[ClearCase_guy]

10. Western heroes NEVER have to reload.

There's a great clip on Youtube -- someone has spliced together scenes from "The Rifleman" with Chuck Connors in which our hero walks down the street and shoots his rifle about 60 times, killing dozens of people. Then he calmly starts to reload.

[fredhead]

If you watch the opening of “The Rifleman,” you can note how he fires 12 rounds from the rifle (I've counted them), spins the rifle around, shifts it to his other hand, reaches into his shirt pocket, pulls out ONE bullet and loads it into the rifle. Then he's good to go.

Must be ‘rabbit bullets’, they multiply.

The other one from the westerns is the guy “fanning” his pistol and actually hitting what he's shooting at. If you're holding the trigger down and pulling back and releasing the hammer with your other hand, you have NO ACCURACY!! The same with Lucas McCain's rifle. The action of levering and firing that rifle from the hip would shift the barrel all over the place.

But it's just a movie (or TV show), it ain't real.

[LS]

MAD magazine parodied "The Rifleman" one time and it was hilarious. Lucas McCain is telling his son about how he's a peace loving man, then the mail rider comes up, and McCain blasts him out of the saddle.

"He was distrubin' my peace."