Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire Open Range: Seems Charlie Waite (Costner) Doesn't Know How To Eject Spent Cases

Near the end of the final shootout, he's seen ducked behind a water trough trying to shake the spent cases from his Colt Single Action Army. He makes no effort at all to use the ejector, as if he had no idea that's what it was for. What the hell??

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Yeah he was struggling, lol.

You'd think Costner would have familiarized himself with the operation of a Single Action Army revolver before filming started.

You would think with the money they spend producing these movies they could afford to have somebody like Alec Baldwin on set to give authentic firearms advice.

Ho ho

The best way it to point it at the director, cock it, and pull the fuggin trigger, with a live round.

Its a Dumbazz Baldwin training method

I don't have to watch. Him shaking the empties out tha cylinder nearly drove me nuts. Little things like this hurt a movie for me. Well, that & Devall with exactly the same speech & mannerisms as Gus on Lonesome.

Made him look like a one trick pony. as far as acting goes.

The scene where the guy got blown back 6-8 feet after getting shot kinda ruined it for me. Looked like something out of a Chinese action movie...

Every action movie is a Chinese action movie now.

Movie. Actor lefties. WTF

Well Denzel Washington in Magnificent 7 just rotates the cylinder and the cases just fall out slick as a whistle, so just maybe Costner’s blanks stuck.

Yep he had no clue.

Maybe when people are shooting at you in real life you get screwed up also. Just a thought. Maybe trying to show something like that. Edk

The character was a vet of the Civil War, on some kind of special forces team. He was a gunman. How does such a man forget that there's a thumb operated ejector rod on his revolver? Not credible. If he was directed to do that, the director was an idiot. If not, then Costner is not even vaguely familiar with the operation of a single action revolver.

Postlewaite. Charles Postlewaite.

He was a Liz Cheney supporter. He can't be that bright.

Bucketmouth

You guys expect way to much out of Hollywood.

Just before that scene he fans his pistol and shoots like 4,000 rounds whilst doing so

At his age it was probly ejectile dysfunction. But he ustacould.

Oh, wait. When that movie was made maybe not. Probly nervous related ejectile dys.