Reloading in the movies

Jack Reacher

There's an old Western I think with Stewart Granger. It's about buffalo hunting and they were reloading around the campfire. I'm too lazy to Google it.

Nevada Smith, with Steve McQueen. There is a spot in it where Brian Keith was using old tools to reload...

Shooter the series . Bob Lee Swagger sets up a 338 Lapua (?) as a special round for the wanna be sniper Lon Scott. No spoilers.

Burt Gummer’s “Rec Room” in the first and best “Tremors” movie.

Oh, Reba. Why can’t you have a forty year old facsimile that likes kids, poor carpenters and West Michigan?
(lonely sigh...)



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There was the robber in old Hawaii 50 who was depicted loading .30 M2 AP bullets in .300 Magnum cases for attack on an armored car. Nice RCBS outfit.

People who know too much about guns are normally depicted as sinister if not criminal in the entertainment industry.
Frex the gunsmith shown reactivating a DEWAT SMG in Police Story of the same era.
Multiple tv and movie scenes of the Skeet club as a meeting place for mobster bosses.

Burt Lancaster---melting toy lead soldiers to make bullets in "The Unforgiven"
---loading a cartridge for his Sharps rifle in "Valdez is Coming"

Charles Bronson in one of the vigilante movies. He's reloading for his Wildey.

Carl Nash played by Brent Saxon in Season 2 Episode 8 of Bosch (Amazon Prime) is reloading in a mountain cabin after a shootout in the city. Using a Dillon. There is also a scene earlier in the season where the police surmise that the bad guys reloaded because of the different casings at a crime scene.

A few different scenes in a few different episodes of the Walking Dead series. Don't know any of the actors names though.

Also think I remember Clint Eastwood loading something in one of his westerns, maybe it was Hang em High, not sure.

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Next of Kin, the one brother comes to Chicago and is loading pistol cartridges on the floor of his fleabag hotel room. With a burning candle nearby...
I think it was one of those Lee hand presses.

Not so much "reloading" but in the movie Shooter you see Swagger building pipe bombs using IMR 4350 for powder. (My BS meter went off on that one but I could be wrong. )

There was a scene in one of the Beverly Hills Cop movies that had reloading.

Sons of Anarchy had a group of Native American's reloading one season.

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Demi-human said:

Burt Gummer’s “Rec Room” in the first and best “Tremors” movie.

Oh, Rita. Why can’t you have a forty year old facsimile that likes kids, poor carpenters and West Michigan?
(lonely sigh...)

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This movie is the pinnacle of cinematic art. It’s a travesty it didn’t take every Oscar that year

The only legitimate reason to cus any Dillion product is when it attracts a giant worm

There's a movie where the ex-military sniper, based on the signature of the rifling from his pet gun, is framed for an assassination he didn't commit. He evades police and travels into the deep woods of Tennessee to consult an old reloader who tells him the bullet was reloaded into a larger caliber gun using a sabot. (As everyone knows, the most knowledgeable reloaders all live in the back woods of Tennessee. And they all have RC Model and Walkalong on speed dial too.)

No actual reloading scenes, just a script built around reloading concepts.

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rfwobbly said:

There's a movie where the ex-military sniper, based on the signature of the rifling from his pet gun, is framed for an assassination he didn't commit. He evades police and travels into the deep woods of Tennessee to consult an old reloader who tells him the bullet was reloaded into a larger caliber gun using a sabot. (As everyone knows, the most knowledgeable reloaders all live in the back woods of Tennessee. And they all have RC Model and Walkalong on speed dial too.)

No actual reloading scenes, just a script built around reloading concepts.

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Heck, Kerry Drake, the comic strip detective, was framed by somebody somehow getting a bullet fired from his .38 and patching it to reuse in a muzzleloader.
The "funnies" were sometimes serious.

Jim Watson said:

Heck, Kerry Drake, the comic strip detective, was framed by somebody somehow getting a bullet fired from his .38 and patching it to reuse in a muzzleloader.
The "funnies" were sometimes serious.

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There was an episode of Castle that had something like that happen.

Charlie Chan movie where someone is shot with a ice bullet, boy that dates me

"Silver Bullet" when Gary Busse talked the old gun smith into melting down some silver jewelry crosses to make bullets. He then loads 3) .357 rounds with them and hands them to Gary Busse. Gary says I don't know what I'll use them for, I just wanted some. The old guns smith looks at him and says, Warewolves. I think he had an old C-frame single stage press. edit to add: someone else that saw the movie said it was a rockchucker.
Refreshingly, the old gun smith was melting the silver in a small smelting furnace with a crucible. If he was using a lead pot there that would have ruined it for me. The bullets were all wrinkled just like they came out of a cold mold, like in real life. I was surprised at the accuracy of the way they depicted the reloading in the movie.

Wasn't Keven Costner reloading some buffalo rounds at the fire for his sharps rifle while buffalo hunting with Bat and Ed Masterson, in the movie Wyatt Erp?

Charlie Chan movie where someone is shot with a ice bullet, boy that dates me

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Good old Charlie Chan, one of my favorite shows when I was a kid.