Ok I'm a Bond junkie, read all the books, saw all the movies and have the T-shirt! I learned more shit from this video than I thought could exist. Thank Yoy.
@@1911syndicate the biggest problem I have with this video is I'm gonna go out and spend money on some of these. I worked security at a site over a decade ago and we were issued S&W P99’s, such great pistols!
Well visually is one of the more "generic modern pistol" while the other ones are either classics (ppk, 1911 which are instantly cool) or just plain weird. You have to remember that for most of the Bond fandom guns are more of a visual thing, a lot fewer have access to the actual guns or are into airsoft replicas.
It's generic looking from afar. Up close the P99AS is a nice pistol compared to other poly striker pistols. I was looking at getting a HK P30. Just got a SP5 and I thought I was turning into a HK fan boy. Turns out I'm just a MP5 fan boy. So I got the P99AS. I have the Gen 2. The Gen 1 is a better looking pistol for sure. But the slide scalloping on the 9mm models and the sight rib on top of the slide are nice touches. Plus the gun works really well. The trigger isn't that weird. If you have around in the chamber and you pull the trigger it's going to fire. So it's that simple at least as well as having a few advantages over non DA/SA autos. Plus you can press the muzzle into a surface in multiple angles including head on without dislodging the slide out of battery.
For a full size handgun and modern tailoring techniques and technologies the P99 is excellent. I have one myself. Another good gun for Bond we saw in Octopussy and Never Say Never Again: the Walther P5. It took the lines, concept and familiarity of the PPK and mated it the time-tested operating system of the Walther P38 and battle-tested caliber of 9×19mm Parabellum. One from Tomorrow Never Dies would work well for Bond as well: the HK P7, either the PSP, M8 or M13 Kaufmann killed Paris with. Compact, the M13's capacity still holds its own by today's standards, looks unique enough too. HK would make a fortune from the demand.
After watching Caleb on your channel and forgotten weapons, I added my order to jumpstarter. Not going to lie, I had never seen your channel before. Really impressed with your channel: very professional but with a human touch. You're a great facilitator for your guest and are very personable and relatable. And, who DOESN'T love the 1911 (well, my kid, who favors 'plastic' guns)
Fantastic video. As a Bond aficionado myself, I'm so happy that someone has finally done a video dedicated to the guns of James Bond. I don't know if you are aware. But in the 1987 movie "The Living Daylights" when bond is having a firefight with the villain at the end of the movie, he fires 8 shots instead of 7 which was the PPK's magazine capacity. Either they got their numbers wrong, or the prop being fired was a PPK/s that fired 8 rounds. Yet after the firefight, Bond holds the gun muzzle up so the grip can be seen, ejects the mag and then unlocks the slide so it can go forward into battery. The grip looked like it had the wraparound flat grip of the PPK.
I love that on Caleb’s book, he has the Bond House Coat of Arms, with three Bezants (Gold Balls). This was a little plot point in on Her Majesty’s Secret Service - my favorite movie. Regarding the PPK, still to this day, the main reason people own one is the connection to Bond. The PPK in 2024 is not really a great pistol. It’s in a weak caliber, it has very low capacity, the sights aren’t great, it has sharp edges. It’s not that viable, when all things are considered. Yet it still has a mystique to it, and it feels good in the hand, and it is a mellow shooter. If they re-boot Bond, I would like to see his main field gun be a modernized Hi-Power. As a Naval Commander, he would have a history with that Pistol. And in No Time To Die, when he was in Exile, that was his chosen gun. John Gardner armed with a Hi-Power when they rebooted the book Series. Super cool seeing the ASP as well. At the time Gardner wrote those books, that would have been the perfect pistol for Bond. This was a great video. Well done.
Shouldn’t he get whatever is the current SBS issued pistol? I think it’s a shame his SF past wasn’t played up more in the Craig movies. There were so many good opportunities from weapons to watches and clothing. I was so pissed he wore that weird fashion “tactical” set in NTTD rather than black Cryes for example. It would make everything look more realistic and gritty that way.
FYI, the "skeleton grip" Beretta 418 in the books did have the grip plates removed but it was then wrapped in black tape. The "taped grip" is also mentioned a few times though never what kind of tape exactly. Early 50s...maybe just some black grip tape for tennis rackets or something like that?
Indeed! Taped grips are noted in later novels, such as DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER. The modifications made to the pistol evolve as the books go on! We discuss that in detail in LICENSED TROUBLESHOOTER!
Fleming was one of the founding 6 of the OSS. He knew what he was doing. He actually used a lot of the weapons he knew were used in the field. He worked at places like bletchley Park and Station Six. It wasn't uncovered until way after his death.
