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Did Tango drop the bullets intentionally?


In the car chase in the beginning, when Tango stops his car and walks out, picking up his little gun.
Did he mean to drop the bullets, or what actually happened here? His expression looks like he dropped them, but it looks like he meant to drop them?

What really happens here?

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Thanks for the info. So that's why he looks so weird before dropping them.

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The rounds he drops haven't been fired though- I always assumed he was loading his revolver with some kind of super scary 1980s mega-bullet that would stand a chance of destroying Conan's chin.

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He took out .38 special rounds and loaded the much more powerful .357 magnum rounds. The cartriges are the same size and work in revolvers chambered in the .357.

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It's a Smith & Wesson Model 36, which is a .38, so he wouldn't be able to swap out for .357 magnum rounds, but a .357 can fire .38 rounds. Guess it was some type of "penetrator" round or something, but not a magnum load. Regardless, at that range with that barrel length, no way he'd get that kind of accuracy.

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