Fanning a PPK?

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jlflegal

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Funny how when you get to know firearms you see things you never noticed before:

Watching "From Russia With Love" (I wanted to see that Russian spy I've been in love with since high school, and hoping to see some Makarovs). In the opening scene James Bond is stalking around a garden and when he thinks he sees his adversary he whips out his Walther and FANS off a shot like in a western!!

How about that? I went and got my Makarov and tried it, hmmmm, don't work, but then , I'm not 007 :D

Later when Bond is walking around a secret agent training camp I notice a guy with an interesting stance. He's crouched down with his left arm held horizontally across his chest and the pistol in his right hand has the barrel resting over his arm. I haven't tried that one yet, but I will when I go to the range tomorrow.
 
Harr!

Fanning a PPK has value only in Hollywood. I can see the value of thumb-cocking it (or palm-cocking it?) if you were going to take a deliberate, aimed shot. The DA trigger pull on those things is heavy. I would want to use the nice SA trigger pull if at all possible. But for a snap-shot? Only for visual value.

And if you use your arm as a rest when shooting, be sure your muzzle is will past the end of your arm, or you'll wind up with a permanent muzzle-blast tattoo, as well as a ruined shirtsleeve.

Don't think its possible to have your muzzle past the end of your arm on a PPK...
 
I caught

the 'arm-as-a-rest' action on the SMERSH range, too. A singularly useless technique, but they were the badguys, after all.;)

On the 'fanning the PPK'. 'Only an idiot in the movies'!:mad:
 
It's been a long time since I've seen FRWL. Are you sure he just wasn't moving his arm out of the way and it looked like he was fanning? (Did he just fire one shot?)
 
I saw that the other night too, but I thought he had pulled back the slide quickly to chamber a round and get off a snap shot, fanning the hammer never entered my mind. I took it that he was carrying in condition 3. It caught my attention and I frowned becasue everyone knows 007 carries in condition one - one in the chamber, ready to go. A few moment later the guy gets himself garroted and we see it was a 007 imitation being hunted by the SMERSH agent that will haunt Bond thoughout the show. But it does show us a little about SMERSH - thier trianing matches that arm rest stuff all the way through. No wonder one brit commando can take 'em all out...


Edited because it looked like I was spelling in Russian.
 
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