Quigley Shoots Bucket at 782 Yards Standing Up 

Saw him in a 70s TV show as a young hotel porter. On screen for about 30 seconds. Most memorable part of the show.

Caught his voice as soon as he spoke rip

I hear hans gruber

Severus Snape

Yeah a great actor. RIP.

Toxic9813 I heard Hans Gruber.....

So did i

"Now I have.. a Sharps lever-action... Ho-... ho-... ho."

I head, 'how do you say... Yippe ki yay mother fu#ker'.

Toxic9813 I thought that was snap front Harry potter glad I'm not going crazy

He's not 6'5". He's 5'6". It's all done with makeup and he puts lifts in his shoes.

No…

@@alext8828 He's actually 6'.4"

reminds me of my dad.he was 6foot and according to him all hollywood stars were midgets.when they looked huge onscreen hed say yeh its all camera angles!@@alext8828

That Sharps weighs 14#.

Source

Do your own research bum

Well, this movie is fiction, not based on any real events so, no, it is not historical. It's very cool though that somebody did it for real. Do you by any chance know what the purpose of the double triggers is? I've used a wide variety of firearms in my life and never needed more than one trigger.

Source: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-eFMWZ7Wabes.html Internet shows that the double trigger is called a “set trigger” configuration. The rear (first) trigger cocks the hammer and turns the front (second) trigger into a hair trigger with a spring that significantly multiplies the force of the hammer when it falls.

@@OneBiasedOpinion Ah ha, very interesting. Thank you very much.

Chuck Norris wishes he was as tough as Quigleys mustache.

That was a fun fact!

Fun fact, Selleck obv loved moustaches, but was a bucket racist.

@HEY 4Q2 Ur a thinker mate, l like it!!

@HEY 4Q2 trust me, lm no judge! ps. We'll settle out of court, you'll make a bucket load! Yeah/nah!?!

The billionaire?

@@lsimpson8307 How did a nitwit like you get so tasteful

Look at that subtle off-white wood finish, the tasteful thickness of the double set triggers on it. Oh my God, it even has a watermark

@@2299arthur There are some funny vids about that card scene. Breaking it all down: font, paper, water marks by guys who make them. Funny stuff

@@Bubbles99718 yeah, there is such a huge collection. I've watched a few but there are so many more

It can be done... there are guys do it on youtube..RU-vid...

Pff gene wilders shooting the guns out eof everyone's hands in blazing saddles, or shooting a box of dynamite from 200 yards with a pistol.

@@crazyfroggie6546 Yep, that was an epic scene. True. But not really possible.

@@dwrdwlsn5 it just says epic shooting scenes in a movie, it didnt say it had to reproducible in real life ..

@@crazyfroggie6546 true, but still... Willful suspension of disbelief only goes so far for me. Good scene, but I prefer the pie fight and final showdown from Blazing Saddles, myself.

Blasphemy lol what about Anthony Hopkins

Allan Rickman was one of the greats.

R C Nelson: Who is Quiet Menace? An undocumented Mexican gardener?

John Doe 😂😂😂😂

One of the slimiest and greatest of Hollywood bad guys you couldn't help but like.

@HEY 4Q2 HO HO HO, now i have a custom 13.5 pound (6 kg), single-shot, 1874 Sharps Rifle! 😂

Shit thanks for reminding me about Hans gruber... :-) man the firt 2 die hard movies... So bad they were good

🤣🤣🤣

Come to Australia, join the party, have a few laughs....

Hahaha

Buckets don't shoot back...

​@@user-gm8yb5jo1t nothing shoots back in 1874 at 1000 yds

Very few people know about that event. I tip my hat to you sir!

I read that with a cowboy voice

I believe that was a meeting of 3 war chiefs discussing plans in plain sight, thinking they were well out of range.

I don’t think the average person could even see a bucket at 782 yards.

You owe it to yourself to get a Sharps 1874 reproduction.

According to Shiloh Rifles catalog, reproductions run btwn $2500-$3800 w/at least, 6-8mos backorder wait

mwaldyke - 821.47 yards. OP didn't account for the speed of sound and some other things.

