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Was Josh Randall’s Wanted: Dead or Alive ”Mare’s Leg” Winchester based on a real Old West Gun?

by | Mar 13, 2018 | Ask the Marshall, Departments

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Was Josh Randall’s Wanted: Dead or Alive ”Mare’s Leg” Winchester based on a real Old West gun? Glen Banse Brick Township, New Jersey “Mare’s Leg” was conceived by the show’s writers and by Producer John Robinson, but the firearm as portrayed didn’t exist—it had to be created for CBS’s Wanted: Dead or Alive. Winchester did make the Model 1892 carried by Steve McQueen’s character, Josh Randall, but it was transformed by Kenny “Von Dutch” Howard, a recluse gunsmith l


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