Tex Jones, SASS 2263 Posted April 9, 2015 Posted April 9, 2015 At home with a cold, so watching Tim Holt westerns on TCM. Tim's hiding in a store and breaks the widow to shoot at the bad guys. In the back, his partner Chico, opens the window to do the same. Tim just threw a bucket through the front window completely crashing through it to get a better shot at a guy. Didn't anybody tell him glass was expensive on the frontier.
Alpo Posted April 9, 2015 Posted April 9, 2015 I'm pretty sure this was Evil Roy Slade. He's in the ranch house, the posse is outside. He reaches up with his gun barrel to slap the window pane, to break the glass. The window is open. He closes the window, THEN slaps the pane, breaking it so he can shoot at the posse.
Badger Mountain Charlie SASS #43172 Posted April 9, 2015 Posted April 9, 2015 Well, he had to get the window open so the bullet could go through it. IF not, the bullet could bounce off the glass and ricochet all around the room.
Shawnee McGrutt Posted April 9, 2015 Posted April 9, 2015 It is more dramatic to brake out the window, then just opening it.
Blastmaster Posted April 9, 2015 Posted April 9, 2015 Breaking the glass is an honorable and a fair warning that I am going to shoot you in the back real soon. Nothing beats the Code of the West!
Charlie Whiskers Posted April 9, 2015 Posted April 9, 2015 Support your local Sheriff with James Garner, Jack Elam and Joan Hackett. When the gunfight starts with Walter Brenan and his family of bad guys, Joan runs into the hotel and instead of raising the double hung window to shoot her rifle out of, she breaks the glass out. Like that glass she didn't break out would stop a 45?
Widder, SASS #59054 Posted April 9, 2015 Posted April 9, 2015 They break the glass from the inside so the shots from the outside don't shatter them with that glass. its all logical to me..... ..........Widder
Blaze Kinkaid, SASS #253 Life/Reg Posted April 9, 2015 Posted April 9, 2015 Pards, as a retired Glazier I would have dropped the top sash and shot through that opening so I wouldn't have to bend over to shoot through the bottom opening. Plus this way I wouldn't have to re-glaze the sash. Just sayin' Blaze
Alpo Posted April 9, 2015 Posted April 9, 2015 If you lowered the top sash, then you'd have to stand to shoot out it. That means your body is exposed by the lower sash. While there is two thickness of glass to go through, I don't think they'd stop a bullet. And then both the upper AND the lower sash have broken panes. I don't think you thought that one through, Blaze.
Blaze Kinkaid, SASS #253 Life/Reg Posted April 10, 2015 Posted April 10, 2015 Alpo, but we are talking about Hollywood Western's here and they only shoot blanks :) just saying!
Alpo Posted April 11, 2015 Posted April 11, 2015 Well, for that matter, the glass is sugar, not glass.
Litl Red Posted April 11, 2015 Posted April 11, 2015 They want to tell their enemy to shift attention to their window in case they hadn't noticed. Then they take shelter behind the wooden clapboard walls.
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