sons of guns new episode

[Cal-gun Fan]

Why the heck would they want to do that? Even if the ideas aren't great they are getting paid by the show and they are getting lots of publicity. Why on god's green earth would a small business want to give that up?

 

[RalphS]

"Why the heck would they want to do that? Even if the ideas aren't great they are getting paid by the show and they are getting lots of publicity. Why on god's green earth would a small business want to give that up? "

Dignity?

 

[Enco]

lost my interest

Watched the first season and found it entertaining, but last week they brought
those idiots from American Chopper to"help" them with a chrome machine gun !
If this is where the show is headed I'm changing channels.

Enco

 

[Cal-gun Fan]

"Why the heck would they want to do that? Even if the ideas aren't great they are getting paid by the show and they are getting lots of publicity. Why on god's green earth would a small business want to give that up? "

Dignity?

...really?

Lets say you own a gun store that also manufactures guns. You have the opportunity to be on television, get paid to be on television, and build some really neat and unusual guns that you would not normally get to be building. Your business is doing extremely well, business is great.

Would you really say "no, I won't do that" because some of the ideas are a bit silly?

 

[M-Cameron]

...really?

Lets say you own a gun store that also manufactures guns. You have the opportunity to be on television, get paid to be on television, and build some really neat and unusual guns that you would not normally get to be building. Your business is doing extremely well, business is great.

Would you really say "no, I won't do that" because some of the ideas are a bit silly?

money isnt everything to some people......

acting like a fool on TV......for a few thousand bucks.......im sure there are plenty of people who would take it........and im sure there are plenty of people who wouldnt.

like he said......dignity.

 

[Cal-gun Fan]

money isnt everything to some people......

acting like a fool on TV......for a few thousand bucks.......im sure there are plenty of people who would take it........and im sure there are plenty of people who wouldnt.

like he said......dignity.

Dignity has no place in capitalism!

 

[paddling_man]

I haven't *learned* anything from watching the show - I'm not looking for it as a source of education. I *have* found it to be entertaining. Certainly, there is an edge of A-Team silliness in the final production but that is Hollywood and I still find the show fun to watch.

I was in the shop back in April and you couldn't ask for a nicer group of folks.

 

[BullSkater]

I glad to see I am not the only one here that thinks this show is junk.

 

[raveneap]

I watch it for entertainment but obviously it's not day to day stuff. As has been said here, if they showed the routine work of a gun shop (or car shop, or whatever shop) ratings would be nil right off the bat. Red Jacket's stuff is shown for the entertainment value. And like has always been said, if someone doesn't like/agree with what's on TV, use the button marked "OFF."

 

[gym]

Its the orange county choppers of guns. Hurry, hurry, got to get that part, and at the last minute they get it to work.

 

[Dr.Rob]

You BET all that was covered off camera.. Discovery has been bitten before for firearms rules violations (mythbusters comes to mind) and rest assured there's a number of legal eagles on the poduction team.

You'll note it had a thumbhole stock instead of a pistol grip for one.

 

[788Ham]

I understand Will likes to build semi autos, and rebuild full machine guns, what would be neat for one episode, is how he builds one of his rifles to shoot one hole at 250 yds. Will and one of his builders are shooting rifles on a range, Will tells him about being able to shoot the semi auto more accurately. Now, lets see Will use his Marine marksmanship, and gun smithing abilities, and show how he does it, into a one shot rifle, even just for one show.

 

[FIVETWOSEVEN]

Discovery has been bitten before for firearms rules violations (mythbusters comes to mind) and rest assured there's a number of legal eagles on the poduction team.

Never heard about this, what happened?

 

[csspecs]

Can we put our best face forward and NOT refer to Wills daughter as hot or ugly?

As for the show.. Most of what you learn is in job setups, the mounting fixtures and tools you see in passing on the benches. You can learn a lot, its just not spoon fed to you.

I'd like them to do some normal non-NFA builds, so they can show off their normal builds a little.

 

[edwood]

If you want information go to one of the videos you can find on line that is made to inform. Not how to paint a dragon and weld ape hangers on a m1919. Its a joke of a show that is scripted and if for mind numb watching. The prices are ridiculous also, 1900 for a striped down AR? If you like it fine, if you like WWF fine but don't come here and say its real. It ain't.

