Movie gun

[pioneer461]

Yesterday I saw the flick "No Country For Old Men." I got a chuckle from the ticket seller when I claimed my senior discount, but that's beside the point.

The movie was pretty good, up to a point, with lots of gun-play and action. It also had a plot, until the ending which I found kind of confusing.

Anyway, the lead bad guy, Anton Chigurh (played by Javier Bardem), was armed with a couple of interesting weapons. The first was a pneumatic device used in slaughtering cattle, which drives a piston into the beast's brain causing instant death. He applied it with great success against humans and door locks.

He was also armed with a shortened pump shotgun, I think an 870, affixed with a suppressor. I've never before considered a "silenced" shotgun. Does anyone know if that's actually do-able?

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[Sandhiller]

Anything's possible, but I kinda doubt it about the shotgun. I don't know how you'd keep a pellet or two out of the baffles. Also, in that pic you posted, it looks like an AWFUL small hole!

I've always associated suppressors with precision shooting. Don't know how that would go with buck-shot bouncing round here and there.

[jayspapa2002]

that small hole is easy to exsplain.....it's a .410....LMAO :lol:

[tuna]

Doesn't really count as a suppressor, but there was a guy who had an aftermarket barrel for shotguns (I know 870s, maybe Mossbergs too) that was an additional 36" long with holes in it that did a pretty good job of quieting down the shotgun.

Not too handy for drive by's, I'd reckon, but it was marketed to legal owners who wanted to protect their livestock without scaring the neighbors or chickens.

[Outlaw]

I would definately say that's a 12 ga. shotgun and the supressor is obviously a movie prop. One shot with a 12 ga. shell and that thing would launch like a mortar.