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Hollywood’s Six-gun Fakery

by | Jan 9, 2019 | Departments, Shooting from the Hip

This Iver Johnson Peacemaker clone was used in several Westerns and has the cast metal, ersatz percussion-style, nonfunctional loading lever assembly on it. A careful look reveals a slight gap between the lever assembly and the gun’s frame, however the films using the faked six-guns were meant to be shown only once and not scrutinized as carefully with freeze-framing and other high-tech means used by firearms buffs nowadays. —


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