So I’m catching up on “Longmire”....
Ferg is driving around w/ girlfriend d, looking for her mom.
“Does your mom keep that Savage 99 loaded?”
“Well, not like, loaded loaded,,,but there’s always one in the chamber...”

Um, what? I bet it also has the shoulder thing that goes up.

I know, I know....only one of “us” would catch that, much less go to the trouble of posting about it.

That's funny, I remember that line and I took it as Meg knowing nothing about guns and it being kind of a joke that she would think one in the chamber was not really loaded.

I could be way off though!

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Originally posted by Palm:
That's funny, I remember that line and I took it as Meg knowing nothing about guns and it being kind of a joke that she would think one in the chamber was not really loaded.

I could be way off though!

I'd say you're way off.

Tried "Longmire" but there were too many things about the show I didn't care for - not the least of which is its lack of effort at anything resembling accuracy as regards firearms. Case in point was when the sheriff was in the bar of his Indian friend talking about a shooting. The caliber of the murder weapon was 45-70 and, according to both the sheriff and his supposedly-knowledgeable-about-weapons friend, that could only come from one type of gun, a Sharps. Stupid things like that caused me to give up on the show before I could finish the first season.

Yes, LOTS of gun stuff is wrong. The one caliber, one gun thing has been used more than once, in fact.
Lots of hammers get cocked and re-cocked. Even Walt’s lever gun has had the action worked several times across a few scenes...you know, to make a point.
And do not start me on Walt and his 1911.....

But I still enjoy the show.

*snort* If you guys shun everything outta Hollyweird that contains technical inaccuracies, they'll be precious little left to watch

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Originally posted by ensigmatic:
*snort* If you guys shun everything outta Hollyweird that contains technical inaccuracies, they'll be precious little left to watch

I agree wholeheartedly.

I tried the show when it first aired, and the first episode turned me off to it completely. As I recall, I stopped watching right after the 45-70 Sharps dialogue.

Yeah on Shooter the series Bob Lee’s character told some poachers something like a 223 is only suitable for taking down squirrels.

When I see these things, I wonder isn't there someone on the set that knows SOMETHING about guns. If the actor doesn't have sense enough to know, that you can't hold someone at gunpoint with an uncocked 1911, how about one of those thousands of people, who now get credit at the end of the picture, a gaffer, an electrician, a best boy, the assistant to Mr. So and So, anybody ??

And the Thompson with the bolt forward.

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Originally posted by drabfour:
Yeah on Shooter the series Bob Lee’s character told some poachers something like a 223 is only suitable for taking down squirrels.

Well, depends on the squirrel...

Just watched Canadian Bacon again and the scene where "Honey" shoots Roy Boy with a Mini-14 that apparently is a bolt-action

Re: Walt and his 1911

I haven't been paying particularly close attention to his gun handling, what is it that he's doing "wrong"?

I have a love/hate relationship with Longmire as a show. I have a little difficulty believing Walt as a long-term sheriff, given his obsession with Jacob Nighthorse and his tendency to jump to conclusions.

More germane to the intent of this thread, if you want to see some Stupid Gun Tricks, check out Tin Star on Amazon Prime.

Phpaul...Walt and his 1911...

Sometimes it is bolstered cocked and locked. Sometimes with the hammer down. Some scenes he is holding it and the hammer is down. He then has to cock it when things get serious. I want to say I have even seen him thumb the hammer down when it turns into a no shoot situation.
One of the episodes this season he shoots somebody 2-3 times. A couple episodes later he doesn’t know if he used it again during a drunken blackout. He talks about it like he doesn’t know if he reloaded the mag after this shooting...really? You shoot somebody, the feds take the gun for ballistics, then give it back. The first thing you do isn’t to top off the magazine?
I’m not sure if I’ve ever seen him use the safety....

Very inconsistent gun handling all around.

hudr - Thanks. I'll make a point of looking for stuff like that.

He routinely clears houses with his finger on the trigger.

A movie gun scene that always bothered me is in the original "Beverly Hills Cop" when Jonathan Banks (the art dealer/smuggler's body guard and "professional assassin") is in a gunfight/shootout with Eddie Murphy, both trying to kill the other in a house. When Banks gets the drop on Murphy, he has to pump a round into the shotgun before he can shoot, the sound of loading the round thus alerting Murphy to just barely get out of the way. A professional would be loaded and, in that situation, finger on the trigger. Less drama but a lot more realism but then Murphy would've been blown away.

My biggest bitch about guns in both TV and movies is very consistent, no matter WHAT the movie or show is! In fact, I'm sitting here watching "Nikita" again right now and just saw it during a typical gunfight...

The gun is shot until slide lock and yet, you the viewer, hears the hammer click another time or two. Us "gun guys" (and gals) know this isn't possible on a semi-auto with the slide locked back, yet EVERY... SINGLE... TIME... you have a gunfight in a TV show or movie, you hear hammer clicks on an empty gun when the slide is locked open!!! STUPID! SO STINKIN' STUPID!!!

Don't recall seeing that.