 

[Patriotme]

I will agree that it seems like they are constantly trying to reinvent the wheel on this show. There are certainly a lot of contractors, security specialists and "Operators" coming to them for half a$$ solutions for problems that have already been solved.
A few of my friends that own guns but are not really gun guys like this show and usually ask me what I think about mounting dual water cooled M16's on a patrol boat or a 1000 yd AK. They seem suprised when I tell them that most of this stuff is useless or just a novelty.
I like the show but I only watch it if I come across it while channel surfing. It's not worth setting time aside to catch the latest episode.
I keep expecting the latest show to have some "Operator" asking them to somehow invent a means of moving troops from point A to point B in a mechanized vehicle. They then take Briggs & Stratton lawn mower engines and mount them to children's uparmored red wagons. This is the kind of thing I'm expecting from the show at this point.

 

[zfk55]

Man, it's a reaaallly good thing everyone here is hot! That makes it a lot easier to say who's not!

 

[edwood]

Patriotme, I agree, nothing wrong with watching Bugs Bunny and Felix the cat, as long as you don't pass it off as any kind of reality. They act like showing you how and why they build a suppressor is giving away some trade drug secret. Like you can't buy one and just well take it apart. LOL. Its NASCAR or WWF, if you find it entertaining I can't argue with that, I like Pawn stars and American Pickers but its all staged and scripted and I see many times things that are pure BS. This one is different because they have to invent everything for the show as their day to day work if they even do it anymore is so boring to the public that they would get a very low Youtube rated viewership.
[gun people]

They try to dress up steph and bring in the sex thing that does not work for me but as you can see from the posts it does for some. LOL. If I want sex there are plenty of porn channels for free that would do many times better. Will and his hard ass BS scripted we put out the best bla bla bla garbage and the laughing hyena red neck two brain cell shop rat and the tattoo who tries to keep him from blowing up the shop are par for a scripted faux reality show. I personally don't think it does much good for our hobby either. Most people will see this as more evidence to ban hicap mags and some types of guns. They make it sound on the show like you can walk in and have your AK converted to auto instead of saying Reagan limited it to the pool that existed in the 80s or that suppressors take several months and exhaustive back ground checks. Its easy enough to have the uninformed sell black talons making zig zag patterns in body's to take out every organ, I don't think heaping more foolish information is helping anyone except the RJ bank account. But I always said if you put a million in cash in front of me my principals my go out the window just like most other people who are tempted.

I don't blame the RJ people for selling this crap, I blame the viewers who watch it for making it a show that stays on the air, but thats just my opinion. I also think was gun people have done more to hurt our cause than those who hate guns. Like the idiot Ted Nugent. Holding an AR on stage telling Hillary to suck on this or Obama to sit on this does nothing but razz up the low information idiots who would hoot and holler at anyone saying Hillary bad, NRA good. I have said if for many years, I love guns, gun people not so much. Just like horses, I love horses, horse people not so much.

 

[X-JaVeN-X]

some of you sound like a bunch of women complaining just to complain....at least it's about guns. You sound like you're either jealous or just enjoying being an armchair quarterback...Got a better show? Then do it...

 

[hso]

I don't know if there's a forum called The Low Road, but the trash talk in this thread belongs there instead of here. There have been warnings in every SOG thread on this.

If you support the show, keep it within THR's standards for civility and language. If you don't like the show, keep it within THR's standards for civility and language.

If you can't keep it within THR's standards, take it somewhere else.

Criticize the show without the trash talk or support it without rancor.

 

[USAF_Vet]

Bringing this back on topic somewhat, I noticed something at the tail end of SoG. Will went to New York to visit the chopper guys, bringing with him a shotgun as a gift for the fat bearded one ((didn't catch his name) before you flame me, I'm a fat bearded guy myself))

Is this legal? Interstate transport of a firearm and all, wouldn't this need to be transfered via an FFL in NY state?

 

[edwood]

I don't have to be able to cook to know that a plate of dog crap is not for me. If you like it hey by all means watch it. I think people like you are just upset that we shed a light on how its a low information show and are just lashing out at your own guilt. LOL And there are some who think Casey Anthony is hot. Personally I don't see women who put their kids in garbage bags and throw them into swamps as hot. The 12 idiots in Orlando bought the steaming pile though.

 

[mbogo]

NY residents can buy long guns while in most states (NJ is one notable exception). Handguns are an entirely different matter.

mbogo

 

[edwood]

New episode this week. They combine a vacuum cleaner with an AK so you can target practice while you do your house work. Next week they add an AR to a nail gun so you can force open your door when you forget your keys while putting on new siding. LMFAO.

 

[Iramo94]

Next week they add an AR to a nail gun so you can force open your door when you forget your keys while putting on new siding.

That wouldn't work at all. They already "invented" the MasterKey, remember?