[geeks] Re: [rescue] Boats?

[Michael A. Turner]

	I was told that the reason for doing this was so that the shell
casings piled up at your feet for easy collecting rather than having them
thrown 6+ feet to the left or right. Unfortunatly this does not bear out in
experimentation as I found that the ejection slammed them into the ground
hard enough to make them bounce away anyways. Also everyone in the movies
that use this style seem the least likely to be worrying about collecting
evidence at the crime scene.

Michael A. Turner
Systems Engineer
WHRO
michael.turner at whro.org
http://www.whro.org


-----Original Message-----
From: Gregory Leblanc [mailto:gleblanc at linuxweasel.com]
Sent: Friday, January 25, 2002 4:54 PM
To: Geeks
Subject: Re: [geeks] Re: [rescue] Boats?


On Fri, 2002-01-25 at 13:35, Eric Dittman wrote:
> > > Some of the things they take creative license on in movies
> > > drives me nuts, like having a guy shoot a handgun holding
> > > it straight out with the handgun parallel to the ground
> > > rather than vertical.
> > 
> > Uhm, you can do that.  Its not practical, but you can do it.
> 
> Of course you can shoot that way, but your accuracy is going
> to suffer, and in the movies it's always the "Pro" that shoots
> that way, when in real life a professional will shoot in a
> stance that offers more accuracy.

The real life professional killer won't ever get his arm anywhere NEAR
shoulder height (assuming the handgun is holstered at their hip), so
what does it matter what the losers in the movies do?  :-)
	Greg

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