A Christmas Story movie gun

Yes a 111 40 is pictured here above. I get that. I'm referring to the gun Ralphie takes out the box Christmas morning... Look at that ones cocking lever screw. It's a 1938 with painted bands. Both models were used in the movie. He has that 111 40 in bed with him at the very end of the movie. That's it. Far as I can tell

  I've noticed that all the movie prop guns had the compass and sundial on the right side and the Daisy guns that were released to the public all have them on the left side.  Even the Buck Jones Special had them on the left side.  So the movie props were made special so not to be linked by something else in production and also unique in design.  

I talked to Joe Murfin, Daisy Museum curator, yesterday by phone. He later sent me his notes from interviews he did with Orin Ribar and John Ford.  Orin fabricated a prototype for the movie gun.  That gun is now in the Daisy Museum.  John Ford then made three prop guns which were sent to the movie folks.  These three guns were No. 1938s.  He also noted that Ralphie (Peter Billingsley) is left handed, which is obvious in the movie.  The snow scene at the end of the movie, where Ralphie aims the rifle, clearly shows the rear sight which has the small v-notch of the 1938 rather than the stepped rear sight of a No. 111, Model 40.  Regarding the scene at the end where Ralphie is holding "old blue" in bed, I cannot tell which model that gun is.  Interestingly to me, I learned yesterday that most of the movie was shot in Canada.  Only two of the nine shootings were done in Cleveland.

Ed,

I vote an early gun for the museum piece and a later model for Christmas morning in the movie.   I'm of the opinion that this being a low budget film, and not much being specified for the rifle, the thinking was "anything goes ".