Handguns, Guns and Rifles Thread - Page 4

Spock · 09-28-2005, 04:31 PM

we be driving

Lotesse · 09-28-2005, 04:45 PM

Driving Miss Daisy?

What are you driving at?

Anyway, watch out everyone - it's open season on the freeway!

(remember Steve Martin's LA Story?)

Spock · 09-28-2005, 04:48 PM

GREAT movie, I was responding to the post # 61. He doesn't stand a chance

Lotesse · 10-02-2005, 11:04 PM

Check out this beautiful little antique...

Snowdog · 10-04-2005, 05:12 PM

Beauty! Don't cheat at cards eh!

Lotesse · 10-04-2005, 06:13 PM

I know, it's straight out of a Wyatt Earp/Doc Holliday story, huh! Like something Big-Nose Kate would have handy...

The last sane person · 10-04-2005, 09:07 PM

Wow, my mom has one like that. She hates guns though, and thats the only one she will allow in her room. I am not so sure if it works though, well, at least now. I fired it once...

EarthBound · 10-05-2005, 09:09 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lotesse

Anyway, watch out everyone - it's open season on the freeway!

(remember Steve Martin's LA Story?)

"Are these bullets still good?"

"What! Of course their still good! They're not like produce!"

"Bang! Bang!"

Lotesse · 10-05-2005, 10:21 PM

I LOVE that movie!!

Where some of my family lives, in Tennessee and Georgia, there are Civil War battlegrounds everywhere, and you can see all kinds of cannons.
Look at this beautiful old Civil War cannon from Knoxville Tennessee:

Snowdog · 10-06-2005, 11:29 AM

You wouldn't believe how many of these civil war battlefield sites are under the eye pf shopping mall and condo developers...

Love the cannon! Had the opportunity to work one in a re-enactment once. They used to be able to get 8 to 15 shots off in a minute in the war, but re-enactment is limited to 3 because of safety. If you don't swab the barrel good after a shot and you ram a powder charge in when an ember is still hot, you basicly turn the barrel into a large shrapnel bomb.

Spock · 10-06-2005, 11:46 AM

Thats why I belong to The Civil War Battlefields Preservation Trust.
So far we've saved a few acres here and there and even whole sites where they were of a "smaller" scale.

The Civil War Battlefields Preservation Tax Incentives Act of 1994 helps us to save our history.

http://www.civilwar.org/ is the site if you want to learn more.

Lotesse · 10-06-2005, 01:19 PM

Spock, do you ever get to dress up and do re-enactments of battles?

Spock · 10-06-2005, 03:36 PM

Nope, Ted Turner uses all those guys..for free and a bit of food.

When you do that you give up cappucino and indoor plumbing and I'm a bit to civilized for that.

Lotesse · 10-06-2005, 07:48 PM

Does anyone know what kind of gun he's holding here?

Spock · 10-06-2005, 08:02 PM

Its a Baretta which they gave him after taking the Walther from him. It was later replaced.

Lotesse · 10-06-2005, 08:07 PM

Is the Walther this long, elegant gun he has here? No, this can't be a Walther, is it?

Spock · 10-06-2005, 08:12 PM

this is the walther

The last sane person · 10-06-2005, 08:49 PM

yeah, it was a tiny baretta .25 like mine...but it wasnt powerful enough so they replaced it with....? *i've forgotten the chronology of JB guns and the men who've played him*

Spock · 10-06-2005, 09:48 PM

indeed, me too. BTW, the Baretta was a .380 cal. weapon
It was in Dr. No In the begining of the movie, Bond had his Beretta taken away by M and was given the Walther PPL 7.65mm (32 caliber). However, if you look very closely, when Bond actually pulls it out in Jamaica, the gun is a Walther PP. The primary difference between the PP and the PPK is the barrel length (the PP's barrel is 5/8" longer). He now uses a Walther P99.

The last sane person · 10-06-2005, 11:57 PM

There we go! Man, I am suddenly inspired to go rent all the bond movies and have a marathon...only this time paying attention to the guns as well.

09-28-2005, 04:31 PM	#61
Spock An enigma in a conundrum Join Date: Oct 1999 Posts: 6,476	we be driving __________________ Vizzini: "HE DIDN'T FALL?! INCONCEIVABLE!!" Inigo: "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."

09-28-2005, 04:45 PM	#62
Lotesse of the House of Fëanor Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Los Angeles Posts: 6,150	Driving Miss Daisy? What are you driving at? Anyway, watch out everyone - it's open season on the freeway! (remember Steve Martin's LA Story?) __________________ Few people have the imagination for reality. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Last edited by Lotesse : 09-28-2005 at 04:54 PM.

09-28-2005, 04:48 PM	#63
Spock An enigma in a conundrum Join Date: Oct 1999 Posts: 6,476	GREAT movie, I was responding to the post # 61. He doesn't stand a chance __________________ Vizzini: "HE DIDN'T FALL?! INCONCEIVABLE!!" Inigo: "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."

10-02-2005, 11:04 PM	#64
Lotesse of the House of Fëanor Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Los Angeles Posts: 6,150	1866 Remington Derringer Check out this beautiful little antique... __________________ Few people have the imagination for reality. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

10-04-2005, 05:12 PM	#65
Snowdog Dúnedain Ranger of the North Join Date: Aug 2000 Location: The Ruins of Arnor Posts: 892	Beauty! Don't cheat at cards eh! __________________ "I am an outlaw, I was born an outlaw's son. The highway is my legacy, on the highway I will run."

