Had Hollywood effected your guns?

No, not really. Other than referring to any 8 3/8 M29 as a "Dirty Harry.":cool:

I would actually be more likely to steer away from anything made popular by Hollywood.
 
Fishslayer said:
No, not really. Other than referring to any 8 3/8 M29 as a "Dirty Harry.":cool:

I would actually be more likely to steer away from anything made popular by Hollywood.
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The problem is we buy from advertisments as well as movies. The ads are written by people who do not own the products, have never used the products but simply gets paid to write something that will get your attention to buy a certain product.

Many years ago I knew a man from CA that had an interesting job in the movies. It was his job to sell visual time for products. It may have been as simple as placing a particular brand of smokes on a table in a movie so people will notice them. Or have the star drink a certain brand beer on screen. He got paid well to get sponsors for prop time.

The same happens in NASCAR. Think of the air time a sponsor gets when their brand name is on the hood of a popular driver. Anyone that ever watched a NASCAR race can name at least four sponsors present during a race. Dale Jr was running Budweiser on his car a few years ago. It was estimated that doing so gave Budweiser 84 minutes of commerical air time during a race.

Now I am wondering why none of the gun makers are on the hood of an auto.
 
May have said this before on here. Worked as a C.O. after I got out of the Marines, and we used S&W .38's as duty guns. Thought the were just fantastic. I've liked Smiths ever since. I will admit that I do notice what the guys / ladies are using on tv and movies now.
Cracked up last week when " Bones " stuck the .500 in the guys face last week.
 
Jack Webb and Dragnet are responsible for a Colt Det. Special and a S&W model 36 Chiefs Special. He used both at different times in the show.

Quigley ended up costing me over $1300, but it is one beautiful rifle!

Dirty Harry didn't cost me as much, but I had to have a model 29!

Don't even get me started with the Westerns!


WG840
 
oldman45 said:
Many years ago I knew a man from CA that had an interesting job in the movies. It was his job to sell visual time for products. It may have been as simple as placing a particular brand of smokes on a table in a movie so people will notice them. Or have the star drink a certain brand beer on screen. He got paid well to get sponsors for prop time.
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Legend has it that ET was originally supposed to have a thing for M&Ms. They said "no" so Reeses Pieces it was.

The Coors people were a bit smarter.:D

Today's tacticool, black blocky looking semiauto's are pretty much indistinguishable from each other. At least to me.

Now... Sonny Crocket & his 4506...:cool:
 
oldman45 said:
It may have been as simple as placing a particular brand of smokes on a table in a movie so people will notice them. Or have the star drink a certain brand beer on screen. He got paid well to get sponsors for prop time.
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One of the responsibilities of our Los Angeles reps was to get products on the sets so they'd end up on the screen. Reps liked it because they got to be around all the glamour of the studios. Not sure it ever generated any business but everybody figured it couldn't hurt.

Hollywood has never been something to imitate for me regarding anything. Except Sip of course...he's my hero.:D

Bob
 
Hollywood has never been something to imitate for me regarding anything. Except Sip of course...he's my hero.

Well that is a given!
 
Doesnt Ruger have a Nascar sponsorship ?

interesting thing about Indiana Jones' pick of weapons. i would have stayed with the 1917 myself. that webely... not so much

i would go for a nice EBR like in Heat

or the boys on the Ponderosa packing 1873 Colts and even later made Winchesters when the time period is 1860s nevada

ALthough that rifle in Shooter is prety cool.
 
Just the fact that all of us can identify weapons from various shows proves Hollywood has an effect on us even when it does not affect our purchasing.
 
Yes, well kind of. I bought a Walther PP and was never more disappointed with a pistol. It bit the hand that fed it and the DA trigger pull was heavy. I wonder how 007 could shoot that thing so well.
I always wanted a M1 rifle and bought the first before the Saving Private Ryan buyers ran the prices up.
 
Not yet, and I've seen a lot of movies with guns in them. I usually follow my own leads on what I like.

Going the other direction, I am surprised that I have not seen flicks that feature some of my favorite guns. A 296 would be an eye-catching sidearm in a modern crime drama, for example.

But honesty compels: there was some exotic adventure flick in the 1950s -- maybe King Solomon's Mines, or Harry Black and the Tiger, or something like that -- where the lead character carried a Mannlicher-Schoenauer carbine with the simultaneously curved and flattened bolt handle. I have always wanted one of those just for their stylishness but never got around to hunting one down. And now there is one coming up at an auction near me next month. I wonder...
 
