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You guys ever run into those people who have an extreme confusion as to what reality is and what movies are in terms of guns?

I know a guy who, if he could, said he would carry two .50 cal's and shoot them at the same time. For a guy who has never even held a .50 cal, I don't know why he talks like that.

He also talks about a shotgun and how he would shoot it. He thinks that he would shoot a shotgun like the Terminator. Not only has the guy never shot a shotgun before, he's never even witnessed a real shotgun being fired!
 
I see this all the time. Open Range even shows the usual misconception that a shotgun blast will knock a BG backwards.:banghead:
 
Even worse, video game junkies. My boys about crapped their pants when they got to shoot a real gun for the first time and not a video gun. Now they understand why I shake my head when you have to shoot someone 20 times on a game to kill them. Kids are loosing sight of reality, and sometimes might think its OK to "Pop a cap" just once, "I've got to shoot him 20 times before he dies"
 
You guys ever run into those people who have an extreme confusion as to what reality is and what movies are in terms of guns?
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Like the whole 80's? After Miami Vice came out, it was suddenly fact that all armed robbers used AK-47's. Coincidence that much of the anti gun legeslation was passed shortly after thereafter? I think not......
 
It is not only with guns. After "The French Connection" and its imitators came out, a lot of nuts thought it was OK to do the car chase scenes on the highway and city streets. A lot went to jail after killing someone; others went to the cemetery after killing themselves.

I once was trying out a video game that had a "commando" type raid a terrorist compound and take out 200 guys all by himself. Of course his dummy UZI never ran dry. A teenage kid was watching and I remarked that the "one man" thing was pretty unrealistic. He asked what the (real) army would do. I said they would probably send a 1500 man combat team, supported by helicopter gun ships, with top cover from air horse F-15's. He thought I was kidding.

Jim
 
He also talks about a shotgun and how he would shoot it. He thinks that he would shoot a shotgun like the Terminator. Not only has the guy never shot a shotgun before, he's never even witnessed a real shotgun being fired
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Heh, go rent the movie "The Run Down" with WWF wrestling's The Rock to see how shotguns are supposed to be handled....

What an action flic, it makes Arnold look like a rank amateur.
 
Nah you guys haven't seen anything till you see me firing two Barrets (the bolt action ones cause I'm that good) at the same time, standing, clearing a room. it's totaly awesome. I also carry a sawed off 10ga for defense against the man. and I like to hunt quail witha 4-bore...they taste better that way.

I find it amusing to hear people make up stuff especially when you know they are so wrong it's absurd, it's only sad when you watch other people you used to respect actually beleive them. oi. This guy I knew I wouldn't call him a friend cause...well...he claimed he drove a blacked out humvee that the SEALS gave him so when they had domestic emergencies he could respond. ofcourse he had, and I quote "a s*&t load of missles and guns and stuff in the back. And I like you guys but don't cross me cause I could have a chopper in here in 5 min." no joke, he was a piece of work. he did it to get the ladies :rolleyes: funny thing is the ladies noticed he wa sa phoney, poked his belly, and left him to the frat boys who actually believed he was telling the truth. (for some reason noone ever brought up that he drove an old civic hatchback....strange how these things work out.

humanity, a never ending tragic commedy.
 
I know a guy who, if he could, said he would carry two .50 cal's and shoot them at the same time. For a guy who has never even held a .50 cal, I don't know why he talks like that.
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I would also hope he's talking about twin Desert Eagles and not twin Barrett M82s. ;-)
 
No he was talking about carrying two Browning M2HB 50's "Ma Dueces". Jeez twin Desert Eagles - get real. All real men carry at least one medium machine gun with them with a light machine gun as a hideaway piece.
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Most people never have any exposure to firearms of any kind except through movies and TV. This is why there are so many idiotic gun laws. A politician sees something in a movie and rushes off to ban whatever firearm he saw.
You'll find that most people really believe that you can blow up any vehicle by shooting its gas tank, that a car will always explode if it rolls down a hill, that's it's easy to hit the tire of a moving vehicle and when a body gets hit by a bullet it will fly back 10 yards.
You could point out to your buddy that a .50 BMG weighs 84 pounds empty, but it'll just make your head hurt.
 
Heh! :eek:

I'm ashamed to admit this :( but I once tried firing my 12ga SXS from the hip :what: - ONCE!

I've never ever made that mistake again. My right hand and wrist were sore for a week. :banghead:

Come on fellas...
I can't be the only one here that tried a movie stunt??? :evil:
 
I tried shooting a XD40 and a USP45 at the same time as fast as I could pull the triggers. John Woo makes it look so easy. I almost ended up shooting my USP with the XD! I love the movies where handguns have absolutely no recoil or muzzle rise. :scrutiny:
 
i know a kid who had his mother buy him a "Desert Eagle point five o" solely because of the movie 'snatch'.

and thats not all. he is so in love with that bling bling (its chromed) deagle, he has convinced himself its comfortable to shoot, even more than my 1911.

and just about the rest of his 'knowledge' about guns (that i've been trying to undo and reassimilate) comes from playing SOCOM.
 
True or false...

I've read that due to the recoil on the Desert Eagles, the gun can have FTE or FTF problems?

That's what I read and I tried explaining to the guy that the recoil is so strong that the gun will FTE or FTF.

The same guy thinks that those hitmen you see in movies are for real and that there are international assasins like those you see on TV.:(
 
My movie style shooting:

About 15 years ago I shot my Franchi SPAS 12ga like a pistol (with the stock folded up, weaver stance).

I was lucky to keep it up long enough to empty the mag but the last few shots were in the dirt about 15 yards out. :uhoh:
 
At a home-defence hour presentation this weekend, about half the time (slight exxageration) was spent trying to explain to one enthusiast about 'knockdown power'. He wanted the magic instant stop and didn't want to believe that a knife-wielding maniac 5 feet from you was probably still going to cut you no matter what you shoot him with.

After a while, I think he finally got the message that smacking someone forcefully with the 1911 with your hands behind it was both a viable option at close quarters, AND provided more 'knockdown' capability than shooting.
 
Edmond-

I have fired the .357 "Deagle". I had some FTE, and FTF with it. The FTE were as far as I can figure due to the fact that I was limp wristing it. I have smaller hands so the grip would twist in my hands and didn't have enough torque to conteract the muzzle flip. Damn those grips are huge.
 
On another note. Anyone that thinks a shotgun is going to fold up an assailant would be well served to go deer hunting once. Out of twenty odd deer I've shot I only had one drop in its tracks. That was the one where my shot was so piss poor that I clipped its spine at the base of its neck. I still had to finish it with one to the vitals and it took what seemed like forever to bleed out. The other deer I,ve gotten, atleast those that have destroyed the heart and/or lungs have run upwards of 100 yds.

I use the deer comparison because they are quite antatomically similiar to humans. Organs are about the same size, muscle and bone structure is about equivalent as well.
 
I'm ashamed to admit this but I once tried firing my 12ga SXS from the hip - ONCE!
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You are not alone, my brother! I tried this with a buddy's SxS, with both barrels. Not the brightest thing I've ever done. Of course, it could have been worse...I could have fired both barrels from the shoulder...OUCH!
 
you havent truly lived until you take two shotguns, one against each shoulder and pull both triggers simultaneously.


oh yeah, lean forward.
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I fired both barrels of my SxS 12 ga. coach gun at the same time once. Pulled both triggers slowly and both fired. Knocked me slightly off balance and ended up with a sore shoulder and sore jaw where my cheek was resting on the but all afternoon. I think the throbbing headache came about because of the blow to the jaw. It's just one of those things that had to be tried once and only once.
 
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