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Ok, I know there have been a lot of posts about authors making gun mistakes. I was reading a book called A German Requiem. It takes place in 1947 Berlin. Any way, the main character is a detective and he is looking at a Walther P38. He says something along the lines of "I never liked exposed hammers like the P38, that’s why I like my PPK" He also made the common mistake of releasing the safety catch on a revolver (of course he may have been using a Webley-Fosberry). The author also talks about "snub nosed 9mm ammo", and again his high powered 9mm PPK which blew of a bad guys head at what sounded like 300ft. Things like this always give me a chuckle.
 
"... and then the secret agent assembled his ultra high-powered .9 millimeter magnum sniper assault rifle from his hi-tech gun case. Within two seconds, the rifle was fully assembled and capable of shooting the pit out of an olive from three miles away with its iron sights. But just in case, he had a super ultra high capacity two round clip in case he needed another shot."

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You mean like that?
 
andrewdl007

You know if I was reading a book, and I came across something like that, I would close the book, put it aside, and then take it with me the next time I go to the range. And I wouldn't be taking it to read. Theres a reason they call it "fiction".
 
The author Dean Koontz had a character in one of his books with a full auto rifle that had a special magazine modified to hold 400 rounds. I would lve to see the spring that would lift that many rounds.

I don't read his books anymore.
 
Can't remember what book I read but the main terrorist had a "modified banana clip" on his AK-47. It continued to curve and there was a latch on the end that slid onto the bayonet lug, 100 round clip or something along those lines.
 
It continued to curve and there was a latch on the end that slid onto the bayonet lug, 100 round clip or something along those lines.
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Hmmm, being as you have to rock the magazine (not "clip") forward on an AK to insert it, how could this wonder of technology even be inserted into the mag well?
 
Sometimes I'm amused when I read these "excursions into ignorance", sometimes I'm aggravated. But then, it's fiction, and I didn't pick it up to read a tome on firearms, but to be entertained. I usually am. Heck, fiction authors are also often in error regarding cars, physics, geography, etc.
 
Well, to be fair a PPK's hammer IS indeed less exposed than that of a P38. He may have meant that he disliked exposed hammers such as the P38's, rather than that he disliked exposed hammers, period.
 
I personally like when in the fourth book, James Bond is forced to hand over his personal .25 Beretta because it is puny. He is then issued a .32acp PPK because "it's a real manstopper". Luckily they issued him an Airweight as well :)
Although, in book #1 (Casino Royale), Bond normally carries his Beretta .25acp, he keeps a "sawn barrel .38 revolver" under his pillow and had a .45 auto in his Bentley's glove box. He preferred the Beretta because minus it's grips it was undetectable under his tuxedo and "was reliable". And no, it couldn't have been a 950B model...When forced to give it up in like 1957 or 1958 he claimed that he had been using it for 15 years. Ya just gotta love the 25acp! James Bond and Mr. Cairo both! :)
Jack
 
Can't remember what book I read but the main terrorist had a "modified banana clip" on his AK-47. It continued to curve and there was a latch on the end that slid onto the bayonet lug, 100 round clip or something along those lines.
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There actually was something like that made. There are pictures of it in a coffee table book I have about AK's.
 
The author Dean Koontz had a character in one of his books with a full auto rifle that had a special magazine modified to hold 400 rounds. I would lve to see the spring that would lift that many rounds.
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Way back when in FidoNet, some anti-gun dolt was running his mouth about "AK47s" and "500 round magazines". I dared him to point me to a reference to such a magazine, ANYWHERE. He backed down and slunk off with my bootprint on his behind. Of course he had an entire "legend" about himself and his time in "Airforce Special Forces in Vietnam, when all of the Special Forces were together." Shortly thereafter, a lot of comments were made about him and his service in the "Parachute Ski-Marines"... :)
 
The Dark Tower

I love this series, I'm definatly not knocking it.... But "jake chambers" brings a Ruger .44 autoloader to mid-world.... MIGHT be wrong but I just don't think those were ever made....:scrutiny:
 
I love this series, I'm definatly not knocking it.... But "jake chambers" brings a Ruger .44 autoloader to mid-world.... MIGHT be wrong but I just don't think those were ever made....
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Actually, there was but it was a long gun about the size of an M1 Carbine.
 
But "jake chambers" brings a Ruger .44 autoloader to mid-world.... MIGHT be wrong but I just don't think those were ever made.
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1961, Ruger's first rifle offering was the .44 Magnum Deerstalker semi-auto. In 1962 the name was changed to the ".44 Carbine". It is the gun for which the exterior design of 10/22 is based upon. Ruger later released a new design in .44 magnum called the Deerfield.
Jack
 
The author Dean Koontz had a character in one of his books with a full auto rifle that had a special magazine modified to hold 400 rounds. I would lve to see the spring that would lift that many rounds.

I don't read his books anymore.
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It was Lightning,and the heroine had an Uzi with a 400 round magazine. I bet that was fun to lug around. In his defense, in most of his recent books Dean Koontz usually gets his gun facts right, but he doesn't always arm his characters with what we could consider the right tool for the job.
 
9 mm dosent really sound like much of a caliber, does it? Thats like 0.035 inches. Of course, a .9mm might expand....
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That's the whole pint - I said ".9" on purpose, because that's just the type of thing that some ignorant writer might say when referring a 9 mm round. Although I've never personally seen this one, I have seen someone refer to a .223 as 223mm, which if I'm not mistaken, woudl be nearly an inch.
 
"That's the whole pint - I said ".9" on purpose, because that's just the type of thing that some ignorant writer might say when referring a 9 mm round. Although I've never personally seen this one, I have seen someone refer to a .223 as 223mm, which if I'm not mistaken, woudl be nearly an inch."
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223mm would be more than 8 inches :) That's a large bore.

timothy
 
Bond's .25 was a model 418. It's the gun Fleming used to carry when he was a spymaster in WWII. Fleming doesn't seem to have known much about guns, but he didn't think gun knowledge was important. If you knew enough to spot his errors, that meant you were a kook.
 
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