People who confuse movies for reality...

[entropy]

Two Barretts at once! :

Like this maybe!

You guys shooting both bbls. of a SxS at once: I used to water swat ducks this way; hurts, but the birds don't dive and latch on to weeds and are lost.

About shooting deer with a shotgun: Deer have not been psychologically conditioned since birth by TV to believe they should be blown 10 feet back and die instantly, like far too many sheeple have.

Deagles and FTE/FTF: whattya expect with a limp wrist! If your wrist isn't limp, bear in mind they are very fussy on ammo power. Too much=FTE; Too little =FTF BTW, the .357 deagle feels like shooting a .22 auto, the .44 about like a .357 6" revolver, the .50 AE about like a stiff loaded .44 revolver. A fifteeen year old with an overindulgent mom shouldn't be shooting one.

Safariland Comp II's and III's make reloads for revolvers as fast as autos, or more so, at least possible , if you train with them. HKS's make it quite a challenge.

M60: 23 Lbs.
1000 linked rounds M80 ball: @60 lbs
MP5: 8 lbs
1000 rds. 9mm (in mags) : @40 lbs
Combat Shotgun: 7 lbs
200 rds. 00 buck: @16 lbs
Total weapons+ammo=154 lbs
Exposing a bullsh**er: priceless!

 

[Tamara]

Edomond,

This same guy idolizes Danny Glover on the Lethal Weapon movies. I asked him what kind of revolver he was using in that movie. He said, "It looks like a S&W .40 cal. I said, "I didn't think the .40 cartridge came out until 90?"

More importantly, Smith never made any .40 S&W revolvers other than the stainless PC646 (a limited production run in '00) and the 646 (also stainless, and a run of 900 guns done as stocking dealer specials in '03.)

Danny Glover's character, being an LAPD detective, was probably using the S&W Model 15, a .38 Special Combat Masterpiece, which was the most common LAPD revolver back in the day, but it's been a while since I've seen the movie.

Else he had a time machine, came forward in time, got a 646, ground the underlug off, and painted the whole gun black. Yeah, that's the ticket...

 

[Wakal]

Tamara,

What about the Slick and Weasel model 610 in .40 S&W? I'm pretty sure there are a bunch of 'em out there, since one of my IPSC buddies has a matched set that he competes with (the bozo beats bottomfeeders now and then...we hate him ). I like the 625 a bit better, but I digress...

Why, I thought a torso shot would pick a guy up and throw him five or ten yards back! You mean it ISN'T so?







Alex

 

[Destructo6]

M60: 23 Lbs.
1000 linked rounds M80 ball: @60 lbs
MP5: 8 lbs
1000 rds. 9mm (in mags) : @40 lbs
Combat Shotgun: 7 lbs
200 rds. 00 buck: @16 lbs
Total weapons+ammo=154 lbs
Exposing a bullsh**er: priceless!

Other than the fact that he was not BSing.

And considering the Average Emergency Approach March load is 128lbs and the Average Approach March load is 95lbs, it's not too diffucult to imagine a 6' 220lb STg adding another 20lbs.

 

[RevDisk]

M60: 23 Lbs.
1000 linked rounds M80 ball: @60 lbs
MP5: 8 lbs
1000 rds. 9mm (in mags) : @40 lbs
Combat Shotgun: 7 lbs
200 rds. 00 buck: @16 lbs
Total weapons+ammo=154 lbs
Exposing a bullsh**er: priceless

Ouch. If that guy really legged all that gear, I feel his pain.

A while back, I was the SAW gunner, had another SAW guy in my Plt. The other SAW gunner got severely twisted his leg during an exercise. In normal military logic, since I was the only other guy that knew the SAW inside and out... I had to leg two M249 SAW's and circa 2000 rounds of linked 5.56mm, in addition to my ruck filled with gear on a 20 mile road march.

I'd be willing to bet the combined weight of all the gear was WELL over 150 lbs. Probably closer to 200lb. To be honest, it was pure hell and I hope I never have to THAT again.

(No, I was not stupid enough to try firing two SAW's at once. )



My biggest gripe about movie-reality confusion is that movies do not enforce the four rules of safety. Most importantly, muzzle sweeping and fingers on the trigger. If someone aims a gun at me and put his/her finger on the trigger, I tend to assume they're trying/going to shoot me whether intentional or not!

Reality does not have a rewind button, and the dead stay dead.

 

[GunGeek]

Oh yeah, he seems to think that he can load a revolver with a speed loader faster than I can pop a mag into a semi auto. Those damn movies!

I have also seen a few shooters who can really do this, but I'd never claim too!

 

[PromptCritical]

I have been having FTFs and FTEs in my Desert Eagle .44. I don't think I shoot it differently than I used to, as this has just started. Eh, I'll check next time I shoot it. By the way, it is chromed. But not the shiny kind. Bling bling pisses me off. Matte chrome just makes it stand out without being gaudy. And I can shoot it one handed fairly well.

The gun in Snatch was not a .50. Wrong size scope rail, fires eight rounds in one take, bad engraving imitation.

 

[Ant Mod]

Totally forgot I confused movies with reality once and paid for it in blood. I even posted about it.

http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=53719&perpage=25&pagenumber=1

 

[Warren]

Based on it's effect in Tremors 4 I plan on carrying a sawed off punt gun as my carry weapon....or is this a bad idea?

 

[Treylis]

I saw one of those trauma shows on TLC once, and a guy came in with GSW to the leg. They dug it out and showed it to his girlfriend, and she exclaimed, "That's a Glock, baby!"

I thought, "Hey, that's pretty good. Wish I could do that."

I groan whenever I see such nonsense--they drag out a badly-deformed slug or whatever, and can instantly tell it's from a Glock. (And it's always from a Glock, it's always 9mm, etc., etc., etc.)

 

[halvey]

My wifes friend is like that. unfortunately, it's the "guns are bad" type of thinking.

 

[Average Guy]

About movie physics

http://www.intuitor.com/moviephysics/

The Insultingly Stupid Movie Physics page. A lot of good info on kinetic energy transfer (aka "stopping power" or "pushing a guy 20 feet out a window power").

 

[bill2]

Come on fellas...
I can't be the only one here that tried a movie stunt???
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I tried to pick up an unbelievably hot woman in a bar once, and she just laughed at me. Not at all what I'd been led to expect from action adventure movies.

 

[ScottsGT]

I've tried a few stunts I saw in a porn flick