“This week’s episode [of The Walking Dead] featured a Rick/Daryl motorcycle/jeep chase,” Paul Tassi writes at forbes.com writes. “It should have been one of the most badass action sequences the show has done to date, but instead it just felt stupidly goofy. As the two pursue the truck loaded with the heavy guns, one of the Saviors pops one out of its crate and starts opening fire on their vehicles . . .
This is not a peashooter. This is a .50 caliber machine gun that is designed to shred vehicles, and those in them.
The problem? The Walking Dead treated the gun like it was lobbing paintballs at Rick’s car.
We see these little spatters of CGI light on the metal and Rick swerves around like this is some kind of movie from the ‘50s, and it’s just so bizarre. This gun should be carving up Rick’s Jeep. If you want the engine to survive so the car can keep going, fine.
If you want Rick to survive because he’s a lucky SOB, fine. But at least pretend you know what a gun like this can do to a car like that. Show giant holes being blown in the metal, shatter the windshield, anything. Make it feel powerful. Instead, it barely felt like a threat at all, and it totally killed the scene for me.
A minor complaint, perhaps. Especially given the fact that in one episode Ezekiel’s captor pulled the slide back on a GLOCK to load another round — after having fired the gun. D’oh!
What’s the biggest Hollywood or TV firearms fail you’ve seen? Do gun mistakes ruin your enjoyment of TV shows and movies?
I was innocent and as pure as driven snow back in the early 70’s. I do not know why those N frame Smith and Wessons and Ruger Blackhawks seduced me into their menage-a-trois. It was easy for them, they shamelessly flaunted their magnum calibers at me. I fell so low, I had to take up reloading to keep them fed.
Now that Smith and Wesson has dumped me, Those .41 magnum, 4.2″ barreled, stainless steel Ruger Redhawks and .44 special, 5 shot, 5″ barreled, blue steel GP 100’s continue to exploit me.
I tell you, I am a broken man. Or at least I am usually broke. I have reached the point where I no longer even whimper when a 7″, stainless steel, .45 Colt Redhawk shows up.
It always makes me laugh when an actor puts a rifle scope directly up to their eye as if it was a telescope (no eye relief whatsoever).
Yeah, my younger brother did that once with my 30-30, once.
Yeah, once.
I saw “Little Joe” fire his Colt 28 times on Bonanza before he stopped to reload.
Add in every episode of” The A Team” every episode 1000 rounds fired nobody even injured.
The one that bugs me the most is bullet-proof cars. The bad guy shoots at them and you see bullets ricocheting off of the sheet metal and the glass. You’d think the baddies could procure guns and ammunition of sufficient caliber that they could penetrate 20 ga. sheet metal.
And the other one is how they have blazing gun battles with no hearing protection, yet no one’s hearing is affected, even if a gun goes off right next to their ear.
There’s a fan theory that extreme hearing damage is why the walkers are able to keep sneaking up on people.
Bullets bouncing off sheetmetal and glass on every freakin car in the movie, the good guy running through a hail of full auto fire and taking out 8 heavily armed guys with a pistol, and my most hated the sound of a hammer being cocked when the gun in the shot is striker fired.
Oh good Lord, what was the name of that movie?
Screw it, I don’t remember- but the scene was of rifle shots impacting the windshield of a downed helicopter as the heroes struggled to extricate a wounded comrade. Did the plexiglass shatter? Nope. The director called for the FX guy to shoot sparking/flashing things at it like it was transparent steel or something. 🤠
The series “Lost”. There has got to be at least 10,000 live but ejected rounds littering that island.
oh my god i came here just to post that. Its super distracting
In the same vein, “RED” with Bruce Willis / Helen Mirren etc. had an absurd scene where she opens up on a parked car with an M2HB, to no visible effect. I just laughed.
My personal favorites are the old black and white mexican films where the hero never under any circumstances has to reload his revolver. Best believe he gives the bad guys the business on his caballo blanco.
Demi Moore duel welding desert eagles in Charlie’s angels. Yes there are bs with suppressers but this has always been the that made me yell at the screen “she just broke both her wrist’s!”.
“Question of the Day: What’s The Biggest Firearm Fail You’ve Seen on TV or Film?”
Oh there are so many to choose from…Consistency between scenes being the biggest faux pas…
Come on liberals write 22k more illegal gun laws that criminals ignore morons!
