Both "Fargo" and "No Country For Old men" had the weaponry right, and proper function of both wheelguns and pistols- etc. Just watched the DVD of the remake of the old "Duke" Wayne classic- "Rooster Cogburn- True Grit" last night-- Jeff Bridges made old Reuben Cogburn seem real and alive- great job- Matt Damon as the "Dudley Doo-Right" Texas Ranger- with a Sharps single shot carbine (not a Win 1873 like Rooster used)- even the bad guy with the Henry brass rifle slung with a length of clothesline- BUT- two technical "Flubs" IMO-- First- when Mattie rides her pony Blackie arcoss the deep river, where was the Dragoon Colt .44 and the flour sack? How did she keep it from getting wet? Rooster's Colt SAA .45 with contained cartridges, getting wet it would most likely fire- but any cap and baller- water gets into the cylinders and the powder gets wet- No "Dead Bang"-- she did get off one shot with it at Tom Chaney (after he stupidly tells her how to firct cock the hammer) and at that range, a hit in the midriff with a .44 (The Dragoon was a scaled down version of the fabled Walker Colt) might do more than bust up a rib--
Later, when she finally gets the chance to kill the man who murdered her father, she pick's up the Sharps carbine that Ranger LeBouef used to shoot dead at 400 yards "Unlucky" Ned Pepper from his saddle, BUT- she never opened the breech, ejected the fired empty case, and reloaded- she just pulled back the hammer to full cock, kissed the trigger and sent Tom Cheney "To Hell on a shutter"-- Huum- Hollywood-go figure-- Love to own that Dragoon however-fine weapon for its era-
