TV Trivia: What did they carry?

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Way too cool... :cool:
I think the show was "Wanted, Dead or Alive".
The star was somebody like Steve McQueen. It was about a bounty hunter who carried a sawed-off Winchester lever action rifle in a holster on his hip. I was too young to remember much about the show but I can still picture the gun.
Anybody know the details of the show and gun ?
 
Isn't wanted dead or alive the Rutger Hauger (sp) movie? He is a bounty hunter and at the end he puts that grenade in (I think it was Gene Simmons) the bg's mouth. Then the famous line: F**K the bonus. And he pulls the pin and walks away.
 
Magnum definately carried a .45 occasionally he packed it in an old US GI holster. He also carried a Walther PPK stainless in an ankle holster once in a while. Sorry I really like Magnum PI.
 
Yancy Derringer was a four barreled Sharps guy. His native american friend was cool
with the knife in his hair and doubled barreled shotgun under his blanket.

Yancy had a sword cane to go along with 5
Sharps - each sleeve, each vest pocket and hat.

Paladin carried a double barreled Remington
behind his belt buckle
 
The A-Team used Ruger AC556 rifles. Factory folding stock, full-auto, flash hider, bayonet lug -- all the features Bill Ruger doesn't trust civilians to own (now, for three convicted federal fugitives, that's a different story). :)

IIRC, Hannibal used a S&W automatic. There was one episode when he mentioned to a BG that he was pointing a "7 shot 9mm semi-automatic" at a certain portion of the BG's anatomy. His gun was a stainless double-action single-stack semi-auto. I don't know the exact model number.

Face always preferred revolvers, usually worn in a shoulder holster. He may or may not have been using a Galco Miami Classic.

Murdock seemed to prefer the good old Browning Hi-Power.

BA never really used guns. He just threw people. :)

Justin

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late of Kennett Square, Pennsylvania
 
swampgator is indeed correct on his observation of Magnum's .45. The magazine used in the opening shot is a 9mm or 38 super mag, Not a .45 mag. Note the "ridge" that runs lengthwise along the mag.
 
Airwolf's pilot was Stringfellow Hawk, otherwise known as Jean Michael Vincent, it was the only helicopter able to break the laws of physics by flying at speeds greater than Mach 1, the vibrations this caused did admittedly cause Dominic Santini's (Ernest Borgnine) capacious gut to wobble uncontrollably.

Now that Starsky gun, hmmm, very difficult, we have cable re-runs here and I have been using the still function on my VCR to attempt an ID. I see a DA trigger, so no 1911's, it also doesn't look like a Browning HP, soem kind of early S&W blued 9mm, but I'll keep looking for a good picture, after all he used it often enough.

How about Third Watch, I see a P226 Nickel over Blue in .40 S&W (mmmmmm nice), Glock 17 and a Smith Mod 10 for the older street cop, who unloads his "regular rounds" (158 gr LRN's ??)for "special rounds" (158 gr +P LSWCHP's ??) when he knows a shooting is imminent, very weird.

Mike H
 
Animal and Andrewh --

See JimV's post above. As he notes, Josh Randall carried a Winchester 92 in .44-40, although the ammo on his belt was .30-30, which the show's producers apparently thought looked cooler. And in the Rutger Hauer movie that carries the same name as the Steve McQueen TV show, Hauer's character is supposed to be the great-grandson of the Steve McQueen character.
 
I'll have to set the old VCR tomorrow when Magnum comes on A&E at 1100 and stop-frame the opening sequence to get a good look at that handgun.
 
Gunsmith friend who visited the big weapons dealer (can't remember the name tonight) who supplies all the firearms for movies. He told me all the "45 Government Models" you see fired in films are actually 38 Supers. The blank firing system they use (some sort of a plugged barrel to creat back pressure) requires 38 Super blanks to generate enough pressure to realistically cycle the slide.

I always found that bit of info interesting and though I would pass it along.

Dave T
 
David R : Thanks for the info. Never knew there was a movie. :)
Also thanks for confirming / describing show. As I said, I can barely remember it and now I might try to get my paws on some tapes (if available).
 
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