Firearms Expert Reacts to the Fallout TV Show’s Guns

A slightly different episode today as we take a look at a show rather than a videogame. But I hope you enjoy and agree that if any show deserved an episode, it's Fallout! (And we do have a couple more Fallout based episodes planned for all you Wasteland fans, so stay tuned 😉)

My theory, those sentry guns have that "please remain calm" tvs because the knew that these turrets were inaccurate, so they wanted the targets to stay stationary.

I assumed the Ghoul fiddling with his rifle's bullet there was due to Walton himself not really knowing what to do with it and not being given direction for where to go with the bullet, and the camera just hung on that shot for too long to make it look awkward

If Jonathan's surprised to see a Sterling in Fallout then I can only imagine the puzzlement when he finds out there's an L86 LSW in Fallout 2

Despite the Classic 10mm being a prop, I LOVE how they actually went through the trouble of ensuring the cylinder rotates with every trigger pull, effectively making it function like a real double-action revolver. It's a tiny, tiny detail...but considering most GAMES wouldn't bother, nevermind TV shows, it's a really nice luxury to see.

Vault armouries might hold old weapons - like the Sterling - because they are planning to store the weapons for a long time. They would want stuff that is easily maintained with minimal training on top of the advanced stuff.

I believe hearing from someone working on the show they reached out to Fallout cosplay(ers) and other online makers to borrows things for the show. The opening scene with the assaultron in the sand is from a cosplayers who made it based on on the Nukaworld DLC.

It’s been said before but the best part about this show is easily the fact that Johnathan is also a nerd for video games as well as guns. It lets him present the perfect mixture of “firearms expert” and “gamer”. Hearing that he actually watched the show before doing this video was so refreshing, it really feels like he knows what he’s talking about! Seems like a true professional

It's funny with the Colt 6520, because the mechanics of it really urks me, but the visual of this boxy 10 mm being fired and the cylinder revolving just looks really pleasing in the show.

12:00 they forgot that Desert Eagles were all over the place in OG Fallout

The syringe Dart gun might also be referencing the Needler from Fallout 2. from the game: "You suspect this Bringham needler pistol was once used in scientific field studies. It uses small hard-plastic hypodermic darts as ammo."

Hey Jonathan! So the Desert Eagle is actually a canon gun in the Fallout universe. It was in the first two games, and I think they chose it for the "power armour semi auto" as a reference to that. Love the video as always!

A thing that surprised me a bit is that we could see laser weapons several times, even in the hands of some characters, but I don't think we ever saw one being fired.

01:38 She did specify that she only dabbled in riflery and that she's not very good, so the fact that she flinched makes a little more sense🔫

I mean, Coop/The Ghoul was hella hopped up on chems and had been shot a couple times by the time he was fiddling with the mare's leg. Also, as a writer and film/tv/game nerd, what I love the most about the show was how little "tell" the show does about everything. Any chance they have to "show don't tell", they take it. And anytime they do engage in some telling, they do it really naturally, like with Maximus just being a dork geeking out about power armour. Like, you know a team of lesser writers would have been too tempted to drop in a line or two of dialogue explaining the junk jet or stimpacks when they first appear. Instead it just really shows respect to the audience that, if they haven't played the games, they actually have a brain and can work it out on their own. Bravo writers.

in that shot of the ghoul trying to load the bullet, it looks like he first tries to load it into the back just under the hammer and then remembers it goes on the the side

13:18 New Vegas had a Marlin 45-70 (Brush Gun) and a .357 Winchester (Cowboy Repeater).

I'd love to see Jonathan reacting to some of the dlc weapons of Fallout New Vegas like the Red Glare, Shoulder Mounted Machine Gun, K9000 machine gun, 12.7mm SMG and Holorifle.

One of Ma June's weapons is also the Lever Action Rifle from Fallout 4: Far Harbor; it's seen right next to the plasma pistol, hanging vertically.

Regarding fallout weapons many 1940s weapons are still used in the series with it established that the BAR, Thompson, Grease Gun, and etc are all used by standard army units in the games. With the M1 garand being used still as well and were even created by the Gun Runners. Despite it being sci fi there’s as well multiple old world weapons used quite often with a mix of custom weapons for the series and some “modernish” weapons Edit: surprised Johnathon Ferguson didn’t mention regarding The Ghouls Pistol that it’s firing a gyrojet.