Rifleman - How many Shots Part 2

[gosoku2]

Original opening he shoots right handed. Here he is shooting left handed. If you watch the series, he does the same thing, sometimes left sometimes right. He was naturally left handed though.

[BWNurse1]

I think it is so cool that he can shoot either hand. I wonder if they did this on purpose or were they really not aware of it?

[jmweed1861]

He is carring an 1873 Winchester. It does hold 12 rounds. I know, I just went out shooting last weekend and used an original. I have one based of the gun used in the rifleman, where the is a rod I built into the round coking lever that puses the trigger to fire the gun as you cock it. You have to be able to make this yourself. No gun was ever made like that for real.

JMWeed Master Gunsmith

[devroshart]

@jmweed1861 It's an1892 Winchester 44/40.  Google Rifleman rifle and you'll see.

[Steve52344]

@jmweed1861 It's a Model 1892 Winchester Saddle Ring Carbine. I had one. The tube holds 11 rounds of 44-40. But if you have a round already chambered you can get 12 out of it. However, you'd have to fire that first round by pulling the trigger with your finger or the lever action would simply eject it unfired. Of course the loop lever with trigger trip included was never made by Winchester.

[Kazyman]

@jmweed1861 Well, I started off with the wrong answer (10) but never knew that about the rifle. Very cool that you made one! The Rifleman was & still is, in my opinion the best show there ever was. Thanks for the informative post & keep enjoying that rifle!!

[nancyhoralia]

Don't talk shit about the Rifle Man.He was the shit!

[mary32724]

show was set around 1881. So, explain how he got a 1892 rifle.

In at least one episode, Mark says that his "pa" built the rifle.

[profharp]

Why didn't the gun go off when Lucas first swing-cocked it??

[devroshart]

For sake of looking cool, he must have had loaded a dud blank so it wouldn't fire.

[TheNewRiflemanBob]

Why couldn't Lucas be at the alamo :(

[skirts365]

@TheNewRiflemanBob Show was set after the Civil War---Alamo was in 1836, possibly when the character would have been born. Sam Houston took care of what happened at Goliad and the Alamo.

[TheNewRiflemanBob]

@skirts365 I knew that dude. I was just saying something funny.

[TheSV3]

@skirts365 not only that, but the rifle mostly likely would have been a muzzle-loader as well in 1836. Sam Houston did take care of what happened at the Alamo & Goliad at the Battle of San Jacinto. Polk & Zachary Taylor would end it once and for all with Santa Anna in the Mexican War later.

[satweavers]

Did a gunsmith custom build that gun with the hoop on it? He could have modified the mag, too.

[worseto]

Who gives a shit but it is still funny.

[GJProeller]

In the beginning Lucas cocks the rifle ... putting a shell in the rifle ... then prior to firing he cocks the rifle again ... and ejects the "good shell" from the previous cocking - a bad move for a good gunman as he should have fired first then gor to "auto" ... therefore the tubular magazine must have held 13 rounds if he emptied the magazine ... which again a good gunman would/should not do ... always leave one for "need"

[scaledoctor]

@GJProeller If you stop and think about, in order to cock the gun in the very beginning without it automatically firing, the little device on the cocking lever that presses down on the trigger had to be unscrewed (disengaged) so it did not make contact with the trigger. Yet a nanosecond later he is rapid firing 12 shots with the cocking lever automatically making contact with the trigger. Since this little device has to be screwed in or out to trip the trigger... when did he do that?

[imtinsbrother]

Has anyone considered the following...

1: Blank cartridges were being used for filming.

2: Blanks do not have bullets and are thus shorter than the original cartridge.

3: The Winchester uses a tubular magazine, you know bullets end to end.

4: Thus twelve 12 blanks would fit into a magazine designed for 11 cartridges.

5: Yawn.

[gabbo420]

@imtinsbrother

Has anyone considered the following...

1. That the sounds of the shots were dubbed in later

2. Yawn

[insulatehell]

@imtinsbrother No quite true. What was used were commonly referred to as 5 in 1 blanks, in an actual 1892 Winchester. The caliber was 44.40. The blank cartridges are the exact same size as real bullets (not shorter). The only difference other than not firing a lead bullet nose, is that they are loaded at approximately 1/4 of the powder the actual real round would have. Chamber one round, and then reload the magazine with 11 rounds.....

[SoloPilot6]

@imtinsbrother Actually, the 5 in 1 blanks used in WhollyOdd are the same length as a pistol cartridge, so that they will feed in repeaters.

[quiettman11]

YES IT sure does a great job and on sight... with no cut..."12 shots fired"! I HAVE A SET OF the show/ on one disk was "interview" CHUCK CONNORS AND THE./ I was shocked,

QUESTION"HOW MANY SHOT"S DID THE RIFLE SHOOT" I almost fell over/ He said they had 2 rifles and one only used in saddle/ Chuck was very knowedgable said that rifle fired 8 bullets/the rest was "all camera work", REASON oddly I thought "To WORK WITH THEME TIMING!! ARNOLD PALMER HAS ONE/ I didn't know the second person's name!!