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Posted on 09/07/2014 12:25:41 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows
Everybody knows action movies are fake, but that doesn't change the fact that they're responsible for approximately 100 percent of our education on the subject of guns and combat. That's why the average person's knowledge of those things is hilariously, sometimes fatally, wrong.
To sort out fact from fiction, we interviewed two decorated combat veterans who also have experience working in Hollywood. Matt Wagner is a former Army Ranger who saw combat all over the world, including Africa, South America, and Afghanistan, then was a technical consultant for a number of Hollywood productions, including Stargate SG-1 and The Colt. Jerry McFakename (not his real name) was a private military and security contractor who worked throughout Central and South America and spent time as a stuntman and fight choreographer. They told us ...
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I was going to post about Unforgiven as well. One of the reasons it is one of my favorite movies is that it never forgets that real violence is not pretty or glamorous, and changes everyone involved.
Ah, of course. ;)
And yet Colt denies making them. It’s a conspiracy, I tell you!
We don’t talk about that.
Aww
Poor meezer!
Looks like mine.
He seems pretty mellow about it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuOp5nbXe_4
I had a chat with the shooter.
Ah. Let’s hear it for civilized discourse.
Yeah, as a couple other replies said, the cracking of the sound barrier, actually the air rushing back into the gap, I think. It is a sharp crack.
The centers of each target were maybe 8-10 feet away from each other at the USMC range. They told us in the pits as target crew we’d be able to tell by the sound if it was thru (or even a near miss of) our target, apart from another nearby. I thought they were fulla... well, you know... but eventually I could tell ours apart from shots on other targets.
A silencer/suppressor on a weapon works in conjunction with ammo designed to travel slower than the speed of sound. Otherwise there’s still gonna be that *crack* but not very directionally helpful at detecting your shooter’s hide.
Hope your would-be sniper prematurely evacuates (LOL) and creates movement that draws your attention, or cycles the action or overloaded oil into the breech, creating a tiny wisp of smoke. Highly unlikely, but I could imagine the panic of someone who never contemplated, let alone practiced, the post-sniping exfil. Fun problem to think about if oh no here come the guys with the butterfly nets oh nooooooooooooo
I love the old westerns. But there are some things that are disturbing....
1. Why do the Cartwrights never have to reload?
2. Why after firing 12 rounds from his modified Winchester, does the Rifleman reach in his pocket, pull out one bullet, insert it into the magazine and he’s good to go? (Reproducing bullets?)
3. How can the Lone Ranger while galloping on Silver shoot the gun out of the outlaw’s hand at 50 yards?
Also, the next time you watch Gunsmoke, in the opening scene gunfight, notice that Matt does NOT get off the first shot. Better to be accurate than fast.
You can silence a revolver, you just have to be a really good gunsmith to do it. It will work until the gun gets hot and grows, which the cylinder won't turn, but a really tight fit seals the gasses enough to do it. I had a buddy that told me for a single shot a piece of brass shim stock wedged in after the hammer was pulled back could cut the escaping gasses by 90+%, screw and oil filter on the end of it and you had a pretty quiet gun then.
I love it when a hand gun runs out of ammo, and they throw the gun at the other guy, like that’s going to help.
I think they did that in the old Superman show.
But look at it from Superman’s perspective: Free guns!
Yes it really is meant to be a shot throuigh the body
If I was a sniper who blew my cover I’d be overjoyed if my enemies were only armed with butterfly nets.
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