Gun glitches in movies

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Pulp

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How 'bout John Wayne totin' a Colt SAA and a Winchester '92 rifle in a movie set in 1848? Or in a movie set right after the Civil War.

The chase scene in "Bullit" where the bad guy has a '97 Winchester shotgun. Nothin' wrong with that, just struck me as odd. Since I'm a huge fan of the '97, I actually thought it was cool.

In "Quigley Down Under" Selleck's 45-120 evidently shoots bullets at the speed of light. Three seconds between bullet impact and the sound of the shot.

In "Lonesome Dove" when Gus is shooting at the Comancheros. You see smoke from his rifle and hear the shot at the same time. Seconds later you see the bullet kick up dust. I reckon back then the speed of sound and the speed of light were the same.
 

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In Full Metal Jacket there's a guy shooting his M16, and when you see close up of the guy, there's no mag in the rifle. I took a screen capture of it.

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I've seen lots of show and movies where a dude is pointing a 1911 at someone with the hammer forward and often end up firing without pulling the hammer back or pulling the slide. I guess black firing 1911's are double action.........?
 

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It was fired from a pistol, just not a semi-auto. ;)

That does remind me of one annoyance. I think my wheelgun is defective; when I swing out the cylinder and spin it, it doesn't click like it does in the movies...

LOL, forgot about that one . Sounds like a frikken roulette wheel.
 

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Hollywood gets guns so wrong so many times I'd be screwed if I didn't ignore it. But I'm hung up on where Daryl gets his endless supply of arrows.
 

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