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Gun prices

posted 13 years ago by atlanticdr
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Anybody know what guns cost around the late 1800's? $120 seems kinda high as it's about $2,000 today.

According to this site, that particular gun would have cost about 20 dollars.

http://www.imfdb.org/index.php?title=The_Quick_and_the_Dead_%281995%29

The gun Herod bought for Cort was worth about $1 according to the same site.

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[–] winky420 13 years ago

Yeah I was wathing this the other day and thought $5 was kinda pricey for the cheapest gun in the store in those days.

[–] andii-valo 13 years ago

The gun was worth a dollar, the gunbelt four dollars, according to that site - but the Colt was well overpriced no matter how you look at it. Come to think of it, what's $123,000 in today's money? Probably a few mill!

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[–] newfrontier45 13 years ago

As I recall it was a Colt 1851 cartridge conversion. When the cartridge conversions first came out in the early 1870's, existing percussion guns could be converted for $5-$6. I think a new one was $12. When the Single Action Army was released to the public, it was around $20.

PS, they did a great job on the guns and costumes for this movie. If you can look past the couple of goofy special effects scenes (you know which ones) there's a lot to enjoy here.

[–] jcush21 9 years ago

Also as I recall, all the guns the Kid showed him were all customized and not stock so that would make them more expensive.

[–] Biscuitchris7 13 years ago

$120 could have gotten a man a pair of well crafted revolvers, scatter gun, and a sack full of supplies and still have money left over.

There is a scene in the western "Silverado" where Kevin Kline grabs a gun from the gunsmiths cabinet and says, "I'm gonna borrow this." and the gunsmith says, with a twang in his voice, "THIS GUN....is twenty dollars."

I think they just inflated the price so most audience members wouldn't be thrown off.

There's a mad man in there with his hand on a...on a BUTTON!

[–] sleddawg63 9 years ago

Everyone is forgetting that a gun shop selling guns to thieving contestants in a duel to the death tournament would have inflated their price a fair bit.

[–] doughboyjonesmkii 8 years ago

Herod's exorbitant tax rate and the remoteness of that crappy little town probably factored in heavily.

I'm genuinely convinced that every movie would be better with Arnold Schwarzenegger in it.