Observation on Westerns

[Chuck24]

Apparently, no one in the old west knew how to build a railing that wouldn’t break if someone bumped against it!

 

[lihpster]

They just made people tougher back then.

 

[bobsguns]

Apparently, the whiskey was pretty weak back then as well. Seems like they could chug near a water glass full of whiskey & not cough, gasp or gasp loudly.

 

[bk42261]

And some of those "Colt .45s" held 20 or more rounds!!

 

[Rudi]

And hoses could gallop for miles and miles.

 

[jeffrefrig]

Ya know, usually the first thing I do when I wake up is go visit my toilet room. I've never seen Matt wake up & go potty. He just jumps on his horse and drives 15 miles outta town then beats up or shoots the perp.

 

[Mule Packer]

Apparently, no one in the old west knew how to build a railing that wouldn’t break if someone bumped against it!

True...but they sure knew how to make windows that wouldn't cut you to ribbons when you went crashing through them.

 

[AugieTN]

I read liquor on Gunsmoke was colored water, but the beer was real because they couldn't find anything that would make a head like real beer.

 

[Chuck24]

And some of those "Colt .45s" held 20 or more rounds!!

And many were using the Peacemakers before they were invented

 

[Alk8944]

And many were using the Peacemakers before they were invented

And the U.S. Cavalry used 1892 Winchester rifles in the 1860-'70s. Finally they bear virtually no semblance whatsoever to the truth when it comes to historic fact!

 

[LoboGunLeather]

Ya know, usually the first thing I do when I wake up is go visit my toilet room. I've never seen Matt wake up & go potty. He just jumps on his horse and drives 15 miles outta town then beats up or shoots the perp.

And Dodge City, Kansas was surrounded by mountains with evergreen forests and desert with saguaro cactus. Hardly any prairie in sight. I wonder what happened to the landscape over the past 150 years or so. Climate change maybe?

 

[WR Moore]

Wellllll, Gunsmoke started as a 1/2 hour show. Ya can't waste much time there with everyday activities like head call.

The chairs, table and doors all seem unreasonably fragile (unless needed to stop bullets), but that's still true in more modern settings.

 

[30-30remchester]

Matt Dillon will ride up to a campsite with flat saddle bags, yet in the next scene he is cooking beans over a campfire with a large Dutch oven and has at least a washtub sized coffee pot. Yet when he leaves in the morning, the saddle bags are flat, and the bedroll has mysteriously disappeared. Worst yet, when someone dies on the trail, a shovel that was never present in any previous scenes, suddenly appears to dig the grave, but is not on the horses when they ride away.

 

[Smoke]

It amazes me that apparently nobody in the old west knew how to open a window. I continually see people breaking out the glass of a double hung window (which was probably an anachronism too) to shoot out of it instead of just opening the damn window.

 

[rockquarry]

It's entertainment and often good entertainment, but was never intended to be accurate entertainment. Enjoy it for what it is.

 

[dave1918a2]

Yippy-ki-ya!!

 

[desi2358]

How can you forget that when those magical 20 shot six shooters finally did run out of ammo they looked at them like they were defective then threw them on the ground?............ As a kid I figured there must be empty six shooters laying around all over the west! LOL

 

[Hair Trigger]

Ya know, usually the first thing I do when I wake up is go visit my toilet room. I've never seen Matt wake up & go potty. He just jumps on his horse and drives 15 miles outta town then beats up or shoots the perp.

I don't know that I've ever even seen an outhouse in most TV westerns. Only movies I can think of offhand where one is shown or mentioned is in Pale Rider and Blazing Saddles.

 

[6518John]

And Dodge City, Kansas was surrounded by mountains with evergreen forests and desert with saguaro cactus. Hardly any prairie in sight. I wonder what happened to the landscape over the past 150 years or so. Climate change maybe?

This is how I learned not to trust TV/movies. I was sitting in the Bob Burn’s Theater in Van Buren Arkansas, just across the river from Ft Smith, watching True Grit and John Wayne rides out of Ft. Smith and there are snow capped mountains in the background. Visiting Ft Smith daily for most of my entire young life, I had never seen any snow-capped mountains.

My son was in the first or second grade and was watching one of his B Westerns we had on CD for him to watch. He said “daddy, how do those old colts in the movies shoot 20-30 times without being reloaded? They hold more rounds than your Glock!” I explained to him that the shows were make-believe. He said “I am going to watch Roadrunner/Coyote, at least that’s a real show!”

 

[dockmurgw]

And in The Virginian, the same herd of cattle change from longhorns in the desert to Herefords in green grass from one scene to the next.