Of that I think we all agree, the one found and photographted at Worldcon seems to be the one and only one filmed:
All the scratches on the Butt plate, like that ½ moon scratch that made us think there was a round depression in the bottom of the butt plate…the black bottom with the slight silver edges.
The paint damage on the grip frame, Phil and I debated that one many times in the frame captures that showed them, Phil saying it was silver frames with shadow causing the black and me saying the frame was black with light reflecting causing the silver look.
The finish IE: Raw steel, which once we saw this and then looked for it in the film saw it there too.
And last the wires:
I have to say that detail bugged me all along, I saw them in the very early pictures, and could only think I was seeing the front edge of a slightly open side cover.
But that really did not work either. The cover did not look out of alignment.
So when I saw the first pictures Karl sent me, I knew in an instant I was looking at the real thing, it answered all those arguments and details.
And the green LED in the rod, I already believed in the one in front, and feared the one in the back so it was not hard to believe in it once seen.
I did not believe the screws in the side of the ammo housing where I had been putting my toothpick switch and the small switch on the side of the ammo clip, but again when looked for, found them within film captures.
So the only thing that is wrong is the new side cover screw, and we believe that was change after the filming.
So if they did indeed go with only one hero, it was ballsy but then again it was a all steel working real gun, very well made so perhaps they felt it would survive the shoot.
But to risk it with only one prop, a million dollar film and the main prop, only one, even if we think it will not break or malfunction, it could get lost or stolen.
Happens all the time on film sets, so I still think they had a back up.
Perhaps they took a stunt casting and hogged the Styer receiver out and mounted it on to another Bulldog as a back up gun, thus we have the same serial number and a back up prop and it would not look as good as the real gun/prop, so was only a back up?
My 2 cents worth.
Rich
All the scratches on the Butt plate, like that ½ moon scratch that made us think there was a round depression in the bottom of the butt plate…the black bottom with the slight silver edges.
The paint damage on the grip frame, Phil and I debated that one many times in the frame captures that showed them, Phil saying it was silver frames with shadow causing the black and me saying the frame was black with light reflecting causing the silver look.
The finish IE: Raw steel, which once we saw this and then looked for it in the film saw it there too.
And last the wires:
I have to say that detail bugged me all along, I saw them in the very early pictures, and could only think I was seeing the front edge of a slightly open side cover.
But that really did not work either. The cover did not look out of alignment.
So when I saw the first pictures Karl sent me, I knew in an instant I was looking at the real thing, it answered all those arguments and details.
And the green LED in the rod, I already believed in the one in front, and feared the one in the back so it was not hard to believe in it once seen.
I did not believe the screws in the side of the ammo housing where I had been putting my toothpick switch and the small switch on the side of the ammo clip, but again when looked for, found them within film captures.
So the only thing that is wrong is the new side cover screw, and we believe that was change after the filming.
So if they did indeed go with only one hero, it was ballsy but then again it was a all steel working real gun, very well made so perhaps they felt it would survive the shoot.
But to risk it with only one prop, a million dollar film and the main prop, only one, even if we think it will not break or malfunction, it could get lost or stolen.
Happens all the time on film sets, so I still think they had a back up.
Perhaps they took a stunt casting and hogged the Styer receiver out and mounted it on to another Bulldog as a back up gun, thus we have the same serial number and a back up prop and it would not look as good as the real gun/prop, so was only a back up?
My 2 cents worth.
Rich
