$100 Reward Springfield 45-70 Movie Rifle

Everyone has been so helpful here, I want to put fourth a challenge!!


I have had this FOX STUDIOS marked 45-70 Indian Decorated carbine for 20+ years. I would really like to know what movie, movies, tv shows it was used in???? With the decoration work, my guess it would have been used by a prominent character in the film. (not someone riding by on a horse at a high rate of speed) If anyone can tell me what this rifle was used in, I will send you a check for $100. It needs to be this exact gun (minus the feathers) I need the name of the movie, scene time in the movie, TV episode, anything that I can look up and confirm. Any other information about movie guns would be great (but no reward for that)

 

Here are some of its family...

James.

 

so why didn't you just link us to the website...........

http://209.242.63.215/45-70.html

 

I did not know that page was still on the server. I closed down that web site 2 years ago and stopped the hosting service. I guess it is still hanging around as an ip address

 

That's interesting. I can still get to most of the pages if I follow the links on the 45'70 page.

 

u got 423 hits.....did any point in a helpful direction..like Roarings does.?

 

My information was the easy part. The hard part is star association. The weeks of westerns needed to watch is ... ... a mirage on the horizon.

James.

 

It would be more helpful if you gave a more exact date for when the rifle left the studio (or the latest date in which it could be in a movie).

 

maybe...but it shows 3 different prop numbers...all within range of the OP's.
that may mean something....

 

That sounds like the rifle I have in the Rock Island auction! Looks like it was in there in 2007. I guess Fox sold off lots of their "movie guns" in 1988. I found a good article in True West Magazine on Movie Prop Guns.

From Silver Screen to Gun Room - True West Magazine

 

@Ranger Rick , are you aware of this web site for movie and tv guns ? Also, it's a rifle cut down to a carbine size , is it not ? Have you found the real serial number and tracked it ?
http://www.imfdb.org/wiki/Main_Page

 

Ya, I have been to the internet movie gun database, no luck there. As for a cut down long rifle, I don't thinks so. Long 45-70 Springfield's have full length cleaning rods, no hole in the the slanted front of this stock. The stock profile is correct. Also all of the hardware is correct for a carbine.

 

https://moviegunguy.com/WP/prop-historical-period-guns-accessories/prop_indian_wars_guns/

have u approached this guy.....?