The Walking Dead Ricks Silenced Pistol

[tain669]

For the life on me I can't figure out what the base pistol for this is. I heard one of the producers say that the silencer was made from a lamp.. Any info?

 

[Hobo Wan Kenobi]

It looked like a mag light to me

 

[replicaprops]

It is a 357 colt python and a Maglite 4 D cell

 

[Sundowner]

Its a mag light that looks like its attached to a Glock.

 

[Hobo Wan Kenobi]

I got some more pics

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[Sundowner]

Rick most certainly has a Glock / Mag lite combo. Carl looks like he might have a Beretta 92/Taurus PT 92 but I have no idea what his silencer is.

 

[XxCALIBERxX]

Looks like a reverse flashlight to me... Maybe...

Ah.... A maglight is a flash light. I am pretty certain I may be retarded.

 

[Dymerski]

Carl's almost looks like a aluminum baseball bat handle

 

[Sundowner]

Carl's almost looks like a aluminum baseball bat handle

Ya it does. I'm not sure how Carl's is suppose to work, I guess I'll need to see the front.

 

[Sir Angus]

:lol I don't know how I missed that but it is hilarious! :lol

The propmaster must've got lazy on this build. Replica silencers are very easy to buy or make without ending up like this atrocity. :facepalm

 

[Birdie]

I doubt he was lazy at all. TV has to have a visual language, and the obviously cobbled together silencers tell the viewer 'Hey they made silencers out of stuff they found lying around - cool!'

99% of viewers are not gonna either know or care whether this is practical or not. The whole thing played into the message that opening scene was portraying - these guys have seriously got their shlt together since last we saw them.

 

[kysupernatural]

I doubt he was lazy at all. TV has to have a visual language, and the obviously cobbled together silencers tell the viewer 'Hey they made silencers out of stuff they found lying around - cool!'

99% of viewers are not gonna either know or care whether this is practical or not. The whole thing played into the message that opening scene was portraying - these guys have seriously got their shlt together since last we saw them.

EXACTLY....:love Almost sure that Carl's is a mini aluminum baseball bat.

 

[SlimeTime13]

am i the only one who noticed that non of the guns had blow back when fired?

 

[LordArgyll]

:lol I don't know how I missed that but it is hilarious! :lol

The propmaster must've got lazy on this build. Replica silencers are very easy to buy or make without ending up like this atrocity. :facepalm

It's not laziness. They're supposed to be improvised suppressors, which are actually quite easy to make with any kind of hollow tube that you can fill with a baffling material and thread onto a barrel. Flashlights and oil cans have actually been used in the real world.

 

[Sir Angus]

I don't know why some of you seem to be taking my comment personally.

As far as improvised suppressors, if the maglight was on his Colt Python it would be at least plausible, but on a semi-auto ... How is it held on? Did he somehow manage to extend and thread the barrel?

I love the show, but Rick Grimes is no MacGyver. Nothing about his character has me believing he figured out a way to make this contraption work.

 

[robstyle]

Screw it, I hate the sword girl.

 

[Sundowner]

I don't know why some of you seem to be taking my comment personally.

As far as improvised suppressors, if the maglight was on his Colt Python it would be at least plausible, but on a semi-auto ... How is it held on? Did he somehow manage to extend and thread the barrel?

Negative. Putting a silencer on a revolver would be point less because of the cylinder gap.

After all it is a show and I agree with the above statements that 99% of the viewers just see the improvision of the makeshift silencer.

I was just curious if there was a plausible way to do it.

 

[Sundowner]

Screw it, I hate the sword girl.

Hahahaha I think you actually hate the sword girl. I know she's in the comic but she just doesn't seem to fit. So I agree with ya Rob.

 

[LordArgyll]

We'll put the flashlight silencer in the category of "plausible, but unlikely."

 

[msleeper]

The whole thing played into the message that opening scene was portraying - these guys have seriously got their shlt together since last we saw them.

That's totally not what I got from the opening scene, haha. What I took most from that (especially how not a single word was spoken and how Carl was happy to eat dog food) is that they've been almost completely dehumanized.