Soielberg is a hate America Hollywood elite cashing in on America’s greatest generation including other libs Tom Hanks (Mormon hater & bigot) and Tom Brokaw.
I just shot an M1 Garand the other day. Really nice rifle. It is not light by any means, weighs around 10 pounds. The peep hole sight was a bit annoying other than that nice rifle.
Many a soldier in trying to flush out the enemy would simulate that sound, easy pickin’s!
The M1 Garand is a man rifle, the 30-06 is a cartridge that shows little mercy, it makes big holes from a long way away.
Wars were still teaching soldiers the emphasis of fire control, none of the spray and pray techniques that actually worked in jungles such as Vietnam. The M1 was well suited for its time.
Ironically the more sought after rifle nowadays is the modernized M-14 platform which could be called the son of the Garand, it uses a shorter .308 cartridge with near identical capabilities.
Last night, they had a major mistake on "24". Jack Bauer screws a silencer onto a tactical rifle that looked like some sort of 5.56mm tactical rifle. He then shoots a bad guy from a fair distance (more than 50 yards), and the sound effect is that of a silenced round being fired. Not likely that he had a subsonic load in that rifle. Not likely to hit someone with a subsonic round at that distance, and even hitting them with a "slow" round at that distance isn't that likely to drop them to the ground instantly.
Hmmmmm...I remember we used to drill with M1 Garands in boot camp. Don’t remember them being that light, especially when you hold them in front of you at arm’s length for about 3-4 minutes.
They use very light models for the movies. They do this with swrods also. In “The Robe”, one of the fight scenes is done with aluminm swords. I started laughing when I heard the “tink,...tink ..tink” of the swords. “The Three Musketeers” used steel swords and they dueling in the movie was quite realistic.
Many times you can tell by the way the swords are handled as the aluminum swords are constantly in big motion, the steel are considerably slower.
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We need to airbrush the guns out of the movie. Speilberg did that to the original E.T..
Liberals are sick people .... .
I always thought it funny that for Leftists, the Hollywood crowd seems to gravitate to the most esoteric handguns possible. To me there is nothing worse than a chromed Desert Eagle. That handgun reeks of Hollywood idiocy.
I saw ‘Knowing’ this weekend and Nick Cage goes out and buys a handgun. What was it? Some type of low production run Lew Horton N-Frame snub with fingergroove combats. Yep those are dime a dozen.
I have held and fired a M1, it is a long rifle, but it is not too bad to use... makes a nice ragged hole in targets too.