Those laws are really saving the CHILDREN!!!!!!!!!
“The Armed Citizen” has been publishing these news stories for many years
The veteran website “This ain’t hell”
also does a daily “morning feel good stories” reprinting newspaper articles about citizens defending themselves
The best part is the comments section
The play a scrabble game with the criminals’ names
Extra points for dead right there or dead over there
It is very entertaining
Check it out
Almost every film, or series with guns.
Books too. I’m reading a David Baldacci series and he is clearly an idiot.
He claims a bullets kinetic energy increases the farther it travels.
Face palm.
Gyrojet?
Books… anything written by Lee Childs (Jack Reacher series). The guy’s a Brit pretending to know something about guns and shooting. Really, ‘One Shot’ has the sniper concerned with Coriolis effect for a hundred yard shot.
“Ezekiel’s captor pulled the slide back on a GLOCK to load another round — after having fired the gun”
I’m not up on the current season, but I believe they’re actually using Eugene’s home brewed bullets at this point. If they’re lower pressure rounds maybe they can’t cycle the action, making this a win.
I admit it’s not likely though. The show clearly arranges the gun use to fit the desired framing rather than accuracy (Rick’s awkward Python aiming, the burned face dude with his middle finger on the trigger, etc.)
Interesting point but I would be surprised by a show that gets so much wrong about firearms suddenly drilling down into such a particular detail – under loaded rounds that require manual operation of a gun
Funny thing is, Ive harbored a theory for a while that Eugene was going to make double and triple charged rounds for Negans men and at a decisive confrontation with Rick, the Saviors’ guns would get explodey and take a lot of them out of the fight
When Jack Ruby shot Oswald, he used his middle finger to pull the trigger. In the movie Sniper, Berenger’s character got his trigger finger cut off so he used his middle finger to shoot his 1911.
Interesting, I didn’t know that about Ruby. Had to look up the pics to verify.
My point with the middle finger was that they want the frame to be a particular way with the gun front and center. This is the pic I was thinking of: http://static3.businessinsider.com/image/56f898dddd089546588b46f4-960/dwight-the-walking-dead.png
I’m doing my best to add to the #’s. 3 guns since Trump and another before year end. None lost in a tragic aquatic adventure😆😎😜
Yet. You forgot to say yet.
It doesn’t matter what TV show, but any and every time someone points a striker fired handgun, they put a cocking sound in there for the stupid people to think the person holding the gun is cocking it.
Criminal Minds was constantly guilty of that, cocking of Glocks that don’t have hammers, and even the one guy with a 1911 (Joe Montegna, who is a real gun guy and knows better) going into an active scene with his hammer down so that he has to cock it.
Disney’s animated Tarzan. English chap’s firearm keeps morphing between the CIRRAK of a rifle (leaving tiny, bullet sized holes) and the BOOM of a shotgun (leaving big ole holes). 2nd place is Bad Ass 2 (maybe it was 3) – Danny Glover’s Glock shoots 36 rounds before reload, another 24 rounds after a mag change.
What about always jacking the shotgun for effect? Why would you eject a round?
Even worse, the sound of brass hitting a concrete floor when a revolver is shot.
Ant man, the scene where a bunch of ants stop the hammer from falling and gun from firing… on a Glock.
True lies where the mac10 bounces down the stairs killing every bad guy.
Any action movie where they rack the shotgun multiple times while talking to add emphasis.
Exploding cars where if you shoot in the general direction of a car it goes boom!
Never having to reload every, whether it is a M16 or a SAA.
Finally, the absolutely silent suppressor where you can shoot a bad guy from 2 feet away with a silenced pistol and his buddy right behind him has no clue.
“Ant man, the scene where a bunch of ants stop the hammer from falling and gun from firing… on a Glock.”
And they went to the trouble of adding a CGI hammer to the Glock. Bad CGI at that.
Right. Couldn’t the armorer have suggested a Beretta instead?
And then there’s all those times someone draws a Glock and you hear the sound of the gunman thumbing back the hammer.
“Despite the fact that all of that made his possession of firearms a legal impossibility,…”
“…all of that…” seems to somehow equate with conviction? Doing a word search on form 4473, I cannot find the word “arrested”, or “on trial”. I did find “convicted”. What I am left with is “…all of that….” comes down to a restraining order.
Did I miss something?
Yes. Question 11(b): Are you under indictment or information in any court of a felony etc, etc.
