15 Forgotten Wild West Guns Hollywood Always Gets Completely Wrong

15 Forgotten Wild West Guns Hollywood Always Gets Completely Wrong Almost everything you picture about the guns of the Old West is wrong. The movies sold you the blued-steel single-action drawn in a blink and fired from the hip; the record tells a quieter, deadlier, stranger story of black-powder smoke, fouled cylinders, and men who carried five rounds in a six-shooter because the sixth chamber sat under the hammer and would blow their own foot off. Resources Colt Single Action Army - Colt's Manufacturing Company LLC - https://www.colt.com/detail-page/sing... 150 Years Of The Colt Single Action Army - American Rifleman - https://www.americanrifleman.org/cont... Colt Model 1873 Single Action Army Revolver - NRA Museums - https://www.nramuseum.org/guns/the-ga... The Colt Single-Action Primer - American Handgunner - https://americanhandgunner.com/handgu... Guns that Won the West: 150th Anniversary of the Colt Single Action Army and the Winchester 1873 - Rock Island Auction Company - https://www.rockislandauction.com/ria... "Copyright Disclaimer" Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, education or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use.