Brings back memories about another famous gun in another famous movie "Did he shoot five shots or six? I kinda lost count myself in all of this excitement, but this is the 44 magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world...."
The finest western movie I have seen and definitely one of the best sniper movies bar none. The legendary "Sharps" rifles have an extensive history as much as Barrett does today with extreme range shooting, The Second Battle Of Adobe Walls a buffalo rifleman was caught in a fight against some Native American "braves" and managed by autopsy by the US Army to hit and kill a "brave" off his horse just over 1500 yards with IRONSIGHTS, that ladies and gentlemen is the definition of marksmanship.
I addition to the battle the rifle used was a Sharps 45-120, the 45-120 is still made today but is not too popular. However this cartridge and rifle were looked at and helped design the Barrett Model 82A1 .50 Caliber Anti-Material rifle that we know today as the M107.
Quigley Down Under Rating: 2 thumbs up & 1 45-110 bullet each person who thinks this movie sucks.
look up the k13 swiss rife.the guy hits a large plate size target at 1000 yards.no shit. and he did it with iron sights too.best shooting ive ever seen.
so im pretty sure that this takes place before 1911 that being when the gun came out. so he probably didnt use the gun. the uniforms the soldiers had on were pre world war therefore no 1911.
Probably 1 of my top 20 films of all time, always makes me happy, maybe its the music, IDK but it is just a great adventure movies with action, even some comedy. If you Havnt seen it, i beleive its still on the watch instantly list on Netflix, or just get it from the net.
out in the real world you have to allow for elevation and windage which is what you saw him doing with the dust and by looking at the windvane. Sorry yougun in the real world it is a whole different world.
@flintstone9812 This is an easy one to agree with. A sharp shooter like him always had distance in his mind(maybe counting the fence posts or counting how long the horse travelled based on average distance). While a shot like he did would be extremely difficult it would not be impossible. Any other thoughts?
@laglagga Allow me to better explain. Halo, while possibly helpful in training reflexes cannot help you learn to judge distance, wind, and elevation in the real world. At the distance he was shooting, a slight wind can move a bullet 5 inches off the target. Gusting will make it worse. If the object is higher than where he stands, he has to raise the sights to compensate or the bullet will strike low.
That was the first thing I had to learn when my dad took me hunting. Windage, and elevation.
@laglagga LOL Halo also has it's own aiming system with aids. Snapping, friction, magnetism, auto-aim all set for each different gun. Lol, try getting out into the real world and taking distance/windage/elevation into account, all while also holding a yard and a half 15 pound rifle in the air and trying to control your breathing so you don't mess up the shot at the last second.
Halo, lol...next we'll have kids saying they can scale buildings because they do it in Assassins Creed all the time.
34" doesn't help?? Don't shoot "old timey" do you?? These guns "hang" well with the longer barrels!! The weight steadies them, and any movement is "amplified", so you see and can counter for it. Search Google for the "Creedmore" Matches... and see what these guys do, with guns like that one, at 1000 yds!!! You won't believe it! these old guns are AWESOME!
I had completely forgotten that Allen Rickman was in this flick. Both he and Tom Sellek are highly underused actors. Very talented men. Sellek was originally supposed to be Indiana Jones but had already signed for Magnum PI and couldn't do it.
On the tube somewhere is a man firing the very same rifle type at a silouete of a buffalo with its heart cout int a hanging gong. He hits it at one mile distance. I can barely see a FN buffalo at 1 mile.
Quigley is capable of much more.. of course he was making a point in that scene there ;) Heck if the horse had gone further they would have been over that ridge and it would have looked as durned purdy!
It always makes me chuckle when I watch O'Flynn's scene when the bucket was put down. "Bullshit". That kid has a lot to learn from Quigley. Too bad he got shot down in the Final Gunfight.
But that is hardly the most difficult shot, from the time the horse was galloping (at most 30mph = 14meters/sec) it could only have gone about 600m and on film it looks about that far too.
