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Imagine I'm a bit younger than most on here, being born in 1975. We had re-runs of all these shows in the 1980's. I loved Bonanza, Gunsmoke, and the Rifleman.
I did get annoyed that no one on Bonanza had cartridges on their belts.

Maverick was another one I followed.
 
As a kid I had a plastic "copy" of Josh Randall's gun. It shot white plastic bullets. That is all the memory I have about it. I only got to shoot it in the basement of the house.

Don't forget about "The Texan" and "Colt .45".
 
Whistle Me Up A Memory Of Tombstone Territory. I still cannot get that theme song out of my head!

Don't forget Sugarfoot, Bronco Lane and Elfego Baca.

If you are still mad that your parents threw out all of your toy guns as soon as you moved out, they are all for sale on ebay!

Some go for hundreds of dollars.

I bought back my favorites: a pair of Hubley Colt 45s, a Hubley New Model Army and a Mattel Shootin' Shell.
 
Back then that was THE Shotgun. A lot of stories about celebrities, politicians, generals, etc., with their high grade Model 12s.

"And so, what were Hemingway’s favorite guns throughout his life and his collection that he amassed. Did he have any particular favorites that he enjoyed the most?

He amassed a number of guns and they were all very, very useful guns. He had three that I would say were favorites, two of them stayed with him his entire life. One was a Winchester model 12, pump action shotgun and 12 gauge that judging by its serial number, he bought in the late teens."
 
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Crawdad1 said:
He had three that I would say were favorites, two of them stayed with him his entire life. One was a Winchester model 12, pump action shotgun and 12 gauge that judging by its serial number, he bought in the late teens."
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One of those is the one he used to blow his brains out.

" arrived home in Ketchum on June 30. Two days later, in the early morning hours of July 2, 1961, Hemingway "quite deliberately" shot himself with his favorite shotgun.[152]"
 
Mare's Laig
Internet Movie Firearms Database IMFDb covers the Mare's Leg in a subsection of their Winchester 1892 article.
http://www.imfdb.org/wiki/Mare's_Leg#.22Mare.27s_Leg.22
Wanted Dead Or Alive
It's broadcast and free if you know how to hook up digital rabbit ears: Memorable Entertainment channel MeTV has old Westerns Saturday morning from 8am in the morning (currently Trackdown, Have Gun Will Travel, Maverick, Wagon Train, The Big Valley, Gunsmoke, Bonanza, Rawhide, Wanted Dead Or Alive, The Rifleman) then at 7pm segues into Sci-Fi Saturday Nite with The Wild Wild West.
http://www.metv.com/schedule/
http://www.metv.com/wheretowatch/
 
I watched two episodes of Wanted Dead or Alive, and Have Gun-Will Travel just this morning on H&I (Heroes & Icons) as part of their weekday Good Guys at Sunrise block which includes

The Cisco Kid
Trackdown
Cheyenne
Wanted Dead or Alive (2 episodes)
Have Gun-Will Travel (2 episodes)
Rawhide
Wagon Train
Maverick

Sunday

Stagecoach West
Branded
The Rebel
Broken Arrow
Yancy Derringer
Daniel Boone

Then later in the day

Iron Horse
Have Gun-Will Travel (1 episode)
Wagon Train
Have Gun-Will Travel (2 episodes)
The Rebel (2 episodes)
Maverick
 
For those that are interested two of original Mare's legs is at the Autry Museum in Los Angeles.

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kBob said:
The Third Armored Division out of Hanau, Federal Republic of Germany in 1982 had a unit in the Division Artillery that was called "Target Acquisition Battery F". In print it was referred to as "F-TAB". Most of the rest of DivArty just called it "F-Troop".....and with good reason. At that time they had more and more serious "Command Issues" than the troop you have chosen. Fortunately the DivArty Commander was more than willing to recognize the source of much of the Battery's issues and clean house. After the CO, XO, and First Shirt were removed, a decent officer took over and even with junior officers of limited experience and very frightened experienced Senior NCOs the battery saw great improvements.

Back on topic. When I was an Infantryman in Germany in the mid 1970s my unit did not have access to English language TV and only the Armed Forces Radio Network single station for English radio. Several guys rather enjoyed walking into a room or situation and growling "Vas ist los in dieser heire Gaste Haus, Frauline Kitty?" They were so despirate for such stuff that they watched German Dubbed Gunsmoke on TV. Matt Dillions German voice actor was even lower and gravelly than Arness.

Possibly the most popular evening radio show about 1974 was a radio production of "Gunsmoke" with the same Conrad actor that played the rotund TV detective "Cannon" later.

Dressing up as cowboys and shooting C&B BP revolvers was a popular thing in Germany at the time. I got to shoot both originals and repros at my German Shooting club on Wednesday nights I could make it there. Scale model cannon got one range at least one Wednesday night a month as well, mostly .50 and .69 caliber and some VERY detailed.

