A classic!

[Mr. 16 gauge]

Tomorrow (12/12) the movie "Jeremiah Johnson" will be on either AMC or TCM channel (cable).......this movie is one of the major reasons I became interested in traditional muzzleloading, so I plan on starting a fire in the fireplace using flint & steel, wrapping myself up in my buffalo robe, plopping my arse on the couch with a bowl of popcorn and watching one of the greatest movies of all time (despite what my wife and daughter think!)

Just given ya'll a heads up........

watch yer topknot!

[buckhunter]

Its a awesome movie. I cannot immagine living a life like that. No central AC, heat, stove, storm door and windows, and mostly a Big Screen TV. I don't have to toughness to live like that except for about two weeks.

[Adam Helmer]

Mr. 16 gauge,

I will watch the movie, again. There are a few subtle things to watch for: First, he gets a .36 or .40 Hawken (?) early on and Redford says, "Well at least it is a Hawken." Later he gets a .50 Hawken off a frozen corpse.

When Redford uses his horse for a shield to shoot an elk, watch him use a powder horn to prime a PERCUSSION rifle. I know, it will make no difference to the untrained eye. LOL.

Adam

[Mr. 16 gauge]

First, he gets a .36 or .40 Hawken (?) early on and Redford says, "Well at least it is a Hawken." Later he gets a .50 Hawken off a frozen corpse.

Hello Adam....right you are! The narrator in the beginning says "He settled for a .30, but damn....it was a genuine Hawken!"

I don't even think the Hawken brothers made a .30 cal rifle.....this has been bandied about on other websites, and the best explanation I have heard is that it was a typo in the script that wasn't caught.
I'll have to watch the elk hunt scene again for the priming the caplock with a powder horn.
There is also a scene somewhere in the movie where he gets two shots out of the gun w/o reloading.....don't remember where it is, though.

I know, it will make no difference to the untrained eye. LOL.

Nope....no difference to the 'untrained' eye, but it's fun for folks such as ourselves to find stuff like that.....like when lugers turn into P-38s and then back again in WWII movies. Just gotta remember that it's for entertainment and not a historical record, that's all!

[Joe Boleo]

I will be watching it. Take care
Joe

[wrenchman]

can you skin a grizz

[Mr. 16 gauge]

can you skin a grizz

"I can skin most anything"

"Sure are cocky for a starvin' pilgrim"