Club Obi Wan

Top or Bottom?



Same comparison, different lighting. Top or Bottom?



We need your help to identify which gun on the left most closly matches Indy's gun on the right. So please chose Top or Bottom.

We know that both a Colt 38 cal Official Police revolver w/ 4" barrel, and a S&W 38 cal w/ 5" barrel and swivel were supplied by Stembridge for filming of the car chase scene. Thus far we have determined that:

#1 - Willie Juggling Gun is the Colt 38 cal OP revolver w/ 4" barrel.

#2 - Falling Gun is the S&W 38 cal w/ 5" barrel and swivel.

For more info see this thread: http://indygear.com/cow/viewtopic.php?f ... 86&start=0

We are still not certain which gun Indy used for the shooting out the back window scene. It could either be the 4 inch Colt or the 5 inch Smith. This is the best screen grab we can get of the shooting gun:



In the comparison photos above, one of the guns is a Colt 4 inch and the other is a Smith 5 1/2 inch. I will reveal the identities once we have a good number of votes in the poll. So which one do you think best matches Indy's gun? Top or Bottom?

Please help out. We need more votes!! It's been over a week and we only have 5 votes! Make your choice and make any other comments as you please!

Thanks!

Well, in MY case, if it's not a Webley... I have no idea.

But I can toss out an uneducated guess if you like.

Russ

I'll give it a go....This is tough! The screen shot is really vague. If the front sight was more apparent ,it's size/shape would be a good clue. The cylinder pin arrangement area too. My guess is............... bottom???
~raider 57

Hey Indiana Bond,

I'm with raider 57 on this; tough call. Bottom?

Dan S

We've tripled the vote count in just 2 days. Thanks!! I will give it a few more days before I reveal which is which.

Please vote if you haven't done so already.

TOP!
I think.

I believe I would have to say, it's the bottom photograph.

Indiana Redmon

I think that the TOP gun it's more similar...

I have to go with the bottom...

First I'd like to thank everyone who took part in this poll. It will be very difficult, if not impossible, to determine which gun Indy is using while shooting out the back window of the car. However, your participation with this poll has helped answer some questions.

My goal with this entire excercise was to see if you would be able to tell the difference between a 4 inch barrel and a 5 inch barrel in a photo with the photo being out of focus and the barrel almost pointing directly towards the camera. That would then indicate weather it was the S&W or Colt - both which were rented for the filming of this scene. When I made the comparison photos I was very surprised how both guns looked almost the same even though one of them has a 4 inch barrel and the other actually has a 5 1/2 inch barrel. To make matters even more perplexing is the fact that the gun with the 5 1/2 inch barrel is actually my S&W model 1917 which is considerably bigger than my Colt Official Police!

That's right, one photo shows my Colt Official Police and the other shows my S&W 1917! You would think that the difference would be obvious but it clearly isn't as we can see by the poll numbers and simply how similar both photos look.

OK, now to reveal the identities!!


Top is the S&W 1917 (Large frame 45 caliber)

Bottom is the Colt Official Police (Medium frame 38 caliber)


So by a 2 to 1 margin most of us did identify correctly one of the possible guns - the Colt Official Police. That's good. What's not so good is that one third of us wrongly identified Indy's gun as a S&W 1917 which is way off from what it could have been. I'm sure if I had had a S&W model 10 with a 5 inch barrel as they had available to them, and had I made the photo comparison with that gun, It would have been even harder to tell any difference.

In conclusion this little exercise has shown us that it will not be possible to positively identify which gun Indy used while shooting out the back window by using a simple photo comparison. The good news is that we can and have positivly identified the guns used in the other 2 scenes filmed in the car:

#1 - Willie Juggling Gun is the Colt 38 cal OP revolver w/ 4" barrel.

#2 - Falling Gun is the S&W 38 cal w/ 5" barrel and swivel.

For more info see this thread: http://indygear.com/cow/viewtopic.php?f ... 86&start=0

Please post any comments, questions, or thoughts regarding this little exercise of mine. I would especially like to hear what details in the photo comparison made you choose one gun over the other.

Thanks again for all your help!!