{"id":10238,"date":"2011-10-20T09:55:29","date_gmt":"2011-10-20T14:55:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=10238"},"modified":"2011-10-20T09:55:29","modified_gmt":"2011-10-20T14:55:29","slug":"whats-that-gun-in-a-fictional-setting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/20\/whats-that-gun-in-a-fictional-setting\/","title":{"rendered":"What’s That Gun In A Fictional Setting?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I know, usually this is James Rummel<\/a>‘s thing where he tries to identify guns from movies, but I thought I’d like to tackle the schtick.<\/p>\n

So, what kind of gun is the wicked hunter using to shoot Babar’s mom here?<\/p>\n

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It looks, from this perspective, to be a double-barrelled shotgun, but can you really get a shotgun load that will take down an elephant?<\/p>\n

Personally, I was hoping it was a Weatherby Mark V Deluxe chambered in .460 Weatherby Magnum<\/a> since I already researched that particular elephant gun for yesterday’s post<\/a>. But that gun was introduced in the 1950s, and Babar dates back to the 1930s<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Now, about that “wicked” hunter. What kind of story calls a hunter “wicked” but relates the tale of an orphaned elephant who wants to dress like a dandy, who finds a random wealthy Old Lady on the street who buys him nice clothes and a fancy car, and who returns to wed his cousin and become king because he has nice clothes and a fancy car after the existing king dies from bad ‘shrooms? You call that kind of story a children’s classic<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Hey, I’m not knocking too much the Babar stories. Some of them are okay enough, but the dude’s origin story is kinda squicky. Maybe they need to reboot him with a little less French this time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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