Roll into rifle position?

[Indycar:v1.1]

When I'm prone, using a military style target sling, it's easier to roll to my left side, get my arm, sling, rifle and hand situated and then roll to my right into shooting position. This is a typical thing for right handed shooters. When you've used a sling the way it's meant to be used you'll realize IT"S NOT A TACTICAL MANEUVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You guys need to experience what shooting really is and quit thinking that EVERYTHING Hollywierd is Tacticool and discover what real shooting discipline is.

 

[lucky4034]

When I'm prone, using a military style target sling, it's easier to roll to my left side, get my arm, sling, rifle and hand situated and then roll to my right into shooting position. This is a typical thing for right handed shooters. When you've used a sling the way it's meant to be used you'll realize IT"S NOT A TACTICAL MANEUVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You guys need to experience what shooting really is and quit thinking that EVERYTHING Hollywierd is Tacticool and discover what real shooting discipline is.

This... its just easier to get into a sling on your side (or back apparently) then it is on your belly. He does make it way more dramatic than it needs to be tho...

 

[printcraft]

This... its just easier to get into a sling on your side (or back apparently) then it is on your belly. He does make it way more dramatic than it needs to be tho...

Tactical Xenu method.

 

[m4lover]

its for older men who don't want to just drop on their guts.

 

[JettaKnight]

This... its just easier to get into a sling on your side (or back apparently) then it is on your belly. He does make it way more dramatic than it needs to be tho...

Tom Cruise being overly melodramatic? NEVER!


Maybe I'll try this move (in the privacy of my own home so I don't look like a doofus at the range).

 

[Sgtusmc]

Cinematography drama to make the audience squeal with delight in his awesome skills on a range.

He's on a range. Tell me what reason he had to be on his back to have to roll into a shooting position? He didn't crawl up to the firing line with a drag kit. It was just all for the angle. If you were a sniper and had to, say, pull a drag kit under some wire immediately before rolling back into a prone firing position, then that were be a necessary move.

 

[Kirk Freeman]

The roll starts at 45 seconds into the clip

Thanks for posting the video Manatee.

OP, it's just movie drama. Like the spent cases as earplugs or shooting without eye pro so the camera gets all the face (the reason for the Full Sabrina in movies is so that the director can get the gun and the actor's face in the face shot).

Cruise isn't using eye pro, he is doing the Farah Fawcett, etc., etc. inter alia.

It's just a stupid movie with gun scenes written by Second Unit Directors who know very little about guns or shooting (yet they are the ones selling the guns, the blind leads the blind).

 

[lava dog 1/3]

Jack Reaper sucks. Cruise is such a D-Bag. Granted a rich one. I prefer to get my tactics via pop/hip hop artist/ burger joint owner. Someone I like to call Markie Mark.

 

[rhino]

I don't know about this movie, but Cruise has trained pretty hard with some competent advisors in some of his other movies (like "Collateral"). It's not always a training issue and it's not always a technical advisor issue. Sometimes both of those are in place and the director and/or DP make decisions contrary to advice to make it look the way they want it to look. Sometimes that's a bad choice across the board. Sometimes they're probably catering to the millions of ticket buyers who don't know any better, but will think it looks really cool. That's going to carry more weight in a business situation than technical accuracy.

 

[Timjoebillybob]

Heck with the roll, (unless of course it's a jelly/nut/pumpkin/etc) what is with touching his thumb to the lens of the scope at about the 1:48-50 mark?

 

[Sgtusmc]

Heck with the roll, (unless of course it's a jelly/nut/pumpkin/etc) what is with touching his thumb to the lens of the scope at about the 1:48-50 mark?

He was doing a stealthy brass catch but put a dirty thumb print on his glass while doing it.

 

[Manatee]

Heck with the roll, (unless of course it's a jelly/nut/pumpkin/etc) what is with touching his thumb to the lens of the scope at about the 1:48-50 mark?

He was using his thumb to move the bolt & catch the brass and didn't have enough thumb to complete the cycle…so he leveraged it off the glass.

So many things wrong with this shot. Definitely 5 steps below the excellent work in Collateral.