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"Yellowstone" Prequel called "1883" ...
Just finished watching the TV series "1883" and was shocked to see that a starring rifle in that show
was a Winchester 1885 High Wall being fired by the hero and heroine during the year 1883.
John Moses Browning designed the prototype in 1878, in Utah,
and Winchester bought the design from him in 1883,
made some improvements, and released it in 1885.
That is how I understand it.
I bet our hero from Tennessee got an original John Moses Browning 1878 rifle out of Utah.
Somehow he had one when he set out for Oregon in 1883.
That would make for a good fictional adventure in itself, for gunnuts.
Eh ?
Otherwise, I am calling "blooper."

Another tiny blooper in the show is that Starline brass was shown in closeup of headstamp
on .44 WCF ammo that our hero bought in a Commanche camp.
The ammo box itself might have been correct, but I gotta check "The Book" on that.

The puny ballistics of the .44 WCF from rifles and revolvers on that show must be why so many
of the fictional characters survived their gunshot wounds.
Gotta say no human, deer or elk survived a hit from the High Wall in that fiction.
That rifle looked to be .45-cal. from the muzzle hole glimpses.
Shades of the .458 WinMag Superiority.

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