An interesting mistake in the American Rifleman

[mikerjf]

Picking errors like this apart is why my wife doesn't like watching aviation movies with me.

I recall thinking that Pancho Barnes was not quite a match to Valerie Bertinelli… however, Amelia Earhart was quite well played by Hillary Swank.

 

[JSR III]

Well if one really wants to be picky, then the plaque under Patton's gun is incorrect. As long as the Wesson family owned S&W (thru 1965), S&W's wore stocks not grips. I have always pondered why they chose different terminology like checking-checkering, yoke-crane and stocks-grips.

Since they did all they could to keep the 4 letter name of their largest competitor down the road in CT from appearing on their guns (even as caliber markings) I have to surmise that this was an effort to be different than the 4 letter named company.

The Wikipedia statement could possibly be correct if more of the statement was present. They could have meant that the .357 Magnum became the model 27 in 1957-8 when S&W began assigning model numbers. Without seeing the whole statement it is impossible to say.

 

[cmansguns]

Yea....I was with the Man...but not at the Khyber Pass

Yes, just before he led Elephants through the Khyber Pass to reinforce the 3rd Armored Division in North Africa.

I'm a former 3rd Armored Division (Spearhead) 11 Bravo and I am here to correct the statement about the Khyber Pass. It was not the Khyber Pass, rather it was the Fulda Gap. I was there so you don't have to rely on Wikipedia...just "Follow Me" (anyone ever hear that before?).

PS: About the elephants...that is true...mine was housed in the bunker in the pic. It was dam cold that day...too cold for man or beast...but not for Army grunts on guard against comrade coming over the fence.

I don't recall ever seeing Georgie hanging around, but then again..I don't recall ever seeing ANY General officer during my time in the Division. Too cold for them too I guess.

 

[luvsmiths]

Wikipedia is a non-profit foundation supported by donations & grants to bring knowledge to the people and owned by "JImbo" Their answers can be edited and corrected thru their web page.

If you edit it, just make sure you add the part about Patton being in the Chosin River Valley in Vietnam.

 

[SmithNut]

I still get a laugh when I read this, check out the Q&A about the Model 625-3 in (I believe) Guns and Ammo, or maybe it was Shooting times......

 

[toad67]

Spelling and punctuation is difficult for some people. I've also heard that 3 out of every 2 people have math trouble.

 

[Model19man]

Wikipedia is sometimes correct. It's similar to the bathroom wall in a Texaco station.

 

[JSR III]

Reminds me of a recent article on FB discussing prostate cancer. Yup, I really want medical advice from FB??????

For someone that has been battling this for 3 years, I'll stick with my oncologist!!!

 

[max503]

....at least they didn't say it had pearl grips.....

 

[Sistema1927]

I'm a former 3rd Armored Division (Spearhead) 11 Bravo and I am here to correct the statement about the Khyber Pass. It was not the Khyber Pass, rather it was the Fulda Gap. I was there so you don't have to rely on Wikipedia...just "Follow Me" (anyone ever hear that before?).

Now I know that you aren't telling the truth, since everyone knows that life expectancy at the Fulda Gap was measured in minutes.

 

[Jim Watson]

One of my fun things used to be finding the errors and mistakes in gun magazine articles and if I felt it was outrageous enough I wrote the editors and they usually printed my letters and allowed their authors to respond and acknowledge their errors. ( Custer did not have an AR 15 at the battle of Lexington, only Buffalo Bill ! ) Ed

There was a gunzine contributor who regularly published errors and exaggerations from OTHER periodicals. So I got to where I would send in errors that I noticed in HIS rag. He replied that I just did not understand good clean fun... which he had by ridiculing his competitors.