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Offline bigbluezuk

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Help identifying airgun from a movie
« on: December 26, 2009, 01:59:32 PM »
I have looked but cannot find the model airgun used in the movie "Home Alone".  It looks very close to a Red Ryder, however it has pump action like the model 25.  

A video clip here http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=31139530 shows the gun.  Of course, with movies they might have modified it just to get that pump action for coolness.

Any help or ideas!
Thanks

Offline SDale

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RE: Help identifying airgun from a movie
« Reply #1 on: December 26, 2009, 04:50:04 PM »
If you pause the clip, you can see that it is a Red Ryder or a clone with the cocking ring cut off. Also when he cocks it, he pulls the forearm forward. I've never seen a BB Gun that cocks that way.

I could be wrong though!

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RE: Help identifying airgun from a movie
« Reply #2 on: December 26, 2009, 11:00:13 PM »
It may have been altered for the movie, specialized hehe. :o  :) Ed
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Re: Help identifying airgun from a movie
« Reply #3 on: December 27, 2009, 03:58:46 AM »
Talking about airguns in movies......in the mid-70's (I think) there was a movie (Bless the Beasts and Children) about a bunch of boys in a Boy's Camp.  In one scene one of them shot out a tire of some bully's car with a "bb/pellet" gun with only one pump.  Don't know what bb gun was used....  Don't think they really shot at the tire....the bb/pellet would definitely bounce back!!!!
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Re: Help identifying airgun from a movie
« Reply #4 on: December 27, 2009, 04:39:41 AM »
pure fantasy, prop made from red ryder

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RE: Help identifying airgun from a movie
« Reply #5 on: December 27, 2009, 04:56:01 AM »
Yeah, movie prop, much like all those old 1873 Trapdoor Springfields Hollywood "converted" into flintlocks for a lot of the 1930's movies. I tried a Daisy pump BB gun (not a model 25 but the one with the pressed metal receiver and short stroke) and it was a bear to cycle. That kid would never have been able to flick - flick it like in the clip.

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RE: Help identifying airgun from a movie
« Reply #6 on: December 27, 2009, 01:11:18 PM »
My best freind got one like that from a garage sale back around 1982 it didn't have any markings on it but it was a wickedly fast repeater as fast as you could pump and pull the trigger it would spit out a bb.It didn't have much power but it was a ton of fun.
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RE: Help identifying airgun from a movie
« Reply #7 on: December 28, 2009, 01:08:17 PM »
I saw the movie again the other night and was thinking it was a Daisy model 572, but looking at the video clip I see that it isn't. I'm think it's just a prop.

http://www.bbairguns.com/Chronology/DaisyGuns/model_572.htm