R. Lee Ermey, what a knucklehead
 

On his series Lock n' Load he says, "Samuel Colt patented his first revolver in 1836..." then fails to say it was the Paterson. What gun fan worth their salt doesn't come right out and acknowledge the Paterson in a reverend tone??? If that weren't egregious enough, he completely skips over the Walker Colt and starts talking about the 1860 Army as if that was the pistol from the 1836 patent on the Paterson. How completely lame.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colt_paterson

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...terson60ft.jpg

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I've also noted how completely lame the rest of his very spotty presentation is, how he completely skips over other major developments.

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Dunno why, but I always thought he was a closet homo.

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I think Brady Bunch Reruns were on the other channel...


I think the Ermey does just enough of a show that he gets to shoot all these old and kewl guns etc.....i can relate to that

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From what I understand he doesn't get the final say in what will be shown on the show. Who is the director and producer in the credit? If it is Ermey then can blame him. Otherwise he is still just the host.

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Not really his fault. Hes an actor. hes got a script and a director telling him what to do ontop of an editor trying to squeeze it all in a 44 minute spot.

They cant cover everything. Hes an former Marine drill instructer turned actor, just because hes the host of a gun show doesnt mean he knows ever facet of firearms there is to know. It is what it is.

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The only knucklehead here is IAF,IAM.

Apparently you don't understand HOW a TV show is put together. I'd bet a silver round R. Lee Ermey filmed four to five times the amount of information that was aired.

Lock and Load is an hour show. That means 44 minutes of air time. I'd bet that same silver round that the show did NOT spend the whole 44 minutes on the development of ONE firearm.

But I would ALSO BET that silver round that R. Lee taped about FOUR TIMES the amount of information that DID make air. The majority of what was filmed ALWAYS ends up on the cutting room floor.

So, given your expertise in how a TV show is put together, and how much filming is done and HOW LITTLE actually makes air, kindly tell us WHY you think what he did was wrong?

His producer and he sat down and painfully cut items that they deemed 'not enough time' to show - with the producer getting the final say (normally). And if you want that much minutae, go to the gunsmithing school I went to. YOU WILL GET IT. Or buy one of the DVD's specific to a given firearm.

But kindly stop spouting off about things you OBVIOUSLY know so little about.

R. Lee Ermey has FORGOTTEN more about firearms that YOU will ever know. He's just not allowed to spend HOURS discussing ONE FIREARM ON TV. That won't get any sponsors and it won't get made BECAUSE they can't make the amount of money necessary to actually air it.

GROW UP and smell the money being made in Pleasantville ... :sarc:

http://goldismoney.info/forums/attac...1&d=1250347750

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Actor or not, he's name is on it, therefore he endorses it.

Which makes you the knucklehead for your asinine post. lol

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What 'it is' is that he's a pretender passing himself off as a RKI. lol

Typical TVland shit.

Highly unlikely. Hell, I've had to correct you on several occasions Wallew. lol

And I bet I've shot more vintage machineguns and subguns than you and Ermey combined. I've shot so many different types I lost count. lol In the mid-80s I hung out with Dolf Goldsmith, so I know for a fact that I've seen more actually working Maxims than either you or Ermey will in your lifetimes, unless either of you made it to Dolf's basement vault. For years if anyone wanted a Maxim that was reliable they had to go to Dolf. Each Maxim was hand-fitted and therefore the locks were not interchangeable. And the chances of getting a lock which had a matching number to any given Maxim is near zero. Dolf's specialty is getting mismatched Maxims to shoot reliably. Dolf would literally bring 5 gallon pails full of locks and 2 or 3 Maxims at a time to the range, along with whatever else he could stuff into his 4 door VW Rabbit (his Rabbit was so overloaded guns and ammo the rear bumper was only few inches off the ground). Dolf's the man - he wrote the definitive books.