@@QualityPen The US Army agrees with you and why they started building their infantry rifles to be accurate within a shorter distance, around the time of WWII. Their studies showed that the farthest distance the average soldier can tell whether a person is friend or foe is 200 yards.

thats because it is the coolest gun ever

Yeah it still is!

Because it is

That’s the coolest gun even now

the first part of that sentence can be taken far out of context

You actually believe this was the sound? A lot can be done in the studio sound room. Remember this is a movie and a lot can be done in the studio

@@garyfinger294 ‘Foley Work’ means it was done in a studio lmao, just an amazing job of sound design

@@finwarman9887 I hope that guy is trolling 😂

@@garyfinger294 No sir. I was merely commenting on the sound design. A real recording would blast out the higher frequencies on field audio gear. And the sequencing of the actual noises would be much different due to the discrepancy between the speeds of sound and light.

That report sound was of a 45-70 Government round, and it's the sound effect that they used for the movie as it's a popular round that has been recorded thousands of times... I've had one for almost 30 years for bear and elk hunting, but it isn't much good against humans due to severe over penetration. Don't get me wrong, a well placed shot and the person dies before their brain realizes it, but there are far more effective rounds for this such as the Creedmoor, the .308, the 6.5 Grendel, and other rounds that perform amazingly well at long distance, even in a semiauto format... the heat from a 45-70 makes for extremely poor performance in a semiautomatic platform as it begins to heat warp the rifling, burring it and damaging it. Incidentally the 45-70 is what they based Quigley's "Experimental" ammunition and rifle on... average barrel length for a 45-70 long range rifle being 34". Though, the Government DID in fact have this round created to the specific specifications to combat the growing popularity of the 30-06 that was becoming extremely popular amongst natives and criminals due to it's range and consistency. The 45-70, however, was overkill... the optics of the day could not keep up, and it's a round now used by big game hunters. It fell out of popularity very, very fast with the military, and they too swapped to the 30-06. As Optics improved in the 1930s and 40s, the round made a come back, and has grown in popularity ever since... but for almost 50 years it was dead and seen as useless. Just like the 6.5 Creedmoor, which was a custom order by an Army Captain (all Remington's personal ledger said, so we have no idea who it really was). So Remington, the man not the company, created the first 6.5 Creedmoor (now a different company takes credit due to his being dead, and it not being found in his ledgers until very very recently.) Now the 6.5 Creedmoor has returned in a massive way, as we now have optics good for it's 2000+ meter range. That same captain had Weatherby look at the round (He had returned to Remington, however Remington saw zero profit in designing and manufacturing an ammo/rifle that literally no one else would buy due to it's ballistic coefficient being vastly too high for all known optics at that time) and wanted more knock down power, as the Creedmoor had a tendency to over penetrate as opposed to kill, and thus the first 6.5 Weatherby Magnum was created... and then vanished the same way the Creedmoor did for over 100 years. Said "Army Captain" was basically Quigley. Aka he was using a round that is real, and the sound effects department used a recording OF that actually quite popular round... for large game hunting, OR home defense if you want a round that's severely overkill and doesn't work well in Semi-auto setups. At the time Quigley Down Under takes place, however, the round and its rifle would have been either BRAND new - aka almost unheard of - or not invented yet, and they were rewriting history to say that the gunsmith Quigley used to customize his rifle and ammo created the round. They were a tad vague as to when this took place, as most of the mentions of time were fairly vague. Thus no way to really be sure.

@Jeremiah Harrington I haven't seen those, so I don't know for sure.

Good analogy. If you ever want to see Selleck's take on Indiana Jones (a part he was originally slated to play), check out the movie "Lassiter". However, I liked him better in "High Road to China".

supposedly every time the movie airs, the guns sell.

I've come across YT videos dedicated to this feat.

Single handedly resurrected the sharps rifle. I bought one because of this movie. No I can't make a shot like that

@@bstrdbss I don't give up on you so easy! One day you will! ;)

@ I'm going to keep trying! Thanks for the support!

Except his chest hair.

Tell that to freddy mercury

My grandfather was the spitting image of Tom Sellecks

@@patronofsaints2062 Oh, then he obviously counts as manliest ever too!

Mustache so tough, it gets in fights.

He played great bad guys.

