I'm starting to think Hollywood doesn't have the best understanding of firearms.
shareHasn't it always been that way?
shareYep.
shareNot always. Some movies' depictions of gunfights are more realistic. I think of the scene in The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford where two men i a bedroom shoot at each other almost point blank numerous times and mostly miss.
share๐ That's what I thought too, plus those guys were just too good with those guns. DiCaprio never missed despite using a gun which is accurate only at about two feet, and from a galloping horse, no less. And Hardy's shot that knocked the dead guy off the horse, what a marksman!.
shareOk so maybe he had two pistols but...
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Most of the firearms scenes in this film are un-realistic given the conditions and hardware being used.
1) In the beginning hitting an Elk and killing it from that far with one shot.
2) Not one of the guns miss-fired in the attack scene
3) After being tossed about in the bear attack his cocked flintlock still had powder on the pan to shoot.
4) When did he have time to take two pistols, powder and shot from the frenchmen?
5) Shooting twice with pistols from horseback and hitting targets
6) What professional would ever be so foolish to try to shoot a man with a pistol at that range, when the man has a rifle aimed at him
7) Shooting a man on a moving horse at 200 yards
8) A professional tracker, chasing a man, chooses to use his one shot shooting a moving target in the woods?
9) A professional trapper, fleeing being chased would throw aside his musket when being chased.