Clint Eastwood was and is one of a kind actor and director. When ever he played a role you could not see anyone else play that role. Absolutely amazing.
Some interesting trivia I found on the rifle Blondie uses in The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: As Tuco (Eli Wallach) hangs from a rope in the graveyard, Blondie (Clint Eastwood) fires a rare Civilian Model 1860 Spencer Rifle with an octagon barrel, easily mistaken for the 1874 Sharps because Eastwood keeps his hand over the breechblock pivot area. The actual rifle is featured in the making-of book Behind the Scenes of Sergio Leone's The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Peter J. Hanley, 2016, il buono pub.). It may also be seen momentarily the very early "muddy street" scene filmed outside of Rome- look at the exact moment Blondie dismounts his horse. This is the first scene Wallach filmed and we can see that the scope is mounted on the Spencer, indicating that this was to be the rifle that Blondie would use during the later hanging scenes filmed in Spain. Some technical difficulty must have caused the crew to abandon this rifle, substituting the bounty hunter's Model 1866 which later received the scope at the time of the second hanging. Certainly, the Spencer could never have fired with the rapid cadence of the Model 1866 (the book has a still photo of Eastwood struggling to operate the rifle at the cemetery). Any sporting model of Spencer would be anachronistic to the 1862 timeframe as very few (less than 100) were manufactured just prior to war's end; this particular rifle is serial number 1448.
Clint Eastwood got the snake handle revolver from an episode of Rawhide where his character Rowdy Yates took down a notorious gunman. He liked it so much he used it in The Dollars Trilogy.
Perhaps the most intriguing gun you showed briefly, the 44 magnum Auto Mag. The Auto Mag fired a wildcat 7.62/54mm cartridge cut down past the shoulders with a 240grain 44 magnum bullet loaded. I was also carried by Mac Bolan the "Executioner". He called it big thunder. I am told that if you did not fire it with care it would break you wrist. Later someone actually manufactured Auto Mags commercially, if you could afford to pay the price, not a Saturday night special.
They make far more powerful revolvers, they won't break your wrist, rather slam into your forehead if you don't have a firm grip. I'm just an average guy, no problem for me. Check out the S&W X-frame in .500 S&W mag. It has more power than yhe 7.62x51mm NATO round But "break your wrist" sure sounds good!
I owned one in the late 1970's and used it for hunting medium sized game like deer. Not a lot of recoil due to weight and springs. Keep your wrist stiff and your arm raises with the recoil. I could keep a can bouncing for four or five shots. Your arm drops down in a rhythm and lines up the next shot. RCBS sold a set of dies for making the brass but it took a lot of time. I had no trouble hitting a deer at 200 yds once I learned to elevation.
Not mentioning the 44 Automag was a miss. But you seemed to forget the best "gun" he ever used in the movies. I guess you need to take a look at "Thunderbolt and Lightfoot" and witness the awesome Oerlikon 20 mm cannon!
All of us young cops went to see Dirty Harry & his .44 Magnum in the ‘70s but none of us carried anything like that. My service weapon was a S&W .38 issued by the department and no personal weapons were permitted for on duty carry. Our rules mandated off duty carry so most of us purchased a smaller .38, which also needed departmental approval by the range officer.
You really should have given some mention to the sharps rifke in josey wales- the one josey uses to send the union insurgents on a 'missouri boat ride'
Sorry, but a Clint Eastwood character DID carry a semi-auto manufactured after 1980 in another film -- specifically a film titled *The Rookie* (not to be confused w/ the later Dennis Quaid film about baseball, or the more recent TV series w/ Nathan Fillion), alongside Charlie Sheen as a rookie detective. In the 1990 film Clint Eastwood plays LAPD Detective Nick Pulovski. In it, his usual sidearm is a Smith & Wesson Model 4506 (in .45 ACP, and first manufactured in 1988).
Duvall had the 99, Clint had a 1903 Springfield custom take-down. that savage was real nice and his line about , it taking down one of those big mountain cats is a line I use at alot of gunshows here in Utah
There were no cartridge loading pistols or adapters before the 1870s. Also (unrelated) dynamite wasn’t invented till 1867. TNT was around but it was never labeled explosives.
