By How much time, if you added it all together, do you think you’ve spent on the Internet Movie Database? It’s been a staple of the web for as long as I can remember and, though I don’t much care for the recent redesign, I suspect it’ll remain so. Meanwhile, brick weight paper guides from Leonard Maltin and Blockbuster have been thrown into the furnace like bibles after the bomb.
Well if you happen to also be a gun enthusiast, the world has now been changed for you. Welcome the Internet Movie Firearms Database (no affiliation). Always wondered which single-shot pistol was used for Hard Boiled? Looking for the Airsoft equivalent to Al Pacino’s rifle in Heat? Maybe you’re the kind of person who cares about authenticity when re-enacting The Basketball Diaries at your school.
Well now you’re covered by the IMFDB, and it’s not just for identification. That scene in Hard Boiled was the first thing I looked up, and here’s what I found:
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How much time, if you added it all together, do you think you’ve spent on the Internet Movie Database? It’s been a staple of the web for as long as I can remember and, though I don’t much care for the recent redesign, I suspect it’ll remain so. Meanwhile, brick weight paper guides from Leonard Maltin and Blockbuster have been thrown into the furnace like bibles after the bomb.
Well if you happen to also be a gun enthusiast, the world has now been changed for you. Welcome the Internet Movie Firearms Database (no affiliation). Always wondered which single-shot pistol was used for Hard Boiled? Looking for the Airsoft equivalent to Al Pacino’s rifle in Heat? Maybe you’re the kind of person who cares about authenticity when re-enacting The Basketball Diaries at your school.
Well now you’re covered by the IMFDB, and it’s not just for identification. That scene in Hard Boiled was the first thing I looked up, and here’s what I found:
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"Mad Dog loads a .30-06 round into a Thompson Center Contender" sounds cool, but not possible. The Contender was never strong enough for the '06, which is why TC eventually expanded their product line with the stronger Encore model. Also, if you look at the chamber of that open Contender, you can see that it is relieved a bit for a *rimmed* cartridge. In the Contenders, it was common to shoot wildcat cartridges based on a 30-30 Winchester or some other rimmed case (the JDJ family of rimmed cartridges were developed exclusively for the Contender, which is most likely what is being loaded in the picture).
Though not clear in the screenshots shown, or on detailed view of nearby frames, the cartridge is probably 7-30 Waters, or possibly .375 JDJ.