Frontier America of 1870's riflemen were expected to make shots like that quite often and many of then did in the Civil War 10 years earlier.
I think the apparently legendary Quigley is capable of more than that.
@dsclaiborne31 much much different, i fire a Marlin 94 Cowboy in 45 colt and that compared to a slow-moving squat 45 acp makes it hard to believe they share a name
@asfsdfgasdgfsdgt if your talking about Quigley then maybe he didnt use a magnum but he sure was a magnum once, back when he was on Magnum PI lol!!! XD
this was a great movie. I named my Border Collie male pup Sharps after the rifle. He is big and was loud just like the rifles. His daddy is Lee Enfield his mom British 303. Sister is Flintlock Musket...something to say being a gunsmiths wife and the daughter of one, your dogs get named uniquely. lol Great Movie. Love Tom Selleck.
na best true story was a man who shoot a native american on a full galp an all the see was the hores an he was smaller then the frunt sight an hit the native american the rest of the natives americans turn an ran they said if a white man can reach a kill that far they gave great respect to an was never attacked by any natives agen i don't know the mans name but they said if the hore was smaller then the frunt sight he was at lest way over 1,000 yards
Thats true! But the sharps rifle they were shooting were heavely modified.sights ,barrel, and rifling. Buy the way who won the first US national long range rifle match????? and at what range??
Both movies are great westerns ( kinda ) A shootist and a mountain man. The sharps rifle was a very well made weapon! A good shot for a 45-70 is 500 yds from a bench maybe 700 yds. 1000 yd shots were very rare if at all. Only in legend or movies are these shots made!
I too own one of them thar 1874 Sharps rifles in 45-70 and shooting at that range off hand would be hard, but not impossible! I would do it off some sort of rest at least, like the fence or something. alltough my father could do this off hand, he is a 2 time winner at the camp Perry Nats. in Ohio
Quigley was a good movie but I think Jeremiah Johnson from 1972 starring Robert Redford and Will Geer was better...and it was based on a real American hero "Liver-Eating" Johnson (c.1824 January 21, 1900) an American legend...R.I.P.
I own one them thar Quigleys but the accrucacy touted by film for off hand shooting is far fetched! The movie rifle is shooing a paper patched .45-3 1/4-500 cartridge at about 400 yards. Match shooters might do it from the prone but not off hand!
At 500 yards I got in trouble in the Marine Corps for putting three shots in the bullseye with my M-16, in the offhand position. CW-O3's do not like being laughed at in a shooting comp, let alone being Embarassed by an E-4, who they called a dumb air winger the week before.
The position is an issue, but a good shot will be a good shot.
This was supposed to be a man who made his living with a rifle and shot it everyday. He should have been able to make the shot.
this movie alone' has done more for 'black powder cartridge' sport than any other movie"s combined,.bit like hunting bows sales when' deliverance' hit the big screen..
I just ordered this same rilfe from the Shiloh Sharps company today. If anyone is thinking of getting one here is some info. I ordered it today 2-27-08 and it won't be ready for me to have in may hands until March 2010. Two year waiting list. At 18 months they start making your rifle and need the full payment. GREAT GUN. Worth the wait.
I recently bought a C Sharps, it took 7 months to get. The parts are milled from bar stock not castings. I'm a prototype fabricator and it seems like a better way to build a rifle.
that scene had so many smooth moments in it like when he picked that bucket up off th ground and jumped the fence. net to mention the shooting bit and alan rickman, who is such a good actor when he's playing a weak character like this you almost don't fancy him because he becomes weak like the character.
One hell off a shot! x3
Nightwishfan888 5 days ago
Yeah, now let's see you do it without cheating and taking 9 steps forward. ;-)
GridJumping 1 week ago
Love how the subtitles says Impossible...no I do believe he said "Bullshit".
oddersisadog 1 week ago
were there any Aussies in this movie?
nickyboy22071989 5 months ago
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110grain? today's have around 60
hitibiru 8 months ago
Brings back memories about another famous gun in another famous movie "Did he shoot five shots or six? I kinda lost count myself in all of this excitement, but this is the 44 magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world...."
