"Dirty Harry" Magnum Force

[eddiememphis]

"But being this is a .44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world, and would blow your head clean off..."

The footsteps you hear are Dick Casull leaving the theater.

 

[Mark_Mark]

Before I read this thread, they have a New Mode 29 at my local. $999

very tempted

 

[Pat Riot]

I watched all of them when I was 15. Perfect movies for a teenager, in that they deal with a deep concept of justified vigilance vs corrupt enforcement. My favorite line was in one of the later movies, where he's in the chinese restaurant, opens the fortune cookie and pretends it says "you're **** out of luck"

Millennials just love to pretend that they don't know anything about Boomer culture but in fact they've all seen those Dirty Hairy movies. Millennial guy I used to work with would say "you got to ask yourself do you feel lucky?"when we were getting ready to work on an expensive machine

Just so you know, I was joking about Millennials.
I do believe the young guy that shot my 25 probably did go watch a Dirty Harry movie or two. At least he said he was going to. I never saw him again.

 

[Mark_Mark]

"But being this is a .44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world, and would blow your head clean off..."

The footsteps you hear are Dick Casull leaving the theater.

Then S&W said “hold my beer” with the .460 S&W Mag.

 

[bigpower491]

"But being this is a .44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world, and would blow your head clean off..."

The footsteps you hear are Dick Casull leaving the theater.

Dick Casull probably rolled his eyes at that line, but IIRC, there wasn't a production revolver out at the time for the 454 Casull

 

[WisBorn]

Then S&W said “hold my beer” with the .460 S&W Mag.

I think the 500 came first

 

[bigpower491]

I think the 500 came first 

It did.........I wanted to be the first kid on my block to have one.

Then I got a chance to shoot one.......

2 cylinders later my wrist were saying hey now....

I got a Super Black in 44 Mag, and later on a Super Red in 454

That's enough for power......for me

 

[Seedy Character]

I had a 41 mag load that sounded just like clints 44 mag. Really throaty sound.

Dirty Harry carried a M-57, in the movie

 

[DR505]

Dirty Harry carried a M-57, in the movie

This is another one of those urban myths that just refuses to die.

The gun, serial number S206921, on loan from Milius, is currently on display at the National Firearms Museum in Fairfax, Va. Thus, we can lay to rest the recurring myth that because Model 29s were unobtainable during the filming of the first Dirty Harry film, the look-alike .41 Mag. Model 57 was used instead. As the facts attest, that simply is not true. And to further set the record straight, although the first guns used were N-frames, in the final three films the Model 29s used were all N-frames rented from Ellis Mercantile, a well-known Hollywood prop house no longer in business. In addition, a rubber mock-up Model 29 was used in scenes that called for the gun to be thrown. In one verified “Dirty Harry” incident filmed near Coit Tower, however, Eastwood throws his real gun, which is supposed to land on an off-camera padded blanket, but it misses. That metallic clattering you hear in the movie of the S&W rattling along the sidewalk is real!

https://www.americanrifleman.org/co...ing,the facts attest, that simply is not true.

 

[WisBorn]

Dirty Harry carried a M-57, in the movie

I have heard that also! Some myths Die Hard!
Another good series of movies (Die Hard) !

 

[Brubz]

In the original movie theater Lobby poster for Dirty Harry, Clint Eastwood is holding a Smith & Wesson Model 29 with an eight and a half inch barrel.in the actual movie he's using a Model 29 but with the 6-in barrel.they used the longer barrel for the poster because it made it look more sinister.
If you freeze frame the picture on a bluray where the image is sharp you can clearly see it's a M29 not the M57. They are similar but not the same.
I'm pretty sure S&W made that 8.5 just special for Warner Brothers

 

[hk940]

"A lot of things can happen to Dog **** it can dry and blow away or it can get stepped on"

 

[DR505]

In the original movie theater Lobby poster for Dirty Harry, Clint Eastwood is holding a Smith & Wesson Model 29 with an eight and a half inch barrel.in the actual movie he's using a Model 29 but with the 6-in barrel.they used the longer barrel for the poster because it made it look more sinister.
If you freeze frame the picture on a bluray where the image is sharp you can clearly see it's a M29 not the M57. They are similar but not the same.
I'm pretty sure S&W made that 8.5 just special for Warner Brothers

The Movie Poster was 8 3/8" barrel and in the movie itself was a 29-2 with 6.5" barrel. S&W eliminated the pinned, recessed, and 6.5" barrel in the 29-3 and replaced with a 6" barrel.

