[Viking2002]

TYVM. I own a Pietta 1851 Navy and two SAA cowboy shooters. These guns don't just suddenly raise an eyebrow and say to themselves, "I think I'll shoot that person in the gut this morning." The act of shooting someone, accidental or not, isn't a matter of random chance or poor training. It's deliberate, regardless. Like an old federal firearms instructor once taught me, if that weapon is out of it's leather, it's because you're drawing down on someone because you or a bystander are in imminent danger, your finger had better be on the trigger, and it better be there because you plan to pull it. You otherwise tuck in your shirt and pull up your zipper, stud.

[gundog]

Movies ain’t real life. No way in hell every actor ever handed a weapon can be expected to know the complete manual of arms for whatever may be handed them, much less its serviceability. Baldwin was handed a gun that was supposed to look loaded. No way looking into the front of the cylinder matters, as Schneider seems to suggest. I don’t think this was a deliberate act. I’d like to know how many live rounds were in the cylinder. I’ve heard accounts that the cylinder was spun after it was loaded. If that’s true, anyone loading a single live round would have no idea where it was in the order of rotation. I recall hearing that there had been other negligent discharges on the set, and that that was a factor in the union peeps walking off.

As I said earlier, we know how a mechanically sound SAA works. Now we have to find out if that’s what we’re dealing with.