Yukon Cornelius .v the Abominable Snowman / what caliber

[Muzzy_B]

I was watching Rudolph the Rednosed Reindeer last night (the original version, with my little girl -of course), and couldn't help but notice that Yukon Cornelius had a wheelgun tucked into his belt next to his ice pick and hammer. Why wouldn't he just use it to put down the Abominable Snowman instead of knocking him out with a boulder and getting Hermie to pull his teeth out? I guess that raises the question, what caliber for the Abominable Snowman?

I tried to google a screen shot of him from the film to take closer look at his weapon, but all the images I could find from the original version had either been cropped or edited to remove it. The only image I could find to prove he was packing showed only the grip. Any newer images and/or toys showed no weapon whatsoever. What gives, has Yukon Jack gone soft or have all threats in the North Pole and the Island of Misfit Toys been eliminated?

 

[HippieCrusher]

Huh?

 

[paul]

"Bumbles bounce"

 

[The Lone Haranguer]

A better question:

What caliber for the television when that stupid thing comes on?

(I am only speaking metaphorically, of course.)

 

[bluestarlizzard]

DUHHHHH!!!! because if you shoot the abomindable (i can't spell *grin*) snowman then WHOS gonna put the star on top of the TREE at the end!!!!!! although it would have been more humane to shoot him then have Kirby pull out all his teeth.

 

[the naked prophet]

I loved that movie when I was a kid. If I was him, I'd try for the boulder thing before I tried to shoot a 20 foot tall monster with a handgun caliber! Even if it was a .500 S&W Magnum, that's a long shot for any sort of incapacitation. When it was made, the revolver would probably have been .45 Colt, especially seeing as it's a single action revolver.

 

[Cannonball888]

See Post#45

although it would have been more humane to shoot him then have Kirby pull out all his teeth

It's Herbie. Get your classic holiday flicks characters straight!

 

[lance22]

Ok - straight answer here. Yukon Cornelius was an advocate of "shot placement" and therefore he carried a small caliber of minor power. When confronted by the giant beast, he came to his senses that 'placement' doesn't do much good on a 25 foot creature so he elected the "knock down power" of a 5 ton boulder.

A slower, larger projectile

As to the above replies, I cannot endorse what that nerdy elf did - it shows that he had a cruel, unfeeling heart. Better to get a clean kill than to emasculate the proud animal in such a way.

 

[bluestarlizzard]

*sigh* i can't believe i made that mistake. shame on me. now i have to watch it again. *grin* then i'll watch my other favorite christmas movie. now hears the REAL question, what would john mcClain do if the abominable snowman attacked?

 

[JohnL2]

Okay. I am going on record to say this is the silliest thread yet.

 

[bluestarlizzard]

JohnL2,
not yet, but it'll get there *giggle*

 

[Deer Hunter]

Good God, my girlfriend gave me hell when I had her miss that show this year and go with me to a scholarship Christmas party....

He used a .44 Mag in an S&W 29, of course.

 

[ozwyn]

Yukon was a sheeple who happened to be randomly armed.

He has a pick axe perfectly capable of giving that snowman either a lobotomy or a vasectomy and he has a gun he doesn't draw.

Of course, the alternative theory is Sara Brady found a time machine and filled the barrel with ice, thus making the gun family safe and utterly worthless and at defending Yulon's civil rights, or the minors he was trying to protect.

Somewhere out there, a modern (not true) liberal is suing Yukon for poaching, animal assault and habitat destruction.

Meanwhile, the rudolf is forming a civil rights group for reindeer who have a ethnic identity based on glow noses. They will protest Yukon's action as racism, even if it may have saved his life.

 

[Two Cold Soakers]

Bumbles can be agressive.

My guess is Y.C. was packing a M-29, 44 mag. He's in bear country out there in the great white north, and this was over thirty years ago.

But Bumbles....

Exotics that run both ways deserve the respect of a true best gun.

