The following guns were used in the film Silverado:
Single Action Army
The gun used mostly by just about everyone in the film is the Single Action Army revolver in the various barrel lengths and calibers. Many look to be in far too good condition to be the guns of Frontiersman and have obviously newer color case hardening as evident by the fact it isn't worn in the slightest. Back during that day, they used Cyanide to color case harden, unaware how unsafe it was to use. Today, more conventional and longer lasting methods are used. It is likely these guns were supplied by Aldo Uberti Inc., a major 19th century firearms company today. Do to the extreme frequence of these guns in the film, there are a lot of screenshots for them.
Colt Single Action Army w/ 5" Artillery barrel. -.45 Long Colt. This model has a color case hardened frame and the original plastic grips. (Great pic
MoviePropMaster2008).
Emmet (
Scott Glenn) packs a 4 3/4" barrel "Quickdraw" model Single Action Army with a color case hardened frame. Here he fires it at assassins trying to kill him in his shed.
Emmet follows the shadow outside the shed with his SAA.
Emmet with his SAA at the ready.
Paden (
Kevin Kline) tries to buy a nickel plated 5" Artillery SAA in the gunstore after having his gun stolen, but doesn't have nearly enough for the gun.
Jake (
Kevin Costner) keeps two matching Nickel plated 4 3/4" Quickdraw SAAs with pearl grips in a fancy mexican holster rig. Costner was clearly taught how to spin like a pro.
Jake fires his two SAAs at a town member, shooting out the steps as he rushes to climb up them. Obviously breaking stealth, Paden turns to him and says, "Shhh!".
Paden fires his Quickdraw SAA with Ivory grips at a town member shooting at him.
Note the Ivory grips on Paden's SAA.
Dawson (
James Gammon) fires his 5" Artillery SAA with a color case hardened frame. A rare sight to see, he uses a two handed grip in a western.
Sheriff Cobb (
Brian Dennehy) fires his Nickel Artillery SAA with original plastic grips at Tom Hawley (
Roy McAdams) after Cobb fires him from the bar and he comes to kill him.
Jake fires his SAAs from the hip.
Paden pulls Deputy Tyree's (
Jeff Fahey) SAA from his holster and holds it on him.
One of Cobb's thugs is armed with an 8" Buntline Special SAA before having his hand shot. Note how he is clearly wearing fake skin to hide the blood squib.
When this guy gets shot, he drops his SAA on this poor horse's head.
A Thug points his Quickdraw SAA with color case hardened frame at Jake.
J.T. Hollis (
Earl Hindman) fires a Quickdraw SAA. Note how half his face is covered up, a possible joke relating to his work on the show
Home Improvement, where half his face was always hidden.
Malachi 'Mal' Johnson (
Danny Glover) uses a deputy's foot to try to reach a dropped 7 1/2" Cavalary SAA in the jail.
The wounded Emmet uses a Buntline Special SAA while hiding in Mal's cave.
Emmit points the SAA at Mal.
One of Cobb's deputies at the ranch wears Jake's SAA holster rig.
Paden with his SAA at the ranch.
Bradley (
Jim Haynie) with a Quickdraw and Artillery akimbo style.
Jake takes out two deputies, one being Tyree, with his two SAAs.
Emmet is grazed in the leg and drops his SAA. Note color case hardened frame and how new and unworn it looks.
Close up of Paden's SAA during the showdown with Cobb.
Close up of Cobb's SAA during the showdwon with Paden.
Pedan holsters his SAA after beating Cobb.
Unknown Revolver
I hate uploading guns when I can't I.D. them but I just can't figure this one out. When Paden (Kevin Kline) runs into the gunshop to buy a gun to kill the man who stole his horse, his lack of money leaves him with a hunk of junk revolver which I cannot identify. The gun clearly has a swing open action (anachronistic to the time), but the gun is so shoddy, the cylinder falls off the action when opened. Anyone who has seen The Quick and the Dead would know that this scene was replicated somewhat in that film. (I'm ordering that movie off eBay to screencap as well. Leave this comment on so people know not to screen it.) -GM.
The gun shop owner hands Paden the shoddy revolver.
Paden open the cylinder and it falls off the gun. It appears to be a lefty swing open.
Paden readies the revolver as the horse-thief approaches on his horse, gun blazing.
Paden shoots the horse-thief of his horse with the revolver.
Paden keeps the revolver tucked in his pants when he confronts the man who took his hat and gun.
Winchester 1866 "Yellow Boy" (mocked up as Henry 1860)
Malachi "Mal" Johnson (Danny Glover) uses a Winchester 1866 "Yellow Boy" rifle mocked up like a Henry 1860 by removing the fore-end. The dead give aways are the loading gate on the reciever and the lack of a magazine tube slit and spring follower under the magazine tube. It is rather strange that he would use this fake Henry when his father uses an actual Henry rifle in the movie.
Winchester 1866 "Yellow Boy" - .44RF.
When the bartender refuses to serve Mal for being black, some me in the bar gang up on him and take his Winchester 1866 rifle. Note how it has a loading gate unlike a genuine Henry rifle.
Mal fires his Winchester 1866 rifle at the outlaws in the canyon. Note how it lacks a magazine tube slit and spring follower.
Mal fires his Yellow Boy.
Mal shoots a corrupt deputy beating Emmet with his Yellow Boy with a somewhat impractical hip shot.
Mal with his Yellow Boy and his father's Henry 1860 rifle.
Mal sniping from the roof at the ranch with his Yellow Boy.
Mal comes to visit his sick sister in the shed with his Yellow Boy in hand.
Mal's mock Henry is seen resting against the wall as "Slick" Calvin Stanhope (
Jeff Goldblum) dies from being stabbed with his own boot-knife by him.
Henry 1860
Ezra Johnson (Joe Seneca), Mal's father, uses a Henry 1860 rifle with an engraved reciever. When murdered by some of Cobb's thugs, the gun is used by one of them until that man is killed by Emmet (Scott Glenn). Emmet then uses the gun when preparing for a fight, shooting the prickers off a cactus plant. The rifle is then given to Mal and he uses both the Henry and his fake Henry (made from a Winchester 1866 rifle) during the gunfight at the ranch.
One of Cobb's hired thugs wields Ezra Johnson's Henry 1860 rifle when they raid the town people's party. The gun is clearly only half cocked.
Emmet fires the Henry 1860 rifle and like a smart shooter, wears a thick glove to protect his hand from the hot barrel (which is due to the lack of a fore-end.). Note the engraved reciever.
Close up of the muzzle on the Henry as Emmet fires it.
Mal sits with his father's Henry in his lap.
The Henry rifle sits against the wall.
Mal holds both his father's Henry and his fake Henry.
Mal dives through the air firing the Henry rifle and unrealistically sends a thug flying off the roof.
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