[Sugar³]

Originally Posted by DanteAntonelli ↗

The bad thing about it is that those are blank casings and sort of kills the believability factor.

It's still a ridiculously cool scene though.
I added my second favourite murder scene now too.

[kellyhound]

eh meh were his famous last words

[DanteAntonelli]

Originally Posted by Dr Thrumpkinz ↗

I know. There must have been so much special effects put into that scene, and those casing shots are close enough that they could have just filmed those shots with real bullets in whatever kind of sissy Hollywood safety vault sphere, with their safety rebreather apparatuses on, and flame retardant reflective beardsprays.
I wouldn't have even noticed the blank crimping, if I hadn't found a bunch of spent blanks on a beach in Vancouver once when I was a kid. They filmed this Korean war flashback scene for 21 Jump Street that day.

Yeah, the close up scene lended itself to be filmed with live ammo to make it more believable, the pistol recoil and real casings being ejected would have looked so cool!
To make matters worse the blanks had a quite long bottleneck and no 1911 shoots that kind of ammo, one pistol that does and comes to my mind is the FN five seven but 5.7 x 28mm ammo has a shorter neck so it would still not look right, they could have at least fixed the casings digitally in post production, but there would still remain the lack of recoil ruining the scene.
Heck, sometimes I hate to be so pragmatic and a purist

[Sugar³]

Originally Posted by DanteAntonelli ↗

Yeah, the close up scene lended itself to be filmed with live ammo to make it more believable, the pistol recoil and real casings being ejected would have looked so cool!
To make matters worse the blanks had a quite long bottleneck and no 1911 shoots that kind of ammo, one pistol that does and comes to my mind is the FN five seven but 5.7 x 28mm ammo has a shorter neck so it would still not look right, they could have at least fixed the casings digitally in post production, but there would still remain the lack of recoil ruining the scene.
Heck, sometimes I hate to be so pragmatic and a purist

Hmm, .45 is always just a straight cylinder? I didn't know that, I for sure wouldn't have noticed that. I'd like to see such nicely produced, high frame rate footage of the rear pull type, Boberg pistol. Mechanically, it seems so complex and it reminds me of some of the Watchmaker complications, and mechanisms that you see in companies like Devon, HYT, or the newer Tag Monaco's. Belt drives, or pistons driving hydromechanical wristwatches. You know? Like intentionally making a problem, or avoiding an already thought of solution to something, just to create an interesting, usually vastly more expensive, detour.



I live in Canada though, where you need a licence to use oven mitts, so I can only view from a distance, but I love guns. I even used to post photos of guns I think look cool in the green zone Gun Porn thread. I do have a Walther P99 clone that shoots .40 rubber balls. It's pretty cool, and about as close to a proper gun here without having to install retinal scanning safety pylons every six meters everywhere, or some such shit. I posted some photos of knives that I am allowed to have in there though. Including a really sweet Damascus Steel one.

[William May]

Originally Posted by KC ↗

Haiti

Can't we stop all the Haitiing?!?!?! and just get along?

[jsundqui]

I live in Helsinki, Finland and don't get the joke

[fred5079]

the Helsinki syndrome

[DanteAntonelli]

Originally Posted by Dr Thrumpkinz ↗

Hmm, .45 is always just a straight cylinder? I didn't know that, I for sure wouldn't have noticed that. I'd like to see such nicely produced, high frame rate footage of the rear pull type, Boberg pistol. Mechanically, it seems so complex and it reminds me of some of the Watchmaker complications, and mechanisms that you see in companies like Devon, HYT, or the newer Tag Monaco's. Belt drives, or pistons driving hydromechanical wristwatches. You know? Like intentionally making a problem, or avoiding an already thought of solution to something, just to create an interesting, usually vastly more expensive, detour.



I live in Canada though, where you need a licence to use oven mitts, so I can only view from a distance, but I love guns. I even used to post photos of guns I think look cool in the green zone Gun Porn thread. I do have a Walther P99 clone that shoots .40 rubber balls. It's pretty cool, and about as close to a proper gun here without having to install retinal scanning safety pylons every six meters everywhere, or some such shit. I posted some photos of knives that I am allowed to have in there though. Including a really sweet Damascus Steel one.

The Boberg pistol sure is a nice solution for a long barrel gun in a small package, unfortunately standard cartridges are not adequate for the pulling system of these guns, the bullets are pulled out of the casing sometimes and that results in jamming, the system should be changed to a push instead of pulling the cartridges off the magazine to allow for standard ammo to be used in pistols with that feeding system, making special cartridges for the gun will sure kill the design and make it fade away as a curiosity.
Those watches look expensive but cool, but I stopped using wristwatches since I was 13 y.o. when my arms got hairy and the metal watch band got stuck in them and pulled them from their roots, never liked to swap it for a leather watch band so I stopped wearing them altogether.

[Sugar³]

Originally Posted by DanteAntonelli ↗

The Boberg pistol sure is a nice solution for a long barrel gun in a small package, unfortunately standard cartridges are not adequate for the pulling system of these guns, the bullets are pulled out of the casing sometimes and that results in jamming, the system should be changed to a push instead of pulling the cartridges off the magazine to allow for standard ammo to be used in pistols with that feeding system, making special cartridges for the gun will sure kill the design and make it fade away as a curiosity.
Those watches look expensive but cool, but I stopped using wristwatches since I was 13 y.o. when my arms got hairy and the metal watch band got stuck in them and pulled them from their roots, never liked to swap it for a leather watch band so I stopped wearing them altogether.

Those watches are expensive. The Devon is 20k, and the Tag and HYT are around 60k. I wouldn't buy them even if I could very comfortably afford to do so--I just dig their complications. I also dislike metal bands. I have a Tag Formula One watch that has a vulcanized rubber band--it's nice to wear. But these days I like to where this thing. It's solar, plus it's a Tachymeter, so the marked outer bezel turns to line up with markings on the dial to give solutions to almost infinite equations and all sorts of conversions, that is complex enough to use that I often forget how to. I made the band myself. It's one piece so it's pretty comfy too--I even turned the little brass pins, and their alluminum flanges on a tiny micro lathe I have that's designed for dentistry.



I remember when the Boberg came out they always said that inexpensive bullets often had grooves that were too shallow to be properly pulled from the rear by. When you say it should have push system, you mean the bullet should, instead, be pushed by its nose into the position that it is pulled to with the current design? Would that be something that could happen in the clip? Like even, a clip reworking that would guide the bullet into the pistol's existing pull system--like a helper?
I wish I could have one just to play with, and look at more closely.

[Gobyfly]

I can tell this is in Oslo, Norway