Purdy or Westley Richards double .470 NE, with a backup on a bolt-magazine H&H in H&H.375 mag.

OR!!!!!!

Use a .308 national match and plink it's teeth out one by one from half a mile away. Turns 'em into pussycats.

 

[Cosmoline]

YC is in the house!

Everybody knows he carried a Peacemaker in .45 Colt. With a pickaxe for backup.

 

[Joe Demko]

Within the context of the story, Hermie symbolically castrates Bumble. This leaves YC with the only major phallic symbol: his revolver. One can't help but note that Hermie is short, beardless, and has a rather high pitched effeminate voice. YC and Bumble are both large, hairy, phallic-symbol toting images of masculinity. Clearly, there is a barely suppressed erotic conflict involving the three of them. When YC and Bumble plunge into the abyss, they do so in an embrace. It appears that YC prefers death in Bumble's masculine arms to life with the fey Hermie. Yet at the end, we see that it was actually Hermie who controlled the dynamic. By castrating Bumble, he reduces him to the state of a eunuch, fit only for placing the star on the tree, leaving the path open for he and Yukon "big swinging revolver" Cornelius to further explore and adventure together. Just the two of them.
This tangled and perverse subtext is why I don't let my daughter watch this show. It was obviously scripted by deviated preverts.

 

[ZeSpectre]

Everybody knows he carried a Peacemaker in .45 Colt. With a pickaxe for backup.

Huh, I thought he carried a pickaxe with a colt .45 for a backup (not the mention the caliber dogs he had with him).
Man the "bumble" used to scare the bejezus outta me as a kid!

Oh and for the record, the elf was actually Hermey

 

[bluestarlizzard]

Joe Demko,
You Owe Me A New Keyboard!!!!!!!!!! Lol

 

[Cosmoline]

LOL. Everybody knows YC was *that* kind of a "bear."

 

[MDHunter]

Let's Get Real....

C 'mon guys, this is the great white north we're talking about....anyone knows that large furry predators capturing deer and other mammals up north isn't against the law (yet), so Yukon COULDN'T shoot Bumble....as Bumble was an endangered species!

But as soon as Bumble is delisted..... .577 Tyrannosaurus.

 

[RockyMtnTactical]

Great post!

 

[bluestarlizzard]

i have a quesiton. i distinctly remember when herbie/hermy/kerbie and rodoulf meet YC that he fires his gun into the air, cause he though he found gold.
is that not still apart of the show, or have the networks editied it out for some stupied reaons?

 

[Cannonball888]

i have a quesiton. i distinctly remember when herbie/hermy/kerbie and rodoulf meet YC that he fires his gun into the air, cause he though he found gold.

YC never discovered gold or silver nor did he ever discharge or even draw his gun. At the end of the show however, he believed he discovered a peppermint mine after licking his thrown pickaxe.

 

[Muzzy_B]

wow

Joe Demko,
You Owe Me A New Keyboard!!!!!!!!!! Lol

OMG, me too. I'm at a total loss for words.

 

[lance22]

Within the context of the story, Hermie symbolically castrates Bumble. This leaves YC with the only major phallic symbol: his revolver. One can't help but note that Hermie is short, beardless, and has a rather high pitched effeminate voice. YC and Bumble are both large, hairy, phallic-symbol toting, images of masculinity. Clearly, there is a barely suppressed erotic conflict involving the three of them. When YC and Bumble plunge into the abyss, they do so in an embrace. It appears that YC prefers death in Bumble's masculine arms to life with the fey Hermie. Yet at the end, we see that it was actually Hermie who controlled the dynamic. By castrating Bumble, he reduces him to the state of a eunuch, fit only for placing the star on the tree, leaving the path open for he and Yukon "big swinging revolver" Cornelius and he to further explore andadventure together. Just the two of them.
This tangled and perverse subtext is why I don't let my daughter watch this show. It was obiously scripted by deviated preverts.

Those sick [deleted] [deleted]. I'm writing the network immediately to express my outrage. And to think they market that to kids.