Indy's back! What's he packing?...

[RustyShackelford]

Hi
I saw some ads/PR for the new blockbuster Indiana Jones film and saw he is holding a large blue steel DA revolver. I'm no expert on the period(1957) but what type of handgun is it?
My guess would be a .455 S&W target revolver or the .44 that Jones used in the last film. I think it was a hand ejector type.

I'd think Indy would pack a S&W N frame .357magnum at least.

BTW: In Raiders of the Lost Ark, does Indiana Jones use a S&W model 10 .38spl or something else? I know Jones pulls a 1911a1 .45acp out in the bar shoot out scene. I always thought he reloaded his .38 but years later I saw it was a .45acp pistol.

Rusty

 

[Gladius]

Here's the lowdown on Indy's guns (from the first three movies):

http://www.indygear.com/gear/guns.shtml

As to what he has in the new movie... I have no idea....

 

[Pat-inCO]

Sorry, I'm not particularly worried.

Movies are planned distortions by people with a history of inaccuracy, and in some cases, blatant disregard for the truth. I'm not worried.

 

[Trebor]

Word is Indy's carrying the same revolver he used in the last movie, a Webly WG. (Not a Mk VI).

In the first movie he used a S&W HE 2in .455 Eley and .45 ACP (two different props). He also had a FN High Power in a few scenes.

 

[RustyShackelford]

Indygear.com

Thanks for the Indygear.com post. Good stuff!

I could have sworn Indy has a .45acp 1911a1 pistol not a 9mmNATO P-35 Browning High Power.

In the early scenes, Indy says he "served in the Army". I always connected the .45acp to this line. The clips still make it look like a .45acp 1911a1 too.

 

[El Tejon]

Maybe he served in the Canadian Army?

Plenty of Hoosiers went north to Canada to volunteer to fight=>http://www.amazon.com/Rifleman-Went-War-H-McBride/dp/0935856013

 

[DougDubya]

Why do we care what Indiana Jones is packing?

Because Indy is cool, and Indy packs a gun.

That's why. It's called FUN.

(Love that .45 Colt hand ejector. Bought a replica from Western Stage Props.)

 

[RustyShackelford]

Young Indiana Jones- Belgium

I think in the ABC TV series(produced by George Lucas/LucasFilm) in the 1980s, the backstory of Jones is that he served in part of WW1 in the army for Belgium or maybe France. The running joke that he used the name Defense(ha-ha). That's where he picked up the dreadful sidekick; Remy, . Remy to me was what the Jar-Jar Binks was to the Star Wars films.

It could be that Indy got a sweet Belgian FN high power 9mm/P-35 in a later trip...

RS

 

[buzz_knox]

In one trailer, he uses an RPG. Hopefully, the prop guys give him an RPG-2, rather than the RPG-7 (which wasn't issued until 1961).

 

[Thernlund]

GAWD... movies were so much more enjoyable before I was a gunny. Hmph.


-T.

 

[Rugerlvr]

Bear in mind that the first movie was set in 1936, and yet the Germans were carrying around MP40's.

 

[RustyShackelford]

RPGs-Rambo First Blood Part 2...

I wonder if Jones will fire the RPG in the truck like Rambo did in the landed Huey helicopter at the end of First Blood part 2.

Can you say; "backblast clear!"?

LOL


These movie gaffs remind me to of the WW2 film; The Great Raid movie poster/DVD cover that shows a US Army Ranger holding a Beretta 92F 9mmNATO pistol.

www.imdb.com

 

[buzz_knox]

These movie gaffs remind me to of the WW2 film; The Great Raid movie poster/DVD cover that shows a US Army Ranger holding a Beretta 92F 9mmNATO pistol.

Or the cover of "In Harm's Way" that had a Spruance class destroyeron it.

Or the episode of "Tour of Duty" where they went to Hawaii for R&R and walked past some Blackhawks upon arrival.

 

[Trebor]

In the early scenes, Indy says he "served in the Army". I always connected the .45acp to this line. The clips still make it look like a .45acp 1911a1 too

The best look we get at Indy's automatic in "Raider of the Lost Ark" is the scene on the freighter. You see the gun in close up as he works the action and it's definately a FN High Power.

In the bar gunfight scene he uses both the High Power and the revolver. That's the only other time we see the High Power in the whole movie.

 

[Cosmoline]

IIRC the "prequel" series Young Indiana Jones had him joining as an American volunteer with Belgium (?) in the early years of the war. But I'm sure he got around pretty well. The BHP and Web. would have been excellent choices for the period.

 

[Phil DeGraves]

"Bear in mind that the first movie was set in 1936, and yet the Germans were carrying around MP40's."

And Walther P-38s which Indy also uses.

 

[buzz_knox]

"Bear in mind that the first movie was set in 1936, and yet the Germans were carrying around MP40's."

And Walther P-38s which Indy also uses.

Don't forget the rocket launcher with which he threatened to blow up the Ark.

 

[grendelbane]

While Indy served in the Belgian army in the Great War, he certainly did not obtain a Hi-Power at that time.

While it is chronologically possible for him to have had a Hi-Power in the first movie, it is some what out of character. Indy obviously favors older handguns. Like many of his generation, they are just a tool to him. He would not be posting on THR, for instance.

I always figured the only way he could have gotten a Hi-Power at that time would have been to have won it in a poker game with a Belgian army officer. Ammunition would not have been that easy to find in some of the out of the way countries that he frequented, as the cartridge was not extremely popular outside of Germany until after WWII.

But, they are just movies, after all.

 

[blackcash88]

I read that there's some decent AK action in the new film.

 

[BHPshooter]

I knew Trebor would be here to guide you guys along the path.

I wished Indy 4 would have the S&W HE2 again, but alas...

Wes

 

[RustyShackelford]

Han Solo; German Nazi pistol with a scope/flash hider; Star Wars...

BTW:
In Star Wars, Han Solo used an old Nazi type 9mm pistol with a cheap scope and flash hider the props dept added on, .

Even when I was a young kid, I thought it looked like #$^&!

RS

 

[blackcash88]

Broomhandle Mauser.



And something a little easier on the eyes... An updated, non-hagged out Slave Leia.

 

[kentucky_smith]

I don't think Indy would have picked up a P35 during his service in the Belgium army or French Foreign legion, a bit early there. It would have been a new gun in pre-WWII Raiders.

 

[Checkman]

Makes sense that his revolvers would have been in the .455 Welbley/Ely caliber. The British Empire spanned the globe and there was a good chance that .455 could be found almost anywhere there was a store selling ammunition and firearms. It was a different time.

Even in the other European colonies the .455 could be found and was used.The 30 mauser pistol round and the 32 acp were also fairly common during this time period. Heck even American ammo companies made the .455 caliber before WW II. Stoeger imported all the different Webley revolvers during the years between the two world wars.