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Why, oh why do authors manage to get SOOOOO many things wrong with established facts and physics where GUNS are concerned? Great plots, great writing and yet, the moment they start writing about guns and shooting, it all turns to total rat-shirt. It's not as though it was arcane theory, is it? We are talking about the SCIENCE of ballistics and the LAWS of Momentum, conversion of mass and velocity into kinetic energy and so on.
We've all seen the story with a safety on a Smith & Wesson Model 29, on a GLOCK, even, but hows-about THIS pile of carp from noted author David Baldacci?
I'm quoting the exact wording from page 11 of his hit book, 'The hit' -
'The long-distance flight of the 7.62 round built up astonishing kinetic energy. In fact, the farther it traveled the more energy it built up.'
WT..........................?
Who tells authors that carp like this is fit to print, when the book is likely going to be read by 'a nation of riflemen', let alone a poor old furriner with a few guns living in Yesterdayland?
I stopped reading right there - having paid the equivalent of $30 for this book, I can tell you that it will be going back to the bookstore on Monday.
tac, really cheesed off.
x10
We've all seen the story with a safety on a Smith & Wesson Model 29, on a GLOCK, even, but hows-about THIS pile of carp from noted author David Baldacci?
I'm quoting the exact wording from page 11 of his hit book, 'The hit' -
'The long-distance flight of the 7.62 round built up astonishing kinetic energy. In fact, the farther it traveled the more energy it built up.'
WT..........................?
Who tells authors that carp like this is fit to print, when the book is likely going to be read by 'a nation of riflemen', let alone a poor old furriner with a few guns living in Yesterdayland?
I stopped reading right there - having paid the equivalent of $30 for this book, I can tell you that it will be going back to the bookstore on Monday.
tac, really cheesed off.
x10
