TXGunNut said If you’ll watch closely at the staged gunfights like the ones at the Irma Hotel they aim at the ground or to the side of their apparent target.
You don’t even have to look close to see that in F&I War & Rev War battle re-enactments, the firelocks always point up at a angle, not directly toward the “enemy.”
Though I love seeing historic re-enactments, the uniforms & the smoke of massed fire, such a stupid tourist stunt as a staged gunfight I’d walk the opposite direction to avoid.
November 7, 2015

tim tomlinson said
Chuck, By no means will I come up with his name. But the one I recall was an undercover spy/hero as the strong man for a modeling agency or something kind of close to that. .45 ACP blank at very close range as I recall. Guys, I need help big time with names! Don’t start yours with “I don’t remember his name….” as I sure can’t come up with it. Tim
The expanding gases of a .45 ACP blank within a few inches would do as much damage as the wad, maybe more.
Mike
Tim,
I think the TV show was “Cover Up”. “I need a hero” was the theme song which for some reason stuck in my mind.
Jon-Erik Hexum was the actor killed by the blank.
BLANKS are dangerous as hell.
I used to do Old West reenactments at rodeos. We all used the 5in1 blanks, which is what most of Hollywood still uses.
Before the show started we always did your typical “Don’t Try This at Home” routine. We would take a full coke can and blow it in half to show the kids in the audience how dangerous they were. We once had a couple of newer guys in the show. One guy once took a blank to face and at a great distance I might add that. We sent him to the ER to get checked out. All he initially got was some burnt powder in his eye, but the concussion of air caused his eye to turn into a black eye, like he’d been punched in the face. His vision wasn’t harmed and it all cleared up in a few days. We got lucky with that one.
I also used to do a stunt of the hangman’s noose with a concealed harness. For a while there I got hanged at every show. Always got resurrected at the end of the show.
On one occasion the lead rope was wrenched down too tight and I was actually being hanged. But I was able to free my hands and get loose.
If you watch Back To The Future III, towards the beginning when they go to hang Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) in the town square, the same thing happened to him.
Michael J. Fox is not acting and is actually being hanged in that scene and went unconscious. Luckily the director noticed it in enough time.
Sincerely,
Maverick
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