Re: Am I Just 'Nitpicking'?

Posted by GnomeDome on March 03, 2001 at 17:09:49:

In Reply to: Re: Am I Just 'Nitpicking'? posted by Chris on March 03, 2001 at 10:24:37:

Good lord. Somebody get the Decon. We gotta DDT this DDL nitpicking!!! Nits abound. Too many to pick!

Shoes are worn by french allies of the Huron. That is not a give away as such. The Huron war parties were accompanied by French. Now, the cours de bois type rangers would have had moccasins likely, but the French officers could have had shoes. That in itself is not a dead giveaway. The graves dug would have surely shouted (english were here).

The two shots fired by Hawkeye on the run up the trail. It is possible, I imagine. The two Huron were maybe 12 feet away. It is not hard to hit a body size target at that range.

I remember once on the ROTC range I was yakking to my spotter when the next target came up.....it was at the 25 YARD range (closest in) and you were scored on hits on targets popping up but they didnt stay up long. In the middle of the sentence I was saying my spotter yelled "its up!" and without hardly looking I just snap fired the rifle and down the sucker went.
He was amazed. I was not. Body size targets at that range are easy. Especially when they are just standing there kinda waiting for it.

GnomeDome

: : GEEEEEEZE, what a NIT-PICKING namby-pamby!!!!! Harrrruuuuuumph!!!
: : MMMM
: : PS...Seriously, I'll have to cogitate on this one for awhile. Give me enough time, and I'll find a way to justify it all! ;o)

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: Go for it, Marcia, but I think Kate is right. Even if the Hurons were rotten trackers, and couldn't tell Hawkeye's and Chingachgook's moccassin tracks from their own, the girls' shoe tracks would have given them away. Give Michael Mann a break. What does he know about tracking? For that matter, what does he know about shooting a gun? On the cliff trail, Hawkeye has a gun in each hand, doesn't sight either of them, and hits two Hurons??? I don't think so. That was the scene that disturbed me the first time I saw it. Gee, maybe I'll have to watch the film again. I guess he could have hit them at point blank range. I don't remember how far from them he was...
: Chris

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: Good lord.  Somebody get the Decon.  We gotta DDT this DDL nitpicking!!!  Nits abound.  Too many to pick!

: Shoes are worn by french allies of the Huron.  That is not a give away as such.  The Huron war parties were accompanied by French.  Now, the cours de bois type rangers would have had moccasins likely, but the French officers could have had shoes.  That in itself is not a dead giveaway.  The graves dug would have surely shouted (english were here).

: The two shots fired by Hawkeye on the run up the trail.  It is possible, I imagine.  The two Huron were maybe 12 feet away.  It is not hard to hit a body size target at that range.  

: I remember once on the ROTC range I was yakking to my spotter when the next target came up.....it was at the 25 YARD range (closest in) and you were scored on hits on targets popping up but they didnt stay up long.  In the middle of the sentence I was saying my spotter yelled "its up!" and without hardly looking I just snap fired the rifle and down the sucker went.
: He was amazed.  I was not.  Body size targets at that range are easy.  Especially when they are just standing there kinda waiting for it.

: GnomeDome

: : : GEEEEEEZE, what a NIT-PICKING namby-pamby!!!!!  Harrrruuuuuumph!!!
: : : MMMM
: : : PS...Seriously, I'll have to cogitate on this one for awhile.  Give me enough time, and I'll find a way to justify it all! ;o)

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: : Go for it, Marcia, but I think Kate is right.  Even if the Hurons were rotten trackers, and couldn't tell Hawkeye's and Chingachgook's moccassin tracks from their own, the girls' shoe tracks would have given them away.  Give Michael Mann a break.  What does he know about tracking?  For that matter, what does he know about shooting a gun?  On the cliff trail, Hawkeye has a gun in each hand, doesn't sight either of them, and hits two Hurons???  I don't think so.  That was the scene that disturbed me the first time I saw it.  Gee, maybe I'll have to watch the film again.  I guess he could have hit them at point blank range.  I don't remember how far from them he was...
: : Chris


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