"breach" scene from the movie Heat.

[AcceptableUserName]

Granted, movies are movies. But this is personally my favorite film for two reasons - it's awesome, and the firearms handling, useage and detail were highly realistic in comparison to almost any other movie I've seen. The scene in question involves a Mosssberg 590 with low brass slugs fired at door hinges. My question is, would slugs not have a strong tendency to richochet on a metal hinge, especially at that distance? Also, there's no visible recoil. Here's the scene : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGym1iVaWoY

 

[kingpin008]

Well for one, the hinges are on the other side of the door. I'd imagine a ricochet would be less likely since the slug would expend some energy passing through the wood before it hit the metal. Or, the slugs were of the frangible type, which essentially disintegrate upon contact with a solid surface.

As for no visible recoil - some people handle it better. Or, it could be because it's a movie gun, and they don't react the same way as the real ones.

 

[KBintheSLC]

I bet it would work... if you could actually see the location of the hinges. My front door has 3 hinges that cannot be seen from outside, so it would take a lot of guess work to hit them. I think the splatter from a slug at that range would be potentially hazardous. Do you know that they are supposed to be slugs? It could be a breaching round. The blast holes in the door do not appear to be sluggish.

 

[AcceptableUserName]

well, they look like Fed LE slugs to me. I suppose they could be frangible though. I wasn't even aware they used frangible shotgun rounds prior to 3-4 years ago....

 

[kentucky_smith]

http://www.combatshootingandtactics.com/published/Shotgun_Breaching.pdf


http://www.theboxotruth.com/docs/bot25.htm

 

[mljdeckard]

There are special breaching loads they could be using. It is reasonable to assume that the police would find out the location of the door hinges in that particular building, even if it didn't show them doing it on camera.