Those are common and easy to spot in lots of the old movies and older TV shows. We even used them in the "George Washington" miniseries in the early 1980s for shots that were not closeups.. I call them "flintnots."If you look close most of the rifles are trapdoor Springfield with a non functioning frizzen stuck to the side of the lock plate. Still, they are fun to watch. Wouldn't have missed it as a kid.
I call them "flintnots."
I don't recall an explanation of what the TV show did with Jemima. In reality she got married and moved away. My guess was Jemima was older than Israel and she would overcast him. Maybe they didn't want that so she had to go. --- In reality Daniel and Rebecca had many children.
no it is SPANDIX!!Did men really wear tight pants like that back then? They almost look like leotards tucked into Daniels boots.
as kids what did we know? when a commerical came on my mother said that was so that they could go and PEE!.If you look close most of the rifles are trapdoor Springfield with a non functioning frizzen stuck to the side of the lock plate. Still, they are fun to watch. Wouldn't have missed it as a kid.
so the frizzen does not move / go foreword at firing, it is in situ all the time? thank you for the the photo's, especial lay the close up of the lock area, a first for me. what $ do these fetch & and are they safe for live fire or just blanks? toot.Yes, they did.......View attachment 83366View attachment 83367
I was told that there was an origional MIKE FINK that lived and he was a RIVER BOAT MAN? any one know ?I believe that was Fess Parker in this Davy Crockett incarnation...in the "River Pirates"View attachment 83469 segment when Jeff York played Mike Fink, "King of the River".
The frizzen and frizzen spring are a one-piece casting just screwed on the lock plate. The hammer and flint are also a one-piece casting. I've read that the locks were painted a brass like color as it showed up as a dull iron/steel color in the earlier black & white films. Some of the latter variants had a threaded fitting tapped into the right side of the barrel just ahead of where the 45/70 blank fitted. It had a small 1/8" or so steel tube that traveled from the fitting back to where the pan would be. This way, some of the smoke from the blank traveled down the little tube upon firing to give it some realistic pan smoke. It was all rather clever for the time.so the frizzen does not move / go foreword at firing, it is in situ all the time? thank you for the the photo's, especial lay the close up of the lock area, a first for me. what $ do these fetch & and are they safe for live fire or just blanks? toot.
Right you are Sir! I'm old with a faulty memory!I believe that was Fess Parker in this Davy Crockett incarnation...in the "River Pirates"View attachment 83469 segment when Jeff York played Mike Fink, "King of the River".
The episodes are sometimes sequential but don't really stick to any timeline. Some are pre AWI, while one episode (as previously mentioned) has Boone meeting Aaron Burr around 1805 in Boonesboro, (after he had left KY for MO).I asked earlier but never got a real answer. What was the supposed time period or setting of this show? It seems to hop around from 1777 to 1810 give or take a few years. Boone was borne in 1734 wasn't he?
One of my favorite scenes is in Season 2, Episode 20 (Daniel Boone walks to Lancaster to get a new rifle). The builder jockingly mocks Boone when Boone adds that in addition to a 44 inch long barrel, the rifle also HAS TO HAVE SIGHTS. The later on, Boone's protagonist (an innkeeper) almost ties Boone in a shooting contest (Boone has his new rifle while the innkeeper is shooting a smoothbore with no sights).
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