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Funny how Davy could stack them round balls and they looked untouched. (LOL). I loved that movie scene when I was kid.
Larry
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Remember this Davy Crockett movie scene?
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That was a definite feel good few minutes.
That was a neat trick. It must have been some awful hard lead. Not even a scratch from knife blade. Did they have wheel weights back then?
Still pretty special.
Beat me to it.
Back then men were tougher, women were smarter, dogs could talk, and lead was much harder. That's why the MM guys always say you can't kill a deer today with a round ball I guess...
By the way, thanks for posting. One of my all time favorites. When I was a kid I thought it was cool that, when they show the map, my hometown was on there. Good old Lawrenceburg, TN. Thought we were famous.
A great boyhood memory, but watching now there is so much wrong from the rifles having no recoil, to loading from the horn, to the lead balls stacked in the cardboard target, and jee whiz the coon skin hats look mighty warm for that environment.
I do remember as a kid wondering why the targets weren't round / circular "bulls eyes", was that shape/style a thing back then ?
I do remember as a kid wondering why the targets weren't round / circular "bulls eyes", was that shape/style a thing back then ?
The turkey shoot in the movie Seargent York is realy good with Gary Cooper.
They have a shoot like the DC shoot in the Hawkeye tv series as well, very similar but it ends with shooting two tossed potatoes into the air and using two different rifles to get them both in the air, Hawkeye won of course.
They have a shoot like the DC shoot in the Hawkeye tv series as well, very similar but it ends with shooting two tossed potatoes into the air and using two different rifles to get them both in the air, Hawkeye won of course.
Shooting starts about 16 minues into the ep.
aussie pete
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Ah. A trip back in time. Thanks for posting the snippet, Larry! Very enjoyable.
Pete
In one of those shooting contests, Davy's friend, slipped the second ball into the target as he was digging the balls out with his knife.
Big Foot has one of them Hollywood Tuned locks, 
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Looks like he changed coonskin caps between the cabin and the shooting range.
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Guess that's where we got the term "hardball"
Fitzhugh Williams
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Like how he loads from the horn. Saves time. I will have to try that at the range today.
Things look a lot different in color.
BEP
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Have to keep in mind it was meant to be entertainment, not a documentary. I remember Fess Parker saying that he and Mike Mazurki, the actor portraying Bigfoot Mason, were both big guys and the stuntman Disney had hired for the film was a lot smaller. As a result Fess and Mike had to do a lot of their own stunts and got pretty well beat up in the process.
As a five year old, the Davy Crockett craze that took over the country was the smoldering ember that became the spark that started my love for muzzleloading. I really don't care just how inaccurate those films were, I enjoyed them back then and still do today when I feel that need for a touch of nostalgia.
As a five year old, the Davy Crockett craze that took over the country was the smoldering ember that became the spark that started my love for muzzleloading. I really don't care just how inaccurate those films were, I enjoyed them back then and still do today when I feel that need for a touch of nostalgia.
