In keeping with the movie themes, I offer Dirty Harry.

 

Never saw it, watching today as my son is sick and I'm home but let me say, what an awesome movie!!!!!  Not only is a smith fan movie but we've got a sturmgaweher!  

ok now for the mistakes, early on he finds a shell casing and it's NOT a 30-06 despite what they said.  Looked more like a 270 to me and upon rewind, definitely not a 30-06

 

great movie though

10 minutes ago, myhatinthering said:

In keeping with the movie themes, I offer Dirty Harry.

 

Never saw it, watching today as my son is sick and I'm home but let me say, what an awesome movie!!!!!  Not only is a smith fan movie but we've got a sturmgaweher!  

ok now for the mistakes, early on he finds a shell casing and it's NOT a 30-06 despite what they said.  Looked more like a 270 to me and upon rewind, definitely not a 30-06

 

great movie though

Your eyes are better than mine!!!  I make my 270 cases just by running 3006 brass through a 270 sizing die.  Neck is a little shorter but no difference in performance. 

Frank Sinatra, John Wayne, Burt Lancaster, and Robert Mitchum were all considered for the role before Clint got it.  All good actors but I don't know if any of them could have pulled it off like Clint did.

FWIW the gun he uses in the movie is actually a Model 57 41 Magnum.

Dirty Harry movies created a big demand for 6 1/2 inch Model 29s through the 70s and even into the 80s.  You also found some on the used market as new that were being sold with a box of ammo with 6 rds missing

 

6 minutes ago, GRIZ said:

Your eyes are better than mine!!!  I make my 270 cases just by running 3006 brass through a 270 sizing die.  Neck is a little shorter but no difference in performance. 

Frank Sinatra, John Wayne, Burt Lancaster, and Robert Mitchum were all considered for the role before Clint got it.  All good actors but I don't know if any of them could have pulled it off like Clint did.

FWIW the gun he uses in the movie is actually a Model 57 41 Magnum.

Dirty Harry movies created a big demand for 6 1/2 inch Model 29s through the 70s and even into the 80s.  You also found some on the used market as new that were being sold with a box of ammo with 6 rds missing

yes sir I read that about those other actors.  I agree, no one was doing this better than Clint but I do think Lancaster would have been an interesting choice.  I don't see any of the others pulling this role off and especially not Sinatra.  Can imagine what anyone actually saw in him, he's got less talent and charisma than big toe!!!!!!   lol

great movie, almost over

5 minutes ago, silverado427 said:

 

 

he's chewing gum while walking over after the gunfight and is cool as ice cream....stud!

If you like Dirty Harry, try the other 4. You really can't go wrong. I have the whole collection on Blu-ray.

1 hour ago, Vicious said:

If you like Dirty Harry, try the other 4. You really can't go wrong. I have the whole collection on Blu-ray.

on magnum force now.  is that '#2'?

1 minute ago, myhatinthering said:

on magnum force now.  is that '#2'?

Yup! I love the story in Magnum Force. 

1 minute ago, Vicious said:

Yup! I love the story in Magnum Force. 

awesome thanks....putting an A1 together while watching as he sleeps

2 minutes ago, myhatinthering said:

awesome thanks....putting an A1 together while watching as he sleeps

Aside from the sick kid you are having one hell of a day.

Great movies, I remember my father taking me and a bunch of friends to one of them for my 6th grade birthday!  

45 minutes ago, Vicious said:

Aside from the sick kid you are having one hell of a day.

yup....picked up a nice, NOS never issued A1 upper, and 98% early thin line cross haired Colt 3x and of course the A1 retro lower from Brownells.  Been collecting parts for too long, now going to put this one and another 603 together

total bad a$$....this is a GREAT movie!!!!!!

3 hours ago, myhatinthering said:

great movie though

Now you're channeling my "Well... do ya punk?" 94 year old mother. One of her favorite phrases.

You may have seen my previous anecdote. While she was living with us and watching Dirty Harry one night (for the sixty-fourth time), I asked her if she wanted to fire six shots, or only five. Then I broke the 29 out of the safe, brought it up to her room, and handed it to her. (Unloaded of course.) She could barely lift it. But I told her anyway to 'go ahead... make my day'.

My favorite repartee from the entire series:

DiGiorgio:  "Whadda they want?"

Harry:           "They want a car."

DiGiorgio:   "Whadda ya gonna do?"

Harry:            "Give 'em one...."

 

 

3 hours ago, GRIZ said:

FWIW the gun he uses in the movie is actually a Model 57 41 Magnum.

Not totally true.  Clint used the 29 for close up shots and presentation.  When it came time to run around or shoot, it varried between the two.  I do know that in the scene where the perp with the P38 told him to drop it, the gun was the 41 magnum and was scratched so bad it was taken off the set.

best line ever, 'what does a girl have to do to sleep with you' and his response after a long pause, 'knock on the door'

can't believe I've never watched these!

great gun porn here, Python too!

Huge Eastwood fan here... of both his acting AND his directing. The Dirty Harry character was certainly one of my favs.

Your day was much better than mine, dammit. 

 

Dirty Harry rocks, but I might like Gran Torino even more.

 

2 down, 2 to go

Dirty Harry are great movies,

does anybody like his Spaghetti westerns?

41 minutes ago, Handyman said:

Dirty Harry rocks, but I might like Gran Torino even more.

 

I’ve yet to watch that.

 

7 minutes ago, Bklynracer said:

Dirty Harry are great movies,

does anybody like his Spaghetti westerns?

nothing rigatoni about them!!!!!!

8 minutes ago, Bklynracer said:

Dirty Harry are great movies,

does anybody like his Spaghetti westerns?

I'm not a big fan of those. But The Outlaw Josey Wales and Pale Rider are on my A+ list.

"I guess I'm right popular."

Who says there's no such thing as a one stop shot caliber in a handgun?  He makes people fly through the air with that gun.  

33 minutes ago, 45Doll said:

I'm not a big fan of those. But The Outlaw Josey Wales and Pale Rider are on my A+ list.

"I guess I'm right popular."

Hang 'Em High and High Plains Drifter were good ones.

Great cowboy, great cop, lousy soldier...lol

the enforcer is starting out pretty good

1 minute ago, myhatinthering said:

Great cowboy, great cop, lousy soldier...lol

Huh? You ever see Kelly's Heroes or Heartbreak Ridge?

4 minutes ago, njpilot said:

Huh? You ever see Kelly's Heroes or Heartbreak Ridge?

yeah, not a fan of him in this genre.....at all

I'll amend that in that he was a good co in Heartbreak Ridge but the movie was so bad, it didn't matter

Sorry, Unforgiven is his best work EVER.

ha, they've got an early taser in #3!!!!!!