Have you ever noticed?

Well at least it explains where all that Walmart ammo is going.

Hollow point on TV

I think there was an episode of House in which he discovers (in the end) that there were fragments of a hollow point left imbedded in the tissue and caused some kind of problem (no it wasn't Lupus)

Paladin said:

Well at least it explains where all that Walmart ammo is going.

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Funny!

When the producers of a TV show have an anti-gun agenda to push, you can rest assured that some sympthetic victim...probably a child or pregnant woman...will have one of those "extra-deadly Black Talons" or some other horribly inhumane projectile removed from their body.

NCIS has had a few hollow points on their show as I recall. But you're right, almost all are FMJ (probably from Wal-Mart as Paladin said:rolf).

It makes for better audience viewing to pull out a mushroomed FMJ from a body then to pick out small fragments of a HP.

Lowest common denominator

FishinGator said:

NCIS has had a few hollow points on their show as I recall. But you're right, almost all are FMJ (probably from Wal-Mart as Paladin said:rolf).

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Given that 50% of all people have below average intelligence (think about the inherent truth there) ... it's much easier to recahnize a pristine bullet being held in forceps than bloody chunks of debree or a funny lookin' mushroom.

Well, for the fictional shows, it's because most of their firearms "experts" are complete and utter tools.

One show had a US Navy submarine officer with a Walther P38 as his issued sidearm.

As for shows like The First 48, it's because your typical scumbag gangbanger doesn't research the best defense hollowpoint ammunition for their firearm. They just want the cheapest "bullits" for their "nines".

Reminds me of a story I read elsewhere. A guy dressed like a stereotypical gangbanger went into a gun shop wanting 9mm "bullets". He was sold some 9mm rounds and off he went. He came back a short time later saying the "bullets" wouldn't fit his "nine". After some talking, the gun shop employee had the customer bring his "nine" in to see what the problem was. The gun shop employee couldn't get the ammo to properly load as well.

After much struggling, it was eventually discovered that the gangbanger's "nine" was an 8mm blank-firing replica gun.

-JT

Cthulhu said:

After much struggling, it was eventually discovered that the gangbanger's "nine" was an 8mm blank-firing replica gun.-JT

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The fool stole a dummy gun? I think the gang should give him a beat down for that.:rolf

MRBARRY said:

The fool stole a dummy gun? I think the gang should give him a beat down for that.:rolf

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Probably worse than that...he probably bought it on the street.

-JT

A large segment of the viewing audience probably wouldn't recognize a mushroomed hollowpoint bullet as a bullet if they saw it. So, to make sure that the audience recognizes a bullet when they see it, they use unfired slugs. These shows are fantasy. That is why a Colt 1911 can fire 30 rounds from a standard magazine without reloading.

Bad guy bullets

Mac45 said:

A large segment of the viewing audience probably wouldn't recognize a mushroomed hollowpoint bullet as a bullet if they saw it. So, to make sure that the audience recognizes a bullet when they see it, they use unfired slugs. These shows are fantasy. That is why a Colt 1911 can fire 30 rounds from a standard magazine without reloading.

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They also have Bad Guy bullets and Good Guy Bullets.

Bad Guy Bullets can be sprayed from automatic weapons by mulitple BG's at a target less than 15 yards away and all miss or be blocked by cardboard boxes and chain link fences.

Good Guy Bullets can be shot with one hand on the run while wounded and hit COM everytime.

Moylan1850 said:

They also have Bad Guy bullets and Good Guy Bullets.

Bad Guy Bullets can be sprayed from automatic weapons by mulitple BG's at a target less than 15 yards away and all miss or be blocked by cardboard boxes and chain link fences.

Good Guy Bullets can be shot with one hand on the run while wounded and hit COM everytime.

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Unfortunately it usually works the other way in real life. 17 cops empty their weapons at a suspect running away from ten feet and only one hits him, in the pinky. On the other hand, a criminal shoots backward, over his shoulder, at a dead run, with an 80 year old 22 cal revolver loaded with ammo produced right after the Spanish-American war, at a single cop crouched behind his squad car a hundred feet away and hits him dead-center in the middle of the forehead and kills him. There is no justice in the world.uke

FishinGator said:

NCIS has had a few hollow points on their show as I recall. But you're right, almost all are FMJ (probably from Wal-Mart as Paladin said:rolf).

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They had some Hydro-shocks in an episode recently. They were not identified as such but you could see the post in the mushroomed bullet. They also show many fallacies. One show had standard 38 Special rounds that were highly magnetized even though they contained no ferrous material. They also had the infamous "meat bullet" frozen with liquid nitrogen which in reality would have disintegrated upon being fired. What really gets me is when they depict a silenced gun, sometimes revolvers:rolf, that have no noise upon bullet impact. If you have ever shot a silenced weapon the bullet makes a lot of noise upon impact, even if it is sub-sonic.

Silencers

soleil said:

What really gets me is when they depict a silenced gun, sometimes revolvers:rolf, that have no noise upon bullet impact. If you have ever shot a silenced weapon the bullet makes a lot of noise upon impact, even if it is sub-sonic.

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I thought about eventually getting a silenced pistol after my primary SD weapon (to add to my future collection). But after doing some research, I also found that this seems to be a big fat waste of money, fueled by misconceptions based on hollywood depictions. Oh well, more money to spend on other cool stuff.

You can get good silencers that will cut down all muzzle blast and sound. Good silencers using sub-sonic ammo are very quiet. Sometimes you can just hear the firing pin drop or a little primer spurt. But when the bullet hits it makes a lot more noise than you would think. You don't hear the bullet hit with a conventional firearm due to the muzzle blast.

I think I have learned from watching the reality shows is that FMJ still kill and most BGs are carrying target ammo. Not sure if we have an advantage but I'm glad I'm carrying hollow points.