Scully's Gun -- It's a Sig Sauer
The Scribbler
Checked out the episode this evening and both Scully and Mulder are
using Sig Sauer side arms. By the looks of the way the bullets failed
to put down the mutant inbred hillbillies, the guns were 9MM.
Surf on over to
http://www.primenet.com/~scribble/
to check out the military specification for those 9MM Sigs and see
what they were really designed to do.
trendy
I don't think they were 9's doesn't the FBI use some odd caliber??
As far as 9's not putting down the Peacocks remember back to when the
military switched over the major argument against them was they lacked
stopping power. Also consider the Peacocks feel no pain and are pumped
up on adreniline.
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In article <325F1E...@twd.net>, trendy <tre...@twd.net> wrote:
>The Scribbler wrote:
>> Checked out the episode this evening and both Scully and Mulder are
>> using Sig Sauer side arms. By the looks of the way the bullets failed
>> to put down the mutant inbred hillbillies, the guns were 9MM.
>> what they were really designed to do.
>I don't think they were 9's doesn't the FBI use some odd caliber??
>As far as 9's not putting down the Peacocks remember back to when the
>military switched over the major argument against them was they lacked
>stopping power. Also consider the Peacocks feel no pain and are pumped
>up on adreniline.
FBI recently approved .40 for field service. It's about
1/2 way between a 9mm and 10mm. Sig does manufacture
.40 guns. The reason for the development of 10mm was to
increase firepower after the `Miami Shootout' incident which
left 2 agents dead. The problems with 10mm is that it is
a very large gun. Someone with the palm size of Scully would
have problem handle it. The .40 was developed as a compromise
between firepower and size.
I sincerly don't know what would happen if Scully uses a .40
gun on the Peacock brothers.
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Tim Lau
In article <53nflo$h...@nnrp1.news.primenet.com>,
Rodrick Su <r...@primenet.com> wrote:
> FBI recently approved .40 for field service. It's about
> 1/2 way between a 9mm and 10mm.
Actually, .40 S&W is a 10mm bullet but with less powder and a shorter
case than a true 10mm. It was developed by the FBI in with a goal
of finding a caliber that "stops like a .45 with the capacity of
a nine." For more information about this caliber, check out the
Unofficial 40 Smith & Wesson Home Page at:
http://www.cris.com/~Zenwolf/50home.shtml
> Sig does manufacture
> .40 guns. The reason for the development of 10mm was to
> increase firepower after the `Miami Shootout' incident which
> left 2 agents dead. The problems with 10mm is that it is
> a very large gun. Someone with the palm size of Scully would
> have problem handle it. The .40 was developed as a compromise
> between firepower and size.
Yes, not to mention that early 10mm guns couldn't handle full 10mm
loads which ended up resulting in cracked and bent frames. I believe
Mulder still carries a SIG P229 (possibly .40 caliber) while Scully
started out carrying a SIG P230 (.380 much like James Bond's Walther
PPK) and now carries some variant of a Smith and Wesson. I didn't
see Home (still waiting on my cable guy) so I don't know about that
episode.
Also, for more info about the SIG SAUER pistols, check out the
Unofficial Sig Sauer Home Page at:
http://odaiko.ss.uci.edu/sig/sig.html
Have fun!
Tim
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The first thing that you have to remember is that this is a tv show.
They try to base it in reality but it is fiction and tehy can do just
about anything that they want. Just because the peacock brother
did'nt die does not mean it was a 9mm pistol. Maybe it's just me but
I don't care who you are if you get handgun magazine unloaded into
your chest 9 times out of 10 you will not get up unless you are
wearing your kevlar undies. But just one other thing that may lead to
confusion is the fact that scully unloaded 10 round into the peacock
before the gun locked empty. Since they are Law enforcement they
should have the higher capacticty magazines or it was a .40 sw. Just
food for thought.
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