10-04-2005, 06:13 PM	#66
Lotesse of the House of Fëanor Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Los Angeles Posts: 6,150	I know, it's straight out of a Wyatt Earp/Doc Holliday story, huh! Like something Big-Nose Kate would have handy... __________________ Few people have the imagination for reality. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

10-04-2005, 09:07 PM	#67
The last sane person The Black Númenórean Join Date: Feb 2003 Posts: 6,773	Wow, my mom has one like that. She hates guns though, and thats the only one she will allow in her room. I am not so sure if it works though, well, at least now. I fired it once... __________________ Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, And though they are with you yet they belong not to you. You may give them your love but not your thoughts, For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

10-05-2005, 10:21 PM	#69
Lotesse of the House of Fëanor Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Los Angeles Posts: 6,150	I LOVE that movie!! Where some of my family lives, in Tennessee and Georgia, there are Civil War battlegrounds everywhere, and you can see all kinds of cannons. Look at this beautiful old Civil War cannon from Knoxville Tennessee: __________________ Few people have the imagination for reality. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

10-06-2005, 11:29 AM	#70
Snowdog Dúnedain Ranger of the North Join Date: Aug 2000 Location: The Ruins of Arnor Posts: 892	You wouldn't believe how many of these civil war battlefield sites are under the eye pf shopping mall and condo developers... Love the cannon! Had the opportunity to work one in a re-enactment once. They used to be able to get 8 to 15 shots off in a minute in the war, but re-enactment is limited to 3 because of safety. If you don't swab the barrel good after a shot and you ram a powder charge in when an ember is still hot, you basicly turn the barrel into a large shrapnel bomb. __________________ "I am an outlaw, I was born an outlaw's son. The highway is my legacy, on the highway I will run."

10-06-2005, 11:46 AM	#71
Spock An enigma in a conundrum Join Date: Oct 1999 Posts: 6,476	Thats why I belong to The Civil War Battlefields Preservation Trust. So far we've saved a few acres here and there and even whole sites where they were of a "smaller" scale. The Civil War Battlefields Preservation Tax Incentives Act of 1994 helps us to save our history. http://www.civilwar.org/ is the site if you want to learn more. __________________ Vizzini: "HE DIDN'T FALL?! INCONCEIVABLE!!" Inigo: "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means." Last edited by Spock : 10-06-2005 at 03:34 PM.

10-06-2005, 01:19 PM	#72
Lotesse of the House of Fëanor Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Los Angeles Posts: 6,150	Spock, do you ever get to dress up and do re-enactments of battles? __________________ Few people have the imagination for reality. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

10-06-2005, 03:36 PM	#73
Spock An enigma in a conundrum Join Date: Oct 1999 Posts: 6,476	Nope, Ted Turner uses all those guys..for free and a bit of food. When you do that you give up cappucino and indoor plumbing and I'm a bit to civilized for that. __________________ Vizzini: "HE DIDN'T FALL?! INCONCEIVABLE!!" Inigo: "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."

10-06-2005, 07:48 PM	#74
Lotesse of the House of Fëanor Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Los Angeles Posts: 6,150	Does anyone know what kind of gun he's holding here? __________________ Few people have the imagination for reality. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

10-06-2005, 08:02 PM	#75
Spock An enigma in a conundrum Join Date: Oct 1999 Posts: 6,476	Its a Baretta which they gave him after taking the Walther from him. It was later replaced. __________________ Vizzini: "HE DIDN'T FALL?! INCONCEIVABLE!!" Inigo: "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."

10-06-2005, 08:07 PM	#76
Lotesse of the House of Fëanor Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Los Angeles Posts: 6,150	Is the Walther this long, elegant gun he has here? No, this can't be a Walther, is it? __________________ Few people have the imagination for reality. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

10-06-2005, 08:12 PM	#77
Spock An enigma in a conundrum Join Date: Oct 1999 Posts: 6,476	couldn't see any photo on your post L this is the walther __________________ Vizzini: "HE DIDN'T FALL?! INCONCEIVABLE!!" Inigo: "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means." Last edited by Spock : 10-06-2005 at 08:13 PM.

10-06-2005, 08:49 PM	#78
The last sane person The Black Númenórean Join Date: Feb 2003 Posts: 6,773	yeah, it was a tiny baretta .25 like mine...but it wasnt powerful enough so they replaced it with....? i've forgotten the chronology of JB guns and the men who've played him __________________ Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, And though they are with you yet they belong not to you. You may give them your love but not your thoughts, For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

10-06-2005, 09:48 PM	#79
Spock An enigma in a conundrum Join Date: Oct 1999 Posts: 6,476	indeed, me too. BTW, the Baretta was a .380 cal. weapon It was in Dr. No In the begining of the movie, Bond had his Beretta taken away by M and was given the Walther PPL 7.65mm (32 caliber). However, if you look very closely, when Bond actually pulls it out in Jamaica, the gun is a Walther PP. The primary difference between the PP and the PPK is the barrel length (the PP's barrel is 5/8" longer). He now uses a Walther P99. __________________ Vizzini: "HE DIDN'T FALL?! INCONCEIVABLE!!" Inigo: "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."

10-06-2005, 11:57 PM	#80
The last sane person The Black Númenórean Join Date: Feb 2003 Posts: 6,773	There we go! Man, I am suddenly inspired to go rent all the bond movies and have a marathon...only this time paying attention to the guns as well. __________________ Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, And though they are with you yet they belong not to you. You may give them your love but not your thoughts, For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.