What was Blade Runner's gun?

Try a web search. There are some prop-replica sites that talk about this gun (and other SF guns) in detail. I don't have any URL's handy though, sorry.

From what I remember, the Blade Runner gun was a combo from a Steyr rifle receiver and barrel stub and a Charter Arms revolver with a few other bits 'n pieces added for effect.

it was the action and trigger group from a Steyr sporting rifle (one employing double-set triggers), piggybacked on top of a run of the mill, el-cheapo, Charter Arms snub-nose revolver (i think either a bulldog or an undercover). then a creative propmaker "did some cosmetic work" to hide the seams (custom enlarged grip, side panels to meld the bolt gun action with the underslung revolver, etc).

one of the websites quotes one of the guys responsible as saying something along the lines of, well we saw this rifle action that was without a stock or barrel, had a really neat looking bolt handle and two triggers, and sort of went "HEY that would look really cool if we incorporated it into a 'gun of the future' let's scrounge around some adn see what we cna do with it!" same website goes into how top create one of these things, personally i don't have the inclination to spend that type of money and wind up.
1. with a non functional firearm, no matter HOW cool it looks
and
2. have to, in the process of making said setdressing pretty much destroy a well made, beautiful, and since it's now out of production increasingly rare, example of german riflemaking.

http://props.steinschneider.com/blade_runner/bldrunbl.htm

The pistol Deckard carries in Blade Runner is made from parts of several different guns. No such gun actually exists.

If I remember correctly he had a revolver in the book, but it's been a while since I last read it. I do enjoy Philip K. Dick!!!

Pretty cool

Justin,

Regardless of what Deckart used in the movie, holding that Mateba makes you want to go retire some replicants, doesn't it?

"He say you braderunner!"
"Tell him I'm eating."

Oh heck yeah.

That thing is about as sci-fi/anime as a real gun can get.

BTW, shot it side-by-side with a Colt Trooper Mk. III. Rather interesting compare-n-contrast.

something like that would make a real stylish bolt-action .223 survival-type pistol. in fact they had something like it in the game Fallout 2.

otomik - ah yes, the .223 pistol. First thing I thought of when I saw that one too.

Ah Bladerunner... the sole reason I own a COP .357 derringer


At least Leon had a real gun.

Wow, nice 4 barrel.... who makes it again?

Third_Rail,

Nobody, anymore.

Like a replica of the Pieta sculpted out of French vanilla, the form is perfect, but the substance leaves something to be desired.

the form is perfect, but the substance leaves something to be desired

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wow Tam, that description is so... polite.

Third_Rail- Truthfully the C.O.P. (Compact Off-duty Police) .357 looks very zoomy and is put together pretty well, it has some serious flaws- like a trigger pull that requires three men and a small boy (no lie- it's nasty heavy), and for some reason the designers took the concept of barrel rifling and applied it only lightly. It has the most shallow of grooves I've ever seen and key-holes the rounds at 25 yrds.

Even with all that, I wouldn't give it up unless I absolutely had to. It's just that cool looking. Just not a very effective firearm.


Oh and can I get that Pieta with chocolate sprinkles?

Regardless of what Deckart used in the movie, holding that Mateba makes you want to go retire some replicants, doesn't it?

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Ever watch Ghost in the Shell?

"I like the Mateba."

Truthfully the C.O.P. (Compact Off-duty Police) .357 looks very zoomy and is put together pretty well, it has some serious flaws- like a trigger pull that requires three men and a small boy (no lie- it's nasty heavy), and for some reason the designers took the concept of barrel rifling and applied it only lightly. It has the most shallow of grooves I've ever seen and key-holes the rounds at 25 yrds.

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it's a derringer. 25 yards seems a tad excessive

do all four rounds fire at once, or in sequence?

In sequence right, wouldn't all 4 at once be illegal??

yep, more than one shot from one pull of the trigger=machine gun. Doesn't matter that there are four barrels.

What's the purpose of the double-trigger set-up on the Steyr?

The C.O.P. is technically a derringer, but it does have a 2 ½†barrel. 25 yrds. is, uhm, optimistic though. The rounds fire sequentially, clockwise from the shooters point of view. The Blade Runner prop version had been modified so that two barrels fired at once.

Isn't that an illegal modification? I'd really like to get machine guns redefined... sigh.

that's annoying. four .357's at once would probably have a fair bit of effect at point blank range...

(probably have a fair bit of effect on the shooter's wrist, too! )

Third_Rail-
From the Weapons of Science Fiction- prop guns in the movies website:

The actual COP used in the movie Blade Runner was supplied by the legendary but now bankrupt Stembridge Gun Rentals, Inc. of Los Angles, California. For many years Stembridge was Hollywood's supplier of choice for movie weapons. Additionally, there is one important detail which will now be revealed for the first time: According to Art Shippee, Jr., the property master responsible for the weapons in the movie, the COP .357 used in Blade Runner had been altered to fire two barrels simultaneously. This modification helped create the greater than expected flash that is visible in the movie.

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linky link

pauli- I wonder if the frame could take it without a catastophic failure? Four rounds at once? I'm not going to volunteer to find out.

Ahh, notice that fewer and fewer movies use real firearms now? Laws are driving movie armorers out of business.

What's the purpose of the double-trigger set-up on the Steyr?

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First trigger "sets" the trigger, the second makes the hammer fall.

Kind of like a two stage trigger in a Match type rifle.

Tamara,

I thought I was the only one here who was educated in Renaissance sculpture...

The surprises keep coming on this board.