Talk:The X-Files - Season 3

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An operative with what appears to be a Heckler & Koch MP5A3 with mounted weaponlight in "Paper Clip" (S3E02).

Not sure what this is, but I don't think it's an MP5A3 because it doesn't seem to have the front sight. In S3E16, one of the soldiers is briefly seen with a Calico M950 and he holds a flashlight underneath the barrel - I wouldn't be surprised if that same gun appeared in this episode first (in this screencap). -MT2008 (talk) 11:41, 10 September 2014 (EDT)

Also, pretty sure that short-barreled shotgun used by the soldier in S3E01 is the Franchi PA3/215, because I know Tom Felcan has one of those and uses it all the time (Reindeer Games is the most obvious example). -MT2008 (talk) 11:49, 10 September 2014 (EDT)

The PA3 is spot-on, in fact I had thought it looked a lot like the one in Reindeer Games, makes sense. I had first thought it was the shorty Ithaca we see later in the show, but this gun has a side eject port and the Ithaca had no folding stock, so again I'm with ya there. As for the MP5, I'm quite that's what it is - It's damn hard to tell anything in that picture though.. I had thought it might be a Calico, but I remember watching it and seeing the general layout/shape of the MP5, including a box magazine. Both pictures kinda suck (this one especially), I'm hoping to get slightly better ones and enhance 'em better if I can. StanTheMan (talk) 12:41, 10 September 2014 (EDT)

Hmmm, I think you are right, it does look like it has a box magazine of some kind, so Calico is out. Not sure it's an MP5 with a Surefire grip, though, because as far as I can tell, they did not have Surefire forearms until "Nisei" (S3E09) - giveaway is that in the opening scene of S3E09, the soldiers who kill the Japanese scientists use MP5s with the slimline forearm, and then they suddenly have Surefire forearms in the middle of the episode when they are searching for Mulder on the ship. Which suggests to me that the armorer got Surefire 628s in stock for the first time during filming of the episode and immediately installed them on the MP5s. But I could be wrong. -MT2008 (talk) 13:11, 10 September 2014 (EDT)

This is true about the Surefire forarms - I've just today capped stuff from "Nisei" and "731" and your info tracks to a T there, they don't have the forarms at the start but do midway through. In the earlier episode's case, again, I'm sure it's an MP5, but I agree it might not be a Surefire setup but maybe something else. Again I'll go back and try to get more shots here. But I don't expect much on the old standard-def quality though. One saving grace is that they are remastering the whole show so hopefully it can all be definitively answered in due course. StanTheMan (talk) 22:08, 10 September 2014 (EDT)

You have caps of those episodes? Excellent. I do, too, but I've refrained from posting due to quality issues. You want to post yours? -MT2008 (talk) 22:29, 10 September 2014 (EDT)