Hollywood again

[ExAgoradzo]

Chuck Connors is the reason I have a lever-action rifle today. I had no idea you could still watch that show somewhere.

The lever action rifle: the 19h Century AR...

 

[Dave DeLaurant]

I like this alternate opening for Gunsmoke.
Everyone has one of those days every once in a while.

Arvo Ojala's revenge!

 

[Old Stumpy]

Chuck Connors is the reason I have a lever-action rifle today. I had no idea you could still watch that show somewhere.

As a kid, like many others I owned the Hubley cap gun version of the Rifleman rifle.
Back then it was shows like The Rifleman, Gunsmoke,Have Gun Will Travel, and numerous Saturday afternoon westerns at the local cheap movie theater that kindled my interest in Old West guns.
Yup, I remember firing off a lot of those rolls of red paper caps in a half dozen cap guns.

Not exactly an authentic replica, but we didn't care.

 

[1MoreFord]

The 1892 was top eject. so, no ejection port on the side. By the way, he fires more rounds than the 1892 holds. They added another shot sound to make it match the music.

Ejects out the top.

I must have had Marlin on the brain and yep, musta been a bit further into the bottle than I thought I was but my major point *Should* have been the loading port appears to be on the left side and thus a reversed picture. You are both correct the '92 is a top ejector.

 

[RussellC]

As a kid, like many others I owned the Hubley cap gun version of the Rifleman rifle.
Back then it was shows like The Rifleman, Gunsmoke,Have Gun Will Travel, and numerous Saturday afternoon westerns at the local cheap movie theater that kindled my interest in Old West guns.
Yup, I remember firing off a lot of those rolls of red paper caps in a half dozen cap guns.
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Not exactly an authentic replica, but we didn't care.

Yup, and don't forget the sawed off version from "The Rebel" as well. I had the cap gun version of that one.

Russellc

 

[Phaedrus/69]

Chuck Connors is the reason I have a lever-action rifle today. I had no idea you could still watch that show somewhere.

Most of the full episodes are on Youtube, commercial free. I watch an episode or three every week. Love the show! Every show is a morality play written to reinforce a value, each one a moral lesson. Great stuff!

 

[mustanger98]

Yup, and don't forget the sawed off version from "The Rebel" as well. I had the cap gun version of that one.

Russellc

Now, while I grew up watching older westerns, we're talking about my parents' generation of TV, but IIRC, Steve McQeen had the "Mare's Leg" '92 for "Wanted: Dead or Alive". That's another interesting story. I recall looking it up and seeing Johnny Yuma had a sawed-off shotgun.

 

[the Black Spot]

Our library has all the seasons of rifleman on dvd.
Anyone know how many shots were fired in the opening sequence?

Some fyi: Connors was the first to break a glass backboard while slam dunking in a basketball game

Connors played some sort of detective in a movie called "terror squad" (i think) where he opens his car trunk to get a better weapon, and yep there's his rifle! He pulls it out, flips around says "nah" and puts it back.

 

[RussellC]

Now, while I grew up watching older westerns, we're talking about my parents' generation of TV, but IIRC, Steve McQeen had the "Mare's Leg" '92 for "Wanted: Dead or Alive". That's another interesting story. I recall looking it up and seeing Johnny Yuma had a sawed-off shotgun.

Yup, it was a sawed off shotgun for Johnny, I had the "mare's leg apparently...

Russellc

 

[Whiterook808]

Amazon Prime has the Rifleman series available. Also The Life and Times of Wyatt Earp. They list Have Gun Will Travel, but it won't play for me.

 

[Catpop]

Old Stumpy,
Firing those red rolls of cap gun ammo! I loved that smell! And report!
But for some reason I had a lot more misfires back then!!!

 

[the Black Spot]

catpop, for me, it was hard to get the timing right on those rolls.