Here is a post from over at the Eastwood Webboard that talks about Tucos Gun:
From D'Ambrosia:
The whole reason Tuco puts together his gun in the store is so it is capable of fireing metal catridges. As the owner of the store starts pulling out several guns, Tuco simply takes the best part of each gun and puts together his own. Tuco's gun from GBU. Navy colt trigger, Smith and Wesson cylinder, and a Ferrote barrel. BTW that Smith and Wesson model Tuco takes the cylinder from did in fact fire metal cartriges (Very rare for the time.)
You see Tuco looking though the holes of the cylinder of the Smith and Wesson. You would not be able to do that with any cap and ball model... It's a point to establish, yes breechloaders were rare back then, but not non-existent.
I think Smith and Wesson came out with that model in 51 or 52.
Now at the time you could convert Navy Colts (1851 models) to fire metal cartidges(Blondys gun), very expensive like cigar joe said, but for people whose whole lives depended on rapid fire succession, that was the ticket.
-But after that scene, all the other shots of Tuco with his gun, it looks to me as if he has a Remmington... But it's all good...
What do you think?