TheRadioman1976 9 months ago
The finest western movie I have seen and definitely one of the best sniper movies bar none. The legendary "Sharps" rifles have an extensive history as much as Barrett does today with extreme range shooting, The Second Battle Of Adobe Walls a buffalo rifleman was caught in a fight against some Native American "braves" and managed by autopsy by the US Army to hit and kill a "brave" off his horse just over 1500 yards with IRONSIGHTS, that ladies and gentlemen is the definition of marksmanship.
Spartan536 9 months ago
I addition to the battle the rifle used was a Sharps 45-120, the 45-120 is still made today but is not too popular. However this cartridge and rifle were looked at and helped design the Barrett Model 82A1 .50 Caliber Anti-Material rifle that we know today as the M107.
Quigley Down Under Rating: 2 thumbs up & 1 45-110 bullet each person who thinks this movie sucks.
Spartan536 9 months ago
@Spartan536 Billy Dixon was his name
TheRogueJackass 5 months ago
look up the k13 swiss rife.the guy hits a large plate size target at 1000 yards.no shit. and he did it with iron sights too.best shooting ive ever seen.
thespaniard47 10 months ago
3:54 D'oh, jesus!
kazetehskylord 11 months ago
Steve Mcqueen was originally offered this role.He later did Tom Horn. It took15 years and Hollywood to go on strike to make this western.
stexwhisperer1 11 months ago
so im pretty sure that this takes place before 1911 that being when the gun came out. so he probably didnt use the gun. the uniforms the soldiers had on were pre world war therefore no 1911.
KingJW87 1 year ago
i didnt know borat was in this one
Sturmmann 1 year ago
When Men were men and their shoulders could handle 1200 grains of power in a bullet...lol
Love this movie.
DamnYourReallyUgly 1 year ago
@DamnYourReallyUgly
blackpowder tough....
we're still making marksmanship history today
these guys have little on our generation
Sturmmann 1 year ago
Laura San Giacomo has just about the finest tits made at the time.
schlusselmensch 1 year ago
I love the translation at 2:31 . Seriously?
MikeofWyoming 1 year ago 3
good movie.
NoPartyAffilliation 1 year ago
Probably 1 of my top 20 films of all time, always makes me happy, maybe its the music, IDK but it is just a great adventure movies with action, even some comedy. If you Havnt seen it, i beleive its still on the watch instantly list on Netflix, or just get it from the net.
eqgmrdbz 1 year ago
i like tom sellck in this charcter
MAAAH1581 1 year ago
2:32 "bull shit" translation: "!Imposible!" hahahaha
babysealsareyummy 1 year ago
Its not that far if you think about it. I do it in Halo all the time.
laglagga 1 year ago
@laglagga Ha Ha Ha, Halo??? Give me a break.
out in the real world you have to allow for elevation and windage which is what you saw him doing with the dust and by looking at the windvane. Sorry yougun in the real world it is a whole different world.
flintstone9812 1 year ago
@flintstone9812 This is an easy one to agree with. A sharp shooter like him always had distance in his mind(maybe counting the fence posts or counting how long the horse travelled based on average distance). While a shot like he did would be extremely difficult it would not be impossible. Any other thoughts?
darrylsh 1 year ago
@laglagga Allow me to better explain. Halo, while possibly helpful in training reflexes cannot help you learn to judge distance, wind, and elevation in the real world. At the distance he was shooting, a slight wind can move a bullet 5 inches off the target. Gusting will make it worse. If the object is higher than where he stands, he has to raise the sights to compensate or the bullet will strike low.
That was the first thing I had to learn when my dad took me hunting. Windage, and elevation.
flintstone9812 1 year ago
@laglagga LOL Halo also has it's own aiming system with aids. Snapping, friction, magnetism, auto-aim all set for each different gun. Lol, try getting out into the real world and taking distance/windage/elevation into account, all while also holding a yard and a half 15 pound rifle in the air and trying to control your breathing so you don't mess up the shot at the last second.
