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9 unusual facts about The Wild Bunch


Cowboy Action Shooting

:*Wild Bunch – based on popular Western film "The Wild Bunch"; shooters use Colt 1911 pistol instead of revolvers, use lever action rifles, and use Winchester Model 1897 shotgun instead of double-barreled shotgun.

One variant of CAS currently sanctioned by SASS is Wild Bunch Action Shooting, inspired by the famous Western film.

Cowboy Mounted Shooting

Single Action Semiautomatic firearms, also known as self-cocking firearms, are also allowed in special military cavalry and Wild Bunch events (named after the 1969 Western movie of the same name that used more modern firearms).

For a Few Paintballs More

The episode also spoofed a number of gun-wielding action movies such as The Wild Bunch, Mr. & Mrs. Smith and Wanted.

James Dannaldson

The Wild Bunch (1969) (provided ants, scorpions, and vultures)

Junior Bonner

He accepted the project, concerned with being typed as a director of violent action (at the time, The Wild Bunch was his most renowned film and Straw Dogs was in preparation to be released to theaters).

Mario Adorf

He also turned down the role of General Mapache in Sam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch (1969), because he felt the character was too violent.

Rising Up Angry

With profiles of figures such as Malcolm X and Fred Hampton, John Dillinger, Bonnie and Clyde, reviews of the Rolling Stones, Stevie Wonder and The Wild Bunch, Rising Up Angry mixed political and cultural commentary with cartoons, montages, discussions of motorcycles and custom cars, with histories of labor activism and guerrilla warfare.

Zen Circus

Andate tutti affanculo was acclaimed as one of the best albums of the year, and appeared on the cover of September's monthly musical The Wild Bunch.



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Cameron McVey

In 1986, as half of duo Morgan-McVey, he released the single "Looking Good Diving", whose B-side "Looking Good Diving with the Wild Bunch" would later be reworked into Neneh Cherry's 1988 single "Buffalo Stance".

George Newcomb

The Wild Bunch had its origins following the Dalton Gang's botched train robbery in Adair, Oklahoma Territory, on July 15, 1892, in which two guards and two townsmen, both doctors, were wounded.

Jennings Gang

The gang originated in Oklahoma, following the downfall of the Wild Bunch at the hands of three Deputy US Marshals, Heck Thomas, Bill Tilghman, and Chris Madsen.

L. Q. Jones

He was frequently cast alongside his close friend, Strother Martin, most memorably in The Wild Bunch.

Wild Bunch

On April 3, 1895, the Wild Bunch, without Doolin, held up a Rock Island train at Dover but were unable to open the safe with the $50,000 army payroll.

The Wild Bunch had its origins following the Dalton Gang's botched train robbery in Adair, Oklahoma Territory, on July 15, 1892, in which two guards and two townspeople, both doctors, were wounded.

William Dalton

William M. Dalton (1866–1894), Old West outlaw, co-leader of the Wild Bunch gang