Mike Hammer

Ron, here's a previous thread on "Hell is for Heroes". We just lost one of the last cast members, funnyman Bob Newhart. Worth another watch, grab the popcorn and tune in .https://www.machinegunboards.com/forums/index.php?/topic/15499-steve-mcqueens-grease-gun/#comment-128814

Has anyone measured the brass wall thickness for comparison against other makers?

Pictures please

And their prices are laughably high. Wouldn’t touch them with the proverbial 10 ft pole.

By the time you’re kids would be getting them, they will either be outlawed or everyone will have them again…

With the production budget at over 100 million, "Public Enemies" had the luxury of filming many of the scenes at or near the original places that the original events took place. Much of the film was shot at multiple locations in my home state of Wisconsin. Madison, Milwaukee, Oshkosh, Beaver Dam, Manitowish Waters. Same thing with locations in Indiana like the Crown Point jail. If the film has the budget, they will go to significant lengths to make it as authentic as possible. I wanted to work on this film and did contact Avy Kaufman casting in NY, but unfortunately I was not as lucky as I was in getting a part in "The Highwaymen". The movie is still very good even though I'm not in it, Ha! But I think that I could have gave Depp a run for his money as Dillinger!

Do a search here and you will have your answer, there are several threads here that go into great depth on the subject.

David, are the photos from the pinned magazine guide lost forever or can they be restored? The pictures showed everything and were a great resource. MH

Sold two big sealed tins of packs of those not too long ago. Just remember if you shoot it, it has corrosive primers and if you don’t clean your gun thoroughly you will have rust on your gun. Don’t get me wrong, that 80 yr old ammo will still shoot, but I don’t use corrosive ammo on expensive full auto guns anymore, too risky, more of a collector’s item today. You are not in Louisiana are you?

Yeah Ron, we would all like to believe that progress has been made as time goes on. But I can safely say that I would absolutely return in a shot to 50-60 years ago when everything made more sense. It’s a sad state of affairs in this country these days and it won’t get any better without a lot of pain that we will all go through. We are in for rough times.

Some people are just not interested in keeping such artifacts. What is most important is that somebody who does value these items picks them up and preserves them rather than them being discarded into the trash bin and lost forever.

Kind of an odd choice for a sniper rifle, but hey, it's the movies.

I got a cheap frame as a temporary fix, I will still be looking out for something better. This one is still slightly too large. While I was messing with this I chipped out some of the wood where the spare inner recoil spring was housed so that I could instead carry my full recoil assembly with firing pin attached. It fits in there nicely. As Clint Eastwood said in Heartbreak Ridge, "improvise, adapt, overcome". Ha! By the way that "frame" could also be called "placard holder", "label holder", " packing list holder", and various other similar type names if you are doing searches on this item.

Only if your a seller....