29Wheelgunner
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This is my take on it also.
Dirty Harry's 29 doesn't work right..
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This is my take on it also.
Andy Taylor
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I always love it when they cock a hammer on a Glock.
Alx
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Another sop to the impressionable and ignorant viewing public, is the screen practice of racking the 1911, or shotgun, in the middle of the plot action. Gotta hear the gun being jacked. The gunshooter is ready to shoot, or has just taken a few shots, and after a sneaky pause, he readies his gun by racking the slide again, but they don't show the already chambered bullet being ejected whole, and wasted. Or if the gun was not chambered, why was the shooter acting like he was prepared to shoot it, then racking it again just for effect ? Even if I don't have a 1911, everyone knows that serious gunners always carry it loaded, chambered, cocked-and-locked.
REDTAIL
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Alittle side step here on Dirty Harry Warner books had a series of Dirty Harry paperback Novels about 15 of them at the time I
bought each book as it came out every few months they are in mint condition, I was just wondering if any one else on the forum has any of these paper backs from Warner books & what they would be worth to a collector, I have read mine maby once or twice and stored them away in new to mint condition
Glock 'em down
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Just typical "movie magic" I guess.
Kinda like when John Wayne puts his arm around the Vietnamese boy in "The Green Berets" and watches the sunset into the ocean.
Uh...Hello? There's no WEST coast in Vietnam!
Kinda like when John Wayne puts his arm around the Vietnamese boy in "The Green Berets" and watches the sunset into the ocean.
Uh...Hello? There's no WEST coast in Vietnam!
Bullseye 2620
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Here is a video clip of John Milius with THE Dirty Harry 6-1/2 inch Model 29. I know it made me buy a Model 29, and a Model 57, and then a couple of more of each just to make sure I got it right.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltBhm64WrQQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltBhm64WrQQ
JoeS
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You are a weenie, with a weenie Model 29.
Harry obviously ain't no weenie. You probably also cant shoot one handed, across a football field, hit him in the leg and flip him end over end. I know this 'cause i'm a weenie too. I also can't hit a bucket offhand with my sharps at 1000 yards (or whatever it is) like Quigley.
In the theater in 1971, there were five shots.
The recent issue DVD added a shot, and even Milius would appear to have given up arguing the point.
I've seen edited for TV versions with four shots. That's really confusing.
"Harry" fires SA all through the first movie. Cocked on sixth round, he lowers the hammer, then cocks again to click on the empty.
Even if "Harry" didn't know whether he fired five or six, he would know that he was going to click empty after re-cocking.
As I always say, if he didn't know whether or not he was about to fire a round, he was a psychopath. If he knew he was going to click on an fired chamber, he merely had an impish sense of humor.
The recent issue DVD added a shot, and even Milius would appear to have given up arguing the point.
I've seen edited for TV versions with four shots. That's really confusing.
"Harry" fires SA all through the first movie. Cocked on sixth round, he lowers the hammer, then cocks again to click on the empty.
Even if "Harry" didn't know whether he fired five or six, he would know that he was going to click empty after re-cocking.
As I always say, if he didn't know whether or not he was about to fire a round, he was a psychopath. If he knew he was going to click on an fired chamber, he merely had an impish sense of humor.
I think it was always clear that the Callahan character knew his .44 wouldn't fire. You have to remember the bank robber had just shot Harry with his shotgun, so the impulse to mess with the guy might be irresistable.
Texas Star
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This is a little diffferent, but rather funny...
I am a big fan of a TV series that was called The Lost World. The male lead, Lord John Roxton (Will Snow), used a .416 Rigby rifle as well as several Colt and Webley handguns. And there were resin or plastic dummies of the guns, used in scenes where he didn't have to fire them. Safer for the actors, and the studio didn't have to pay the gun rental place on some filming days.
Anyway, in one scene, Roxton finds his friend Prof. Challenger out cold on the floor of a cavern. He kneels to help him and sets down the .416. He must have dropped it the last couple or three inches, and one distinctly hears the sound of a plastic rifle on the stone floor!
I re-ran the DVD again to be sure.
In another episode, cutie chick Finn (Lara Cox)has one of Roxton's MK VI .455 Webleys tucked into her brief black shorts. Runs, etc. A real Webley would be too heavy, so she must have had the plastic one. (She later fired the real one.)
