User talk:Zackmann08

gun brand pages

Looks good, the H&K logo looks a bit big. Good luck with Smith & Wesson! --Predator20 23:36, 23 December 2011 (CST)

Thank you for the reply, and sorry I misjudged you (to be honest, I didn't notice the discussion, so I did think you were some foolish n00b who was changing things without consulting admins). I thought that I was simply upholding a decision that the rest of the staff had agreed to a long time ago. At the very least, I guess we should discuss the matter again in the topic - and clearly, the forum's not such a good place, since we have too many problems with spammers. And Happy Holidays to you, too. -MT2008 10:01, 24 December 2011 (CST)

Looks good. I'm a mod here. I really like the Colt page. The S&W page is going to be an intensive piece of labor for you. I agree with bunni. We need a category for these new pages. --Jcordell 16:30, 27 December 2011 (CST)

I've been collecting S&W revolvers for several years. S&W has always been a very organized company with outstanding records. Better organized company in so many aspects. In the past couple of years I've gotten into Colt revolvers and I've learned that getting information about the various Colt handguns is very challenging. For most of it's history Colt was rather scatter-shot in it's approach. For example they would have different models use the same serial number range (Official Police and .38 spl Officer Model Target pre-WWII), but the Pre-WWII Officer Model Target .22LR had it's own serial numbers.Why? Who knows? Other models (such as the Theur derringer) would be made for decades and Colt has little to no written records about the models. For example the serial numbers will not tell you what year an individual derringer was made. And then you have the Official Police model and it's variants. Over 700,000 made over a seventy year period. Very challenging. I like the colt double action revolvers, but I can see why colt has almost gone out of business and S&W is still prospering. Hopefully Colt's fairly new management can fix things. --Jcordell 17:37, 27 December 2011 (CST)

No I'm sorry. Not as knowledgable about Taurus. But I do have a couple books that might be helpful. I'll look through them.--Jcordell 19:00, 19 January 2012 (CST)

Once again you're doing good work tackling the pages that the rest of us just lack the energy for. Such as the page for the S&W 27/28. Looks good. --Jcordell 10:40, 7 February 2012 (CST)

Unit Converter

I'll work on the unit converter on Thursday bunni 23:43, 24 January 2012 (CST)

Featured Article Template

The change to remove the poster image was so that the Main Page would better fit smaller screens. Yes, anyone can suggest a Featured Article, I agree it would be better if there was more turn over in the articles. bunni 00:13, 15 February 2012 (CST)

FeaturedArticles2

Thanks for the new images. If you want to try to do some new articles, please refrain from doing video games or anime and please try to find images that show the weapon clearly and that don't have any network logos in them. --Ben41 20:32, 15 February 2012 (CST)

These were initially left out to their overuse in the previous template. You can go ahead and add them to the discussion if you like. --Ben41 04:08, 18 February 2012 (CST)

Identifying revolvers

Just a tip when adding screenshots of revolvers that are hard to identify:

1. Try to find a side shot showing the release lever (these will help identify whether the revolver is an S&W or a Colt).

2. A shot of the ejector rod below the barrel

3. A shot that shows if the revolver has an exposed hammer.

I realize that you won't always be able to find these shots, but just something to keep in mind. --Ben41 20:08, 27 February 2012 (CST)

Using VLC

If you're using VLC player, you can click the "Tools" at the top and then "Effects and Filters". Click the "Video Effects" tab and check the "Adjust" and "Sharpen" box. Use the "Gamma" slider to brighten the image and the "Sharpen" slider to sharpen the picture. Fast Stone also has image adjusters as well. --Ben41 15:58, 2 March 2012 (CST)

Unfortunately, you can't go frame by frame with MKV files without this problem. You can slow it down to 25%, though. If you still want to go frame by frame, Media Player Classic can do this and you can capture screenshots with Fast Stone. --Ben41 23:27, 3 March 2012 (CST)

Distinguishing SIG's

The thing I look for is that SIG P226 has a longer slide than the 228 and 229. Jesse and Eric appear to carry the 229 and Frank uses the 226. --Ben41 00:43, 10 March 2012 (CST)

Ben's criteria for distinguishing SIGs is way too vague. Both the 220 and the 226 have longer slides than the 228 and 229. Basically, if you want to tell whether it's a 226, also look at the trigger guard (it's squared, rather than rounded, like on the 228 and 229). As for distinguishing the 228 from the 229, they're almost the same gun, but the cocking serrations on the 229's slide only reach halfway up the height of the slide, whereas the 228's go to the top. Compare pictures and you'll notice the differences. -MT2008 09:16, 10 March 2012 (CST)

I have a question. The only page you need to put a weapon that was in a game or movie? Can you put a weapon which does not exist anywhere else? That is a weapon that has not been placed yet in any production. ? Sorry for my English, I use the interpreter.--Mateogala 15:22, 20 March 2012 (CDT)

