Goofy Movie Gun Lines?
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Another 48hrs ....
The crime film/comedy sequel to the hit 48 Hours(1982), Another 48 Hours starts with a female uniformed CHP trooper literally flying thru a glass window after being shot with a .454 single action & a big Desert Eagle.
The trooper would in reality be wearing a body armor vest & even a powerful blast would knock her down I highly doubt it could cause her to fly.
Both 48 Hours films have a few flaws & unrealistic scenes but they aren't bad entertainment.
To see actor Nick Nolte fumble with .44magnum rounds reloading a N frame 29 in 48 Hours is a good way to explain to someone why speed strips or speed loaders are worth carrying.
Gunfights like those shown in 48 Hours are fast, stressful & violent.
The crime film/comedy sequel to the hit 48 Hours(1982), Another 48 Hours starts with a female uniformed CHP trooper literally flying thru a glass window after being shot with a .454 single action & a big Desert Eagle.
The trooper would in reality be wearing a body armor vest & even a powerful blast would knock her down I highly doubt it could cause her to fly.
Both 48 Hours films have a few flaws & unrealistic scenes but they aren't bad entertainment.
To see actor Nick Nolte fumble with .44magnum rounds reloading a N frame 29 in 48 Hours is a good way to explain to someone why speed strips or speed loaders are worth carrying.
Gunfights like those shown in 48 Hours are fast, stressful & violent.
I watched some "FBI agents" on some USA series last night. One guy racked the slide of his Glock three times 1) when they left the HQ and said "Let's go" - 2) When they arrived at the scene and got out of their vehicles - and 3) just before entering the room with the bad guy.
And of course, the agent in the suit and tie took the lead of the room charge. The SWAT guys tagged along behind.
Sgt Lumpy
And of course, the agent in the suit and tie took the lead of the room charge. The SWAT guys tagged along behind.
Sgt Lumpy
"I watched some "FBI agents" on some USA series last night."
Real life FBI incident I personally saw.
Background: Guy breaks jail in Idaho. Hijacks small aircraft using gun taken from Idaho sheriff. Plane lands for fuel in small Nevada town. Sheriff's deputies disable plane by shooting the front landing gear. Bad guy takexs fixed base operator and family hostage. FBI called in. FBI finally talks bad guy into surrenderin. FBI agent takes control of sherriff's gun, a 9MM browning High Power. Agent removes magazine and clears chamber. Can't get the hammer to drop. I tell him to insert the magazine and get a royal arse chewing. He says, "I'm a trained federal agent in the use of all fiearms, blah blah blah." I look at him and say, If you're so well trained, how come you can't drop the hammer?" He gets royally P.O.ed. Sheriff who lost gun finally arrives, wants his gun back. Big man FBI agents the gun is broken. Can't drop the hammer and besides, it's evidence." Sheriff tells him to just stick the mgazine back in and he can drop the hammer. Yes, I did look at him gloating and said, I told you so." Just couldn't help myself.
That all took place at the Winnemucca Nevada airport about 35 or so years ago. I was working at the weather station there and saw the shooting match.
Kind of puts a new perspective on movie boo boos.
Paul B.
Real life FBI incident I personally saw.
Background: Guy breaks jail in Idaho. Hijacks small aircraft using gun taken from Idaho sheriff. Plane lands for fuel in small Nevada town. Sheriff's deputies disable plane by shooting the front landing gear. Bad guy takexs fixed base operator and family hostage. FBI called in. FBI finally talks bad guy into surrenderin. FBI agent takes control of sherriff's gun, a 9MM browning High Power. Agent removes magazine and clears chamber. Can't get the hammer to drop. I tell him to insert the magazine and get a royal arse chewing. He says, "I'm a trained federal agent in the use of all fiearms, blah blah blah." I look at him and say, If you're so well trained, how come you can't drop the hammer?" He gets royally P.O.ed. Sheriff who lost gun finally arrives, wants his gun back. Big man FBI agents the gun is broken. Can't drop the hammer and besides, it's evidence." Sheriff tells him to just stick the mgazine back in and he can drop the hammer. Yes, I did look at him gloating and said, I told you so." Just couldn't help myself.