 

[Brubz]

This is another one of those urban myths that just refuses to die.



https://www.americanrifleman.org/content/dirty-harry-s-model-29-america-s-shooting-star/#:~:text=Thus, we can lay to rest the recurring,the facts attest, that simply is not true.

Urban myths are always hard to stop. Like the one where Jif peanut butter was originally spelled with two F's was later changed to one F. not true it was always one F. Another is that there was a European version of Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho where Janet Leigh's breasts were exposed. not true in an interview with Leigh she said she wore a flesh-colored one piece bathing suit during the filming.
But a friend attended a film class where the instructor insisted that she saw a topless version.

 

[Pat Riot]

Well it’s my opinion that in some of the movie posters the gun Harry Callahan is holding is a model 25 or a 29 with a larger bored barrel.


My model 25-15 (unloaded of course)



My model 25 today before heading to the range.

 

[Leon tP]

I like how David Soul's 357 Colt Python becomes a Volkswagen tweeter once a twist on/slide on suppressor is attached to the end. I need to find where they sell those, very effective. It even takes care of the cylinder gap issues.

 

[SwampWolf]

2 cylinders later my wrist were saying hey now....

After the first shot, my friend's forehead was saying the same thing.

 

[Switup]

Dirty harry made me fall in love with revolvers, You are gonna make me see the movie all over again for the 1 millionth time.

 

[Thomasss]

I like how his "Light Specials" nearly rip his arm off under recoil. I have to wonder what his "Magnum" loads do

Actually Clint Eastwood was reported to have been practicing with full power loads before filming according to "Guns Magazine", December, 1972, page 37. Obviously, no one told him the difference between lighter and heavier loads, but that wasn't the only ballistic faux pas in the movie.

 

[stanley_white]

Couldn't sleep the other night and was scrolling through the channels came across that old Clint Eastwood movie Magnum Force with Dirty Harry.
In that memorable scene on the practice range with the young motorcycle cops Harry is talking about his gun and what he loads. if I got the line right I think he said he uses a .44 special light load.
What exactly was he loading in that S&W 44 Magnum Mod. 29?

I understood the lost context was that the "light special" load was for the shooting competition being discussed.

-Stan

 

[crstrode]

"Almost all revolvers have a gap between the barrel and cylinder which allows gases to escape...." I guess they're including pepperbox guns in there, that's the only revolving gun I can think of that doesn't have a B/C gap.

1895 Nagant. No gap.

 

[wcwhitey]

I enjoyed all of his movies. The way that 29 recoils doesn't look like a special load to me!

I forget which movie but in the scene where he acts as an Airline Pilot and kills the hijackers, he is using a S&W .38 taken from one of the hijackers, it recoils and sounds the same as his Model 29, Hollywood! Also remember it was the early 70's where most people still shot 1 handed, Clint grabbed his wrists on occasion. Any load Special or not is gonna rise a bit.

 

[Brubz]

Saw a documentary about the great movie sound effects man Ben Burtt. He said recording actual gunshots never sounded right so he would invent ways to produce gunshots. one of the things he did is slap a wide leather belt on a big block of wood and then change the speed of the playback. no doubt some of his ideas were used in many movies and TV shows

 

[.308 Norma]

I forget which movie but in the scene where he acts as an Airline Pilot and kills the hijackers

That one was "Magnum Force" as well.

 

[Pat Riot]

Regardless of urban legends, rumors, what was used, what wasn’t used…
I wanted a model 29 for a long time. Whenever I could afford one I couldn’t find them anywhere. Whenever I couldn’t, which was much more often, I would run across them. Then about 10 years ago a friend mentioned he had a model 29 and was considering selling it. He let me fire it at the range. My thumb joint where it meets the wrist just couldn’t take it. I was bummed…very bummed. Regardless, my buddy decided to keep it after I actually encouraged him to do so. Not because of my issue but because of the look he had on his face while I shot it. He loved that gun.

Anyway, my model 25 will have to do to get my Dirty Harry fix and that’s okay with me. I love my model 25-15.