I was watching the movie the mountain men again and the pistol that Tyler used had an odd shaped bore kind of oblong. I have never seen one like it, is it just a movie prop made that way so that you couldn't load it and shoot a rb out of it or was there bores shaped like that back then?
Pistol question
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I have never heard of an oblong bore in a muzzleloader but that doesn't mean they may not have existed.
A Civil War rifle (Whitworth???) used a hexagonal bullet and there were some European shotguns that had oblong bores that inparted a spin to a slug. I am not sure of the name, something like paradox bores.
A Civil War rifle (Whitworth???) used a hexagonal bullet and there were some European shotguns that had oblong bores that inparted a spin to a slug. I am not sure of the name, something like paradox bores.
It's just the camera angle causing it to look oblong. Or at least i think that is what we figured out the last time this came up. :grin:
One of the best movies.
Crow i reckon'. Got any bacci?
An old pal of mine was a horse wrangler on the set of this movie. It was filmed up on the Pass near Jackson Hole. He said the guns were rubber molded copies. The live weapons were used for some shooting. They were loaded handed to the actor and taken back after each shot. The shots that were taken of guns when facing a camera crew were fakes. So you were just looking at a poor molding. An't Hollywierd great?