Halo, lol...next we'll have kids saying they can scale buildings because they do it in Assassins Creed all the time.
SkyCE9A 11 months ago
0:25 borat? talladega nights?
Sturmmann 1 year ago
I'm not sure I could see the bucket that far away, let alone hit it.
Course, I'm not 21 anymore.
This was a great story, well done by all and I watch it every so often when I want some good viewing.
Daggum, a 45-110. That is one hell of a cartridge.
One hell of a rifle.
One messed up bucket. Hah, hah!
flintstone9812 1 year ago
What a great movie.
msdiediedie 1 year ago
45-110 just the same caliber mine is :)
opiter 1 year ago
I like nachos
milkman52879 1 year ago
34" doesn't help?? Don't shoot "old timey" do you?? These guns "hang" well with the longer barrels!! The weight steadies them, and any movement is "amplified", so you see and can counter for it. Search Google for the "Creedmore" Matches... and see what these guys do, with guns like that one, at 1000 yds!!! You won't believe it! these old guns are AWESOME!
Hankster58 1 year ago
A standing free shot from about 400 yards away. Nice!
TheCoolProfessor 1 year ago
This flick is a helluva lotta FUN:). Sometimes it seems as though Quigley is the guy that LaBouef should have been in "True Grit:}}---
stevevandien 1 year ago 2
This was the video that first introduced me to Alan! Die Hard was next. Yes, I know Quigley was made AFTER Die Hard, but I viewed them out of order.
jbduenweg 2 years ago
From the standing position? I don't think so!
mmhansen2 2 years ago
@mmhansen2 yea a 34 inch barrel isnt going to help your steadyness, i still want a sharps
phil656565 1 year ago
I had completely forgotten that Allen Rickman was in this flick. Both he and Tom Sellek are highly underused actors. Very talented men. Sellek was originally supposed to be Indiana Jones but had already signed for Magnum PI and couldn't do it.
butch356 2 years ago
On the tube somewhere is a man firing the very same rifle type at a silouete of a buffalo with its heart cout int a hanging gong. He hits it at one mile distance. I can barely see a FN buffalo at 1 mile.
HOWFREERU 2 years ago
Quigley is capable of much more.. of course he was making a point in that scene there ;) Heck if the horse had gone further they would have been over that ridge and it would have looked as durned purdy!
maplemusketeer 2 years ago
It always makes me chuckle when I watch O'Flynn's scene when the bucket was put down. "Bullshit". That kid has a lot to learn from Quigley. Too bad he got shot down in the Final Gunfight.
1Morey 2 years ago
Reminds me of the movie "Vacation" with Chevy Chase...when he's pointing the BB Gun at John Candy..."This is a Magnum P.I.!"
hotFusionReaction 2 years ago 2
Alan Rickman is just so EVIL!
But that is hardly the most difficult shot, from the time the horse was galloping (at most 30mph = 14meters/sec) it could only have gone about 600m and on film it looks about that far too.
Frontier America of 1870's riflemen were expected to make shots like that quite often and many of then did in the Civil War 10 years earlier.
I think the apparently legendary Quigley is capable of more than that.
Treblaine 2 years ago
Well, maybe in Australia they thought it was extraordinary..;)
sparrowcrazy 2 years ago
1200 yards!!!!!!!!! I can barely make out my paper targets at 200 yards with iron sights.
stchman 2 years ago
No, he never used a magnum, it was always a .45 Colt 1911 because he played an ex-soldier
asfsdfgasdgfsdgt 2 years ago 10
45 acp colt 1911. 45 acp and 45 colt are two different rounds.
dsclaiborne31 1 year ago
@dsclaiborne31 much much different, i fire a Marlin 94 Cowboy in 45 colt and that compared to a slow-moving squat 45 acp makes it hard to believe they share a name
farmerboy245 1 year ago
@asfsdfgasdgfsdgt : No! there was and is no 1911 in 45 COLT! 1911 = (normaly) 45ACP it´s a Pistol, 45 Colt is a round fpr a Revolver!
