And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
True. For that gun to act that way the action would have to be so loose as to make it unsafe for firing. I have a 1957 era Winchester model 71 in .348 that was my dad's Pennsylvania deer rifle and with less than 1000 rds through it the action is nice and tight like it's supposed to be and the "rifleman" trick could not be done with it. No, I didn't try. Just cycling the action normally shows how difficult it would be.
Bear in mind that Chuck was a prior NBA and MLB player, who was at least 6'5" and near 300 lbs. He had the hand/arm strength, and mass, to throw that gun around and make it look easy.
Best era for shows, and could watch The Rifleman when home sick with a cold...and no one panicked or went into quarantine...instead mom brought ginger ale, tomato soup, saltines, and toothpicks with model glue to build stuff.
The actor was a very experienced shooter in real life. From what I have gathered from reading, it used to be that Hollywood types were much more personally familiar with firearms than they have been for several decades now. Up to the 70's or so, lots of them had military service during wars. Unfortunately, the hollywood moguls turned out to be anti-service/socialist types. If an actor quit movies to go to war, they got screwed. If they became actors after service, that was generally okay. Another problem they had was the military often didn't like them if associated with acting, and they tended to get poor recognition if they did well in their service.
I can not tell you how many lever actions my father fixed over the years. "Oh, it got caught on a stump" was the favorite excuse when they either bent it beyond usability, or broke it off completely. The fix was heat and rebend, cut and weld if the rebend didn't work, or complete replacement. Fortunately, I never had any come into my shop. People don't seem to do that much any more.
It works in hollywood. Not in real life
ReplyDeleteTrue. For that gun to act that way the action would have to be so loose as to make it unsafe for firing. I have a 1957 era Winchester model 71 in .348 that was my dad's Pennsylvania deer rifle and with less than 1000 rds through it the action is nice and tight like it's supposed to be and the "rifleman" trick could not be done with it. No, I didn't try. Just cycling the action normally shows how difficult it would be.
DeleteIIRC, the show had several rifles to work with.
DeleteBear in mind that Chuck was a prior NBA and MLB player, who was at least 6'5" and near 300 lbs. He had the hand/arm strength, and mass, to throw that gun around and make it look easy.
Best era for shows, and could watch The Rifleman when home sick with a cold...and no one panicked or went into quarantine...instead mom brought ginger ale, tomato soup, saltines, and toothpicks with model glue to build stuff.
ReplyDeleteYou bet me and my brothers had one.
ReplyDeleteDid he train Alec Baldwin?
ReplyDeleteThe actor was a very experienced shooter in real life.
DeleteFrom what I have gathered from reading, it used to be that Hollywood types were much more personally familiar with firearms than they have been for several decades now. Up to the 70's or so, lots of them had military service during wars. Unfortunately, the hollywood moguls turned out to be anti-service/socialist types. If an actor quit movies to go to war, they got screwed. If they became actors after service, that was generally okay. Another problem they had was the military often didn't like them if associated with acting, and they tended to get poor recognition if they did well in their service.
I can not tell you how many lever actions my father fixed over the years. "Oh, it got caught on a stump" was the favorite excuse when they either bent it beyond usability, or broke it off completely. The fix was heat and rebend, cut and weld if the rebend didn't work, or complete replacement. Fortunately, I never had any come into my shop. People don't seem to do that much any more.
ReplyDeleteAnother reason as a kid on loved Westerns
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