James Coburn wielding a Browning Hi-Power in Duck, You Sucker. Set in the 1910’s and he’s using a M1935. SMH.
Soooooo many BS scenes. Every gun(except a few shotguns) has no recoil. Scarlett Johannson shooting 2glocks and no movement. Chimpanzees shooting 200 rounds out of an AR without reloading. One handed(pawed?!?) too. Oddly enough realistic when Stevie Seagal shot 2 handed. The list is endless…
I WILL ASSUME THE JUDGE IS PROBABLY A LIBERAL DEMOCRAT WHO RELEASED THIS SCUMBAG ON BAIL. THE SAME LIBERAL TYPE WHO SCREAMS ABOUT GUN CONTROL BUT LETS AN ATTEMPTED MURDERER OUT ON BAIL BECAUS IT MAY INFRINGE ON HIS RIGHTS TO KEEP HIM INCARCERATED. EVERYONE SHOULD BE ISSUED A GUN WHEN THEY TURN 21
Started watching a depression era drama called Desperation. They went to great pains to have the characters dressed correctly, period sets and vehicles and then the bad guy kills a guy with a 1911 with Novak style sights. Ruined the show for me. They had plenty of other revolvers and shotguns that were from the right timeframe and then overlook this, irritating.
“The Walking Dead” is damn near the stupidest show on TV. And that’s saying something, with brain-dead dreck like “Keeping Up With The Kardashians” and everything that CNN broadcasts in the competition.
My biggest pet peeve with any movie or TV show is when someone points a gun at another person, it ALWAYS has to make a dozen clicky-clacky noises, like there’s a tiny steampunk machine inside it. Guns don’t make that “pulling the hammer back” sound just because you pointed it at a person. And most guns don’t make that sound at all, anyway.
I haven’t seen the movie (and definitely won’t watch it), but the commercial for “The Dark Tower” shows some really idiotic gun stuff, like the dude reloading his revolver by throwing a loaded cylinder in the air and catching it in the gun. I’m sure I could think of something stupider than that, but it would take me a while.
Multiple times I’ve seen movies or TV shows (mostly TV shows), where somebody points a striker-fired pistol at somebody in a dramatic fashion and then you hear the cocking of a hammer for effect.
Presumably this added in editing where the armorer isn’t present, because otherwise I’m sure he’d tell them, “no, no, no, no. . . . “
In Anaconda – climactic finale – closeup shot – point blank …
… multiple semi-auto shots into a giant snake with a bolt-action rifle.
I always laughed at a scene in some Chuck Norris movie, where he blows himself a doorway through the wall of a hotel-hallway with a 40mm grenade….from like 30 feet away. There was also his point-blank execution of a terrorist, with a LAW rocket – hip-fired, no less.
Or the scenes where a LAW is used and the bad guy stands right behind his partner to watch the effect of the round…
Wanted. Curving the trajectory of a projectile by shooting while ‘throwing’ the pistol sideways.
Lol the glock with the hammer in Antman.
https://youtu.be/VqELGdAt4dc
What an effing monster. They’ll still use this demonic animal to ban even more in Commiefornia…
Ya they will…. obviously us law abiding citizens who don’t beat our wives, aren’t addicted to drugs, aren’t mentally adjudicated crazy, and haven’t been convicted of any felonies need MORE laws to keep us safe from ourselves…. for the children of course. Oh great and benevolent God State of California, please have mercy on us and save us!
Lots of things are bullet proof in TWD. You have to love the corrugated sheet metal armor on the cars this season. Even a .22 LR can penetrate thin steel.
If they meth allegations are true, he deserved the Medal of Freedom (albeit, they don’t bestow such awards on posthumous otherwise killers and felons).
I wondered about his meth accusations about his neighbors earlier this morning… if it’s true, was he just frustrated that the local law couldn’t/wouldn’t do anything about it and he finally snapped?
But now his wife is found under the floorboards… never mind, he was a dangerous loon in need of involuntary committal after all.
“…never mind, he was a dangerous loon in need of involuntary committal after all.”
Your spell-checker is on the fritz… It says “involuntary committal”, but the correct spelling is “euthanasia”.
The primary goal of the three L’s Libertarians Liberals and the Left is for everyone to be able to legally shoot up crystal meth in public to improve their sexual experience.
Armed self-defense has never been a primary goal of Libertarians Liberals or the Left.
