1911 On TV

[Texan79423]

Watching TV I see the gunman pointing a 1911 handgun at some one's head then he pulls the trigger back to fire the gun? I assume he has loaded the gun then dropped the hammer and holstered the gun. Most of the drawn pistols shown have hammers down.
Guess I have been doing this wrong all of my life I load the gun condition 1 hammer back safety on when drawn I click off the safety. Why would on want to take time to cock the pistol to fire.

 

[craigntx]

Cocking the hammer adds drama. Like racking the slide on a shotty

 

[Rafe]

Because almost no script writers or directors give a scrawny rat's posterior about depicting firearms accurately. Even if the movie is based on a novel from an author who does care, the director doesn't give a squat.

So we end up with people pulling hammers back on Glocks; pump shotguns that are cycled numerous times to show the shooter really means business now...without a shell ever being ejected; pistols going to slide lock yet somehow still firing; striker-fired pistols, after they're run empty, going "Click! Click! Clickety-click!" while the shooter keeps pulling the trigger (and the slide might or might not have gone into slide lock); people being hurled off their feet and a yard backward after taking a round from a .30 Super Carry ; and virtually anything is effective cover: it's like a 3-year-old, if they can't see you, they can't shoot you, so no bullets can penetrate a kitchen cabinet door or the back of a cheap couch. And on and on.

 

[S13]

Just wanted to say..I hate Hollywood.

 

[paknheat]

1911s in books are better than in the movies.

FJB.


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[General Zod]

Almost any time a 1911 is shown, the guy holding it cocks the hammer manually before firing it. TV/movie writers, directors and actors generally don't know diddly-shit about firearms. Just like when you see someone point a double-barreled shotgun and you hear the click-CLACK! of a pump being racked. Most of the audience won't know or care, so the people putting it out don't care to know.

 

[TipBledsoe]

Almost any time a 1911 is shown, the guy holding it cocks the hammer manually before firing it gangsta-style...

FIFY

 

[ILexpatriot]

Magnum PI is on here every morning. I love seeing the Ferrari, or the chopper getting shot in the windshield, and there's only an entry hole, no exit. The bullet just evaporated..

 

[alternative]

Alec Baldwin is their consultant.

 

[wakosama]

Hollywood lies about guns... revolvers with silencers, etc. So what else does it lie about? Or "what does it ever tell the truth about?"

 

[Lonesome Dove]

Cowboys have been thumbing the hammer for over 100 years it's works fine.

 

[Rafe]

Cowboys have been thumbing the hammer for over 100 years it's works fine.

Actually, for over 170 years. Pretty bad idea with a 1911, though. Different mechanics on a revolver.

 

[Lonesome Dove]

Actually, for over 170 years. Pretty bad idea with a 1911, though. Different mechanics on a revolver.

Hammer is a hammer.
As a trigger is a trigger though.