Infamous (or famous) snubbies [Archive]

Moonfish

01-10-2008, 21:35

Can you remember any infamous or famous snubbies? I know of two that were featured in separate Pulitzer Prize winning photographs...

Here's something to get you thinking:
http://inlinethumb36.webshots.com/39139/2588394180100900487S600x600Q85.jpg

G33

01-10-2008, 23:50

DS #2?
:supergrin:

Moonfish

01-11-2008, 06:40

DS #2?
:supergrin:

Was it a Colt Detective Special or a Colt Cobra?

cowboywannabe

01-11-2008, 12:47

David Bercowics(sp?) used a Charter Arms .44spl which is a small gun for the caliber....3" bbl.

jon hinkley (jr.?) used an RG .22lr snubby.

MCPreacher

01-11-2008, 15:16

William Conrad as Frank Canon in the "Canon" detective series.

http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f260/preacherspulpit/Misc/cannon.jpg

MCPreacher

01-11-2008, 15:19

Ephraim Zimbalist Jr. used this .32 Long Colt Banker's Special because he was small in stature, and a large revolver would look "off" onscreen. Serial number is a Stembridge mark on the outside, 7063.

http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f260/preacherspulpit/Misc/DSCN9972.jpg

MCPreacher

01-11-2008, 15:24

Is this one of the ones you were thinking about?

http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f260/preacherspulpit/Misc/eddie_vietnam.jpg

MCPreacher

01-11-2008, 15:27

I bet this is the other one...

http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f260/preacherspulpit/Misc/rubyshot.jpg

MCPreacher

01-11-2008, 15:34

Anyone got a pic of Mark David Chapman's snubbie?

Moonfish

01-11-2008, 19:27

MCPreacher nailed it! good job! Headed your way is a Muti-function Pocket Tool with LED light... PM me your address.

** edit: MCPReacher has kindly donated his winnings to the Snubbie Beauty Contest (http://glocktalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=809520) **

http://inlinethumb30.webshots.com/41309/2145739910100900487S600x600Q85.jpg

MCPreacher

01-11-2008, 20:11

Wait, this was a contest? I never win contest.... Sweet!

Berto

01-12-2008, 06:14

http://www.notpurfect.com/main/bull07.jpg

http://www.notpurfect.com/main/jr2.jpg

http://content7.flixster.com/photo/35/52/17/3552173_gal.jpg

Fitz specials..

http://www.shootingtimes.com/gunsmoke/STgs0605_020807A.jpg

Moonfish

01-12-2008, 11:57

Remember Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. from 77 Sunset Strip?

http://inlinethumb48.webshots.com/38959/2279320220100900487S600x600Q85.jpg

I don't... :tongueout:

ChuteTheMall

01-12-2008, 22:20

I couldn't find a better picture, but 2 of these 3 guys have snubbies IIRC.
(Joe & Nice Guy Eddie did, but Mr. White used an S&W semiauto. Guess who survived the scene?)

http://img518.imageshack.us/img518/4231/reservoirdogs10qr6.jpg

Scene from Reservoir Dogs

ChuteTheMall

01-12-2008, 22:29

http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c74/Guyface18/boondocksaints5jap.jpg

He keeps his snubbies close to the vest, in Boondock Saints.

MCPreacher

01-13-2008, 08:08

http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c74/Guyface18/boondocksaints5jap.jpg

He keeps his snubbies close to the vest, in Boondock Saints.

That is a kick-butt setup there, but why the hell would he have a 1911 AND a Beretta? It would make a lot more sense to have two of the same.... :rofl:

RussP

01-13-2008, 10:11

That is a kick-butt setup there, but why the hell would he have a 1911 AND a Beretta? It would make a lot more sense to have two of the same.... :rofl:He must be military procurement - They can't make up their minds, either!!!

:supergrin:

G27Chief

01-13-2008, 22:25

Armed with snub-nosed .38, Miss America 1944 stops intruder on her farm
‘Miss America 1944 has a talent that likely has never appeared on a beauty pageant stage: She fired a handgun to shoot out a vehicle’s tires and stop an intruder.

Venus Ramey, 82, confronted a man on her farm in south-central Kentucky last week after she saw her dog run into a storage building where thieves had previously made off with old farm equipment.

Ramey said the man told her he would leave. “I said, ‘Oh, no you won’t,’ and I shot their tires so they couldn’t leave,” Ramey said.

She had to balance on her walker as she pulled out a snub-nosed .38-calibre handgun.’

GLOCKENNBOOMER

01-14-2008, 12:33

In Road to Perdition when Tom Hanks took out Jude Law with his snubbie

Speed Racer

01-14-2008, 17:20

Someone post a link to the last 10 minute of "Way of the Gun".

Snub Heaven.

MrMurphy

01-15-2008, 07:01

L.A Confidential. .38 snubnoses everywhere you look, and a couple 1911s if I remember right.

I'm surprised Hinckley managed to get off as many shots as he did, the one time I fired a RG .22, it took approximately 12 trigger pulls to get five rounds to even fire.

JFrame

01-15-2008, 11:46

I don't know how famous these are, but for you snubbie fans, here's some more to reflect on...

1) Rico Tubbs used his 12-shot M38 S&W Bodyguard ( ;) ), kept in an ankle holster, as back-up to his sawed-off Ithaca on "Miami Vice."

