Was watching Bourne Identity (a pretty decent action movie) with my Wife and a buddy of many years. It's always been the running gag that, whenever a military style weapon is on screen, somebody would say "OK Steve, what's that..." and I'd answer. Not that it's hard, since most action movies use MP5's, or a highly customized AR15... no big feat there.
But about half way through the movie, at a farm house, in a field, there's a hitman with a sniper rifle that KINDA looked like an FAL, but more modern, and kinda like an HK, but not exactly.... It had a skeletonized folding stock like the FN FNC, used smoke-clear mags like the G36 or AUG, appeared to be .308, and had no iron sights.
Since we had a few beers, and had been reminiscing about the "old days", Joey remembered the question, and asked... "OK Steve, what's that...". I had NO idea. Both of them made a big deal of it, and my wife asked "who are you, what planet are you from, and what did you do with my husband?".
So anyway, what the heck was that? Prolly something simple, they just did enough modifying it that I didn't recognize it in my "condition"
PS - The main character "Jason Bourne" pulled a neat trick that I did not recognize until my old friend, who is NOT a gun owner, and someone I've never been able to convince that my AR-15 was perfectly OK for me to own, explained what was happening. Bad guy is hiding somewhere in a big field with a fancy sniper rifle. Good guy has a double barrel shotgun. Good guy fires once into the air, scaring all the birds in the field to flight. He watches the birds as they circle the field and land again. My buddy tells me that the birds wouldn't land where the bad guy was, thus giving away his position. Don't know if it would actually work, since real birds would probably fly completely away, but I was impressed that he picked up on it.
But about half way through the movie, at a farm house, in a field, there's a hitman with a sniper rifle that KINDA looked like an FAL, but more modern, and kinda like an HK, but not exactly.... It had a skeletonized folding stock like the FN FNC, used smoke-clear mags like the G36 or AUG, appeared to be .308, and had no iron sights.
Since we had a few beers, and had been reminiscing about the "old days", Joey remembered the question, and asked... "OK Steve, what's that...". I had NO idea. Both of them made a big deal of it, and my wife asked "who are you, what planet are you from, and what did you do with my husband?".
So anyway, what the heck was that? Prolly something simple, they just did enough modifying it that I didn't recognize it in my "condition"
PS - The main character "Jason Bourne" pulled a neat trick that I did not recognize until my old friend, who is NOT a gun owner, and someone I've never been able to convince that my AR-15 was perfectly OK for me to own, explained what was happening. Bad guy is hiding somewhere in a big field with a fancy sniper rifle. Good guy has a double barrel shotgun. Good guy fires once into the air, scaring all the birds in the field to flight. He watches the birds as they circle the field and land again. My buddy tells me that the birds wouldn't land where the bad guy was, thus giving away his position. Don't know if it would actually work, since real birds would probably fly completely away, but I was impressed that he picked up on it.