So i got a ppk quite a few years ago (probably 25) i wanted it because it was in 32acp and at the time it hadn't caught on i guess but it was considerably less than the 380 . Shortly after the prices went up to around the same. Anyway it shot so well, low recoil and it was more accurate than i could have hoped. And that i think is the main reason someone like bond can use a ppk so successfully. Placement. By the way Glaser saftey slugs were pretty great in the 80's. Silvertips were the only round to compete. Watch the movie Manhunter, # shot in liquid teflon in copper case, all opens up on impact. Guaranteed one shot stop. Thanks for a great episode 😂
Models 3913 is the stainless single stack 9mm compact and 3914 is the blued version. Both of them use aluminum frames. These werebt too popular at the time because the 6906 and 6904 were 12 shot versions. The 3913/14 were 8 rd guns. They had a particulary thin grip that was short. There was also a Ladysmith version that had a more slanted dust cover. I had a 3913. It was my backup to my Beretta 96FS since it had the same manual of arms. That gun went to my mom when i got a SigP239 in .40. She gave it to my brother who still has it today. Essy gun to conceal but it is kind of big by today standards. Its bigger than my Glock 48 and isn't any thinner in the grip. But 3rd gen S&W auto can be really cool depending on the model you get. A lot of the parts interchange. Like grips. I got a 1006 with a straight backstrap. The only way they sold them. But i wanted the curved so i bought a 4506 grip because that was sold either curved or flat. The steel frame models are really durable as well and they are the closest thing to a double action 1911 with their barrel lockip and bushing in the slide as well as the same method for removing the slidecfrom the frame.. if you want a double stack 9mm that is very American in its vibe that is kind of flashy but not obnoxiously so check out the 5906. They're still priced right and mecgar makes new mags for them if you cant get the originals . Which there are plenty around. Mecgars hold a few more rounds and are the better quality mag
My favorite drink! The Vespire Martini! Great video men!! I have every gun and ST dupont lighter from the movies but I prefer cigars to cigeretts and I cant afford an ASTON Martin! LOL
True 007 FANATIC here and I LOVED this vid! Interesting and overlooked though was that Bond actually carried the S&W Centennial Airweight S&W throughout the book Dr. No after M takes away his Beretta and before he starts his storied relationship with the PPK. I own a Beretta 418 and a 1967 .32 PPK...but I have been unsuccessful in my search for the S&W. My Bond gun display has a SW 442 in its stead - essentially the same gun without the grip safety! I'm not sure his car-gun was a 1911 (as much as I'd like that to be true). It's referred to as a "long barrelled Colt .45 Army" or something like that, which leads me to believe it's a 7.5" SAA. I love all the lore behind the guns of the books and films and COULD NOT AGREE MORE THAT FRWL was the BEST Bond film of all time and Sean Connery the best Bond. Dr. No is probably my favorite book. What a fun, great, detailed, enthusiast's video. I think if I were writing Bond today, he'd be carrying a Sig P365 of one iteration or another. While the HK P7 would be awesome, it IS a rather heavy pistol for deep concealment. I wrote a novel in the mid 80s and my spy/assassin/hero carried a P7, (on Amazon, titled The Sacrificial Wolf 😉👍). Today, I would write him with a P365. So THANKS for this vid. I really enjoyed it. And I'll be buying your book ASAP!
Indeed on the Airweight! It gets a lot of love in the book as well! Trust me, this video was me being economical with Bond gun lore and factoids to prevent it from being a 3 hour affair! So much more fun in the book! 📖
I just bought 2 walthers cuz I'm a bond fan. Last month I bought the p99 final edition cuz I love brosnans bond and grew up with it. THEN I found a ppks with serial number ending in 007 so I HAD to buy that. Loving it so far.
Great find! I collect guns with 007 serial numbers! 🤣 When Interarms (Ranger) started making the PPKS in the US, I got ahold of a stainless and a blue, both in 380, with the serial numbers S007380 and K007380! Unfortunately, I came on hard times and sold a lot of my gus, including those two prized possessions. But I've since built my collection back up, including an Ed Brown Kobra Carry with my inits followed by 007 as a custome ser no. And my MOST prized one these days is literally one in a million...a SIG P226 with the serial number ***007007!!!!!
This was a very cool video! I really enjoyed it. Walther PPK has to be the greatest Bond gun. One of my all time favorite pistol. P99 is also tops. Surprised it didn't get more screen time.
Thanks for the video 👍🏻 I completely forgot about the 1911 and the sig 226 but as soon as they were mentioned I remembered that's crazy. I'll change my answer to them 2 as my favorites along with the Walther PPK S
Obviously, the comics aren’t nearly as prominent as either the books or the films, but there’s been several runs of James Bond comic books from Dynamite Entertainment. In those books, Bond tends to carry a PPQ, I think a CCP, and a VKS SC-130PT2 suppressed rifle
His new, full sized gun should def be a Q4 SF - it’s so sleek, elegant and bad as I’m glad they’re backwards compatible bc one of my fav guns is a Q5 (poly) slide on a full sized PDP frame
My .380 S&W variant PPK was my first handgun ever, and means the world to me! The .380 PPK/S shown here is pretty special too, I assembled that myself at Walther, and was the 007th person ever to do that. These guns mean a lot!
I'm surprised you left out the Smith & Wesson Model 29 .44 Magnum that Roger Moore uses during the final showdown of ''Live and let Die". Originally they were about to use a 357 Python but after ''Dirty Harry" came out, they went with the .44 Magnum. And Roger Moore handles it quite good in the movie.