He no longer owns the gun. He donated it to the gun museum (an impressive, free museum) in the Bass Pro store In Springfield MO. I saw it on display there recently.

IM AN ENGLISHMAN AND 65 and Have Fired 303 Lea Enfield BOLT Action Rifle !!!40 YRS AGO And TO HOLD IT UP is ONE THING !!!BUT to Fire it QUIET ANOTHER !!! I CAN SEE that ONE MR SELACK IS A BIG RANGY MAN & HE WOULD NEED to Be!!! He HAS USED THAT RIFLE BEFORE MANY TIMES & IS WELL VERSED WITH ITS PERSONA !!!I NOTED THE DELIBRATE SPEED THAT HE POINTED AIMED AND FIRED !!!✌BECAUSE LENGTH =WEIGHT MEANS FATIGUE & SHAKES !!!😣 HE threw The DUST IN the Air FOR Wind Direction & Speed & adjusted His Sights!!!All IN ALL TEXT BOOK STUFF !!!😊& STILL A HELL of a LONG Range 3×Shot display !!!Great ACTING & A Great FILM g

geoffrey carson I would love to fire a real Lee Enfield someday, or a Martini Henry rifle. So many great British rifles with so much history out there. Good day, sir.

@@geoffreycarson2311 and I own a 303 Enfield that was passed down.

Thanks for info. I never knew Tom was a shooter. not surprised but impressed

Sorry for your loss.RIP pops

He's watching over you now, rest in peace

Your pop had good taste.

Same for me bub. My pops loved cool stuff like this. Wish I could share with him

Sam here. My Dad's still around... but I think of it. Sorry for your loss.

only trouble the bullet would have taken a little longer to hit, 1/2- 1 second longer than it showed on this movie. I can be done but it wasn't accurate in what would have really happened.

​@@eolsunderyou're complaining about a half second? Rifle rounds vary wildly in fps yet you're complaining it's not accurate because it should have taken a half second longer? Smh man

The days when firing ammo did not bankrupt you....

@@MooseTracker100 ammo was expensive AF back then. A 1000 round box of rifle ammo could cost as much as 25 dollars which was half of a months salary. Some precision ammo (like what Quigley would be shooting here. Considering that his ammo is also experimental that means it's cost would likely be even higher) could cost up to 8 dollars a round. Ammo was wayyyy more expensive back then lol

Buckets don't shoot back

Stood in for Alec Baldwin on a Capitol One commercial back in 2012. There were 100 extras in Visigoth costumes in a field. I was wearing this slick black suit and walked into the middle of them for the shot set up. They were all staring at me cause I was the odd man out. Funny awkward moment, but I rose to the challenge. Gave them the This is my Boomstick speech. It was glorious. Everyone was cracking up. The Director, Baldwin and the 1st came walking in and were like "what the heck is going on?" "Just turning these primitives into crack Chinese jet pilots. They're ready for ya."

S marts top of the line

Shop smart. Shop S mart. YOU GOT THAT!?

Now. I. Swear. The next one of you _primates_ , even _touches_ me...

This is my *BOOMSTICK!!!*

Nah, the best line was when one of Marsten's crew asked him if he could ever be as good as him. Marsten says, "You mean if you practiced every day?" Guy says, "Yeah!" and Marsten says "No."

In context, it was cool as any line in any movie.

Best line was in this clip. "I don't know the guy. Never seen him before in my life." lol

Exact quote: "Never said I didn't know how to use it."

I always liked, "they say God created all men, and Sam Colt made then equal. "

i too love the sounds of gun clicking

Rickman was a great actor. Everything he touched was Gold. Lost him way too early!

@@xxx-il9dv absolutely. One of the best ever.

Best villain of all time!

@@JamesBond-sr7fw Wouldn't go that far. :) and Spectre had a few doozies

What is the name of this movie

Do you load it manually with custom cast lead?

what is the movie's name?

@@rdonshatalov Quigley Down Under

@@saravanakkumarboominathan6613 thank u

Loved it the first time I saw it.

