Smart. Before I had a safe I used to hide my rifle’s bolt somewhere else whenever I stored it at the house.
If you stole whatever was in the case, you’d just have a useless stock
The_Phantom_Oracle on
Knowing nothing about guns, this went over my head when I watched it; thank you for bringing it up!
Alarming_Orchid on
That’s easy, just put a nail behind the bullet and hit it
AllSeeingAI on
How did they get that detail right and so many much worse details wrong all throughout that movie?
Belem19 on
Same mechanics as the “man with no eyes” in Cool Hand Luke. The prison guard would have the bolt on his belt and the whole rest of the rifle in the car, and ask one of the prisoners to get the rifle from the car when he wanted to use it.
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KingWilliamVI on
I heard soldiers during the Napoleonic war did similar things with their cannons they had to leave behind.
The technique was called “spiking the cannon”.
sharktail_tanker on
It’s also a lot lighter and easier to carry than the whole rifle
Cold-Dot-7308 on
What scene was this ? I know that could work as I play metal gear games (they could be excessively detailed in cutscenes)
CogBlocker on
“I swapped all the firing pins before I left the house. I always do. Looks right. You need a micrometer to tell, but the gun don’t shoot.”
rubey419 on
That’s cool I missed that
BambooSound on
Underrated movie. Too many bad Russian accents but the snow scene and the final fantasy fight at the end were sick.
MonstarDeluxe on
I understand the logic of not leaving behind a resource an enemy might then use against you.
But isn’t that something you’d do when the assumption is the enemy doesn’t have lots and lots of very big guns all of their own?
I appreciate you might not want your fancy American rifle falling into the hands of an insurgent or the Viet Cong etc. But I’m thinking Hydra (et al) can afford their own guns and aren’t so dedicated to a sense of irony that they’ll delay pursuit to try and shoot you with your own?
CaptainCastle1 on
Same vibes as Swaggert (Marky Mark) swapping the firing pins in *Shooter*
DooleysInTheHouse on
Reminds me of the Mark Walhburg movie “shooter” where they killed a head-of-state and framed him by saying his sniper rifle was used but always removed the firing pins from his guns when storing them
TiresOnFire on
Everyone is comparing this to Shooter, but I think a better comparison is Cool Hand Luke.
cardboardunderwear on
Jokes on her
Fix bayonets!
Belryan on
This is a callback to Morgan Adams in Cutthroat Island being savvy so that her lover’s pistol couldn’t be used against her, because she took his balls.
Boggie135 on
Did she leave the bolt or the rifle behind?
spaghettibolegdeh on
If only they focused on the script instead of this neat detail.
SamuelRadams on
This would be relevant if anyone actually watched this piece of shit
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That’s a good movie detail
Smart. Before I had a safe I used to hide my rifle’s bolt somewhere else whenever I stored it at the house.
If you stole whatever was in the case, you’d just have a useless stock
Knowing nothing about guns, this went over my head when I watched it; thank you for bringing it up!
That’s easy, just put a nail behind the bullet and hit it
How did they get that detail right and so many much worse details wrong all throughout that movie?
Same mechanics as the “man with no eyes” in Cool Hand Luke. The prison guard would have the bolt on his belt and the whole rest of the rifle in the car, and ask one of the prisoners to get the rifle from the car when he wanted to use it.
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I heard soldiers during the Napoleonic war did similar things with their cannons they had to leave behind.
The technique was called “spiking the cannon”.
It’s also a lot lighter and easier to carry than the whole rifle
What scene was this ? I know that could work as I play metal gear games (they could be excessively detailed in cutscenes)
“I swapped all the firing pins before I left the house. I always do. Looks right. You need a micrometer to tell, but the gun don’t shoot.”
That’s cool I missed that
Underrated movie. Too many bad Russian accents but the snow scene and the final fantasy fight at the end were sick.
I understand the logic of not leaving behind a resource an enemy might then use against you.
But isn’t that something you’d do when the assumption is the enemy doesn’t have lots and lots of very big guns all of their own?
I appreciate you might not want your fancy American rifle falling into the hands of an insurgent or the Viet Cong etc. But I’m thinking Hydra (et al) can afford their own guns and aren’t so dedicated to a sense of irony that they’ll delay pursuit to try and shoot you with your own?
Same vibes as Swaggert (Marky Mark) swapping the firing pins in *Shooter*
Reminds me of the Mark Walhburg movie “shooter” where they killed a head-of-state and framed him by saying his sniper rifle was used but always removed the firing pins from his guns when storing them
Everyone is comparing this to Shooter, but I think a better comparison is Cool Hand Luke.
Jokes on her
Fix bayonets!
This is a callback to Morgan Adams in Cutthroat Island being savvy so that her lover’s pistol couldn’t be used against her, because she took his balls.
Did she leave the bolt or the rifle behind?
If only they focused on the script instead of this neat detail.
This would be relevant if anyone actually watched this piece of shit
she plays Tarkov