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Very little of what is seen in western movies is correct. Model 92 Winchesters seem to dominate, regardless of the era the picture is to portray. Many times you will see Model 92's that have had the forearm removed and the receiver colored gold to look similar to a Henry.

Colt SAA's are the only revolver to have been used from 1840-1920. Sometimes you will see double action revolvers show up before they were made too.

Many saddles are modern "roping" saddles with low cantles and fat saddle horns.

Running cowboys with their rifles in scabbards with the stock to the rear and slapping the snot out of the horse, not to mention the ease of losing that rifle under those circumstances especially when running uphill.

Not only Westerns, but movies as a whole have skewed America to believe life is or was how it was portrayed in movies.

That Liam Neeson movie, The Grey.

All of it.

The movie Open Range.....first of all I really like that movie

But in the main fight scene Costner fans his revolver to shoot more than 6 shots

I think the fanning is worse than the round count

In the Marky Mark movie Shooter

He goes into a small farm center a buys a Remongton 700 in a high end stock topped off with a Leupold and M1 turrets....but that entire movie is a mess

Ordinary looking hand grenades that expolde with a monsterous ball of fire and blow up everything within a 1/4 of a city block.

stolen...

More than once I've mocked, "Where does he get those cool grenades!" Particularly when coming out of an M203 or the like.

I read a quote from Costner about screwing up with the editing on the opening of the gun fight scene where he shots 12 times. The problem comes about because they don't show him switching guns....that part of the edited movie wound up on the floor.

The rest of Open Range is phenomenal.

And in at least one scene in "Dances with Wolves" one of the braves is wearing white tennis shoes.

And we cannot forget Arnie, Commando and the 85+ people he killed in it; many with a seemingly endless belt for his M60.

Yes that 3 second belt from a M60 tends to last a lot longer on film

The good guys never miss and the bad guys cant hit anything

In the new release of ben hur. The king is wearing coyote fur. No coyotes in Rome then or ever

Or the opposite effect - The aerial bomb or artillery shell that has the appearance and destructive force of a hand grenade when it explodes near the good guys.

Chuck Conners was left handed. In some of the episodes he is using the rifle left handed. He is one of few men to play pro baseball and basketball.

There was a place in San Antonio,TX that housed prop guns for some of John Wayne's movies. I believe they liquidated everything several years ago. Maybe Birdwatcher has more info on this?

In the movie "Dead Presidents" the main character is using a Mossberg 590 shotgun in Vietnam. Im not sure the USMC was using 590s in that time period or not.

John Wayne Movie, "The Green Berets" the scene where one of the characters is attacked by two "viet cong" and he hangs one on a tree limb snag, but the other kills him. Duke picks up his M16 and breaks it around a tree to keep it from falling into the enemy's hands. Problem is, it is easy to see that the rifle is obviously a toy.

Hogan's Heroes, German army using Krag-Jorgensons.

In "The Fighting Seabees", John Wayne and his gang of workers go after some Japanese troops with Krags, too.



In "Hellcats of the Navy", they switched 1911s and S&W revolvers quite often, too, in addition to switching aircraft types, quite the big deal considering the name of the movie (Wildcats, Hellcats, and Corsairs).

Been watching some old Gunsmoke shows. Same actors play lots of different parts. miles