It took me years to cotton to the fraud that the Libertarians are on guns and RKBA.
Now, I believe that the only issues “Libertarians” (as in the LP) care about are a) drugs, b) tax evasion, and c) buttsecks. That’s it. RKBA and guns – they might give lip service to the issue, but they don’t really care about it.
Last night.
Karl Urban fired about 600 rounds from 2 – 30 round magazines in the new Thor movie.
Still a fun movie……
Yeah restraining orders work very well if you add about 9 in of damp paper to the back of that restraining order and then get about a thousand phone books to go with it and damping them and then put those all in the front of your house up against the walls that’s the only way it’ll help stop a bullet or a crazy person or anyone at that point. All a restraining order is a feel good piece of paper and if the person violates it then the police can go arrest him after he comes over and butchers you in the middle of the night what a freaking joke.
My biggest issue with Walking Dead was the constant lack of sights on rifles. The last episode of last season Darryl came in with a full auto AR mowing people down, with nothing but a picatinny rail on top. And his crossbow hasn’t had any sort of sight on it for the duration of the show. At least with the crossbow one could argue that with the closer range and Darryl’s familiarity with it, he just became good enough not to need one, but I see rifles in the show all the time without so much as irons.
Chuck Norris firing two rounds without reloading out of an M203 to take out two thugs hiding behind a wall on either side of a door in Invasion USA.
Yes on the .50 though, it’ll go through the vehicle (penetrate / pass through glass sheet metal seat backs), the target, and (if without hitting too much of the former) the person behind the target, the stop sign, the person behind the stop sign . . .
probably that time when shore leave from venture bros racks the slide of a pistol by moving it forward on the frame.
i am reminded of “miller’s crossing” and the endless thompson drum during the bedroom scene… it wouldn’t surprise me if a thousand rounds were heard.
The entirety of “Shoot ‘Em Up,” right down to the heat-fired 9mm rounds.
Plastic bottle in front of the muzzle that completely silences the gun.
A lot of movies and TV shows have done that.
I cant remember the movie but a scene at a range where the actor is firing a smith and wesson revolver and after every shot you hear a casing dropping to the floor.
Sometimes I think the director must be doing this intentionally as some sort of inside joke on the audience, because clearly they know how a camera operates, which is 1000x more complex than most firearms, so they cant be completely retarded.
TWD has actually had a bigger gun fail then the one is this article. Rick tells his fellow deputy to make sure his safety is off even though the guy is armed with a Glock.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYHYW-vcIMw
That Rick can disregard department policy (and good sense) and carry that hog leg instead of a Glock like everybody else.
Last night on Major Crimes the FBI arrested a guy for having a “flash hider” on an AR. It was a silencer.
ABC and a few other outlets are reporting this guy made his own guns to get around the laws, but I can’t find specifics. Curious if anyone has found more info anywhere.
Saw that on Fox too. No real explanation on it though and it could just be the police practicing CYA for the state and fed governments dropping the ball again. Although, his brother was quoted as saying his brother built the rifles and they were not registered nor did they have serial numbers so I’m guessing it was an 80% lower or his brother is another liberal anti gun loon and using this situation to make a name for himself and try to get in on sucking a little of Daddy Bloomberg’s giant cash c*ck along with the rest of the anti gun loon platoon.
On another note it wasn’t like they didn’t know he had guns. Neighbors had reported him for firing off rounds pretty frequently. Pretty sure his wife may have told them he was armed when she called them out for domestic violence and to top it off his neighbor probably said he had guns when he had him arrested for assault back in January. What do the police need? A ginormous laser light show with strippers and neon lights proclaiming that the nut job out behind his house rattling off 400 rounds a day after stabbing his neighbor and beating his wife has guns in his house and should probably be remanded without bail or at least committed so somebody can determine just how far the cheese has slipped off his cracker? What will it take for people to start demanding a little better job of intervention in these situations before they go nuclear?
These crimes are not gun issues! They are mental health and justice failures. Criminals and mental defectives with guns are not the same as gun owners with guns. Conflating the two just cause we share a single characteristic is like calling your house cat a lion. Just because they both have claws doesn’t mean they will both kill you and eat your face… the house cat has the decency to wait until you’ve died of natural causes and the Meow Mix is gone to begin such an endeavor. Gun Owners generally wait until you pose a legitimate threat to life, limb, and property before ventilating your sorry carcass while the nut job just starts ventilating folks because the movies, Martians, or voices in their head told them to or hell maybe it was just a Monday and Garfield told them to do it.
