Hell on Wheels , cap and ball action galore

[Stantheman86]

If you ignore the pretty much blatently historically incorrect use of .44 Brass Frame Piettas all over this show, there are tons of well done shootouts with cap and ballers, and in case anyone hasn't seen it , it's worth watching. It's old enough where the boxed set is probably 10 or 20 bucks.

Bohannon starts the show with the correct .36 Griswold & Gunnison then for no explainable reason starts carrying a brass frame 1860 Army "fantasy gun" but somehow, it works and it's cool. He then for whatever reason switches to an 1858 Remington and does Pale Rider-esque cylinder swaps during gun fights.

Every "bad guy" seems to carry a brass frame .44 Navy as if they just went to a Cabelas and cleaned them out of Brassers for prop guns. However, I think it's almost better this way, it gives the show a Spaghetti Western feel with all the fake guns and Bohannon's sidekick carrying a Colt Open Top cartridge gun 5 years too early but whatever.

 

[Omahkapi'si]

My son was an extra on the show. Filmed in Alberta.

 

[TDM]

I’d love to watch it. But here at the camp I’m limited to what my outside HD antenna picks up and DVDs.

 

[hawkenhunter50]

I’d love to watch it. But here at the camp I’m limited to what my outside HD antenna picks up and DVDs.

Not a bad problem to have there Sir!!

 

[Eutycus]

I was gonna send pictures of the actor that played Bohannon, Anson Mount, and of Gen. Forrest. But I haven't completely figured out my new phone yet. We had a discussion on another forum about which actor could portray General Nathan Forrest.Alot of people agreed Anson Mount could have pulled it off and quite easily I might add.

 

[Hawk54]

Think about how many of those repro pistols have been destroyed on movie sets dating back to the sixties.

 

[TDM]

Not a bad problem to have there Sir!!

I agree, I wouldn’t watch network TV if you paid me. And I get a channel out of Vicksburg called Grit, plays 24/7 westerns and another called DEFY that plays Swamp People all day on Mondays, American Pickers all day on Wednesdays, and Forged in Fire all day on Fridays. Don’t need much more than that.

 

[Eutycus]

 

[Eutycus]

 

[TDM]

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A Man’s Man.

 

[Stantheman86]

Think about how many of those repro pistols have been destroyed on movie sets dating back to the sixties.

Probably lots , I'd guess after the Prop Master put the wear on them, they got shot with blanks and probably not cleaned and dropped on the ground dozens of times. They probably discarded or destroyed them , or they're sitting in boxes full of other props quietly rusting away somewhere

 

[Stantheman86]

I was gonna send pictures of the actor that played Bohannon, Anson Mount, and of Gen. Forrest. But I haven't completely figured out my new phone yet. We had a discussion on another forum about which actor could portray General Nathan Forrest.Alot of people agreed Anson Mount could have pulled it off and quite easily I might add.

He looks just like him plus he's a good actor

 

[Texas Gil]

Wow they look like the same person

 

[Stantheman86]

Unfortunately I don't think we'll see any movies featuring Confederates , with today's cancel culture. Given that I was at a hobby shop recently and the plastic Civil War soldiers had the Confederates with a blank flag

I feel like Hell on Wheels snuck in , ending in 2016 , just before things got too "woke" because they had some content and verbiage that would probably cause drama today.

And even at that you can see the "feel good" stuff that never would have happened being worked in

 

[Eutycus]

Unfortunately I don't think we'll see any movies featuring Confederates , with today's cancel culture. Given that I was at a hobby shop recently and the plastic Civil War soldiers had the Confederates with a blank flag

I feel like Hell on Wheels snuck in , ending in 2016 , just before things got too "woke" because they had some content and verbiage that would probably cause drama today.

And even at that you can see the "feel good" stuff that never would have happened being worked in

Unfortunately I feel you are right. I suppose a movie could be made depicting how "mean" Forrest was. He was not only a Confederate General (one of the best) but a slave trader and Grand Wizard as well. The wokes hate Forrest with a passion and would love to "propagandize" him.

 

[Flint Striker]

Hell on Wheels is available for free on Roku if you have one of their TV’s. It was obvious fiction, but still pretty good. One thing that bothered me a little was the fake massive recoil in some scenes.

 

[Stantheman86]

Hell on Wheels is available for free on Roku if you have one of their TV’s. It was obvious fiction, but still pretty good. One thing that bothered me a little was the fake massive recoil in some scenes.

I got the DVD boxed set for I think 20 bucks at an FYE store

They say the actors live fired the guns and learned how they recoil , so they could "act" the blank recoil and they overdid it sometimes

 

[Stantheman86]

Unfortunately I feel you are right. I suppose a movie could be made depicting how "mean" Forrest was. He was not only a Confederate General (one of the best) but a slave trader and Grand Wizard as well. The wokes hate Forrest with a passion and would love to "propagandize" him.

It would be some complete anti-CSA woke manure making Gen Forrest look like a monster and trying to make a fool out of him

 

[Eutycus]

It would be some complete anti-CSA woke manure making Gen Forrest look like a monster and trying to make a fool out of him

Wholeheartedly agree. Some one once said "Forrest never attended West Point but ran circles around those that did".

 

[TDM]

Wholeheartedly agree. Some one once said "Forrest never attended West Point but ran circles around those that did".

I’ve studied Gen. Forrest. Had he been allowed a free hand the outcome of the war could have well been different. The prejudice of both the north and South against non West Point graduates was a mistake that cost the South dearly. J. Davis finally admitted towards the end that he had been wrong to deny Forrest a Division Command. All thanks to the manure that the idiot Gen. B. Bragg was feeding Davis. Forrest was a true anachronism, and by the time of his death was almost totally different from his years as a warrior.