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My wife has turned me on to "Longmire" on Netflicks.

Last night in Season 1 episode 5 "Dog Soldier" I noticed at about the 28 minute mark a Root Carbine over a door way in the main characters living room seconds later during a tw second camera angle shot during a fight one is looking down into the room across the hammer and breech of the Root.

Just thought folks might be interested in passing BP guns in such a series.

Despite some gun errors ( to be expected I guess in TV) I am enjoying the series greatly. I mean the main character carries a 1911A1 with stag grips (hammer down on a loaded chamber) and a pouched buck 112 folder and wears jeans rather than some sort of uniform slacks in his sheriff duties. Oh. and his back up rifle is a iron sighted Model 94 Winchester. Of his three Deputies one carries a Berretta 92 another a Sig 22something, and the last appears to carry a Model 27 S&W revolver. Folks have thus far showed up with pump shotguns an a couple of doubles as well and I am but 6 episodes into the thing.

There is an episode around some sharps rifles and in another a Colt DA .45 Thunderer plays a part.

-kBob
 
I just watched last episode last night and was the only series I was interested in. Like you I noticed the regular Hollywood mistakes , one that a 410 shell was specific to a Bond Arms Snake Slayer. Pistol shown was a Texas Defender and a low income native American would probably own a .410 Shotgun.
 
IMO, the best series on Netflix. Your lucky to have discovered it late, LOL;), now you can binge watch. I had to wait and wait between years.
 
Systema1927,

"When you are the elected Sheriff you can wear any pants that you want. It is good to be the King."

SO back in the late 1970s I was driving for Pony Express (Unarmored service of Wells Fargo, and one month after I got the job un armed as well) and had a coupe of banks I transported federal reserve tapes for in Perry Florida, about an hour into my route. One bank was always a PITA morning and evening, always late in the after noon, occassionaly causing me to miss the regional flight in the evening and causing the company fines and always complaining if I were 'ONLY' a quarter hour EARLY on morning delivery. The other was always ready in the after noon AND opened about a half hour later than the other so I had a half hour to 45 minutes slack time (on the clock) in greater downtown Perry, the county seat of Taylor county. Really neat gun shop in the Western Auto there with an owner that loved to talk and be talked to. Every thing from original muzzle loaders to 'chine guns.

One morning shortly after the company's insurance department decided we did not need our S&W Model 10 4 inch HB revolvers I was exiting my truck in the second banks parking lot. I glanced back before popping the locks, checked the mirrors and opened the door to step out. There was an elderly man dressed in standard go to town clothes standing square in my "Dead Courier Driver Spot" that is as my feet hit the ground he was three feet behind me and to my left. This old coot proceeded to shake a hardwood octagon crook cane at me and demand to know were my gun was. White shirt open at the neck, khaki pants and what appeared to be an ancient rodeo buckle on his belt. I brushed aside his cane tip and said I had to go.

The old fart actually poked me with his cane! First at belt level then on the right knee cap. "I said where's your G.D. Gun?" He did not say G.D.

I explained that he needed to get out of my way so I could do my job and stop hitting me with his cane.

He reached to his belt and announced "You don't pay much attention, do you , boy?"

Actually he had been leading with his left and I had not seen the badge clipped to his belt over his appendix or the model 36 in a holster further around. He was in fact the Laird High Sheriff of Taylor County.

I went to pains at that point to explain how the Company had decided to disarm us. This disturbed him and he asked "You got keys to my Banks, boy?"

I explained that I had a main front door key to one bank and a back door key to the other so I could drop off or pick up before or after hours as per contracts.

He then announced that if he ever saw me at work again without a side arm in his county that he would arrest me. I went to pains to explain that carrying was now a firing offense with the company and he explained that he would arrest me for being without so I should make my choice. He said he would arrest me for "Disturbing the Peace" if he saw me without a gun. As this was the charge used as an excuse to arrest open carry folks before it was actually illegal in Florida it astounded me that he would use that charge and explained my consternation with his declaration.

"Well, boy, it disturbs the hell out of my peace that you have the keys to my banks and no gun!"

