Author Topic: Barrel length Eastwood snake gun: For a Few Dollars More? (Read 1419 times)

Darto · « **on:** August 17, 2022, 08:29:49 PM »

1:50:30" into For A Few Dollars More, the man with no name (Eastwood) loads his Colt SAA revolver. Is this a 5-1/2" barrel model? Shorter? Longer?

He used a different snake revolver, not a SAA, in the later movie The Good , The Bad, and The Ugly.

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1:51:30" Colonel Mortimer (Van Clief)

Darto · « **Reply #1 on:** August 17, 2022, 08:43:05 PM »

Looks like the middle gun to me

Darto · « **Reply #2 on:** August 17, 2022, 09:20:50 PM »

the first picture enlarged

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Niederlander · « **Reply #3 on:** August 17, 2022, 10:02:20 PM »

It's a five and a half inch barrel. My personal least favorite, but that's me.

Abilene · « **Reply #4 on:** August 17, 2022, 11:32:14 PM »

Quote from: Niederlander on August 17, 2022, 10:02:20 PM

It's a five and a half inch barrel. My personal least favorite, but that's me.

Same here. My first SAA was a 5 1/2" 44 Spcl Colt, and I still love it. But every one since has been 4.75 or 7.5.

Darto · « **Reply #5 on:** August 18, 2022, 02:01:14 AM »

eeyah, I sort of like the 4-3/4 too, but was sorta wantin' to match the movie gun..., have to think 'er over.

Coffinmaker · « **Reply #6 on:** August 18, 2022, 08:33:21 AM »

Darto

Laying out the Folding Green for an SA you may well not like, just to match "The Movie Gun" is kinda silly. You have the option of having of sourcing the "Snake" after-market and putting it on anything you like.

Play Safe Out There

RRio · « **Reply #7 on:** October 24, 2022, 12:21:52 PM »

$39.95 here : https://www.amazon.com/Clint-Eastwood-Rattlesnake-Metal-Inlays/dp/B006R0A4GM

Abilene · « **Reply #8 on:** October 24, 2022, 12:44:17 PM »

Quote from: RRio on October 24, 2022, 12:21:52 PM

$39.95 here : https://www.amazon.com/Clint-Eastwood-Rattlesnake-Metal-Inlays/dp/B006R0A4GM

Those are probably Pewter. The snakes on the Cimarron guns are sterling (hence the cost) and the grips are inletted for them. The pewter snakes probably look about the same, but inletting the grips properly would be the hard part. The snakes could of course just be attached to the surface of the grip - it would look and feel different but that would be subjective.

Baltimore Ed · « **Reply #9 on:** October 24, 2022, 12:55:39 PM »

Tried a 5.5 in vaquero and found a 4.5 vaquero much faster to shoot. The 5.5 was eventually sent to Larry Horvath and he shortened to 2.5. Last year I tried a 7.5, used it in a Joeey Wales match and was my only miss. Sold it. All .45 colt caliber.
Off topic but there is a very good video showing the actual locales that were used in the Man With No Name films as they were in the films and how they look now [or when the video was shot]. A very enjoyable video. Afraid that I don’t have any other info.

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