Early scene, glass and his son shoot a moose in hostile Indian country. They are in the process of dressing it out when the shooting starts, yet Glass had not reloaded his rifle, dressing the moose leaving his gun empty. As he runs towards the action Glass dumps loose powder and spits a ball down the barrel, a mode of loading guaranteed to give atrocious accuracy and used only at point blank range and in the direst emergenc.
Early scene; Glass is sitting down and cleaning his gun when he turns to talk to his son about how folks wont like him because he's an Indian. In that shot you can clearly see Glass's pan brush hanging from the strap of his shooting bag - it is brand-spanking-out-the-wrapper new, never been used.
Then there's their choice of trade guns, Pedersoli makes a fine trade gun replica correct for the period....
http://www.dixiegunworks.com/product_info.php?products_id=2022&osCsid=14pltgvqi7g3kkrl03t01cnhu0Instead they gave 'em all "Brown Bess Indian trade guns", a bogus reenactorism that isn't found, Pedersoli merely blued their Pattern 1793 Brown Bess Cavalry Carbines and hung a trade gun-style sideplate on 'em.
http://www.dixiegunworks.com/product_info.php?products_id=3474I've only been able to watch the movie once, avoided it since. While we all know the "burn your open throat wound closed with gunpowder" stunt was totally bogus, I'm trying to recall if DeCaprio actually sprinkled powder from his horn onto an open flame in that same scene
and finally, someone explained to me why DeCaprio never gets hypothermia in that movie....
...because he became immune filming Titanic