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I would think that we should all be happy that there are any shows on TV that are showing firearms in a positive (at least not negative) light. These are the kinds of shows that sparked my interest in history/firearms as a little kid. The rest of the details were up to me to find and learn about (which at the time got me into reading more books). The day may soon be coming that there is only anti-gun propaganda on the boob tube. Be careful what trivialities you complain about. Bx3

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As said there were likely at least 10 hours of film edited into 44 minutes of show, we have no idea what was edited out. And just because Ermey is the host doesn't mean he always agrees with what parts are aired, that is out of his control. Of course he could quit but I am sure he likes making a living. Also anyone who replaced him would be under the same restrictions.

We do need to support any shows that are positive to firearms...there is a shortage of them these days.

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Actually freebie, all you've ever done is spout your worthless clownish opinion. You've never corrected me on anything.

EVER.

HOW LITTLE YOU KNOW COULD FILL VOLUMES.

LIKE NOW.

HOW MANY TV SHOWS HAVE YOU SEEN MADE FROM BEHIND THE CAMERA?

HOW MANY PEOPLE DO YOU KNOW 'IN THE BIZ'?

I know three TV car show hosts - those are the people in front of the camera - the ones you called 'actors', which they are not. One of them is a real dick - which kind of reminds me of someone else.

The other two are nice folks.

I have a friend who has carried a TV camera for more than twenty years - that's behind the camera for you, noob.

This friend spends way more time in the editing room than shooting footage. Because you have to go over and over and over to get it down to just so many seconds or minutes.

YOU PUT YOUR FAUX NAME ON THIS POST. WHICH MAKES YOU THE CLOWN FOR BEING SO CLUELESS.

You consistently spout crap and expect folks to believe you?

BWAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA...:111::4_1_72::36_1_30:

mtnman has your number. :23_30_104::23_28_100s::banana:

SO DO I.

SO DOES EVERYONE ELSE.

You are just another worthless clown. Why don't you just cry me a river...

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IBTL

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wallew, I remember having to point out your misinformation on the M1A, amongst others I don't recall atm. lol

Earlier I caught the parts of the same episode I missed (I only have it on in the background while doing chores). Ermey the Knucklehead, the poser, the actor, called the micro Uzi 'a machinegun' - he can't even manage to get that little detail right. lolololololol I cannot wait to see his treatment of the modern battle rifle.

You can suffer all the delusions you want, but the facts of the matter are I used to hang out with some very serious CIII and CII folks in the '80s. Dolf Goldsmith was one of them. I also hung out with Chip McCormick both on the range (shooting his match guns with him) and at his house (reloading ammo and working on pistols). At the time Chip was the fastest there was winning nearly every match he entered. (I still have a very sweet Clark/Wilson Series 70 Govt. Model he won in '83.) And as Chip said about his experience at being the fastest (at the time), "I'm the fastest there is - no brag, jus' fact." And I'm here to tell you, at that time Chip was extremely impressive as were his race guns.

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Here's a little quiz for you wallew (to see if you've studied up on the M1A since you originally had to be corrected for misinfo regarding the origins of it):

Who developed the M1A?

Is he still alive?

What are these early M1As referred to as?

Are these early M1As desirable or not? Why?

Who bought him out and what was the name of the company he sold them?

Is that company still in business? And if so, who owns it now?

At one time there was a sister company to the original company that specialized in one particular rifle - what is the designation of that rifle, what was it developed from, who developed it, and where does it come from?

Eat Beef, you be quiet now, I know that you know, being that anyone who knows anything about the M1A can answer most if not all of these questions.

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Hmmmm,,,,,,,

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Another GIM pissing match.....

I'm outa here

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This is the worst thread I have ever seen on the entire Internet

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Agreed. He's Ermey's no knucklehead

That's
http://www.caimag.com/wordpress/wp-c...03/47knuck.jpg
a knucklehead.

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freebie,
NOW YOU ARE A FIREARMS HISTORY PROFESSOR?

BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!

I musta missed your class on the M1A at gunsmithing school.

And the M1A is the civilian variant of the M14. You know so little, I figured I'd post the TWO different wiki links so you can study up on them and learn the difference. You are so damn smart, you can't even get the nomenclature right? What a maroon.

