Top Shot - Season 3

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Did Osama bin Laden get a cut of all those targets sold with his picture on them? What about Saddam Hussein???
 
Jake's Tweet:
Look at this. Im putting NEXT LEVEL TRAINING out of business!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
With pictures of packages of "Jake" targets.

Hey, if they don't really hate each other... so much the better.
What I extracted from his Tweet was that he was upset over unauthorized
use of his image.
Thanks, I was unaware of the tweeting.

I would assume they are OK with each other considering their chats on the phone but then again, mental stability does not seem to be Jake's thing.
 
That was awesome!


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Dustin and Chris made that look so easy, Mike goes from zero back to hero and the carnival ride of doom with a 'handgun' that is in dire need of a stock? That was just fantatsic and one of the challenges that had me saying "I am not sure I could do that at all"
 
I'll be honest, I didn't read this entire interview. If it had been a video, I'd have watched it, but it was just too long and I guess I don't find Jake's version of 'anything' all that interesting.

But, if you scroll down to the bottom of the page and read the 2nd of the 3 comments, this guy has some very good points about how shady Jake's story truly is.

And when he mentions how 'sheepish' Jake acts around the Navy SEAL experts that came on the show to help in the training of certain firearms, it hit me that I noticed the very same thing but didn't consciously add it up at the time.

Check it out:
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/867730-untitled

P.S. Mike 'DOMINATED' that elimination challenge. Very impressive! He was really on his game and apparently felt a strong need to make up for his humiliating performance on the Tilta-Whirl. As a competitive pistol shooter, he was definitely within his element and capitalized on it.
 
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I think the entire carnival ride shoot was about as much luck as skill. As fast as that thing was going, the competitors who shot well, just happened to get set up right quickly. With as little practice as they had...I would say luck played a large part in it. I don't think Mike, Gary or Alex had anything to hang their head about not shooting well on that contraption.
 
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Can we move on from the soap opera aspects and to this and next episode?:rolleyes:

The sportsmanship and just plain FUN these last 5 participants exhibited is a credit to the shooting community. Much like the final 5 last season these folks know they're in a competition, but they also are enjoying it. They seem to consider the show the competition now as much as the other guys in the house.

For folks that are familiar with the use of an smg without a stock, is it advisable to take the slack up on the sling so that your strong side elbow is braced against your ribcage and you're having to press out just a bit on the grip or does that introduce to many problems with your grip.

My 13 year old daughter noted that once the shooters began to chase the targets they were off their game and that if they led or stayed fixed and waited for the target to come up they did much better.
 
Even with Dustin's consistent performance, he continues to surprise me. I definitely did not expect either Alex or Mike to clean the course but WOW, Mike sure proved he is worthy of staying in the game.
 
I found Alex's assessment of the challenge to be dead-on.

Because the targets were stationary and they were strapped into a device that was more or less stationary besides its movement in a circle, the experience was very similar to standing still and having targets run from side to side in front of you or standing still and the targets passing in front of your sights on a wheel.

The best way to be successful, in my assessment, would be to hold your entire body and gun steady while aiming your sights through the center line of the targets passing in front of you. Then striving to get a good rhythm of breaking the shot about the time the edge of each 'white square' entered into your sights.

This would likely put your point of impact inside the 'red circles' and if you missed, you'd be best served to just forget about that target and reset your timing on the next target.

I noticed most of them tried to go back and make up a shot on a missed target which totally misaligned their precision and rhythm/timing/focus for the next subsequent targets.
 
I found Alex's assessment of the challenge to be dead-on.

Because the targets were stationary and they were strapped into a device that was more or less stationary besides its movement in a circle, the experience was very similar to standing still and having targets run from side to side in front of you or standing still and the targets passing in front of your sights on a wheel.

The best way to be successful, in my assessment, would be to hold your entire body and gun steady while aiming your sights through the center line of the targets passing in front of you. Then striving to get a good rhythm of breaking the shot about the time the edge of each 'white square' entered into your sights.

This would likely put your point of impact inside the 'red circles' and if you missed, you'd be best served to just forget about that target and reset your timing on the next target.

I noticed most of them tried to go back and make up a shot on a missed target which totally misaligned their precision and rhythm/timing/focus for the next subsequent targets.

Although I certainly don't expect to be strapped into a rotating wheel and issued a small semiauto HK, this sounds like excellent advice.
Never discount the value of visualization and "skull" practice - it's surprisingly good prep for the task at hand.
 
I'm not sure what would be the right way to shoot on that carnival ride.

All I know is, I want an opportunity to find out. :D
 
That interview was a puff piece, and would have had a completely different tone had the interviewer know jake dropped out rather than going toe to toe in elimination.
 
Great episode, would love to try both the carnival ride and the zip-line challenges.

Odd how the show can still be great without the manufactured drama and the mandatory a-hole contestant.:rolleyes:
 
SPOILER!!!


Sad to Alex go home. For someone who had never been sent for elimination to get beaten by a guy who had already been eliminated is just wrong.
As much as I disliked Jake, I did not want to see Mike come back, and then go on and eliminate Phil and Alex.

I'm now pulling for Dustin.
 
With all these "clever contraptions" they use on Top Shot, I think there's an untapped market. Rather than send them to the junkyard after the series, I'd like to see them set up on a range where us "mere mortals" could pay to shoot the course. It wouldn't be cheap, but I bet there's enough people wanting to try their skills it would pay off. Anybody here wanting to take a run at the course?
 
Anybody here wanting to take a run at the course?

I'm certain many on this forum would love to.

I know our 3-gun and IDPA Match Directors do their best to simulate some of the fun/challenging scenarios within the club's budget and arsenal of materials.
 
I started watching re runs of this "Top Shot" show today. It looks like that Jake guy will be a strong leader for the blue team. What do you all think? :rolleyes:
 
I started watching re runs of this "Top Shot" show today. It looks like that Jake guy will be a strong leader for the blue team. What do you all think? :rolleyes:
I think it's funny that on the first episode people were starting to bitch about jake...
 
The show has gotten better I think, but we need to see some paper punching. I was just thinking about this the other day, why cant we have a episode where the winner has the smallest group at 100-300 yards? Id really like to see what some of the guys could do behind a real target gun.
 
... why cant we have a episode where the winner has the smallest group at 100-300 yards?

Those shooters that had lots of experience shooting distance would have an unfair advantage. That is presumably why they have so many varied competitions, so as to not give the advantage to one specialized type of shooter.
 
Those shooters that had lots of experience shooting distance would have an unfair advantage. That is presumably why they have so many varied competitions, so as to not give the advantage to one specialized type of shooter.
Some guys have never touched a bow. Wouldn't that be an unfair advantage?
Heck one guy missed the target at the elimination vote twice. I think a smallest group challenge would be the most logical competition. Unfortunately, paper holes are less visual than BOOM! on TV. They'd have to make the boom target smaller. Maybe smallest group while choosing teams?
I think they need to do either a rifle or pistol competition with their own personal gun. Then they all have an equal 'advantage'. Then we'll see who shoots a Glock better than a 1911 or even a S&W revolver. Or pit a 10-22 vs. an M1A or a Remington 700. Even with different calibers, there's a certain amount of accuracy you can expect from any rifle in the hands of a "Top Shot" competitor. You'll probably get some race guns or comp rifles, but again, they're competing in a shooting competition, no excuses, right?
 
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