Ian Fleming was actually part of the British Intelligence during WW2, with this in mind he must have picked Bonds weapons with the knowledge of spy craft, their uses, I have a feeling that some of these weapons in the books he wrote may have been used in real situations?
In the Fleming vein, that's certainly accurate, or at least guns that were inspired by his time in service. For example, Fleming carried a Browning .25 personally during the war, and Bond, the Beretta. Fleming's Commandos carried 1911's, and thus, so did Bond!
This is a Bond-related question, but it doesn't apply to guns. It's in regards to a scene in the novel Dr. No, when Bond is escaping the island. He sneaks up on an unsuspecting enemy, and starts going over what he's going to do to him in his head. Bond targets the little triangle-shaped divot that forms on either side of the front of the neck, where the chest, shoulder, and neck all meet. He says he's going to put a blade deep in that spot, but instead of pulling it back out, he tells himself to be sure to leave it in. My question is, is this an actual tactic in edged weapon combat? I'm familiar with the concept of timers vs switches, but this scene always stuck with me and I want to know if it's realistic
In the Bond novel "Carte Blanche" by Jeffery Deaver, Bond carries a Walther PPS. I think that would make a great EDC for the future movies. It's like a cross between a PPK and a P99.
Also funny you should mention the skeletonized gun being less reliable, in the From Russia With Love novel his gun jams and he gets stabbed by Rosa Kleb’s poisoned boot knife and almost dies
Indeed! In the film Dr. No it’s described as a jam, which makes more sense for the retirement of the pistol than what Fleming wrote. In the novel FRWL, Bond’s beretta & silencer combo gets snagged on his waistband, which gets him injured…only for Bond to run a different gun and silencer combo with the PPK in the next book. It’s a moment that the films actually improve by making it a malfunction of the pistol.
One thing with Ian Fleming is that he knows his guns quite abit unlike what people said cuz... He was an officer. Ian Fleming came from a line of family members who were high up in the political echelon of the UK with his dad at one point being an MP prior to WWI but died in the Somme in 1917. That didn't stop Fleming from serving as prior to the actual war in 1940, Fleming was enlisted into the Naval Intelligence unit as an aide to Rear Admiral John Godfrey and also given commission of the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve as the lieutenant commander (Sort of like a captain of the navy). In fact, he had hands in many secretive operations involving in many different branches and some did see fruit like the Trout Memo which would later be evolved into Operation Mincemeat, Operation Ruthless where Ian helped Godfrey plan for the operation to get the Enigma codebook off the Kreigsmarine would never happen due to the rejection of the RAF as a plane has to be involved, be involved in the creation of the future CIA with him basically drawing up the blueprint for future security intel units starting with the Office of Strategic Service (The OSS) and Operation Postmaster where some SOE operatives was sent to a submarine base in Equatorial Guinea to blow it up to prevent the Kreigsmarine from using it for convoy raids on the Atlantic. Thus, once war ended, he started writing books and due to his experiences with espionage and spying warfare, it was a massive hit and with his experiences with various firearms and how they worked despite not even being on the field at all, it gave him massive knowledge. However, he wasn't a stick in the mud also as if fans gave him enough pointers that isn't too stupid, he took it like how he switched the 4 1/2 Litre Bentley aka the "Blower Bentley" to the newer Aston Martin DB4, he promptly agreed and switched the car in his next novel to the DB4 which the show would use the DB5 instead. Also, like you said, the fan questioned Bond's usage of the Beretta as "stupid" because it was underpowered and for Bond being that trigger happy, having such a weak gun makes no sense and the fan also asked Ian Fleming that if the PPK was soo well known and fired a bigger round whilst having about the same size, it makes sense for Bond to be issued with it and thus, Fleming felt the fan was right and instantly switched to the PPK which became the mainstay of Bond's image for a long time. Great fan interaction from Fleming tbh.
I think my two favorite guns Bond wields come from the same scene in Casino Royale. The nail gun with the stuck-on contact tip safety and the suppressed UMP he lifts from one of the baddies to use in the quintessential Bond moment final scene
S&W was one of the many import partners of Walther back in the day! Walther worked with a number of firms to import their pistols prior to their Ft Smith facility!
Can't remember who it was, but there was one of the old gun book authors who described shooting a .32 PPK with a good can. It took him a while to realize that the funny noise he was hearing was the casings landing in the grass. Just something he'd never normally noticed, but that's how quiet this setup can be.
It’s because 32 is sub sonic, when I ever I shoot subs in any of my silenced guns the action is louder than the round, including 22lr, 380, 9mm, all 45 is sub, but especially with 300bo the sound difference is so much that the recoil spring in the buffer tube is the loudest sound shooting it. With my 22 bolt gun it’s quieter than a .177 BB gun.
Hi, great episode. I love Bond stuff, grew up loving it and still do. What would you say if I have a line on the actual HK Bond used in the car chase opening to Quantum of Solace? The one he had in the passenger seat next to him and fired. A friend of mine was one of the armorers for the movie and still has the actual gun Daniel Creag used in the movie in his safe.
