02-22-2023, 02:01 AM
Bill in NC wrote:
IIRC, there are commercial dummy rounds sold that have a steel BB inside so you can check them by listening for the rattle.
Cheap-skates try and make their own by pulling the bullet, dumping the powder, removing the primer, then re-seating the bullet, so they end up practically indistinguishable from live rounds.
The latter were already on-set since some of the crew were using the prop guns for target practice.
I bet I can guess what this production did...
Actually, someone took a shell casing from a spent fake bullet - the company (Starline Brass) only makes fakes - and reloaded it as a live, real bullet. And somehow this got on the set - actually, eight of them did. Not sure why this isn’t more widely reported or known.
That’s gonna be tough to pin on Baldwin.
