So I am channel surfing the television this evening and I come across LOST on ABC. I don’t follow the show but I will usually stop and look for a moment or two just to see what new world appliance or convenience they find on that deserted island this week.

Well this time the surprise is a Chinese spike bayonet SKS. I am thinking, whoa! An SKS on television, I will have to stay tuned in for a bit to see if they have it fire off in fully automatic fashion and blow through 50 or 60 rounds of ammo before the guy looks at it in disgust and thrown it to the ground as if it will no longer shoot bullets at all ever.

Well, I did not get very far until they had the guy carrying it (Naveen Andrews) stumble upon a cow… on a desert island. Ok, I don’t follow the show so there is probably an explanation in the storyline somehow, but I don’t care, I’m watching to see what the guy with the SKS does.

He sees the cow and steps gingerly towards it and brings the SKS up to his chest and there is heard a chuck-chuck cocking sound. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! The sound guy puts the sound of a lever action rifle cocking for the SKS; a bolt action carbine that would sound more like caaa-lunk.

Guys, it isn’t hard to get these things right! SKS’s are the cheapest and most available semi-automatic rifles in the United States, SOMEONE on the payroll must know someone who belongs to a shooting range. Yes, even though it is Commiefornia and all that. It just looks bad (in this case sounds bad) when something so simple is gotten so wrong.

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