Favorite Clint Eastwood Movie and gun used
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Wasz
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Outlaw Josey Wales is my favorite, no specific gun, but the scene at the end where he draws something like 5 or 6 pistols from his person and they are all empty, that was pretty cool. Some great quotes in that movie: "Buzzards gotta eat same as the worms." also "If you get hit yell out and we'll slap iron to it; its the fastest way to stop the bleeding." Another favorite is in Unforgiven where he says "Any man I see, Ill kill. Any man takes a shot at me, Ill kill em and his family... and burn his house down."
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His 1860 from Josey Wales. I had to go buy one. The thing is huge.
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I went to check and Clint's character in "Josey..." uses a .44 Walker. As a southern cavaryman during the Civil War he might have had access to such a 1847 Mexican (Western Indian) War weapon but it was extremely unlikely... Further, since the Walker's nipples on the cyliinder needed a different wrench than other smaller pistols, he would have had to have the specific wrench to go with it, also unlikley, but not impossible. Lastly, that particular Walker had the nasty habit of the cylinder plunger rod falling during recoil, since no lockup was provided on original Walker (it was later designed in by Colt on the Army and Navy models). Good movie... but in my estimation bad choice of weapon from a historical perspective...
71Commander
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Eastwood did use a 1860. He had the Walker as well. I believe he carried 5 pistols. The smallest being a 1851 in .36. At least that's what it looks like. But i've been wrong before.
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If you think about it, almost all of Eastwood's good guy roles (Has he ever played a villain?), roughly fits this description. Dirty Harry, from the standpoint of a goody-two-shoes, was a bad cop. He tortured confessions out of suspects and cared little for the Fourth Amendment, but we still loved him because he got the murdering slime balls off the streets. Blondie, from the The Good, The Bad and The Ugly was hardly a classic good guy in his daily conduct, but you still loved him because deep down you knew he was on the right side of things, and would never do something truly "low down," unless the guy had it coming to him. All of his characters were sort of like that, I think. The closest he ever got to a truly bad guy was in High Plains Drifter, but even then he was sort of on the right side of things in the big picture. The whole town sort of had it coming, after all, and he let them off pretty light.MudPuppy said:
P.S. Has everyone forgotten about Hang 'em High? That was a great flick too.
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The Real Hawkeye said:
He was in an early movie called, "Call Me Misty" about radio... if he wasn't bad he was certainly flawed!
The Diamondback in http://www.epinions.com/content_60189085316 Brannigan. Oops - sorry - wrong actor!
TexasRifleman
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There was a Walker used in Josey Wales, though not the most used.
The Walker may have been a bad choice of weapon, but at the time it was considered
a very "prestigious" thing to own. If you had a Walker, that showed the people around
you that you were a person of "means". Maybe that's why it was there, it was a status
symbol of the day.
That is what started me down the blackpowder trail. Just last month
I was watching the movie in a hotel while I was travelling on business.
Then it hit me, you can buy black powder online and have it shipped directly to your house. So here I am in a hotel in Chicago watching Josey Wales and ordering this thing from Texas Jacks.
Don't watch gun movies and surf, it's a dangerous combination
The Walker may have been a bad choice of weapon, but at the time it was considered
a very "prestigious" thing to own. If you had a Walker, that showed the people around
you that you were a person of "means". Maybe that's why it was there, it was a status
symbol of the day.
That is what started me down the blackpowder trail. Just last month
I was watching the movie in a hotel while I was travelling on business.
Then it hit me, you can buy black powder online and have it shipped directly to your house. So here I am in a hotel in Chicago watching Josey Wales and ordering this thing from Texas Jacks.
Don't watch gun movies and surf, it's a dangerous combination
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While my favorite movie is "The Eiger Sanction" my favorite "gun" would be the LAW Rocket that he uses at the end of one of the Dirty Harry flicks.
Wasz
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John Wayne was interviewed entering the premier for High Plains Drifter saying that it was good to have a new actor working in westerns and that maybe he would have to do a movie with this Clint Eastwood fellow. On the way out of the movie The Duke was heard to say that the movie was a disgrace and it was not what americans wanted to see. I disagree with The Duke on that one, but hey to each his own.
High Plains Drifter is definately my favorite Clint movie. I just love how he comes into town, just wanting a drink and a bath. He ends up getting dragged into the town's own problems; and ends up screwing over everyone.
He gets the whole town to paint itself red, throw a huge "welcome party".. and then right when the "bad guys" are coming... he rides out of town, making the locals fend for themselves.
There is alot of discussion on if he really was the re-incarted spirit of the Sheriff. Maybe he is, maybe he isn't.
He gets the whole town to paint itself red, throw a huge "welcome party".. and then right when the "bad guys" are coming... he rides out of town, making the locals fend for themselves.
There is alot of discussion on if he really was the re-incarted spirit of the Sheriff. Maybe he is, maybe he isn't.
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k_dawg said:
Of course he is. There is no discussion on that part. When he's leaving, he is asked his name. "You know my name" is his reply to the man carving the headstone for the slain sheriff.
He didn't stop there just for a drink
Working Man
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Didn't they poison him at the end?
TexasRifleman
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Working Man said:
Yeah, after he does the nasty with just about all of them
And some amputation too if memory serves.
He sorta had it coming.
A kind of Stephen King meets Hugh Hefner sort of weird thing.
It's called "The Beguiled" and hard to find. I have it on VHS somewhere.
Working Man
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LOL... I almost choked on my lunch.
TexasRifleman
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Bridger said:
Armi-sport makes one in .45 Schofield, which is sort of obtainable at least.
The last one I saw for sale though was like $2500.
20cows
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Was that a Walker in Josey Whales? I thought he carried one of the dragoons.
This morning I caught just alittle of the "Unforgiven." What was that revolver he carried in the bar scene? It looked like some full-frame cap and ball, but it didn't look like a Remington.
This morning I caught just alittle of the "Unforgiven." What was that revolver he carried in the bar scene? It looked like some full-frame cap and ball, but it didn't look like a Remington.
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20cows said:
Heck, he carried just about everything in Josey Wales
On a Walker, the takedown wedge is inserted from the right side of the weapon, on all the Dragoons it goes in from the left side.
That and the 9 inch barrel on the Walker vs the 7.5 on the Dragoons.
Look REALLLLLLLY close, and use pause
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Bridger said:
Taylor's and Armi Sport makes a spencer replica in 56-50 centerfire...certainly not a modern caliber, but I would sure as hell like to have one!
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Favorite gun? Probably the Automag, just cuz I'd like to own one now.
Favorite Clint movie? Toss-up between his 2 bare-knuckled films Every Which Way But Loose and Any Which Way You Can, which I loved for the action/comedy, and Heartbreak Ridge.
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Favorite Clint movie? Toss-up between his 2 bare-knuckled films Every Which Way But Loose and Any Which Way You Can, which I loved for the action/comedy, and Heartbreak Ridge.
It means be advised, I'm mean, nasty, and tired. I eat concertina wire, and piss napalm, and I can put a round through a flea's ass at 200 meters.
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