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== SKS Rifle == | == SKS Rifle == | ||
A year later Bob ([[Bruce Dern]]) returns from South Vietnam and learns about his wife Sally ([[Jane Fonda]]) and Luke Martin ([[Jon Voight]]). He retrieves a disassembled [[SKS rifle]] from his footlocker (which is full of war souvenirs) and reassembles it minus the wood furniture. | A year later Bob ([[Bruce Dern]]) returns from South Vietnam and learns about his wife Sally ([[Jane Fonda]]) and Luke Martin ([[Jon Voight]]). He retrieves a disassembled [[SKS rifle]] from his footlocker (which is full of war souvenirs) and reassembles it minus the wood furniture.Later Luke Martin ([[Jon Voight]]) breaks the rifle down. | ||
[[Image:ChineseType56Carbine.jpg|thumb|none|500px|Chinese Type 56 Carbine aka the Chinese SKS rifle - 7.62x39mm. The Chinese SKS has a stamped receiver and a spike bayonet (aka a "pig sticker") much like one of their [[AK-47]] copies - the [[AK-47#Norinco Type 56|Type 56]] assault rifle. This version, like many imported SKS rifles, have the infamous 'orange cratewood' stocks, probably the lowest quality wood in any mass produced rifle, save for the last ditch [[Arisaka Rifle#Arisaka Type 99|Arisaka Type 99]] rifles at the end of WW2. Many SKS rifles during the Vietnam War were issued with reddish plastic stocks, because of the incidents of 'wood rot' in the humid SE Asian jungles.]] | [[Image:ChineseType56Carbine.jpg|thumb|none|500px|Chinese Type 56 Carbine aka the Chinese SKS rifle - 7.62x39mm. The Chinese SKS has a stamped receiver and a spike bayonet (aka a "pig sticker") much like one of their [[AK-47]] copies - the [[AK-47#Norinco Type 56|Type 56]] assault rifle. This version, like many imported SKS rifles, have the infamous 'orange cratewood' stocks, probably the lowest quality wood in any mass produced rifle, save for the last ditch [[Arisaka Rifle#Arisaka Type 99|Arisaka Type 99]] rifles at the end of WW2. Many SKS rifles during the Vietnam War were issued with reddish plastic stocks, because of the incidents of 'wood rot' in the humid SE Asian jungles.]] | ||
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Revision as of 21:15, 1 October 2011
The following weapons can be seen in Coming Home: (1978)
M16
The movie begins a couple days before Captain Bob Hyde (Bruce Dern) ships out to South Vietnam. At one point he is seen qualifying with his M16.
SKS Rifle
A year later Bob (Bruce Dern) returns from South Vietnam and learns about his wife Sally (Jane Fonda) and Luke Martin (Jon Voight). He retrieves a disassembled SKS rifle from his footlocker (which is full of war souvenirs) and reassembles it minus the wood furniture.Later Luke Martin (Jon Voight) breaks the rifle down.
