Which seems weird, as they had a man on set over at Wanted- Dead or Alive all day, every day, riding herd on Steve McQueen’s cutdown Winchester, the “Mare’s Leg”. The main differences in the pistols are in the breech face. The most common chambering seems to be 9mm Largo. The only negative is a slight corrosion blemish, but that is understandable for such an old gun and mag. The Super was produced in 9mm Luger, 9mm Largo and. This is the star model B magazine, from old OEM stock. There were many variations on the theme and factory records are scarce, but suffice to say the pistol enjoyed wide popularity. Oddly, they rarely got visited by the Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms Bureau of Treasury. pistol was produced until the early 1980s.
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They had a man on set who acted as the “unit armorer”, taking care of all the guns, loading and servicing them, etc.
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Stembridge Gun Rentals did about all their “gun work”, just as they dd for most TV and movie productions. If the stud was too “high”, the toggle opened while there was still too much pressure in the barrel, with predictable (and dangerous) results. Ok, here are two load data examples to ponder Speer book 231 124 grain SP for both Parabellum 4.0-4.5. The hardest thing to get to work was the Parabellum (Luger) you had to drill and tap a hole in the toggle for a stud to raise the knee-joint just enough that it acted like the later Erma blowback. More powder in the case to start with takes up room. SMGs like the Beretta M38 were the easiest to get working, he said, being straight blowbacks a bore restrictor would do it. There wasn’t time or money for that sort of thing. The problem is not one of severe recoil but of sharp edges biting tender flesh.
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45 acp and they do often show hammer bite of differing severity. We have fired several early model Star pistols in 9mm, 9mm Largo and. Today, of course, they use Colts and other guns that have been massively re-engineered for film work (straight-blowback actions with bore restrictors, etc.), but back then, the budget for an entire episode of an hour-long SF/spy drama like VTTBOTS was about what most TV production companies spend on lunch every working day. The pistol has a slightly lengthened grip frame which greatly reduces hammer bite. 45 just wouldn’t work with the blanks they had back then. Lee Crane), whom I met a couple of times at SF cons in the Seventies, they used them because the Colt 1911. The external bar extractor on both gives them away every time.Īccording to David Hedison (Capt.
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45s” used in the TV series Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea( 1964-68) were Star or Llama 9mms.