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When Swagger is going to see the Russian sniper, the bait, he takes out one of the guards with a wire around the neck. The only problem here is that the wire isn't even close to the guard's neck. See more...

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When the Ethiopean Archbishop is killed you hear the gun go off and the Archbishop dies almost immediately, but as Swagger also points out, the hang time would actually be around 5 to 6 seconds. Which means that, when we see it from the gun's point of view, there should be quite a long wait for him to get hit. [The gunshot would have been heard several seconds after the bullet was actually fired also. So the target would have been killed about that close to the time the gunshot was heard.]
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In the scene where the news anchor puts out the information that the suspect is tentatively identified as Bob Lee Swagger, the picture of Mark Wahlberg in full BDU "Battle-Rattle" shows him with a full-on goatee. The USMC does not permit facial hair. [More than likely Swagger was involved in Spec Ops in the Marines. Most Spec Ops in any branch allow for "Modified Grooming Standards" to blend in with the local population.]
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Near the end of the movie where the bad guys have Donnie's widow, they are all in the mountains(an obviously cold place) yet they are not dressed appropriately nor is their breath visible. [How they dress is merely their decision, and your breath being visible has as much to do with humidity as it does with temperature.]
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When Swagger is laying in bed recovering at his spotter's girlfriend's house, there is a lamp with the shade pulled below the bulb that is turned off on the desk, but the mirror has the lamp turned on? [What you see above the lampshade is not a lightbulb, it is a lamp finial. If you pause the movie at 00:53:01 you can see a dimpled texture to this finial ball. The mirror is angled out from the wall - which is obvious when paused at this timestamp. Therefore, what you are seeing is a 'birdseye' view of the illumination from the bulb below.]
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The sniper continually switches shooting hands. During several scenes, Walberg shoots with his right hand (both helicopters, Barrett on Dinty Moore can, agents at boat launch). In other sniper shots, he shoots with his left hand (pistol [most], three guys on mountain-top, as well as dude with shotgun to girl's neck). He also does it with the knife (first guy into kidneys - right hand; second guy in neck from culvert -left hand). [Since the scenes take place at completely different times, there's no mistake here. It's probably intentional to show the level of the character's skill. Ambidextrous accuracy takes quite a lot of talent and/or practice.]
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Right after Swagger's friend is killed by the helicopter we see him revealing his M82A1 sniper rifle. After every shot he makes Swagger is reloading the rifle by cocking it, but his rifle is semi-automatic and doesn't need to reload after every round fired. [Incorrect. The rifle depected in this movie is the M107, a bolt-action Special Applications rifle, currently in use by the United States Marine Corps.] www.imfdb.org cites that the M107 used in the movie was indeed a regular semi-automatic. It was fired with blanks, which caused stoppages. The editing of the movie makes it look like Swagger cocks the rifle after every shot.
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If you watch the scene on the snowcapped mountains where the two helicopters land, and pay close attention to the location of each sniper, you'll see that there is no possible way each sniper could assume his position without the others seeing them: the whole shootout would have occured long before the helicopters landed. [All of the snipers are on the same side, and to take out Swagger. Swagger waits to take them out until the helicopter lands to show the others that he can take out such long targets, as well as to scare them.]
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In the scene at Wahlberg's home in the mountains, Glover throws him a medal in a case and asks if he knows what it is. Wahlberg answers, "The Congressional Medal of Honor." This is incorrect. It is simply the Medal of Honor. [Up until fairly recently, the medal's official name was indeed The Congressional Medal of Honor. It is only recently that the name has been changed, but the old name is still often used in daily speech. In fact, the name of the official society for recipients is still "The Congressional Medal of Honor Society". See http://www.cmohs.org/medal.htm .]
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In the beginning when Swagger's partner fires the M203 grenade launcher at one of the trucks, he was about 900 yards or more away from them. An actual M203 grenade launcher can only fire up to 500 yards. [Yes a M203 grenade launcher has a range of 500 yards, but combination of fire angle (approx. 45 degrees)and elevation (probably 200')will increase range.]