Another scene showed Finn holding the cocked Webley, then spinning the cylinder! They must have removed a part or two for that scene...
It is just amazing what gun foolery one sees on the screen.
Finn was presumably checking to see how many shots she had left. But even if she COULD spin the cylinder that way, all that she'd see are the case rims. She'd have to open the gun and see which primers had been hit by the firing pin. But directors like to use dramatic techniques, even when gunwise viewers will notice the silliness of the scene.
T-Star
I am a big fan of a TV series that was called The Lost World. The male lead, Lord John Roxton (Will Snow), used a .416 Rigby rifle as well as several Colt and Webley handguns. And there were resin or plastic dummies of the guns, used in scenes where he didn't have to fire them. Safer for the actors, and the studio didn't have to pay the gun rental place on some filming days.
Anyway, in one scene, Roxton finds his friend Prof. Challenger out cold on the floor of a cavern. He kneels to help him and sets down the .416. He must have dropped it the last couple or three inches, and one distinctly hears the sound of a plastic rifle on the stone floor!
I re-ran the DVD again to be sure.
In another episode, cutie chick Finn (Lara Cox)has one of Roxton's MK VI .455 Webleys tucked into her brief black shorts. Runs, etc. A real Webley would be too heavy, so she must have had the plastic one. (She later fired the real one.)
Another scene showed Finn holding the cocked Webley, then spinning the cylinder! They must have removed a part or two for that scene...
It is just amazing what gun foolery one sees on the screen.
Finn was presumably checking to see how many shots she had left. But even if she COULD spin the cylinder that way, all that she'd see are the case rims. She'd have to open the gun and see which primers had been hit by the firing pin. But directors like to use dramatic techniques, even when gunwise viewers will notice the silliness of the scene.
T-Star
ElToro
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whats funny is the "i gots to know" big black guy appears in the first 3 movies. as differnt characters.
movie continuity flubs make me laugh. quite bit on youtube. star wars has many.
was watching "Saving Private Ryan" last nite on TNT and the shootout at the end where Barry Pepper is the US sniper in the belltower with the 03 Springfield. seems like that thing had about a 10 round mag... otherwise thats a pretty good movie.
movie continuity flubs make me laugh. quite bit on youtube. star wars has many.
was watching "Saving Private Ryan" last nite on TNT and the shootout at the end where Barry Pepper is the US sniper in the belltower with the 03 Springfield. seems like that thing had about a 10 round mag... otherwise thats a pretty good movie.
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Thank you for that. The crazy rumors of what Clint Eastwood actually carried have run rampant, and it seems that no matter how well documented and no matter what authoritative source is quoted, it seems that people would just rather repeat the lies and rumors than just let it go.
You are correct. A pair of 29-2s in 44 magnum with 6 1/2 inch barrels were assembled, most likely by Archie Dubia, and the fact that 44 magnum models were actually used has been confirmed by John Milius, the director of the film. I have seen one of the two.
Roy Jinks published a small blurb in the S&W Collectors Association Journal confirming that an 8 3/8 inch Model 29 in 44 magnum was provided as a photo prop for the pictures used on the movie poster for, I believe, The Dead Pool, or it could have been the one before The Dead Pool, I cannot remember, and do not wish to go dig it up and look for it.
Thus, for seemingly the one thousandth time, it was not a Model 25, 27, 28, 19, or any other model. It was, in fact, a Model 29, 6 1/2 inch barrel, in - drum roll - 44 magnum, not 45 to use movie blanks, not any other caliber, no tricks, no bull.
Glock Holiday
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What about when they run an empty automatic to slidelock and then dub in the "click click" sound of a wheelgun that has fired all the cartridges in it once already? Usually the bad guy then looks at the gun and hurls it at the cop or good guy.
That always gets me.
That always gets me.
Originally posted by Wayne M:
Everyone should learn to disengage the safety on their revolver as they draw.
Didn't have to on my 29-2, 37 or C*** Diamondback .22. Austin Behlert did it for me when he did action jobs on those three guns. I replaced them, of course, and it didn't make any difference to the trigger pull.
model10
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well that is hollywood for you from a bunch of libitrtls (sp)