Laser Disc 😂

MCZerky only if you like custard I guess

It's great isn't it but I'm sorry to say that our sadly departed Alan's silky voice was just a little bit creamier. Ho Ho Ho Ho

@My Dixie Wrecked I believe you are correct, I have seen one but don't recall if it was Pedersolli. It was chambered in 45-70. Shiloh Sharps made the rifle for the movie and after filming Tom Selleck bought the rifle.

@My Dixie Wrecked They did and I used to sell them a $2000+ a pop, plus $75 for the Creedmore rear sight.

@@chrisclark5204 It could be bored out to fit the .45-100, but the rounds were very expensive.

Vince Lok You Sir, are a nerd. I like that.

A scruffy-looking nerd herder. LOL

Impossible those aren't much bigger than about... 2 meters

Haha, Yes!

Impossible, even with a computer

“Locksley “

Why a spoon, cousin? Why not a sword or an ax or something?

Because it's dull you twit, it will hurt more.

@@smeesmith8851 Another ten points from Gryffindor

What??? No Die-hard reference??? Come on man!!!

Its the moustache. Keeps him aerodynamically balanced.

Also the lock time on the gun is dialed in perfect. That trigger must feel like glass breaking.

His moustache acts as a mass damper. Similar to how a tall building will have a large mass located on an upper floor to act help prevent building sway Tom Selleck's moustache steadies his entire upper body with its presence.

I'm surprised he wasnt knocked on his butt with the recoil from any one of the shots ...

@@0623kaboom it's a .45-110, not a 4-bore. Those guns are pretty hefty which soaks up a lot of the recoil.

It's Hollywood so reality is limited!

Click on 1, Click on 2, ...

It's amazing that 90% of you guys are so damn stupid, you think it can't be done... 2 clicks on YOUR mouse and YOU can see OTHERS SHOOTING 900 YARD OFF HAND SHOTS WITH A 45/70...

@@Ihsees91 Nothing on 3, 4 is binding....

Read about Billy Dixon at Adobe Walls. His shot was real not Hollywood.

@@5364310gb thanks. Will do

You'd be able to hit it eventually by adjusting from where you saw your bullet hit. But no one, and I mean no one is hitting that shot first try, that quick lol

Give me the gun and enough ammo ill make this into a trickshot XD

An acog is like a 3 MOA optic, that means at 300 yards you end up with a 9 inch group and thats if you can shoot, grab a 1 MOA optic and you will dust off the target at 300 yards all day.

@@markzuckerfuck8302 I could do that with a 303 no problem.

How about hitting a balloon at 1,000 yards with a 9mm revolver and a red dot sight? ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-jJ3XwizTqDw.html

Of course you understand, if you lose, I'm takin' it back.....

Marty McFly.

Negative. He donated it to the Brownells family. I'm pretty sure they display it at their HQ or something.

The Sharps IS a lever action single shot rifle (like a Martini or Winchester high/low wall). Others, like Spencer, Henry, Winchester and Marlin are lever action repeating rifles (also sometimes called 'self loading'). The original Quigley rifle now resides at Brownell's HQ at Grinnell Iowa.

sysjls75 negative sn 8886 the rifle used in the movie was given by Selleck to the Brownell family. They may have donated to the nra museum of that I'm not sure. But Selleck did not.

They actually had several indentical rifles made for the movie a one kept cherry for Mr. Selleck

@@harveynailbanger So that's what happened to it? It was put up for Auction in 2008 at Morphy's, but it doesn't list wether it was sold or not. Incidentally, it was the infamous alum barrel gun(which had a real barrel installed after filming) and was reportedly in the best condition of the 3 rifles from the film.

Also, totally scientifically improbable, even in 2021.

@@willmartin1033 people have made longer shots in reality.

@@zerrodefex I doubt any of them have been standing, if even verified.

@@willmartin1033 standing sure it’s possible but pretty hard, by todays standards 800yds is not really insane

@@willmartin1033 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-5eHTsaCo03Q.html

amazing what can be done in 34 takes!

@@TheSighphiguy LOL I was going to say - in my best directors voice - "Okay, take 132 - action!"

Living out there I was mostly thinking a good bucket might be hard to come by. One less on that ranch.

CGI....

Not to mention the one handed leap over the buckrail!!

As opposed to the 1930s and 1940s? Please...

Just two? The girl was the Laura San Giacomo from Just Shoot Me. She was ahead of Rickman on the Billing and Marquee.

