Mike Irwin
Staff
OK, this is not going to be a discussion about the merits of the miniseries, but about the guns.
The main character, a sheriff's deputy, looks to be carrying a nickel 6" Colt Python. In one of the final scenes he fires a round at a zombie inside of an M-60 tank. It's the only time I've ever seen an indication of how the concussion and noise can stun someone.
They did show the deputy taking an M9 Beretta off the zombie first.
A big fail, though, in the beginning of the show was the main character telling another sheriff's deputy (they're doing a road block) to "make sure he has a round chambered and the safety off."
The other deputy looks kind of sheepish, pulls back the slide to chamber a round, and then you see him move his thumb up to release the safety, and you hear it go CLICK.
The only problem with that? The deputy has what appears to be a Glock 17. No external safety to go click. And even if it did have one, it's likely that he wouldn't have been able to chamber a round with the safety on.
Other firearms in the show are pretty pedestrian. Shotguns, including a couple of what appear to be Benellis, a couple other what appear to be Remingtons, and at least one bolt action rifle that appeared to be a scoped Remington, a "sniper rifle" from the police lock up.
What surprised me, though, is that there's a lot of military presence shown (including a chopper with what appeared to be the 7th regiment crossed sabers insignia), but none of the survivors shown yet are carrying M4s or M16s.
The main character, a sheriff's deputy, looks to be carrying a nickel 6" Colt Python. In one of the final scenes he fires a round at a zombie inside of an M-60 tank. It's the only time I've ever seen an indication of how the concussion and noise can stun someone.
They did show the deputy taking an M9 Beretta off the zombie first.
A big fail, though, in the beginning of the show was the main character telling another sheriff's deputy (they're doing a road block) to "make sure he has a round chambered and the safety off."
The other deputy looks kind of sheepish, pulls back the slide to chamber a round, and then you see him move his thumb up to release the safety, and you hear it go CLICK.
The only problem with that? The deputy has what appears to be a Glock 17. No external safety to go click. And even if it did have one, it's likely that he wouldn't have been able to chamber a round with the safety on.
Other firearms in the show are pretty pedestrian. Shotguns, including a couple of what appear to be Benellis, a couple other what appear to be Remingtons, and at least one bolt action rifle that appeared to be a scoped Remington, a "sniper rifle" from the police lock up.
What surprised me, though, is that there's a lot of military presence shown (including a chopper with what appeared to be the 7th regiment crossed sabers insignia), but none of the survivors shown yet are carrying M4s or M16s.