@CommandoBond The S&W 469 mini gun was the model that copied the attributes of the ASP. Ordered a copy of your book, too. Do a video on the Walther WA 2000 next.
27:16 I always think Bond's PPK is a 380 because of the man with the golden gun. Scaramanga says: my 1 against your 6. The 32 would have to be partially loaded to have 6 rounds.
Definitely one of the moments where it logically would be one, though all quotes are references to 7,65mm which is what makes it the Bond round dominantly
I do remember that Smith & Wesson copy of the A.S.P. Never saw the connection till now. I do remember that it was super cheap! Also that Smith & Wesson was in a few pretty big movies! Every one of them had a silver/nickel kind of finish and the grips were a real light color. Anyhow, thanks guys! God Bless and have a great day all!
10 years ago I managed to buy from a family friend a new/old stock, unfired, HK P7 PSP with German Bundeswehr proof markings for a whopping $600. I popped its cherry and fired a few mags through it. Certainly an amazing firearm and a joy to shoot. A “never sell” gun.
Caleb got his guntuber collabs right, forgotten weapons/headstamp, now 1911 syndicate, loving all the bond content!
Thanks brother
Blessed to be doing it right with some brilliant people!
@@1911syndicate0 on 9😊0😊⁰ LP 00⁰⁰😊0 see 9
Pierce Brosnan is my favorite Bond actor. I grew up playing Goldeneye and The world is not enough on N64. Good memories for sure.
The amount of physical violence related to “screen peaking” among 3 brothers and a few friends alarming lol. Best game ever.
Always interesting to hear from someone who makes themselves a subject matter expert on a niche section of the gun world!
Absolutely
Caleb on Bond is akin to Dr Silberman in Terminator: _"I could make a career out of this guy"_ .
Ok I'm a Bond junkie, read all the books, saw all the movies and have the T-shirt! I learned more shit from this video than I thought could exist. Thank Yoy.
Awesome! Glad you enjoyed it
I had a P7 when they came out and purchased a P7M8 over 30 years ago. It and my Les Baer Custom Carry are the only pistols I will never sell.
I’m not a huge bond nerd but I truly enjoy listening to someone who cares passionately about a topic talk about it
Great video. Caleb's enthusiasm for all things Bond is refreshing as is his scholarship.
Thank you!
This is a fascinating Vol 1, looking forward to the next ones.
Excellent video
I deeply appreciate the level of Bondtism in this.
lol
It runs deep 😂
@@1911syndicate the biggest problem I have with this video is I'm gonna go out and spend money on some of these. I worked security at a site over a decade ago and we were issued S&W P99’s, such great pistols!
I especially appreciate this comment because the bontism is so deep with me my friends actually suggested I get assessed, and they were right 😂😂
Glad to see the P99 get some love, I hardly ever see it get any love from Bond fans
Well visually is one of the more "generic modern pistol" while the other ones are either classics (ppk, 1911 which are instantly cool) or just plain weird. You have to remember that for most of the Bond fandom guns are more of a visual thing, a lot fewer have access to the actual guns or are into airsoft replicas.
It's generic looking from afar. Up close the P99AS is a nice pistol compared to other poly striker pistols. I was looking at getting a HK P30. Just got a SP5 and I thought I was turning into a HK fan boy. Turns out I'm just a MP5 fan boy. So I got the P99AS. I have the Gen 2. The Gen 1 is a better looking pistol for sure. But the slide scalloping on the 9mm models and the sight rib on top of the slide are nice touches. Plus the gun works really well. The trigger isn't that weird. If you have around in the chamber and you pull the trigger it's going to fire. So it's that simple at least as well as having a few advantages over non DA/SA autos. Plus you can press the muzzle into a surface in multiple angles including head on without dislodging the slide out of battery.
For a full size handgun and modern tailoring techniques and technologies the P99 is excellent. I have one myself. Another good gun for Bond we saw in Octopussy and Never Say Never Again: the Walther P5. It took the lines, concept and familiarity of the PPK and mated it the time-tested operating system of the Walther P38 and battle-tested caliber of 9×19mm Parabellum. One from Tomorrow Never Dies would work well for Bond as well: the HK P7, either the PSP, M8 or M13 Kaufmann killed Paris with. Compact, the M13's capacity still holds its own by today's standards, looks unique enough too. HK would make a fortune from the demand.
After watching Caleb on your channel and forgotten weapons, I added my order to jumpstarter. Not going to lie, I had never seen your channel before. Really impressed with your channel: very professional but with a human touch. You're a great facilitator for your guest and are very personable and relatable. And, who DOESN'T love the 1911 (well, my kid, who favors 'plastic' guns)
This was both informative and very entertaining. I'd very much like to see more videos in this series.
Fantastic video. As a Bond aficionado myself, I'm so happy that someone has finally done a video dedicated to the guns of James Bond. I don't know if you are aware. But in the 1987 movie "The Living Daylights" when bond is having a firefight with the villain at the end of the movie, he fires 8 shots instead of 7 which was the PPK's magazine capacity. Either they got their numbers wrong, or the prop being fired was a PPK/s that fired 8 rounds. Yet after the firefight, Bond holds the gun muzzle up so the grip can be seen, ejects the mag and then unlocks the slide so it can go forward into battery. The grip looked like it had the wraparound flat grip of the PPK.
