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Still watching the DVD of 1940's 'Arizona'; Jean Arthur does a great acting job; I've posted about the actual BP guns used; characters have powder horns or flasks, no hokey cartridge belts as it's 1860! Arthur's character gives her fiance, a recent Union vet, (Wm Holden) a Henry rifle, a real actual one, as no repros were made in 1940; it's minty! She also hands him a box with pre-loaded charger tubes, to "speed load" into the rifle, and an additional box of bulk ctgs. He's amazed that it can shoot 16 rounds without re-loading. The sets are still used today as Old Tucson. Arthur's shotgun is a hammer percussion; You don't see much reloading, I'll admit, but the extras are real local Natives and the Indians are the real deal; imagine Arizona in 1940 and the availability of real 19th C. guns, not props or repros.
