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- All right... take the safety off.
- Er, like this?

6 seconds sound clip from the X Minus 1 - A Gun for Dinosaur by L. Sprague de Camp classic radio drama series.

You can hear this line at 00:07:12 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

- Since there's no more real big-game hunting, I'm going to shoot a dinosaur and hang his head over my mantel. I'll never be happy otherwise.

- We decided to make it to the Middle Cretaceous. That's about... eight-five million years ago. It's the best period for dinosaur in Missouri.

- So we drove Holtzinger into the country to let him try the six-nought-nought.

- It's rather heavy.

- Look, you look out... there's quite a kick.

- Couldn't you fire it prone?

- Oh, not a gun that big. There's not enough give. You'd break your shoulder.

- All right... take the safety off.

- Er, like this?

- Here, take my hand. I'll help you up.

- Thank you. I think I better try something smaller.

- Well, he took a fancy to my Manchester seventy, chambered for a three-seven-five magnum cartridge.

- That's a little light for elephant and very definitely light for dinosaur, but we were in a hurry.

- And then, of course, just before we were ready to trek, James showed up and apologized for insulting me.

[...]

X Minus One Sound Clip

X Minus OneQuotes with audio samples from the old-time science fiction radio drama series "X Minus One" that was broadcast from 1955 to 1958 on NBC.

Actors: Fred Collins (Announcer), Wendell Holmes, Bill Zuckert, Peter Capell

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