okay, I have to add, we really need to be responsible historians here.
there are details on this that only show up in replicas made decades after filming wrapped.
1) the bull barrel. The originals were properly rifled barrels, cut and threaded flush into the mauser frame, not slip fit sleeves that awkwardly butted up against the shoulder of the original barrel. Slip-fit was a design created for blaster replicas by kpax and team if i'm not mistaken.
2) the bullet shaped cut-outs on the flash hider were only made because fan replica makers couldn't mill the cut-outs the way original MG-81s were milled.
3) The mount is weirdly symmetrical, half painted, and we have zero evidence of a second copy of this side-mount ever existing.
4) Obviously we don't have evidence of other mausers used on set during A New Hope, that was the problem with the Pawn Stars Blaster, and this model is even more different than the original gun. We already found the ******* matching scope and cradle on the Pawn Stars blaster so there's nothing to suggest anything else is from filming.
5) Effort has been taken to mimic the post-filming catalogue shot of the actual prop. If this were a backup prop or something like that, it wouldn't have identical damage, even down to the crooked flash hider. Nice try but really, really stupid.
there are details on this that only show up in replicas made decades after filming wrapped.
1) the bull barrel. The originals were properly rifled barrels, cut and threaded flush into the mauser frame, not slip fit sleeves that awkwardly butted up against the shoulder of the original barrel. Slip-fit was a design created for blaster replicas by kpax and team if i'm not mistaken.
2) the bullet shaped cut-outs on the flash hider were only made because fan replica makers couldn't mill the cut-outs the way original MG-81s were milled.
3) The mount is weirdly symmetrical, half painted, and we have zero evidence of a second copy of this side-mount ever existing.
4) Obviously we don't have evidence of other mausers used on set during A New Hope, that was the problem with the Pawn Stars Blaster, and this model is even more different than the original gun. We already found the ******* matching scope and cradle on the Pawn Stars blaster so there's nothing to suggest anything else is from filming.
5) Effort has been taken to mimic the post-filming catalogue shot of the actual prop. If this were a backup prop or something like that, it wouldn't have identical damage, even down to the crooked flash hider. Nice try but really, really stupid.
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