@@buckhorncortez dafuq?

@@desertmulehunter Don't worry '91 kid, just an old guy who likes the past

Three if you count Laura San Giacomo who is a great television comic actress. Just Shoot Me is hilarious.

No he didn't ... there were 2 camera angles... 🙄

I noticed that, too. Great horsemanship. He was probably Australian. That's a problem with modern Westerns in America. Very few genuine riders. Not like before, when there was a rider for every horse. Now there might be 10,000 horses for each rider. Horsemanship is a lost art.

@@williamgunnarsson I'd say Aussie too - looks just like the riders in Man From Snowy River.

Jeremiah Johnson. Yeah.

Ravenous

Rio Bravo; Unforgiven

I'd put Tombstone in that category as well.

Not that it might mean a whole lot but I hunted deer where Jeremiah Johnson was filmed. Movie is priceless to me.

Shooting past 2-300 yards generally involves a bit of calculation and observation even on a shooting range. Past 5-600 you have to start accounting for how warm the ground is because the bullet is in flight for so long air rising/falling due to temperature has added up enough to make you miss. Past 1500 yards you start accounting for the compass direction because of the Coriolis effect of Earth's rotation.

THAT IS WHY IT'S CALLED ABOUT THERE 😂😁😅😆 Weed Me

Ah, overlooked details. Love it

True, but to be fair, Quigley steps two yards forward after testing wind speed and direction

Dear @@JonRobert 👍👌👏 LOL 😁😁😁 Best regards luck and health.

Kill joy 🤩.. piss on another parade

BAD. *ASS.*

L

What is the name of this film?

@@user-ex5tw5bp1y Quigley: Down Under

Quigley actually says NOPE by way of chucking Marston out his own window 😁 Love this movie ❤️

Never saw Tremors uh

I seem to recall hearing that Tom Selleck did all his own shooting in this movie

You must have had a poor film reseme then.

@@natashaspiner42 yeah I think that one falls into the Steven Seagal truths category 😂😂

This? Is your favorite scene of all time?? Lolol haven't scene many movies have you?

@JimoTex22 PTSD Not offhand and not with iron sights.

Oh, hell yes. I was a competition shooter for many years, and a very good one. This is merely fiction regarding the technology back then.

At that ranger the foresight on the rifle would have obscured the bucket.

@@ardshielcomplex8917 Not if you set your sights up properly.

@@jeffryhammel3035 That's what I keep saying....It's just a movie and ANY outcome can be what is written into the script, with any 'bad' scenes winding up on the cutting floor.

Needs a sequel.

There's a Tom Selleck movie I saw a long time ago called "High Road to China" but I'll be damned if I can find that movie anywhere. It's been forever.

@@KrK007 it’s on Amazon video. Gotta rent it thou.

@@KrK007 I like the name and premise more than film itself. I wish it was a little more adventuristic, like Alan Quartermain in King Solomon's Temple (but without the goofy theatrics). I felt like there wasn't enough action beats and the pacing was a little off. With a few better locations, slightly more expanded cinematography, and a couple more memorable action beats, I think it would have been a much better classic. Even still, it's an enjoyable enough film.

What are you talking about? 3 men and a baby was his best work!😂😉 That's a joke for anyone who might miss it....

Now that's funny!

Not minors! Miners!!

I grinned at some of the other funny comments ... and then I read this .... Comedy gold !!!!

Never give up. Never surrender!

Sir, definitely nailed it. Kudos.

Oh, you're missing out a lot. Find it, watch it. It's awesome.

It's indeed a must watch my friend.

Oooooh, probably never saw Jeremiah Johnson either, huh?

What's the movies title please anyone?

@@keppler629 Quigley Down Under; The title is in the description!

LOL

I first heard that comment in a fighter pilot briefing 38 years ago... “I was told there’d be no math...”

Yeah, well you were wrong.... 2+2 = Red fish blue fish... 1 fish 2 fish equals you're screwed

"Some people were born in the wrong century, I believe I was born on the wrong continent." "Oh! By the way, your fired!"

