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For some reason Western directors like to show bullet impacts e.g. shooting bottles, hats or just wood planks. This could be easier to do with real bullets. It
by zeteo 5y ago
For some reason Western directors like to show bullet impacts e.g. shooting bottles, hats or just wood planks. This could be easier to do with real bullets.
It's also possible they brought in guns from an unrelated activity (e.g. cowboy action shooting) and failed to check them properly.
- Waterluvian 5y agoI had no idea. I thought those were always small explosive charges planted in walls and bottles and such.
- suzzer99 5y agohttps://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/movies/story/2021-10-22/rust-shooting-movie-prop-gun-safety-blanks-rounds-more https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/movies/story/2021... "Productions using operational firearms can opt for those intentionally designed to fire blank cartridges — shell casings loaded with gunpowder — or decommissioned firearms tweaked to shoot them. Live ammunition is not allowed on any set."