My wife likes to watch 'Longmire', I bailed on it with the first episode I tried to watch and they did the 45-70 thing and it being a rare old rifle. I looked at my wife and told her that 45-70 was so rare that we had one in our gun safe made by Marlin. There might be a bit of a story about it being a horse gun because I read years ago that when the US Army adopted it as their choice of rounds one of the standards used was the ability to drop a horse at 600 yards, that I believe was in 1873, three years before Custer had his last encounter with some indians on horse back. And also the gun registration has been used to solve crimes, by writers, in a lot of states that have no registration including Texas, Oklahoma and most of the rest of the USA but that only makes sense in the land of make believe where the beautiful detective with the bumbling side kick walks up and looks at a head wound and say, "That's a 9mm hole in his head and we know Dick Head, our suspect, has one of those powerful 9mm registered to him so let's wrap this up before we go to commercial."
The books are just as good and even worse. Last one I read had a plastic undetectable gun as the mcguffin. What was incredibly bad about it is that the chapter before the reveal, Longmire uses a metal detector to find a BULLET buried in a yard for years in order to link one of the bad guys to a murder, then goes on about how the plastic gun is completely undetectable! Not to mention his beautiful deputy (played very well by Katee Sackhoff in the show) winning a trap tournament against professionals with a borrowed shotgun in her first ever attempt at trap shooting. I decided the good parts no longer outweighed the crap. Mycroft
you have to use suspension of disbelief, its a thing. it helps you enjoy the show/movie, all it takes is a little imagination. yeah they make it harder and harder, but its what we got have to take our minds off all the bs.
I know your main rant was about "Longmire," but I have to mention a great disappointment for me: After about 10 years of not turning on a TV, I decided a few years ago to watch a new series called "Killer Women," about a female Texas Ranger. The female Ranger was played by a six-foot ex-model with the acting skills of a cigar-store Indian, but in the first big scene, a local cop who doesn't like her calls her "Cinco Peso." Since Rangers' stars are traditionally stamped from Mexican five-peso pieces, I thought maybe someone had done some actual research on the Texas Rangers and I would see a good show. Unfortunately, the show turned into a laugh riot when every action she took was either stupid or illegal. But she carried a 1911 and hung out on a ranch and petted cows, and I like 1911s and cows, so I decided to give it another shot. (Did I mention, she was a six-foot ex-model?) The second show was even sillier; the only thing I remember about it is, the villain was a perky blonde whose life apparently depended on everything below her hips being exposed to daylight at all times. But even with six-foot models, 1911s, cows, and leggy villains, I couldn't hack it. I must not have been alone, because the show only lasted for eight episodes. But they're all on the internet, if you're interested.
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My wife likes to watch 'Longmire', I bailed on it with the first episode I tried to watch and they did the 45-70 thing and it being a rare old rifle. I looked at my wife and told her that 45-70 was so rare that we had one in our gun safe made by Marlin. There might be a bit of a story about it being a horse gun because I read years ago that when the US Army adopted it as their choice of rounds one of the standards used was the ability to drop a horse at 600 yards, that I believe was in 1873, three years before Custer had his last encounter with some indians on horse back. And also the gun registration has been used to solve crimes, by writers, in a lot of states that have no registration including Texas, Oklahoma and most of the rest of the USA but that only makes sense in the land of make believe where the beautiful detective with the bumbling side kick walks up and looks at a head wound and say, "That's a 9mm hole in his head and we know Dick Head, our suspect, has one of those powerful 9mm registered to him so let's wrap this up before we go to commercial."
The books are just as good and even worse. Last one I read had a plastic undetectable gun as the mcguffin. What was incredibly bad about it is that the chapter before the reveal, Longmire uses a metal detector to find a BULLET buried in a yard for years in order to link one of the bad guys to a murder, then goes on about how the plastic gun is completely undetectable!
Not to mention his beautiful deputy (played very well by Katee Sackhoff in the show) winning a trap tournament against professionals with a borrowed shotgun in her first ever attempt at trap shooting.
I decided the good parts no longer outweighed the crap.
Mycroft
you have to use suspension of disbelief, its a thing. it helps you enjoy the show/movie, all it takes is a little imagination. yeah they make it harder and harder, but its what we got have to take our minds off all the bs.
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I know your main rant was about "Longmire," but I have to mention a great disappointment for me: After about 10 years of not turning on a TV, I decided a few years ago to watch a new series called "Killer Women," about a female Texas Ranger. The female Ranger was played by a six-foot ex-model with the acting skills of a cigar-store Indian, but in the first big scene, a local cop who doesn't like her calls her "Cinco Peso." Since Rangers' stars are traditionally stamped from Mexican five-peso pieces, I thought maybe someone had done some actual research on the Texas Rangers and I would see a good show. Unfortunately, the show turned into a laugh riot when every action she took was either stupid or illegal. But she carried a 1911 and hung out on a ranch and petted cows, and I like 1911s and cows, so I decided to give it another shot. (Did I mention, she was a six-foot ex-model?) The second show was even sillier; the only thing I remember about it is, the villain was a perky blonde whose life apparently depended on everything below her hips being exposed to daylight at all times. But even with six-foot models, 1911s, cows, and leggy villains, I couldn't hack it. I must not have been alone, because the show only lasted for eight episodes. But they're all on the internet, if you're interested.
Even for leggy ex-models, I'll pass
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