Custom mountain man arsenal
"There were two identical guns made for Leonardo DiCaprio to use in his portrayal of Hugh Glass in the Revenant.
Property master Dean Ellerson contacted Pennsylvania gun maker Ron Luckenbill of Recreating History. Together, they discussed what sort of gun Glass may have carried, and what could have made it so special that it was instantly recognizable and worth crawling 200 miles to reclaim.
Glass was supposedly born in Pennsylvania, and he may have been an apprentice to a local gun maker. They therefore decided on a unique Bucks County Schuler-styled rifle with both raised and incised carving, a side-opening brass patch box and brass furniture.
To make the Hugh Glass rifle, Ron used a 42-inch, 'B' weight, 50-caliber, swamped barrel by Colerain, a Chambers Golden Age flintlock paired with a Bucks County style, reverse-curl single trigger, as well as a brass Schuler-style furniture cast by Reeves Goehring.
The little brush attached to Glass's brass-linked neck chain is a 'pan brush' used to clean the powder pan on the flintlock rifle. He also carried a shooting pouch and powder horn. In his belt, on his left side, is his flintlock pistol, along with a butcher knife and tomahawk."
quotes: The Revenant...His Legend Lives On - By Lamar Underwood, American Frontiersman magazine.
