What gun? THIS gun!

I found IMDB a few years ago. . . .  It’s the Internet Movie Database, and it provides all sorts of movie info.  The thing for which I’ve used it the most is to identify the name of Actor Such and Such in Movie X.  In the years since the website has expanded significantly.  It’s a good clearinghouse for all sorts of movie info.  Imagine my surprise and delight when, a year or so ago, I found the IFMDB, which is the Internet Firearms Movie Database.  Want to know what rifle Tom Selleck used in Quigley Down Under?  The IFMDB reveals it’s the Shiloh Sharps 1874 Long Range Rifle.  The website provides a picture of the weapon, and a screen capture from the movie, and then tells us about it, noting the following:

“[This is the] Uberti Sharps 1874 Long Range with 34" barrel, fitted with Vernier sight. The film credits the actual rifle used as being manufactured by Shiloh Rifle Mfg., Big Timber, MT. Differences between that and the Uberti can be seen in the photo - The tang sight windage adjustment is at the base on the Uberti while it is on the slider of the Shiloh's sight. The Shiloh has a patch box in the stock which the Uberti does not, and the Shiloh has the curved military butt plate compared to the Uberti's straighter shotgun butt.”

It’s a great website, and it has helped me find out all sorts of info.  Want to know what guns Tom Selleck used in Magnum, P.I.?  (Who wouldn’t?)  Click here to find out!

Anyway, go surf around on the site.  It’s pretty cool.