I specially like hiding behind a rack of potato chips for protection. Good tip.
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I always enjoy the clickity clack whenever they move a gun to point it at someone. It's like the action or all the rounds are loose and rattling around.

Queen wrote:I always enjoy the clickity clack whenever they move a gun to point it at someone. It's like the action or all the rounds are loose and rattling around.

My favorite too I would throw my gun away if it made that much noise.

When I'm in a gunfight I prefer to hide behind hollow core doors or sheetrock walls than potato chips, I think its much safer, especially when I hear the guy rack his slide.

On Longmire a guy lifted up a double barreled coach gun and there was the racking sound.

Awake wrote:I specially like hiding behind a rack of potato chips for protection. Good tip.

The story was told at the Seattle Police Academy of the guy who was robbing a drug store. A Seattle cop happens to walk in. The Bad Guy ducks behind a rack of L'eggs pantyhose and takes a shot at him. The instructor telling the story then said, "He found out about the difference between 'concealment' and 'cover.'"

No doubt the robber had seen those same movies.

GuitarsandGuns wrote:On Longmire a guy lifted up a double barreled coach gun and there was the racking sound.

I hope Waffles returns as a recurring character.

Yep, and there's no need to aim a shotgun, nor any range limitations with them.

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Queen wrote:I always enjoy the clickity clack whenever they move a gun to point it at someone. It's like the action or all the rounds are loose and rattling around.

My favorite too I would throw my gun away if it made that much noise.

Yeah, I have always wondered what the directors think that noise should be coming from. Slides being racked? Safeties coming off? Hammers being cocked? It seems to be a convention that no one questions.

My recollection is that they don't do this on Justified. I am away from my DVD collection now so I can't waste the morning checking that out though.

I remember a scene from a thriller where the heroine had taken the Bad Guy's semiauto pistol from him, after a firefight, and points it at him. The BG, smiling, informs her that the pistol held 7 rounds in the magazine and he could not remember if he shot six or seven times. Heroine informs him she can count and shoots him dead with the last bullet.
Of course the slide was not locked back the whole time. Duh.
I have seen that mistake several times in the movies.

I'm pretty sure they make those noises to reinforce to the audience that there is a gun present, and that there is tension in the air. They do a similar thing with microphones: if anyone picks up a microphone, for any reason, there will be feedback...even if there is no reasonable cause for feedback. It makes the audience aware that audio reinforcement is being used now, and that's why the voice may sound funny...

the comedian wrote:I remember a scene from a thriller where the heroine had taken the Bad Guy's semiauto pistol from him, after a firefight, and points it at him. The BG, smiling, informs her that the pistol held 7 rounds in the magazine and he could not remember if he shot six or seven times. Heroine informs him she can count and shoots him dead with the last bullet.
Of course the slide was not locked back the whole time. Duh.
I have seen that mistake several times in the movies.

Could have been a .22 slide on a 1911 frame. Some of those don't lock back after the last shot. There are exceptions to every rule...

the comedian wrote: Of course the slide was not locked back the whole time. Duh.

Unless it's a Ruger LCP.. No slidee lockee on that POS

Pedants, I love you all!!

GuitarsandGuns wrote:On Longmire a guy lifted up a double barreled coach gun and there was the racking sound.

Was it racking or could it have been the sound of shutting the barrels?

The most egregious I've seen was when I was watching a BBC show called MI-5. These are supposed to be trained spies who stop all kinds of terrorism, but they teacup every gun they hold. Also, they sometimes rack the gun when they draw it. If you're an elite spy, I imagine you should probably carry one in the chamber.

inmediasres wrote:

GuitarsandGuns wrote:On Longmire a guy lifted up a double barreled coach gun and there was the racking sound.

Was it racking or could it have been the sound of shutting the barrels?

Naw. Racking for sure. action closed all the time. This is one of the worse gun shows ever.

especially when the sheriff takes a trapdoor Henry and loads it, points it at the ceiling and pulls the trigger. When it doesn't fire he says something like - "It's dirty it can't be the murder weapon"

It may have been a Springfield too, but they called it a Henry.
They also said the only weapon that could shoot the 45/70 was an octagonal barreled Henry from the 1800's

I still like the show for it's 2 dimensional characters, better than the 1 dimensional ones

inmediasres wrote:Also, they sometimes rack the gun when they draw it. If you're an elite spy, I imagine you should probably carry one in the chamber.

Once... just once... I want to see one of those clowns eject a perfectly good unfired round. Bonus points if the clown absent-mindedly repeats the move to the point of emptying the gun.

Ultravox wrote:

the comedian wrote:I remember a scene from a thriller where the heroine had taken the Bad Guy's semiauto pistol from him, after a firefight, and points it at him. The BG, smiling, informs her that the pistol held 7 rounds in the magazine and he could not remember if he shot six or seven times. Heroine informs him she can count and shoots him dead with the last bullet.
Of course the slide was not locked back the whole time. Duh.
I have seen that mistake several times in the movies.

Could have been a .22 slide on a 1911 frame. Some of those don't lock back after the last shot. There are exceptions to every rule...

Nope. It was a .45 ACP M1911. Or, judging by the holes left in the people it hit, an .88 Magnum.

the comedian wrote: Nope. It was a .45 ACP M1911. Or, judging by the holes left in the people it hit, an .88 Magnum.

"My father shot me once....ONCE!"

I'm still trying to master the spin technique Angelina Jolie used in "Wanted" when she made a bullet travel 360 degrees and take out 8 or 9 people standing in a circle. Another curiosity is how these Hollywood stunt drivers get their tires to squeal while spinning out on a dirt road.

rglad wrote:I'm still trying to master the spin technique Angelina Jolie used in "Wanted" when she made a bullet travel 360 degrees and take out 8 or 9 people standing in a circle.

Second time the bullet curving was mentioned in the past week. I know this because I'm the one who did it the other time.

Come to think of it... It gets mentioned at least once a month or so.

Mythbusters busted the curved bullet myth a few years ago.

The one that gets me is the hero who gets shot in the shoulder and the thigh and then proceeds to ride a galloping horse, jump off, win a fistfight, and repel down a rope, all with lots of gratuitous backflips and spins thrown in. The villains do the jump-up-suddenly-and-attack maneuver after soaking up 900 rounds in the chest.

I've never been shot, but I think I'd be too busy crying like a three-year-old to repel or fistfight much.

--T

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