Sixpack33 1 year ago
@asfsdfgasdgfsdgt if your talking about Quigley then maybe he didnt use a magnum but he sure was a magnum once, back when he was on Magnum PI lol!!! XD
punji73 8 months ago
@asfsdfgasdgfsdgt Navy Seal to be exact. : )
TheRogueJackass 5 months ago
@asfsdfgasdgfsdgt
Quigley was former cavarly wasnt he?
USMarineRifleman0311 5 months ago
I have a replica Sharp's rifle in my basement. Impressive looking weapon, and heavy as hell.
Flowbee79 2 years ago
Magnum P.I. using a gun other than his namesake? :-D
Jazzsteppa 2 years ago
Lol Quigley The Cowboy Assasin...
nirvanafterlife9 2 years ago
its not a 45/70 its is a 45/110 bigger more muzzle velocity= longer range.
DeOppressoLiber23b 2 years ago
this was a great movie. I named my Border Collie male pup Sharps after the rifle. He is big and was loud just like the rifles. His daddy is Lee Enfield his mom British 303. Sister is Flintlock Musket...something to say being a gunsmiths wife and the daughter of one, your dogs get named uniquely. lol Great Movie. Love Tom Selleck.
bcmom5 2 years ago
na best true story was a man who shoot a native american on a full galp an all the see was the hores an he was smaller then the frunt sight an hit the native american the rest of the natives americans turn an ran they said if a white man can reach a kill that far they gave great respect to an was never attacked by any natives agen i don't know the mans name but they said if the hore was smaller then the frunt sight he was at lest way over 1,000 yards
Oh861 3 years ago
You are thinking of Billy Dixon and the battle of Adobe Walls in the Texas Panhandle.
camelreg 2 years ago 2
Billy Dixon said more than once that shot was pure luck
brucestringbean 2 years ago
Thats true! But the sharps rifle they were shooting were heavely modified.sights ,barrel, and rifling. Buy the way who won the first US national long range rifle match????? and at what range??
HLCpromow 3 years ago
This is not only the best ever made but most likely the best EVER to be made. Too bad John Wayne didnt live to see this as he too would have agreed!
cheryljane 3 years ago
Both movies are great westerns ( kinda ) A shootist and a mountain man. The sharps rifle was a very well made weapon! A good shot for a 45-70 is 500 yds from a bench maybe 700 yds. 1000 yd shots were very rare if at all. Only in legend or movies are these shots made!
HLCpromow 3 years ago
The US National Long Range Rifle Match in the late 1800s went out to a thousand yards.
HackCausality 3 years ago
I too own one of them thar 1874 Sharps rifles in 45-70 and shooting at that range off hand would be hard, but not impossible! I would do it off some sort of rest at least, like the fence or something. alltough my father could do this off hand, he is a 2 time winner at the camp Perry Nats. in Ohio
jmkrusen1 3 years ago
best damn western movie ever
SephMcLoud 3 years ago 34
Quigley was a good movie but I think Jeremiah Johnson from 1972 starring Robert Redford and Will Geer was better...and it was based on a real American hero "Liver-Eating" Johnson (c.1824 January 21, 1900) an American legend...R.I.P.
jedirifleman 3 years ago
heck yeah dude
knifeman127 3 years ago
But if it takes place in Australia, should we call it an "under" instead of "western"? Still, it's one of my favorites.
starlionblue 2 years ago
@SephMcLoud
One of my favorites too. But since it takes place Down Under. Would it be considered a "southern" movie?
