I will always remember The Mummy because they hired on the best gun geeks in the business to consult with on props. Encino Man is shooting a Stench gun but has period correct web gear for it and his gun leather turns me green with envy.
But… look at his lady: those are two Inglis pattern Browning Hi Powers. They were made at the Inglis plant in Morontario … which probably explains the iron sights. They’re graduated out to something ridiculous like 1200 yards, HAR HAR HAR!!!
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Not even Encino Man is gonna hit at those ranges! HAR HAR HAR!!!
When I was a kid a lot of us on budgets would buy them and try to turd polish them into racey IPSC guns. Nowadays you’d get shot by the curators and curio crowd… and it’d probly be justified. The price on milsurps up here makes me want to vomit with rage!
I’d be all over a vintage Luger or a C96 Mauser in 9mm… but these things? Maybe… they shoot like a house on fire but if ya gonna shoot 9mm … one a the Fisher Price guns is probly a better bet…
In '96, while recovering with a broken back, I got invited to a regional machine gun shoot at Goldwater Marine/Air Force Range in the, then, free state of Aridzona.There was a vendor selling exploding, tracer ammo in most calibers (AMERICA! FUCK YAAA!) ONE of the things he did, with an Inglis, was put several mags worth into a 3 to 5ft diameter cave, 1000 plus ft. away, on the other side of a big-ass, dry, river bed. They all went in, free style, after the first few ranging shots.
ReplyDeleteHe also had an 81mm mortar with percussion ignition. Coors, "Silver Bullets" cans were the perfect diameter. He had cases of them filled with concrete, he drilled the bottom, put tracer stuff in them and would then launch them with a black powder charge. For $5 you could shoot at them with anything you had (Ultra Trap/skeet, depending on yer angle).
Another vendor had a fleet of delta wing, styrofoam, gas, RC drones you could shoot at for $5, a minimum number of shooters were required, they ONLY quit if you hit a servo or linkage, no one ever hit a motor. If the first one or two went down too quickly, he'd send up another till everybody got to shoot plenty. He had an 11 or 12 year old daughter pick up the dead ones with a 4 wheeler. She had a custom Mk ll, Ruger.
Got to Shoot a late 30's, 20mm, Swiss, anti tank rifle at a tree that was 3 miles away. Shot a 50, Ma deuce, a German Mg 34 and 42. Last, but not least, I shot a Victorian age (with brass appointments) 303, water cooled, Maxim machine gun on a WWl, anti aircraft mount, at styrofoam drones. The Maxim guy coated his projectiles with bee wax, they made great smoke tail tracers. The only times I hit a drone was with a borrowed Browning HP and a Garand. With my Sp1 carbine, I missed several mags worth.
Thanks for launching me down memory lane, Glen. Great memories.
OH yeah, Inglis are A OK.
Yeah maybe, eh Mike? I think I saw Gerry Miculek popping balloons at 1000 with a revolver with a red dot sight. Back in the day Bill Blankenship could dump 6” gongs at 200m offhand at will.
DeleteI came unglued with gun lust when Colt came out with those first 10mm Delta Elites and Bill did his magic with them. I swore I’d have one myself one day… but it never happened.
There is nothing funnerthan long range pistoleering at the range on a stolen weekend afternoon…
Roger that. One of my fondest memories was shooting down into a small lake, at ducks (maybe mud hens?) from Marine base housing, Pendleton, (early 60's, I was 11 or 12) with 22's. Got close enough to make 'em swim to the other side. It must have been 400-500 yards.
DeleteI was settled on 9, 45, 357, 22 for handguns when the 10mm and 40 came out, but I appreciated the the 10mm for it's potential. I would say it's come back shows that it is a very useful round. 8 or 9, (15 from a Glock 20) 10mm compared to 6, 44 mag? I'd be going with a 10.
I almost bought one of those semi auto tommy gun reproductions from colt in the 90's. It came with a drum and 2 stick mags in a custom lined violin case. Gun shop in EDM had it, just couldn't figure out how to buy it and still make rent.
DeleteBy the time i saved the bit more i needed it was sold.
These days i doubt i'd be able to find one for sale less than stupid amounts ( precovid found one they were asking 20k for).
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That poor Bastid turned into the Stay Puft Man!! Great actor though.
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