Hollywood Lies!

I forget what book I was reading recently, but a S&W revolver in .30-06 was involved in some way. That's one hossin' N frame right there!

Or various revolver having safeties.
 
I love the Walking Dead series, but even they have made many mistakes. When Rick fires his Python, no recoil; though, the tank scene was good. However, do not get me started on Hershel's unlimited ammo shotgun; where does a man shop for shotgun like that?
 
I'm reading the comic book (sorry - "graphic novel") version of "The Walking Dead", and find it hilarious that it's not until episode #95 or so that someone actually brings up the idea that maybe they need to look into reloading their own ammunition.
 
Another thing that drives me crazy about guns in movies is when someone gets shot and they fly backwards. I have shot many of squirrels and such with a 12ga, not once did they fly backwards.
 
What I love the most is when the person pointing a pistol at someone decocks a DA/SA handgun when they decide not to shoot, making it look like it won't really fire with the hammer down.
 
BBQBob,

Can't say that I've witnessed what a Python inside of a tank would do, but I have witnessed what a 3-round burst from an M2 inside of a WWII-era 5" gun turret will do.

I was standing just outside the hatch looking in while a coworker was inside the turret with the gun (the whys are not important).

He didn't get knocked out or anything like that, but he did say that he had no intentions of ever doing that again. Personally, I thought it was hysterical. :)
 
"cop-killers"...

Another common Hollywood myth is the so called; "cop-killer" bullet.

This evil menace sounds vile but in reality, NO sworn law enforcement officer has ever been killed in the US by these "cop-killer" rounds.
Many US cop shows(like a recent Law & Order Criminal Intent I saw) bring up the KTW type rounds. The big problem is that these powerful armor-piercing bullets ended factory production about 20 years ago!
And when they were available in the US, the KTW line was restricted to LE agencies and military sales.

The popular NBC TV cop show; Hunter had Rick Hunter's LAPD partner, DeeDee saying her police officer husband was killed by a "cop-killer" bullet.

That's just media hogwash.

ClydeFrog
 
The amazing ability of some TV cops or ME's to hold a spent bullet in their hand and identify it is amazing. "This is from a 380." That's truly amazing that they could tell the difference between that 380 and a 9mm...just from holding it! :rolleyes:
No wonder they can solve crimes in an hour.
 
One of my favorite demonstrations of fine submachine gun fire occurred in Windtalkers. Nicolas Cage is running somewhere when a dozen or so Japanese appear on his flank. One long burst from his Thompson disposes of all of them. Awesome! I wish I could do that.
 
no primers in belt feds

In a lot of war movies, Saving Private Ryan and Band of Brothers included, you often get a close up of someone carrying a belt of ammo for a machine gun and there are clearly no primers in the rounds.

Live well, be safe
Prof Young
 
Every single time someone cocks a pistol on Burn Notice, not only do you hear the single action revolver sound, the gun isn't cocked when the camera moves to a different angle.

Invisible second hammer?
 
Watched The Grey yesterday about surviving a plane crash and wolves in Alaska. The hero used a bolt action rifle but when showing ammo it was clearly shotgun rounds.

Good movie though.
 
Jim's post, other Hollywood flubs...

To answer Jim's posted remarks...
No, if "DeeDee's" police officer husband was murdered, it would have to be a COP-KILLER bullet that did it.
If "cop-killer" bullets(AP or Teflon coated as commonly defined) did NOT in fact exist, than it's safe to assume that he'd be killed with some other kind of round.


I'd add to this topic, another common film-TV flub; the "unloaded" revolver. :rolleyes:

I saw an older Walker, Texas Ranger where the intrepid Ranger(Chuck Norris) totes his big stainless N frame 629 revolver. The drama was intense but you could clearly see the huge .44mangum cylinders were empty.

Bad show indeed!

ClydeFrog
 
Not a movie but a book by an English author that I couldn't even finish reading. He had one of the characters pull out a "silenced Smith & Wesson revolver". wonder how that worked out for him.

I think it may have been the same book that mentioned disengaging the safety on the S&W revolver.
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If you happen to be thinking of Agatha Christie, she had several scenes where characters disengaged the safety on their revolver. But then she was probably thinking of a gun she had personal experience with, which did indeed have an external safety, so she can be cut some slack in that department.

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so, Agatha Christie killed Miles Archer?

He was shot with a Webley Fosbery......

No, wait, Sam Spade did get to the bottom of that one....wasn't Agatha

And you can put a "silencer" on any revolver. Just doesn't work very well on anything other than a Nagant.
 
"hush-puppy" S&W revolver...

I recall as a kid in the mid 1980s of "Templeton Peck" AKA: Faceman of the popular action series; The A-Team, holding a nickel/stainless type revolver with a "surpressor" on the 4-5" barrel in a few PR photos for the show.

I dont remember Face ever using this strange revolver on any A-Team episodes. It may have been in the Universal Studios prop room or armory. :cool:

CF
PS: "silencers" & "surpressors" still make noise. Only the volume or sound is reduced. These firearm add-on are confused a lot in the media & film-TV.
 
There were revolvers with safeties on them. Just read about some old gun that had them. Also, there was a heavily modified silenced Ruger out there. It made an appearance on the X-files and was featured in one of those Gun Digest compendiums way back when.

Ayoob mentioned a company that modified Smiths with safeties, years ago.
 
To backtrack a page or 2....

In an episode of "Criminal Minds", the young kid (Spencer Reed) was searching a house with his revolver cocked and finger on the trigger. YIKES!
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That, and the location he wears it at, it's a wonder the character is not a eunuch by now:eek:

He had one of the characters pull out a "silenced Smith & Wesson revolver".
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Did he get the idea from Magnum Force? I bet it would have worked if it was a Python:rolleyes:
 
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