When you see calm, cool, and collective Caleb on a video, it’s hard to believe we’re best friends.
We truly are a mixed bag, it’s what makes the podcast and just being pals so bloody fun lol
@@commandobondwhat’s the podcast?
@@enochdelarosa3411 Steel & Style, weekly show with myself and Eli, here on YT and on Spotify!
Young guns carrying the torch of cool. 👏
I love that on Caleb’s book, he has the Bond House Coat of Arms, with three Bezants (Gold Balls). This was a little plot point in on Her Majesty’s Secret Service - my favorite movie.
Regarding the PPK, still to this day, the main reason people own one is the connection to Bond. The PPK in 2024 is not really a great pistol. It’s in a weak caliber, it has very low capacity, the sights aren’t great, it has sharp edges. It’s not that viable, when all things are considered.
Yet it still has a mystique to it, and it feels good in the hand, and it is a mellow shooter.
If they re-boot Bond, I would like to see his main field gun be a modernized Hi-Power. As a Naval Commander, he would have a history with that Pistol. And in No Time To Die, when he was in Exile, that was his chosen gun. John Gardner armed with a Hi-Power when they rebooted the book Series.
Super cool seeing the ASP as well. At the time Gardner wrote those books, that would have been the perfect pistol for Bond.
This was a great video. Well done.
Thanks bro!
Shouldn’t he get whatever is the current SBS issued pistol? I think it’s a shame his SF past wasn’t played up more in the Craig movies. There were so many good opportunities from weapons to watches and clothing. I was so pissed he wore that weird fashion “tactical” set in NTTD rather than black Cryes for example. It would make everything look more realistic and gritty that way.
FYI, the "skeleton grip" Beretta 418 in the books did have the grip plates removed but it was then wrapped in black tape. The "taped grip" is also mentioned a few times though never what kind of tape exactly. Early 50s...maybe just some black grip tape for tennis rackets or something like that?
Indeed! Taped grips are noted in later novels, such as DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER. The modifications made to the pistol evolve as the books go on! We discuss that in detail in LICENSED TROUBLESHOOTER!
Such a fun video ! You guys are killing it lately 🎉
if anyone doesn't recall back to 1988's Die Hard the HK P7 was Hans Gruber's (Alan Rickman may he Rest in Peace) sidearm throughout the movie
Outstanding job as usual, @commandobond ! My first visit to 1911 Syndicate and I throughly enjoyed it! Subscribed and ready for more.
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Nice video; been a fan of Caleb's work for a while and definitely looking forward to the book!
Same!
Thank you so much!
Awesome video. I very much agree that the long barreled colt army 45 is a 1911.
And I’m glad Caleb got to join you in Utah! Home sweet home.
Fleming was one of the founding 6 of the OSS. He knew what he was doing. He actually used a lot of the weapons he knew were used in the field. He worked at places like bletchley Park and Station Six. It wasn't uncovered until way after his death.
The Walther P99 is one of my absolute favorite carry guns of all time. So much so, that I have both the full size and compact.
an exceptional pistol platform without a doubt!
Great show, I have loved James Bond movies and books since I was very little. Thank you awesome Job!!!
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Great air we had last week due to the wild fires right! Great video as always. Big Bond fan, like so many others
So i got a ppk quite a few years ago (probably 25) i wanted it because it was in 32acp and at the time it hadn't caught on i guess but it was considerably less than the 380 . Shortly after the prices went up to around the same. Anyway it shot so well, low recoil and it was more accurate than i could have hoped. And that i think is the main reason someone like bond can use a ppk so successfully. Placement. By the way Glaser saftey slugs were pretty great in the 80's. Silvertips were the only round to compete. Watch the movie Manhunter, # shot in liquid teflon in copper case, all opens up on impact. Guaranteed one shot stop. Thanks for a great episode 😂
Sorry #12 shot suspended in liquid teflon
This video is a class that every 00 agent should have.
This was a fun and informative one! Looking forward to the next Bond related video. Maybe a Smith & Wesson Centennial Airweight or Walther P5?
This was really cool & informative! Caleb, I’ve been following you on Instagram for a while & can’t wait for your book, dude
Cheers! Appreciate the support!
Excellent video, lots of great info and trivia. But…what about the Walther P5?
Another one on the wishlist!
The P226 is honestly the most realistic replacement gun for Bond. Like you said, maybe a P229 would be easier to conceal and carry. SAS approved.
P365 would be a great modern choice as well. P226 / 9 are metal framed and heavy
I’d be totally down for that if they replaced the PPK
@PeterReid1993 if Bond is too weak to carry a metal frame hammer fired pistol then it's time for 007 to hang it up because he's a girly man.
Why a 226? He already uses a hi power which is a better option. At least once the mag safety is removed.
@@zarkovecerkovic4825lol the ppk, the hi power, were both metal framed hammer fired guns.
