Identify this rifle?

[9245]

I thought everyone could use a funner thread. I just saw a blast from the past (1996) that has me trying to figure out what I just saw. It was s movie “The Long Kiss Goodnight” and this was the rifle:

IMFDB just identifies it as a “modified Remington 700” but I found that far too vague for a cool takedown rifle. Anyone have any idea who made that? Was it ever comercially available or was it a custom job? If it was just a movie prop they went in to a heck of a lot of detail, it just looks like something that “should” have existed somewhere in the real world in the 90’s, it just looks like something someone actually put together and it would be interesting to know who did the work.

Here is the scene:



IMFDB also noted that the same rifle also seems to appear in “Absolute Power” in 1997, and it looks like it might:

Another odd takedown rifle also appears in the same movie, also just identified as a Remington 700:

Any ideas?

 

[Landon4]

It looks like a Remington 700 action to me

 

[Haney]

The Long Kiss Goodnight - Internet Movie Firearms Database - Guns in Movies, TV and Video Games

www.imfdb.org

 

[R_A_W]

99.9% sure that's a modified old McMillan Prone stock, predecessor to the XIT. This one had the cheek rest chopped:

edit - most likely just a movie prop though, although it's a 700, the way she rotates the barrel into the receiver wouldn't work on a 700

 

[9245]

99.9% sure that's a modified old McMillan Prone stock, predecessor to the XIT. This one had the cheek rest chopped:

View attachment 8484408

edit - most likely just a movie prop though, although it's a 700, the way she rotates the barrel into the receiver wouldn't work on a 700

That is awesome, I don’t know any other place where you can find the exact model of out of production stock based on nothing but a short movie clip from 28 tears ago. Cool.

 

[buffalowinter]

Bottom is an Anschutz 1813 Free Rifle stock, with a Rem 700 action. Scope appears to be a Weaver T-36.

 

[hlee]

And, it could very well be a “real” rifle, but the director just took liberties with how it is assembled.

Ever see a movie character employ a silencer on a pistol? Invariably, they are shown screwing the supressor on the barrel. But, you never see a threaded barrel. Directors have decided that threaded barrels aren’t photogenic, so they (typically) use an unthreaded pistol for the unsuppressed gun, and change it out for a supressor ready model when the silencer is used.

Wouldn’t out too much stock in the assembly shown in the movie.

 

[9245]

Bottom is an Anschutz 1813 Free Rifle stock, with a Rem 700 action. Scope appears to be a Weaver T-36.View attachment 8484421

Awesome. And you even found the thing attached to the forend. I assume that is some kind of bag rider instead of a bipod?

 

[R_A_W]

Fair.

Also, on second thought, you could just use the standard threads as lugs. e.g. mill off 50% of the threads on both the tenon and receiver, so the tenon could be slid in with no contact, then rotated for engagement. Basically similar to an interrupted screw you see on artillery

Interrupted screw - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[R_A_W]

My money is on HS Precision.

They've been making take down rifles for a long time. They use their own actions now & use an interrupted thread on the tenon

 

[R_A_W]

1991 patent, by Tom Houghton himself

https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/98/b9/32/2cb244976d926a/US5020260.pdf

 

[Gemsbok]

Forend brace is for off-hand.

 

[buffalowinter]

Awesome. And you even found the thing attached to the forend. I assume that is some kind of bag rider instead of a bipod?

Palm rest. Me at Internationale Matchwoche, Zurich Switzerland.

 

[slm9s]

Bottom is an Anschutz 1813 Free Rifle stock, with a Rem 700 action. Scope appears to be a Weaver T-36.View attachment 8484421

My $0.02 says that's a Leupold BR scope.

 

[Mike Casselton]

My $0.02 says that's a Leupold BR scope.

Nope, it's a Weaver T-36 with the sun shade attached.

 

[slm9s]

Nope, it's a Weaver T-36 with the sun shade attached.

Agree to disagree I guess. I'm pretty sure I can even see the gold ring indicating Leupold. No big deal though.

 

[R_A_W]

I'm pretty sure I can even see the gold ring indicating Leupold.

Agree, Leupold BR

Weaver T36 has finer turret knurling & parallax numbering is in front of the rearmost ring of knurling

 

[Mike Casselton]

Looked again, and you guys are correct. It's a Leupold BR-D.
It's amazing how much better I can see when I zoom in closer.