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No its not!!! How can you say its make believe? Everytime on TV is real, aint it???
Clint Eastwood's 44 Magnum
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As long as we're bringing up an old thread -- an old letter:
In the June, 1988 Guns & Ammo, Jan Libourel featured a letter from one Greg Roberts, of Roberts Custom Guns, then of Oak Harbor, WA stating …
“While Sudden Impact was being filmed in Santa Cruz. California, I had the opportunity to repair two Model 29s that were used in the "Dirty Harry" films. Both were 6 ½ inch and were not .44 Magnums. The cylinders had been punched out to .45 Long Colt because of the availability of .45 LC blanks in the special effects department.”
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The really important question, of course, is "5 or 6?"
In the June, 1988 Guns & Ammo, Jan Libourel featured a letter from one Greg Roberts, of Roberts Custom Guns, then of Oak Harbor, WA stating …
“While Sudden Impact was being filmed in Santa Cruz. California, I had the opportunity to repair two Model 29s that were used in the "Dirty Harry" films. Both were 6 ½ inch and were not .44 Magnums. The cylinders had been punched out to .45 Long Colt because of the availability of .45 LC blanks in the special effects department.”
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The really important question, of course, is "5 or 6?"
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A friend's father is an old prop master and he confirmed that until the late 1980's 44 mag guns were modified to fire 45LC blanks. It is still possible to find an old Colt or Great Western revolver that will hold 45LC blanks and have a 38 spl opening at the front of the cylinder.
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I wouldn't call 6'2" diminutive
That is just camera magic...Clint is actually 4'8" tall (and Sondra Locke is only 2' tall!), and they used a North American Arms .22 revolver painted black. All of the other actors walked in trenches during filming just to make Clint look tall...Hollywood is tricky!
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That is just camera magic...Clint is actually 4'8" tall (and Sondra Locke is only 2' tall!), and they used a North American Arms .22 revolver painted black. All of the other actors walked in trenches during filming just to make Clint look tall...Hollywood is tricky!
This actually makes as much sense as these tired rumors repeated ad nauseum that the guns were 45 colts and 41 magnums
.It's has been documented to death but this tripe persists in perpetuation . . . .
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"One thing Eastwood's character admitted in Magnum Force was that he had it loaded with .44 special rounds."
In the indoor range sequence, Callahan is asked what kind of load he uses in "that" .44. His reply was "a light special" which gives more control in that sized gun than a .357 magnum with wadcutters. He didn't say that they were .44 Specials.
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also indoor ranges, atleast the one I go to will not allow the use of .44 magnum indoors for the fear of it possibly coming back at the shooter when it hits the backdrop.
even with that shield in the back before the wall.
after all that energy has to go somewhere and get absorbed by something, and a solid wall with a carpet like substance may not be able to properly absorb the energy.
where as an outdoor berm or wood will.
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I like to think I know a bit about M29s. I've had them in 8 3/8, 6 1/2 and 6 inch barrels. Callahan uses a 6 1/2" in every movie but the last one, when a 6'' was used. He lost his gun in the bomb at the end of Magnum Force, and when it was kicked into the ocean near the end of Sudden Impact. By '88, when The Dead Pool came out S&W no longer made the 29 in 6 1/2'' so Harry took one with a 6''. All blue steel and all 6 1/2" till the last flick. And I'm tired of pointing this out...
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As big a fan of DH as I am, I have to chuckle at the sound track when he shot those light loads.
They were ALWAYS magnums on the sound track.
They were ALWAYS magnums on the sound track.
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Now that is one creepy woman and one scary movie....I still get upset just thinking about her and that knife. Saw it on the big screen in a dark theater on a date with my girl . She didn't like the movie either. Been married 41 years now!
Some times when she's in the kitchen , cutting up something for dinner I'll ask her if she wants me to "play misty for her" she gives me "The Look" .
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You dug up a 4 year old thread that nobody had posted to in 2 years for this?
Really, how can a topic on Dirty Harry NOT be relevant?
For your info, the DH M29s were from a prop house in Hollywood by the name of Ellis Mercantile, I know cause that's where I started my TA business in the 80s.
The 29s were 6 1/2", I shot them.
Since the 1950s the blank used is called a 5in1.
It fits the 44 mag, 44 special, 45 Colt, 44-40 and 38-40 (maybe he confused this round although a 38-40 is actually close to 40 caliber..)
It wasn't till the mid 90s that more individual blanks were made, in fact 5in1s are still used, alot.
Used them two weeks ago on "BONES".
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No one asked but I watched Dirty Harry on my VCR and counted the number of rounds in the opening sequence. Four.
Watch it again.
The first two shots are obvious. Then you hear, but do not see him fire at the car as it starts to drive away/towards him, shot #3. Then you see him shoot, two times at the car, #'s 4 and 5. Finally, when the car is on its side, the last bad guy out of the bank gets round #6.
Then again, the bad guy jumping out of the car, once it is on it's side, gets off a shot too. That actually adds to the confusion.
I just dug out, and watched this movie (again) the day before this thread started, a classic.
I did the round count thing too.
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Pause the DVD at 14:02 to 14:03. Advance 1 frame at a time.
At 14:04, the pin is extremely obvious. It shows up easily again at 14:32
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