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Mike is a guy who takes deer hunting very seriously and is annoyed by Stan's casual attitude IE, forgetting one of the most important pieces of hunting equipment, his boots. So he scolds Stan and refuses to loan him his spare boots. When he says "This is this" he's trying to tell Stan to think about what hunting means to them as friends: to Mike it's not just a recreational trip.

Mike wasnt on the same unit as nick and steve

Added: If two friends enlist at the same time, the Army will try to keep them together as much as possible. Things may differ if they have different MOS' (jobs) or training, but typically they can find themselves stationed on the same base.

Not a rumor. It's true. Robert de Niro insisted on this for realism sake. They did check the gun between takes to make sure there was not a live round in the chamber.

No, it was on sedatives.

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Three deer hunting buddies—Michael "Mike" Vronsky (Robert De Niro), Nikanor "Nick" Chevotarevich (Christopher Walken), and Steven "Steve" Pushkov (John Savage)—who work together at a steel mill in Clairton, Pennsylvania, enlist in the Army and are sent to Vietnam where they witness the horrors of the Vietnam war, changing the direction of their lives.

The Deer Hunter started life as an unproduced screenplay about Russian roulette in Las Vegas called The Man Who Came to Play by Louis Garfinkle and Quinn K. Redeker. The script was rewritten by writer/director Michael Cimino and American screenwriter Deric Washburn, who re-set the film in Vietnam.

The hunting scenes were filmed in Washington's northern Cascade Mountains, far from Pennsylvania. The mountain shown in the background is Mount Baker.