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Offline Loyalist Dave

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Re: The myth of the Hawken Rifle....
« Reply #45 on: May 25, 2017, 08:12:22 AM »
It's not just the guns...,

As I wrote before, I give TV and movies a break in the 1960's and 1970's...., and prior.  But imagine had they done Last of the Mohicans c. 1992, and put Magwa in a full Sioux War Bonnet? 

Then you get John Milius directing The Wind and The Lion, and the Marines storm the port of Fez in proper uniforms, with .30-40 Krag rifles, and later some are seen with pump Winchester shotguns, which were what they would've carried, and that movie was done in 1975.   :bl th up

I don't mind that Spencer Tracey in NW passage is running around in a glengarry hat, with "muskets" that are actually trap-door, Springfield rifles.    :o Or that Fess Parker as Daniel Boone often looks like his shooting bag is empty and it's too low and so is his horn,  ;), or that the Brits in Allegheny Uprising have the wrong guns, etc etc  :D

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Offline amm1851

Re: The myth of the Hawken Rifle....
« Reply #46 on: May 25, 2017, 10:14:18 AM »
That's why we call it Hollyweird.  :laffing
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