I spent several months with a Charter Undercover in my lunch box in a OWB paddle holster I could slip on when approaching Taylor and neighboring Dixie counties after that. I thought it odd that the Dixie county Sheriff had approached me the following week and demanded I carry as well......I think they may have been cousins. Eventually County Law enforcement in every county I worked in expressed concern about a guy with access to banks and banking tech centers in their area not being armed and since the Company was not backing down simply carried after leaving the station every morning and put gun and holster back in the lunch box as I approached the airport every night for my transfer so the Station Manager would not see them.

So yeah, the Sheriff does about as he pleased in his Shire.

-kBob
 
Early episode, don't remember what number,
a rodeo cowboy is getting his RV towed. He comes out with N frame S&W. Cocks it. Three different camera angeles show it cocked, uncocked and cocked.
 
kBob said:
Systema1927,"When you are the elected Sheriff you can wear any pants that you want. It is good to be the King."

So yeah, the Sheriff does about as he pleased in his Shire. -kBob
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Back when in my county, the 4-term sheriff was out of the county on vacation and the city police chief (later a member of our hunt club) made a bust on the local guy in charge of boleto. The sheriff got back and threw the police chief in his own jail for an hour for making an arrest without checking with him first. It seems the sheriff was getting a kickback from the Tampa mob for allowing boleto in the county.
Of course, that kind of stuff still goes on but it's not near as blatant now.
 
Wife put the brakes on Netflix when I got started on it. At least I finished Hell On Wheels. There's some nice weaponry on that one too, and it's not a terrible show either.
 
HoW was a good Western, but calling a brasser 1860 a Griswold & Gunnison just kind of set my teeth on edge.
Do not expect weapons expertise or even continuity in movies.
Although Robert Duval said an Open Range reload ended up on the cutting room floor, making him look like a B Western star with Dozen Shooter.
 
I love Longmire, read a few of the books too. Even bought me his hat.

Some years ago, Willie Nelson was arrested in my small town just off I-35 for sleeping on the frontage road with a joint visible in his ashtray. Once the county sheriff found out he had been sent to the county jail (my town has no jail), he was immediately released. Willie is from our neighboring county to the north. Sheriffs pretty much still rule their counties.
 
My Dad was friends with a guy that got appointed Sheriff by the Governor on the death of the then Sheriff and then won re election for years........just before he died of old age. Your Dad being a knock around buddy of your rural county Sheriff can really affect your late teen years.

Remarkably when I-10 was being built through the county this Sheriff happened to have just recently bought a large parcel right where there was to be an inter change.....about 30 miles west of the last gas station accessible inter change to the east and about 30 miles from the next such interchange to the west. Amazing luck that! I think the service station/convenience store/ camp ground opened the week before that section of highway.

-kBob
 
Bama59 said:
I just watched last episode last night and was the only series I was interested in. Like you I noticed the regular Hollywood mistakes , one that a 410 shell was specific to a Bond Arms Snake Slayer. Pistol shown was a Texas Defender and a low income native American would probably own a .410 Shotgun.
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Not that it makes any sense, but .410 seems to be the most expensive shotgun ammunition. 12 gauge seems to be the least expensive and most plentiful.
 
I watched the first three seasons til the clowns at a&e cancelled it. Don't have Netflix so I recently bought all six seasons on DVD. I'm about a third of the way into season two and realize I missed a few episodes along the way. I have read all the books and am glad they didn't adapt them. In the books, at least, Walt and Vic manage to have a "relationship". If it happens in one of the last season's, don't tell me.
Yeah, some of the gun stuff is off the wall.
I'm as hooked on this as I was with Justified.
 
The guy that plays Longmire is an Aussie, saw him on a late night talk show, what a different voice than his Longmire voice. I grew up in Northwest Fl. and our local sheriff drove a Black Pontiac Gran Prix and wore a black suit with black Stetson, he was actually featured on G E True tv show in the early 60's as he became sheriff to find his father's killer and he did. Oh, and when Chicago came out with"The Friendly Stranger in the black sedan," he had an 8 track installed and played that tape often and loud with the windows down so he could share the music!
 
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