Has anyone ever purchased a firearm after seeing it in a movie or on tv?

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adcoch1 said:
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Nope,,,
The one person bidding against me upped my one bid by $25.00,,,
That told me he wanted the gun as much or more than me,,,
I decided to let him have it without driving the price up.

It would have been a whim purchase for me anyways,,,
I have a stash of "New Gun Money" squirreled away for these occasions,,,
But in this instance I decided to not succumb and wait for one that wasn't an Interarms import.

Now that the bug is in my head for one,,,
I'll tell The Evil Pawn Shop guy to find one for me.

Aarond
 
Saw one of the "Eastwood" series movies, and really wanted a 44 Automag….still do.... I did see a Sub2k in an episode of Drugs Inc, when some scrawny punk pulled it from his baggy pants, and had to Google to find it. Now I have one in the multi-mag variety of the Gen 2 and have the S&W 5900 series mag catch, so the mags interchange with my Third Gen S&W 9mms.
 
My love of levers and Milsurp stems from a love of westerns and war movies, probably more just from history in general.
Pale Rider had to have a 58 Remington and I dont even shoot BP.
 
Corpral_Agarn said:
I think most of us who own Single Action Army revolvers probably saw them on TV before we owned one.
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Probably, but I've seen single action revolvers on TV since I was 3 or 4 years old - Hopalong wore a pair of them. Yet the first revolver I bought for myself (when I was about 18) was a DA High Standard "Sentinel" .22LR. I'm nearly 72 now, and I still don't own a genuine Single Action Army. I do have a couple of SA revolvers - a Ruger Blackhawk and a Freedom Arms Model 97, but I don't believe watching Hoppy on TV when I was 3 or 4 years old influenced my decision to purchase them one way or the other.:D
 
.308 Norma said:
Probably, but I've seen single action revolvers on TV since I was 3 or 4 years old - Hopalong wore a pair of them. Yet the first revolver I bought for myself (when I was about 18) was a DA High Standard "Sentinel" .22LR. I'm nearly 72 now, and I still don't own a genuine Single Action Army. I do have a couple of SA revolvers - a Ruger Blackhawk and a Freedom Arms Model 97, but I don't believe watching Hoppy on TV when I was 3 or 4 years old influenced my decision to purchase them one way or the other.:D
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Roy Rogers guy myself, but I hear you.

My own SAA was a gift from my folks many years ago.

I always wanted one. Now I want another one ;)
 
Hmm well I am definitely a single action 'Wild Bill Hickok' kind of guy.
As for what started it, don't know. Could've been all my hours playing Call of Juarez back when I was 11,12. Or a textbook my mom once gave me, that had pages full of the revolvers and guns from the old west. Hard to decide which one of those made me into the single action guy I am today.
Yes of course I like to watch John Wayne and Clint Eastwood westerns. But those really don't influence me to go out and buy anything though. It's more video games that'd do that (Call of Juarez)
 
Heir Kommt Die Sonne said:
Hmm well I am definitely a single action 'Wild Bill Hickok' kind of guy.
As for what started it, don't know. Could've been all my hours playing Call of Juarez back when I was 11,12.
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As of 1978 Thanksgiving the saloon WBH was shot to death in was still open in Deadwood. They had a chair in a glass case over the door that supposedly had the chair he was sitting in memorialized. Wouldn't bet a moldy donut that it was real, but it was kinda cool.
Call of Juarez came out in 2006. If there was any splinter of the FPS game stick it would be one based on the old west.
Back when I was 11 or 12 the video game we played most was called Adjust The Rabbit Ears So There's The Least Amount Of Snow.
 
And how many people are gonna give instructions on how to draw a gun to the low-life wanting to kill ‘em?— And yes, I did note that he had a Glock in his hand. I’m still kinda fond of Glocks.
 
Nope.
Closest that I got was getting a Fanner Fifty and a lever-action BB gun to be more like a Western Hero.

That faded fast, although I now have a wall decorated with old toy guns, BB guns, movie props, fantasy swords and the like... .
 
Here's my submission that I picked up at a local gun show a few years back. The seller claimed he had only fired about 10 or 12 shots out of it, but he sold it to me for about what a standard Uberti SAA goes for new. I then ordered the case for it from Cimarron Arms.

It's a Uberti reproduction of the 10 in. barreled SAA that Kurt Russell used as Wyatt Earp in the OK Corral shoot out in the movie Tombstone--one of my favorite westerns. It's has a silver badge mounted in the grip supposedly showing it was presented to Earp when he was a lawman in Dodge City. It's a total movie fantasy item but it's still cool none the less. There is still an ongoing debate as to whether Earp actually used a Colt SAA or a Smith & Wesson model 3 top break for the famous shootout---which may never be settled.
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I took this to the range just once after I got it and shot maybe two cylinders of some Winchester factory ammo. Every round keyholed, so I quit. That may be why the guy at the gun show gave me such a good deal on it. Now that I reload and have dies for the 45 Colt, all I should have to do is slug the barrel and hopefully find the correct bullet diameter, but then I didn't buy it to shoot on a regular basis so that just another project on my long list of gun-related things to get to.

Cheers
 
Great question! Certainly. When I was a little fellow, I saw one of those movies about the war in the Pacific where there was this Japanese sniper up in a tree, who kept picking off Marines. I think it might have been "Sands of Iwo Jima," (1949) and I was just fascinated by that Japanese rifle. A few days after that and low and behold, I discovered that my little neighbor buddy had an Arisaka that his grandfather had given to him hanging on the wall! Well, that was it for me; I had to have one (or at least one) of my own and I wanted to shoot it. Another case was years later, when I saw the movie "Kelly's Heroes" (1970). In this case the one that caught my eye was that Mosin-Nagant sniper rifle the one G.I. carried. I knew what it was, and even though in 1970 there weren't exactly a lot of them floating around. Yes, I realized the likelihood of a G.I. having a Russian rifle was slim to none, but I still had to have one and see how it shot. I managed to find one a few weeks later and proceeded to check it out. Now, I'd been shooting things like a 1912 '03 with a Werner-Swasey scope and M1 D's for years, so this thing really didn't live up to my expectations based on the movie. So... I decided it must be the ammunition. Once again, there wasn't a great deal of Nagant ammo around in 1970, so I had to start rolling my own. I'm still trying to find a good mix that will produce good, consistent results although I must admit I haven't rolled out any lately. So, yes, I bought a couple of guns because of a movie, but the big expense was all that reloading stuff! Thanks again for the question.
 
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