I guess they needed some Tannerite for those movies!
In slight defense, many of us have used dynamite as targets for many years.@Eutycus , I have to multi-quote here just to try to grasp the concept of your topic.
1. "We are discussing Western Movies on another forum"
2. "I seriously doubt"
3. "I was under the impression"
4. "powder sticks that Eastwood is using in some of his movies."
Do you guy's get that part yet?
Now here it is; @Eutycus ,?
How is our forum of interest in the use of traditional firearms and supported history,,
,, supposed to help you with defining Hollywood entertainment from reality?
Impact detonation of true BP is capable and real as proven by and in sadness of wartime history. Dynomite/TNT are not BP related nor is the discussion of explosives needed for or within the forums standards.
We are discussing Western Movies on another forum. Two of the John Wayne/ Dean Martin movies were mentioned. In "Rio Bravo" thrown dynamite is detonated by shooting it. That can't happen, it takes blasting caps. In the movie "The Sons of Katie Elder" a can of gunpowder is set off by a gunshot from John Wayne. Could that have happened?
I was at a gun show in Nebraska years ago and a farmer came in to sell a Winchester 32 special he said he found in a pig pen. It wasn't in too rough a shape. So I believe the folks who came before stashing guns like you mentioned.Interesting topic.
Interesting to hear from people here who dealt with such things.
I remember as a teenager going to an estate auction near Aladdin Wyoming,
They found an old case of what they were referring to as Dynamite in one of the buildings and the sheriff's deputy came out and wrapped some police line do not cross and then he had to stand there next to it all day to keep people out.
I remember crawling around in the rafters of the building looking for old guns because I had heard people say that people hid their guns up in the rafters of the buildings so that when they were out working someone wouldn't come by and steal their gun as that was about the only thing they had of value that could be carried off by thieves,
I remember people in my family talking about in the mid 1900 some of those old buildings on the abandoned ranches and homesteads had guns in them but they weren't interested in old guns and never took them.
Did not find a gun😕 but I did find a flask shaped glass whiskey bottle up there, I remember when I climbed down there was an old guy that lived down on the Belle fourche who went around the auctions buying old machinery that he would resell for scrap,
He was telling how when he was a teenager him and his friends would come to this ranch and while everybody was out working they would go around to the buildings, the graineries , machine sheds and barns and find where the old man had hidden his bottles of whiskey,
and they would drink his whiskey .
and then they would pee in the bottles and put them back in the hiding places.
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