"That includes EVERY actor who played James Bond"
Pansies, all. Ian Fleming must be rolling in his grave. - dan
Pansies, all. Ian Fleming must be rolling in his grave. - dan
guns of Dirty Harry
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ya, w/ some kind of 9mm machine pistol, don't remember which. They make a point of saying the "cop killer" bullets have a "smooth jacket and pointed tip"...
After I acquired my S&W Model 57 .41 Mag I sold my Model 29 and never looked back...
It wears the 6" standard factory barrel & has been customed tuned by MD Charlton:
So if Harry always carried three speedloaders, why the suspense over whether he fired "six shots or only five"? He would have had plenty of time to reload, given his tendency to walk slowly and carry a big (boom) stick
ya, w/ some kind of 9mm machine pistol, don't remember which. They make a point of saying the "cop killer" bullets have a "smooth jacket and pointed tip"...
It was LW 2, and I think the gun was just Rigg's 92FS.*
*edit* when the cops tested it out...
Thanks 8 ball.
"Another version of the Dirty Harry gun story: In the scene where we see Inspector Callahan drawing his oversized revolver for the first time, the gun used was a Smith and Wesson Model 29 in .44 Magnum with an 8 3/8" barrel, but subsequent shooting (both with the cameras and the gun) was conducted using a Smith and Wesson Model 25 in .45 Long Colt with a 6" barrel. The choice of .45LC over .44 Magnum was to use the standard "Four-In-One" blank cartridges, which were widely used in filming cowboy movies, and thus readily available (unlike blanks for a .44 Magnum, which the prop department would have had to fabricate from scratch.) As in the story above, the Model 25 and Model 29 are so similar that it would be impossible to distinguish them at a glance."
This is the story I remember, there were a lot of articles in the gun rags of the day (hard to believe it was that many years ago now). Interviews with the propmaster and such. The scriptwriter was interviewed in one, and claimed DH was supposed to have a 4" gun, but they didn't have one handy. FWIW - dan
"Another version of the Dirty Harry gun story: In the scene where we see Inspector Callahan drawing his oversized revolver for the first time, the gun used was a Smith and Wesson Model 29 in .44 Magnum with an 8 3/8" barrel, but subsequent shooting (both with the cameras and the gun) was conducted using a Smith and Wesson Model 25 in .45 Long Colt with a 6" barrel. The choice of .45LC over .44 Magnum was to use the standard "Four-In-One" blank cartridges, which were widely used in filming cowboy movies, and thus readily available (unlike blanks for a .44 Magnum, which the prop department would have had to fabricate from scratch.) As in the story above, the Model 25 and Model 29 are so similar that it would be impossible to distinguish them at a glance."
This is the story I remember, there were a lot of articles in the gun rags of the day (hard to believe it was that many years ago now). Interviews with the propmaster and such. The scriptwriter was interviewed in one, and claimed DH was supposed to have a 4" gun, but they didn't have one handy. FWIW - dan