😁

Tom Selleck is 6'4", which means an average stride of 31 inches. I counted 8 steps, which makes that distance 7 yards, which makes the shot 775 yards, offhand. I think cutting 1% off the distance of the shot could be considered statistically insignificant...

775 + 85 yards the handler rode before heaing the signaling shot to drop the bucket. Total distance, 860 yards.

DeanMk1 Great Point! I thought about that myself. But I have a hard time believing the horse averaged 35 mph.

Why is that so hard to believe? Secretariat won the Kentucky Derby at an average speed of 37.69 mph in 1973, so it wouldn't be outside the realm of possibility.

Val D Mar - I already touched on that. As close as I could figure, it was an 867 yard shot (the acceleration/deacceleration of the horse, pretty much negating Sellecks steps towards the bucket).

His moustache will be preserved in a museum as a national treasure.

🤣🤣🤣

@@derrickdorsey247 no, it moves on to find its next host who it geants incedible powers.

Lol, Perhaps you are right. I can imagine it having the voice of Tom Selleck talking pure sh*t to it's host. 😂

Tom learned everything he knows about everything from Chuck Norris, who's been there done that before Tom was a thought in his Dad's wet dreams

haha i was saying dam thats a sparks for sure xD

Me with the Springfield xD

😆

Bwwwaaah! That gave me the best laugh of the week.

It took me sometime to figure out what he meant.

And I'll be sure to visit him if I ever needed a cup of water as well, lol!

🤔????? Huh

I remember as a poor kid in Canada in the 50's, most of the men I knew had British Lee Enfields for deer hunting. They were inexpensive. I remember a story my mum told me about her dad, my beloved grandpa. During the Depression, the only meat that went on the table was what you killed, so grandpa would go hunting with his rifle and one cartridge. He came home with either that cartridge, or a deer. When I was a kid there were many times when if we didn't eat venison, prairie chickens or rabbit, we didn't have meat with the meal. I don't recall too many meatless meals. We'd go hunting in the Willys - my mum would spot a rabbit, hang out the window and pop it with the 22. My job was to jump off the back tailgate, pick up the rabbit and lay it on newspaper on the tailgate. I was never fond of venison, but the way she cooked rabbit was delicious - in the pressure cooker on the wood stove. The local priest had ESBP - extra-sensory biscuit perception. Every time mum made baking powder biscuits, Father Leon would show up. We didn't have a phone - at that time we lived about 5 miles outside of town, with water my dad piped in from the creek, gravity fed, no electricity, a woodstove for heat and cooking (and a small firebox), and an outhouse. I remember that place with great fondness. On cold winter mornings, you got dressed in front of the open oven door. Otherwise, your buns froze off.

Не может быть!

You just relayed a 50 year old story about a guy who missed his target?

@@rickraber1249 I loved that biscuit perception line. Great writing.

@@Rhythmicons C'mon, Rhym. It was a good story.

whats it called?

@@user-rx3uq9fs2m Quigley down under.

He is truly missed. Great actor and unforgettable voice....

Hunting down in Georgia I’ve shot up to 300 yards but I’ve seen it done up to 650. 800 must be incredibly difficult

@@bloodredmooseisntshort4478 MUCH more difficult than I expected. I knew the variables but experiencing them was eye opening, no pun intended. I had much respect for long range shooters, Snipers. That respect went up 10 fold after the first 10 rounds I shot didn't hit anything! Number 11 was my first hit.

Ive been shooting long range rifle comps a long time, i still underestimate how much wind to move with the changes lol. At 800yrds, if you can see the wind change, give it a handfull of move instead of a few clicks . Not much more rewarding in the sport than putting all in the Vbull at 800 plus My best is 9/10 in the V at 900. ( peeps, prone, no rest, just elbows and sling )

Its a lot of fun getting into long range shooting, but my experience is with a 3-18x optic and 6.5 Creedmoor cartridges making wind holds way too easy. Can't imagine the skill it takes to shoot through good irons and a projectile with a far lower ballistic coefficient, let alone off-hand which I can barely manage 250yds with the 12lb rifle.

@@bloodredmooseisntshort4478 Once you know how, anything under 1000 yards really isn't that difficult, especially with certain calibers. The problem most people have is they use crap ammunition, they have a crap optic, or they didn't break in their barrel.