Garand Torino Photo of the day

Watched Clint the other night. Could not resist posting Garand Torino photo of the day.

"GET OFF MY LAWN"

Kinda like the old farts (and me) in my neighbor hood.
Pretty quite here.
Ed

"Ever notice how you come across somebody once in a while you shouldn't have .....d with? That's me."
Walt Kowalski

Always loved the artist's concept sling swivels on the screen shot...

Not a real Garand :-(

Plastic rifle? Resin?

Don't think there is a hole at the muzzle.

Reviewing a very high resolution screen shot of that frame shows only a "dimple" inside the crown of the muzzle, and the doll's head of the rear sight aperture looks very thick, the sling swivels are a very light duty "coathanger" wire suggests a resin or rubber dummy rifle.

Link will take you to the off site image in 1280 X 853 resolution that is the same frame grab as the original post.

http://www.returnofkings.com/wp-cont...t_eastwood.jpg

Please excuse this if it double posts, but it didn't seem to take the first time.

Marty Morgan used a replica in a documentary in which he had to blow up an M1. We featured it in the Winter 2014 GCA Journal.
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Also, trace the line of the muzzle and you'll see that it is tipped vertically so that the breech would have been too low in the receiver.

Bob

What you dont see on his Rt hip is what made Clint the star he is "Make my day"or "Have I fired 5 or 6 shots feeling lucky Punk?"

As a postcript in Dirty Harry S&W could not supply an M-29 44 Mag what they used was a S&W .41 Magnum just some info in case you wondered why there are not to many muzzle shots of his handgun in that film......

My dad had an original model Ruger Super Blackhawk in .44 mag as I was growing up. Now that was a gun that would wear out the web of your hand. He'd had some trigger work done and it wanted only a thought to launch its projectile. It went home with my brother when my dad died.

Bob

I owned a Ruger Super Redhawk 44 mag stainless and loved shooting it

My dad called his "Sweet Lips," based upon a gnarled translation of Geoffrey Chaucer in The Miller's Tale from The Canterbury Tales. Beginning at line 3805:

"Spek, sweete bryd, I noot nat where thou art."
"Speak, sweet bird, I know not where thou art." ("sweet lips")
This Nicholas anon leet fle a fart
This Nicholas immediately let fly a fart
As greet as it had been a thonder-dent,
As great as if it had been a thunder-bolt,
That with the strook he was almoost yblent;
So that with the stroke he was almost blinded;

My dad. What a character.

Bob