Posted on 01/22/2009 8:28:18 AM PST by Petruchio
There was a great little scene in SAHARA, where Al Giordino comes to the area where he has just dropped a few bad guys, scans around, sees laying on the ground an M-16, a couple of AK's, and an FAL.
Picks up the FAL.
I loved it...
I’m gonna have to rent that movie. I’m a sucker for the CC books, but haven’t seen that movie.
My favorites:
1. Auto firing weapons where the user fires horizontally chasing his target high to low, never allowing for barrel climb.
2. Hostage situations where the perp sticks his head out from behind his hostage to talk directly to the cops. Probably more of a Hollywood thing so the actor gets max face time on camera. But in in real life just asking to be on the receiving end of a well placed head shot, especially given the close proximity between antagonists. And, again, perhaps Hollywood license to fit everyone into the scene. Perhaps the most realistic scene I’ve seen lately was on NCIS where Gibbs is given the “go ahead” by Lee to shoot through her to take out the perp...very original.
That, and 105 lb actresses dual wielding .50AE Desert Eagles. First shots would snap their wrists like dry twigs.
And also the ever favorite flying body from being hit by a 9mm or even .45...
Gibbs is the man. Watch the first NCIS episode where a terrorist fires an MP-5 at him on Air Force 1. Great scene.
In the horse operas of the Signing Cowboys, Hopalong Cassidy and the Lone Ranger, the 20 shot revolver would automatically empty after two shots when the bad guys were making their escape from the gunfight on horseback.
They would then throw the empty revolver at the pursuing white hat/horse and later be overtaken and knocked off their horse into the inevitable fist fight.
Following the obligatory fisticuffs, said bad guy(s), after being beaten into submission and promising to go quietly, would grab the hero's spare weapon and either be (A)shot in the gut, with 30 second death scene, by late-arriving sidekick or (B)late-arriving sidekick would shot gun out of bad guy's hand and be greeted by hero with a hearty "Thanks Podnah."
That was the Nagan.
“Lamar, I got a dollar says I can break your neck before you move that rig a half inch.”
My favorite episode of Barney Miller is the one where Wojohowitz arrests a guy who tried to rob a bank with a bazooka and asks the slightly deaf crook why he can't hear:
Crook: You ever shoot one of those thing?
Wojo: Well... Yea.
Crook: Oh yea? Where?
Wojo: Vietnam.
Crook: Oh sure! Outdoors.
“If you ever check out “Lost”, anytime anyone makes the slightest movement with a gun there is a dull metallic clicking sorta like the sound of a transformer changing shape.”
That happens with knives too, lots of metallic sounds especially involving going in or out of the scabbard, also all movie knives now make swooshing sounds in the air when they are waved around.
I also ‘love’ people doing flips or cartwheels while getting shot it. Not rolls on the ground but big flashy flips in the air matrix style.
+1 for moving to avoid fire.
-500 for moving in a way that leaves your center of mass in roughly the same general area it was in before.
Lead bullets making a spark when hitting a head of lettuce.
Maybe he's referring to the site where the intended target is standing. :=)
Saw that a couple nights ago, great movie. Although, Kidd does the one shot, 800 yard, freehand center of mass shot with a gun he never shot, pulled out of a box, put together (including scope) fiddles with the scope adjustments, and drills the guy. I give them credit for holding the crosshairs 10 feet over the guys head.
Trying to hit a smaller target usually isn't advisable, particulary in a gun fight. Also bullets can ricochet off the cranium. Better to shoot at something one has a greater probability of hitting and eliminating the threat.
But the original point was made in the context of the stereotypical ice-water-veined assassin zeroing in on his completely unaware target.
In that instance, one could indeed imagine the assassin knowing the distance in advance and rezeroing his scope and choosing the headshot.
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