Oops. S&W introduced the .22 short rimfire--the ones you can still get today--in 1851. Their first successful revolver, model 1, in .22 short, first came out in 1857. There were a number of rimfire cartridges invented during the [un]Civil War, but only in small numbers, too few to issue to the troops.
@ I didn’t know about the S&W .22. I Googled 1st cartridge loading pistols and they didn’t mention that one. I know the was one in Europe (Germany I think). I know that Colt didn’t have one till 1872 and then they introduced the Army .45 in1873. Around the same time that S&W introduced the Schofield.44.
I think my favourite Clint Eastwood firearm is the cartridge conversion 1861 Remington Army Model (or 1858 New Model Army depending on who you read) revolver he uses in Pale Rider. His smaller backup revolver makes his loadout even cooler.
Eastwood wore the leather hand brace after his hand was damaged while being beaten up (it was stepped on and ground under the heel of his tormentors boot). He then escaped to the undertaker and recovered. He also made the metal plate he wore under his cape in „For a Few Dollars More“.
Clint Eastwood can be picky about period correct firearms, this is why he would have carried the Colt Navy in The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly, as this takes place during the U.S. Civil War.
All of the characters in The Good the Bad and the Ugly use cap and ball revolvers because that movie is a prequel to the other two, it takes place during the Civil War, before the Single Action Army was invented.
Just to point out that "The Good, the Bad, the Ugly" is set BEFORE the two Dollars films. That's why there is no wrist brace. It is at the END of TGTBTU that Clint aquires the serape & hat of The Man with No Name.
Listen closely to tuco at the end of the good the bad and the ugly. Tuco isn’t saying hey blonde or blondie, he says “Edward, do you know what you are? Just a no good dirty SOB”
We never see Josey Wales go through the time consuming process of reloading his Colt Walkers. The film's stunt guns were built to take modern brass cartridges but a real Walker involves loose power, balls,grease and percussion caps.
Actually the colts in Outlaw were either 57 navy or 59 army, you just can’t see the engraving in the cylinders. The loading arm is not pointed but clips into the holder in the barrel. Also too small - they could be dragoons also
What about the 44 Automag? It was shown briefly. I owned one in the late 1970's and used it for hunting medium sized game like deer. Not a lot of recoil due to weight and springs. Keep your wrist stiff and your arm raises with the recoil. I could keep a can bouncing for four or five shots. Your arm drops down in a rhythm and lines up the next shot. RCBS sold a set of dies for making the brass but it took a lot of time. I had no trouble hitting a deer at 200 yds once I learned to elevation.
Clint Eastwood was and is one of a kind actor and director. When ever he played a role you could not see anyone else play that role. Absolutely amazing.
Some interesting trivia I found on the rifle Blondie uses in The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly:
As Tuco (Eli Wallach) hangs from a rope in the graveyard, Blondie (Clint Eastwood) fires a rare Civilian Model 1860 Spencer Rifle with an octagon barrel, easily mistaken for the 1874 Sharps because Eastwood keeps his hand over the breechblock pivot area. The actual rifle is featured in the making-of book Behind the Scenes of Sergio Leone's The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Peter J. Hanley, 2016, il buono pub.). It may also be seen momentarily the very early "muddy street" scene filmed outside of Rome- look at the exact moment Blondie dismounts his horse. This is the first scene Wallach filmed and we can see that the scope is mounted on the Spencer, indicating that this was to be the rifle that Blondie would use during the later hanging scenes filmed in Spain. Some technical difficulty must have caused the crew to abandon this rifle, substituting the bounty hunter's Model 1866 which later received the scope at the time of the second hanging. Certainly, the Spencer could never have fired with the rapid cadence of the Model 1866 (the book has a still photo of Eastwood struggling to operate the rifle at the cemetery). Any sporting model of Spencer would be anachronistic to the 1862 timeframe as very few (less than 100) were manufactured just prior to war's end; this particular rifle is serial number 1448.
