Thank you for the firsthand info. But I wonder if the bullets were full metal jacket vs just lead, which most non-military application ones are.
As for the .50 cal bullet. Powerful yes, but as far as the basic physics of how it acts when it first hits something (assuming a regular full metal jacket), itʻs the same as a .22 short. Bigger bullet, bigger entry hole. What it does as it travels though an object IS different however. But itʻs not like it itʻs shown on TV and movies where papers shred and fly all over the place. If that were true, it should completely shred a paper target, not just just leave a 1/2" hole.
Hereʻs a video a guy shooting a .50 cal into a stack of plates. Nice 1/2" entry hole and they remained in a mostly straight line.
This video is a nice comparison between a .223 vs a .308. Again just a bigger entrance hole.
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I had to go down to the cop shop in New London and give a statement about 15 years back. It was nothing like Law and Order or any other show except for Haven - bunch of guys sitting at desks, wandering around with folders of papers, one or two other non police there for various reasons, and really crappy coffee. Quiet, mainly small conversations going on around and keyboard tapping sounds. …[/QUOTE]
My cop buddies say that Barney Miller was the most realistic cop show.
Not on a DA semi-auto it shouldn’t. If it’s a traditional action (DA/SA) the second shot should also have a cocked hammer.
If it’s a bad guy you’d first immediately cuff the guy when it was safe to do so, even if it appears he was incapacitated.
I like how nonchalant officers act on TV after they’ve been in a shooting. They’re not shaking like a leaf, they don’t lose their sidearm to evidence, they write their own report, it’s like it’s a common, everyday occurrence. I’ve been to the aftermath of police shootings. It’s nothing like TV.
Well, I was surprised to learn that an early 1950’s TV show wasn’t first-run.
Sponsors- My crystal clear (but nonetheless still possibly manufactured) memory is… “Everybody Loves Good Weber’s Bread!”
Thanks for your response, far more comprehensive than I would have expected.
An EMT (or person with basic first aid training) checking a pulse by putting their thumb on someone’s wrist. You have a pulse point in your thumb, and trying to check a pulse that way will register yours instead.
Doing CPR on a non-flat, non-hard surface like a bed results in ineffective CPR.
Ahhh…thank you. Forgot about a double action pistol.
Yeah. I get chuckle when on real-life police shows, the cops immediately jump on the suspect even if he/sheʻs shot and theyʻre yelling “Iʻm shot!” and the cops still continue cuffing him. On TV or movies, the suspect is shot and everyone stops moving until someone walks up to them and pronounces their death. Yeah, the bad guys almost always die immediately.
A patient with that very rare blood group AB+ needs a transufion, there’s always a race to find an AB+ donor in time.
In the first place, AB+ isn’t all that rare, thare’s quite a few around, and secondly AB+ is called the Universal Recipient, they can take blood from any ABO group fairly safely.
This is one more thing that makes Barney Miller the most realistic police show ever broadcast (seriously, several cops have said that). They had two or three episodes in which detectives had to shoot a criminal. All of them were traumatized afterward.
The the movie Sweet Liberty, history professor Alan Alda is having his historical novel about the Battle of Cowpens made into a movie. Screen writer Bob Hoskins and director Saul Rubinek are turning it into, “a steamy tale of lust and betrayal, complete with nudity and distortions of historical fact.” At one point, Alda objects to a really egregious distortion of what happened. “Hey! It says in the contract I’m supposed to be consulted about historical accuracy!”
“Okay,” says Rubinek, “What really happened?” Alda explains, then, “Fine. You’ve been consulted,” and goes back to what he was doing.
Labor always starts in a stuck elevator, and takes about 20 minutes to deliver a 20 pound, totally clean newborn with no mess in the elevator, and mother and baby walk out totally fine.
I cannot begin to tell you what’s wrong with that scenario.
The worst offender is Travel Channel’s Mysteries at the Museum. They do a good job of researching the historical events. They do a reasonable job of finding actors who resemble the historical people. But you’re lucky if the clothes match the right decade. Before the 18th Century, you’re lucky if they get the right century. For military stories, they often use high school marching band uniforms. For WW2, they often just use khaki clothes with random bits of metal pinned to the collar. And they often tell stories of the British Army, while showing people wearing U.S.-style chevrons.
I think this only works if you are sitting in front of one of those special computers that has a built-in projector, to project the screen on your (preferably hooded) face.
Player one: I bet one hundred. (Throws a chip into the pot)
Player two: I call your hundred (throws chip into pot) and raise you fifty (throws another chip into the pot)
Players don’t throw their chips into the pot. They place the chips in the playing area in front of them. That way it’s clear who has bet what amount. Only when the betting is finished do the chips go into the pot.
The raise is too low. Every raise must be at least equal to the previous raise. The minimum raise in the scenario above would be another $100.
So the scene should go:
Player one: “I bet one hundred.” (places chip in front of him)
Player two: “Raise. One hundred on top.” or “Raise to two hundred” or “I bet two hundred” (places chips in front of him)
