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Its fun to see how knowledge increases your awareness and enrichens such simple life experiences as watching an old movie.
My wife and I decided to watch the first two James Bond movies, the first being Dr. No, 1962. I remember seeing it at the theater back then so it was fun to "time warp" to our own past. I was then 15 and knew only about my .22 bolt rifle. Today I've been involved in reading about and shooting handguns for a little over three years.
Right away in the movie the armorer is called in to update Bond's weapon from a Beretta of some kind to a PPK .32. My wife gets a big smile and looks at me when he says "Walther" (I've been contemplating buying a PPK/s for three months now). I found it amusing that Bond is told he needs a gun with more hitting power and the PPK round impacts like a brick thru a glass window. What do you find today-incessant talk in the gun mags and here how anemic the .32 is.
The armorer further explains the PPK has provision for a silencer. Later in the movie you see Bond using the silencer, but he does'nt screw it on he "press fits" it into the muzzle. Hmmm, that's interesting! Ain't never seen one of them yet.
In his hotel room he is sitting in a chair after making up the bed to look like he's sleeping in it , knowing for sure someone is coming by to kill him. We see what is definitely a 1911 with a silencer poke thru the slowly opening door and empties the mag into the bed covers. The slide doesn't move and there is no recoil. Bond surprises the would be killer and dispatches him with the PPK stating, "that's a Smith & Wesson, and you've had your six".
In the scene on Dr. No's island he is shooting at the headlights of a flame thrower armored car at probably fifty yards and scores a hit! Wow, now that's some shootin! Then I noticed as the scene shifts back and forth his gun changes from a PPK to a 1911 and then back again.
Also during a close up of his hand with the Walther in it I thought I saw what appeared to be the upper grip panel of a Colt 1903 automatic where it has in large letters COLT. I wish I had a DVD for this movie so I could freeze frame it real good and get a better look.
So, it was fun to see things I wouldn't have seen if I hadn't been involved with firearms. Even my wife commented on his wading around in waist deep streams, "what about his gun, it can't get so wet can it?" She's seen me worrying about every speck of anything on my guns at the cleaning table, that's for sure! The movie did show him wiping the magazine off sitting on the bank, but then he's right back into the water again!!
What have you seen, Bond movies only? We're watching the second one tonight so don't you guys ruin it for me (I WILL be looking for Makarovs).
My wife and I decided to watch the first two James Bond movies, the first being Dr. No, 1962. I remember seeing it at the theater back then so it was fun to "time warp" to our own past. I was then 15 and knew only about my .22 bolt rifle. Today I've been involved in reading about and shooting handguns for a little over three years.
Right away in the movie the armorer is called in to update Bond's weapon from a Beretta of some kind to a PPK .32. My wife gets a big smile and looks at me when he says "Walther" (I've been contemplating buying a PPK/s for three months now). I found it amusing that Bond is told he needs a gun with more hitting power and the PPK round impacts like a brick thru a glass window. What do you find today-incessant talk in the gun mags and here how anemic the .32 is.
The armorer further explains the PPK has provision for a silencer. Later in the movie you see Bond using the silencer, but he does'nt screw it on he "press fits" it into the muzzle. Hmmm, that's interesting! Ain't never seen one of them yet.
In his hotel room he is sitting in a chair after making up the bed to look like he's sleeping in it , knowing for sure someone is coming by to kill him. We see what is definitely a 1911 with a silencer poke thru the slowly opening door and empties the mag into the bed covers. The slide doesn't move and there is no recoil. Bond surprises the would be killer and dispatches him with the PPK stating, "that's a Smith & Wesson, and you've had your six".
In the scene on Dr. No's island he is shooting at the headlights of a flame thrower armored car at probably fifty yards and scores a hit! Wow, now that's some shootin! Then I noticed as the scene shifts back and forth his gun changes from a PPK to a 1911 and then back again.
Also during a close up of his hand with the Walther in it I thought I saw what appeared to be the upper grip panel of a Colt 1903 automatic where it has in large letters COLT. I wish I had a DVD for this movie so I could freeze frame it real good and get a better look.
So, it was fun to see things I wouldn't have seen if I hadn't been involved with firearms. Even my wife commented on his wading around in waist deep streams, "what about his gun, it can't get so wet can it?" She's seen me worrying about every speck of anything on my guns at the cleaning table, that's for sure! The movie did show him wiping the magazine off sitting on the bank, but then he's right back into the water again!!
What have you seen, Bond movies only? We're watching the second one tonight so don't you guys ruin it for me (I WILL be looking for Makarovs).