I’m a big fan of The Walking Dead, but not zombie themed weapons. As a gun enthusiast and avid watcher of The Walking Dead I always spot all the firearms ignorance in the series. The latest was from episode three of season three, we get introduced to “The Governor”. His main offense? Well I’ll let his ridiculous cross draw holster setup go, maybe he likes it that way. I’ll also let his chicken winging seen above slide. What really got me was the offense also seen above. Really, no rear sight on that AR-15? It looks like they just picked it up off the shelf at their local gun shop, and maybe that’s what the armorer/prop guy for the show did.
SPOILERS BELOW!
In the show that AR-15 was picked up off a National Guard solider the Governor killed, maybe it used to have a red dot of some sort that has since run out of batteries or been damaged? Even then you should always have a BUIS. This isn’t the first gun goof in The Walking Dead and it probably won’t be the last, but I still can’t wait to see each episode every Sunday!
At least Rick’s Maglite suppressor was plausible. Check out our past post on the guns of The Walking Dead for more info on the guns used in the show.
i caught the rear sight too.
as far as the chicken wing and other discrepencies, i assume that these are untrained civies. i.e., he may have hunted before the apoc. but wasn’t a soldier. this needs to be allowed since it makes sense. if everyone carried in sul, it would not be plausible.
I noticed this too, in episode one of season 3 none of their guns seemed to have any recoil or eject any shells. Still a fan of the sow tho.
About having a BUIS, very well said wisdom, unfortunately, if you look at any US Marine with an M16A4 or M4 from say 2004 onwards, and the rifle has a Trijicon RCO, you will not find one BUIS. Just now we’re getting the Knights Armament rear sights for our rifles. It hasn’t really been a problem though, if the RCO got messed up, simply exchange it with the 2111 in the rear.
well if the rifle used to have optic mounted on it, at least it should have a rail on it..
It did have a rail…
I just saw the episode yesterday, yeah it did..
I feel stupid for posting without seeing the episode in the first place..
I’m a fan of the Walking Dead show too. I remember inn one of the last episodes of the second season when the walkers finally took over the farm, the old man who owned the farm (can’t remember his name) fired his pump action shotgun about 50 times without stopping once to reload. Of course, it seems like reloading almost never happens in the movies.
A japanese show called Jormungand Perfect order (season 2) is FARR more legit than walking dead, 24, and many of the western ‘action’ movies and shows in terms of legitimacy in the use of firearms without it being hyper realistic.
Hell, even Catsh!t one shit’s on the ‘authenticity’ of western shows.
Writers from the west need to step it up. It’s a shame that Japanese writers have *started* to have more respect for the proper utilization of firearms than us. Step the f* up!
For clarity, the shows name really is cat sh!t one. So what I said on my previous post is not a typo.
All though there are many problems with the firearms and weapons within the walking dead i think it should be clear that it isnt the fault of just the writers, the writers mearly start with the problem then the prop department, the director, visual effects supervisor, producer and many more people decide to continue the show like this. It is disapointing but u cant just blame the writers.
Im hoping they will try to fix the problems in the newer episodes, atleast get an advisor or something