I can't remember - - -which - - -
- - -Which movie pushed me over the top and determined me that one day, somehow, I would own a Thompson Submachine Gun. Of course, it might have been some magazine article, or book, or whetever. Anyhow, I finally have one. I'd rather not have gotten it the way I did, though - - -It was a bequest from a friend who knew my fixation. I may have put 2,000 rounds through his gun, and kep trying to buy it from him. He's now ten years dead . . . .
Direct and specific movie influence to get a particular gun - - -
Sometime in the mid-1960s, "The Professionals" depicted Lee Marvin using a Winchester 97, cleaning off saddles in the Mexican Desert. HAD TO HAVE ONE! A few days later, I owned one.
Oh, yeah - - -An old British movie called "Abandon Ship - - -" Ship's officer encouraging survival of a bunch in a lifeboat-- He had a Webley .455--Maybe a Mk. IV--short barrel, round butt, anyway. This influenced me to own a couple of these fine, sturdy break-top revolvers, years later.
twoblink - - You mention some interesting guns, but your,
"Mauser K98 ~ Won WWI." Looks like two errors in one sentence fragment, sir. 1. In WWI, the German Service rifle was the Gew. 98, not the K.98. 2. Perhaps more significantly: THE GERMANS LOST WWI! While the Mauser is/was a fine weapons system, the victors in WWI used 1903 Springfields, 1917 Enfields, and SMLE rifles. The LOSERS used Mausers and Lebels.
VaughnT - - -
You asked Whiskey about his tag line–It is from the lyrics of “Tom Ames’ Prayer,†by Robert Earl Keen–On his album “Gringo Honeymoon,†c. 1994, Sugarhill Records.
- - -Trapped in an alley in Abilene,
with all but four shells spent . . .
So he cocked both his pistols, and spit in the dirt,
And walked out into that street.
Best regards,
Johnny