44:24 crispy vaping onto the table for a Smokey shot is what keeps me coming back. The details 🤌
I quite vaping 3-4 years ago😇 we got a Smoke Ninja
Vaping is gay
Love it! Been a huge Bond fan since as long as I can remember!
Very cool, been a bond fan forever, keep it going!
Models 3913 is the stainless single stack 9mm compact and 3914 is the blued version. Both of them use aluminum frames. These werebt too popular at the time because the 6906 and 6904 were 12 shot versions. The 3913/14 were 8 rd guns. They had a particulary thin grip that was short. There was also a Ladysmith version that had a more slanted dust cover. I had a 3913. It was my backup to my Beretta 96FS since it had the same manual of arms. That gun went to my mom when i got a SigP239 in .40. She gave it to my brother who still has it today. Essy gun to conceal but it is kind of big by today standards. Its bigger than my Glock 48 and isn't any thinner in the grip. But 3rd gen S&W auto can be really cool depending on the model you get. A lot of the parts interchange. Like grips. I got a 1006 with a straight backstrap. The only way they sold them. But i wanted the curved so i bought a 4506 grip because that was sold either curved or flat. The steel frame models are really durable as well and they are the closest thing to a double action 1911 with their barrel lockip and bushing in the slide as well as the same method for removing the slidecfrom the frame.. if you want a double stack 9mm that is very American in its vibe that is kind of flashy but not obnoxiously so check out the 5906. They're still priced right and mecgar makes new mags for them if you cant get the originals . Which there are plenty around. Mecgars hold a few more rounds and are the better quality mag
This was a great program 🎉🎉🎉
My favorite drink! The Vespire Martini! Great video men!! I have every gun and ST dupont lighter from the movies but I prefer cigars to cigeretts and I cant afford an ASTON Martin! LOL
True 007 FANATIC here and I LOVED this vid! Interesting and overlooked though was that Bond actually carried the S&W Centennial Airweight S&W throughout the book Dr. No after M takes away his Beretta and before he starts his storied relationship with the PPK. I own a Beretta 418 and a 1967 .32 PPK...but I have been unsuccessful in my search for the S&W. My Bond gun display has a SW 442 in its stead - essentially the same gun without the grip safety!
I'm not sure his car-gun was a 1911 (as much as I'd like that to be true). It's referred to as a "long barrelled Colt .45 Army" or something like that, which leads me to believe it's a 7.5" SAA.
I love all the lore behind the guns of the books and films and COULD NOT AGREE MORE THAT FRWL was the BEST Bond film of all time and Sean Connery the best Bond. Dr. No is probably my favorite book.
What a fun, great, detailed, enthusiast's video. I think if I were writing Bond today, he'd be carrying a Sig P365 of one iteration or another. While the HK P7 would be awesome, it IS a rather heavy pistol for deep concealment. I wrote a novel in the mid 80s and my spy/assassin/hero carried a P7, (on Amazon, titled The Sacrificial Wolf 😉👍). Today, I would write him with a P365.
So THANKS for this vid. I really enjoyed it. And I'll be buying your book ASAP!
Awesome glad you enjoyed it!
Indeed on the Airweight! It gets a lot of love in the book as well! Trust me, this video was me being economical with Bond gun lore and factoids to prevent it from being a 3 hour affair! So much more fun in the book! 📖
@@commandobond Yeah....but we all know the S&W was ineffective against dragons. 🤣😉
I just got the pre-order for Caleb's book from Ian/FW/Headstamp Publishing the other day - very cool.
Excellent!
Appreciate the support!
The ASP 9mm was also used in the James Bond comic book Permission to Die and Bond used it in all 3 issues of the comic
Yes! Great little comic run with some really fun art. The marketing language is pulled directly into those as well haha!
Hands down the browning hi power is the absolutely best bond gun.
Hope you do the villian guns like the Arsenal Firearms 2011 double barrel prismatic. Ive got that one myself.
I just bought 2 walthers cuz I'm a bond fan. Last month I bought the p99 final edition cuz I love brosnans bond and grew up with it. THEN I found a ppks with serial number ending in 007 so I HAD to buy that. Loving it so far.
Great find! I collect guns with 007 serial numbers! 🤣 When Interarms (Ranger) started making the PPKS in the US, I got ahold of a stainless and a blue, both in 380, with the serial numbers S007380 and K007380! Unfortunately, I came on hard times and sold a lot of my gus, including those two prized possessions. But I've since built my collection back up, including an Ed Brown Kobra Carry with my inits followed by 007 as a custome ser no. And my MOST prized one these days is literally one in a million...a SIG P226 with the serial number ***007007!!!!!
My favorite gun to appear in a Bond movie is the MP38 used by the old lady border guard in"Goldfinger".
