Ever notice how media gets rifle shots wrong?

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I've noticed that the sound guys usually add the report of a rifle shot BEFORE the round strikes.

With most rifles, under 800yds The rounds are super-sonic, you don't hear a thing untill it's all too late.

Anybody else notice this? Any times they get it 'right?'
 
IIRC, in the opening scenes of ''Private Ryan'' .... one or two guys get hit in the landing craft .. no particular sounds of associated (coincident) shot sounds .... just a very unpleasant ''whop'' as a guy is hit.

'Bout as close as I can bring to mind right now.
 
Quigley

Although not really the Media . . . Hollywood got it correct in Quigley Down Under. I suspect that has more to do with Tom Selleck knowing what he is doing with a rifle than brain power in the editing room where the sounds are actually put in.

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Reporters and hollywood types are generally PROUD of their firearms ignorance. They think gun knowledge makes you a nasty human.

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You know, they don't get a lot of things right. That is no surprise. Not only do they mess up the timing of the rifle's report, they fail to provide both reports from the firing incident. The first sound of a near miss with a super sonic projectile is the crack of the sound barrier. The second sound is the report of the rifle discharging.
 
Hell, that's nothing. What about the sparks that get thrown off when bullets ricochet off of practically any surface? Or how cars explode whenever a single bullet scratches their paint?
 
I saw a TV cop show once where the characters were talking about a long gun one was carrying.

The first time, they called it shotgun. A minute later, it was a rifle. Same gun. Which is it? They apparently did not appreciate there was any difference.

I can't believe no one on the whole darned set did not have sense/guts enough to say: Uh, that's retarded!
 
Private Ryan gave me the willys :uhoh:
Quigley was well done.
Open Range had some good gun play with the 900 fps rpounds hitting AFTER the boom.

Ashamed to say I watched Wind Talkers on HBO. What a joke. Grenades with the power of 2,000 lbs bombs, single bullets laying waste to entire hillsides, USMC hits anything and everything in the general vicinity when firing, Japanes regulars were not very good :scrutiny:
 
They get a LOT of details wrong. It amazes me when they get the simple things screwed up.

Tonight, while watching Third Watch, Doc has gone wacko and is shooting up the place with a revolver he stole from a cop.

In two of the scenes there were sound effects for brass bouncing when he took the shots. He had a revolver for crying out loud!

I have Tivo, and replayed the scenes a few times in case it was really supposed to be glass breaking or some such thing. But my wife and I decided the only thing it really sounded like was an added sound effect for brass ejecting.

yeesh!

ChickenHawk
 
I remember watching a Tarzan movie eons ago (back when they could still show Tarzan movies) where one of the porters in a group of evil white hunters is dropped by a shot before the rifle is heard. The evil white hunters commented on it meaning the shooter was some distance away.
 
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