WATCH: A Fun Day on the Range With the Henry Mare’s Leg

By Andy Grossman

From 1958 to 1961, Steve McQueen played bounty hunter Josh Randall in the TV series “Wanted: Dead or Alive.” I came across the show years ago and watched McQueen bring justice to TV’s banditos with a loop-levered Model 92 Winchester. It featured a shortened barrel and stock so it could be carried on the hip, like a pistol, carried in an open-sided holster. McQueen dubbed it the “Mare’s Leg” because, as an avid shooter in real life, he claimed that the pistol kicked like a mule. Steve McQueen made the Mare’s Leg look so cool I knew I had to get my hands on something like it.

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Source:: Tactical Life