That all took place at the Winnemucca Nevada airport about 35 or so years ago. I was working at the weather station there and saw the shooting match.
Kind of puts a new perspective on movie boo boos.
Paul B.
Ridge_Runner_5
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I used to be a parish cop in Louisiana, we would get memos about officer training fubars.
In Crowley, la. An officer cocked his revolver in a street confrontation, the suspect was taken into custody by another officer, the guy did not know how to UNCOCK his revolver. So he wrapped a handkerchief around the exposed hammer, put it in his flap holster, and carried it that way until the end of his shift and asked his sergeant how to make the weapon safe.
In New Orleans, 2 detectives were issued an Ithaca pump and 5 rounds for a stake out, at the end of the night they turned in the gun and 4 rounds.
Both stated they were issued 4, but had signed for 5.
Separate questioning turned up, at the end of the stakeout they didn't know how to empty the gun, so they fished the 4 rounds out of the magazine tube using car keys, and fired the one in the chamber into some boxes behind a store.
Because they didn't know how to get the round out of the chamber without firing it.
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In Crowley, la. An officer cocked his revolver in a street confrontation, the suspect was taken into custody by another officer, the guy did not know how to UNCOCK his revolver. So he wrapped a handkerchief around the exposed hammer, put it in his flap holster, and carried it that way until the end of his shift and asked his sergeant how to make the weapon safe.
In New Orleans, 2 detectives were issued an Ithaca pump and 5 rounds for a stake out, at the end of the night they turned in the gun and 4 rounds.
Both stated they were issued 4, but had signed for 5.
Separate questioning turned up, at the end of the stakeout they didn't know how to empty the gun, so they fished the 4 rounds out of the magazine tube using car keys, and fired the one in the chamber into some boxes behind a store.
Because they didn't know how to get the round out of the chamber without firing it.
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In "Red Dragon" (the book, not the movie) there is an interesting scene where Will Graham and his wife are at the range; while the rangemaster watches, Graham is teaching his wife to shoot with a (presumably Charter Arms) "Bulldog .44 Special." The rangemaster muses about the ammunition Graham and his wife are using.....
The ammunition on the stand beside them was an interesting progression. First there was a box of lightly loaded wadcutters. Then came regular service hardball, and last was something the range-master had read much about but had rarely seen. A row of Glaser Safety Slugs. The tips looked like pencil erasers. Behind each tip was a copper jacket containing number-twelve shot suspended in liquid Teflon. The light projectile was designed to fly at tremendous velocity, smash into the target and release the shot. In meat the results were devastating. The rangemaster even recalled the figures. Ninety Glasers had been fired at men so far. All ninety were instant one-shot stops. In eighty-nine of the cases immediate death resulted. One man survived, surprising the doctors. The Glaser round had a safety advantage, too - no ricochets, and it would not go through a wall and kill someone in the next room.
I've seen some odd beasts in my fiddy years, but I've never encountered a "regular service hardball" load for a .44 Special. Maybe I just don't get around enough.
Plus, what a rousing endorsement for Glasers! Has anyone ever actually seen those figures printed somewhere other than in the novel?
The rangemaster then leaves the scene and goes back to the tower.....
He had been back in the tower for some time when he heard the hellish racket of the Glasers going off.
Do the Glasers have some type of distinctive report? I'm not being my usual sarcastic self here, I'm actually asking. I've fired exactly zero Glasers in my life, but I've been present when others have fired them, and I didn't notice any particular "hellish racket." Or, like I say, maybe I just don't get around enough.....
The ammunition on the stand beside them was an interesting progression. First there was a box of lightly loaded wadcutters. Then came regular service hardball, and last was something the range-master had read much about but had rarely seen. A row of Glaser Safety Slugs. The tips looked like pencil erasers. Behind each tip was a copper jacket containing number-twelve shot suspended in liquid Teflon. The light projectile was designed to fly at tremendous velocity, smash into the target and release the shot. In meat the results were devastating. The rangemaster even recalled the figures. Ninety Glasers had been fired at men so far. All ninety were instant one-shot stops. In eighty-nine of the cases immediate death resulted. One man survived, surprising the doctors. The Glaser round had a safety advantage, too - no ricochets, and it would not go through a wall and kill someone in the next room.
