Re: Mistake in "Home to Judgment"

Hi Steven and welcome,

Steven wrote:
Near the end of "Home to Judgment," Kelly kills the last intruder with this rifle, but in the show it fires very rapidly, as a semi-automatic would. It would be absolutely impossible to fire this rifle this rapidly.





Just thinking out loud here, but I imagine that this may have been done for dramatic effect.

I know NOTHING about rifles or guns and would never notice anything about the way a rifle or gun was being fired in an episode. And I imagine 98% of the audience didn't either, so they could do something like the rapid firing you mentioned and no one would know ... except for you and Robert Culp!!

Nice that you and Kelly share an identical inheritance.

Thanks for the insider observation ....

All my best,

Tatia

P.S. I just received this note from our charming "Anonymous Venice and Ostia Photographer"

Hi Tatia,
Just for the record, the rate of fire of a Winchester pump-action 22 used in Home to Judgment (Model 1890 or 1906) can be very high (if someone is at all familiar the operation of a pump action rifle). That rate may actually almost approach the rate of fire of a fully automatic (machine gun) weapon. Trust me on this -

O.K. "Anonymous Photographer" - I do!! Thanks for the information ... as you know, I love "information"!!


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