Van Damme uses a pair of Navies in Assassination Games

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Take another look at the close-up in the link in the second post.

They seem to have brass frames and also seem to be to small to be a Walker/Dragoon frame and grip.

Is it possible that they are G&Gs?
 
Doc, it does look that way. But I will watch the movie and commence with some slow motion, pause, and ZOOM :D......its the little things that amuse me.
 
In the first pic one appears to have no lever catch and the wedge goes in from the right side. In the second pic they both appear to have catches and the near one has the wedge going in from the left. In the first pic the one in his left hand appears to be a 51 Navy. I think it's the lighting making the CCH frames appear to be brass. Bottom line is none of the pics are clear enough to really tell.
 
Opinion

I'll wade in with my opinion... for what that's worth... ;p

Looking at the enlarged photos @ http://www.imfdb.org/wiki/Assassination_Games the brass trigger guard is definitely, visibly a different color than the 'brass' colored frame, so I would have to agree that the lighting is to blame for the 'brass' coloring of the case-hardening... so no brassers.

Given the 'pin' front sight in the movie photo vs. the 'blade' front sight in the upper Walker photo, also given Mr. Van Damme is not a large-framed man... so hand to weapon size ratio in the photo (frame size/ weapon length) and loading lever catches on both weapons says they are Colt Style 1851's, NOT Walkers. Given the straight sided cylinder... they're .36 caliber.

Rounded barreled/Octagonal? Given the 'hard' lighting... as we saw in the post of the SC Museum weapon in another post here, it's hard to tell... till you peer closely at the barrel's end... then you notice full curvature.

If I had to take a guess... he's actually sporting a pair of Uberti 1862 Leech & Rigdons (irregardless what they may have called them)... given they almost match the photo (exactly) @

http://gastatic.com/UserImages/5263/993513054/wm_3756955.jpg

The only trouble I see with the movie photo, given no cap relief cut in the right side of the blast shield... is that the photo may be transposed? IE. he should be firing both weapons to the left of frame, instead of right.

Postscript: Searching yahoo photos of Mr. Van Damme, he wears his watch on his left wrist... so yes, the photo is backwards. Your looking at his left hand in the foreground... from the photo's right-hand perspective.
 
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Shades of Hell on Wheels :eek::eek: We got us another (or maybe the same?) propmaster and armorer that don't know stuff from shinola when it comes to C&Bs. From the picture, they're both Griswold & Gunnisons, and yes, the photo is reversed.
 
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Cool stuff for sure.

The question I have, if anyone has actually seen this movie, what's the point of the G&G's? Does the character explain himself? That might answer what they actually are.

Like the Video "Beer for my horses" although use of '51's in a stakeout is odd, it certainly was fun.
 
Unseen

Haven't seen the movie, but untraceable would be my first thought. Unregistered weapon, no brass, no ammunition lot number, home cast lead & home-made propellant (in any run-down motel room). Any number of reasons are possible, but the down-side would be the noise, fire and smoke signature.

Given the arsenal at his disposal though, one still has to wonder why the character would carry such large revolvers, not easily hidden... when he has such a large number of concealable automatics at his disposal.
 
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Like the Video "Beer for my horses" although use of '51's in a stakeout is odd, it certainly was fun.
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Those 51's were Pietta .44's. You'd think Willie would get it right but I guess not.
 
Man, Hawg, we can't trust anybody these days. :p

Didn't look closely enough there either. That was back before I posted here, but I'm sure that was a hot topic.
 
The pistols I see look like brass framed 36 cal '51 Navies. The cylinders are straight, not rebated (not 44). The lighting would not reflect on the frames that differently than the barrels & cylinders if they were all the same metal (bluedsteel). They are brasser navies in my eye regardless of what the movie hype says.
 
Walker cylinders are not rebated and the frames aren't blued, they're color case hardened which is lighter and reflect more.
 
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