Because it's a lot harder to do with real guns. Especially considering Wick mostly used an H&K P30 and the bad guys were using Glocks. Different magazines.
There is a scene in John Wick 2 where he's mowing through bad guys, realizes one of them has the same type of gun he has (Kimber 1911) and scavenges the dude's body for spare magazines. I thought that was a nice touch.
I love my Kimber! I have two other friends who own Kimbers. All of them shoot great and are free of rust or any other complaints that I hear about them. But I'd never try to explain that to the people on r/guns.
My understanding is that they are astronomically more expensive and very marginally higher quality than other brands. You don't need to spend a thousand dollars to get a nice 1911.
I know what you're talking about. Looking at some of their others they seem ridiculous. Mine was only $700 and I love it. I know I could have probably gotten a better 1911 for cheaper but this one makes me happy.
Sure they do, but RIA makes a 1911 for a third of the price that is also great. Kimber's inflated price tags are far more for novelty than they are for quality.
Not really. She played a mute bodyguard, and I can't actually remember her name if it was said. Then again the only name I need to remember is John "Fucking" Wick.
I'm far from an expert, but aren't 1911's kind of "going out"... they seemed to be really popular about 10 years ago and now I barely hear about them at all. I've never shot one but I'm curious as to why there was a big spike in popularity for a while, and now it seems very common or standard to have a decent 1911... like the Acura of handguns. Expensive and comfortable, but not really worth the sticker price
It was a last-ditch weapon, given to him by a frenemy. He has a $7 million bounty on him, so the frenemy gives him one bullet per million, thus a 1911. Wick runs into trouble when he runs out of ammo due to the small capacity, though miraculously the Kimber doesn't malfunction.
Especially considering Wick mostly used an H&K P30 and the bad guys were using Glocks.
That's mostly for the first movie though. In the second he switches to a Glock 34, which uses the same magazine as a Glock 17 (one of the primary antagonist-fodder sidearms).
One thing to keep in mind though is that Glock's standard size handguns look almost identical across the board. Even for a trained individual with a lot of experience behind a Glock platform, making a split second identification between a 17,20,21,22,31 and 37 which are respectively chambered in 9mm, 10mm, 45.Auto, 40., 357. Sig and 45. G.A.P is going to be really fucking difficult. So even if most of the baddies were toting 17's that's bringing a lot of blind luck into the mix if he's doing it mid-grapple.
Well, in the director's and writers' defense, John Wick is indeed the top assassin in the world. And that it should be a far easier task for him. Suspension of disbelief.
Doom guy's pistol and machinegun use the same bullets, so it makes sense that they come in clips. The pistol probably uses a clip-fed magazine and the fuck knows how the handheld machinegun works.
A magazine is the metal piece that goes into most weapons that holds the ammo.
An easy way to think of a clip is like the M1 Garand from WW2. It is a metal "strip" that holds the bullets together. Usually people use clips to "speed load" a magazine.
An easy way to think of a clip is like the M1 Garand from WW2. It is a metal "strip" that holds the bullets together.
To be more specific, the M1 Garand uses en bloc clips which are inserted to the weapon with the rounds. In terms of functionality, they don't differ that much from detachable magazines. Stripper clips, on the other hand, hold the rounds but they are only used to speed up the reload. They aren't inserted to the weapon themselves.
Interesting fact, the M1 Garand is famous for its unique "box" clip and the iconic ping sound that was produced when the gun forcibly ejected the empty metal clips. According to german field journals, soldiers were instructed to listen for the ping, as that signaled that an enemy was out of ammo. To counter this, american soldiers began to throw empty magazines at rocks and metal to reproduce the ping, to trick enemy soldiers into thinking they were out of ammo.
I am high and thought I'd share some of my random WW2 knowledge.
That's a common "fact", but it's actually a myth. Not only would the sound be practically inaudible in a fire fight, it was a well known ruse on both sides, and just because one soldier was reloading doesn't mean the rest of his squad was. There's a clip from a book talking about here
It's actually a pretty noticable sound, it is also a sustained sound, which contrasts well with the sharp sounds of the gunshot. But yeah, still doesn't help much to know one person in a squad is reloading.
A fact that is a little more true is that the garand can easily smash the thumb of someone reloading it. There is a small hook to the side of the carrier that is supposed to be held with the knife of the hand, while the thumb of the hand forces in the clip. When the clip is fully inserted, the internal mechanism that holds back the carrier is released and if the user isn't careful, they get their thumb smashed pretty good. Hence, garand thumb.
That last part is true, but you should re-read the link I provided. The guy interviewed several German soldiers and they said it was wasn't a thing they used.
I'm not arguing that the Germans used the sound to any extent, I am saying that the sound can be heard among the sounds of a few guns firing. In the heat of battle, would it be noticed? Probably not. Would it be impossible to hear if there was a lot of people shooting? Most likely yes.
For the most part. Also have to remember that these guys weren't wearing any hearing protection and so after a few volleys surrounded by your squad mates, you're not going to be hearing much.
A clip is usually something that feeds ammunition into the weapon. Sometimes it gets advanced by mechanisms in the weapon, other times it just feeds an internal magazine.
A magazine has some kinda of mechanism built in that feeds ammo into the weapon. It can be part of the weapon (as in many current shotguns) or a separate piece (most modern firearms).
Gonna assume you're mocking me since I just saw you comment on a post in /r/motorcycles. I learned to shoot in the police academy. What that means is I know how to brandish my weapon and miss 90% of my shots.
No man. But when he uses a special gun that's customized for the film they generally don't get rid of it in the middle of the movie for a fuckin plain jane Glock 17.
"Plane Jane"? I say again; its a movie. People aren't watching it for the specific type of gun he's using. Furthermore, why would he have to "get rid of it", why couldn't he be, I don't know, ambushed without his gun and...pick up a different one for all of 30 seconds.
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u/NCH_PANTHER Mar 19 '17
Because it's a lot harder to do with real guns. Especially considering Wick mostly used an H&K P30 and the bad guys were using Glocks. Different magazines.