The Dirty Harry model 29

Watching the clip in post #14, I noticed a little glitch. After the guy says "I gots to know", Harry walks up, points the gun and then cocks the hammer. Next the view shifts to a frontal of Harry and the cylinder moves as the click is heard like he shot double action.
George
 
I love how Harry is still chewing his food as the gun is coming down after the last shot...:)
 
I can remember reading an article(don't remember author) that claimed that the gun Dirty Harry used was never a model 29 44 magum.....He claimed it was always a n frame 45 Colt....the reason being the large amount of 45 Colt blanks left over fron cowboy movies haha
 
So every gun in Clints hands sounds like a 44mag even though it's not. It's a ploy on us and the 44 Magnum sound.

I knew in the plane it was a 38 special. But they dubbed in the 44 Magnum sound.

But wait one minute didn't Harry say he uses the 44 special loads?

Fool me once, fool us twice, but not a third time.

This is as bad as a movie showing a four stroke dirt bike in the terminator with a two stroke sound.

Do the movie makers think we're all stupid or dumb?

GET THE SOUNDS RIGHT!!!!!!!!! Will Ya ever get it right. They make billions off of us yet they insult us with the wrong sound effects?
 
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Actually, the most glaring mistake made in this sequence is when Harry walks up to the bad guy laying on the sidewalk, the muzzle of the shotgun is about 2' from his hand. The next scene shows the gun is now about 8" from his hand. :eek: Details we all notice and look for! :cool:

Wanna see the most glaring sequence of bad mistakes in a scene? Check out the wrestling scene in Stripes between Harold Ramus and Bill Murray in the motor pool parking area. Amazing! :rolleyes:
 
srv1 said:
Guys, it is a movie not a documentary. It will have errors because it is not supposed to be factual but rather for entertainment. Five, six, ten shots, who cares, all I know it is a bad *** movie!

James
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SOMEBODY GET A ROPE!!!
 
Going back to the original thread, Dirty Harry, Smith & Wesson, and 44 magnum have become almost synonymous. I recently had the chance to take an old friend to the range, as he had just become interested in shooting and knew I'd help him out. Well, my old 29 was there and didn't fail to impress! (Even loaded with bullseye-wadcutter handload).
Incidentally, that 29 was my first firearm purchase, once I was old enough to do so. Despite years of junior small bore (rifle & pistol) competitive shooting, the 44 magnum and it's mythic status was simply irresistible.
Now, if I could only use it to earn my Distinguished Revolver Badge firing full house loads! Ha!!
 
"GET THE SOUNDS RIGHT!!!!!!!!! Will Ya ever get it right. They make billions off of us yet they insult us with the wrong sound effects?"

No they never will...like the 6 inch long 1 inch diameter "silencer" on the 30-06 that makes a little puff when fired. Wasn't there a shooter in "Magnum Force" with a "silenced" 357 snub nosed revolver??? If I remember right the can was about 3 inches long and an inch or so in diameter and it too went poof when fired. Silencers on revolvers...come on John Milius, you are supposed to be the one director that knows better.
One of the most abused sound infractions in the movies is a rattlesnake rattling...it is always some idiot shaking a maraca. If you ever have the pleasure of hearing a rattlesnake first hand you know it's more like a high pitched buzz. The first time for me I thought it was a cricket stuck in high gear.
Revolvers with silencers...when will Hollywood learn???
 
msinc said:
"GET THE SOUNDS RIGHT!!!!!!!!! Will Ya ever get it right. They make billions off of us yet they insult us with the wrong sound effects?"

No they never will...like the 6 inch long 1 inch diameter "silencer" on the 30-06 that makes a little puff when fired. Wasn't there a shooter in "Magnum Force" with a "silenced" 357 snub nosed revolver??? If I remember right the can was about 3 inches long and an inch or so in diameter and it too went poof when fired. Silencers on revolvers...come on John Milius, you are supposed to be the one director that knows better.
One of the most abused sound infractions in the movies is a rattlesnake rattling...it is always some idiot shaking a maraca. If you ever have the pleasure of hearing a rattlesnake first hand you know it's more like a high pitched buzz. The first time for me I thought it was a cricket stuck in high gear.
Revolvers with silencers...when will Hollywood learn???
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The Russian military issue revolver (before they switched to an auto) was capable of being silenced. That's because it was designed to seal the cylinder/forcing cone gap just before firing each round. I think it was the only revolver in history, though, with that capability.
 
msinc said:
"GET THE SOUNDS RIGHT!!!!!!!!! Will Ya ever get it right. They make billions off of us yet they insult us with the wrong sound effects?"

No they never will...like the 6 inch long 1 inch diameter "silencer" on the 30-06 that makes a little puff when fired. Wasn't there a shooter in "Magnum Force" with a "silenced" 357 snub nosed revolver??? If I remember right the can was about 3 inches long and an inch or so in diameter and it too went poof when fired. Silencers on revolvers...come on John Milius, you are supposed to be the one director that knows better.
One of the most abused sound infractions in the movies is a rattlesnake rattling...it is always some idiot shaking a maraca. If you ever have the pleasure of hearing a rattlesnake first hand you know it's more like a high pitched buzz. The first time for me I thought it was a cricket stuck in high gear.
Revolvers with silencers...when will Hollywood learn???
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The "silencer" was put on a 4" Python. It was a damn tube that most likely scarred the Python badly!
 
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