Many movies today do hire armorers to handle and guide the use of guns but you are right, a lot if the past movies had had racking and cocking of guns that didn’t and, of course a round was never ejected when they actually did rack a gun that could be racked.Independence Day, when Judd Hirsch answers the door, he racks a double barrel shotgun. You hear a racking sound, but he has the double barrel shotgun....
Any show where the character grips a Glock, and it makes a clicking/cocking sound.
One time I was shooting at a range in some gravel pit and was shooting a .45 at some pieces of plywood down range. One of the rounds must have missed and hit a rock at an angle causing it to ricochet at a forward angle. It sounded exactly like those "pew" sounds from the old west movies as it flew away.I recently watched "Fistful of Dollars", "For a Few Dollars More" and "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly". I want to learn how to make that "peeeeeeeeeewwww" ricochet noise.
One time I was shooting at a range in some gravel pit and was shooting a .45 at some pieces of plywood down range. One of the rounds must have missed and hit a rock at an angle causing it to ricochet at a forward angle. It sounded exactly like those "pew" sounds from the old west movies as it flew away.
They'd still mess it up.Maybe all the guns in all the movies and tv shows should be flintlocks?
What sound does a flintlock make when you rack the slide?They'd still mess it up.
I'm pretty sure most of the armorers are basically just prop handlers that passed an online safety course and have no artistic or dramatic input to the end product and limited actual authority on set. Otherwise they'd spend the whole production crying in a corner.Many movies today do hire armorers to handle and guide the use of guns but you are right, a lot if the past movies had had racking and cocking of guns that didn’t and, of course a round was never ejected when they actually did rack a gun that could be racked.
I suspect those that know guns are not involved any longer when the sound department does its thing and I doubt the sound guys know anything about guns…