2) Tony Baretta carried a brace of .38 snubbies (Mexican-carry for one, tucked in his boot for the other) for his shoot-outs... BTW, this was one of the first instances I can recall seeing on standard T.V. programming of any cop having an actual BUG!

3) Now I'm REALLY showing my age on this one, but Mike Connors pulled a .38 snubbie from the small of his back to get him out of tight squeezes in the old series "Tightrope." In an era in which every contemporary carried his gat/rod/roscoe in a shoulder holster, this was downright RADICAL! :)

eddief4

01-15-2008, 14:06

Sweet thread, :wavey:

Love the Jack Ruby pic.

glockess56

01-15-2008, 23:46

Wasn't Mike Connors in Mannix?

JFrame

01-16-2008, 15:45

glockess56,

Yep -- Mike Connors was also "Mannix"... But before that (I'm guessing maybe 10 years, off the top of my head), he did a T.V. series called "Tightrope," where he played an undercover agent infiltrating the mob.

-- JFrame

GLOCKENNBOOMER

01-16-2008, 16:58

Dennis Franz carried a snubbie in NYPD Blue as Sipowitz, while every one else had Glocks. He was "Old School"......The ending scene of Once Upon a Time in America when Max (James Woods) put a snubbie in front of Noodles (Robert Deniro) and wanted him to kill him.

South Fla

01-16-2008, 17:34

L.A Confidential. .38 snubnoses everywhere you look, and a couple 1911s if I remember right.

Bud White used a Colt sub nose.

http://www.usaweekend.com/02_issues/020106/images/crowe10.jpg

Ed Exley also carried a subbie and a 1911 at The Victory Motel shootout.

Sgt. Jack Vincennes also carried a nickel-plated 1911.

Berto

01-16-2008, 17:51

Agent Stone (Andy Garcia) in the Untouchables....

http://sean-connery.narod.ru/untouch14.jpg

Moonfish

01-16-2008, 17:52

http://www.thegunzone.com/ca_bonnie-clyde.html
One of the Great Marketing Blunders of the latter 20th Century… although they did come with "locking gun rugs," was Charter Arms' 1989 SHOT Show introduction: specially marked "his and hers" Police Undercover model revolvers, curiously yclept "Bonnie & Clyde," in, respectively, .32 H&R Magnum and .38 Special! The catalogue copy read:

Today's shooters often blend tradition with a flair for something new, something different. And, we find, that more and more frequently, couples are taking to the shooting ranges together. So we decided to offer a special set for those couples, collectors, and any hand*gunner who wants a revolver that offers a style and flair that is, in a word, contemporary.
Sold only by the pair, the MSRP was $579.95, and were nowhere to be found in subsequent Charter Arms catalogues. No word on whether the company ever licensed any intellectual property from the Parker or Barrow families.

http://inlinethumb46.webshots.com/40493/2376443900100900487S600x600Q85.jpg

MCPreacher

01-16-2008, 18:09

http://www.thegunzone.com/ca_bonnie-clyde.html

http://inlinethumb46.webshots.com/40493/2376443900100900487S600x600Q85.jpg

That is sooooo cool.

I would carry both... and when someone pissed me off, I would ask them if they wanted to meet my friends, Bonnie & Clyde :rofl::rofl:

50 Cent

01-19-2008, 22:41

Didin't James Caan use an SP 101 in the final shootout? I remember watching that (should watch it again as I have it on DVD but I'm too lazy) and thinking:
"Damn! I think i have one of those!" :supergrin:

ChuteTheMall

01-20-2008, 20:45

Rocco (the funny man) in the Boondock Saints kept running out of ammo too soon with his snubbie.

http://img340.imageshack.us/img340/820/1046051496sqbsrocco1xa3.jpg

LSP972

01-21-2008, 08:41

Bud White used a Colt sub nose.

Ed Exley also carried a subbie and a 1911 at The Victory Motel shootout.

Actually, Bud White got the 1911 and the Ithaca 37 (with a handful of shells) out of his car just before that fight. He was the warrior; Exley was the politician/pogue who got lucky and survived to prosper.

Today, Exley's character wouldn't even HAVE a gun on him; and wouldn't get within five miles of a clandestine meeting place like that.

That was a pretty deep film, on several levels.

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AngryBassets

01-22-2008, 21:04

Actually, Bud White got the 1911 and the Ithaca 37 (with a handful of shells) out of his car just before that fight. He was the warrior; Exley was the politician/pogue who got lucky and survived to prosper.

Today, Exley's character wouldn't even HAVE a gun on him; and wouldn't get within five miles of a clandestine meeting place like that.

That was a pretty deep film, on several levels.

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That's one of my favorite movies; the book is 10000x's better.

Doubletaps5105

01-24-2008, 17:45

LSP972

01-25-2008, 06:08

Don't forget that Jack Lord in Hawaii 5-0 carried a S&W Model 37 with oversize Fitz grips on the show in a shoulder holster. And of course who could forget Brodrick Crawford in Highway Patrol ( 21-50 to HQ) used a Colt 2" to shoot out car tires from a helicopter. Also Gregory Hines used 2 Model 60's in the movie Off Limits.

Speaking of car tires and Hawaii Five-O, McGarrett was probably single-handedly responsible for the death of more rubber trees than any man alive...:supergrin:

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