What Revolver would James Bond use?

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I don't recall James Bond ever using a Revolver as standard issue in the movies but if he did, what do you think it would be?
 
I suspect he would have carried some variation on a J-Frame for easy of concealment, so just for kicks I say the S&W 442.
 
I suspect that to the veddy British Fleming, a revolver was not exotic enough; only a Continental automatic pistol would do for his super spy. Of course he knew little about guns, and his "expert" knew little more, but to his intended reader culture, that really didn't matter; after all, he was selling tales of fictitious British derring-do, not gun catalogs.

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in the books

In the Fleming books, and off the top of my head, he used some sort of shrouded hammer Smith and Wesson in Dr. No.

There's a wiki that has the list: http://jamesbond.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_firearms , the list includes a Colt Police Positive under his pillow, Colt Army Special, Smith & Wesson Centennial Airweight (Dr. No, good memory for an older guy), John Garner books had him using a Ruger Super Blackhawk .44 Magnum. Throughout the books he also used various picked up revolvers which I didn't list.

There are many fewer revolvers in the movie versions.
 
Perhaps if made these days... he would use some exotic Korth. Of course, all of them are exotic. Of Korth they are... :p
 
Worn while riding Mr. Ed.

(I don't know about the other Bonds, but Connery hated guns and contributed heavily to the anti-gun lobby; he often used air guns or dummies in the movies.)

Jim
 
I believe it was a S&W mdl 29 used by Roger Moore. I never read the books, but Boothrod wanted Fleming to have commander Bond to have a S&W 357 in the glove box.
 
"Tiny Dainty Hands" would choose a Colt Police Positive .38 Special. Otherwise, he might not be able to handle it and would drop it in the pond somewhere "Across the Pond".
 
With James Bond guns aren't focused on. That said I think he'd use something sleek rather than something extravagant in the movies.

Off topic but what hurt me the most was seeing a cheap Cobra derringer used in Django. A Cobra? Really? They could have done so much better.
 
Considering when he started-the 1950s, I say a Webley Mark IV or Enfield No. 2 Mk I, since even then the Brits preferred ours to theirs, an S&W or Colt-in .380/200.
 
In "Live and Let Die", I remember him coming out, blazing, in one scene with what appeared to be a large-bore magnum revolver. I'm pretty sure that nobody from MI6 issued it to him. Darn... Beaten to it.
 
In the original books he had a Ruger Super Redhawk in .44 mag under the dash of his Bently.
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I think the original books were all written before the Super Redhawk even existed. :D

I believe it is in Dr No that he upgrades from a .25 to a .32 auto (the famous PPK) because he's told it "hits like a brick through a plate glass window".

Brits!!:rolleyes:

Later Fleming refers to the 2" .38 Colt snub used by the American as a "cannon".

Bond in the original books is a VERY different fellow from Bond in the movies.
 
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