Clint Eastwood got the snake handle revolver from an episode of Rawhide where his character Rowdy Yates took down a notorious gunman. He liked it so much he used it in The Dollars Trilogy.
Perhaps the most intriguing gun you showed briefly, the 44 magnum Auto Mag. The Auto Mag fired a wildcat 7.62/54mm cartridge cut down past the shoulders with a 240grain 44 magnum bullet loaded. I was also carried by Mac Bolan the "Executioner". He called it big thunder. I am told that if you did not fire it with care it would break you wrist. Later someone actually manufactured Auto Mags commercially, if you could afford to pay the price, not a Saturday night special.
They make far more powerful revolvers, they won't break your wrist, rather slam into your forehead if you don't have a firm grip. I'm just an average guy, no problem for me. Check out the S&W X-frame in .500 S&W mag. It has more power than yhe 7.62x51mm NATO round
But "break your wrist" sure sounds good!
The auto mag used cut down 7.62x51 or .308 cases, I owned an auto mag for 5 years and used it for silhouette shooting
I owned one in the late 1970's and used it for hunting medium sized game like deer. Not a lot of recoil due to weight and springs. Keep your wrist stiff and your arm raises with the recoil. I could keep a can bouncing for four or five shots. Your arm drops down in a rhythm and lines up the next shot. RCBS sold a set of dies for making the brass but it took a lot of time. I had no trouble hitting a deer at 200 yds once I learned to elevation.
Not mentioning the 44 Automag was a miss. But you seemed to forget the best "gun" he ever used in the movies. I guess you need to take a look at "Thunderbolt and Lightfoot" and witness the awesome Oerlikon 20 mm cannon!
Also forgot to mention the Schofield he used in Unforgiven.
@@stephenclemence5856I agree, but he only used that because little bill took his Starr revolver.
@@ronstreet6706 And didn't he also use Ned's Spencer rifle to kill little Bill ?
All of us young cops went to see Dirty Harry & his .44 Magnum in the ‘70s but none of us carried anything like that. My service weapon was a S&W .38 issued by the department and no personal weapons were permitted for on duty carry. Our rules mandated off duty carry so most of us purchased a smaller .38, which also needed departmental approval by the range officer.
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You really should have given some mention to the sharps rifke in josey wales- the one josey uses to send the union insurgents on a 'missouri boat ride'
I read that Sergio Leone invested in Uberti firearms in Italy because he liked them for his movies.
Sorry, but a Clint Eastwood character DID carry a semi-auto manufactured after 1980 in another film -- specifically a film titled *The Rookie* (not to be confused w/ the later Dennis Quaid film about baseball, or the more recent TV series w/ Nathan Fillion), alongside Charlie Sheen as a rookie detective.
In the 1990 film Clint Eastwood plays LAPD Detective Nick Pulovski. In it, his usual sidearm is a Smith & Wesson Model 4506 (in .45 ACP, and first manufactured in 1988).
And he carried an Automag briefly in one of the Dirty Harry movies
Missed the Savage 99 in Joe Kidd! Maybe you need to watch all of his movies again. I do ever year.
Duvall had the 99, Clint had a 1903 Springfield custom take-down. that savage was real nice and his line about , it taking down one of those big mountain cats is a line I use at alot of gunshows here in Utah
There were no cartridge loading pistols or adapters before the 1870s. Also (unrelated) dynamite wasn’t invented till 1867. TNT was around but it was never labeled explosives.
Oops. S&W introduced the .22 short rimfire--the ones you can still get today--in 1851. Their first successful revolver, model 1, in .22 short, first came out in 1857.
There were a number of rimfire cartridges invented during the [un]Civil War, but only in small numbers, too few to issue to the troops.
@ I didn’t know about the S&W .22. I Googled 1st cartridge loading pistols and they didn’t mention that one. I know the was one in Europe (Germany I think). I know that Colt didn’t have one till 1872 and then they introduced the Army .45 in1873. Around the same time that S&W introduced the Schofield.44.
You missed Kelly’s Heroes were he used a Thompson sub machine gun
.45 Auto the same bullitt in his Colt 1911
Today I learned that Eastwood could have been the greatest Superman or James Bond ever.
