Posted on 03/24/2009 7:17:49 AM PDT by BronzePencil
Fun website that describes firearms used in movies, tv, etc.
For example, this is from the Saving Private Ryan page:
Perhaps the most commonly seen weapon in the movie, the M1 Garand is used by the majority of the U.S. soldiers seen in the film. The M1 Garand is easily identified by the characteristic ping it makes ejecting its clip after the last round in the en bloc clip is fired. Based on the way everyone can hold these weapons easily, they seem to be light weight models for easy handling in the film, which cuts the realism down a bit.
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Soielberg is a hate America Hollywood elite cashing in on America’s greatest generation including other libs Tom Hanks (Mormon hater & bigot) and Tom Brokaw.
Spielberg = America hater. Cashing in on WW2 and America’s greatest.
I just shot an M1 Garand the other day. Really nice rifle. It is not light by any means, weighs around 10 pounds. The peep hole sight was a bit annoying other than that nice rifle.
the GIs learned to flip and empty clip to make the sound and when the enemy stuck their head up to shoot....BAM.
Many a soldier in trying to flush out the enemy would simulate that sound, easy pickin’s!
The M1 Garand is a man rifle, the 30-06 is a cartridge that shows little mercy, it makes big holes from a long way away.
Wars were still teaching soldiers the emphasis of fire control, none of the spray and pray techniques that actually worked in jungles such as Vietnam. The M1 was well suited for its time.
Ironically the more sought after rifle nowadays is the modernized M-14 platform which could be called the son of the Garand, it uses a shorter .308 cartridge with near identical capabilities.
I think I read somewhere that GI’s would use this against the enemy (I think this was about the European theater). The Germans had learned to listen for the sound of the empty clip. The GI’s would drop or otherwise hit the clip to mimic the sound, while having a full clip in the M-1. Bad news for the German who then stuck his head up.
peep sights are the best...I love the peeps on my 2 garands. I can shoot it into 2 inches all day at 100yds.
I agree I was just using Private Ryan as an example.
The sight is one of the finest sights ever mounted on a mass scale, and a great contributor to the rifle's overall effectiveness in getting a .30 cal projo where it needed to get.
Considering the weight (more with a bayonet), it’s even more impressive to watch the USMC Silent Drill Platoon doing there program with them.
AAArgh!
“there” = “their”
Ha - Spielberg has nothing to do with the webite
Indiana Jones is listed though
Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford) uses a Webley Green revolver as his weapon of choice in this film. During the Plane Scene, he considers using it to shoot the German Plane, only to find it with no ammo. It was previously believed that he carried a Webley Mk VI but that has now been disproven.
I just wasn’t used to using the peep sight. Once I got used to it, I was impressed at how accurate it was at 100 yards. Like I said, nice rifle :)
Spielberg and Hanks may be well-known Democrats but Saving Private Ryan and Band of Brothers are excellent films and essential viewing and there's nothing anti-American about either. I have confidence their new HBO miniseries about the Pacific Theater will be just as good and I eagerly await its arrival.
Good old low tech American ingenuity.
Last night, they had a major mistake on "24". Jack Bauer screws a silencer onto a tactical rifle that looked like some sort of 5.56mm tactical rifle. He then shoots a bad guy from a fair distance (more than 50 yards), and the sound effect is that of a silenced round being fired. Not likely that he had a subsonic load in that rifle. Not likely to hit someone with a subsonic round at that distance, and even hitting them with a "slow" round at that distance isn't that likely to drop them to the ground instantly.
Hmmmmm...I remember we used to drill with M1 Garands in boot camp. Don’t remember them being that light, especially when you hold them in front of you at arm’s length for about 3-4 minutes.
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