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  Frontierland Shootin' Arcade  

The FrontierLand Shootin' Arcade is a traditional Tombstone Arizona style shooting arcade. Gun positions overlook Boot Hill in the year 1850, complete with cemetery, jail, hotel and bank.

The very real looking hunting rifles are actually genuine .54 caliber Hawkins buffalo rifles, which have been refitted to shoot infra-red beams of light rather than pellets.

The are 97 targets to shoot at, and each reacts to being hit. Tombstones either rise, spin, sink, or change epitaphs. A ghost rider gallops across the sky when the cloud is hit, whilst a skull pops out of it's grave when a bulls eye on a nearby gravedigger's shovel is hit. The arcade has screaming ricochet's and howling coyotes provided for good measure courtesy of the sound system.

There's a $1.00 charge per 35 shots for the Shooting Arcade, to help stop people monopolizing it.

 
 

When the arcade first opened, real lead pellets were fired from the rifles at the targets. Other than the obvious safety concerns, in 1982 the rifles had to be refitted to no longer shoot these projectiles. The real reason they were modified was paint. Paint? Yup... because the pellets chipped the paint off the props in the attraction, it was necessary for Disney maintenance personnel to repaint the attraction every night. Over the course of a year, it amounted to over 2000 gallons of paint!

 
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