Wild Bunch

So I mentioned the Wild Bunch, a Sam Peckinpah movie, in a recent post.  Thing is, I hadn't seen that movie.  So I wanted to correct it.

Manly men doing manly things with other men.  In other words, a Peckinpah movie.   You gotta wait until John Carpenter's Thing to do as well.

But the main thing was to watch it with my gun-blogger eyes.  See where a nit picker might get disappointed with the gun content!

Yup, 1903A3 rifles in circa 1915.  Boo!  (the peep sight visible in a closeup gives it away) Also, the trash in the movie have 03s.  (Not all the 03s were A1s tho.)   How many surplus stores were unloading those rifles, then? 

They made a point by having the German arms expert character note that the 1911s the Bunch carries would be difficult for civilians to purchase (they stole them, natch.)

AND there was a tripod mounted Browning M1917 stolen from the army, too.  A bit early for that to appear, but I'll allow it.  ;-)  It was used without water cooling, so...  disappointed, again!

But what did movie goes know about guns in 1969, huh?

LOTS of blood from gun wounds.  Lots of hero absorbing bullets like a sponge and still carrying on fighting, while bad guys with a single wound fall down.  And lie still. 

All in all, I liked Peckinpah's Cross of Iron better.  Better gun minutiae in that movie, too.