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As mentioned in a DVD feature, the film portrayed bullet trajectory as a straight line. This is inaccurate due to gravity. If the snipers within the movie were to realistically shoot the targets at such a long distance, they would need to aim upwards and shoot in an arc. The trajectory was done straight to save from the (complex) explanation of the physics, and ultimately, to save the gory simulation of an actual hit with an arc trajectory. [The scene that portrayed the shot on the target during the assassination was in fact innaccurate to avoid excessive gore. The scenes showing the crosshairs were factual, however. When shooting at long range, a sniper will adjust the scope for windage (left/right) and elevation (up/down)based on the bullet, range, and environmental factors to cause the crosshairs to be situated exactly where they need to aim. Therefore, though the line of sight is directly at the target, the bore of the gun is pointed up to compensate for the drop of the bullet. An example of this concept can be given with a .308 shooting a 208 grain projectile with a ballistic coefficient of .6 and muzzle velocity of 2600 fps, 300 yard zero and 5 mph crosswind. At 1,000 yards, the shooter would have to adjust the scope nearly 30 minutes of angle or hold the crosshairs over the target nearly 300 inches or 25 feet. Likewise, the wind drift would be about 39 inches or the shooter could adjust the scope about 1.9 minutes of angle. Adjusting the scope is by far easier. Keep in mind that the gun used in the movie is not a .308, but a .408 Chey Tac.]
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in the scene where Wahlberg delivers his recon report to the secret service agents on the likely assassination locations, there is a huge flag hanging in the airplane hangar. It is behind him as he leaves after delivering his report. The flag is hung backwards - - would never happen in a real government location. American flags are always hung with the blue union section in the upper left to a viewer. [The flag is hung so that the union is in a relative position to other things or directions, not so it is automatically to the left of the viewer. For instance, on a street that runs north and south the union must be to the east. So, if you're heading north the union would be to your right. It would only be to your left if you were traveling south. The flag isn't hung incorrectly in this scene, we're just seeing it from an unusual angle.]
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In the scene where the gunny walks into a room he has rented and after buying things to patch himself up, notice the gunshot wound that was on his right shoulder is now on his left, then in the next scene it is back on his right shoulder again. [Look again - he walks into the room and he sees his reflection in the mirror/glass - that's why it looks like it was his left shoulder.]
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When Walhberg is on his cell phone at his cabin talking about leaving for a few days and having his dog fed, it's already been established he is living up in the mountains in an extreme remote area. How is his cell phone getting any signal? [Take a look at http://www.wireless.att.com/coverageviewer/ - wireless coverage is pretty ubiquitous, even in remote, mountainous areas. Plus, judging by the timeline of Presidents and some of the computer technology, this story takes place a few years in the future, so wireless coverage could have expanded even more. If he built the cabin himself, he'd probably choose an area with reliable cell coverage so he could stay connected.]
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When Gunny cuts through the back seat of the FBI cruiser and pulls out the medic bag he grabs the quick clot and uses it. He has been in the mountains for 36 months as stated on screen so how did he know about quick clot and how to use it. I am a medic in the military and we have just recently (within the last 6 months) been trained on and issued quick clot. Quick clot is very dangerous if not used properly and CAN do more harm than good. [Apparently he just got lucky. He was really out of options and did not have very much choice either use the quick clot that he found (the name describes it enough for anybody to know what its for) or bleed to death. He made a snap decision and it ended up paying off and being correct. Also he was using the internet at his cabin on his laptop. Who is to say he did not research the quick clot on military pages while surfing since he is into stuff like that.]
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In the scene on the mountain top, Sarah Fenn picks up the senator's Beretta and shoots the already wounded FBI agent. She fires around 5 shots and then you see the slide lock back. However the Beretta would typically have 15 round per magazine. Even the magazines during the ban would have had 10 rounds. [There might have been just five rounds in the magazine when she took it. How could you possibly know that wasn't the case?]
Edit Corrected by Andreas Winnberg