One heck of a Magnaporting job...
Posted on 03/03/2009 8:55:16 AM PST by yankeedame
#1: Rose McGowan’s M203 from Planet Terror
You are a nuttier gun nut than me if you think a stripper with an M203 prosthetic leg is either hot or cool. It’s just dumb. Also, I realize this is science fiction/fantasy but how does she pull the trigger? Unquestionably, this is the stupidest gun in movie history.
#2: Arnold’s Rail Guns from Eraser
Railguns exist now as experimental weapons; the Navy hopes to have shipboard versions some day. Railguns create an electromagnetic field on two rails. A conductive projectile completes the circuit, and something called a Lorentz Force sends it off the rails at incredibly high speed. The railguns in Eraser are supposed to shoot their aluminum bullets at nearly the speed of light. That means: a.) recoil would be fatal to the shooter and b.) air resistance would ignite the bullet almost immediately. And yet, Arnold is able to shoot one with each hand. Bonus: check out the nifty X-Ray scope.
#3: Jesse Ventura’s Minigun in Predator As a member of the commando team in Predator, Jesse Ventura humps a 7.62 caliber minigun around the jungle. Besides the problem of hauling enough ammunition to feed a gun that shoots 166 rounds a second, and the difficulty/impossibility of controlling such a gun by hand, there is also the issue of the king of all hot feet you would get from the cascade of smoking empties. Finally, it takes two truck batteries to run the thing. The filmmakers ran a cable under the actor’s pants leg to off-camera batteries to power the minigun motor.
#4: Clint Eastwood’s Harpoon Gun in The Dead Pool
What to do when the bad guy steals your .44 magnum? Simple. Take a nearby harpoon gun off its deck stanchion and shoot it from the hip. Never mind that in real life, the recoil of shooting a harpoon weighing several pounds would knock you down and maybe break some bones. But, because this is a movie, all that happens is Harry delivers the worst catchphrase of the series (English translation: “You’re s*** outta luck.”) then impales the villain, recovers his piece and coolly walks away.
#5: Steve McQueen’s Mare’s Leg from Wanted: Dead or Alive
If you’re a few years older than me, you might have owned a cap gun version of the Mare’s Leg from Wanted Dead or Alive (1958-1961). Today, if you must, you can buy firing replicas of Steve McQueen’s cut-down Winchester Model 92. Besides the recoil of such a gun and the pointlessness of turning a rifle into a pistol, the real reason the Mare’s Leg makes the list is, the gun and ammo don’t match. The rifle is a .44-40, but the small cartridges didn’t look impressive enough in the gun belt on camera, so McQueen wore .45-70 shells instead.
I agree
The part about the bolt attached to the trigger guard that forced the trigger back and fired the rifle is correct. All you had to do was move the lever forward to chamber a round and when you pulled it back to it’s seated position the bolt would automatically fire the rifle, allowing for rapid fire. The problem is, when not shooting the bolt or screw had to be backed off or one could experience a lot of misfires. Furthermore, the carbine used by the Rifleman was a top ejecting rifle, so when he spun it around the rounds would have likely fallen out before being chambered. The rifle was good for a TV western that competed with other westerns in which the hero carried a unique rifle, but it was not what I would call a very effective modification of a good rifle.
“As to who cars, most conservatives care and are upset by the inaccuracies about firearms displayed in movies. The sideways holding of handguns by gang bangers is one I can think of right off the top of my head.”
Not me. I’m happy to see those idiots holding their guns sideways. I hope they all do. It’ll make the revolution that much easier if the Rats can’t hit anything... the few of then that have guns that is.
As far as gun hatred goes, I don’t think the movies have much effect. People who want to ban them won’t be swayed by accurate depictions of guns in movies.
Here's another little Matt Helm gizmo that I wish I had in my commuting days.
One heck of a Magnaporting job...
Standard M134D
The Dillon M134D Gatling Gun is the finest small caliber, defense suppression weapon available. It is a six barreled, electrically driven machine gun chambered in 7.62mm NATO and fires at a fixed rate of 3,000 shots per minute. Gatling Guns typically feed from a 3,000 or 4,400 round magazine. They are capable of long periods of continuous fire without threat or damage to the weapon making them an excellent choice for defensive suppression.
Dillon Guns are reliable. The M134D has system life in excess of one million rounds and an average time between stoppage of 30,000 rounds. In the unlikely event of a stoppage the weapon can be serviced and made operational again in under a minute. The multi barrel design means that each barrel only experiences a 500 round per minute rate of fire. This allows for repeated long bursts of fire and a barrel group life of 100,000 rounds.
Dillon Gatling Guns are in service with the US and Allied Armed Forces. The standard application is as helicopter crew served and fixed forward fire installations. In addition to their more traditional roles, Dillon Gatlings are supplanting M2 50 cal. Heavy Machine Guns and M240’s on a number of the US Army’s vehicles. Dillon M134s are also in service with the US and British navies in the fleet protection role and Special Operations fire support role.
Dillon M134 Gatling Guns are entirely new production weapons. Dillon guns are sold as complete weapon systems or as component upgrade packages for older GE M134 systems.
Weights
Fixed Forward Fire: 56.9 lbs
Crew Served Gun: 66.1 lbs
LOL
Also, Dean Martin in the Matt Helm movies had a gun with a trigger delay.
Yep.
Correct.
He would always offer it to his captors to shoot him with.
And they would shoot themselves twice just to make sure they weren't mistaken the first time.
Yes, a railgun has recoil.
M1V1=M2V2 ...
Physics is a Bitch.
Railgun recoil is essentially constant while the projectile is on the rails. If I were designing such a weapon to be human carried, I’d soften the recoil impulse at the outset by ramping up the acceleration initially, also de-ramping at the end to soften the shutoff.
Firearms have a recoil that is high at the outset (greatest pressure causing greatest acceleration) and diminishing as the gas expands and pressure reduces, then when the bullet exits the muzzle, another pulse as the mass of the gas is suddenly released. I think. Those are my assumptions, anyway.
I did not know that. I did know that the "blaster" rifle in Star Wars:
Was in fact just a Sterling L2A3 submachinegun, with the side magazine shortened, and the 4X power scope turned around backwards, so that you looked into the big end.
But then again, that is an authentic Webley-Fosbery semi-automatic revolver in his right hand. Another was mentioned in the movie, “The Maltese Falcon” but they changed the caliber to .45Auto.
The other semi-automatic revolver was used in the Japanese movie “The Ghost in the Shell” and in a motified form, “Serenity”. It’s on my profile page. Betty is holding a close up example.
They did this past November. He’s just plain zero.
HAHAHAHAHA.
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