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One of my favorite gaffs is in the final shootout in The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly. As the three are standing in the center of the graveyard, the film rotates through several closeups of the characters.

You'll notice that Lee Van Cleef is fingering a '58 Remington, complete with plainly visible percussion caps, in a gun belt loaded with cartridges that are obviously fake.
 
With all this talk of scenes in movies it has me curious to check out something. One scene in "Outlaw Josey Wales" has Clint reloading his pistol while on horseback just after they had it out with the yanks when they tried to surrender but were gunned down.
Accurate or not I will always like the scope shot he makes at the ferry crossing where the yanks go for a "Missouri boat ride."
 
TGTBATU has a few other gaffs ... most of the guns appeared cartridge conversions. It seems to me highly unlikely you do a mix-and-match of the various guns as was done in the film, even making one Colt 1851 from the parts of several.
I tend to enjoy these movies for entertainment ... it's fun noting the historical gaffs, but you gotta know 99% of the audience out there doesn't know or care that a particular Winchester rifle was not actually available at the time in which a particular movie was set.
 
Movie script writers, directors,actors and producers tend to be "entertainment specialists", meaning for any issue outside their simplistic specialty they know nothing about anything.

They demonstrate a near total lack of knowledge of guns, cops, the old West, history, the South, business management, religion or religious people, honesty and integrity, morality, the military, auto crashes, airplanes, or outdoor sanitation.

They do know about drugs, alcohol, promiscuity and homosexuality, global warming, "give peace a chance", "peace in out time", etc. Or think they do.

Next question? ....
 
Those trapdoor flintlocks keep appearing, if you watch enough movies. Peter the Great has them in it, too. It also has Mosin carbines with sidelocks added. The bolt handle is still there, though, sticking out the side.:)
 
Maybe they did use Colt SAA's at Harper's Ferry

and Trapdoors at Gettysburg. An ancient, powerful civilization in our neighboring galaxy the Large Magellanic Cloud could have used warp to travel across the universe. These warp channels, like fiber optic cables, could have stretched across Earth's atmosphere by accident, and some Civil War soldiers accidentally rode the warp field to 1875, then realized their mistake, asked the aliens to send them back, and brought along Trapdoor rifles with them!!!:D:D:D:D:D:D:D
 
I just watched a movie that made had some glaring mistakes in it. It's not an old west movie but a WW2 movie. It's titled "Sailor Of The King" With Jeffery Hunter. It's about a British sailor that escapes captivity from a German Cruiser while the German attempt to repair their ship. He captures a Mauser rifle and get ashore to fire on the German sailors attempting to fix the boat. What I thought was funny was the rifle he is using keeps changing. At first it's a Mauser then It's an Enfield. The same goes for the German sailors that are trying to get him. Their guns keep changing from Mausers to Enfields. I think They only had two rifles to make this movie. One Enfield and one Mauser and nobody knew the difference.
 
Almost any WW2 movie of AA guns firing on a ship. The barrels never recoil but there is a nice looking propane flame at the end of the barrel! Unless you get to see the 'out of the can stock footage' then they'd get it right.

Clint Eastwood movie..either A Fistfull of Dollars or For a few Dollars More...the bad guy is firing a gatling gun...but from the front it looks like a 'pepperbox' mounted to a Maxim MG.

The old series '12 O'clock High' When the turret gunner [behind the pilot's] was firing the twin 50's there was never spent brass falling.

OH and anytime our hero [armed with a snubby .38] shoots at a fleeing car, hits it and it explodes!:scrutiny:...Barnaby Jones..Mannix...Starsky & Hutch
 
Movie gaffs don't bother me. If you do a period piece, you will get something wrong.

Movie are products, nothing more.

What bothers me is how often I hear people on the History Channel talking about changing a cylinder on a Colt cap revolver. These folks are suposed to know better. One guy talked about doing it on horseback. Now that I would pay to see.

I always assumme they mean Remington.

Joe
 
"Although there are always issues like the capture of the 300 lb Confederate - something you just didn't see in 1863"

we eats LOTS of greasy fatty things here down South!:eek:)

Isn't the rifle John Wayne should be using in most of his westerns a 73 or so Winchester, when he always had like an 1892 lever with him?

Though Big Jake was set right after the Spanish American War, so a 92 wasn't such a big deal in that period...

My favorites are 1911s whose slides don't retract upon firing (Death before Dishonor) and Glocks that continuously click on empty without the pistol in slidelock and it keeps clicking like a DA:neener:
 
In the Last Samurai I seen a mistake, I love looking for them too. Anyways when the soldier shoots at the target when the Captain is instructing him how, he tells him to reload at shoot at him. When the soldier reloads he does not put a new cap on the rifle. Puts the bullet and powder in, but no new cap.
 
In the Last Samurai I seen a mistake, I love looking for them too. Anyways when the soldier shoots at the target when the Captain is instructing him how, he tells him to reload at shoot at him. When the soldier reloads he does not put a new cap on the rifle. Puts the bullet and powder in, but no new cap.

If you look closely at that same seen the front barrel band has come off and is flapping around on the end of the barrel.
 
Yeah, I seen that too, but I forgot about that part. Of course my favorite thing in that movie did not have to do with any mess ups with guns. It was the scene when Tom gets off his horse and it kicks back and nails that guy in a very tender spot. I felt so bad for that guy.
 
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