Model 10 Almost Porn in "Blue Steel"

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Kind of a cheesy late 80's movie called "Blue Steel" starring Jamie Lee Curtis. She's a rookie NYPD cop who kills a robber her first day on tghe job. Great revolver movie. She carries an NYPD issue model 10, and the bad guy is armed with a model 29. Gorgeous blueing on both. Link I am attaching is the opening of the movie. She goes through the "Fun House", a simulated shooting scene, but then the opening credits is this model 10 in super high definition. Every time I think of selling my model 13, I watch this clip. Check it out.

Blue Steel Opening - YouTube
 
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Cool clip - thanks for sharing - got a kick out of the focus on the Pachmayr logo.
 
SixgunFife said:
Cool clip - thanks for sharing - got a kick out of the focus on the Pachmayr logo.
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Yeah, I like how they used Pach's. Nearly everybody ditched the factory wood for rubber, and Pachmayr's were the only autorized rubber grip, most likely because of the small window cut out of the grip on the bottom to read the serial number on the butt. If you watch the whole movie, Jamie Lee does a very good one handed reload at the end. She was shot in one arm and empty and she tucked the revolver into her belt with the cylinder open and reloaded one round at a time from one of her dump pouches. That's an error because we had speedloaders by then, but still very cool to see a cop fully armed with 18 rounds as opposed to 46 they carry today.
 
The first spare ammo carrier we had were loops/single dump and later on, speedloaders. Seen the movie a few times, and enjoyed the contrast of blast of one weapon vs the other. The reload was still taught at our Academy, and the "weak hand"draw also. We used Border Patrol style holsters with a strap, then later a thumbbreak. Retention styles came later, Safariland seemed to be ahead of Bianchi.(not much but cost less).
Just watched "LA Confidential" and a lot of revos and 1911As in it. A good movie.
 
Cheesy plot, but a decent late night movie. Jamie Lee Curtis and Ron Silver gave good acting jobs though. It is cool to see movie from the late 80s/ early 90s focusing more on revovlers than wonder 9s. The focus on the Pachs is really nice touch.
 
Lady cops never looked like that in my day.
 
IIRC , the early Pachmayrs had neither medallions nor the S/N window on the bottom. None of the ones I do have these features.
 
Oh lord I was a kid when my mom bought this VHS tape lol! She was a jlc fan
 
S&W really used to make some stunning looking everyday run of the mill revolvers.
 
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