Movies with proper gun handling

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The "Jesse Stone" movies

Death in Paradise
Innocents Lost
Night Passage
No Remorse
Sea Change
Stone Cold
Thin Ice
Benefit of the Doubt

Of course, this is the same guy who made "Quigley Down Under" memorable.

I understand he is a practical pistol shooter of some sort, but I don't know if it is IDPA or something else.

Benefit of the Doubt showed a fairly obvious tactical reload with a 1911. However, the writers had Jesse Stone comment that a .308 was a good sniper round, followed by the bad guy using a BLR as his weapon of choice (?).

Too much should probably not be read into this. Did the writers really believe that was the best choice, or were they trying to show that bad guys don't have to have an EBR to be bad?

Or maybe a cigar is sometimes just a cigar... :)
 
As far as hollywood not supporting guns there are several in the business that do.
We sell quite a few grips to production companies.

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The newer movies do a much better job of proper firearm handling than the old cowboy movies. Twirling a Single action colt with your index finger against the trigger would be frowned upon at most ranges in the country.
 
Collateral was a friggin great movie.



Bad effort to stay on topic alert

They had guns too.
 
Pretty much anything with Tom Selleck in it

The Jesse Stone made for TV series, his older cowboy movies. I've never seen him mishandle a firearm on the screen.

I'm betting he's also PO'd a lot of less informed directors too.
 
Tom Sellick is also one of the executive producers for the Jesse Stone TV movies,
so he had a lot more say on the gun handling that gets to the final edition of the video.
 
Amazingly enough: Sucker Punch. Yeah there's a whole lot of cheesecake, but it also has one of the smoothest reloads of the M4 platform I have ever seen and that's including by people not wearing miniskirts. I was about 1/3 of the way through the movie, before I realized that I wasn't getting annoyed by finger-on-the-trigger/infinite magazines/etc. that you always see in movies. Rather there was actual smooth gun handling.

-Jenrick
 
Regarding the WWII training film, it was emphasized that actual combat shooting (where folks are actually trying to kill you, not a gun game) was extremely stressful and tried to keep it simple and realistic. Note that the shooters using tracer were getting consistent hits.
While the film looks quaint compared to modern training, remember those soldiers were training to kill people not score points.
 
technique technique technique... the teacup method for one is not as effective for fast follow up shots as the modern two handed grip. There was too much bad technique in that movie for me to call out.
 
With respect for skill and training: Hits, hits, hit.
It will be fun, 20-30 years from now, to hear what's said about current techniques.
 
Red Dawn, not the movie so much as one actor in it. The brothers are on their way back to the mountains and they stop at the home of a local rancher (Ben Johnson) as they enter the home he takes their rifles, clears them properly , opens the bolts and sets them by the fireplace.

1 scene in Die Hard , Bruce Willis has his M9 to a badguy's head but his (Willis') finger is indexed along the frame of the weapon. I don't think it was part of the movie for him to do that I think it was just the common sense gun safety of "I don't want my finger on the trigger even if I know the gun isn't loaded while it's pointed at this guy's head"
 
I always thought 24 as a TV series did a great job.

And for War movies, Black Hawk Down was pretty good.

Worse movie I ever saw for gun handling period was "Last Man Standing" w/ Bruce Willis shooting 1911's with 150 round magazines.
 
Regarding the WWII training film, it was emphasized that actual combat shooting (where folks are actually trying to kill you, not a gun game) was extremely stressful and tried to keep it simple and realistic. Note that the shooters using tracer were getting consistent hits.
While the film looks quaint compared to modern training, remember those soldiers were training to kill people not score points.
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That was exactly my point. Techniques that we now see as hokey were cutting edge military techniques of the past. So my point is that we shouldn't judge movies set in the past (or of older vintage) based on out modern techniques. It's much like the thread with the picture of the WW1 infantry squad armed with 1911s. Everyone was tut-tuting that they didn't have trigger discipline, however the whole idea of trigger discipline is a relatively modern construct, so we should be mindful of that. Those men clearly knew what they were doing and it's only our modern techniques that make us think we have one up on those guys, when in reality they were trained to the highest standard of their time.
 
If I recall correctly, Strike Back (airs on Cinemax) does a pretty good job with gun handling skills. I haven't seen it in over a year or so, so my memory might be a little foggy.
 
It's much like the thread with the picture of the WW1 infantry squad armed with 1911s. Everyone was tut-tuting that they didn't have trigger discipline, however the whole idea of trigger discipline is a relatively modern construct, so we should be mindful of that.
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Were shooting accidents more common years ago, before the modern rules were developed?
 
Were shooting accidents more common years ago, before the modern rules were developed?
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It would be interesting to see if you could get reliable stats on that to see but I suspect the answer is no. I think a lot of the modern safety rules come from people carrying guns like Glocks with one in the chamber. I suspect it was much more common to not carry with a round in the chamber in the past and you really don't have to go that far back until people are basically armed with single action revolvers, which as long as you don't have the hammer resting on a live round, are pretty damn hard to have an ND with. If anyone knows of any good data sets that might have stats on firearms ownership and accidents, it'd be interesting to look into. Good question.
 
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