Favorite Movie Shotgun?

[Rex in OTZ]

Went to the movies, in an actual theater, last night and saw News of the World. Actually a pretty good old classic Western with a minimum of Hollywood woke nonsense and Tom Hanks is getting very Jimmy Stewart in his later years.

But they had one of those special movie shotguns! In addition to anachronistic guns like the 1875 Remington and an S&W Model 3 ( set in 1869/70) I suppose the latter is chronologically possible, but not in the hands of a dirt poor down and out ex-Confederate soldier. There was an 1866 Winchester for some nod to history.

Anyway, Hanks' character, another dirt poor, down at the heels Reb, has got a double barrel cartridge gun, but only birdshot loads. Until, wait for it, his little accomplice knocks the shot out of the brass cartridge and... fills it with dimes! Sure enough, it then blows a man clear off his feet and backwards a few yards!

Again, considering cartridge shotguns didn't begin appearing until the mid 1860s, the likelihood of Captain Kidd having a double and cartridges is too farfetched, but who cares? He knocked dudes back yards shooting them with coins! Awesome.

Now if that was a Roper revolving open bolt fired shotgun, Now That would have been Awesome!
The early ropers utilized a propritary cap fired metal shot shell cartridge that would be stripped off the revolver spool by the bolt and into the chamber and fired, extracted and left on the revolver spool and the next cartrige indexed.


https://www.forgottenweapons.com/ria-roper-repeating-shotgun/

 

[two dog]

Winchester 1887. Made popular by the Terminator 2 film where Arnold does a one handed flip while on motorcycle. And yes I still want one. Even if it is a knock off and not a real Winchester. When every shotgun around is a pump or semi-auto, a lever action just looks cool to me. I would not be stupid enough to try cocking and firing it with one hand though.

What gauge is that gun? 12? That’s the first gun I thought of.

 

[herrwalther]

What gauge is that gun? 12? That’s the first gun I thought of.

10 or 12ga. Because of continuity errors, movies never get calibers and whatnot correct. Three different shotguns were used for filming.

http://www.imfdb.org/wiki/Terminator_2#Winchester_1887

 

[GAF]

It's too typical hollywoodish, but I like the AA-12 scene in The Expendables.

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Yeah that one

 

[Steve Milbocker]

Don’t forget the “shotgun” Willem DeFoe used on Charlie Sheen during the bunker scene in Platoon Id post a link but I wasn’t sure it would be appropriate.

 

[Rex in OTZ]

Van Belt decides to up his game with a Daewoo USAS 12, rotary magazine, 12 gauge shotgun in the 1995 film Jumanji

 

[Rex in OTZ]

The life and times of judge roy bean

 

[Rex in OTZ]

I knew thwy had several gatling guns in westerns, but they all fired rifle cartridges.
I think they need to make a movie with a 12 gauge gatling gun.

https://www.wideopenspaces.com/this-12-gauge-gatling-gun-will-leave-you-drooling/

 

[DocRock]

I knew thwy had several gatling guns in westerns, but they all fired rifle cartridges.
I think they need to make a movie with a 12 gauge gatling gun.

https://www.wideopenspaces.com/this-12-gauge-gatling-gun-will-leave-you-drooling/

Shooting black powder shells! Must have for The Zombie Apocalypse.

Perhaps in “The Good, The Bad, and The Zombies”

 

[Shanghai McCoy]

Shooting black powder shells! Must have for The Zombie Apocalypse.

Perhaps in “The Good, The Bad, and The Zombies”

Or maybe "For a few zombies more"..?

 

[Rex in OTZ]

Or maybe "For a few zombies more"..?

The quick dead?

 

[Shanghai McCoy]

The quick dead?

The Mostly Dead...?

 

[crestoncowboy]

8 gauge huh in Appaloosa?

Was a 12 that had sleeves to make it appear to be an 8. They do call it "the 8 guage"

Terminator was ok. They said Arnold injured some fingers doing the twirl with the wrong gun.

The AA12 in expendables i didn't mind.... the fact that it shot small tracking missiles i could have done without

 

[cdb1]

Was a 12 that had sleeves to make it appear to be an 8. They do call it "the 8 guage"

Terminator was ok. They said Arnold injured some fingers doing the twirl with the wrong gun.

The AA12 in expendables i didn't mind.... the fact that it shot small tracking missiles i could have done without

I was being facetious since it had already been stated a couple of times that it was an 8 gauge.

 

[crestoncowboy]

I was being facetious

Yeah. I missed the facetious/ sarcasm font. Lol. Problem with my browser maybe. In all honesty I check in two or three days and then don't log in for a month. Lol. But one was actually made to accept 8 guage. I bought that movie when it first came out just because of Harris really. Not the high octane movie some wanted but ok. The behind the scenes parts may have been as entertaining as the movie. The shotgun was probably the better character in the movie though. Lol

The Brad Pitt / Jesse James movie was the same. The movie was ho hum but the making was pretty entertaining. Lol

 

[mavracer]

SXS of Viggo's in appoloosa

 

[cdb1]

Yeah. I missed the facetious/ sarcasm font. Lol. Problem with my browser maybe. In all honesty I check in two or three days and then don't log in for a month. Lol. But one was actually made to accept 8 guage. I bought that movie when it first came out just because of Harris really. Not the high octane movie some wanted but ok. The behind the scenes parts may have been as entertaining as the movie. The shotgun was probably the better character in the movie though. Lol

The Brad Pitt / Jesse James movie was the same. The movie was ho hum but the making was pretty entertaining. Lol

I liked Appaloosa a lot. Fell asleep during the Brad Pitt/Jesse James movie. Found it very boring.

 

[Shanghai McCoy]

Just watched Zombieland again and there's lots of shotgun action there.
Columbus has his side by side and Wichita has what looks like a Mossberg just to name a couple.

 

[glockgod]

Just watched Zombieland again and there's lots of shotgun action there.
Columbus has his side by side and Wichita has what looks like a Mossberg just to name a couple.

Love that movie! Will never look at Manwich without thinking of that flick!!

 

[Rex in OTZ]

No movies yet featuring Remington 7188/7180
Notes: First developed specifically for use by US Navy SEALs in Vietnam, the first example of the Remington 7188, the Mk 1, appeared in 1967, and was perhaps the most destructive close combat weapon produced to that date. Developed from the Remington 1100, the Model 7188 was a fully-automatic version of that weapon, with some other modifications requested by the SEALs.

 

[Rex in OTZ]

Or any movies featuring

 

[tarosean]

The AA12 in expendables i didn't mind.... the fact that it shot small tracking missiles i could have done without

They actually designed a whole ton of exotic ammo for that gun, including a miniature missile/grenade. If you google Future Weapons AA-12 it may still be out there on the web.


1897 Trench gun would be my choice.. Used in a ton of movies.

 

[Showman]

Winchester Model 12 (take that @Showman lol) in The Untouchables.

I took it! LOL Wasn't it Charlie Martin Smith...the accountant guy....who used it? I liked that movie and I was a long time fan of the old TV show.

 

[JFrame]

Plenty of great shotgun moments mentioned thus far... Perhaps my favorite was the Ithaca 37 used to great effect by Bud White (Russell Crowe) at the Victory Motel in " L.A. Confidential"...

 

[alfsauve]

I am fond of the short double barrel one carried by Pahoo in the tv show Yancy Derringer. More specifically how he carried it and how he swung it onto action.