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What mistakes have you noticed in movies/tv shows that happen in the BP era like Daniel Boone, Patriot etc?

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[email protected] said:
I reckon all those revolvers made by Colt, Remington, Smith and Wesson and others had no use then eh?:p Revolver is pretty handy to have when the rifle is in the scabbard....
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I agree with the quick draw rig part of his comment. Alot of the holsters were the Army style flap holsters (less apt to loose your pistol in the brush) Hollyweird has always ignored facts and history.
 
CaptainVane said:
I’ve seen pictures from the 1930’s Appalachia with many holding an old muzzleloader. Great Depression. Those people were dirt poor. Still using 100 yo guns handed down thru the family.
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If it ain't broke why replace it? It is 2024 and we here still use flintlock and percussion rifles.
 
Cayman like said:
I remember watching The Comancheros with my Dad and the blonde lady character tells Paul Regret character something like it's 5 years after Texas independence.
So 1841? So I said they should be using muzzleloaders instead of lever actions and single action armies and I think Dad thought I was nitpicking.
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I could never watch movies especially westerns with my father-in-law. He never ‘watched’ a movie, he would watch for mistakes and loudly point them out. Annoying as piss.
 
Eterry said:
How about 1883 where Tug Mcgraw's son has a High wall, introduced in 85?
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John Browning's single shot rifle was available from Browning Brothers several years before Winchester bought the patent rights and built it as a slightly altered Winchester 1885.

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This pic was sent to me forwarded from another forum. Don’t know what film it came from but the gun is really badly done.
 
CaptainVane said:
I could never watch movies especially westerns with my father-in-law. He never ‘watched’ a movie, he would watch for mistakes and loudly point them out. Annoying as piss.
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My wife will watch movies with me, but I pay a price for the privilege.
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She tripped me up the other day by asking "How do you KNOW that?" and I unthinkingly replied "Because I have one" which led to a whole different conversation...:doh:
 
Gail Davis Annie Oakley carried a Smith and Wesson model 10 with colt ejectors added to the barrel to make then look like six guns. I had the chance to meet her and Gene Autry at the Laporte, Indiana county fair back in the 50s. Bell telephone sponsored them there. It was a thrill to meet them both. I was seven at the time. Yes, she was really pretty.
 

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Surprised no one has mentioned it, but in the movie "Light in the Forest", there is a scene where one of the 'indian' extras is standing knee deep in the river and flips open the trapdoor of his flintlock gun, ejecting the 45-70 blank into the water. Dang those guys were more advanced than we give them credit for.
 
I didn't read through the whole post so this may be a repeat. In the movie "The Alamo" one scene during the first battle shows John Wayne firing a flintlock from behind the short wall that the Tennesseans defended. In the next scene it shows him up on the north wall telling Bowie to get more men, if you look closely, he takes a shot, and it looks like a percussion. At least that what it looked like to me. Also, in most of those period movies it shows guys dumping powder down the barrel of a smooth bore musket from their powder horn then hitting a Indian on horseback at a couple hundred yards ! lol

Like A34 said, " Hollywood never let historical accuracy get in the way of a good story."
 

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