How much stock do you place in gun play and the equipment you see in action/drama TV shows and in film?
What do you think?
Was perusing firearms forum-land and reading about the 9mm Smith & Wesson back-up that Sonny Crockett carried on "Miami Vice" and how cool it was. It got me to thinking.
Seems that quite a few folks out there in firearms forum-land actually believe the stuff they see. They quote it like it's relevant in the real world. They refer to tactics, firearms, methods, holster choices as if they are meaningful. Many seem to pattern their firearms wants and acquisitions after what they see on the screen. They also appear to assume that their performance with their choices will duplicate what they see.
I know nothing about how video games impacts the gun world, but sense that it has quite an influence.
Youtube sure does. I can't comprehend the instructional need for videos illustrated with endless rapid-fire (oh and Armageddon rock music). Guess it's not exciting enough to simply show a fellow shooting for group. It's as if rapid-fire is the only way a handgun may be correctly utilized out there in video-land outside of some of Hickok45's shooting.
I remember a long ago discussion with a cousin my age where we were trading depictions of movie scenes of gun play that impressed us. Can't recall which of his films it was now, or exactly how the scene when down, but recall that I related how I'd seen John Wayne gun down an adversary and it actually showed blood spots appear. Seemed impressive at the time. We'd have been early elementary school age then so this would have been 1963-1966.
We watched "Dragnet" when I was little right up into the rerun era. Later my dad and I liked to watch Mannix and Hawaii Five-0.
I was in high school when "Dirty Harry" was released. We all knew all the action scenes, the movie lines and catch phrases. I wanted an N-Frame like Dirty Harry's only I wanted it in .41 Magnum and nickel. In my young teen Walter Mitty fantasies I could envision myself wiping out multiple bad guys at a time with that .41 Magnum Smith & Wesson.
I kinda went off of the action stuff as I got into adulthood. If it's well written with suspense and has some depth and intriguing twists it's great. Period pieces when correct attention given to depiction of firearms of the era are always good. But action for for action's sake, especially if its CGI, and gratuitous violence served up in thin plots seems pointless. Might as well be cartoons.
It was 40 years later that I indulged myself in my revolver childhood fantasy with a nickel 6-inch Smith & Wesson Model 57 .41 Magnum. I had that 6-inch Smith & Wesson Model 57 out for exercise the other day. It's a fairly similar representation of Harry Callahan's Model 29 .44 Magnum. It occurred to me that if I had to tote that heavy thing daily in a shoulder holster I think I'd rather take up something like banking rather than police work.
What do you think?
Was perusing firearms forum-land and reading about the 9mm Smith & Wesson back-up that Sonny Crockett carried on "Miami Vice" and how cool it was. It got me to thinking.
Seems that quite a few folks out there in firearms forum-land actually believe the stuff they see. They quote it like it's relevant in the real world. They refer to tactics, firearms, methods, holster choices as if they are meaningful. Many seem to pattern their firearms wants and acquisitions after what they see on the screen. They also appear to assume that their performance with their choices will duplicate what they see.
I know nothing about how video games impacts the gun world, but sense that it has quite an influence.
Youtube sure does. I can't comprehend the instructional need for videos illustrated with endless rapid-fire (oh and Armageddon rock music). Guess it's not exciting enough to simply show a fellow shooting for group. It's as if rapid-fire is the only way a handgun may be correctly utilized out there in video-land outside of some of Hickok45's shooting.
I remember a long ago discussion with a cousin my age where we were trading depictions of movie scenes of gun play that impressed us. Can't recall which of his films it was now, or exactly how the scene when down, but recall that I related how I'd seen John Wayne gun down an adversary and it actually showed blood spots appear. Seemed impressive at the time. We'd have been early elementary school age then so this would have been 1963-1966.
We watched "Dragnet" when I was little right up into the rerun era. Later my dad and I liked to watch Mannix and Hawaii Five-0.
I was in high school when "Dirty Harry" was released. We all knew all the action scenes, the movie lines and catch phrases. I wanted an N-Frame like Dirty Harry's only I wanted it in .41 Magnum and nickel. In my young teen Walter Mitty fantasies I could envision myself wiping out multiple bad guys at a time with that .41 Magnum Smith & Wesson.
I kinda went off of the action stuff as I got into adulthood. If it's well written with suspense and has some depth and intriguing twists it's great. Period pieces when correct attention given to depiction of firearms of the era are always good. But action for for action's sake, especially if its CGI, and gratuitous violence served up in thin plots seems pointless. Might as well be cartoons.
It was 40 years later that I indulged myself in my revolver childhood fantasy with a nickel 6-inch Smith & Wesson Model 57 .41 Magnum. I had that 6-inch Smith & Wesson Model 57 out for exercise the other day. It's a fairly similar representation of Harry Callahan's Model 29 .44 Magnum. It occurred to me that if I had to tote that heavy thing daily in a shoulder holster I think I'd rather take up something like banking rather than police work.