Drop your gun!

[Unshaven2897]

Cowboy/western movies, bwahhh-hahh. When ordered to drop your guns, most of the time the dropped guns were into dirt/sand/grime or thrown clear off and away. Not to mention sand, dirt, clogged barrel, etc.

I bust my gut seeing those scenes. Those revolvers and rifles were worth their weight in something.... There was no dollar store for guns.

Any stories?

 

[Alan]

Those scenes crack me up too. One tumble in sand and half those guns would seize up. I cringe imagining the armorer afterward, swearing quietly while cleaning priceless iron by hand alone.

 

[BearBio]

Those scenes crack me up too. One tumble in sand and half those guns would seize up. I cringe imagining the armorer afterward, swearing quietly while cleaning priceless iron by hand alone.

Except maybe a 1911 Colt!

 

[Alan]

Except maybe a 1911 Colt!

Ha! Fair point, those old Colts would probably still run after a sand bath. Browning really did build them with a little frontier stubbornness baked in.

 

[BearBio]

Ha! Fair point, those old Colts would probably still run after a sand bath. Browning really did build them with a little frontier stubbornness baked in.

Mine in the Army sounded like a can of spray paint if you rattled it!

 

[Unshaven2897]

Mine in the Army sounded like a can of spray paint if you rattled it!

That's what mine sounds like.