Advertising and inaccuracies...

[zercool]

Anyone else here tend to catch technicalities in adverts? Something that probably wouldn't be noticed by a non-shooter? Sometimes it's simple - a flipped image so a rifle looks like a left-hand bolt - other times it's more subtle.

I got my latest issue of "American Rifleman" a couple days ago, and started flipping through it. Near the front, there's an ad for Beretta bragging about their new contract with .mil for 450,000 new pistols, etc.

Very nice picture - well-worn M9/FS92 with lanyard in a tac holster on some anonymous leg, looking over what I presume are meant to be sand dunes...

... and no magazine in the pistol.

I love catching things like this, but I'm not sure why. Trucks in the middle of a swamp or desert without a spot of mud or dust. Images flipped to "look better" (Cabela's and BassPro catalogs do this a lot)... Just amuses me.

 

[zercool]

Anyone else here tend to catch technicalities in adverts? Something that probably wouldn't be noticed by a non-shooter? Sometimes it's simple - a flipped image so a rifle looks like a left-hand bolt - other times it's more subtle.

I got my latest issue of "American Rifleman" a couple days ago, and started flipping through it. Near the front, there's an ad for Beretta bragging about their new contract with .mil for 450,000 new pistols, etc.

Very nice picture - well-worn M9/FS92 with lanyard in a tac holster on some anonymous leg, looking over what I presume are meant to be sand dunes...

... and no magazine in the pistol.

I love catching things like this, but I'm not sure why. Trucks in the middle of a swamp or desert without a spot of mud or dust. Images flipped to "look better" (Cabela's and BassPro catalogs do this a lot)... Just amuses me.

 

[Jack Flash]

Originally posted by zercool:
... and no magazine in the pistol.

Haven't you been watching the news? Our new president doesn't want our troops to actually shoot anybody! When they see a terrorist, they are supposed to use diplomacy.

My all time favorite is the ad for Sig(?) where the guys setting up the photo shoot obviously were clueless. Next to the pistol was a loaded mag... with the top cartridge in the mag backwards. Maybe someone kept a copy and can post that picture.

 

[s&wchad]

How's this for a stretch?

The old Tyler T-Grip box had a S&W JKN frame on it, but I don't have a picture. Maybe someone else does.

Jack,
You mean this?

"No compromise"

 

[zercool]

Chad, that's the very rare and elusive left-hand S&W. Only one is known to exist, and it's owned by - imagine that - Pachmayr!

 

[Igiveup]

I was thumbing through the American Rifleman just yesterday and that picture without the mag in the pistol was the first thing I noticed. The implication of the picture is the guy is in a combat area.

 

[Guest]

Originally posted by zercool: Anyone else here tend to catch technicalities in adverts? Something that probably wouldn't be noticed by a non-shooter? Sometimes it's simple - a flipped image so a rifle looks like a left-hand bolt - other times it's more subtle.

For well over 100 Years 'Billy the Kid' was thought to be left handed because the only known photo of him had him holding a Winchester Model 73 and wearing what appeared to be a left handed holster rig. Just a we Years ago someone finally noticed that the loading port on the Model 73 was on the wrong side!!! The image had been printed and re-printed backwards for many, many years. I just saw a "Special" on the 'tube' and while they didn't talk about him being right or left handed they still showed the image as it was originally printed - backwards!

 

[truckemup97]

It's not gun related, but a few years ago (15?) Albertson's flyers said "Albertson's, it's you're store." HELLO!!! Anyone take Senior English in high school? How about third grade???

 

[john traveler]

It's not that nobody is taking senior English in high school, it's that the current crop of high school English teachers are too busy taking touchy-feely sensitivity training to teach use of proper grammar, sentence structure and syntax.

 

[redlevel]

Originally posted by john traveler:
It's not that nobody is taking senior English in high school, it's that the current crop of high school English teachers are too busy taking touchy-feely sensitivity training to teach use of proper grammar, sentence structure and syntax.

You should sit through a couple of my daughter's eighth grade English classes. She is a grammar, sentence structure and syntax terrorist!

 

[Jack Flash]

Originally posted by KKG:
For well over 100 Years 'Billy the Kid' was thought to be left handed because the only known photo of him had him holding a Winchester Model 73 and wearing what appeared to be a left handed holster rig. Just a we Years ago someone finally noticed that the loading port on the Model 73 was on the wrong side!!!

There was a movie staring Paul Newman as Billy the Kid, entitled The Left Handed Gun, assuming Billy was left-handed based on that old photograph.

 

[safearm]

The M9 photo could be accurate. If you're inside the wire, you had to remove the magazine. Once you passed outside the wire, it was loaded and round chambered.

 

[Alpo]

That photo was a tintype. All tintypes are reversed. It has to do with the way they are made http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tintype If they were showing a copy of the original picture, it should be a reversed image, because the original is reversed. Simple, no?

First time I saw that pic, long before I'd ever heard of tintypes, I didn't notice the loading gate was wrong, but did see that he was wearing a girl's shirt and a girl's vest (buttons on the wrong side) and wondered if the negative had been flipped.

 

[danski]

Ha! You English spelling snobs! Several of you
wrote "syntax" when everyone knows it's "sintax."

 

[redlevel]

There was a contemporary "action drawing" illustration of one of the gunfighters that had what appeared to be a left hand on a right arm, drawing a butt=forward pistol from a waist band carry. You knew something was wrong with the picture, but you had to look real hard, and come up with a mental picture of what it should look like before you realized just what was wrong.

 

[vrichard]

Originally posted by zercool:
Chad, that's the very rare and elusive left-hand S&W. Only one is known to exist, and it's owned by - imagine that - Pachmayr!

Here is another rare S-W left handed Mdl.60.
Dick

 

[westcoast362]

It seems to be very common in movie posters.

 

[jkc]

Albertson's flyers said "Albertson's, it's you're store."

Yeah, so what's you're problem???

 

[BLACKHAWKNJ]

That left handed S&W on the Pachmayr box was specially made for Sam Colt.
There are several scenes in the movie "Rough Riders" where the film is flipped-all the Spanish soldiers put their 7MM Mausers to their left shoulders so they can operate the left hand bolts. And you see their Maxim machine guns feeding from the right and ejecting to the left. Later when the Rough Riders capture one of them Roosevelt says "I can see it feeds from the right!"

 

[Forester]

Originally posted by jkc:

Albertson's flyers said "Albertson's, it's you're store."

Yeah, so what's you're problem???

It's not true.

The 's is possessive. It's telling the world that the store belongs to the Albertsons, not you.