Howdy!
I'm looking for suggestions of either gunsmiths to do mods or places to buy pre-made barrels with restrictors enabling blank fire in semi or full auto firearms without jamming.
I've been doing theatre and film props armoury stuff for a while now, but mostly small time low budget stuff, where non-firing or plugged barrel purpose made replicas will do... I've got a friend starting preproduction for a film this Summer who is really interested in getting some real firearms modified to fire blanks- the purpose-made blank replicas can jam a lot, and have other drawbacks. I imagine it's just a question of a proper restrictor in the barrel and possibly a modified magazine, but maybe there's more to it?
I believe my friend has a class III license as well, and would be interested in both semi and full auto firearms. Basic setup for the film is an X Files meets Cthulu thing, so I imagine service-type weapons would be best, but that leaves a fairly wide variety of options.
Any suggestions or reccomendations?
Thanks,
Kevin
I'm looking for suggestions of either gunsmiths to do mods or places to buy pre-made barrels with restrictors enabling blank fire in semi or full auto firearms without jamming.
I've been doing theatre and film props armoury stuff for a while now, but mostly small time low budget stuff, where non-firing or plugged barrel purpose made replicas will do... I've got a friend starting preproduction for a film this Summer who is really interested in getting some real firearms modified to fire blanks- the purpose-made blank replicas can jam a lot, and have other drawbacks. I imagine it's just a question of a proper restrictor in the barrel and possibly a modified magazine, but maybe there's more to it?
I believe my friend has a class III license as well, and would be interested in both semi and full auto firearms. Basic setup for the film is an X Files meets Cthulu thing, so I imagine service-type weapons would be best, but that leaves a fairly wide variety of options.
Any suggestions or reccomendations?
Thanks,
Kevin