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vmaldia asked in Politics & GovernmentMilitary · 10 years ago

what bullet is on the poster of this film?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tournament_%28fil...

the name of the film is "the tournament". Wikipedia page above with a picture. Released in 2009.

I'm no expert but the angle of the neck of the case looks wrong and the amount of powder behind the bullet looks quite large for the bullet's size. I wouldn't be surprised if that was just a movie prop.

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  • 10 years ago
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    The cartridge most closely resembles the 12.7x120mm round: An obscure, anti-aircraft cartridge developed for the Vickers D Class Heavy Machine Guns. The lack of a protruding rim and the incredibly smooth, "slope" of the bottleneck are good indicators that the resemblance is, however, entirely superficial. It would also be easier to add the movie's logo on a CGI bullet than a real one as well!

    Though it is also true that the bullet looks rather tiny when compared to the rest of its body, this is a typical phenomenon among most full sized rifle cartridges and even more so with heavy machine gun or autocannon rounds when range and penetration power are desired over the reduced recoil and control that their squat, intermediate cartridge brethren boast.

    Source(s): http://members.home.nl/p.geltink/pics/HMG1.jpg has a photographic comparison between several (many quite obscure) heavy machine gun cartridges.
  • 10 years ago

    I think you're right, despite your confusion between "bullet" and "cartridge." The gently sloping shoulder looks like it wouldn't headspace properly, so I'm going with "computer-generated graphics" for that cartridge.

    There's nothing new about large powder capacities behind a tiny bullet. The Remington Ultra Mag line is even more over-bore than this thing. But without a rim or belt, this cartridge would be inherently unsafe.

  • 10 years ago

    Its just a prop and not any bullet i have seen.

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