Heh, reminds me of the one version I have been working on of my persona as a super hero. small arms like that just make him laugh.

Oh my god that attention to detail.

badass

What a big gun you have..!

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I recall a DC comic ("House of Mystery" or something like that) in which a guy with the Midas touch (who likes stiffing his lady friends) finally gets his come-uppance. During a burglary (to steal a few gold girlfriends) he uses his 24 ct. solid gold pistol to foil the burlars, forgetting that gold is soft as metals go, and it literally blew up in his face.

God created man but Sam Colt made us equal.

As long as yer back is turned t' me, yup. Otherwise packing a .45 is a skill, of which god sure as hell did *not* make us equal!

Lol, fret not, Jim Groat I am not - I get upset if my shots start straying into the eight ring.

I regret that I have neve used a handgun. I've fired an 7.62mm FN, an AR-15, a Kalshnikov knockoff of some sort, and a shotgun, but never an actual handgun. It's a pity, because I have an instinct that its not at all the same experience.

Depends on the pistol in question - the Ruger P-series are awesome as the action on them is even smoother then the AR15 - best way to describe the P-89 9mm is like firing water - you can empty 16+1 with the same smoothness as pouring from a pitcher of water. The Automag 2 is equally fun, although it's a .22 mag there's enough weight to the gun that you've got almost no recoil. The CZ52 is a whole different animal though - while it's incredibly comfortable in my hand and fits like a glove, it's loud (all soprano too, no base) and has the muzzle flash from hell - relatively gentle though. I also fired a .44 mag revolver once - best description is to put your hand palm up on a table and then hit it with a hammer to simulate each shot,

For me, it isn't a question of smooth action, but of aim. I found it a bit difficult to keep both ends of a rifle in line. I'm thinking that coordinating one hand to aim might a little more natural.

I must confess that I really enjoy it when a character takes away the weapon from an attacker and renders the device useless. Most thugs would turn tail and run once they got the impression their "Cheats" were impotent.

Dirty Saary.

Except it's a Colt .357 Python and not a .44 S&W Magnum. Same length of cartridge -- magnums -- but the .357 is quite sufficient for splattering anyone's brains against the wall behind them, without the recoil. .44 magnums are for guys who get kicks shooting out the cylinders of old cars.

In fact, I used to have a fantasy of some guy taking Harry up on his dare, and outdrawing him with a .32, drilling the macho fucker right between the eyes before his canon's 8 inch barrel clears the holster. Big is not necessary better -- fast and accurate is.

Clint's hair can probably repel surface to air missiles.

Besides...Harry can't be killed off...the sequels are a cash cow.

He sure got killed dead in Gran Torino! In a Good Way!

Ol' Walt did well at the end.

A long death scene is always an actor's dream.

For a second I thought it was the gun from the old "Sledge Hammer" tv show

"Sledge" did have a magnum of one sort or another -- I don't remember whether it was Colt or S&W -- and it had a pair of white grips like this. I think it might have been chrome finished, too.

The only guns I've experienced are:

M-16.

SAR-21.

Unnamed carbine.

Beautiful job on the pistol.

I used to build Japanese kits that had working parts... you can't buy them anymore. I don't even know if they're made, or the kits have been superceded entirely by Airsoft replicas. But I used one for a model for this.

I remember those. Basically a working replica with all the parts except no actual firing pin and unable to chamber an actual round. Friend of mine had a classic Uzi replica. Pretty much indistinguishable from the real thing, which of course is part of the reason you can't find them any more. I remember seeing ads for them in the back of Popular Mechanics. Always wanted one. Airsofts have the look, but of course the internal bits aren't anything like the actual weapon. On the other hand, you can actually target shoot with an airsoft.
'Course now I can get the real thing if I so desired...

You can still get semi-working replicas (trigger pulls, hammer moves, cylinder rotates) of some pistols, like flintlocks, and early revolvers - Colt Navys and such.

I've seen ads for metal replicas with working parts, but they cost an arm and a leg.

What appealed to me about the old "LS" kits was that by assemblying them I learned what made a gun tick... or go "bang" rather. Before that, guns were largely a mystery. Actually, they can chamber live rounds -- no problem at all. I replaced the plastic cartridges with real brass in many cases, and one of them has actual bullets -- just no powder and a dead cap. The firing pin has little power but I wouldn't care to drop it on a real live round -- it would probably result in bits of plastic and metal all over the room... and embedded in my face. Gawd knows where the bullet would end up.