Don't learn from the movies about guns?

[blujax01]

And all the shots hit and make sparks. On wood railings, cardboard boxes, cement floors...

Yep, saw it on CSI NY the other night. Dock scene, Gary Sinise' character is hiding behind a wood crate. The Bad Guy's AK rounds are bouncing off the crate and making sparks.

Gotta love Hollyweird!

 

[cmort666]

Learning about guns from the movies is like learning about spaceflight from a Flash Gordon serial.

 

[fiasconva]

I love it when you get a "shots fired" scenario and the cops pile out of their cars and rack the slides of their duty weapons, usually Glocks. I guess all the tv cops carry without a round in the chamber.

 

[russp1]

Do you guys mean to tell me I shouldn't expect to get 7 kill shots at bad guys on a 30' high roof top using my 442 and no reloads just like on Dragnet and Peter Gunn?

 

[Chuck1217]

And all the shots hit and make sparks. On wood railings, cardboard boxes, cement floors...

And they can soot off locks and shoot a chain in half. Ever try to shoot a chain? Can't be done.

Yeh, always got me when they squeal tires on dirt roads.

 

[Chuck1217]

I love it when you get a "shots fired" scenario and the cops pile out of their cars and rack the slides of their duty weapons, usually Glocks. I guess all the tv cops carry without a round in the chamber.

Ever notice when the cops have pump shotguns? They rack the slide, sneak around the corner, and when they see the BG they rack it again- but they haven't fired the first round yet.

 

[sirrduke2010]

The totally advanced rounds that following people around corners.

In runaway the bad guy has a special round that is typed to the person he wants to kill. It is like a heat seeking missile and is know to swerve and even go around several corners both left and right. I can actually say this would be the ultimate round. The assassin would no longer have to put himself at risk.

 

[cmort666]

Do you guys mean to tell me I shouldn't expect to get 7 kill shots at bad guys on a 30' high roof top using my 442 and no reloads just like on Dragnet and Peter Gunn?

No, but you should expect to hit a car 150 yards away, going 70mph, with your 2" Model 36 (loaded with standard velocity 158gr. LRN), in a 90deg. deflection shot, and hit the tire and have it blow off like it was struck with a round from a 40mm Bofors.

At least that's the way Jack Lord always did it on "Hawaii Five-O"...

 

[Springfeildkid585]

I watch so many movies handling a semi-auto when the criminal or victim is threatening someone else and the hammer is down on a single action semi-auto. Now if it is double action that is a different story. How about the safety being on?

Being shot in vital areas and being able to crawl, stumble, drive, and/or walk for another hour. Possibly if a minor wound but a major wound that is bleed profusely?

Being able to shoot more than 7 times with a revolver without reloading or being able to shoot with a semi-auto greater than 20 times with one clip. Be able to use a semi-auto pistol as an automatic weapon. I know about the small Mac 10s and the Uzi's but this is the size like a government model but I guess there could be something new soon.

I like the "Underworld" movie where with one clip you could shoot automatic and have endless rounds but when the magazine is shown there is only 7 rounds. I love those Ultraviolet rounds that have Silver Nitrate in them and if you shot them at people with a plastic shell how many with enter the skin or just shatter and splatter the person.

I wondered about the western scenes in the old movies using a SAA and being able to wave the hammer and blow off 5 shots in a row with accuracy without any kick. They had to be blanks.

How about putting a round in the chamber with a semi auto. The technique of many actors on the screen when pulling the slide back would have many losing palm flesh if it was in reality.

Basically the other premise is that the bad guy is usually a bad shot but the hero is usually a good shot. I have seen that philosophy begin to end in some recent TV shows.

Dodging a bullet I saw in "Remo Williams" where the Asian gentlemen was able to dodge every bullet fired. I will have to look that up in the category of Martial Art extraordinary.

I want to say they are getting better about the reality but make believe just can't embrace reality completely. I found a movie that gave some truth to being shot was the movie "Blood Simple." The more recent movies and TV shows the participants changing magazines, reloading their guns, and showing a kick when a weapon is fired.

In reference to the full auto government model: it's been done and is possible, just not practical. Dillinger had a full auto .38 super(Government Model in a different caliber). Granted, he (or rather a gunsmith he payed) attached a Thompson foregrip to it and it had an extended magazine.

 

[kcode]

I always liked and still do, the early James Bond 007 movies with the only true James Bond, Sean Connery. He must have had super-super bullets in his PPK to make kill shots like he did at well over 75 yards.

 

[Chipmunk6]

While not a movie, It still amuses me. I had an old 70's era
Zane Grey paperback once. The cover art was gunfighter with
a 1860 Army Colt in each hand blasting away in a saloon......
with empty shells ejecting in an arc from both revolvers and
no evidence of blackpowder smoke. IIRC it was titled "Nevada".

Chipmunk6

 

[ImprovedModel56Fan]

It is probably unnecessary to say, but I'll do it anyway, that the writers, directors and editors who make movies that display their ignorance of firearms usually display their ignorance of most other things that they are expressing themselves about. Politics, economics, public safety . . . .

They have opinions, but who cares? Most of them were encouraged too much as children to express themselves, with too little emphasis on responsibility for what they expressed.

Bread and circuses.

 

[sipowicz]

I love the Dirty Harry Series...would Harry most likely be killed with his tactics like slowly drawing his 29 on a punk who already has his gun trained on him? Sure...but would I rather see Harry draw while saying "We're not gonna just let you walk out of here" rather than have him duck down behind the counter? Absolutely...because it's a movie...and it's supposed to entertain. If I want real life, I'll stay home.

 

[mrs_keck10]

What drives me nuts is they portray themselves to know their **** like in Gone in 60 Seconds Eleanor is not a GT 500 shes a shelby super snake which was their high end customized car in 1967. Guys actually argued with me about that and the fact that my 1994 camaro wasn't an F-body with an LT1. Sorry I think I'm gonna know the car I'm driving well not as well as a 4.0 model jeep but thats a different story.