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5 Ways Movies Get Gunfights Wrong (Based on Experience)
Cracked.com ^ | September 07, 2014 | Robert Evans, Greg Spyridis

Posted on 09/07/2014 12:25:41 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows

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To: Loud Mime

How did you know the caliber?


81 posted on 09/07/2014 3:05:40 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows ("Country Songs Don't Have Happy Endings" - http://youtu.be/W93nc95j1KY)
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To: Slings and Arrows

Yeah, we miss you, Leslie Nielsen. Rest in peace. You’re in a better place. One gif and I’m cheered up more than I thought I could be today. Thanks for the levity.


82 posted on 09/07/2014 3:08:19 PM PDT by OldNewYork
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To: JRandomFreeper; Slings and Arrows
He's holding that auto-cat backwards.

...and upside down.

83 posted on 09/07/2014 3:09:47 PM PDT by TADSLOS (The Event Horizon has come and gone. Buckle up and hang on.)
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To: chargers fan

I know they did that with car gas tanks. No they don’t explode, not even with tracer bullets.


84 posted on 09/07/2014 3:11:28 PM PDT by Hugin ("Do yourself a favor--first thing, get a firearm!")
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To: dainbramaged

They actually made silencers for Moisin-Nagant revolvers, the round has a recessed slug and the entire cylinder moves forward to meet the back end of the barrel, sealing cylinder face to barrel breech, no gap allowing noise or gases to escape.


85 posted on 09/07/2014 3:19:55 PM PDT by skepsel
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To: Slings and Arrows

One of the most realistic gunfight scenes was in Clint Eastwood’s unforgiven.

To start with, a man is shot in the belly by the assassins, in the open. Both groups are keeping their heads down. The shot man is incapacitated, and suddenly very thirsty because of being shot in the belly, a realistic thing that happens. So he is shouting for water, but his friends are too scared to go out and get him.

Finally, the assassins yell out to the other side to give him some water, and that they won’t shoot. But this is horrible advice, as giving someone with a belly shot water almost guarantees they will die.

Eventually the assassins just leave.

From the point of view of pure realism, that rocked. Along with another assassination of a protected man, who made the fatal mistake of going by himself to the outhouse. They shot him while he was sitting on the seat.


86 posted on 09/07/2014 3:34:36 PM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy ("Don't compare me to the almighty, compare me to the alternative." -Obama, 09-24-11)
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To: Slings and Arrows
I didn’t run a background check before posting the article,

I know that nor was my comment directed to you personally......

I tried searching the web on this Matt Wagner guy and could find nothing........

87 posted on 09/07/2014 3:49:14 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco (Is there such a thing as a vegan zombie?)
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To: dainbramaged

Silencer on a revolver? How about an Angola silencer? A cheap homemade silencer on the barrel of a .22 revolver which was made of a plastic coke bottle filled with foam rubber. The hit made on Vincent Sherry and his wife used such a contraption.


88 posted on 09/07/2014 3:55:21 PM PDT by vetvetdoug
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To: Fightin Whitey

Is there actually another Bruce fan on FR?


89 posted on 09/07/2014 4:12:51 PM PDT by Straight Vermonter (Posting from deep behind the Maple Curtain)
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To: Hot Tabasco

Understood. In any case, hope the truth comes out.


90 posted on 09/07/2014 4:52:57 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows ("Country Songs Don't Have Happy Endings" - http://youtu.be/W93nc95j1KY)
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To: yefragetuwrabrumuy

He went as he went.


91 posted on 09/07/2014 4:54:29 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows ("Country Songs Don't Have Happy Endings" - http://youtu.be/W93nc95j1KY)
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To: OldNewYork

My pleasure. It’s nice to have good memories brought back.


92 posted on 09/07/2014 4:56:35 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows ("Country Songs Don't Have Happy Endings" - http://youtu.be/W93nc95j1KY)
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To: Slings and Arrows

It said 7mm on the side of the slug as it whizzed by.... : )


93 posted on 09/07/2014 5:08:04 PM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: Slings and Arrows

Even as a mere ‘no nothing’ lad I used to get a chuckle out of the ‘good guy’ (we Knew he was the good guy, he was wearing the White Hat) would be riding through a gully with dudes lining both sides of the cliff shooting at him with rifles...Missing him and his horse..

He not only managed to ride unscathed through the hail of bullets, but would also be firing his six shooters - in full gallop - and picking the bad guys of the ridge....

Each six shooter had about 50 shots.... But the accuracy was remarkable. <: <:


94 posted on 09/07/2014 5:13:20 PM PDT by xrmusn ((6/98) If you can't convince them, confuse them.)
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To: Slings and Arrows

I suppose I have overdone the detail once again - it’s just part of the experience I guess.


95 posted on 09/07/2014 5:28:16 PM PDT by Chainmail (A simple rule of life: if you can be blamed, you're responsible.)
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To: Temujinshordes
I get a kick out of Hollywood’s sparking bullets. They shower sparks when they “hit” about anything, including sheetrock, glass, wood, etc.

Yeah, that and the whine of a ricochet when there's no hard surface around, or the atom-bomb like flaming gas explosion and people flying through the air when a hand grenade goes off.

96 posted on 09/07/2014 6:14:08 PM PDT by Oatka (This is America. Assimilate or evaporate.)
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To: Slings and Arrows
Did anyone notice that Sgt. Shultz on Hogan's Heroes carried a Krag 30-40 Rifle....
97 posted on 09/07/2014 6:37:08 PM PDT by vetvetdoug
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To: Straight Vermonter

Always liked the music.

But, man, the politics are dumb.


98 posted on 09/07/2014 6:48:06 PM PDT by Fightin Whitey
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To: Billthedrill

The worst scene from the Matrix was when Keanu shoots his gun, the camera follows the bullet on its trajectory and the bullet is flying through the air with the casing attached.


99 posted on 09/07/2014 6:49:06 PM PDT by two134711
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To: two134711

Resident Evil Part 2; There was a scene of a bullet spinning through the air after being fired from a pistol. The bullet had no rifling marks.


100 posted on 09/07/2014 7:21:51 PM PDT by Redcitizen (Hmph. Adventure. Heh. Excitement. Heh. A Jedi craves not these things.)
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