My wife was watching CSI Miami last night while I was cruising TFL. Well it was about this urban sniper that was using saboted ammo so his bullets couldn't be traced to his rifle. I am thinking, that if fine and dandy, just as far as I am aware, .223 ammo that is saboted into a .308 barrel, probably isn't going to be all that accurate. Well it got better. The sniper was making these shots from the top of sky scrapers from about 975 yards! One shot to the head on three targets from 975 yards with saboted .223 rounds! The even cooler thing was in the balistics lab they were testing out .223 loads and the girl was testing really light bullets, 40 grains, 30 grains, 20 grains, and 17 grain bullets! What was they velocity? It said 2800. I couldn't tell if that hopefully meant meters per second which would seem more credible than shooting a saboted .223 out of a .308 at a mere 2800 FPS.
Next, the shooter had your typical Hollywood reticle for all sniper rifles. A bunch of funky triangles with the numbers 600, 700, 800, 1000 under them. There were a few other weird lines in there that made no sense as well. Plus, as always, he had illuminated reticles.
And one last thing if I recall correctly. This kid is protecting his father on the street when the shooting occurs, sees some gang bangers, and busts some caps with is revolver at this car driving by (they are unrelated). Well he misses and center punches some 70 year old lady in the head in a bus down range. They describe the bullet as a 9mm. I guess technically .357 bullets are 9mm, but still, come on.
My conclusions, if the CSI Miami people couldn't get some simple gun facts down in their show, how much more of it is BS about non-gun related information? Even more importantly, now we are going to have a whole wealth of "gun experts" that watched CSI Miami and know all about the long range accuracy of saboted rounds now. How do I know? My wife bought most of that stuff and whne I told her it was BS, she got a little irked. She wanted to believe the show more than me. She wanted to beleive that they would do their research otherwise it wouldn't be on there. :barf: :barf: :barf: I set her straight on that one.
Next, the shooter had your typical Hollywood reticle for all sniper rifles. A bunch of funky triangles with the numbers 600, 700, 800, 1000 under them. There were a few other weird lines in there that made no sense as well. Plus, as always, he had illuminated reticles.
And one last thing if I recall correctly. This kid is protecting his father on the street when the shooting occurs, sees some gang bangers, and busts some caps with is revolver at this car driving by (they are unrelated). Well he misses and center punches some 70 year old lady in the head in a bus down range. They describe the bullet as a 9mm. I guess technically .357 bullets are 9mm, but still, come on.
My conclusions, if the CSI Miami people couldn't get some simple gun facts down in their show, how much more of it is BS about non-gun related information? Even more importantly, now we are going to have a whole wealth of "gun experts" that watched CSI Miami and know all about the long range accuracy of saboted rounds now. How do I know? My wife bought most of that stuff and whne I told her it was BS, she got a little irked. She wanted to believe the show more than me. She wanted to beleive that they would do their research otherwise it wouldn't be on there. :barf: :barf: :barf: I set her straight on that one.