Gunbei2 1 year ago
I'd like to hit Cora's coyote :P
Great Movie
mrblink09 3 years ago
the chance of doing that freehand are unlickly but great moive
BrandonLeo3 3 years ago
I own one them thar Quigleys but the accrucacy touted by film for off hand shooting is far fetched! The movie rifle is shooing a paper patched .45-3 1/4-500 cartridge at about 400 yards. Match shooters might do it from the prone but not off hand!
PublicDisgrace2 3 years ago 3
At 500 yards I got in trouble in the Marine Corps for putting three shots in the bullseye with my M-16, in the offhand position. CW-O3's do not like being laughed at in a shooting comp, let alone being Embarassed by an E-4, who they called a dumb air winger the week before.
The position is an issue, but a good shot will be a good shot.
This was supposed to be a man who made his living with a rifle and shot it everyday. He should have been able to make the shot.
Hefferman1 2 years ago
@Hefferman1 dude you should of been a sniper thats awesome shooting.
thespaniard47 10 months ago
OOOOH SHIT!!! O_O Nice!! XD
ZeldaCoolTM 3 years ago
sucker probably kicks like Bruce Lee
gooyzit 3 years ago 3
shades of mike gibbs
davidwaters62 3 years ago
this movie alone' has done more for 'black powder cartridge' sport than any other movie"s combined,.bit like hunting bows sales when' deliverance' hit the big screen..
sheepsfoot2 3 years ago
That hole movie was the best western I've seen.
CameraGamer 3 years ago
A Western that's not a Western, but... great.
I'll never forget the scene when Selleck pull the stecker, a situation seen in few other films.
The flight time was right, for a paper patched bullet.
Go on Tom, shooters all over the world love you!
iacomastro 3 years ago
But it is a western because its set in western Australia.
Davobeff 3 years ago 2
filmed in Northern Territory actually. Near Alice Springs.
quintopia 3 years ago
love tom selleck in this scene.
very calm and cool while gettin the rifle ready to shoot.
mohanicus 3 years ago
wish they could make the movie heroes look like they could shoot for once...
Axbent 3 years ago
I agree, he is wobbling all over the place.
Gorbachev 3 years ago
i live a block away from the shiloh company....my father made the barrel of that gun for Tom Selic
bmxbrent25 4 years ago 2
I just ordered this same rilfe from the Shiloh Sharps company today. If anyone is thinking of getting one here is some info. I ordered it today 2-27-08 and it won't be ready for me to have in may hands until March 2010. Two year waiting list. At 18 months they start making your rifle and need the full payment. GREAT GUN. Worth the wait.
Jayson1464 4 years ago
I recently bought a C Sharps, it took 7 months to get. The parts are milled from bar stock not castings. I'm a prototype fabricator and it seems like a better way to build a rifle.
Jim
canaquin 3 years ago
Wow well 7 months is better than two years that's for sure. But I'm happy I ordered it. 581 days I think left. Ha Ha... Should be fun.
Jayson1464 3 years ago
one of the best parts of the movie
raepunzel1978 4 years ago
that scene had so many smooth moments in it like when he picked that bucket up off th ground and jumped the fence. net to mention the shooting bit and alan rickman, who is such a good actor when he's playing a weak character like this you almost don't fancy him because he becomes weak like the character.
goldenfilly 4 years ago
this is my second favorite western of all time. the first being lonesome dove. i love cora in this part though. i laugh every time.
loveblue89 4 years ago
okay that guy in the black clothing...was that Snape off of Harry Potter?
speedysweetheart 4 years ago
yep. thats alan rickman in his younger years.
loveblue89 4 years ago
Nice!
I'm a Quigley fan too.
I added it in my website tomsellecksilverbullet dot com.
quigleysilverbullet 4 years ago
DAMN!!!
Calinks 4 years ago
Cool, wenn er die Typen dann ALLE killt.
favoritner 4 years ago
quigley down under! Tom Selleck! I friggin love this movie so awesome
beejen 4 years ago
great movie !!!
Ogobogo 4 years ago
This is the best movie ever.
Gorbachev 4 years ago 2
Awesome
CaptainFluffyMcFluff 5 years ago