First episode Walking Dead….deputy disabling safety on his glock…with sound
Drives me crazy every time I see someone get shot in the movies and they have to ‘remove the slug’, which by the way, is perfectly intact. [grinds teeth]
Most recent reporting: http://www.redding.com/story/news/2017/11/15/sheriff-shooter-killed-wife-day-before-mass-shooting-rancho-tehama/865061001/
Does anybody have that Gerber box-cutter folder, and how do you like it?
I have it. I used to carry it as an EDC. It’s nice never having to sharpen your blade and the thing is incredibly small and light but it’s not a real knife. I’ve not carried mine in years.
All these Hollywood actors that make terrible films using guns and then are anti 2nd ammendment. Terrible actors.
Maybe a warning inscribed on the firearm saying that “mentally unstable people that could be a danger to themselves and others as well as any felon is prohibited from owning this firearm” would keep this from happenning.
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claim, anyone?
What irks me is the notion that every rifle on these show are fully automatic – esp. when the shows are set in Anti-gun states like CA. Never realized everyone has NFA-grade were so common!
Here’s a pretty funny fail on a mag reload from The Last Ship:
https://s26.postimg.org/cwy1rzgm1/whoops.png
Every bad guy, good guy, and slightly miffed groundhog carting around a full auto like they are just givin em away down at the local gas n go with every fill up.
Last week’s episode of ‘Damnation’ where a Colt 1911 had a Novak sight not developed until many years AFTER the time period of the show…?
Tough guy, proving his machismo by ambushing a bunch of kids, like that inhuman numbnuts in Sandy Hook.
Please revive him so I can spit in the degenerate’s face. Please.
Not sure if these are necessarily firearms fails but:
-people being launched into the air after being shot
-instataneous death from 1 round to the torso
-lack of any hearing damage despite firing in an enclosed space with no protection
-people shooting .001 MOA with a handgun at long distances
P250 is a great pistol
Any TV show or movies scene with any type of armor against any type of weapon. Somebody shot with soft armor is almost always knocked out and looks dead for a while. Rifles that do not penetrate soft armor. If the bad guys have armor it won’t even stop a fencing foil slash.
I hate TWD with intensity of a thousand white hot suns too. It is dumber than the Wonder Twins.
U G L Y, this ain’t got no alibi, it’s ugly!
What’s the ballistic protection category of a sheet of paper, again? I forgot.
This conversation stops and starts with any Quentin Tarantino movie.
In almost everyone of his movies, when someone gets shot it causes people to fly backwards and slam into walls. The shooting scenes are so unrealistic. Like when they get shot they actually get picked up, off the ground and tossed across the room.
Its dumb. I get that its the movies. But even a high powered rifle isnt going to cause someone to get picked up and tossed by being shot.
Or Vincent fires a gun inside a car and then continues conversing with Jules like they both could still hear.
Heard “Piston” thought – I like your story, continue. . .
Saw pic : /
Were they shooting for trying to look like a Hi-Point carbine in FDE???
Is that the way to make $$$ on a concept? Put out the performance people are looking for in a package that they’re bound to modify (a lot)?
I think the only thing Remington is guilty of is being ridiculous — “Consider your man card reissued”… seriously?
Can I stick one of these barrels in my AR10 and have it run as flawlessly as my 6.5 Creedmoor?
It’s as if the Progressives think if they could ban guns then there’s _no_way_ they could spill across the border from say Mexico.
Just as alcohol prohibition failed..and drug prohibition has failed…and any attempt to limit illegal aliens has failed…
so too would a gun and/or ammo ban fail…
especially when it comes to criminals and guns
I think no wait I know I have to one up his gun count and dwarf his ammunition “stockpile” it’s the American way.
Well, besting the ammo count of 136 rounds shouldn’t be too hard. Unless they meant 136 unique cartridges types, not rounds.
If they counted different types it still ain’t too hard with all the different designs out there. Hollow points, soft tip, AP, API, tracer, FMJ, wad cutter, semi wad cutter, and all the rest plus the different calibers.
I could do that in 18 calibers. Using just the 8 I listed that’s not counting +P, +P+, lite, sub sonic, and high velocity loadings either.
