I have a chance to purchase a FIE Titan Tiger 38. spl Revolver. from a local gun shop. it is in good condition and is marked at $200 is this a good price and can anyone else tell me anything about it? I know that it was a revolver used in the original dawn of the dead. There is someone else coming to look at it on Thursday so I would like to get some info

Greg

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150 would be a better price if it is the one I am thinking of. I'm thinking of the Arminius ones with Zamak frames from Germany. I think some FIE revolvers were actually Taurus or Rossi products at one point, but I'm not sure of that.

Assuming it is one of the Arminius, they usually work, more or less. A step up from an RG at least.

They had mostly cheap guns and blank firing replicas in original Dawn of the Dead.

What are you going to use it for?

A Nagant revolver would be cheap, and ironically, better built/more useful possibly.

I was thing of those RG (Rotten Guns) revolvers. Made in Germany of the finest zinc.

Lemme get this right, they are going to pay you $200.00 to take this off their hands?

Cheapskates - hold out for $300.00 - - - - - Oh you mean they want YOU to pay $200.00.

My brother in arms take your wallet and slowly back away and no one (meaning you) will be hurt.

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I had one for a while, used it as a canoeing gun, no loss if the boat capsized.

It did shoot amazingly well and accurate....

I paid $65 for it...

FIE? Run away, far away, as fast as you can! I had one word for them when I owned my gun shop - junk. If you want to buy a junk revolver, get a Taurus, at least it probably won't blow up in your hands. $200 for pot metal cast junk? That shop should be ashamed. Oh, did I mention that I don't care for FIE guns? Remember, friends don't let friends buy, or shoot, FIE guns.

Firearms International Exportation use to import guns from Brazil. Pretty bad guns. A friend had an FIE O/U back in the late 70's with non-working safety. I use to shoot a 410 for skeet with a very heavy trigger pull. We took it to a gun smith to lighten it up but he would not touch it. He claimed the metal was so poor that it was liable to fail on us. Never shot it again.

That is the one thing that makes me leery on buying guns from a third world nation like Philippines, Turkey or Russia, its not the design or machining; its the quality of the metal.

On Zamak guns, it is the frame that will be an alloy. The cylinders and bbls are steel. Any that come out of Germany - including the RGs, Arminius, et al - will have had to pass German proof testing. The frames may crack eventually, and probably will if used heavily, but there ought be relatively little risk of one exploding or anything of that nature.

The Russians and Turks tend to use good quality steel in their guns. The Turks have been making guns longer than just about anybody. Turkey is part of the EU and Nato and isn't a Third World nation. Nor is Russia. Rather than being known for failing, Russian guns are in fact mostly know for being the sort of thing one can fix with a hammer or use as a hammer should the need arise.

A German revolver with a Zamak frame - assuming it is in good condition - the thing to watch for would actually be reliable primer detonation in double action mode and does it spit or shave lead. Many of them seem to go bang best when used as single actions.

In .22 LR - and to some extent .32 SW and .32 SW Long - chamber pressures are low and Zamak guns will last a long time, if not indefinitely.

Some Arminius guns, including their .357, are actually steel frames. These are still imported on and off by EAA.

Spend the few extra bucks and get a police trade in Smith and Wesson. Enough said,

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For slightly less than that you can probably find one of those police trade-in Taurus that have hit the market recently.

Gave my FIE Brazil .38sp to a SIL, got it & gave it for $0, better than no gun at all. Think they sold for $50 new back in the day. Bud's, J&G Model 10's the way to go.

Thanks for the good advice, knowing this I will not buy the revolver unless,They are paying me to take it off their hands.

To answer an earlier question I was just looking for a fun revolver to shoot, and Dawn of the Dead being one of my favorite movies I thought it would kind of be sentimental but not for $200

Thanks as always Greg

Not to hijack your thread, but that was one of the disappointments of the original movie. They did it on a shoestring budget. FIE .38's and Jager AP74's for SWAT weapons. If you look closely you can see the actual .22 magazine in the base of the fake mags in the AP74's. I had one of those guns for a short time and it never did fire a whole mag without jamming.

Tom Savini did purchase - and apparently still owns - the deer rifle featured in one scene though. Where the hunter guy goes prone and shoots some zombies stumbling along nearby. It has given him years of good service. He mentions it on the DVD commentary of one of the versions.

Fans of the film could avail themselves of a Savage 99 and still get a nice weapon as well.

And Flyguy's .22 SA that he finds in the drawer was an imported ancestor to the current Heritage Rough Riders, those generally work and give good service.