distance  shots, you can see Shane West (qv)s (Tom Sawyer) arm and shoulder  shaking from the strain of holding the gun. He says on the cast  commentary that he was quite embarrassed because  Sean Connery (qv), who was nearing seventy, seemed to have no  problem holding the solid wood and metal gun while firing a shot,  whereas he, in his early twenties, found it incredibly heavy and  strained to hold it still while aiming at the target.