This makes the weapon fast to load but wasteful if all rounds were not fired since any unspent shells are ejected along with the used ones, which one would then have to pick up and dust off. Tecopa's handguns are Remington 1875 Single Action Army revolvers. With a variety of situations you will ultimately have a variety of firearms in a variety of calibers. The Remington Rolling Block was made to compete with the likes of the Sharps 1874. To increase efficiency even further, punt hunters would often work in groups of 8-10 boats. This gun is also slightly out of period because it was actually manufactured from 1915-1918. The Remington Mark III single-shot 10-gauge pistol was the only gun used in the film that was not historically accurate. Both Juan (Brent Roam) and Black Hand Kelly (Billy Drago) use a Winchester Model 1886 lever-action 45-70 chambered rifle in the muling station scene to fire at the creatures tearing out the floorboards. This is the main reason the US army picked the slower loading Colt Single Action Army as their primary weapon. 45 relations: August Schellenberg, Billy Drago, Brent Maddock, Browser game, Buffalo rifle, Burt Gummer, Carson City, Nevada, Colt Single Action Army, Colt's Manufacturing Company, Direct-to-video, Gatling gun, Graboid, H&R Firearms, Henry rifle, Hot spring, J. E. Freeman, Jay Ferguson (American musician), Michael Gross (actor), Monster movie, Nancy Roberts (producer), Pepper-box, Perfection, Nevada, Prequel, Punt gun Old Fred (J.E. In reality it was 45-70 caliber but we called it .52 caliber in the film because it sounded cooler, and could still have been a custom loading. It is actually a shotgun called a Darne, with an unusual sliding breech action. Miss Christine Lord (Sara Botsford) uses a Henry 1860 Repeater rifle to shoot at the Graboids in the final battle. It's up to the remaining residents to get to the bottom of the deaths -- but they must do so before they, too, are Update: Mar 2021. The tubular magazine mounted under the 24 inch barrel held fifteen cartridges but if a round was chambered before loading the magazine the Henry held 16 rounds and was aptly referred to with its common nickname of "sixteen-shooter". God damn I was hoping someone would reference this. At the muling station, Hiram Gummer (Michael Gross) is seen firing a Sharps Model 1A Pepperbox four barreled derringer once to shoot the Graboid's tentacles. If the gun were dropped, or anything (like a tree branch) accidentally struck the hammer, the pistol easily could go off, even in its holster! It was huge, an 8 gauge (the smaller the number, the bigger the gun). She uses it to blow off the tentacle head when she and Fu Yien are attacked in the wagon. level 2. It used 4 barrels arranged in a square pattern. 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