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the cool factor when the stones use your name in a song you no your cool

thanks for the post it brings back great memorys

You dig up some pretty cool pics ParadiseRoad.

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There is no proof that Steve McQueen was not my biological father.
Not a shred of proof of that.

There are no real actors left. Thanks for posting these pictures.

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Steve McQueen defined cool. RIP
Thanks for posting.

Great actor! The .22 looks like a Remington 572 Fieldmaster. Have one now, Dad taught us to shoot with one in the 1960s. Accurate and fun rifle.

I'm thinking it's a Winchester Model 61. Note the hanger just in front of the handguard and the other one near the end of the magazine tube. That was found on the 1890, the 1906, and the Model 62 and 62A, as well as the hammerless Model 61.


The 572 Fieldmaster lacks that first hanger, has a longer magazine tube and has a larger diameter forend.

Winchester Model 61:



The 1890, 1906 and Model 62 were some of the most common gallery rifles in the first half of the 20th century and into the 1970s. The Model 61 was a modernized hammerless version of the Model 62. Both were introduced in 1932. The Model 62 met the demand for fans of the Model 1890 and 1906 hammer equipped rifles, while the Model 61 was intended to compete with the more modern hammerless styling of the Remington Model 12, introduced in 1909, and the Marlin Model 32, introduced in 1915.

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I have an 1890 chambered in the fairly rare (for the 1890) .22LR. It's a very slick little rifle. Mine dates from 1927:

That was my first thought. But the tube looks too short.


My 1973 572.

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Memory lane......The great escape, Bullit, Tom Horn......thanks for the pictures

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I googled the image thinking the caption might confirm it's a Model 61.

Instead, but the only two hits were both captioned noting it was Steve McQueen holding his favorite shotgun.

Both pictures do indicate it was taken in 1978.

First pic is perfect image of "Tom Horn."

Perhaps his acting was good, but he was a worthless *** in real life....
And real life is all we get!

There are a lot of really good Steve McQueen movies.

LeMans, The Thomas Crown Affair, The War Lover, Junior Bonner, The Magnificent Seven, Papillion, Nevada, Smith, The Sand Pebbles, Soldier in the Rain, Hell is for Heroes, The Hunter, etc.

They don't make actors like Steve McQueen anymore.

Good thinking!

No doubt about it, that’s a post-war Winchester Model 61.

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I'm struggling, really, really struggling here, to NOT say something snotty about James Dean and "pumps." (Hey, what do I care if he "sashayed" instead of just walking? Pink handbags? What pink handbags??)

No ill will towards McQueen, he was Captain Cool.


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So very Politically Incorrect

Henry still makes a pump .22:

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Tom Horn was framed..........

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Don't forget "The Getaway". Two good reasons for watching that movie were Steve showed what a 12 gauge shotgun can do to a vehicle and Ali Macgraw!

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We deal in lead, friend.

And you know that how, exactly?

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I don't know what Steve McQueen was like as a person, and don't really care. He was one hell of an actor, and to this day his performances continue to impress me. As an actor he ranks up there as one of the best of his time, in my estimation.

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His death was an interesting and sad story

Because I pay attention and could care less about fame, merely a persons true character.

You're right. One needs only to read some of the Steve McQueen biographies (not Internet) and find out what those who were close to the man said about him.

Still, one of my favorites. In film, he was, and remains the Steve McQueen many of us watched and continue to watch.

I have seen a photo of McQueen with a Marlin Model 39 .22. He must have been fond of .22's like most of us. I think it was in an old Guns & Ammo.
Here's an interesting photo of McQueen and his Jaguar XKSS, Probably taken on the studio lot. Probably hard to double clutch and heel & toe with those spurs on.

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Guys...
Let’s focus on Steve McQueen, not each other.

From our rules:

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One of Tom Horn's siblings is in my family tree, so we're a bit biased, but...

My opinion is that Tom Horn was set up for conviction after the fact, rather than framed before the fact. He tended to talk big/brag especially when drunk and that led directly to the "confession". It also led to Horn eliminating his only alibi, by stating he could have covered the 20 miles between the crime scene and where he was seen an hour later by a witness who came forward as an alibi for Horn. He was goaded into bragging that he could have covered that 20 miles in an hour when no one reasonably believed he could have.

The movie "Tom Horn" does him an injustice by simplifying the facts in the case and effectively compressing the events. It also however put the profession of stock detective in the negative light it was viewed in at the time, rather than in the light it had been viewed in 10 years prior, much like his former employers who were frankly interested in seeing him hung now that it was a new century with different issues.

Since juries in the 1890s were not prone to convict rustlers, who they saw as just trying to make a living after being forcibly unemployed by large cattle operations. When they did convict, judges were likely to be very lenient and as a result stock detectives became the only effective means to deter rustling. Horn met that need pretty well, but didn't recognize that things had changed after the turn of the century, or perhaps could not, or would not, adapt. Either way, his prosecution and conviction was I think motivated far more by his past work as a stock detective and the changing light in which it was viewed than it was by this single murder - one he probably did not commit.

This article covers it far better than I can and provides a fairly balanced view of Tom Horn in the context of the time.

Tom Horn: Misunderstood Misfit

In the end, it took 31 seconds for the water operated trap door to operate, and since the hangman had only allowed for 4 1/2 feet of drop (to avoid the potential of decapitating Horn) the fall did not break his neck and it took him 17 minutes to die. Fortunately, the large knot in the noose striking him in the side of the head knocked him unconscious and he didn't suffer.

If Steve McQueen married Queen Elizabeth what would her name be?
Answer: Queen McQueen

One interesting thing I heard about him;he loved race cars.During the shooting of Le Mans,people were constantly waiting for him to stop going around the track.They'd signal him to stop but he'd just kept doing ''just one more lap''.
He extended the shooting schedule of the movie by quite a few K$ doing so.
Even so,he is still my favorite actor.

...McQueen was an avid motorcycle enthusiast as well...

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I like McQueen quite a bit., he was a good actor, he certainly had the brass ring on life's Marry Go Round, at least for awhile. He, like a lot of the actors in those days that did their film work simply to be able to do the things they loved to do, in his case, he was a motor head to the core, which I appreciate.

AS far as the 'King of Cool' well, he was up there but sorry to report that Robert Mitchum had that title for a LONG time & he in my opinion was the true King of Cool.

About 50 years ago I was a teenager and into dirt bike riding. McQueen used to come and ride with his friend Malcolm Smith in the same foothills outside of San Bernardino that my friends and I hung out in and we saw him several times.
I also attended one of the (Lake) Elsinore Grand Prix's in 1972 that McQueen competed in. The race used to run through the hills and back partially through the city streets where they arranged hay bales to protect riders and probably spectators in case somebody took a spill. McQueen tried to remain incognito but he was still a pretty big star in 1972 and the crowd cheered each time he came around a lap.

He bike raced under the entry name of 'Harvey Mushmellon' if I recall correctly.

Don't forget "On Any Sunday"

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Harvey Mushman, but I like your version a lot better. ;

Edit:

I looked and there is a Harvey Mushman facebook page with some interesting photos.

Harvey Mushman | Facebook

Fingerprint card at the Alaska State Troopers FOP Museum, Anchorage AK. Arrested for reckless driving, cutting donuts in town.

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And to keep it British, that reminds me of Boaty McBoatface

Boaty McBoatface - Wikipedia

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