FR Gun Club: Stupid Gun Mistakes EVERY Writer Makes

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[WOBBLY BOB]

or that you don’t need to aim a shotgun .

[agere_contra]

Only high-DEX policemen with the Ambidextrous feat should dual-wield.

[Ramius]

Anyone who has ever fired a gun knows that without adequate hearing protection, your ears will suffer severe damage, temporarily or even permanently. [...]

LOL... you've nailed one of my favorites. Especially if you've ever fired a gun *indoors* in a small space or worse yet-- in a car. It is insanely loud. Without hearing protection the only thing anybody is going to be saying is "What??"

"WHAT??"

[WaterBoard]

There are silenced revolvers like the Russian Nagant. The author of this piece doesn’t know firearms history very well or is ignorant of how the mechanism of how certain revolvers work.

Silenced 7.62 mm Nagant Revolver
http://guns.connect.fi/gow/nagant.html

Silenced Nagant Video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvF4yurWSc0

[thefactor]

if you're in a gunfight, chances are you under duress and your adrenaline is thru the roof. so aiming is much different than it is at the range.

so you want to aim for the largest part of your foe in order to maximize your chances of hitting him. that means center mass. heads are small.

[Tijeras_Slim]

or worse yet-- in a car

I always think "righttttt..." when in the Movie "Heat", DeNiro is blazing away through the windshield with that AR. I made the mistake of shooting a rat in a galvinzed trash can with a .22 short, my ears rang for a day or two.

[Ramius]

or that you don’t need to aim a shotgun .

That's another good one. Many movies wildly overestimate the spread of shot, especially at close range. They show somebody getting hit across the room only 8 feet away and the shot peppering their entire torso. Not quite.

At hallway sorts of distances even with a riot-length barrel the shot will barely even have a chance to leave the wadding and will pretty much make one big hole.

[thefactor]

i HATE when cops, criminals, soldiers, whatever in a movie/show will rack the slide just before the gun battle. so you're telling me there has been no round in the chamber the entire time?!

that and the sounds the guns make simply when someone picks one up or points it. if you're gun makes a sound when you do that, it's broken and you're screwed.

[ClearCase_guy]

1) The most cliche’d firearm abuse in movies and tv — the 20-shot revolver - which has morphed into the 200-shot UZI...

There's a hilarious clip on Youtube which spoofs this. Chuck Connors of "The Rifleman" TV show walks down the center of town with his modified Winchester 1892 model rifle and begins firing. The creator of the clip has then spliced in virtually every shooting that ever occurred on the show. We hear the rifle fire maybe 105 times, each "bang" accompanied by a film clip of some evil-doer hitting the dirt. After killing 105 people with 105 very rapid shots, we cut back to Chuck Connors, who calmly takes some bullets from his shirt pocket, glowers at the camera, and starts to reload.

[CodeToad]

“KER-CHAK!”

This one is my favorite. I’ve seen 1911s with the hammer down and the bad guy quaking in his boots with the gun to his head. lol.

[Hazwaste]

I recall a Russian revolver for which a suppressor might actually work. The cylinder eased forward and created a seal before the hammer fell.

Yep, the Nagant revolver. You can still find them on line, and purchase them out of state using a C&R FFL if you don't want to pay the transfer fee.

[Ransomed]

That’s a good one. 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.

How about a 100 pound chick blasting away with a shotgun or big pistol without the slightest attempt at portraying recoil.

Freegards

[Uri’el-2012]

Wonder if it will work on a Mateba?

LOL

[smokingfrog]

My pet peeve - when some “good guy” armed only with a revolver or pistol is fighting off a group of “bad guys” armed with automatic rifles. He manages to kill one or more of them but never bothers to pick up the dead guys rifle to even-up the odds. I've seen this on ‘24’ and in ‘Lethal Weapon.‘

[chaosagent]

There are silenced revolvers like the Russian Nagant. The author of this piece doesn’t know firearms history very well or is ignorant of how the mechanism of how certain revolvers work.
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I think the author is talking about a typical movie with some goomba in NJ or a brother in the ‘hood’ dropping a cap on some drug dealer in the Bronx, not a calvary charge during the Boer War.

[BlueDragon]

As an alternative to expensive MilDot scopes;

Burris Ballistic Plex

I kinda' like this version. It's cheaper, and has good overall clarity. The only feature I don't care for is that the entire reticule end of the scope turns, when adjusting magnification (on the variable power models). This results in interfering with my love affair with Butler Creek flip-ups. ALL my other scoped rifles have them.

On-line ballistic calculator software (as pictured) is pretty handy, too, though not limited to applying solely to Burris scopes, of course.

If one knows the muzzle velocity , the bullet weight and the ballistic coefficient of said projectile, then there are a few "calculators" available which can be made to apply to just about any set-up.

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

http://www.horstheld.com/0-132271.htm

From my favorite handgun porn site.
A 20 shot revolver.

Lefaucheux revolver, serial # 132271, 20-shot in one cylinder in two rows, caliber 7mm pin-fire, 4¾” double barrel inscribed with

August Francotte à Liège

who finished the revolver in his famous factory, right blue, the hammer polished, crisp checkered grips, lanyard ring. Mandatory ELG proof stamp. A high quality specimen and as 20-shooter quite rare. Fine condition. $6,000.

[smokingfrog]

Mel Gibson has no problem with that.

[ought-six]

“if you’re in a gunfight, chances are you under duress and your adrenaline is thru the roof. so aiming is much different than it is at the range. So you want to aim for the largest part of your foe in order to maximize your chances of hitting him. that means center mass. heads are small.”

Exactly.

[Petruchio]

I am getting a kick out of reading the comments. Keep ‘em coming!

I had stumbled across the web page and it did nail some of the stupid things Hollywierd does.