Sheriff Taylor's Gun Rack

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Couldn't be more wrong about that. The show often talked about hunting in a positive light. Andy never hesitated to use a gun when need be. He did holster up on several occasions. There was the episode with the lady skeet shooter.
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Well remember hunting and skeet are approved activities by more than 50% of the democratic Party so they are okay. Just because they have been chased off of mainstream TV these days does not mean that once the other side held that they were not okay.

There was also an episode in which Barney participated in a pistol match of some kind.
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Must have been a single shot match as he was too incompetent to carry more than one bullet.
 
Some RPG's sure would have spiced the show up though. I remember watching it on TBS as a kid. I do not recall this, but a good dynamite fishing episode would fit that show well.
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They went better than fishing with dynamite. One episode featured a goat that had eaten dynamite...
 
I remember a bunch of shotguns (Gomer on the roof and then Andy has to tell him to take the gun out of his mouth) LOL!

I, also, remember one lever action, unscoped rifle. Remember when Andy's aunt and uncle came for a visit. The uncle's name was Ollie. Ollie visited Andy in the office one day and pulled a lever action off the rack and dry fired it a bunch of times while boasting of how he taught Andy to shoot. :banghead:

IMHO, AG was one of the best shows in all of TV history!
 
What I Recall...

Unlike Barney Andy never holstered a side arm and I can't recall Andy ever using a gun in line of duty.
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...is that Andy did not routinely holster a sidearm but, when he felt the need to be armed would usually take a full-length, ribbed pump shotgun out of that rack, rather than a typical police "riot gun." I am also under the impression that the rack and its contents varied over the years but that it usually contained a few lever-action rifles, along with anything else that the property master had in it at any particular time.
 
Cool isn't it. Question is still out there. Anyone ID the guns? Oh by the way. Andy used a gun quite a bit in the shows. It seemed like his go to gun was usually a shotgun.
 
Rack contents did indeed change from show to show, but was a generic assortment of nondescript rifles and shotguns.

No anti gun content at all, unless the message that guns are not a solution to every problem is anti...

I enjoyed the show back then and still do. Thoughtful plots and great casting made for an engaging reminder of what can be lost in the name of progress.
 
I remember one episode where Andy was cycling the action of a rifle to unload the tube magazine. I don't remember which episode that was though.

That is truly a timeless show. I was born well after its heyday, but since it's required viewing for North Carolinians I know most of the episodes. The B&W ones at least. I don't like the post-Barney ones nearly as much.
 
It was a lot better when it was black and white. Don Knotts quit because Andy Griffith was quitting (until a last minute contract agreement). The show went from B&W to color, and wasn't quite the same after that.
 
Saw the one about the guy Andy shot that came back and gave him a shotgun for changing his life Last Night. Pretty cool. Looked like a Remington 11-48, but it wasn't on screen very long. It was interesting how Andy threw it about 15 feet across the room onto the couch when Barney turned the lights off in the house to catch the guy by surprise. Not so good gun handling skills...
 
Great show. I always viewed it as being pro-gun if anything because they showed guns as being a "matter of fact" and a tool when needed. Andy always got one when necessary but only when justified. I got the idea that Andy didn’t need to carry a gun because of how peaceful Mayberry was and Andy’s belief that men were actually good in nature.

Remember the one where Andy was going to arrest some old farmer and the guy kept shooting at him but Andy kept on walking up to the house? The farmer got a little too close to Andy’s hand by the fencepost and that only made Andy angry?

How about the time the carnival came to town and Opie lost money on the rigged shooting game but Andy showed up and cleaned the guy out.

Good times….


As a side note, the Police Chief where my dad lives has held that position since 1970. Is that a record?
 
Andy took a 30-30 out of the rack and handed it to the Mayor and told him to shoot a goat full of dynamite yesterday on re-runs....:eek:
 
How about the time the carnival came to town and Opie lost money on the rigged shooting game but Andy showed up and cleaned the guy out.
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Funny, I'm reminded of that episode every time I watch the beginning of Michael Bane's "Shooting Gallery" show. :)
 
Andy kept his gun in the holster in the top right hand drawer of the desk. He usually pulled it out put it back and grabbed a rifle. I was addicted to that show growing up. I havent seen an episode in probably 20 yrs.
 
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