What rifle is this? In the movie The Green Berets

[RicInOR]

What is this rifle?



compare to this other scene, which appears to be a standard M-16

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[Andy54Hawken]

Its a toy rifle
Mattel's Marauder toy rifle.
If its Mattel it's swell....
Andy

 

[CountryGent]

 

[CountryGent]

Here's a picture of the actual toy rifle:

 

[Andy54Hawken]

I never had the "Marauder"...but I did get the Thompson Sub Machine Gun for a birthday present , many , many moons ago.

After about a half hour of : "Serclick" of the bolt going back...and "Brrrap , Brrrap" of "gunfire"...
My mom told me , quite forcefully , that , that is a "outside toy"....
Andy

 

[Juniper9mm]

Man I was jealous of the kids that had those!

 

[Certaindeaf]

I never had the "Marauder"...but I did get the Thompson Sub Machine Gun for a birthday present , many , many moons ago.

After about a half hour of : "Serclick" of the bolt going back...and "Brrrap , Brrrap" of "gunfire"...
My mom told me , quite forcefully , that , that is a "outside toy"....
Andy

Ha, we'd shoot high flying jets all day long out in the front field with those.

 

[Certaindeaf]

AR-11.









lol

 

[Andy54Hawken]

Favorite scene from The Green Berets is when Beckwith , the anti war journalist, says something to effect of :
Its their fight...why should we be involved...?
And the Sergeant schools him on all the captured Communist weapons .....
Andy,

 

[CountryGent]

Man I was jealous of the kids that had those!

Word.

Though we did have a few of those pot metal, single-action revolvers that "fired" caps on a wound string of paper. We thought they were quite neat-o. Remember those?

 

[RicInOR]

I haddn't thought about that, looked it up after Andy's share ...

The Green Berets - Internet Movie Firearms Database - Guns in Movies, TV and Video Games

www.imfdb.org

• 4.1 XM16E1
  • 4.1.1 Mattel M-16 Marauder Toy Gun

I had a toy M-16, don't remember if it was teh Marauder or not.
I dont' have any pics. I also had an M-1 - Garand. I think that pic might be around here someplace.

 

[Juniper9mm]

Word.

Though we did have a few of those pot metal, single-action revolvers that "fired" caps on a wound string of paper. We thought they were quite neat-o. Remember those?

I sure do! Who didn't take a roll of those out of the box and smash it between two rocks for the big bang!!!

 

[aflineman]

Here's a picture of the actual toy rifle:

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I had one of those. Wish I still did.

 

[308]

You guys are a 'old' bunch of bastages

Edited....I forgot to add the 'old' part originally. Sry.

 

[Greenbug]

AR-11.









lol

Wait, what?

They go to eleven?

 

[Flopsweat]

Word.

Though we did have a few of those pot metal, single-action revolvers that "fired" caps on a wound string of paper. We thought they were quite neat-o. Remember those?

I sure do! Who didn't take a roll of those out of the box and smash it between two rocks for the big bang!!!

I had one of them and one of the later ones that took plastic moon clips with caps in them that look like percussion caps.

 

[2Wheels4Ever]

I sure do! Who didn't take a roll of those out of the box and smash it between two rocks for the big bang!!!

You weren't a cool kid unless you could light them off by flicking your thumbnail over the white patch

 

[dave peoples]

ouch! I remember having a grey thumb after that. cool stuff

 

[Stomper]

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What is this rifle?



compare to this other scene, which appears to be a standard M-16
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OK, this is so weird…. I was having this very conversation on July 13th with @Ura-Ki !!

Here's the screenshot on my iPhone of the YT video I was watching when that ginormous magazine caught my eye.



He said,

That's one of the very early prototypes chambered for .30/06! Ultra rare, worth a fortune!

 

[RicInOR]

This was the video I watched. hint, speed up the playback to 1.25 or 1.5