The guns were nice, too.
I think my favourite Clint Eastwood firearm is the cartridge conversion 1861 Remington Army Model (or 1858 New Model Army depending on who you read) revolver he uses in Pale Rider. His smaller backup revolver makes his loadout even cooler.
Anyone else read the thumbnail as clint Eastwood carried his movies at first
M1911, as in "M Nineteen Eleven", please. The "small automatic" seen in the restaurant is also an M1911, probably in .45 ACP - hardly "small".
Eastwood wore the leather hand brace after his hand was damaged while being beaten up (it was stepped on and ground under the heel of his tormentors boot). He then escaped to the undertaker and recovered. He also made the metal plate he wore under his cape in „For a Few Dollars More“.
Clint Eastwood can be picky about period correct firearms, this is why he would have carried the Colt Navy in The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly, as this takes place during the U.S. Civil War.
The Auto Mag pistol was produced from 1971-1982 and again from 2017-present.
One my favorite Dirty Harry movies, Sudden Impact, 1983.
All of the characters in The Good the Bad and the Ugly use cap and ball revolvers because that movie is a prequel to the other two, it takes place during the Civil War, before the Single Action Army was invented.
Just to point out that "The Good, the Bad, the Ugly" is set BEFORE the two Dollars films.
That's why there is no wrist brace.
It is at the END of TGTBTU that Clint aquires the serape & hat of The Man with No Name.
In the picture with him wearing a black cape with a revolver in his belt, that looks very much like a Schofield. A very popular pistol from that era.
Listen closely to tuco at the end of the good the bad and the ugly. Tuco isn’t saying hey blonde or blondie, he says “Edward, do you know what you are? Just a no good dirty SOB”
In the last one there I thought you were going to say nobody but nobody puts ketchup on a hot dog.
Nice reference.
You missed one that he briefly uses in Joe Kidd and that's the C96 Mauser Broom handle and in where eagles dare he did use a Walther P38
Bummed that you missed the Remington 1858 with cartridge conversion cylinders from Pale Rider.....
We never see Josey Wales go through the time consuming process of reloading his Colt Walkers. The film's stunt guns were built to take modern brass cartridges but a real Walker involves loose power, balls,grease and percussion caps.
and the loading levers most often dropped down after shooting off a round
Actually the colts in Outlaw were either 57 navy or 59 army, you just can’t see the engraving in the cylinders. The loading arm is not pointed but clips into the holder in the barrel. Also too small - they could be dragoons also
He did carry a 228 in the movie, in the line of fire but in that scene he’s pointing a Llama III-A at the guy not an sig 228.
In the man with no name series, his name was Edward manco
And in a for a few dollars more at the beginning the sheriff tells Lee van that his name is manco
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You showed it, but you didn't mention the Automag 180 in .44 Automag.
The Starr revolver is horrible to shoot and had a tendency to chain fire… a lot!
I've seen the SAA at the Autry Museum Of Western Heritage in Los Angeles and Ironically it's in .357 Magnum, not .45 Colt.
What, no mention of the Automag ?
Yep. That way they can say the Sig was his only auto pistol.
What about his Remington New Army in "Pale Rider"?
Major clickbait the guy doesn't know anything about firearms and the lazy ass programs that into a AI voice machine
As I look at my Automag and wonder why....
What no "Gauntlet" You missed the automag I actually held one in the 80s at a pew pew show.
he carried a round butt .357 in that
You showed pictures of it, but never said anything about the AMT 44 Automag
What about the 44 Automag? It was shown briefly. I owned one in the late 1970's and used it for hunting medium sized game like deer. Not a lot of recoil due to weight and springs. Keep your wrist stiff and your arm raises with the recoil. I could keep a can bouncing for four or five shots. Your arm drops down in a rhythm and lines up the next shot. RCBS sold a set of dies for making the brass but it took a lot of time. I had no trouble hitting a deer at 200 yds once I learned to elevation.
lol @10:00 swiss and wesson
It's not the M11911 it's THE M1 and his 1911. At least pretend to know what your talking about.
You don't know your pistols
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