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Rifleshooter Subscribe. Wild Fowl Subscribe. Get the top Rifle Shooter stories delivered right to your inbox. For many of us who grew up in the late s and early '60s, "The Rifleman" was a must-see television program on ABC for five years.
So it's been fun to relive those moments in recent months by watching "The Rifleman" reruns Saturday mornings on AMC and each weekday at 5 p. Chuck Connors was the star. He portrayed Lucas McCain, a rancher in New Mexico territory who was known for his skill with a rifle. He shot a Winchester Model that had a modified round lever, which allowed him to shoot in a rapid-fire style.
During the opening credits of each minute episode, he fires the rifle 12 times in fewer than five seconds as he walks down the main street of North Fork, the closest town to his ranch. Then he dramatically spins the rifle using the round lever and begins to reload. My brother and I thought those five seconds were the best part of the show. We longed to take our dad's lever-action. The next-best thing was getting a Rifleman gun of our own. After dreaming of it for months, we both found one under the tree on Christmas morning.
Santa was super that year. I believe I was 7 and my brother was 9. I told her I really couldn't answer her question, but I did give her what information I had from some expert's of the rifle along with some links within The McCain Ranch. Margie, that's fantastic! Thanks so much. Here is what her column said This is a hot debate between my husband and me.
Some other number entirely? Loads of them have been tossed out there over the years, though, in the way back times, Connors himself put the number at But what did he know?
Then, though, the whole how-many-shots-did-he-fire turned into a source of hot fan debate. So Laven looked at the tape, which in those pre-digital days, recorded sound and, along with it, striations on the tape showing where the sound was, and he counted the striations. Maybe so, he said, but the sound editor may well have added in more shots to make it sound good. We listened to the clip several times and came up with three different numbers. I've discovered when you watch the opening scene for the series for the shows in and maybe some other years, it shows Lucas firing his rifle.
Oddly, if you count the shots you hear while you WATCH the scene, you usually will count 10 or 11 shots. I think this phenomenon is due to a change in the middle of the scene that throws off your count if you watch it visually. I've done it about 50 times the show is in reruns right now twice every evening , and that's important. More fans opinions. The Rifleman This is a loaded question I'm sure you are a wear of that! I would be interested in hearing just what you came up with, just shoot me an e-mail This question has been asked numerous times and each time we get a different answer.
Newest postings start at the bottom. At the beginning of each show, Lucas McCain would stride down the main street of North Fork and fire eleven shots at an imaginary enemy, as the voice-over announcer would introduce Chuck Connors starring as "The Rifleman. That was a camera trick so that the shooting would match the music—called dramatic license. Now available on Kindle Chuck Connors I know a lot has been said on how many shots that he fired during that opening scene.
Now look real close at the very first shot.
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