"Iconic Wild West Guns that Hollywood Somehow Forgot" Topic
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| Tango01 | 06 Oct 2022 9:51 p.m. PST |
"My affection and affliction with Hollywood westerns goes back to 1946, when I saw a Roy Rogers movie called My Pal Trigger. From there, it was only a decade to the heyday of the TV westerns, and thence to the more realistic (but barely so) oaters of the 60s to date. I learned a great many things about the Old West from these films: Most arguments were settled with fists, not guns. If a Good Guy used a gun, it was to shoot the Bad Guy in the hand; no one ever killed anyone. If there was a real shootout, the faster man always won, and the code of the fast draw was as scrupulously observed as the Code Duello had been for hundreds of years before. And, most important, everyone used either a Colt Peacemaker or a Winchester Model 92, which pretended it was a Winchester 73…."
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 ColCampbell | 07 Oct 2022 6:43 a.m. PST |
Interesting article. Thanks, Armand. Jim |
| Tango01 | 07 Oct 2022 3:31 p.m. PST |
A votre service mon cher ami….
Armand
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| badger22 | 09 Oct 2022 7:22 p.m. PST |
Bummer, the link is dead now. |
| 79thPA | 10 Oct 2022 8:23 a.m. PST |
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