what happens when you give a USPSA grand master a movie role

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You all missed the best part though.

After putting on gloves for the shooting, he then pulls them off and drops them on the ground no more than twenty feet away. Brilliant plan there ;)
 
I wondered what the hell he did there after he fired. Thought it was some secret ninja or hit man trick.

Is there any truth to the statement that you can get prints from the inside of rubber gloves? Otherwise, I would think ditching them along with the gun would be a good idea.
 
The yellow glasses gave him away as the shooter.....oh and the two shotgun blasts too...:evil:
 
Great clip! Never knew about this...

Never mind getting fingerprints from the inside of the gloves...he only puts the gloves on right before he starts shooting...there are plenty of prints on the door handles and inside the car from driving it! Lets see...the driver of the limo is no where to be found after the shooting...wonder who did the shooting?
 
There's two big muzzle blasts on the first 2 shots, and no flash, but some sparks on the third. And you can see the slide cycle 3 times. The film cuts to the cop falling down in the middle of the second gunshot sound, which is actually from the third shot. (still with me? )
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Just a minor nitpic. That last guy he shoots is actually one of the bodyguards who showed up late. At the begining of the scene the guys who are about to die mention that one guy was lagging behind. He shows up just in time to see his boss and co-workers get whacked and then get's whacked himself.

Watch the episode itself and you'll hear the dialouge I mentiond. That, and when the Crockett and Tubbs and the rest are discussing the victims they only talk about the bad guys. If one of them was a cop, it would have been discussed, and they would have made a big deal about going after a "cop killer" in the rest of that episode.
 
Interesting... I've always had problems with stovepipe jams in the blank firing guns I've bought. Good covering of it here, if it was one.

My other guess- if he's going to walk away from a firearm, certainly makes sense to unload it first, in the off chance someone else might come out and grab it. Drops the mag, clears the round out of the chamber, and then leaves it behind.
 
That was one of my all time favorite eps of MV. I always thought those yellow shades were cool.

That character is just about the only bad guy I remember from the series.

So what type of gun was it?
 
About dropping the gloves, remember when the episode was made. He wouldn't have had to worry about then being able to get prints off the inside of the gloves or DNA from a hair.

He did have mad gun skilz. :cool:
 
So he holds the shotgun and the SMG like this, anyone know if it's in any way practical?

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Yu-S0v1jkAY


Strambo the article above said they could, back then. They probably were quite happy if no-one knew, though!

"This article is reprinted from the September 1966 issue of Fingerprint and Identification Magazine."

link was posted by Hazzard http://www.scafo.org/library/150302.html
 
Oh, thanks, I missed that, just skimmed it. Saw the words that they just learned how and the 1999 date.:eek:
 
Miculeck? I think that's his name... Jerry Miculeck... my spelling's off, though. IIRC, he's set the record for fastest reload+shooting from a revolver, with .45ACP moonclips.
 
Wow, that .45 they were using in the "assassin meets his end" thing sure held a lot of rounds for being such a narrow grip :p . And how convenient that all the shots fired from the police outside didn't penetrate the house, since the family was in the room closest to the street (since he jumped out the window of said room).

What SMG/AR was he using, anyway?
 
What SMG/AR was he using, anyway?
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The background shadow when he is ducking back from Crockett looks like a Ruger AC556 with folding stock. I had always wondered myself, so I did the pause and click until I got it to stop on that frame.

Love the way Tubbs hides behind the "ballistic couch" and Sonny takes out his own breaker box.:D

Gil Grissom (CSI) could have gotten the prints out of the gloves:neener:
 
87 megabytes of proof

I captured a copy of this video and converted the interesting parts into Quicktime format. Quicktime allows you to step through the video frame-by-frame by using the left and right arrow keys on your keyboard.

The video quality is pretty poor after all these conversions, and some frames have been lost. However, you can clearly see that three shots are fired, and there does not appear to be any jam when he is finished.

Looks to me like a beautifully executed Mozambique - you can even see him alter his aim for the third shot - followed by simply unloading the pistol.

The link to the 87 meg video is here (please right-click and download it to your machine before trying to run it):
http://www.ffmmov.com/shoot.mov
 
Gil Grissom (CSI) could have gotten the prints out of the gloves
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Funny little hollywood link: Jim Zubienna was the guy who handed William Petersen the .44 with the Glazers in the movie "Manhunter." That was another Michael Mann venture and he used Zubienna as a consultant/shooting coach.
 
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