Talk:Mail Call

To Come Later

Gunny with an M20 Super Bazooka.

Gunny shows off an IMI Galil during the episode when he visits Knob Creek. While I could likely I.D. these guns myself, I'll let you guys have some fun. Keep it organized please. And don't worry, I'll be sure to do an in depth analysis of the Knob Creek episode later on.

That's definitely an M82A1 .50 BMG in the background on the field Shooter

I can see a Dragunov, M1A1 and M3 at the very least on the table. The Wierd It 15:35, 19 October 2009 (UTC)

Is that not the muzzle brake of a PK or early-PKM in the extreme left of the photo? You can only see some of the barrel and the muzzlebrake.SAWGunner89 17:14, 11 November 2009 (UTC)

Discussion

"You sunk my battleship, you asshole!

Makes me laugh every time XD

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I'm not exactly a regular viewer, but I've watched this show enough to know that you'll be middle-aged by the time you finished documenting all of the weapons in it. -MT2008 04:35, 25 January 2009 (UTC)

Well I already have two seasons and SNAFU done. It will take maybe a month or two, but the other seasons can also be completed. Plus, once I'm done, it will be litterally impossible to make a page with more guns. - Gunmaster45

This page is going to be ridiculously huge once every season is added. Should I divide the page into seasons, like have Seasons 1 & 2 on one page, 3 & 4 on the next, etc?

The King of IMFB

Mail Call is at 98 guns and counting. And I still have 6 more seasons to add eventually! The Unit cowers in fear. A new king rules the site. - Gunmaster45

It's a history channel show about guns. What do you expect? I've seen most of the episodes but I didn't bother screen capping them because it's more like an info show about guns with R. Lee Ermey. You don't need to know what guns they use because the show is all about tell you Excalibur01 16:45, 25 January 2009 (UTC)

Personally, I still don't understand why you guys are competing to have the longest gun pages on IMFDB. I just don't get why this excites people so much. -MT2008

Cause we can. It's something to encourage the making of pages. A sense of pride that you made a page, cap all the guns and it looks good in your eyes. And I'm seeing some repeats in the page. We don't need to know in the second season they used the M1 Garand again. Excalibur01 17:11, 25 January 2009 (UTC)

It is the easiest organization. Plus, if we see it again, like how we see Gunny shoot it in different episodes, we see it much better, it helps document it better (Think of it like each season is a new page, I figured this was the easiest way to document such a huge show). And it doesn't tell you every single gun on the show. 70% of the guns I capped from this show I had to know from my own knowledge. I don't mean to offend you Ex, but after so much hard work (and very little sleep), I just want my bragging rights. - Gunmaster45

Being someone without history channel, I like to think I'm showing all the people like me the guns of the show. Once I get the rest of the Seasons on here, I'm going to love doing the Knob Creek episode. I reccomend you all watch the video on youtube, it is incredible. And since Gunny doesn't tell us every gun we see, it will aid the viewer greatly. - Gunmaster45

Look, I don't really think repeating a gun is better orginazation, it's just repetition and counting a repeat on the overal of how many guns is kinda cheating. Yoy claim this page has 98 guns, but I've counted 5 of them repeat at least once, the M16A1 is up there 3 times. How hard is it to compact all the kinds of caps of the same gun under one section instead of 3? You are entitled to brag, and it's a very nice and big page you got here. I just think you over did it with the repeats. It's like if I started to cap repeats of guns from every season of The Unit and start a new section for that repeated gun, I'd be all day on my page doing that. Excalibur01 06:13, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

For anyone who is interested, the first 5 seasons of Mail Call are available on Hulu. 61 full episodes. --Gunkatas 06:47, 26 May 2010 (UTC)

GM45

I'd hate to say this, but you're quite an asshole. On here your talking down Marines because they have their fingers on the triggers. You have to remember, these are the guys who have pleged their lives towards the defending and sustainment of our lives. They are also training to fight in a war that has claimed thousands of lives, three of which were very close friends of mine. Again, i apologise, but please edit the rude remarks off the page. The Winchester

He's usually talking about actors, though, isn't he?

Not on this page The Winchester

I guarantee you I had no intention of offending anyone. I can remove the comment on the M203 section about the guy with his finger on the trigger, but I didn't mean to say it to insult him or any Marines, I guess I was just noting a recruit slip up (not a big deal, it can go). I don't think it merits me being considered an asshole, but I'll change it for the sake of the guys with theirs lives on the line every day. Let me know if there are any other assholish comments I should remove ;) - Gunmaster45

Few Points

-The section with the M1903 Mk.I Springfield, where US troops are seen using them, I very much doubt are Mk.Is. Without seeing the cutout for the Pederson device it's impossible to be 100% sure, but Mk.Is were never actually issued during WW1. It and the Pederson device were intended to be used in the planned offensives of spring 1919, by the time the war ended they hadn't made nearly enough to issue.

- The Colt New Service seen in a 101st Airborne Reenactor's shoulder holster is a Smith & Wesson Victory. You can tell by the grips, the size of the gun and the style of the holster. Kinda farby for a 101st reenactor, the Victorys were mostly issued to Navy and USMC troops in the Pacific.

-I very much doubt those are British troops with the M1914 Hotchkiss, while the British Army did use a Hotchkiss gun, it was the M1909 Portative model. I suspect they're mostly likely Americans, or possibly Belgians.

-The Hawkins Plains Rifle is not a modern weapon, it was introduced in the 1850s by the Hawkins brothers as the first commercial rifle intended for hunting western game. It was extremely popular at the time. It's become such a mainstay of modern hunters for the same reason it was popular back then - it's light, handy and has a big enough calibre for western game, and also because muzzle loader hunting became popular about the same time Jeremiah Johnson came out, where Robert Redford prominently used a Hawkins.

-Nyles

M1-C or M1-D

I noticed that if you look at the barrel of M1-c it doesn't have the widened barrel that M1-c has. this leads me to belive that it is a M1-D not an M1-c. Drjuki 14:09, 8 August 2009 (UTC)

The "widened barrel" is a clip-on flash supressor, it comes off and was used with both models.

Documentary

I'd like to add my own page. It's about a documentary. However, I won't be screencapping any archival footage; about half of this documentary are reenactments with authentic historical weapons. Would that be ok? Crackshot 01:09, 5 January 2010 (UTC)

Moved from main page

It's listed in the M1919A4 section, but you can see a shoulder stock, which makes it an A6. --Funkychinaman 13:14, 11 December 2011 (CST)

Two soldiers in WWII footage reload a Browning M1919A4.

XM8 episode

Does anyone find it funny how the Soldier demonstrating it praised the weapon's on-board optical sight and how you didn't have train troops to line up the sights, yet once Gunny brought up the subject of the electronic sight going down, the Soldier flips up the BUIS in a sort of "badda bing" moment and doesn't even bother to mention that troops would still have to be trained on how to use said BUIS? Spartan198 (talk) 16:17, 25 November 2012 (EST)