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Article: Shooting lessons from the movies? (Better Shooting).
- Article from:
- American Handgunner
- Article date:
- November 1, 2002
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The atrocious shooting techniques displayed in movies and television don't really bother me. Bad guys watch movies too, and if they learn to hold their pistols sideways, blink at every shot and rack shotgun slides five times for every shot fired, that's fine with me. Once in a while they even manage to get it right. Here are a few examples -- and the lessons provided:
LONESOME DOVE: Ronger captain Woodrow F. Call (Tommy Lee Jones) hands a holstered revolver to the youngster Newt (Rick Schroeder) and says, "It's better to have that and not need it than to need it and not have it"
Lesson: The goad captain nailed it. The thing about any defensive weapon is ...