Top Shot - Season 3

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Of all the people on this year, the only one who got on my nerves was Jake. I have the greatest respect for those who served in special-ops, be it SEALS, SF, or whatever. And I know several people who served in such a capacity in our military. And by and large, most I know have a touch of ego, but if you can back up your stuff, it ain't bragging. However, Jake acted like an immature brat.

If you watched the follow-up show after the final episode, you learned his reaction to being sent to the elimination challenge for the first time. If you missed that part of it, he demanded immunity in the future, or he'd throw every competition to insure his team would have to go to the elimination challenge.

As for the final 4, I'd be proud to have any of them as a friend, a shooting buddy, or in a foxhole.
 
I bet that if someone from Top Shot said, "One lucky (unlucky? THR reader will be selected to spend a day at the range (just shooing different guns, no competition) and then in the evening a sit-down dinner with their choice of either Jake Zweig or Dustin Ellerman" (all expenses paid) there's a fair to even chance that person would pick Jake and not Dustin.
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In my case you would lose your bet...
 
Purgatory said:
Just pondering the precision of aiming stones at a small target and it hit me.

Wonder why they haven't brought in hand darts yet--like parlor darts with a dartboard.

How bout 'Yard Darts?'

They've brought in just about every other means of launching a projectile at a target.

Hey! Think we'll ever see blow darts or even 'Spit Wads?'

Actually, I'm only half-kidding.

Punkin-Chunkin? Catapults? Mortar Launchers?

Ohhhh it's alllll comin.
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I seem to recall blowguns in season two..... :)
 
Helitack32f1,

I suppose you're right, I'd sure enjoy seeing them in armor suits bludgeoning sand bags to death more than throwing rocks though.
 
Yeah, that would be interesting but then you would have another 32 pages of people whining about all the "drama" and how the show is called "top Shot" and the contestants were swinging maces rather than shooting something.

Half the fun of waiting for another season is trying to guess what people will be incessantly complaining about during the next season. Other than the obligatory complaining about the dreaded "drama" that everyone wants everyone else to believe they are too evolved to watch. You know, the drama that took up nearly an entire three or four minutes per episode.
 
Yea, all these gun and shooting shows wouldn't last till the water got hot if they were produced to some of the specifications I have read lately.
The gunsmith shows would be so technical no one would watch and the shooting shows would be hosted by a square RSO and would only show time on the line and scores.
The hunting shows on the outdoor networks are becoming infomercials, I'm sure to keep the programs in the black.
I for one am happy that we have shows that have people having fun with all kinds of guns, we get to see actual results of the shot (the reality of game actually seen dead on the screen)
Safety not ignored like it is in some hollywood movie.
I remember the shows of the 70's when you wouldn't even see a pheasant shot on tv and you were lucky to see an hours worth of hunting show per week across all the networks. I frankly am quite pleased with the progress of shooting sports on tv.
I doubt that we will soon see the gunsmith channel with wall to wall machine set ups and calculations or load development 5rds at a time tweaking every so slightly each time around between judicious cleanings.
 
8654Maine said:
Was thinking grenade launchers, like M203 or M79.

Wrist rockets?
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sling shots have been done, too.

I hope they keep making the challenges interesting. I don't care as much about the weapons, although I like seeing new types of guns I haven't fired, but it's the challenges that make the show.
 
I would have liked to see Mike "throw" a haymaker at Jake and connect. That would have made him TOP SHOT.
 
Interview with Colby Donaldson

Anyone else see this article/interview with Colby Donaldson?

http://www.realityblurred.com/realitytv/archives/top_shot/2011_Oct_25_interviews

It seems that the producers are coming to realize that the drama queen stuff loses viewers. I'll be interested to see how that changes next season.

There's a tidbiot about the spin-off show on H2 also: a show about the guns used on Top Shot.
 
I wish they could have a contest between some of the shooting exhibitionists I've seen. I can't remember names... But there was one guy named Bob Munden that I always liked. Another archer guy too, tosses a washer into the air and shoots a .22 bullet through it.

I like exhibitionist shootouts like that. I use to watch Bob Munden on "American Shooter" all the time.
 
I'd like to see the first event in Top Shot being target shooting with their Personal CCW's

The problem being making sure they didn't realize their EDC was their first challenge, and preventing extra "souping" up.

Or perhaps the modern version of a PG rated "Key party" with guns.... everyone tosses their holster in, draws numbers for which gun they have to shoot the round with... cycle the guns a few times.

It might give good insight as to the shooter to see what they carry daily... sneak it into the basic application as to what their CCW is and just bring a factory clone thereof if possible.
 
Except that most don't carry and those that did probably couldn't bring their gun into California
 
Move the show... :D or more realistically use California legal magazines.

As to non CCW'ers ... that is a good point, while I'd like to be able to tease them for being on a shooting show but not having taken the ultimate step (in states where applicable)... I know enough "gun guys" who don't CCW, or acquired them later in life (including myself) that it would be without merit.

I would like to think though that more of the people on the show CCW than not, if it's that much a part of their lives.

So if not their personal CCW's, a slew of guns from cz-82s, Walther p38s, 1911's, hi-points, Model 10's , a liberator, you name it, it fits on the table, it's in.

Gun fruit salad with random draws and multiple rounds.
 
I wish they could have a contest between some of the shooting exhibitionists I've seen. I can't remember names... But there was one guy named Bob Munden that I always liked. Another archer guy too, tosses a washer into the air and shoots a .22 bullet through it.

I like exhibitionist shootouts like that. I use to watch Bob Munden on "American Shooter" all the time.
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Done. They had that cowboy dude in the first season. Couldn't hit a barn under pressure.
 
Anyone else see this article/interview with Colby Donaldson?

http://www.realityblurred.com/realit..._25_interviews

It seems that the producers are coming to realize that the drama queen stuff loses viewers.
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Good. It's also interesting to note that Jake's antics messed with the production crew as much as it did with us. The drama is one of the reasons why Top Shot has 2.5 million viewers a week, but it does get a bit tiring.

I still think they have an untapped revenue stream out there, with "Top Shot Land" (and Top Shot World on the East Coast, of course :) ). It'd be a place where shooters could pay, say $300 bucks a day to shoot things like cannonball contraption and the clock hand sweeper from from this season, the shaky platforms from season two and the zipline from season one.

Team that up with, say, a first-class training range and a sporting clays course, and you'd have a money-maker on your hands.
 
"I wish they could have a contest between some of the shooting exhibitionists I've seen. I can't remember names... But there was one guy named Bob Munden that I always liked. Another archer guy too, tosses a washer into the air and shoots a .22 bullet through it.

I like exhibitionist shootouts like that. I use to watch Bob Munden on "American Shooter" all the time. "

"Done. They had that cowboy dude in the first season. Couldn't hit a barn under pressure. "

How in the world do you equate a mounted cowboy shooter, who shoots blanks at balloons, with exibitionist, trick shot type shooters like Bob Munden? You have no idea what you're talking about. Mark
 
Fishslayer said:
Done. They had that cowboy dude in the first season. Couldn't hit a barn under pressure.
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If I recall correctly, he did cowboy shooting exhbitions where live ammunition was not even used.
Hardly comparable to Bob Munden or Tom Knapp or many other exhbition shooters who use real ammo.


edit: oop didn't see the guy above me was already all over that one.
 
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If I recall correctly, he did cowboy shooting exhbitions where live ammunition was not even used.
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Wow. I must have missed that résumé point when they introduced him. How did he even make it to the show?
 
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