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Fatman

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Learn something new every day
« on: December 10, 2008, 07:44:30 PM »
Currently watching the shite part of a shite sandwich lineup on AMC tonight (Quigley Down Under, Posse, Ride with the Devil)
and I see a pump action shotgun in the Van Peeble flick.

Impossible! Until I google the pump action and see Browning had an 1893 model.  Also found out the original pumps had no disconnector - hold the trigger down and they fired as fast as you pumped.  ;D
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Re: Learn something new everyday
« Reply #1 on: December 10, 2008, 07:54:47 PM »
I got a kick from the movie "Titanic" where the bad guy was carrying a Colt Model of 1911, Nickel Plated, a real beauty....  A pistol that, as of the sinking of Titanic on April 14, 1912, was not commercially available to the public yet...

Almost as good as the never empty 1911 in most Steven Segal movies....the bottomless magazine.....
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Re: Learn something new everyday
« Reply #2 on: December 10, 2008, 07:57:56 PM »
The '97 didn't have a disconnector either. I would love to have one in riot gun configuration with a M1917 bayonet.  :)
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Re: Learn something new everyday
« Reply #3 on: December 10, 2008, 09:07:17 PM »
Quote from: Timothy on December 10, 2008, 07:54:47 PM
I got a kick from the movie "Titanic" where the bad guy was carrying a Colt Model of 1911, Nickel Plated, a real beauty....  A pistol that, as of the sinking of Titanic on April 14, 1912, was not commercially available to the public yet..

Well, yes, but the bad guy worked for one of the "captains of industry" so it's entirely possible that he had access to the latest weaponry.   
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Re: Learn something new every day
« Reply #4 on: December 10, 2008, 10:05:41 PM »
Is it possible the Titantic pistol was a 1910?

http://www.usfirearms.com/cat/1910.asp

updated....

Here is a downloadable history of the 1911 design...

http://www.hlebooks.com/ebook/col4load.htm
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Re: Learn something new every day
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Re: Learn something new every day
« Reply #5 on: December 10, 2008, 10:10:24 PM »



Argh! Didn't your momma tell you not to tease the fat man?
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Re: Learn something new everyday
« Reply #6 on: December 10, 2008, 10:22:49 PM »
Quote from: Timothy on December 10, 2008, 07:54:47 PM
I got a kick from the movie "Titanic" where the bad guy was carrying a Colt Model of 1911, Nickel Plated, a real beauty....  A pistol that, as of the sinking of Titanic on April 14, 1912, was not commercially available to the public yet...

Almost as good as the never empty 1911 in most Steven Segal movies....the bottomless magazine.....

I remember being bored stiff in the theater watching Titanic. The high point was when the BG fired, puncturing the bulkheads and I remember saying (a little louder than I thought), "So that's why it sank. Can we leave now?". Guy behind us made some comment about me and my B-I-L being 'insensitive louts'. Bad thing, as he had already made other disparaging comments about my B-I-L who was in camo (just out of the Corp) and I had already calmed him down once. 

Long story short, there was blood and I thought it best to leave.   Semper Fi!  ;D
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Me: Naw, we just apply a gun-shaped remedy to those extreme life threatening situations that call for it. All the less urgent problems we're willing to discuss.

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Re: Learn something new every day
« Reply #7 on: December 11, 2008, 12:51:24 AM »
Quote from: Fatman on December 10, 2008, 10:22:49 PM
I remember being bored stiff in the theater watching Titanic. The high point was when the BG fired, puncturing the bulkheads and I remember saying (a little louder than I thought), "So that's why it sank. Can we leave now?". Guy behind us made some comment about me and my B-I-L being 'insensitive louts'. Bad thing, as he had already made other disparaging comments about my B-I-L who was in camo (just out of the Corp) and I had already calmed him down once. 

Long story short, there was blood and I thought it best to leave.   Semper Fi!  ;D


DO or Die Fatman  ;D

Quote from: Fatman on December 10, 2008, 07:44:30 PM
Currently watching the shite part of a shite sandwich lineup on AMC tonight (Quigley Down Under, Posse, Ride with the Devil)
and I see a pump action shotgun in the Van Peeble flick.

Impossible! Until I google the pump action and see Browning had an 1893 model.  Also found out the original pumps had no disconnector - hold the trigger down and they fired as fast as you pumped.  ;D


Didn't you ever see "The magnificent seven" ? Yul Brenner did just that. There was another old western, I think it was an early Clint Eastwood one, were the bad guy had a Broom handle Mauser.
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Re: Learn something new every day
« Reply #8 on: December 11, 2008, 05:52:51 AM »
Quote from: 1776 Rebel on December 10, 2008, 10:05:41 PM
Is it possible the Titantic pistol was a 1910?

Possible, but that sucks the fun out of hating that movie!!! ;D

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Re: Learn something new every day
« Reply #9 on: December 11, 2008, 06:09:26 AM »
Quote from: Fatman on December 10, 2008, 10:22:49 PM
I remember being bored stiff in the theater watching Titanic.

Titanic - greatly overrated movie, like the English Patient. Best part (of Titanic) - other than the damn boat finally sinking - was Kate Winslet naked. She needed to be moving around, but it was good as is.

Quote from: tombogan03884 on December 11, 2008, 12:51:24 AM
Didn't you ever see "The magnificent seven" ? Yul Brenner did just that. There was another old western, I think it was an early Clint Eastwood one, were the bad guy had a Broom handle Mauser.

That would be the movie Joe Kidd.
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