Lock 'n' Load show on "The Bullet"--OO-Rah!

[Smokey Joe]

Have had this one in the hopper for a while now; just got around to watching it this evening. Nice show for general info.

I liked the statement right off the bat (holding up a cartridge): "This is NOT a bullet!" Then explaining the parts of a round of ammunition.

What WAS shown was interesting, and informative for a non-shooter: Progress from round lead ball (with a side trip to flintlock and caplock ignition, and to paper cartridges) to Minie ball to lead bullet to jacketed bullet to different-purpose bullets. And progress from black powder to smokeless powder.

I was disappointed by the skipping of the "other" intermediate steps, e.g. pinfire and the various rimfires.

As others have said about this show, it's good for the general public, and we cognoscenti just have to live with our larger knowledge ourselves. Entertaining, nevertheless.

I have to mention personalities, too. Gunny R. Lee Ermey has eyebrows like small bushes--you only earn them by surviving to past 60. When he was firing the Barrett .50 BMG, he got "kissed" by the 'scope, and not only did he not gloss it over, he said it wasn't the first time nor would it be the last. Then he went right on shooting. Makes me feel so much better about my own lump of scar tissue in my right eyebrow!

I enjoyed the show, as I've enjoyed the whole series.

 

[Mags]

Watched the show thought it was great, wish he touched on reloading though.

 

[Smokey Joe]

Loading & re-loading...

Mags--Yeah, that'd have been nice, too. And he and the cameras obviously were in the Hornady plant, and we got about 2 seconds of what goes on in there.

You can only put so much into one one-hour show. Who knows--Mebbe one of the future Lock 'n' Load's will be all about the making of ammunition--by the train-car-load AND by the single 100 round box. Well, I can dream, can't I?

BTW, train-car-load, heck!--My deer-hunting Wisconsin buds tell me that during WWII there was an ammunition plant there called Badger Ordinance. Somebody figured up that all the rounds that all the deer hunters in WI shoot of a year (about 650,000 hunters) would have taken Badger Ordinance, running at full capacity, about 10 minutes to produce. Now THAT'S makin' ammo!! Would have been really something to see.

 

[InkEd]

+1 about not mentioning pin fire ammo but only so much can be covered in an hour. Great shows I always support gun related shows. Gunny gets a little annoying sometimes but no big deal. Does anyone else remember Tales of the Gun from the history channel? That show was really great.

 

[Clifford]

I could add that he didn't even mention rimfire ammo .

 

[THE DARK KNIGHT]

BTW, train-car-load, heck!--My deer-hunting Wisconsin buds tell me that during WWII there was an ammunition plant there called Badger Ordinance. Somebody figured up that all the rounds that all the deer hunters in WI shoot of a year (about 650,000 hunters) would have taken Badger Ordinance, running at full capacity, about 10 minutes to produce. Now THAT'S makin' ammo!! Would have been really something to see.

That's not really a lot. At all. Assuming your typical hunter might only fire 1, maybe two, MAYBE three shots a whole day in the field. And to dial in the scope at the start of the season, maybe 5-20 rounds?