On Wednesday May 15 1996, Dave Appel wrote to Cloyce Osborn:
CO>> Ahh, gee.  Does that mean we're not supposed to notice when
CO>> the hero boils ou of his pickup with a stainless steel M700 in
CO>> a fiberglass stock with no open sights, no scope bases (let
CO>> alone scope) then drops the bad guy at 100-300 yards?
CO>> (Walker, Texas Ranger, two weeks ago).
DA>
DA> I woulda thunk that Chuck Norris would have said something and
DA> had the prop man get a rifle with at least open sights.
The problem most likely was that Chuck never saw or handled the rifle until a 
couple of minutes before the scene was filmed.  With the schedule of a weekly 
production, I'm surprised that such anomolies are not more frequent.  Add to 
the possible causes the likelihood that the property manager went to central 
properties, asked for a sniper-type rifle and brought back the only rifle in 
stock at the time.
Jim
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