Talk:Predator (1987)

Manpack Mini-gun

From a Friend of Mine I have gotten a Quote from the Films Technical Advisor about the Hand-held Minigun.I'm going to integrate it into the page as it does go into the creation of the weapon as a man portible device. Rockwolf66 05:43, 1 January 2009 (UTC)

the Quote is: "The Predator gun is an M-134. It was never a microgun (XM-214). That story has been rattling around the Internet and elsewhere for years, that the Predator gun was a 5.56, it wasn't. Ventura had a hand in putting together the harness that held the gun, after all, he had to carry and handle the darn thing, and told me a bunch about it. When Dan had the gun (past tense I believe) he contacted me to see if Ventura wanted to buy the weapon. I'm going to do a writeup on the XM-214 including pictures of me holding one. It isn't a big deal to pick the microgun up and hold it cradled in one arm. Maybe when people see just how small the 5.56mm gun is, this story will start going away. The pack in the movie held all of four seconds worth of ammo and no batteries. In the first scene when Ventura fires the gun, you can see the cable for it it the dirt behind him. And the trigger didn't work. The special effects man handled powering the gun for several reasons, including safety. Something about them not wanting the actors injured if the gun was dropped and the trigger pulled." Rockwolf66 05:46, 1 January 2009 (UTC)

would a hand held mini-gun be ever practical? It looks cool but probably won't. Rex095

Not probably. Definitely.

would you consider a smart Grenade launcher modified to fire 20mm or 30mm auto cannon shells impractical? Rex095

As far as detonating 40mm grenades...

There are/were two sets of fuzes. The earlier ones armed in 3 to 5 meters (9 to 15 feet or so) and presented a hazard because of the casualty radius of the rounds. These rounds were primarily used with the M79 but will chamber and fire in the M203. The "later" rounds included a third arming mechanism which delayed arming until the round was 14-28 meters from the barrel.

Minigun Fire Rate

I'd like to know the source of the "confirmed" fire rate of 1250 RPM. Reason being, I'm the guy that came up with the 1700-1800rpm figure which I figured out by counting the number of barrel rotations the weapon makes in a given time frame while the movie is playing in slow motion. There are several closeup shots on the weapon muzzle that make this possible. It should also be noted that in the special features Jesse fires the weapon with unedited sound and the weapon fires at such a rate that it is continuous sound, much like how a real Minigun sounds.

That's interesting, since a movie camera only records at a rate of 24 frames per second and you're claiming the gun fired at 30 rounds per second, meaning it completed five rotations a second, and that you eyeballed it rotating once every 4.8 frames in 'slow motion.' Any rate of fire over 1,440 rpm would be wasting ammo for the hell of it, since at that speed you'd already be firing a shot every frame. With your prediction they would be literally throwing away 6 rounds a second. Vangelis 13:59, 13 August 2009 (UTC)

I got the rate of fire that I did by communicating with people who have acctually worked on said Minigun and that rate of Fire was stated back when Dan Shea was liquidating the Stenbridge gun collection. Plus have you ever heard a HK-21E rip off a belt at 1,100RPM? I have and it sounds very close to the unedited Predator Minigun sound. Rockwolf66 03:25, 14 August 2009 (UTC)

Well I could be wrong, but that's what I observed. I just wanted to know where the confirmed fire rate came from.

I found this article online where a Dillon Aero rep briefly discusses the Predator gun:

http://www.defensereview.com/dillon-aero-m134d-and-m134d-t-gatling-guns-peace-through-firepower-superiority/

It supports the 1250 RPM claim or thereabouts.

Billy's Mosberg 500 - " While never seen firing the shotgun in the film... "

Hello

I beg to differ. At 27:00 ~ 27:01 while Billy is seen standing onscreen in the upper far right shooting downward at fleeing enemy personnel. you can see that he has expended all 5.56mm ammo and is switching to the 500. His movement is sublte but you can see him shift the weapon to grasp the lower of the rifle to use it as a make shift grip for the 500. He manages to get off one round before the next cut to Dutch who is seen shooting some additional personnel. Thoughts?

Poncho pistol

I don't see this movie for a long time but I remember that Poncho carrie a sig P220 or P226. I'm not sure but I think that extract it when the prisoner tried to escape. Can anyone confirm? Charly Driver

I remember wrong. These are the evidence. Charly Driver

That's definitely another Desert Eagle. -MT2008

Predators Wristblades

Why don't they have their own section on the page? there are dozens of pages with sections about knives that were in the movie, and I think that the Wristblades should have one as well.

Well since they are not a commercially available item nor a custom item that is real and may be used by others, it does not fall into the same category as custom fighting knives and other weapons which appear. MoviePropMaster2008 01:30, 5 February 2010 (UTC)

Actually replicas of this blades existing, so they're available item, as some of the other Predator weapons. And i think that this site can be even better if all the films pages will include information about some other (not just guns) wapons, like swords, knives, self-made items and usual objects used as a wapon. P.S. I'm ver sorry about my bad english - i know many words and can speak in english well, but i'm always have grammatical mistakes. :( --Kloga 14:49, 26 March 2010 (UTC)