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tboesche wrote:

Dave2 wrote:

Scott in Houston wrote:Occasionally, I've seen movies where they show the bullet in flight... WITH THE FREAKING BRASS STILL ON IT.

Never noticed that one. Do you happen to remember which movie/show it was?

The opening credits for CHUCK does that

I've never seen the show, but around 00:13 into the video below you will see this:

[youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=c0nJGRnobXE[/youtube]

I may have missed it here, but you rarely hear the brass hitting the floor from an auto, even when the shooter is standing on the concrete floor of a cavernous warehouse where it would echo for days! In the rare case I do hear that "ching," it always makes me smile. Like maybe the director actually fired a gun once.

i8godzilla wrote:My biggest pet peeve--as has already been mentioned--is the lack of a need to reload.

There is a scene in Armageddon where the shuttle commander pulls out a gun. Although they were inside of the spacecraft, I would have liked to have seen how they would have portrayed the gun firing in zero gravity without oxygen.

What would the lack of oxygen matter? Should still fire.

CEOofEVIL wrote: I've actually been watching Flashpoint a lot recently and while I do love that show, there is one thing that always bothers me. The officers that carry MP5's never shoulder them correctly - they always have something like the lower 1/4 of the stock actually resting near the top of their shoulder O.o

Canadians....

glock27 wrote:pulling the trigger multiple times on a semiauto and hearing a click several times.

slides not locking back.

no one carries one in the chamber.

ar15's never reload

rarely see a revolver reloaded

DA pistols will click over and over.
Lots of people on this board have had slides not lock back.
Lots of people dont carry one loaded in the chamber (bad planning).
What? You have to reload your AR???

rm9792 wrote:

i8godzilla wrote:My biggest pet peeve--as has already been mentioned--is the lack of a need to reload.

There is a scene in Armageddon where the shuttle commander pulls out a gun. Although they were inside of the spacecraft, I would have liked to have seen how they would have portrayed the gun firing in zero gravity without oxygen.

What would the lack of oxygen matter? Should still fire.

I agree. Propellants used in ammunition contain an agent that produces oxygen when heated. My (admittedly somewhat dim) memories of long-ago basic chemistry and thermodynamics courses tell me that potassium nitrate serves this purpose in black powder; I've either forgotten or never knew what compound is used in smokeless powder. Point being that the energy supplied to ignite the propellant in the first place is also enough to start a reaction in the oxidizer that produces enough oxygen to support combustion of the other propellant components. So yeah, counterintuitive as it might seem, you can totally fire a gun in a vacuum.

The part that they usually leave out is that Newton's 3rd Law is a little more relevant when you're not rooted in place by gravity....

Does improper signage/terms at gunshows count? They call magazines clips and have huge signs advertising and small signs labeling all the "clips" they have for sale. Why must they perpetuate improper education of those that know no better??

I hate it when the hero of the movie or show is supposed to be such an awesome shot but every time he or she is shooting they are flinching and blinking. That one always makes me laugh. LIke old Mel in "Leathal Weapon" he was supposed to be this really great shooter but he cant stop the flinching and blinking to save his life

Or when someone gets shot they bleed for a minute and then it mysteriously stops bleed and just leaves a little red spot.

AndyC wrote:

PostShooter wrote:I may have missed it here, but you rarely hear the brass hitting the floor from an auto, even when the shooter is standing on the concrete floor of a cavernous warehouse where it would echo for days! In the rare case I do hear that "ching," it always makes me smile. Like maybe the director actually fired a gun once.

[youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=ksMydLGN1oc[/youtube]

lol Love that movie at least she isnt flinching like Mel does lol

In westerns, when they hide behind their horses in shoot-outs, or they shoot while chasing each other on horses (almost always, they use pistols and they miss hitting the BG/GG a lot). Made it look like the horses were bulletproof and cool with guns blazing around them all the time.

Was watching an episode of "Flashpoint" on Netflix. In one of the earliest episodes, the blond sniper sits, waits, has the solution all with the bolt handle on the rifle in the up position.

TDDude wrote:Was watching an episode of "Flashpoint" on Netflix. In one of the earliest episodes, the blond sniper sits, waits, has the solution all with the bolt handle on the rifle in the up position.

Oh yah thats cause they are in Canada, they are just all kinds of confused up there. On the other hand I actually kinda like that show.

paulhailes wrote:

TDDude wrote:Was watching an episode of "Flashpoint" on Netflix. In one of the earliest episodes, the blond sniper sits, waits, has the solution all with the bolt handle on the rifle in the up position.

Oh yah thats cause they are in Canada, they are just all kinds of confused up there. On the other hand I actually kinda like that show.

Ooooh... I hadn't thought about being in other countries. Maybe they're in Australia where everything is upside down, so it only looks like the bolt handle is up.