Josh Randall (Steve McQueen) carried a modified rifle in the TV series Wanted: Dead or Alive. What is it called?
Wanted: Dead or Alive is an American Western television series starring Steve McQueen as the bounty hunter Josh Randall.
Randall carries a shortened Winchester Model 1892 carbine called the "Mare's Leg" in a holster patterned after "gunslinger" rigs then popular in movies and television. Randall can draw and fire his weapon with blazing speed. Three Mare's Legs were used in the series, differing in the shape of the lever and the barrel.
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tinaloflin
I missed this question, which shows just how much I know about guns. Just as well.
I tried skeet shooting. Not for me. At all.
jaijam
It was designed by Von Dutch and was a cut down .44-40 Winchester model 1892.
jaijam
Eldon E. Lawson, no, it isn't.
jack patti go
Linda Shadle, I didn't remember this!
hammbone
Eldon E. Lawson, Sorry, but a hog leg is a large caliber revolver... Mare's leg is the correct answer...
Linda Shadle
LOVED Wanted: Dead or Alive. How I discovered Steve McQueen. They called it a Mare's Leg on the series.
Anita Clark Morton
Always loved Wanted, Dead or Alive. But I just assumed his gun was a Sawed Off Shotgun
Cheryl Perkins
Never heard of the programme so made the wrong guess.
Carole Cottrell
√ Just thought horses. Don't know the programme.
Ricky Plunkett
Based on shots fired it was 44.40 chambered but his belt was 45.70's
lls
Fran Donnelly, I think your description is correct, technically, although the weapon had a nickname.
Katherine Walker
EZ PZ, my dad taught me about guns.
Carole Benner
Me as well spencer
Spencer Young
I'm shooting a lot of blanks tonight. Ugh.