What do you think about the parties modify their weapons for a more transparent? You can put up to each party table with a gallery to gallery site structure is not spoiled. For example, I did MP40. What do you think? So I can edit every weapon that is in service, you can also put a single table. --Mateogala 16:30, 20 March 2012 (CDT)

Who is the Administrator? :)--Mateogala 16:42, 20 March 2012 (CDT)

Category Gun

Why don't you make the categories into a gallery format? Put in the discussion section and then I'll put it on the page. --Ben41 17:27, 20 March 2012 (CDT)

Deleted Gun images

If a weapon is on the main page, but isn't used in anything, please move to discussion page (just in case there happens to be something it's used in the future). --Ben41 21:13, 20 March 2012 (CDT)

RE: CSI: NY

I removed your image because your image shows a newer-model P226 with a rail and short-reset trigger, while the gun used in that episode of the show is an original German-made 226 without the frame rail. Do you think that yours is more representative simply because it has black controls? -MT2008 22:28, 20 March 2012 (CDT)

There's no need to apologize. :) Also, the two-tone 226 in CSI:NY is the same one that appears in Bad Boys II and a few episodes of Burn Notice. I don't think it's a factory two-tone gun, or else it would have nickel controls. I think it was made by taking the slide from a nickel 226 and fitting it to a regular blued frame, which is why it retains the standard blued controls. I keep wondering if ISS built that 226 and the one from 2 Fast 2 Furious simultaneously by swapping out parts from one blued 226 and one nickel 226. It would explain a lot. -MT2008 22:55, 20 March 2012 (CDT)

Movie guns get reused in lots of different productions, because the armory that owns them will rent them out to other productions in order to keep making money from the gun's usage (the most obvious example is the Timecop Taurus pistols, which have also appeared on all of the Stargate TV shows and a million other productions filmed in Canada). It doesn't really matter whether the actor handling the gun is a major character in the show or not.

No, MPM does not work for ISS (he has his own company, and he's told us before that his company is one of the smaller armories), but he prefers to remain anonymous on here.

I have no idea how to make all of the sub-categories appear on the front of the page. It seems to be a formatting issue, and looking at the code, I'm not sure how to resolve it. -MT2008 11:07, 24 March 2012 (CDT)

Alright, try it now. -MT2008 15:15, 24 March 2012 (CDT)

re:1911 gallery

I'll do what I can to help. --Predator20 12:33, 22 March 2012 (CDT)

Most of the hard work was done by you. All I did was take out images out here and there.--Predator20 23:20, 22 March 2012 (CDT)

Pistols

How are you defining pistols? I would think the Uzi Pistol is ... a pistol. And the second P in Steyr SPP is "pistol". --Funkychinaman 16:27, 22 March 2012 (CDT)

Re:M16A2

No, you are the one who is mistaken. Look at the trigger group; it only has 2 positions - Safe and Semi, making this a civilian AR-15 A2 HBAR. A true M16A2 would have a third position for the 3-round burst mode. Orca1 9904 04:11, 25 March 2012 (CDT)

Did you even bother looking at the caption for the image on the M16 rifle series article? You are dangerously close to angering me. I strongly advise you to cease and desist immediately. Orca1 9904 04:34, 25 March 2012 (CDT)

RE: AR-15 Gallery

I have actually made an "Colt AR-15 Identification Guide" page but haven't uploaded it yet that has the table I put on my user page, but the main addition is a glossary at the bottom of the page that will link from the text in the table, and will have pictures of the various different parts (such as different upper receivers and stocks, stuff like that). Its nearly ready, I just need to get around to uploading the pictures of the various parts. This is only for Colt variants though (would be way to complicated if it included other companies weapons as that starts getting into aftermarket or unique parts) so I think it is worth having both this and the gallery, as that includes non Colt weapons, guns derived from the AR-15 design and 7.62 weapons. I'll have a look through the gallery and sort out the Colt variants, particular the carbines with just the model number as these are particularly troublesome. Also these carbines were not civilian rifles, so will move them to the military section. --commando552 07:09, 25 March 2012 (CDT)

RE: Star Pistol series

I guess you could create a page with all of them. But I wouldn't start redirecting the existing pages until some other mods chime in. I don't know enough about the Star pistols and the differences between each type.--Predator20 09:17, 25 March 2012 (CDT)

Grenades

Always be very careful when uploading new grenade pics; there's a fairly high chance that a good picture of a grenade found online is actually an Airsoft grenade, as with that M84 grenade pic you uploaded which is a G&G M84 replica (you can tell because of the screw-in base and the triangular pin being in the primary pin hole, which should have a round pin). Also, it looks clean and real grenades age five years the second they're issued. Nobody knows why. Evil Tim 11:16, 27 March 2012 (CDT)