Walther 's , Bond 007 and the Photographic target shooter

[Garvin]

Thanks for this confirmation of the story 'from the horse's mouth'.

I find it hilarious that we airgunners know the world's most iconic fictional assassin is holding an air pistol that struggles to propel a .177 inch pellet at about 350 fps on a good day.

It would hardly put most Bond villains off their stride, let alone kill them. Unless it fired a dart dipped in curare, I suppose.

The photographer has pulled the ultimate trick on an ignorant public that thinks 'oh my God, it's a gun-shaped object, Run!' And he got clean away with it.

I'm not sure a 'break barrel PPK' would have taken us long to work out either, if they had bothered to shorten the barrel in post-production.

[Muskett]

They kept up the tradition when Roger Moor holds a FWB 65 in the Live and Let Die and Man With a Golden Gun poster.

There is a harpoon wire throwing Webley???

And Octopussy has a BSA Scorpion.

[Garvin]

They kept up the tradition when Roger Moor holds a FWB 65 in the Live and Let Die and Man With a Golden Gun poster.

Not sure what it was but it doesn't look like a Feinwerkbau 65

Movie poster
FWB 65

[IanSea]

Not sure what it was but it doesn't look like a Feinwerkbau 65

Movie poster
FWB 65

It's definitely not an air pistol. It's a semi auto pistol of some sort, possibly a Walter target pistol. You can see the exposed hammer and the grooves on the slide

[clarky]

Thanks for this confirmation of the story 'from the horse's mouth'.

I find it hilarious that we airgunners know the world's most iconic fictional assassin is holding an air pistol that struggles to propel a .177 inch pellet at about 350 fps on a good day.

It would hardly put most Bond villains off their stride, let alone kill them. Unless it fired a dart dipped in curare, I suppose.

The photographer has pulled the ultimate trick on an ignorant public that thinks 'oh my God, it's a gun-shaped object, Run!' And he got clean away with it.

I'm not sure a 'break barrel PPK' would have taken us long to work out either, if they had bothered to shorten the barrel in post-production.

Try 440 fps on a good day provided the tight barrel is considered and the correct pellets chosen....
Tuned i run mine upper 400 s....with one straying 500 fps....they are not hard to tune...
Still think it looked too long for the picture ....but hey ho ....no one seemed to notice too much ..

[Jimny4x4]

Try 440 fps on a good day provided the tight barrel is considered and the correct pellets chosen....
Tuned i run mine upper 400 s....with one straying 500 fps....they are not hard to tune...
Still think it looked too long for the picture ....but hey ho ....no one seemed to notice too much ..

Thats what the photographer thought - he wanted the image trimmed ie the gun retouched - old style with a brish and ink ( its what you did back then when there was no Photoshop ) . But somehow the instruction was never carried out hence the overlong barrel image we all know today .