SHOWS HOW LITTLE YOU ACTUALLY KNOW.

M1A

M14

OH, WAIT.

YOU ARE JUST A CLOWN TRYING TO IMPRESS PEOPLE ON THE INTERNET.

I think your parents should take your computer away from you for a while and make you go sit in your favorite corner for a time out.

You don't have the stones to give ANYONE a test on any firearm.

cry me a river, paganini...

:111::cry1:

Just so the rest of the folks here don't HAVE to go over to wiki, here's the answer you so desperately asked - INCORRECTLY I MIGHT ADD - as the M14 (not the M1A) was the rifle developed for Springfield Armory. Like I said, "WHAT A MAROON"...

Earle Harvey of Springfield Armory designed a completely different rifle, the T25, for the new .30 Light Rifle cartridge. The latter was based upon .30-06 cartridge case cut down to the length of the .300 Savage case. The .30 Light Rifle eventually evolved into the 7.62x51mm NATO and the commercial .308 Winchester round. Although shorter than the .30-06, the 7.62x51mm NATO round retained the same power due to the use of modern propellants.[4] In the background, Lloyd Corbett was tasked with developing .30 Light Rifle conversions for the M1 rifle and later the T20 prototypes. After a series of prototype designs, the T44 surfaced. The earliest T44 prototypes used the T20 receivers rebarreled for 7.62 mm NATO, and replaced the long operating rod/piston of the M1 with the T25's shorter "gas expansion and cut-off" system. Later T44 prototypes used newly fabricated receivers shorter than either the M1 or T20; the new action's length was matched to the shorter 7.62 mm NATO cartridge instead of the longer .30-06. The T44 competed successfully against the T47 (a modified T25) and the FN FAL (T48). This led to the T44's adoption by the U.S. military as the M14 in 1957. Springfield Armory began tooling a new production line in 1958 and delivered the first service rifles to the U.S. Army in July 1959.

Regarding the M1A (also from wiki) ...

The M1A is a civilian version of the M14 rifle designed and manufactured by Springfield Armory, Inc. in 1974. The term "M1A" is a proprietary title for Springfield Armory's M14 pattern rifle. Early M1A rifles were built with surplus G.I. parts until Springfield Armory, Inc. began manufacturing their own.

As you are so smart, here's another little linky on the M1A - another tool that was the pride of American workmanship. From the LAST century. Learn a little. GROW UP A LOT.

And stop bothering the grown-ups with your so called knowledge. If you do all that, then maybe one day you can sit at the grown-up table with the rest of us. Until then, you are simply another child who 'knows so little that you actually think you know so much'...

PRR M1A

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I thought our little "semi-auto shotgun thread" pointed this out already ...SF is an Internet Screen Scrapper/Parrot.

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Just a little one..........:biggrin::biggrin::biggrin:

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Hey Freebie,
Since you are such an expert on M1A's and you like questions about it, how about I ask you a few now?

What is the Rockwell Hardness of a Norinco M1A receiver? And what is the difference between the Norinco M1A receiver and the Springfield Armory M1A receiver? And which receiver is better? And WHY?

If you have built M1A's from a bare receiver, you would know the answer to these questions. Especially if you had built M1A's on Norinco receivers.

But you not only cannot answer them, you've never built one (or two or three or...) an M1A from bare receiver. EVER.

I have. WWII and post WWII firearms are my balewick. It's my specialty and I am VERY FAMILIAR with them. Having disassembled and reassembled most of them at least once. Some of them, many more times than once.

So, freebie, how about enlightening us with you knowledge of the CIVILIAN VERSION OF THE M14. AKA the M1A.

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I see that Freebie, although it's been on the site has refused to respond my questions.

That pretty much spells it out.

Go back and play with the other children and leave the adults alone FREEBIE.

Or answer the questions I posted. But you can't. Not you won't.

YOU CAN'T.

POSER.

EDIT - It's been another day. Freebie is posting on SEVERAL other threads but just wants this one to go away.

Shows how little you know FREEBIE.