Selleck's "Quigley Down Under" Rifle

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Glad that it found a good home
Price was right
Great movie for all of the BP guns

BP Guns:
  • 1 Shiloh Sharps 1874 Long Range Rifle
    • 1.1 Breech Loader
    • 1.2 Cartridge
    • 1.3 Barrel
    • 1.4 Double Set Triggers
    • 1.5 Sight
  • 2 Colt 1860 Army
  • 3 Griswold & Gunnison 1860
  • 4 Colt 1851 "U.S. Marshal"
  • 5 Colt 1862 Pocket Navy
  • 6 Remington 1858 New Army
  • 7 Thompson Center Arms Hawken Plains Rifle
  • 8 Bounty Hunter Dueling Pistol
  • 9 Colt Dragoon 1848
  • 10 Colt Walker 1847
  • 11 Enfield 1864 Cavalry Carbine
  • 12 Boot Pistol (Hoppes Model 300 Ethan Allen)

Tom Selleck makes the Quigley® character into a hero we all wish we could be. He wins the love of a beautiful girl, beats the bad guys with heroic American style, and introduces the audience to the deadly efficiency of Single Shot Rifles...
 
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Wow, is this guy out of touch. Doesn't know Alan Rickman was the bad guy in "Diehard"! but it is a cool rifle, and I loved the QDU.
 
Armored farmer said:
I keep my fingers crossed that Illinois will adopt a 'straight walled cartridge' for firearm deer season.
A Sharps will be on my list.
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Back in April here in Iowa, our governor signed into law the bill which allows us to use rifles that are chambered in the already approved handgun hunting calibers for hunting deer. The.45-70 is one of the approved calibers! Yee-ha!!
 
I bought a Pedersoli "Quigley" in 45-70 after watching the movie way back when. Too heavy so now I have lighter 32" barreled Sharps.
 
"Quigley Down Under" and "The Outlaw Josie Wales" are my two favorite western movies of all time.

I love the line in Down Under near the end where Quigley outdrew the bad guy. When he said "I thought you couldn't shoot a handgun" Quigley said "I can shoot them, just don't have much use for them". Paraphrasing a bit here.
 
I bought the Pedersoli in the Billy Dixon version with the medium weight barrel also in 45-70. A little handier, still very accurate. Watched Tom Selleck since his Magnum P.I. days. He always seemed to be a decent individual in a profession where most are self absorbed.
 
vba said:
"Quigley Down Under" and "The Outlaw Josie Wales" are my two favorite western movies of all time.

I love the line in Down Under near the end where Quigley outdrew the bad guy. When he said "I thought you couldn't shoot a handgun" Quigley said "I can shoot them, just don't have much use for them". Paraphrasing a bit here.
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What he said, if I remember right, after Rickman was outdrawn & shot was, "Said I didn't have much use for one, never said I didn't know how to use it."

I have a friend with an almost identical Shiloh-Sharps in 45-110 and even with the proper BP load, that bugger will hammer your shoulder - LOL. He shoots it out to about 300 yards off his back porch. I can't even see his target at that range, let alone hit it -

Jim
 
Shanghai McCoy said:
Maybe so Gary, but sometimes it helps to find one just crazy enough so she will love us... ;)
And she bought me a 45/70 Sharps for Christmas one year. :)
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Yeppers, my "crazy" wife ordered a Shiloh Sharps 1874, 45-110 for me for our 25th Anniversary. Because the Shiloh "Quigley" rifles were back ordered 2 years back then, I didn't actually get the rifle until our 27th Anniversary. Last month we celebrated our 46th.:)
 
It's a serious shame they never made a sequel. That movie was phenomenal.

But some movies are best left without sequels. They really screw stuff up sometimes.
 
Rodwha, now that is some serious science at work right there. I howled at the 'Unicorn' category. :rofl:

Its interesting to study the different barrels used on all the different Sharps rifles being manufactured currently. I always loved the Axtell Sharps but didn't order one before they went out of business.
 
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