The Wild Bunch: Difference between revisions
The Wild Bunch: Difference between revisions - Internet Movie Firearms Database - Guns in Movies, TV and Video Games
The Wild Bunch: Difference between revisions
[[Image:Wildb-spring03e.jpg|thumb|none|500px|U.S. Army soldiers on the weapons train armed with Springfields.]]
[[Image:Wildb-spring03e.jpg|thumb|none|500px|U.S. Army soldiers on the weapons train armed with Springfields.]]
[[Image:Wildb-spring03f.jpg|thumb|none|500px|A soldier fires his Springfield just as he takes an accidental bullet from one of Thornton's posse.]]
[[Image:Wildb-spring03f.jpg|thumb|none|500px|A soldier fires his Springfield just as he takes an accidental bullet from one of Thornton's posse.]]
[[Image:Wildb-spring03g.jpg|thumb|none|500px|A Mexican soldier shoots another Mexican soldier for instigating a fight when the Wild Bunch reveals the Browning M1917.]]
[[Image:Wildb-spring03h.jpg|thumb|none|500px|Gen. Mapache ([[Emilio Fernandez]]) looks over the Springfield rifles the Wild Bunch stole for him.]]
[[Image:Wildb-spring03h.jpg|thumb|none|500px|Gen. Mapache ([[Emilio Fernandez]]) looks over the Springfield rifles the Wild Bunch stole for him.]]
[[Image:Wildb-spring03i.jpg|thumb|none|500px|Coffer fires his Springfield M1930A3.]]
[[Image:Wildb-spring03i.jpg|thumb|none|500px|Coffer fires his Springfield M1930A3.]]
Some of the U.S. Army and Mexican Army soldiers in the film use Springfield M1903A3 rifles. Tector (Ben Johnson) uses one while dressed as an Army corporal and in some scenes after. Coffer (Strother Martin), a member of Thornton's posse, uses one as well, at one point telling one of the other posse members to dig a bullet out of a corpse to see if it is one of his .30-06 rounds. Coffer's M1903A3 is the World War II variant, making it anachronistic for a film taking place between 1913 and 1916. The rifles used on the film were made by National Ordnance.
These are Remington 03A3s, which are indeed WWII guns. For the record the MPM pic is a Remingotn as well. - Gunmaster45
Characters on both sides of the law use Winchester Model 1892 Saddle Ring Carbine rifles. Of the "Wild Bunch" itself, Pike, Dutch, Tector, Angel, and Freddie Sykes (Edmond O'Brien) can all be seen using Winchester '92s. Deke Thornton (Robert Ryan) leads his posse with a Model 1892. Some members of the posse, including T.C. (L.Q. Jones) use '92s as well.
The members of the "Wild Bunch", most notably Pike Bishop, Dutch Engstrom, Lyle Gorch, and Angel, use Colt M1911 pistols. As with many other films made during this time, 9 mm Star Model B pistols were used instead as they were more reliable with blanks. The German government official with Gen. Mapache notes that the "Wild Bunch" are carrying them, noting to tell them that they cannot be acquired legally by private citizens.
A single barrel shotgun is used by a town resident to shoot one of Pikes gang members in the face. The shotgun has a very long barrel giving the impression that this citizen grabbed his duck gun and tried to help fight the gang.
Pat Harrigan (Albert Dekker) fires a Winchester Model 1892 (not a Saddle Ring Carbine like the other characters carry) when he sits on the rooftop with the posse he hired.
Of the "Wild Bunch", Pike Bishop, Dutch Engstrom, and Tector Gorch keep a Single Action Army as a secondary sidearm. Deke Thornton and the rest of his posse pack SAAs and they seem to be the standard sidearm of the Mexican Army, including Major Zamorra (Jorge Russick). Other anonymous characters use them as well.
Some of the Mexican soldiers carry Colt New Service revolvers. In both flashbacks, a lawman arresting Thornton and a jealous husband who wounds Pike each use a New Service. Pat Harrigan also keeps one in his waistband.
The Wild Bunch steals a .30-06 water-cooled Browning M1917 machine gun and gives it to Mapache "as a gift". Mapache (Emilio Fernandez) fires it wildly when trying to find out how to use it. Later in the film, Pike, Lyle, and Tector each fire it at the Mexicans during the final shootout. This gun is most likely an anachronism as the film takes place during Pershing's time in Mexico, which was before the M1917's development.