Easy, he found them
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cun-LZvOTdw
In one show, there’s a major firefight with AR-15s and two or more guns have nothing on their Picatinny rails. In a different show, the guy is firing an AR-15 with a flip-up BUIS rear site, except the site is flipped exactly half-way up.
For some reason, the one thing that really irks me is when a character says “Hand me the rifle,” and we see a 12 gage shotgun. Of course, I learned only recently, that rifled shotgun barrels do exist. But I’m guessing owners still call them shotguns?
Gun control advocates don’t really care if their laws and policies don’t work. Once they’re in place, they can look to them as tangible symbols of their ability to have their values codified as law. If they don’t actually work, gun controllers just use their failure as justification for passing more laws. It’s the symbolism that counts.
The Brits haven’t learned the truth about guns: they multiply like rabbits. Mine do anyway.
“Some of which were loaded.” The hysteria! Funny thing is they can be loaded and unloaded. It happens. He had petrol in his lorry too. And ice cubes in his freezer. Even water in his pipes. Eccentric, crazy old man!
Heat
Ronin, with bonus of great car chases
Saving Private Ryan for the most part.
Lee Ermey and Dale Dye try to get it right when they advise folks
The walking dead is a serial offender. In the first episode Rick tells his deputies to take the safeties off their guns. The deputies have Glocks.
Come out with a 9″ bbl pistol and you have my attention. The 16″ with a .45 doesn’t rock my jollies. 10mm though…
OMG! 2 guns and 850 rounds! It’s an arsenal! Or just a light trip to the range.
Owning Guns While English — it’s the new Driving While Black.
“…and throw everything from pencils to staplers at a potential shooter.”
I suggest something far more effective than basic ‘office supplies’ to dissuade an assailant, elemental Pb, aka – Lead.
Velocities in excess of 1200 fpm should be sufficient.
Looking over the cited San Jose news URL, I noticed the murderer was out on bail to the tune of $300,000.
Bail bondsmen I know (from the pawn biz) want an assurance they will be able to collect their usual ten percent fee.
IOW, $30,000. CASH.
What did that drug addict possibly have that was worth thirty grand that the bondsman could convert to cash?
Realistically?
The good news in this is the bondsman at least gets his 300 grand back…
I wonder if that would work with these new-fangled cars with automatic braking. If not, they will become man-duh-tory in NY by midnight tonight per “message of necessity” from Andy Boy Cuomo.
I don’t know about in film, but I remember clearly the worst I’ve seen in print:
“The rifle’s carbine whirred.”
Wth does that mean? LOL
Hell if I know. Maybe he thought “carbine” was related to “turbine” and meant a little motor that operates the weapon like on high end electric airsoft guns.
I remember seeing “Hickey and Boggs” in 1972, bad guys in a helicopter with an M60 with a belt of blanks and a blank firing adapter on the muzzle.
Since these mass shooters tend to be Democrats why not just declare the Democrat Party a terrorist organization and ban Democrats from owning firearms?
Front of the fwd handguard seems ~ fragile?
Range report imminent?
That ain’t nothing. I watched a guy take his plastic gun and put plastic bullets in it, then he shot a rubber knife and split the bullet in half, shot the little apples right off of Barbie and Kens head. you don’t believe me GI Joe and Buzz Lightyear, they both saw it too
We won’t track/trace/monitor illegal aliens (ALL of whom are criminals by being present in the US) so why are we “tracing’ guns. Laws don’t matter to the progs
I am not a teenager, I don’t play (console / computer) video games [have been known to drop a few quarters in “Time Crisis” series arcade games (but I have a sponsor and am going to meetings to help me quit) DON’T JUDGE ME : ) ].
Anyway YES, I WOULD LOVE TO GO HUNT PIGS. Pick me, I need a pick me up. I even have my own JEEP. WHAT ARE YOU SELLING, AND WHERE DO YOU SIGN UP?
“Question of the Day: Ted Nugent for NRA Veep?”
No thanks…
If he ends up in LaPierres job, I think thats the only thing that would get me to re-join.
Nice of NBC to steal the VICE new’s format. I find it interesting that they are focusing on the financial burden of gun violence instead of something big like the opiod crises which cost an estimated $78-98 billion last year, or Drunk driving which cost the public $115 billion.
I have been shooting around 50 years, have over 100 toys in my collection, perhaps half collectibles, around 50% revolver, 30% pistols, 20% rifles. I get out to shoot roughly twice per week. I’ll stick to handguns.
