{"id":27376,"date":"2025-07-11T06:05:16","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T11:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/11\/the-story-of-steve-mcqueens-mares-leg\/"},"modified":"2025-07-11T06:05:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T11:05:16","slug":"the-story-of-steve-mcqueens-mares-leg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/11\/the-story-of-steve-mcqueens-mares-leg\/","title":{"rendered":"The Story of Steve McQueen&#8217;s Mare&#8217;s Leg"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mejs-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"autoplay\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/M4vXcDNITBU?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Steve McQueen is the King of Cool and he got his start with a couple of guest spots on the TV show &#8220;Trackdown.&#8221; On that old Western, he was armed with a unique Winchester 1892 he called his &#8220;Mare&#8217;s Leg.&#8221; The weapon helped call attention to his character, bounty hunter Josh Randall, and eventually led to his own series, &#8220;Wanted: Dead or Alive.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>It was his breakthrough to stardom. It was the first ever mare&#8217;s leg, a design that still rears its head in today&#8217;s pistol-grip shotguns. Much like the man who used it, the mare&#8217;s leg spawned legions of imitators, but nothing compares to the original, screen-used mare&#8217;s leg of Steve McQueen. <\/p>\n<p>Follow us!<br \/>Email: <a href=\"http:\/\/eepurl.com\/cg4yPb\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/eepurl.com\/cg4yPb<\/a><br \/>Facebook: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/RockIslandAuctionCompany\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/RockIslandAuctionCompany<\/a><br \/>Instagram: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/rockislandauction\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/rockislandauction\/<\/a><br \/>Twitter: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RIauction\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/RIauction<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve McQueen is the King of Cool and he got his start with a couple of guest spots on the TV show &#8220;Trackdown.&#8221; On that old Western, he was armed with a unique Winchester 1892 he called his &#8220;Mare&#8217;s Leg.&#8221; The weapon helped call attention to his character, bounty hunter Josh Randall, and eventually led&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/11\/the-story-of-steve-mcqueens-mares-leg\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Story of Steve McQueen&#8217;s Mare&#8217;s Leg<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":27377,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[89,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-content","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27376\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}