Mega Rad Gun Thread

[Romulus augustulus]

I doubt it's even the actors fault, it was almost certainly the props department who loaded those clips

I wonder how often guys even loaded en blocs themselves in WW2 & Korea? pretty sure they came preloaded.

 

[PP Police]

I wonder how often guys even loaded en blocs themselves in WW2 & Korea? pretty sure they came preloaded.

I don’t remember which book, but WWII vets have talked about often topping up their clips while they were still in their rifles during lulls in the fighting. I’m sure it happened all the time, I bet there was many instances where guys would cannibalize rounds from BAR mags or delink machine gun ammo to put in enblocs. I bet Korea was much of the same.

 

[ellroy]

It’s diverges from reality quite a bit for sure. Lt Dike wasn’t actually a coward at Foy. He was shot which is why Spiers replaced him. Everyone disliked Nixon except winters. Moose hyliger was shot because harry welsh was drunk on duty. Far as I can tell Spiers’ depiction is the closest to reality. He did shoot the prisoners, he did shoot sgt carington, and he did run through enemy lines at foy. The whole story is filtered through the biased and aged minds of winters, Lipton, guarnere and Heffron. Their distaste for some others taints their recollection and thus the book and show

It is still a fantastic show, I’d argue almost perfect from a structure point of view.

The issue is Ambrose relied on a few standout veterans to tell the story and their recollections were terrible. It’s an example of how memory is affected by what you felt at the time.

The most egregious example was private Blythe. He didn’t die from his wounds but survived and served in the Army until 1967 when he had a medical emergency possibly related to his heavy drinking. Two easy company veterans who knew him by his home town attended a funeral thinking it was him, or at least told Ambrose it was him. In reality it was some other poor sap. Those two guys barely knew Blythe to begin with so they couldn’t tell the difference

Ambrose was a pretty lazy writer for Band of Brothers and the show made it worse. Still quality television, though.

As an ironic side note, S.L.A. Marshall was a noted military historian who is known for his slippery writing and not doing enough research for his War Department write ups. Ambrose defends him in the book over the Beaucourt Manor fight write up Marshall did.

 

[Mr.Bucket]

Anyone have any basic suppressor height glock sights they recommend?

The TX22 TORO is apparently glock-sight compatible.

Since it's a .22 fun gun I don't need fancy $200 trijicons or anything nuts.