TV Scene that bugged me!

[yeti]

If that bugged you, don't ever watch CSI.

Or tv in general.

Or movies.

Or read books

 

[Mal H]

Or better yet - get back on topic.

The fairly realistic sniper in Saving Private Ryan was left handed and used a right handed rifle. Sometimes it's the only one available, and sometimes it's the best one available. Not such a rare event in reality.

 

[Eleven Mike]

I've always been bugged by scenes where somebody is shot in front of a window and blood splatters all over the glass, but the window doesn't break (the scene at the end of The Shawshank Redemption where the warden suicides is a good example).

How the heck do you get complete penetration of the bullet but not have enough energy left to break a pane of glass?

Do blood and bullet usually follow the same path?

 

[VARifleman]

On my 9003 I have a left hand operated bolt, and find it much more convenient for certain instances. When shooting from a supported position, or shooting standing with an off hand stand, left handed operation can actually be quite nice. So...I really don't find it disturbing that a lefty would shoot a right handed rifle.

 

[bogie]

A lot of lefties learn to shoot right-handed rifles... FWIW, I've got a '17 Enfield (moderately bubba'd to .300 Win Mag) that's right bolt, right port, but in a lefty Monte Carlo type stock...

 

[stevelyn]

I'm a lot faster with tactical reloads on a pump shotgun as a lefty. When it comes times to dump a round in the chamber to load, I simply dump it in. No need to reach "under and up" trying to get a round into a hole on the wrong side of the gun.

Same here, I'm a lefty police firearms instructor who's had to learn to demonstrate right handed since the majority of people I teach are right-handed.

Although I always thought doing the reloads left handed looked awkward, it is faster and I haven't bobbled a reload yet even under the stress of facing down dumpster diving brown bears where I have had to swap in another load of steel shot from my 00Buck charge stopper after the first shot.

 

[Wes Janson]

For whatever it's worth, I know of at least one manufacturer of bolt-action rifles who stated they had an overseas customer that would order exclusively left-handed actions for their right-handed shooters, and right-handed actions for their left-handed shooters for use in the field.

 

[Dark_Harvest]

While I do like Burn Notice (and anything else Gabrielle is in... ), they REALLY NEED A WEAPONS CONSULTANT!!

Two things that REALLY bothered me watching reruns today were:

-reference to "Teflon coated bullets"

and

-Mike detonating 4 POUNDS of C-4 from 20 feet away, standing upright in front of the explosion without cover, and managing to survive...



I will suspend some reality for plot points/twists, but there is a line... :banghead:

 

[gtmerkley]

TO much gore for me!

 

[Dakoma]

Have to deal with righthanded rifles since I can rember shooting from a rest can emty one verry fast and hit my mark.My Fal L1A1 is fun to shoot until I have to change mags,and the location on Dads Model 12 shotgun safety was'nt ideal,so when I bought a 12ga.shotgun It was a Savage with the tang safety.And by the way we were all born left handed untill we sinned.

 

[ReadyontheRight]

Well...The most infamous sniper of our time was a lefty shooting a right-handed bolt rifle.

If you believe the high-level commission set up to study the assassination, he ripped of a lot of shots quickly and accurately from a cheap Italian rifle.

So a lefty shooting a righty bolt gun very well has some historical accuracy.

 

[NC Dave]

As for the majority of TV shows and movies, I am far more surprised when they get something gun related right than when they get something wrong!

Even though I am right-handed I shoot rifles and shotguns lefty due to poor vision in my right eye. You adapt. Most of my bolt action rifles are C&R guns, so there are not a lot of options there. The only true "lefty" gun I have is a Stag AR. It is nice to not have the brass and gas shooting across my face with each shot.