This was a very cool video! I really enjoyed it. Walther PPK has to be the greatest Bond gun. One of my all time favorite pistol. P99 is also tops. Surprised it didn't get more screen time.
i agree, but the P99 is a little tougher to conceal when one is a SECRET agent. 😉
more bond material is needed
Thanks for the video 👍🏻 I completely forgot about the 1911 and the sig 226 but as soon as they were mentioned I remembered that's crazy. I'll change my answer to them 2 as my favorites along with the Walther PPK S
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@@1911syndicate 👊🏻
Obviously, the comics aren’t nearly as prominent as either the books or the films, but there’s been several runs of James Bond comic books from Dynamite Entertainment. In those books, Bond tends to carry a PPQ, I think a CCP, and a VKS SC-130PT2 suppressed rifle
Interesting I didn’t know that
Well done getting your 418!
His new, full sized gun should def be a Q4 SF - it’s so sleek, elegant and bad as
I’m glad they’re backwards compatible bc one of my fav guns is a Q5 (poly) slide on a full sized PDP frame
Thanks my friends
The Walther P99 is the only polymer frame striker fired 9mm pistol that I like.
It is a real favorite of mine too!
Love me some bond and the history big props guys
Cheers bro
23:16 first gun I ever purchased was a PPK in 380 and I’ll never sell that thing. Bought it because of 007
My .380 S&W variant PPK was my first handgun ever, and means the world to me! The .380 PPK/S shown here is pretty special too, I assembled that myself at Walther, and was the 007th person ever to do that. These guns mean a lot!
Bonds PPK was .32acp.
@@JeffJBuck correct.
An hour and a half? Is this the longest 1812 SinDieCate video ever? You spoil us, good sirs.
Don’t get used to an hour and a half haha.
I talk. A lot lol
@@commandobond Senor Chang GIF "I'll allow it."
Been following his IG account for years. Love his Walther posts.
Cheers!
I'm surprised you left out the Smith & Wesson Model 29 .44 Magnum that Roger Moore uses during the final showdown of ''Live and let Die".
Originally they were about to use a 357 Python but after ''Dirty Harry" came out, they went with the .44 Magnum.
And Roger Moore handles it quite good in the movie.
Ian Fleming was actually part of the British Intelligence during WW2, with this in mind he must have picked Bonds weapons with the knowledge of spy craft, their uses,
I have a feeling that some of these weapons in the books he wrote may have been used in real situations?
In the Fleming vein, that's certainly accurate, or at least guns that were inspired by his time in service. For example, Fleming carried a Browning .25 personally during the war, and Bond, the Beretta. Fleming's Commandos carried 1911's, and thus, so did Bond!
I'm probably between the age of these 2 gents. Had an N64 growing up. Cool video.
This is a Bond-related question, but it doesn't apply to guns. It's in regards to a scene in the novel Dr. No, when Bond is escaping the island. He sneaks up on an unsuspecting enemy, and starts going over what he's going to do to him in his head. Bond targets the little triangle-shaped divot that forms on either side of the front of the neck, where the chest, shoulder, and neck all meet. He says he's going to put a blade deep in that spot, but instead of pulling it back out, he tells himself to be sure to leave it in. My question is, is this an actual tactic in edged weapon combat? I'm familiar with the concept of timers vs switches, but this scene always stuck with me and I want to know if it's realistic
I will be doing a series searching for the Best James Bond / Tuxedo gun....was really fun thanks
In the Bond novel "Carte Blanche" by Jeffery Deaver, Bond carries a Walther PPS. I think that would make a great EDC for the future movies. It's like a cross between a PPK and a P99.
You’ve got to love the rail bite of the PPK.
Blessed are those with small hands, they (me) have the best luck with these lil guys
I never was much of a bond fan but this was a great video.
Also funny you should mention the skeletonized gun being less reliable, in the From Russia With Love novel his gun jams and he gets stabbed by Rosa Kleb’s poisoned boot knife and almost dies
Indeed! In the film Dr. No it’s described as a jam, which makes more sense for the retirement of the pistol than what Fleming wrote. In the novel FRWL, Bond’s beretta & silencer combo gets snagged on his waistband, which gets him injured…only for Bond to run a different gun and silencer combo with the PPK in the next book. It’s a moment that the films actually improve by making it a malfunction of the pistol.
One thing with Ian Fleming is that he knows his guns quite abit unlike what people said cuz... He was an officer.
Ian Fleming came from a line of family members who were high up in the political echelon of the UK with his dad at one point being an MP prior to WWI but died in the Somme in 1917. That didn't stop Fleming from serving as prior to the actual war in 1940, Fleming was enlisted into the Naval Intelligence unit as an aide to Rear Admiral John Godfrey and also given commission of the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve as the lieutenant commander (Sort of like a captain of the navy).
In fact, he had hands in many secretive operations involving in many different branches and some did see fruit like the Trout Memo which would later be evolved into Operation Mincemeat, Operation Ruthless where Ian helped Godfrey plan for the operation to get the Enigma codebook off the Kreigsmarine would never happen due to the rejection of the RAF as a plane has to be involved, be involved in the creation of the future CIA with him basically drawing up the blueprint for future security intel units starting with the Office of Strategic Service (The OSS) and Operation Postmaster where some SOE operatives was sent to a submarine base in Equatorial Guinea to blow it up to prevent the Kreigsmarine from using it for convoy raids on the Atlantic.
