BP weapons and percussion revolvers in shows and movies

[Krylandalian]

The episode of Yancy Derringer, it was nt  a '62 Pocket Navy,  It looked more like a '49 Pocket. Cartridge converted and the loading lever removed.

[Krylandalian]

The series- The Young Riders.  These suckers have a  monster weapon that looks like a pepperbox that has been turbo-supercharged!  I think it is a 6 ?  barreled .50 rifle.  About 24 inch barel length.  It seems to fire all barrels at once.

[Krylandalian]

In the series- North and the South with Patrick Swayze, during the Mexican War scenes, the main charachters have Walkers. Swayze also has at least one Paterson.  Twice, Swayze, after emptying his revolver (one Paterson and one Walker) just throws them on the ground and walks away.  Everyone standing around and talking for about 3 minutes.  He never picks it up and he walks away out of the fixed cameras view.  The Walker just laying there.  A moment later he is roaring away with a Walker again.  Cartridge converted and loading lever end latch.  The date was stated as being- August of 1847.

When were the first Walkers issued?, and to , ,

 , , whom?

[Hawg]

July 1847, United States Mounted Rifles.

[Krylandalian]

The old tv series called- Centennial.  Dennis Weavers charachter is running down a mexican,  the mexican whips out a shoulder stock equipped Dragoon.  After telling Weaver he s  going to be blowing hot air out of more than the holes he currently has, Weaver responds with-

'He s  a cook?'

[Krylandalian]

Ned Kelly.  I knew it was going too be good when the menu screen has a .44 Navy on it.  The goings on quickly came to a Constable wielding a 51 Navy, pointing, and mistakenly firing it at Ned.

[Krylandalian]

Just saw The Pinkertons for the first time the other night on Netflix.  The woman agent carries a square back Dragoon.  Good shots of it.   Seems to be a high quality rep. Uberti or something.  At one point she is threatening someone with it. She attempts to fire it in the air and it fails to even snap.  The  'target'  comes to her claiming he knows what the problems is.  He explains how-  those old .44s work loose and the hammer won t  strike the cap.  He takes a maul and taps the wedge in and tells her to try it.  She does and it fires.

Good scene.  There s  not much in movies/shows where the intricacies of the armes are shown.

She s  always running around with the others, seemingly not carrying anything.  Has a dress on and there s  no way she can really carry anything.  But when trouble arises, she is shown with that Dragoon in her hand blazing away.  As trouble abates, she is then with no Dragoon.  Greatly implying she has it stashed , ,   w h e r e   exactly?

Where the HEY does she keep it?!

[Hawg]

Where the HEY does she keep it?!

Do you really wanna know? 

[G Dog]

I’ve known boyfriend jail break attempt cases where the loyal girlfriend tries to bring in a full size 1911 stashed in the same (implied) anatomical area.  That’s devotion for ya, and crack (no pun intended, really).

 

[Krylandalian]

Watched more of The Pinkertons.  Lots of good Colt open top action.  In one scene,- Walkers, Dragoons, Pocket 49,  all shoot n.  Shows realistic ops too,-  assisting the cylinder to turn,

The Lady Pinkerton jumped from her horse onto a dude, on the ground she pulled up her dress to access a  lower leg holster, to pull out a ,  what looked like a nickel plated pocket Remington.  The jext episode or so, she and her pard were at a table talking about what she got deleivered to her.  She read the note, which was stated-  [ ' . . I thought you d  do better with this over that old misfiring .44 you carry.  It s  a new model Chicago pocket police. . ' ]  She opens the flip top box and there is a Colt Pocket Police.  She goes on to admire the  [ ' . . fine arm and its new metallurgy. . ' ].  From then on, so far, she s  carrying it on a hip belt holster. 

Good closeups of the Colts used.  Guess they re  all , ,  Ubertis ?

[Krylandalian]

The Pinkertons are full of fun stuff,- Colts, a lot of the Confederate copies, Saw a LeMat,.

[Krylandalian]

Now I forget the title.  The Eastwood movie,-  A fistful of Dollars or For a Few Dollars More, when He is talking with the old guy who lives in the shack right near the railroad tracks, and is decribing to him who 'Col. Mortimor'? is, and  tells him to get him the pistol that is hanging on the wall,  The pistol is a  LeMat!  I just noticed that.

[Krylandalian]

In the Homesman, Tommy Lee Jones tells the woman to use his 51 navy.  He tells her she can count on 'four good rounds.'  The way he said it was implying that two of the six should be considered unreliable.  Earlier he asked her to buy for him a box of paper cartridges for his Colt Navy .36 .

[Krylandalian]

In Roman Polanskis Oliver, there is the scene where the bad guy with Sikes tells Barney to get his  'Barkers'.  Barney fetches from a cabinet two pistols. 

I was looking through DGW s  catalog and saw the pistol!  Ha!   I wonder if their prop people got them from DGW ?

Anyway, here it is,-

[Krylandalian]

Watching Dead Mans Gun.  Michaell Moriarty is about to waylay someone with this,-