I've seen some odd beasts in my fiddy years, but I've never encountered a "regular service hardball" load for a .44 Special. Maybe I just don't get around enough.
Plus, what a rousing endorsement for Glasers! Has anyone ever actually seen those figures printed somewhere other than in the novel?The rangemaster then leaves the scene and goes back to the tower.....
He had been back in the tower for some time when he heard the hellish racket of the Glasers going off.
Do the Glasers have some type of distinctive report? I'm not being my usual sarcastic self here, I'm actually asking. I've fired exactly zero Glasers in my life, but I've been present when others have fired them, and I didn't notice any particular "hellish racket." Or, like I say, maybe I just don't get around enough.....
I love how the FBI or whatever they are agents always charge the room first with nothing but a G19 or 23 or whatever. And then the half a dozen SWAT guys in full body armour and CQB rifles file in behind them.
Ike
I dunno why I am watching, some no name actors movie called Bridesmaids Undercover.
The female agent is out shooting clays with the dudes, with nice over/unders, and they add sound effects after the shots are fired they have added soundeffects of a pump shotgun. and the racking of a slide when they load them again
The female agent is out shooting clays with the dudes, with nice over/unders, and they add sound effects after the shots are fired they have added soundeffects of a pump shotgun. and the racking of a slide when they load them again
Fraid not. The Beretta was a .25 so the 7.62 (.32) walther was a bigger cartridge!
Other JB gungoofs:
Dr No:
The Geologist faking samples for Dr No sneaks into the mountaintop villa where Bond is waiting for him. He fires 5 rounds from a 1911 Colt & bond says "Thats a Smith & Wesson & you've had your 5". The 1911 goes *click* & bond kills him with the supressed PPK.
Live & let die:
On Quarrel Jr's boat Rosy sneaks up behind Quarrel when Bond is fishing off the stern & points the Smith Distingushed Combat Magnuim at his back. Bond says She's not competent, but she has other redeeming features. If only she'd remembered to take the safety catch off"!
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That shooting clays reminds me.
I think it was on Hawaii Five-0 a million years ago...
Group is shooting skeet from the stern of their yacht. Bad guys shoot, do pretty well. They challenge the visiting cop to shoot. He says PULL and rapidly downs three clays in a row, each one of them giving that "Peeeyowng" ricochet sound like in the cowboy movies. I guess the intent was that if you shot and it made that sound, you were a better shot than if it just busted the clay.
Of course 5-0 was also famous for that screeching tire sound when their black Lincoln came to a stop on a gravel road.
Sgt Lumpy
I think it was on Hawaii Five-0 a million years ago...
Group is shooting skeet from the stern of their yacht. Bad guys shoot, do pretty well. They challenge the visiting cop to shoot. He says PULL and rapidly downs three clays in a row, each one of them giving that "Peeeyowng" ricochet sound like in the cowboy movies. I guess the intent was that if you shot and it made that sound, you were a better shot than if it just busted the clay.
Of course 5-0 was also famous for that screeching tire sound when their black Lincoln came to a stop on a gravel road.
Sgt Lumpy
Boomer58cal
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Dirty Harry Callahan: I know what you're thinking. "Did he fire six shots or only five?" Well, to tell you the truth, in all this excitement I kind of lost track myself. But being as this is a .44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world, and would blow your head clean off, you've got to ask yourself one question: Do I feel lucky? Well, do ya, punk?
The best movie line ever
Boomer
The best movie line ever
Boomer
t4terrific
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When Riggs says, "I've even got a special one for the occasion. One with a hollow point so it blows the back of my God damn head off!", he holds up a 9mm FMJ to show Murtaugh his "hollow point".
I know that quote! Can't remember the movie though. Which one is it?
I wanna say a John Wayne movie??
Ike