I caught MOUNTAIN MEN

[misher]

It's never there when I look for it....Guess I'll go the e-bay route to get one.

 

[Fullstock58]

I have always like the the movie, but I'm not a stickler for HC, I could care less about HC as there are not that many movies about Mountain men. You need to watch the river battle, with the Flintlock, brian keith takes the touch hole flash right in the face, you know that had to smart some, slow it up and watch!

 

[redwing]

This was filmed on the pass near Jackson Hole. A friend of mine was an extra and a wrangler for the studio. He made my son a rifle scabbard while killing time on the set. The son is now a middle aged man still has it. :grin:

 

[Capt. M]

The rifle from the second half of the film was a Leman full-stock trade rifle, but it was made by Bill Ihm of Davey, Nebraska with a Douglas barrel and a Siler lock.

It belonged to western artist Jerry Crandall who was the technical director for the movie. He loaned it to C.H.

I traded a GRRW half-stock Hawken to Jerry for the Leman and a Northwest Trade gun in the early Spring of '82.

I still have it.

 

[S.Kenton]

Thats pretty cool..I often wondered what happened to all those movie props, clothing, BP rifles ect.
Can ya show us a picture of your rifle?
The two leading actors in that movie, Brian Keith and Charles Heston, made GREAT mountain men... In my opinion couldn't have picked better actors to play the part...the script however was a little cheesy. I still LOVE the movie!

 

[Capt. M]

I'll have to download the photos next week and then get the missus to show me how to post them.

It is in the "Book of Buckskinning" volume with the "Southwest Clothing" article.

 

[Capt. M]

C.H.'s Leman Trade Rifle from the second half of "The Mountain Men":

 

[Capt. M]

The photo was clear last night...I'm trying it again.

 

[jamesthomas]

Have you ever taken it out and shot it? And if so how does she shoot? BTW that is a beautiful rifle!!

 

[Capt. M]

Thanks. For many years it was my only rifle-I've taken all manner of game with it, competed in shooting contests and used it in living history demonstrations.
I originally traded for it because of its utility as a horse-back rifle. Not an hour after the trade the rifle and I were spetacularly bucked off a one-eyed mule into two different sagebrushes.
I'm starting to rekindle the old love for black powder and considering going back to it for next deer season.

 

[jamesthomas]

Watching Mountain Men AGAIN!! It's on ancore westerns, might be on all weekend. I've always wondered, just how do you live after going over a waterfall after going though a mile of rapids while an indian hacks at you with a tomahawk??

 

[Macon Due]

Anyway ya want.........cause ya obviously got a "charmed"life!........HaHaHa
Macon