The Best Muzzleloading Movies

[springfield art]

Currently on Amazon Prime.

Three or four bucks to rent it.

BTW, that book by the guy that recently ran for PA governor? Where he claims to have found the exact spent ctg. casings from York, and all that? It was de-bunked by some, who say he used his son's Boy Scout troop as 'archeological assistants'. I don't have an opinion myself, but it does seem a bit far fetched to claim to have located the EXACT spot York stood, and be able to count the actual pistol casings, etc. (Mastriano, the author) People would have to read up and make their own conclusion.

 

[Whitworth]

Lots of good clips of the best parts are on YouTube. My favorite is on the shooting range.

Currently on Amazon Prime.

Three or four bucks to rent it.

 

[64Springer]

Lots of good clips of the best parts are on YouTube. My favorite is on the shooting range.

What's nice about the Turkey Shoot scene is there's time to actually look at the lock.

They were using long rifles with percussion locks. But if you look closely, you can see some big ole' chunky hammers. Like military hammers.

I can't imagine Hollywood using real deal antique rifles to shoot those scenes. Even Hollywood would understand the value of those guns. But assembling guns to use in the movie is a definite possibility. There was no DGW or Lodgewood or TOTW back then.

Just some creative Hollywood armorer/gunsmith, deep budget pockets and a pile of surplus parts. Love...it!

 

[sturmkatze]

Mountain Men
April Morning
Centennial (for sure)
Sgt. York
I airways thought Jeremiah Johnson was too hippistic.

 

[tenngun]

What's nice about the Turkey Shoot scene is there's time to actually look at the lock.

They were using long rifles with percussion locks. But if you look closely, you can see some big ole' chunky hammers. Like military hammers.

I can't imagine Hollywood using real deal antique rifles to shoot those scenes. Even Hollywood would understand the value of those guns. But assembling guns to use in the movie is a definite possibility. There was no DGW or Lodgewood or TOTW back then.

Just some creative Hollywood armorer/gunsmith, deep budget pockets and a pile of surplus parts. Love...it!

You see some ‘real’ or at least real looking guns in some old movies. There was not much value in old guns. In Gone with the Wind the yankee solder would be rapist Scarlet kills Scarlet uses a cap and ball cold looking revolver.
In many of the early westerns a wide variety of real looking old guns show up in the movie
Old guns were cheap. I always fear how many went in to the metal drives of the Second World War.

 

[Flintlock Whiskey]

OK, Dont want to start a war but post your Favorite Motion Pictures for Traditional Muzzleloading.
some of my favorites.

Jeremiah Johnson 1972
The Last of the Mohicans 1992
The Patriot 2000
The Revenant 2015
How the West Was Won 1962
Sergeant York 1941, filmed 1939/40 a lot of real antique Muzzlelaoders were used as there were no reproductions at that time.

Be kind.

Agree with all of these except How The West Was Won. Still have to see it.

 

[Flintlock Whiskey]

Mountain Men
April Morning
Centennial (for sure)
Sgt. York
I airways thought Jeremiah Johnson was too hippistic.

Which Centennial?

 

[redcarpet]

Tagged.

 

[64Springer]

Mountain Men
April Morning
Centennial (for sure)
Sgt. York
I airways thought Jeremiah Johnson was too hippistic.

Hard to watch. Poorly written script.

You would think contractions had not been invented yet. Better yet, you'd think contractions hadn't been invented yet.

I will take you to the river and you will get into a canoe, and you will live with me.

I'll take you to the river and you'll get into a canoe, and you'll live with me. Much easier to listen to.

 

[Coinneach]

I would add the Mountain Men and very corny, but with some good reloading scenes Winterhawk, with my favorite castaway Dawn Wells

Are you trying to convince us all that Victoria Racimo didnt make you consider falling in Love ?

 

[Coinneach]

Currently on Amazon Prime.

Three or four bucks to rent it.

Why rent when you can buy and watch whenever you like ?

I maintain a Classic collection of DVD movies and series (eg Lonesome Dove etc) so I can always watch them again into the years ahead.

 

[Coinneach]

Ouch ! I guess many objects would do the job as a bullet. I think someone once told me a Brown Bess could be loaded with stones and fired if necessary. Talk about ingenuity.

I loaded a Pedersoli Brown Bess with small grade Gravel years ago and harvested a few Ducks in one shot at their low level rise off a Lake.

 

[toot]

Quigley down under. I fell in love with crazy Alice. she was just killer.

 

[toot]

I loaded a Pedersoli Brown Bess with small grade Gravel years ago and harvested a few Ducks in one shot at their low level rise off a Lake.

sounds like you had a modern day PUNT GUN? I can only imagine what the bore looked like after that? ever think that it was over kill? jmho.

 

[wojciste]

Yes, I remember that. Could a Ramrod really be shot out like that and be lethal ? Just wondering, seems like it could.

I had one stuck at a shoot and shot it out. A little 4 f in the torch hole and out she went.

 

[Hatchet-Jack]

Some of my all time favorites:

Mountain Men
Jeremiah Johnson
The Patriot
Last of the Mohicans
Sergeant York
Master and commander

 

[Ed C.]

Hell on Wheels. Great gun scenes. And there was Lily!

 

[Packrat]

Couple shots of muskets used in Red Badge of courage ,( version 1951 with Audi Murphey)
these must have been originals, don't think any repo's were made then

 

[tenngun]

Are you trying to convince us all that Victoria Racimo didnt make you consider falling in Love ?

Ohhh tough choice. But I lost my heart to Dawn ten years before I ever met Victoria

 

[Treetop]

I loved the Patriot movie so well.......
I tried to duplicate the rescue scene with amateur acting and cheap cameras....LOL

That was awsome!