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You can see one of the Dirty Harry guns in the Nranews.com thread down the page from this one. It's on loan to the NRA Museum from John Milius.

Bob
 
Mannlicher-Schoenauer; yeah, I do remember Peter Lawford landing on the beach on D-Day carrying one in "The Longest Day" and thinking that was pretty cool.
 
Only one influence from a "movie" gun. That was the 4" 2nd model 45/455 that Indiana Jones had.

Actually if you read about the guns used they were two heavily modified 455s I believe.

Several of you have mentioned Sonney Crockett's 4506. But that wasn't the first firearm he carried on Miami Vice. Anybody remember what he had before the S&W?

Dave
 
44 Dave.. he packed a Bren-Ten, except in the pilot he had a sig220. id rather have the car he drove even if it was a rebodied caorvette. think Tubbs had the NFA paperwork for that shorty 12 gauge ?

DCW- i'd love to get a manlicher in a useful (read commonly available) caliber with the full mannlicher stock and double set triggers and the butter knife bolt.
 
I cheated. I used the internet to find this but of information.

THE GUNS OF MIAMI VICE


In the pilot episode, Don Johnson carried a Browning BDA in .45 Auto. But once the series was picked up, they needed a stylish and new weapon for Sonny Crockett. In seasons 1 & 2, he carried a Bren Ten in 10MM Auto. However the manufacturer, Dornaus & Dixon went bust. So the ever up-to-date Sonny switches to a Smith & Wesson 645 chambered in .45 Auto for seasons 3 and 4. But wait, by the fifth season Smith and Wesson has a new gun and the ever fashionable Crockett upgrades to the new Smith & Wesson 4506, also in .45 Auto. The piece he carried in an ankle holster was a .45 Detonics Combatmaster.
 
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A Clint Eastwood movie did indeed shape my early firearms tastes. But it was (and still is my favorite movie) , The Outlaw Josey Wales! (watched it again last nite) Though I had been shooting for years and owned a few more modern guns , I was immediatley enamoured with black powder guns and soon had an 1860 Colt replica. I soon wore that cheap brass-framed Italian copy out and got a proper steel-framed version , followed by a Navy Arms 1858 Remington copy. When Colt announced their first Blackpowder Series in the late 70s , I just had to get a Walker. Then a second. Eventually I got a Colt Signature Series 1860. I soon started gathering the different models of Colt percussion revolvers. And even a pair of Ruger Old Armys , 1 with factory brass grip frame.

Still waiting for a deal on a nice brass scoped Sharps.
 
Not the movies, but how about the "funny papers?"

I grew up following the adventures of The Ghost Who Walks, aka The Phantom. Many a bad guy found himself with a skull on his jaw after mixing it up with Kit Walker, and he was right handy with the pair of big 1911s he carried in the flap holsters, too.

I never got a skull ring, but I lusted after those 1911s. Finally got me a pair (actually three) of them.

I have wanted a S&W Schofield since I watched Tom Selleck ride into that corral, break that Schofield open, and load the cylinder two at the time, but I have yet to get one.
 
The old 1873's and 1892's

made the earliest impact on me!! I have love westerns ever since I can remember, and mowed lawns to buy my first gun when I was 11. It was a Marlin lever-action 30/30. Some idiot stole that from me, and it still kills me to think some arss hole has his mitts on it!!!! The other is of course the model 29 that Callahan toted!!! That is my all time favorite weapon!! I carry it open and or semi-concealed, and could care less of people who think it is weird!! I used to carry the SAW, so weight is not an issue, and I like not forgetting its' there!!!
 
I am a grown man - I don't need Hollyweird's guidance... but Clint Eastwood, that's another story!

Okay - I like SS, so I have a 6" 629... and a recently re-released 2 5/8" PC627. Then there is the reel-type push mower, but that's another story. I also have a 2" 10, my homage to the collective .38 snubbies used by my TV & silver screen detective, private & LE, 'heros'.

Stainz
 
Because of the gangster movies of the 30s, 40s & early 50s, I'm more likely to buy a Model 10 with the classic tapered standard barrel than one with a heavy barrel, even though I shoot the HPs better.

(Note: I'd say "pencil barrel" instead of standard barrel, but I'm skeered of SaxonPig. :))
 
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