{"id":1727,"date":"2023-12-16T08:02:24","date_gmt":"2023-12-16T08:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gunowner-news.com\/?p=1727"},"modified":"2023-12-16T08:02:24","modified_gmt":"2023-12-16T08:02:24","slug":"collectible-firearms-for-serious-gun-collectors-150","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunowner-news.com\/?p=1727","title":{"rendered":"Collectible Firearms for Serious Gun Collectors"},"content":{"rendered":"


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It may not leave a warm glow, show the joy of time spent with family and friends at the holidays, nor offer a redemption arc, falling far short of a Christmas movie<\/a>, but Sylvester Stallone\u2019s \u201cFirst Blood\u201d IS set at Christmastime.<\/p>\n

In some scenes, bare trees and snow can be seen, and prior to the small town sheriff\u2019s department getting shot up by John Rambo and his M60, Christmas decorations, like a small tree and a wreath over a door, can be spotted in background shots. As Rambo enters the town of Hope, Washington a sign over the roadway declares it \u201cGateway to Holidayland.\u201d<\/p>\n

There\u2019s not a whole lot of Christmas cheer to be found at the sheriff\u2019s department, from Sheriff Teasle who immediately drives Rambo out of town before arresting him, to the deputies that bully him, causing the Vietnam veteran to have a PTSD episode that leads to his escape and the ensuing manhunt.<\/p>\n

Though Rambo mostly takes on the sheriff and deputies with his survival knife, there is plenty of firepower to be found in \u201cFirst Blood,\u201d beyond the aforementioned M60. Let\u2019s take a look at the guns involved in this tale of a scruffy underdog sheriff\u2019s department that foolishly takes on a special forces Medal of Honor winner.<\/p>\n

Deputy Art Galt\u2019s Rifle<\/h3>\n

Deputy Galt who took a Billy club to Rambo in the police department, spurring the former Green Beret\u2019s escape, attempts to take a shot of him outside the station with his Winchester Model 88 but is stopped by Sheriff Teasle. As Rambo flees into the surrounding forests, Galt and his rifle take to the air where things end badly for the deputy.<\/p>\n

Pursued on the ground, Rambo is trapped by a sheer cliff into a gorge. He starts climbing down when a helicopter searching for the former Green Beret arrives on the scene with Galt riding in the passenger seat. Galt fires on Rambo who jumps, falling through several trees and cutting his arm before landing. Rambo grabs a rock as Galt continues shooting. Rambo hurls the rock at the helicopter, momentarily rattling the pilot and wobbling the aircraft and throwing Galt to his death on the rocks below. Rambo retrieves the hunting rifle.<\/p>\n

Rambo uses the rifle to shoot a dog tracker in the leg and some of his dogs before discarding it because the Winchester is out of ammo.<\/p>\n

Sheriff Deputies\u2019 M16A1s and AR15s<\/h3>\n

Trailing Rambo in the woods, the deputies open fire in full auto on a silhouette with their M16A1s only to learn it is a scarecrow. One deputy says, \u201cWe ain\u2019t hunting him, he\u2019s hunting us.\u201d Soon the deputies are chasing shadows, opening up occasionally with their rifles but unable to find their quarry. He stabs a deputy in the leg, disables another, and subdues and ties up a third.<\/p>\n

After incapacitating several deputies in the forest with little more than his knife and his wits, Rambo confronts the sheriff, played by Brian Dennehy, holding a knife to his throat and growls a warning, \u201cDon\u2019t push it or I\u2019ll give you a war you won\u2019t believe. Let it go. Let it go.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rambo recovers an M16A1 from one of the deputies and later fires on police and the National Guard at an abandoned mine.<\/p>\n

Later in the movie, as Rambo drives an Army truck through a road block deputies and state police officers fire on him with AR-15s but are unable to stop him.<\/p>\n

Sheriff Teasle\u2019s Heckler & Koch<\/h3>\n

As the sheriff and his deputies fan out in the woods, the sheriff is carrying a Heckler & Koch HK93A2. Like all of the deputies, he is disarmed and confronted by Rambo who gives him a dire warning that Teasle fails to heed.<\/p>\n

