Jungle Cruise Guns

[Cricket2]

Originally posted by Safari Steve
I posted this as good news, but I guess there are still folks who want something to gripe about...

I'd say give them real guns with real bullets. They are all trained professionals right?

 

[DancingBear]

Originally posted by WebmasterCricket
Not to put a reality spin on this, but blanks still shoot stuff out of the barrel. Sometimes part of the crimped jacket can come loose and break skin. It's enough to shoot out an eye or burn/cut skin at point blank range assuming they are real blanks and not some odd cap-gun version. I have a scar on my knuckle from a shotgun primer from a blank (don't ask).

Yep.

Jon-Erik Hexum (died 12 October 1984)
Hexum died of a gunshot wound after he accidentally shot himself in the head with a .44-caliber magnum pistol loaded with blanks while on the set of the TV series Cover-Up. Wadding from the blank cartridge had been driven into his skull. Hexum was replaced in the series by Antony Hamilton, but the show didn't last all that long, running only from 22 September 1984 to 6 July 1985 before being canceled.

Brandon Lee (died 31 March 1993)
A stunt gone wrong during the filming of The Crow cost the son of Bruce Lee his life. A blank fired from a .44 magnum revolver felled him. He died hours later in hospital. The metal tip of one of the dummy bullets had somehow pulled loose from its brass casing. When the dummies were unloaded and replaced with blanks, the metal tip remained behind in the gun's cylinder. As soon as the blank went off, its explosive force propelled the dummy tip through the gun barrel -- and into Lee's body.

 

[kupperman]

Horrible...

 

[JQuatt21]

I am glad to see Disney Updating with the times...

 

[seashoreCM]

Can anyone confirm or deny a rumor that, back when the cap guns were in use, the skipper would be disciplined for using the gun more than once?

I don't recall when the guns were last in use but I never thought about the subject until (within the last two weeks) encountered the above as a rumor, don't recall exactly where but probably on these Boards.

>>> cord coming out of the gun handle --- So the gun can be quickly retrieved if it were accidentally dropped in the water.

Disney hints:
http://members.aol.com/ajaynejr/disscav.htm
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Does the billowing of a cloth cover let alone the act of stretching it over the car buff away at the finish faster than not covering the car and letting the sun beat down on the finish?