So, my son watched The Dark Tower...

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Now he wants to wrap his skinny fists around a pair of cartridge converted Remington 1858s with swing out cylinders. I tried to explain they don't exist, ( until Uberti makes one), but I am no expert on black powder firearms by far. There are cartridge conversions, at least, right?

Edit to add, found the Taylor website and the conversions plus pre-converted. Told him to start figuring out how to save up for them.
I wonder how long it will be until someone offers a movie gun clone...
 
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Uberti made (maybe still does?) an 1875 Remington with a loading gate is that close enough?

I never cared for Steven King's work much until I read the Dark Tower Series. It's like all his other so-so work only exists to support the Dark Tower.
 
When King wrote the Dark Tower folks thought it was going no where. Originals of the first printing in like new condition were going for $500 and up at Science Fiction and Fantasy Cons because everyone knew there would never be a second addition..

Some folks that found the book did not read them for fear of "cracking the spine" and reducing the collector value.

It appears that only a few decades later some one actually read the thing.........

-kBob
 
What type of gun(s) does he use in the book? I don't think it's Remington's with swing out cylinders?

Edit: Check this out. A Uberti Single Action Army with a swing out cylinder.
 
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I have never read the book series, though my best friend has. She was VERY disappointed in the movie, as it tried to mash 7 books into one two hour movie. I found it enjoyable, but she was irked. The guns the prop man used were 1858 Remingtons converted to swing out cylinder and 45 Colt. If Uberti already made a swing out cylinder for a SAA, the "real" Dark Tower revolver cannot be far behind...for $1000 each.
Crawdad1, that first one is the one he wants now. The conversion cylinder to a BP mode limits to cowboy loads.
Look up the speedloads the guy did in this one - insane. The ending is literally impossible, but it's one time when you just say, "don't worry about it, it's in the script"...
 
King never defines the specific cartridge or the model of Roland's guns in the series. He just calls them the big guns, and often makes a point of them being really big. They are .45 caliber, in some cartridge of his imagination.
 
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If Uberti was showing a swing-out SAA in 2010, there must have been something that kept it off the market.
Long ago, Gus Perrett built trick shooter Ashley Haines a swing-out single action so he could reload faster doing his demonstrations.

Remember, it is a movie. The guns and the shooting are the product of the prop department, special effects, stunt men and actor coaches, and lots of retakes to get things right.

There is a thread here with a discussion of the guns
https://www.thehighroad.org/index.php?threads/the-dark-tower-battle-with-moon-clips.824880/
 
Malachi Leviticus Blue said:
King never defines the specific cartridge or the model of Roland's guns in the series. He just calls them the big guns, and often makes a point of them being really big. They are .45 caliber, in some cartridge of his imagination.
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If I recall right, he did in one of the books where Roland came to our world in the body of the Pusher. He went into a gun store and looked through a book that had pictures of the cartridges that were actual size. He points to one as the cartridge and it was a 45 Winchester:)
 
LonesomePigeon - I didn't know that swing out cylinder Colt SAA lookalike even existed. I was wrapping my head around how to convert the Rem 1858 to swing out cylinder and some major engineering is required. Seems like Uberti could easily adapt that technology to the 1858.
 
Kookla said:
If I recall right, he did in one of the books where Roland came to our world in the body of the Pusher. He went into a gun store and looked through a book that had pictures of the cartridges that were actual size. He points to one as the cartridge and it was a 45 Winchester:)
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Your memory serves you well, however it was specifically pointed out that the 45 Winchester was NOT the same as his but only that it would chamber and fire from his guns.

From the Drawing of the Three ..."The photograph he was tapping was one of a Winchester .45 pistol shell. It was not exactly the same as his own shells, because it hadn't been hand-thrown or hand-loaded, but he could see without even consulting the figures (which would have meant almost nothing to him anyway) that it would chamber and fire from his guns."
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Gasmandave, thank you, that's quite nice. :)
Jim Watson, it is indeed just a movie, and the props are just that - he just wants to get as close as he can. ;)
 
There is a genius marketing feature if you built matched revolvers that each had a cylinder that swings out in a different direction. Customers that bought one would have to buy the other or pine fore it til the end of their days.
 
Malachi Leviticus Blue said:
Your memory serves you well, however it was specifically pointed out that the 45 Winchester was NOT the same as his but only that it would chamber and fire from his guns.
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Thanks! And thank you for posting the bit from the book:) It's been a long while since I've read it.
 
Malachi Leviticus Blue said:
King never defines the specific cartridge or the model of Roland's guns in the series. He just calls them the big guns, and often makes a point of them being really big. They are .45 caliber, in some cartridge of his imagination.
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Exactly. However, in the drawings that are included in my copy of The Dark Tower the revolvers look just like Ruger Blackhawks.
 
Choctaw said:
You should have stuck around for Blaine the Train. That was a beating and a half.
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I remember that one! Yeah... My favorite was the first book, followed closely by the second. I think I made it to the third.

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Exactly. However, in the drawings that are included in my copy of The Dark Tower the revolvers look just like Ruger Blackhawks.
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I remember those drawings too. My guess is that the artist looked for a cowboy gun and saw a Blackhawk and went from there.
 
RetiredUSNChief said:
The Dark Tower series started out great and got better.

Then it went to blazes in the last couple books, with the last one being a miserable, anti-climactic let-down.
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yea, the ending pretty much blew chunks.

Stephen King's accident where he nearly died (that was in the Dark Tower books) was one of the reasons why the early books were so "collectible".
Up to that point, the books were good, but nothing earth-shattering
 
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