Kimber & The Expendables
Our inside man at Kimber talks to us about the Gold Combat II pistols Stallone wielded in The Expendables.
Kimber’s Product Manager of Pistols Winslow Potter kindly gave us some information about Stallone’s pistols he used The Expendables:
The pistol for “The Expendables” movie was based off of our current Gold Combat II pistol but highly customized.
Instead of being Kimpro finished stainless however, the frame and slide were carbon steel, then mirror polished and hot blued. They wore mirror polished stainless small part accents.
We made a total of 10 identical pistols (other than serial numbers) for the movie and had a total of 3 weeks to make them start to delivery in order to get them to the ISS to do their appropriate modifications. My understanding is some were to be made blank firing, while others were to remain live fire pistols.
The smooth black Micarta magwell grips were a request by Mr. Stallone which we supplied from the factory.
Features included:
-24 LPI front strap checkering with border base.
-A high undercut trigger guard.
-30 LPI under trigger guard checkering.
-24 LPI flat top serrations on the slide
-Scalloped French shoulders blended the slide to frame.
-Special serial numbers
Mirror polished parts:
-hammer
-grip safety mainspring housing/magwell
-mag catch
-trigger
-ambi-safeties
-slide stop
-all pins
-bull barrel
-grip screws
-plunger tube
-front sight
February 28th, 2012 at 12:27 am
I am interested in “TWO” of the “Expendable Kimber 45 ACP “. Can they be purchased ?
August 21st, 2011 at 6:35 am
K, so for those of you who are wodnering about his “speedy lil six shooter” its a modified Colt Single Action Army (SAA) with a shortened barrel (basically cut just short of the fixed front blade sight)and adorned with mini modifications (ie, the custom cut vented ports where the blade sight used to be)
March 9th, 2011 at 9:15 am
All full size 1911’s in 45 ACP are capable of accepting an 8 round magazine that fits flush to the frame. It is common practice to load one into the chamber then add another round to the magazine which equals 9 rounds. This is referred to as 8+1 capability. Sylvester Stallone was true to the firing nature of the 1911. The pistol was 45ACP.
January 6th, 2011 at 9:01 am
“Now if someone could fill us in on the fast draw six gun he was fanning.”
a custom Peacemaker
December 7th, 2010 at 2:45 am
in the us r version on dvd I slowmoed it and he shoot 9 continuous all shots over that are in multiple scenes.
it is possible to get 9shot in .45 with an 8rd mag and 1 in the tube.
I would call it a minor continuity problem as we never see him reload but we never see him not reload for the long off screen volleys.
this is much better than most movies for instance die hard with a vengeance the knife victim guard shoots 13rd in a standard shotgun.
said shotgun would hold 4-6 never over 10.
I think it is a very good action movie and the knife throwing is the most outlandish and it is supposed to be close.
September 29th, 2010 at 9:34 am
@Stephen, even if it was a 9mm, the full size Kimber is a single stack and the 9mm only holds 9 rounds… The compact 9mm holds 8 rounds.
I’m sure it is just like other movies where they get 50 rounds out of a hand gun or 200 out of an AR-15…
Regarding the package, I doubt Kimber will sell a gun like this. It is too flashy (IMO) and the production process would really lead to long delivery times and higher cost. I’d guess that a gun like that would have a retail of around $3000. The normal Gold Combat II retails for around $2100 - 2200.
September 28th, 2010 at 9:17 am
nice!, where can you get these Mirror polished parts and features?..
September 24th, 2010 at 4:02 pm
I just recently went to see The Expendables. It was a pretty good movie compared to the junk that’s usually in theaters these days!!
September 7th, 2010 at 10:22 pm
I would love to do this to my tactical pro II I wonder if the aluminum lower would cause any problems? And could I get kimber to do it and for how much?
September 1st, 2010 at 8:40 pm
I’m wondering if it was a 9mm or a 45acp…cause when he changes the magazine that fast…he shoots 12 times per mag…Never seen a Kimber shoot that many times…and btw..they said Sly trained very hard to do that scene..kind of like Tom Cruise in Colletral with that quick draw and shoot with the 2 hoods in the alley.
August 30th, 2010 at 8:10 am
What I want to know is, was that really him doing the magazine changes, or was that CGI?
August 18th, 2010 at 9:46 pm
The revolver (fast draw six gun) is a Single Action Army based off of Colt 1873 and copied by many other gun companies. I’ll post some links
http://www.imfdb.org/index.php/Expendables,_The
http://www.imfdb.org/index.php/Single_Action_Army
August 18th, 2010 at 9:30 pm
I wonder if these options are being available for normal customers..and if Kimber plans to offer them as a setup package deal or anything?
August 18th, 2010 at 3:02 pm
Beautiful pistol…lousy movie!
August 18th, 2010 at 12:46 pm
Now if someone could fill us in on the fast draw six gun he was fanning.