Observation on Westerns

[shell627]

And who can forget the race to the outhouses in Monte Walsh.

 

[mauser9]

And who can forget the race to the outhouses in Monte Walsh.

Reminds me check out the first Monte Walsh made around 1970 with Lee Marvin and Jack Palance. Very good western.

 

[mauser9]

Most of all I appreciate the period correct firearms used in modern westerns. Grew up on seeing Model 92 or 94 Winnys used in the old westerns. True Winchester quit making the 1873 back in 1919 I believe but the repros from Uberti or Miroku are a welcome sight.

 

[GBLittle]

Sitting around the campfire and singing.
Where did the guitars come from?
No large guitar size lumps in saddle bags.

Bekeart

Marshall Dillon also wore a Timex back then..

 

[14daMoney]

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

and no horses ever broke from from one, hmmmmm . . . . .

 

[14daMoney]

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.

I watched a segment of The Texan just the other night and as he and another cowboy rode along you could see the background move up and down and not them. Too funny .....

 

[Buford57]

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.

Add Long Riders (even had realistic fly buzzing sound effects).

Those cowboys needed 20-shot six-shooters to counteract the Indigenous People with bottomless quivers.

 

[Buford57]

When I was working for the PD in a medium sized western city 40-odd years ago the local Ramada Inn offered a shuttlebus to the airport. Two of my coworkers would take their break in the hotel coffee shop and when the PA announcement that the limo was leaving came on they would get up, hitch up their gunbelts and one would say to the other "Well, Sam, that's us" and wait for a tourist to ask why there were armed guards on the limo. The answer, with a grim look - "Indians". Gave them a good story when they got home.

 

[ameridaddy]

I guess gunfighters and cowboys learned to draw, point and shoot very quickly with reasonable accuracy. The only concept of aimed fire I see in the 20th century Westerns is guys shooting with a rifle. ...

Back in the 70's, a friend and I had a conversation with a guy born in 1880's who was a logger in the far West. We asked him if he ever saw a gunfight, ala the Westerns popular on TV. He said he saw several, and when we asked him if they faced down one another and then quick-drawed like the popular Westerns, he said "Oh, no! - They'd sneak up and then they took aim!"

 

[GBLittle]

I've been shooting for 60+ years and could never develop my skills enough to shoot from the hip and hit a consistent 3 inch group at 20 yards.

 

[rwsmith]

Also in Young Guns and Unforgiven.

Yeah, the bad guy gets offed in the shitter by the 'Schofield Kid'.

 

[rwsmith]

Yeah, the bad guy gets offed in the shitter by the 'Schofield Kid'.

PS: It seems that the programming guys need to work on the word censor routine.