled in about the same time.
I also surfed and caught the last hour or so.
I love that movie. Seen it several times.

 

[Wyandot Jim]

I agree it's one of my favorites but have any of you seen HANNEY COULDER with Racarol welch?

Well I just watched it. Not sure but I don't think it won any Academy Awards

 

[wolfsong]

We don't rent pigs. :mrgreen:
One of my all-time favorites too.

"This was a two bit town when we got here and it's lost ten cents since thern".

Not an exact quote, but very close. It is in the book but not the film. I remember reading the book for the first time back in 1990. I was sitting by the pool of the Stouffer Resort in Scottsdale, Arizona. I laughed out loud for a couple of momernts, causing everyone to stare at me like I was crazy.

Best line in the book, IMHO.

 

[gunman42782]

Awesome movie, and probably more realistic than most Western movies. Dang near everybody in it dies, and usually not from getting shot.

 

[muzzleloader]

Great movie. “I hate rude behavior in a man. I won’t tolerate it.”

 

[caryc]

Best book I ever read !!

 

[dougader]

One of my favorite scenes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmYug0g1s2I

 

[caryc]

One of my favorite scenes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmYug0g1s2I

Yep, got to admit, that was pretty smart shooting all over the place like that. :mrgreen:

 

[Ethang]

It's one of those movies that no matter how many times I have watched it, if it's on when I am flipping channels that is what gets watched. Even having the DVD set..

 

[caryc]

It's one of those movies that no matter how many times I have watched it, if it's on when I am flipping channels that is what gets watched. Even having the DVD set..

Me too, the same with Pale Rider. I always say I'll watch just long enough to see Clint wield that ax handle but then I get stuck and watch it all the way through.

 

[Don Lovel]

Scene of Gus shooting a long range shot with his "Yellowboy" Model 66 Winchester and a ladder sight
The scene of Gus shooting the whisky glass in the bar with the huge Walker Colt and whipped the smartassed bartender "for dawdling service"
Playing poker with Laurie "for a poke" "A man who wouldn't cheat for a poke don't want it bad enough"

 

[Wyandot Jim]

Scene of Gus shooting a long range shot with his "Yellowboy" Model 66 Winchester and a ladder sight
The scene of Gus shooting the whisky glass in the bar with the huge Walker Colt and whipped the smartassed bartender "for dawdling service"
Playing poker with Laurie "for a poke" "A man who wouldn't cheat for a poke don't want it bad enough"

Yep a good scene except that Yellowboy was a 1860 Henry :wink: Notice also it was only half loaded

 

[caryc]

Scene of Gus shooting a long range shot with his "Yellowboy" Model 66 Winchester and a ladder sight
The scene of Gus shooting the whisky glass in the bar with the huge Walker Colt and whipped the smartassed bartender "for dawdling service"
Playing poker with Laurie "for a poke" "A man who wouldn't cheat for a poke don't want it bad enough"

Yep a good scene except that Yellowboy was a 1860 Henry :wink: Notice also it was only half loaded

Were you and Don both talking about that chicken dance scene? As for being half loaded, well he did just fire five shots from it.

And I could be wrong but I don't think Winchester ever made a lever action without a wood fore arm, did they?

 

[Wyandot Jim]

Yes that is the one. The Henry held 16 rounds of 44 Henry Rim Fire. Mine is a 44WCF. Winchester would not put his name on the Rifle so it was sold as a Henry. One of the reason for the forearm is the barrel gets pretty hot when firing Black/Gun powder. One of the King's Improvements along with a loading gate to the Model of 1866.

A little history for you.
https://www.ammoland.com/2015/08/henry-rifles-history/#axzz5R0ifXVJY

Iron frame 1860 Henry, 1866, 1873, 1894


Gus Guns :wink: We don't rent pigs.

 

[Bear Paw Jack]

Nice group of lever guns Jim. When Gus whacked that "surley" bartender with his Walker, he was lucky it didn't kill the guy. But then it was only a movie.

 

[caryc]

Nice group of lever guns Jim. When Gus whacked that "surley" bartender with his Walker, he was lucky it didn't kill the guy. But then it was only a movie.

When you talk about whackin' guys in the puss with a revolver, I think Matt Dillon still holds the record for that. It's amazing that his gun was still accurate after all that.

 

[Dr. Leaky]

The casting on that show was first class. Really did justice to the book.

 

[Armybrat]

Not Gus's Henry...