Police Smith & Wesson Revolvers<\/h3>\n

When Sheriff Teasle heads out of the sheriff\u2019s department in the morning he carries his trusty Model 66. He greets several townfolk as he gets into his squad car. A short time later, he runs across John Rambo walking through town and takes note of the long hair and worn Army jacket.<\/p>\n

The sheriff offers a ride and the two chat. Rambo wants a bite to eat and the sheriff tells him there\u2019s a good diner in the next town about 30 miles away. Asked if there was a place to eat in Hope, the lawman says no. \u201cWe don\u2019t want guys like you in this town.\u201d<\/p>\n

Confronted by deputies after taking an Army truck with an M60, they fire their Model 10 revolvers at Rambo from their squad car before he forces the deputies off the road, slamming their police unit into a parked vehicle.<\/p>\n

M60<\/h3>\n

The M60 is on the movie poster with a belt of ammo draped over Rambo\u2019s shoulder showing it is nearly as much a star of the film as Stallone.<\/p>\n

After Rambo jumps onto an Army truck as the movie heads to its conclusion, he learns from the soldier driving, before assisting him out of the truck, that an M60 is mounted in the truck bed. Crashing into a gas station\u2019s pumps, Rambo removes the machine gun from its mount and fires at the pooling gasoline to create an explosion.<\/p>\n

Rambo finds the sheriff atop the police station building and slowly stalks him, shooting out transformers to knock out power and darken the sheriff\u2019s office. Rambo ultimately uses the M60 to wound Teasle who falls through a skylight.<\/p>\n

Ready to continue the fight, Rambo is confronted by Col. Sam Trautman, his former commanding officer in Vietnam who talks him into surrender. Trautman, played by Richard Crenna, arrived in the small town trying to warn the sheriff and his men about the danger of Rambo, telling them, \u201cI didn\u2019t come to rescue Rambo from you. I came here to rescue you from him.\u201d<\/p>\n

Col. Trautman\u2019s M1911A1<\/h3>\n

Don\u2019t remember this pistol in the movie? For good reason as the end veers away from the book\u2019s ending. In David Morell\u2019s 1972 book, \u201cFirst Blood,\u201d on which the movie is based, Trautman fatally shoots Rambo. A similar scene in the sheriff\u2019s department using an M1911A1 was filmed for the movie but discarded.<\/p>\n

Director Ted Kotcheff recalled the moment after filming the scene that Stallone took him aside. Stallone said, \u201cYou know, Ted, we put this character through so much. The police abuse him. He\u2019s pursued endlessly. Dogs are sent after him. He jumps off cliffs. He runs through freezing water. He\u2019s shot in the arm and he has to sew it up himself. All this, and now we\u2019re gonna kill him?\u201d<\/p>\n

Kotcheff agreed and went to the producers with the idea that Rambo would be walked out of the sheriff\u2019s department by Trautman. The producers initially concerned about going over budget resisted, but Kotcheff and Stallone won out and shot the scene right after filming the initial ending. The producers played the original ending for test audiences who hated it. The movie opened in theaters with Kotcheff and Stallone\u2019s ending.<\/p>\n

\u201cUnhappy endings are intellectual endings. But happy endings are popular endings,\u201d the director told Entertainment Weekly in 2017. \u201cTo which I might add, for Andy Vajna and Mario Kassar, who produced three Rambo sequels: Profitable endings, too!\u201d<\/p>\n

The original scene was used as one of Rambo\u2019s nightmares in \u201cRambo: First Blood Part II.\u201d<\/p>\n

First Blood as a Christmas Movie<\/h3>\n

While it is set around Christmas, \u201cFirst Blood\u201d fails to offer any of the tropes required to make it a Christmas movie<\/a> other than a lot of evergreen trees, some decorations, and a hint of snow. That said it is definitely a fun but intense watch with its gunplay and action, truly a departure from stop-animation classics, Bing Crosby and nativity sets. Plus, most would agree that no one wants to see a wronged John Rambo coming down their chimney on Christmas Eve.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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