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Not so much a mistake, but always irritates me, is that Clint Eastwood, in every movie where he shoots a handgun, blinks with the shot, whether cowboy or detective.

Reading a highly touted fiction e-book recently, the first of a multiple volume series about people dealing with societal collapse here in the USA, the author had the shooter using a "police load" in his 9mm handgun, a FMJ bullet at 1625 fps. I forgave him that ignorance as the plot was pretty good so far.

I even forgave him having the hero reload his AR15 with "another box of pain pills". Just poetic license I thought, though I grimaced a bit reading it.

But when somebody hit an oxygen cylinder with a bullet, causing a "tremendous explosion" with no actual explosive gasses around, or flame sources, I'd had enough.

Too bad, my son and I were planning to read the series and compare thoughts on the survival and firearm aspects. I wasn't about to pay $10 for the 2nd book, when I have read $2.99 ebooks with similar plots where the author actually knew his stuff, or had actually done some research.