Thus, once war ended, he started writing books and due to his experiences with espionage and spying warfare, it was a massive hit and with his experiences with various firearms and how they worked despite not even being on the field at all, it gave him massive knowledge. However, he wasn't a stick in the mud also as if fans gave him enough pointers that isn't too stupid, he took it like how he switched the 4 1/2 Litre Bentley aka the "Blower Bentley" to the newer Aston Martin DB4, he promptly agreed and switched the car in his next novel to the DB4 which the show would use the DB5 instead.
Also, like you said, the fan questioned Bond's usage of the Beretta as "stupid" because it was underpowered and for Bond being that trigger happy, having such a weak gun makes no sense and the fan also asked Ian Fleming that if the PPK was soo well known and fired a bigger round whilst having about the same size, it makes sense for Bond to be issued with it and thus, Fleming felt the fan was right and instantly switched to the PPK which became the mainstay of Bond's image for a long time. Great fan interaction from Fleming tbh.
Wow!! That's all I can say. Great, but WOW!!
That Hi Power is bad ass! Love the taped grip, and extended mag
I love my PDP SF Match 😍
I love Bond's Long .45.
I wish Bond would have carried a Detonics Combat Master. That would have been perfect for the character in the early 80s.
Really cool vid!
what a treat ... looking forward to vol. 2
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I think my two favorite guns Bond wields come from the same scene in Casino Royale. The nail gun with the stuck-on contact tip safety and the suppressed UMP he lifts from one of the baddies to use in the quintessential Bond moment final scene
Noticed the Smith & Wesson roll marks on the slide of the Walther P99. What’s that about?
S&W was one of the many import partners of Walther back in the day! Walther worked with a number of firms to import their pistols prior to their Ft Smith facility!
Sweet video, audio problems around the 1hr mark. Huge fan of the syndicate as well as bond, make a part 2 please
Rewatched simply for the opening montage music.
Can't remember who it was, but there was one of the old gun book authors who described shooting a .32 PPK with a good can. It took him a while to realize that the funny noise he was hearing was the casings landing in the grass. Just something he'd never normally noticed, but that's how quiet this setup can be.
It’s because 32 is sub sonic, when I ever I shoot subs in any of my silenced guns the action is louder than the round, including 22lr, 380, 9mm, all 45 is sub, but especially with 300bo the sound difference is so much that the recoil spring in the buffer tube is the loudest sound shooting it. With my 22 bolt gun it’s quieter than a .177 BB gun.
Well thanks guys, probably gonna buy a P99 now... goddammit.
finally the 99 getting some love
Long live the P99
whats with the audio at 1:00:39 ?
You know how to do a montage!
I'd love to see best villian guns!!!
Hi, great episode. I love Bond stuff, grew up loving it and still do. What would you say if I have a line on the actual HK Bond used in the car chase opening to Quantum of Solace? The one he had in the passenger seat next to him and fired. A friend of mine was one of the armorers for the movie and still has the actual gun Daniel Creag used in the movie in his safe.
I wish Walther kept the first gen P99’s trigger guard.
In Dr No he's technically using a PP - even though it was designated a PPK.
Can you make some more 1911 Syndicate hats to sell on your website? I missed out on the originals.
We may. Kicking around ideas
@CommandoBond The S&W 469 mini gun was the model that copied the attributes of the ASP. Ordered a copy of your book, too. Do a video on the Walther WA 2000 next.
He also had a dark horse that was a model 29 IIRC Live and Let Die.
A classic
Review the Nemo Mongoose. I want a PCC.. thats on my list to consider. I want the MPX K
27:16 I always think Bond's PPK is a 380 because of the man with the golden gun. Scaramanga says: my 1 against your 6. The 32 would have to be partially loaded to have 6 rounds.
In the movies, at least*
Definitely one of the moments where it logically would be one, though all quotes are references to 7,65mm which is what makes it the Bond round dominantly
I may be mistaken, but I thought Peirce Brosnan had a Browning BDM in the crater scene on the island. I will need to rewatch the movie
Love the movies, never read the books.
Disbarred as a secret agent lmfao love it
As a Reno local... Facts.
@1911Syndicate-YT GFYS
That Hi-Power in the case makes me want to play fallout
Well, it's settled then. The next Bond villain will be called : Sqeezecocker...........DOCTOR SQEEZECOCKER.
I’d buy a ticket
the S&W 3913, i belive there was a Ladysmith model.
I do remember that Smith & Wesson copy of the A.S.P. Never saw the connection till now. I do remember that it was super cheap! Also that Smith & Wesson was in a few pretty big movies! Every one of them had a silver/nickel kind of finish and the grips were a real light color. Anyhow, thanks guys! God Bless and have a great day all!
S&w also had a version of the p99 and they were an importer/manufacturer of USA ppks.
10 years ago I managed to buy from a family friend a new/old stock, unfired, HK P7 PSP with German Bundeswehr proof markings for a whopping $600. I popped its cherry and fired a few mags through it. Certainly an amazing firearm and a joy to shoot. A “never sell” gun.