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Why do the people in the (old) westerns, 50s-60's
Grasshopper
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when walking in the desert, mountains ect. throw away their canteens when they are empty? Been watching the 50s westerns and not one time do they keep them. Plus they never pick up someone's gun when they shoot them , just ride off? Strange it is.
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What percentage of throw away extras get gut shot and are able to commit suicide rather then suffer the Dante's inferno meets book of job meets revelations ground hot day horror that in connected with being gut shot - and every one of them wants a drink of water...
Bad memes and bad movies.
Mike
Best I can find , Matt got shot a total of 56 times of which I think the left shoulder was a favorite target . He also shot /wounded/killed around 407 folks over the years . Winningest gunfighter in history !
Deep breaths. They are just movies.
Deep breaths.
In, out. In, out.
Well maybe one time a glass of milk or a sasparilla or a grape knee high - with of course poor responses from such tap pullers and shot pourers - you owe me $5 for the who're and $5 for the whiskey...
Riders of the purple sage and wearers of the purple weal (who was that masked man???)
Mike
My latest, was watching "Where Eagles Dare."
Clint Eastwood was dispatching German Soldiers left and right with his Supressed firearm.
Later in the movie, when it became critical, he was sneaking up on a German Radio Operator with a Knife. (WTH?) After the German heard him and sounded the alarm, Richard Burton shot him from across the room with the same suppressed firearm.
Okay...............................yeah, that makes sense.
Some of them old Winchesters and Henrys would still shoot straight for 300 yards after being thrown into rocks and dirt. Some of them lead bullets really make a loud ricochet sound after hitting wood and them 1 inch thick rotten boards will stop a bullet fast. Lots of Indains (redskins) got shot from their horses but no horses ever got hit with a bullet.
Looks kinda like Biden will be asking for my old rusty guns and canteens soon if things don't change. (the guns and canteens were empty when I found them, did not find any saddles)they always carried their saddles with them until death.
If he wants my other guns I'll give them my bullets first. (Matt had the right idea)
They hung horse stealers in them days. (method of transportation to get to work) Why don't they hang car thieves now days?
a pistol can shoot some one a 100 yards off while both are on horseback on a full run but a rifle 20 feet away and they miss
and some how the other fellow always knows when his foe is out of bullets by hearing the gun hammer fall no matter the distance . then the gun is always throw at them in a last ditch effort .
and like early versions of the a team and sheet metal LOL any piece of wood was bullet proof unless it was more dramatic to see holes punching thru the wall but never hit any one .
I truly like the westerns and even but I also know just enjoy the show don't try and make any of the gun battles fit into real life
no matter how good some one is with so many shooting at them seems like dozens in some shows a stray or lucky shot is going to get them
Those empty canteens are heavy out in the desert. Also the empty canteens are mockery of what used to contain only to remind and play head games.
"Good Guys" don't pick from the dead. Like Samurai movies (A.K.A. Japanese Westerns) only low life scums go through the dead.
Only thing holding Matt Dillon's shoulder (I reckon it's burger) is the shirt or all the remnants of shirts in the wound.
As for Steve McQueen's "Wanted: Dead Or Alive" lugging around that heavy belt full of .45-70. He's looking for the day he gets back the rifle for those cartridges some low life took from him.
I thought The Rifleman's rifle had that screw that touched off the trigger as the loop slammed home.
Still love all those westerns, really do. Todays "movies" have all special effects, LOUD noise and just to me not worth the time and money, plus I am still boycotting Hooly-weird people.
Matt Dillion usually suggested to wrap the body in a blanket before burying.
Matt sure dug a lot of graves even while horseback. Never did see him carrying his portable shovel on horseback, although some were just covered with rocks and no dirt.
Them old westerns are a lot more interesting than the movies today.
and rarely sweat.