Leone has taken an 1866 Winchester Yellowboy and “cut it down” to look like an 1860 Henry Goldenboy. The Henry is loaded from a slit located towards the muzzle end of the tubular magazine under the barrel. The Winchester is loaded by a slit located on the right side of the receiver which Clint does a pretty good job of hiding during the shooting scenes but is still visible several times while shooting. The Winchester has a “ring” that holds the wooden fore stock or handle to the magazine and barrel. As you can see were the prop masters have removed the wooden fore stock the top half of the ring still remains on Blondie’s weapon and it does indeed look to me as if a scope has been added to the left side of the gun to make it look like the remainder of the ring has a use for securing the scope to the gun. The Winchester also had a ring that attaches the magazine to the barrel at the muzzle of the gun. The Henry has no such ring. Also, the Henry's, as far as I know, had an octagonal barrel not a round one.
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nutmustardxx
8 years ago
I know some of the .57cal Hawkens had the octagon barrel....but like the other guy said who cares if it's not perfectly accurate to the time, fact is, we knew the time it was supposed to be set in n thats all that matters. It's not like we see cars in the background...but I did see telephone poles in the background in several scenes, and I don't think they had phones yet
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