Origin of the Mare's leg

[mustanger98]

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061846/

Johnny Yuma (1967) starred Mark Damon.

 

[Tommygunn]

Rory Calhoun was, I think, "The Texan".

Yup. Calhoun played a character named Bill Longley. In the TV series he was of course a good guy. But, interestingly, Longley was actually a real person. He was actually a miscreant gunslinger, who, while quite good with a gun, was really rather nasty. It's said he once shot a man in an adjacent hotel room -- for snoring too loud.

"Twenty six Men" was about the Arizona rangers -- now available on DVD.

An interesting sidenote with regards to Chuck Conners on "The Rifleman." Conners was actually trained to fire that large-loop 1892 by keeping his finger inside the trigger guard as he jacked the lever open and shut by a Hollywood gun wrangler. A corporate insurance representative from the company the production company used to insure their leading actors saw this, and said they wouldn't cover Connor''s absence from the set if he wounded himself on the set, since he believed it was possible Connors might accidently stab his finger with the rifle's trigger, and that was forseeable.
Due to this consideration, the prop guys added that set screw to trip the trigger, thus sparing Chuck Connors from a life of pain from a inflamed trigger finger ... supposedly.

 

[Mike1951]

Johnny Yuma (1967) starred Mark Damon.

But in the TV series, The Rebel, Johnny Yuma was played by Nick Adams.

Mike

 

[mustanger98]

I don't know why IMDB didn't have links to both the movie and the series in this case. Nick Adams was the name I was trying to remember when I looked it up.

 

[Geronimo45]

"stab his finger with the rifle's trigger"
A fencing glove on shooting hand mitigates this effect... but a trigger-stab is very painful (and that was just with dry-firing).

 

[Manedwolf]

To any who haven't seen this series...the latest use of it, in Firefly, as Zoe's sidearm.

 

[artw]

I always wondered about Josh Randall's short rifle - I don't think it had a front sight. I thought maybe it was more for show than shooting, and that's why I never saw him load it from that bandolier of 45-70's.

 

[mustanger98]

The way I understand it, they have a 4in1 or 5in1 blank they use that'll fit in 92 chamberings or .45-70, but they couldn't show 'em loading .45-70's into a 92 receiver. I guess that's just another reason so many of us call it "Hollywierd".

 

[Sage_Tremayne]

As a general rule..

Steve McQueen was king of everythin' cool and that there mare's leg?
HIS SCEPTER OF OMFGWTFBTCHPWNAGE! >D

 

[Seancass]

old thread and i still dont even have a mare's leg. Thats depressing.

 

[Bones11b]

I like this one that's in a local shop. It's a Marlin model 386 in 30-30, it's an SBR though not a pistol.