I’ve cycled through many, many higher end brands, but I buy cheaper ones too, as I have found some great values. I always get them out to the range & put them to the test before deciding if a gun is a keeper or not. There is definitely a correlation between price & quality, but exceptions also, in my opinion. For example, I’ve pretty much never let go a Colt, Ruger, or Smith revolver, or a Beretta, Sig, or CZ pistol after adding one. Every one I have had has worked great, never failed.
That being said, on the cheaper stuff, I’ve come to love some Turkish guns, Sars in particular, which can be bought amazingly cheap, and all of mine have been 100% reliable and tack drivers. I particularly like the B6 Hawk. What a value!
I’ve found Bersas to be inexpensive but generally good values, as well as Tanfoglios, Girsans, etc.
On to Taurus, I have bought a number of them, because I just could not resist the price, but only a fe remain in the collection. I had 3 m605 357s that all had issues, one I sent to Miami for repair (firing pin broke first 50 rds), then sold, the other two worked, but were not accurate or reliable, so I sold them. One sprayed a lot of lead, had forcing cone alignment issues. I had a couple m85s, which worked OK, but were way overweight for snubs & loose compared to others, and not all that much cheaper than a used LCR or Smith Airweight, so I let them go. I had a PT111 break in the first 100 rds. Gone. PT709 worked, but some sharp edges, that cut into my hand with use. Sold. PT92 not bad as M9 clones go, but traded it, prefer real Berettas. I have never tried the 809, but am a little “gunshy” on their 9s. I also had a 7 round 817 snub & m82 38s. OK, but loose, machining marks. I Also had m65, m689, & m66 357s. 2 of the larger frame 357 were fairly accurate, the other was way off & had fixed sites, so no way to compensate. All had fairly loose lock ups & forcing cone gaps, but worked.
Interestingly, my best experience with Taurus has been with their 22s. I picked up a little tip-up barrel PT22 very cheap & it works great, not a single failure. Nice little Bobcat clone. I also have their Model 94 & 941 revolvers, in 22LR & 22 WMR, 9 rds & 8 rds respectively. Great little kit/trail guns for half the money of the Smith or Ruger 22 DA revolvers.
Perhaps Taurus handguns can handle lower pressure rounds better than the high pressure stuff. I’ve concluded their 22s are a decent bet. I think I’m done with their centerfire guns.
BTW, I’ve never had to send a Colt, Ruger, Smith, Beretta, Sig, CZ, or SAR in for repair, and I have many of them. At least half of my Tauruses had issues. Very hit and miss IMO.
Link to ammoland article:
https://www.ammoland.com/2017/11/gun-collecting-introduction-types-collecting-2/
Does anybody know if the Springfield in the picture above made its way back to the hands of its owner after WWII?
At least it didn’t receive a mass burial at sea.
Hey look at that, Ms Liberal Arts college know-it-all has the answers. Why didn’t I think of that?
End the war on drugs. Criminals and cops will have lost a major reason to shoot people.
No. We don’t need some retard. We need someone who can win. Like Trump Jr.
Nugent isn’t doing anyone any favors, least of all gun owners. His checkered past works against him, as does his over-the-top rhetoric. The NRA needs to find a niche for celebrities, eliminate mandarins like Wayne LaPierre, and get some fired-up new blood in leadership. They have spent 40 years compromising with the forces of evil, it’s time for some pushback.
And that’s not counting the medical bills saved, property loss prevented, etc.
Yep- I was 5 or 6. Dad took me n my little brother to our family farm n wanted to try out his new rifle- a Chinese MAK-90. He fires off a few magazines and then it’s mine and my brother’s turn. He sat down with each of us in turn in his lap, held the rifle for us and let us pull the trigger. I’ve been hooked ever since.
Nothing wrong with any of them, Im kinda partial to the Mauser . Bolt actions have they’re place I’m a big fan,real big fan of them. If I had to run out the door and face “the world” I want something semi-auto n 308 caliber….Sorry ‘old girl’ but sometimes yah gotta shot a little faster
Agree this show (walking dead) getting into crap in this season, always summer, endless ammo and food/water/gas, extrimely powerful walkers who could stop tiger, man’s kissing each other for 20 min in small episode, talks about wining and not much of about real charachter of this show – Nigan! 50cal will stop this jeep in one shot into engine!