Mal's Pistol

POSTED BY: Catalyzer
UPDATED: Monday, September 18, 2006 17:16
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SINGLETON

Thursday, May 20, 2004 4:39 AM

Excellent!
I just wish they'd show bigger pics.
Now, if I can just get a gunsmith to go to work on my Taurus .357...........

Joe

Muscle.
Humor.
Thuggery.
Jayne.

BABYWITHTHEPOWER

Monday, September 18, 2006 12:50 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Veteran:
It looks like a revolver, but there is no cylinder.

It's because the cylinder was covered up with custom housing on the sides. This picture is from the Applied FX website, but as their site is not exactly user friendly, I decided to show you. I appologize for the grainy-ness, I had to blow it up.

You can clearly see in the lower right picture that there is a cylinder covered by the two side plates.

As for the mechanics in the show, it is indeed a magazine fed weapon because in Serenity's outtakes, when Mal shoots the Alliance officer on Haven, a piece falls out of the weapon and Nathan says "The clip fell out of my gun" (or something close) in a silly voice. You can also see the 'clip' in the bottom right picture. It's the piece of metal to the front left of the trigger guard.

But looking at these pictures, the weapon was indeed a taurus 5 shot snubnose with alot of custom work around it as RUSTYBOYROBOT had said. I hope this helps.

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TEACHDAIRE

Monday, September 18, 2006 5:16 PM

It's a Taurus 83 custom fitted with cast bronze facia peices and hand grip.
There's a section on it in the new Firefly companion vol 1 (it looks to be the start of a 3 part series, as it only covers up to Our Mrs Reynolds).

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