Saw a terrible BP "accident" (actually just poor handling and not thinking about others) downtown in Ulm one new years. I was at a roof top bar/restaurant (which unknown to me was one of the few actual OFF LIMITS places in town) and the only other auslanders at the Penthouse were a pair of "Turks" (what Germans called all persons of middle eastern extraction and not nicely) The older of the non german workers had a Walker of Italian make he was making noise with to welcome the new year. Honestly I was amazed he was tolerated as long as he was. later I was told he was a sort of labor leader some industrialist had brought in as a guest. He appeared quite drunk. When he reloaded for the third round of "Yee-Haws' and shots into the air he managed to have the muzzle right next to the ear of a German lady of outstanding looks and changed that last part of the description by blowing loose an ear and burning of most of the hair on that side of her head. Some how the Polizi arrived before he could be hurled eight stories down to the pavement (the Polizi were appearently in the inside portion of the Penthouse while this happened on the patio.) After the Polizi hauled off the shooter and son there were some heated discussions about the problems all out landers caused that rapidly segwayed into anti US GI talk and I tried to remain very quiet at that point. Eventually someone asked my opinion and I spoke up supporting US in Europe at that time and ask how many of them spoke Russian. I was told I did an amazing job of mimicking a very bad American accent. I displayed my ID at that point and the Germans were embarrassed. My host saw I was uncomfortable and we left shortly there after.

I had a hard time explaining to Europeans during both my tours over there that Florida had Cowboys (and at that point more cows than Texas) and that there was more to the Sunshine State than Oranges and Alligators. Tropicana still called their European branch "Florida Boy" and still used the logo of the little black boy wearing a leaf skirt and a straw hat full of fruit that he held up with one hand. The guys at my gun club delighted in striking that pose and greeting me with "Florida Boy!" Never did find a good bull whip over there to show them what a Cracker Cowboy is famous for.

-kBob
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In 1978 took a trip to Kadina from My posting at Clark in the PI. watched Gunsmoke in Japanese, they used a deep voice for Mat Dillon, but a tiny female voice for miss Kitty!
 
Little history of Gunsmoke: anyone remember a short run of Burt Reynolds as Quinton? Also Hop Sing on Bonanza was a real Chef and opened a group of restaurants while on the show.
 
robhof said:
Little history of Gunsmoke: anyone remember a short run of Burt Reynolds as Quinton? Also Hop Sing on Bonanza was a real Chef and opened a group of restaurants while on the show.
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Definitely he was the blacksmith. Also I was watching and saw Jon Voight guest star on Gunsmoke. A lot of actors and actresses got their start on that show. All of them thank James Arness for it also.
 
I was born in 1946. I had a case of the measles when I was five...was stuck in bed for a few days. I remember listening to the radio serialization of Red Ryder. It was the last year that it was broadcast...."seeing" on the radio worked so well that I can still recall the imagery that ran past my minds eye.
Great stuff.
 
Looking at the photograph in the OP...., I'm not sure if you have a group of all the same cartridges on the belt :confused:..., might be some old .38-55 thrown in as well..., :eek:
Actually a "mare's-leg" in a hot revolver load and fired like a short-barreled-rifle would be pretty formidable from 25 - 100 yards back then and even now..., :cool: Of course Josh Randall didn't do that, and you need the BATF stamp to do that today.

Heck it was the era of the gimmick gun when it came to Hollywood. Blondie, Clint Eastwood's Italian made Westerns character had a revolver with a snake inlay on the grip. James Caan in El Dorado had a sawed-off shotgun with a short stock, and Arthur Honeycutt in the same movie had a Colt 1855 Revolving Rifle (and in one seen on of the settler's wives has a bolt action shotgun OOPS), plus Robert Mitchum had the Winchester with the super wide loading lever also in El Dorado, later used by John Wayne in True Grit. I could go further but I'd mention non-black powder Hollywood handguns of the same time era, and that would be a no-no.

LD
 
I still remember watching those shows as a kid. Have Gun-Will Travel was a favorite of mine as well as Gunsmoke and most of the others. Funny thing, living in Kansas now ya notice that Dodge City doesn't have any of those hills in the back ground. ;)
I remember watching Bonanza on tv in Japan back in the early 70's and the voices that were dubbed in all pretty much sounded like the actors.
And yeah, the mares leg is still kinda cool...
 
Loyalist Dave said:
Looking at the photograph in the OP...., I'm not sure if you have a group of all the same cartridges on the belt :confused:..., might be some old .38-55 thrown in as well..., :eek:
Actually a "mare's-leg" in a hot revolver load and fired like a short-barreled-rifle would be pretty formidable from 25 - 100 yards back then and even now..., :cool: Of course Josh Randall didn't do that, and you need the BATF stamp to do that today.

.........LD
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You needed a BATF tax stamp back then too. The producers dinged the studio for making those Mares legs. But, it being a kinder gentler time....plus it was a big business ... the problem was solved by paying the $200.00 tax per gun and registering them.

You can buy the repros without the NFA paperwork today because they're considered pistols, as they were made that way, not cut down.
 
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