Gordon's Gun Closet

It was Talk Like a Pirate Day this week here in the USA. ‘Tis a silly day, but we thought that since the latest episode of The History Files (#90) was also about pirates, we’d better do a companion show here at the gun closet. Special thanks to friend of the show Jim Wingren for indulging my request for a children’s show type stinger at the top of the episode.

Show notes and links:

* The History Files #90: Pirates (csicon.fm)

* Ketland Officer’s Fusil (middlesexvillagetrading.com)

* Swivel gun  (infogalactic.com)

* “Boarders Away” by James Gilkerson  (amazon.com)

* Forgotten Weapons (youtube.com)

* InRangeTV (youtube.com)

Movie gun review time! The Western has seen a resurgence in recent years, and Appaloosa (2008) is one of the better ones. Starring (and directed by) Ed Harris, Viggo Mortensen, and Renée Zellweger, it’s a buddy-picture with heart and probably one of the best westerns ever made. It also displays a perfect collection of firearms that are, thanks to the actors and the armorer, handled expertly by all involved.

Show notes and links:

* Project Appleseed (appleseedinfo.org)

* 7 Witches (2017) (imdb.com)

* Appaloosa (2008) (imdb.com)

* Appaloosa – Internet Movie Firearms Database (imfdb.org)

The Glock: it might not be pretty, it might not be a classic, but it’s reliable, safe, and it gets the job done. It’s one of the most popular handguns to come out of the 20th century, and we’re here to talk about it.

Show notes and links:

* Western Front Artillery At The Outbreak of World War 1  (youtu.be)

* The Glock (infogalactic.com)

* Roth Steyr in a match: Forgotten Weapons

* Full-auto Glock: FPSRussia

The main segment of this episode was recorded at the 2017 Victorian Heritage Festival in Port Townsend, WA. As a field recording, the sound is a bit wonky, but we hope you enjoy Gordon’s talk on Victorian Military Firearms. There will be a video version of this on our YouTube channel, so be sure and subscribe to the Bad Cat Productions channel and never miss a new episode.

Show notes and links:

* Victorian Heritage Festival, Pt. Townsend, WA (vicfest.org)

* Bad Cat Productions – YouTube (youtube.com)

He’s the archaeologist with the fedora, the leather jacket, and the whip. He’s the professor I wish I’d had in college, and he knows how to use a gun. He’s everybody’s favorite ophidiophobe… Indiana Jones. It’s a topic so awesome we had to bring in specialist Steve Pelikan to help save us from all the Nazis, face-melting artifacts, and bad prop RPGs.

Show notes and links:

* Wheellock 101: History and Shooting (Forgotten Weapons)

* Movieing On #122: Raiders of the Lost Ark (csicon.fm)

* Indiana Jones – Internet Movie Firearms Database (imfdb.org)

* IndyGear.com 

* “Guns of Indiana Jones” companion video at Bad Cat Productions

He’s big, he’s out for vengeance, and he lets his guns do the talking. He’s the outlaw Josey Wales, the subject of a glorious 1976 Clint Eastwood western, and he’s the subject of today’s movie gun rundown. Spoiler: there are lots of Colts.

Show notes and links:

* Slam Fire Radio – A Canadian Firearms Podcast (slamfireradio.com)

* Movieing On #229: The Outlaw Josey Wales (csicon.fm)

* Outlaw Josey Wales, The – Internet Movie Firearms Database (imfdb.org)

The 18th century was the era of slow muzzle-loading rifles… until Patrick Ferguson came along with his revolutionary (pun intended) breech-loading mechanism. Even though it never really caught on, it paved the way for future developments. In this episode, we take a look at his amazing rifle.

Show notes and links:

* The History Files episode 83: Andrew Jackson (csicon.fm)

* Forgotten Weapons: Ferguson Breechloading Flintlock (youtube.com)

* Ferguson rifle

* Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben

* Durs Egg

Recorded live at the Watson Washington convention on October 22, 2016 (not the 15th as mentioned in the outro). All about the kinds of firearms Dr. John Watson might have carried in his literary adventures with Sherlock Holmes, and some actually carried in film and television incarnations.

Show notes and links:

* The History Files #73: Westworld (csicon.fm)

* Pumpkin Killing Methods VII (Hickock45)

* A Gallery of Gunfighters: Eugene Cunningham (amazon.com)

* Sherlock-Seattle (sherlock-seattle.org)

* Bat Cat Store at Zazzle (zazzle.com)

Get out your six-guns for part two of our look at real gunfighters like John Wesley Hardin, Luke Short, and Jesse James, and the guns they preferred… plus a few comments on the new (2016) Magnificent Seven.

Show notes and links:

* The History Files #71: Magnificent 7 (csicon.fm)

* Movie Sign with the Mads – Magnificent 7 (apple.com)

* Cowboy Pumpkin Carving with a Colt 45! (Hickock45)

* The Story of the Outlaw: Emerson Hough (amazon.com)

* Jesse James

* Johnny Ringo

* Wyatt Earp

* Doc Holliday

* Billy the Kid

* Luke Short

* John Wesley Hardin

* The Shadows of the Past – gunfighters

* Bad Cat Store at Zazzle (zazzle.com)

We love our silver screen gunfighters, but what was the reality? This week we look at some of the gunslingers of the past and their favorite shooting irons as we get ready for the release of the re-make of “The Magnificent 7”.

Show notes and links:

* Prince Rupert of the Rhine

* Queen Anne “turn off” Pistols: An Illustrated History of Their Impact – Jeff Kinard

* John Coffee Hays 

* “Wild Bill” Hickok

* Ned Buntline

* Autry Museum of the American West  (theautry.org)

* Eugene Cunningham (tshaonline.org)

* Bad Cat Store at Zazzle (zazzle.com)