Cemetery Man (Dellamorte Dellamore)
 

The main character uses a revolver. I'm wondering what it is/

I'm also wondering why he Xs out the heads of his ammunition with a knife.

Got a picture? Most of us have never seen this movie (at least, I haven't), so we need to see the gun in order to make an identification.

Carving Xs into bullets is a low-tech way to make hollow-point rounds.

Another good example of the X-head round is seen in "The Bear", where they exaggerate how much the round destroys a tree.

I myself have never seen the movie, but if he can cut X's in the heads, I'm assuming he is using soft lead bullets, so is this a western?

You really need to post and image or something. Link even?

Well I tried to find pics, and most of what I find online is him boinking that really hot girl in the cemetary (NOT WORK SAFE). And if you DON'T have hollow points, carving X's isn't too bad. It's low tech, but doable.

But until I actually see the flick, it's hard to figure out what it is.

http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r...ences/cem2.jpg

http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r...morte-DD22.jpg

http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r...lamorteD09.jpg

http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r...lamorteD21.jpg

Those are .38 S&W cartridges, so it's probably a S&W British contract or Model 11.

Looks like a S&W Model 19 to me, but I'm not 100% sure about that. I had no idea how practical it was to carve Xs into standard ball ammo to make hollowpoints. I've heard of it being done, but personally, if I were gonna do it, I'd rather use a vice and a hand drill. Or just go buy factory loads.

It's purely a last ditch effort. I certainly would do a much better job if I were doing it for fun, but I assume that a character would do a hack job, especially if their lives were in immediate danger, etc. etc.

I still think it's a larger handgun than a Model 19 and the dummy rounds aren't for the gun. Also they look more like .44 special, which 'may' load in a .44 magnum in a pinch, but not well.....

I doubt it's a 19, doesn't seem to have a ramped front sight.

Yeah, it could be something bigger, but the bottom lug looks very S&W-ish to me, so I guess that's as good a place to start as any.

Also, dunno if looking at the shells is a good idea, unless we know that the character is seen loading the same rounds into his revolver. Remember the scene from "Die Hard" where Bruce Willis checks the load in his MP5, and when he looks at the last two rounds in the mag, they're both .38 Super? :D

It looks like a nickel Model 29.

So, the Xing of the head of the bullets is supposed to... Make it break apart on impact? I've seen it done in vampire movies, but the X is intended to be a cross.

Is this safe/practical in real-world applications, out of curiousity?

I'm having trouble finding screenshots. Here's a link to the movie on YouTube in HD. The rest of the movie comes after it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onLvxe9jjUI

They expand and stay in the body, so all the kinetic energy favored for stopping power is maintained.

I wouldn't reccomend cutting Xs in your ammunition, as it could lodge in the barrel if you cut it too much, and never use them in anything other than a revolver. You'll just get lots of jams.

Here's a shot from youtube, it's low res though, because I wasn't going to fuck around with HD for an hour to grab one shot:

http://i29.tinypic.com/6jkbpk.jpg

I appreciate it.

That's an Italian Bodeo 1889. One of the non-standard models with the conventional trigger but full length octagonal barrels.