BULL'S-EYE
Buckeye
Still not as bad as The Comancheros...Where they're blatantly using 92 Winchester's and Colt Model P's in a storyline set in 1843. 
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Some Steampunk contraption. Obviously non- functional. They come up with some real unique ideas. It's an interesting genre.
Star43
Buckeye
I always kind of thought Nicholson was a bit of a nut case.....IMO.
CHEVYINLINE6
Blackhawk
WW2 hero Audie Murphy was known to use a Ruger Blackhawk with the sights removed in some of his movies. I read this years ago, but I don't remember the reason the sights were removed.Wasting rainy day time watching low budget westerns a couple days back and noticed that one cowboy/gunfighter was using what appeared to be a Ruger Blackhawk that had been stripped of it's front blade and rear adjustable sights. Supposedly an expedient to using a 'real' period single action? Also apparently had the 'high cap 14 round' upgrade as the user fired off at least that many rounds w/o a reload.
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Star43
Buckeye
I had heard that Audie Murphy used a Great Western in his movies a lot. After all, he was a large investor in the LA based company.
J. Yuma
Single-Sixer
When I reload a SA, all I think about is if a guy was shooting back that has one of those 20 round 9mm's.
I read an article about a movie where the protagonist carries a spare cylinder and swaps the cylinders out during a shoot out.
Now that's a possibility.
John Wayne had one of them, in The Sons of Katie Elder, when in the fight at the gun store near the end of the movie
Yeah, one of Eastwood's movies. I forget which one.
You just have to innovate… make it an over/under, and you can get 20 shots to a cylinder! (Still, not exactly "svelte.")
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Here's a decent article article on this revolver
Rare 20-Shot Lefaucheux "High Capacity" Pin Fire Revolver
Rare 20-Shot Lefaucheux "High Capacity" Pin Fire Revolver
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J. Yuma
Single-Sixer
the only Eastwood western I've ever watched is The Unforgiven. Not a snob, just don't like drama. (I guess I actually am a snob?)
The Unforgiven was "Unforgettable," and apparently Eastwood is a genuine thinker, in the order of Reagan, Wayne, or McQueen. But enough of my politics.
However, yesterday's 1873 cleaning after 50 rounds of ACP (all loaded in 5's, such a sweet little shooter, too bad I'm also a magnum snob) reminded me that the cylinder swap idea may not be as practical as it seems. It's one thing to do it on a bench while drinking a diet Dr Pepper, and would be quite another whilst being shot at...and I know why some "shootists" would have two "five shooters."
contender
Ruger Guru
Yes,,, it was Pale Rider where Eastwood had a few pouches on his belt with pre-loaded cylinders & used them "effectively."
And in Outlaw Josie Wales,, he carried at least (3) guns to facilitate the necessity of reloading, and being unarmed.
Two movies where the use of firearms was portrayed better than most.
And in Outlaw Josie Wales,, he carried at least (3) guns to facilitate the necessity of reloading, and being unarmed.
Two movies where the use of firearms was portrayed better than most.
A "Jose Wales" reload, New Yawk ain't got nuttin on him!
BoggusDeal
Single-Sixer
In a cartridge revolver, I'm not sure how well a spare cylinder would work. Would the cartridges stay in? In a cap and ball gun, sure. I understand the Confederate cavalry did that to keep weight down on horseback. A couple cylinders was lighter than another whole gun.
Removing the front sight, or filing it down, was supposed to make it faster to draw. No clue if it was ever really done, but it was in all of the old Louis Lamour and Zane Grey books.
In the Wisconsin House on the Rock museum display there are (or were) a couple of revolvers having multiple cylinders somehow attached. I seem to recall there were three or four cylinders on a single frame, and they appeared to be quite well done. I have no idea if they actually functioned or not, but were certainly interesting. 
It is very real:
One such oddity was Joseph Enouy's patent, which pertained to a device that would be fixed to the underside of a transitional-type percussion revolver. The device consisted of eight revolver cylinders attached by spokes to a rotating wheel, itself fixed to a central axis that ran from the grip of the revolver to the end of the barrel. After a cylinder was depleted, unscrewing the axis could allow the user to disengage the frame of the revolver and manually turn the wheel to rotate a new cylinder into the revolver's frame. Only one such revolver was ever made, and it was unwieldy and heavy. Enouy also developed more practical two-cylinder revolvers that operated on a similar principle.
Revolver
A revolver is a multishot firearm, usually a handgun, in which the rounds are held in a revolving cylinder that rotates to fire them through a single barrel. Revolver-type weapons are part of the long development of making better multi-shot weapons. They were partly an attempt to improve on...
The Great Train Robbery, or some such, credited as The First Western, the guy points the revolber at the camera and lets loose with 7, but it could be a moore's. Cat ballou shot that coffeecan seven times?
Eastwood switching cylinders was a cartridge-converted remington 1858 type.
Eastwood switching cylinders was a cartridge-converted remington 1858 type.
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