Shooting advice from TV shows that'll get you killed

[Alan]

Shooting from the hip like they do in Westerns is a great way to miss everything. Holding a pistol sideways looks cool until you realize the sights don't work that way. And my personal favorite, shooting the gun out of someone's hand. That's not a thing. That's not how any of this works. Entertainment isn't training.

 

[A11mo$t]

Well, TV and movies are the place most folk learn what they think they know about firearms. The media too. What would they do without those peer reviewed resources?

 

[Zipper]

Movies make shooting look easy but it's slower and it's not as dramatic in real life. If you got good fundamentals, you're better off than someone trying to do tricks.

 

[Rimfire Fanatic]

Shooting from the hip like they do in Westerns is a great way to miss everything. Holding a pistol sideways looks cool until you realize the sights don't work that way. And my personal favorite, shooting the gun out of someone's hand. That's not a thing. That's not how any of this works. Entertainment isn't training.

Actually in IDPA there is a drill where you draw from the holster and fire two shots from the hip at a turning target at 7 yds. It was the only thing I really excelled at. Both rounds in the box. .23 seconds.

And yes, that took years of training.

 

[Daven11]

TV really messes up beginners’ expectations. Folks think accuracy happens instantly and don’t realize how much time and effort it takes to build solid fundamentals in real life.

 

[Rimfire Fanatic]

TV really messes up beginners’ expectations. Folks think accuracy happens instantly and don’t realize how much time and effort it takes to build solid fundamentals in real life.

Yeah, especially with handguns. Everything from holding the gun sideways to look cool to carrying appendix without a holster. That’s gonna work real well for a noob that buys an Sig P320 and shoves it in the front of his pants with a round in the chamber.

I have even seen a video of a cop that was dumb enough to do that and shot his junk off. Then he turned around and sued Sig. He didn’t collect a dime by the way.

 

[SuperTrooper]

A decade or more back I was the consultant on a popular TV police crime drama for 2 seasons, and they maddingly never listened (well all they did was listen) to ANYTHING I flagged as improper. I liked the money, but I felt like a cheerleader for hemorrhoids for all the good I did. Many of the Hollywood folks who look normal on the screen are the size of a garden gnome... Ok, not a garden gnome, but like my grandma at 4'8" and 85 pounds.

 

[Rimfire Fanatic]

Tom Cruise comes to mind.

 

[MisterEd]

A decade or more back I was the consultant on a popular TV police crime drama for 2 seasons,

Which one?