I appreciate the black powder loads smoke and different report from a normal smokeless blank. Always like the movie. The ending made it seem as if they left it open for a sequel but that never materialized.
Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.
This is the first gunfight scene. Marshall Cole and his regular deputy traveled to this town because a rancher (two of whose men raped and murdered a girl in town) murdered the previous Town Marshal and his two deputies when they came to his ranch to arrest the rapists/murderers. The town elders had written Cole and deputy, and asked them to come and take over as Town Marshall and deputy, and to investigate the murders. This scene occurred literally minutes after the town elders signed onto Cole's terms for taking the job. Those men in the bar were the rancher's men, who were accustomed to coming to town and doing whatever they wanted to.
This is the first gunfight scene. Marshall Cole and his regular deputy traveled to this town because a rancher (whose men raped and murdered a girl in town) murdered the previous Town Marshal and his two deputies when they came to his ranch to arrest the rapists/murderers. The town elders had written Cole and deputy, and asked them to come and take over as Town Marshall and deputy, and to investigate the murders. This scene occurred literally minutes after the town elders signed onto Cole's terms for taking the job. Those men in the bar were the rancher's men, who were accustomed to coming to town and doing whatever they wanted to.
That was a Badass movie. Was what I thought would have been very realistic for men like Cole and Hitch to be able to survive in those times. The damn woman was realistic also.
This is the first gunfight scene. Marshall Cole and his regular deputy traveled to this town because a rancher (two of whose men raped and murdered a girl in town) murdered the previous Town Marshal and his two deputies when they came to his ranch to arrest the rapists/murderers. The town elders had written Cole and deputy, and asked them to come and take over as Town Marshall and deputy, and to investigate the murders. This scene occurred literally minutes after the town elders signed onto Cole's terms for taking the job. Those men in the bar were the rancher's men, who were accustomed to coming to town and doing whatever they wanted to.
Don't know how many 8 gauge double barrels were in use by law men back then. But history does have quite a few 10 gauge guns used by gunfighters back in the wooly old west.
Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.
Don't know how many 8 gauge double barrels were in use by law men back then. But history does have quite a few 10 gauge guns used by gunfighters back in the wooly old west.
That very shotgun is in the NRA National Firearms Museum. It is actually a 12-guage. http://www.nramuseum.org/guns/the-galleries/hollywood-guns/westerns/appaloosa-(2008).aspx
Interesting! In the movie they refer to it as an 8 gauge.
If I recall correctly, they said they built the gun up to look like an 8 gauge (or they took an 8 gauge gun and sleeved the chambers so they could use 12 ga blanks... one or the other)
Interesting! In the movie they refer to it as an 8 gauge.
If I recall correctly, they said they built the gun up to look like an 8 gauge (or they took an 8 gauge gun and sleeved the chambers so they could use 12 ga blanks... one or the other)
Interesting! In the movie they refer to it as an 8 gauge.
In the original screenplay, which I have, written by Robert Knott and Ed Harris, the character "Hitch" refers to his shotgun as "eight gauge." Here is a short excerpt from the screenplay where Hitch, in a voice over, is explaining some of his background.
... EXT. OPEN RANGE - WEEKS LATER - DAY 7 In the distance TWO RIDERS and their PACK MULE cross the vast terrain of southern New Mexico...
HITCH (V.O.)
Like my Father, I’d been West Point, and I was good at soldiering. But soldiering didn’t allow for too much expansion of the soul. So after the War Between the States and a year of fighting Indians, I turned in my commission and rode away to see how much I could expand it.
The Two Riders ride on...
HITCH (V.O.)
I shot buffalo for the railways and rode for Wells Fargo with an eight gauge shotgun. I sat lookout for a while in a gambling parlor in Durango and did a short turn as a bouncer in a whorehouse in Canon City.
"APPALOOSA" GREEN REVISIONS 10/30/07 5. 6 CONTINUED: 6 (MORE) ...
FWIW
L.W.
"Always go straight forward, and if you meet the devil, cut him in two and go between the pieces." (William Sturgis, clipper ship captain, 1830s.)
