Rifle in last of the mohicans

[barebackjack]

I was curious as to what style of rifle hawkeye carried? Or near to what style? I cant remember if the books mentioned what is was or what caliber it may have been?

I know it probably wasnt period correct, being hollywood and all, but it must have at least resembled some true style.

Thanks

Boone

 

If you are talking about the recent movie, the rifle was a fantasy piece that the director wanted built. Wrong style/wrong era. In the books, I don't recall Cooper dscribing the rifle in any detail, but you get the impression it was a longrifle--Cooper wrote when longrifles were still in vogue, so he did not have to "explain" them to his readers. Cooper has been criticized for lack of accuracy in his books (see the stinging critique Mark Twain once wrote--WoW!). The movie was little better.

 

[Goldhunter]

I may be wrong, but it looks like it has a Roman nose type butt stock, similiar to the Allentown style of gunsmiths.

 

yeah, roughly and of a period at least 40 years later than the movie takes place...but if you squint/or don't pay close attention to the rifle in the scenes, you just get an impression of "longrifle" in most scenes and it does not really detract from the film, which I did like...great visuals, great music and a good yarn very loosely set in a true historic 'story backdrop'. Cooper grew up in that country and loved it--and wrote LOTM in ~1826 if I recall--only 60 odd years after the events depicted (fall of Ft Wm Henry, etc).

 

[Brasilikilt]

A guy named Wayne Watson built the rifle for the movie
[url] http://www.mohicanpress.com/mo10015.html[/url]

This is the best I could come up with after doing a google search. If I remember correctly from when I read something about the gun a while back, it was .50 with the lock and iron furniture being left in the white.

It seems as though they aren't making rifles anymore :-( but hopefully it will give you a little something to go off of.

 

[DCF]

Wasn't the rifle called "Killdeer" and made for the film by Wayne Watson?

I really ought to get out more.....

 

[hawkeye1755]

Take a look
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