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by RogueUSMC
Thu Dec 22, 2016 8:58 am
Forum: General Gun, Shooting & Equipment Discussion
Topic: Gun 'mistakes' in Books, TV, and Movies - feel free to post your own
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Re: Gun 'mistakes' in Books, TV, and Movies - feel free to post your own

The Annoyed Man wrote:I'm a huge fan of Stephen Hunter's novels, because he gets it right. Here's a list of Hunter's works, which I would recommend to anybody looking for a good read:
Novels
  • Bob Lee Swagger Series
    • Point of Impact (1993) - I've read it
      Black Light (1996) - I've read it
      Time to Hunt (1998) - I've read it
      The 47th Samurai (2007) - I've read it
      Night of Thunder (2008)
      I, Sniper (2009) - I've read it
      Dead Zero (2010) - I've read it
      The Third Bullet (2013)
      Sniper's Honor (May 2014) - I've read it
  • Earl Swagger Series
    • Hot Springs (2000) - I've read it
      Pale Horse Coming (2001) - I've read it
      Havana (2003) - I've read it
  • Ray Cruz
    • Dead Zero (2010) - I've read it
      Soft Target (2011) - I've read it
  • Other novels
    • The Master Sniper (1980) - I've read it
      The Second Saladin (1982) - I've read it
      Target (film novelization) (1985)
      The Spanish Gambit (reissued as Tapestry of Spies) (1985) - I've read it
      The Day Before Midnight (1989)
      Dirty White Boys (1994) (prequel to events in Black Light, Bob Lee Swagger series) - I've read it
      I, Ripper (2015)
  • Short stories
    • "Casey at the Bat" (2010) (in Agents of Treachery, edited by Otto Penzler)
  • Non-fiction
    • Violent Screen: A Critic's 13 Years on the Front Lines of Movie Mayhem (1996)
      Now Playing at the Valencia: Pulitzer Prize-Winning Essays on Movies (2005)
      American Gunfight: The Plot to Kill Harry Truman and the Shoot-out that Stopped It (2005) with John Bainbridge, Jr., ISBN 0743281950 - I've read it
If I remember right, Night of Thunder was the one about NASCAR...oh, and shooting...

I particularly liked Dirty White Boys. The bad guys shoot up a Denny's in Wichita Falls and their route away was very accurate...lol. I used to drive the church buss down those streets years ago and I saw every corner and house in my mind...
by RogueUSMC
Tue Aug 16, 2016 10:39 pm
Forum: General Gun, Shooting & Equipment Discussion
Topic: Gun 'mistakes' in Books, TV, and Movies - feel free to post your own
Replies: 117
Views: 29769

Re: Gun 'mistakes' in Books, TV, and Movies - feel free to post your own

One tonight. Watching Gotham and the guy uses ".45 caliber 200gr wadcutters"...which (to the expert police investigatirs) is 'high end ammo'...
by RogueUSMC
Mon Aug 15, 2016 8:33 pm
Forum: General Gun, Shooting & Equipment Discussion
Topic: Gun 'mistakes' in Books, TV, and Movies - feel free to post your own
Replies: 117
Views: 29769

Re: Gun 'mistakes' in Books, TV, and Movies - feel free to post your own

LucasMcCain wrote:And how does every person in movies know how to hotwire like any car? Okay, I better stop now.
And they do it by feeling around and never have to see anything...dang they are good!
by RogueUSMC
Fri Aug 12, 2016 6:34 am
Forum: General Gun, Shooting & Equipment Discussion
Topic: Gun 'mistakes' in Books, TV, and Movies - feel free to post your own
Replies: 117
Views: 29769

Re: Gun 'mistakes' in Books, TV, and Movies - feel free to post your own

mupepe wrote:In the show Better Call Saul there is a character using a Taurus Judge in 2002... 8 years before it was produced. I caught that while watching and my wife called me a nerd.
Not saying it was the same gun but...lol

I think it was Colt that made what was called a 'Thunder 5". They say it was made for the special forces in the Gulf War. It was a revolver that fired .45 Colt, .410 and an alternate cylinder chambered in .45-270 :shock: :shock:

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