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Post by Sean (Shadowhowler) on Apr 14, 2011 4:39:44 GMT
How many of you have been following this show? Don't normally watch 'reality' TV but I love this program... So many guns... heh. Last episode I saw they are looking for contestants for the next season... ShooterMike... you *HAVE* to look into this man! It would be a blast no?
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Post by Vincent Dolan on Apr 14, 2011 4:43:56 GMT
That is a horrible, horrible pun considering the subject matter, Sean. :lol:
With that said, I'd never actually heard of the show since I don't watch TV, but it looks like it might be worth looking into (to watch, not to enter; I probably couldn't shoot to save my life).
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Post by Lunaman on Apr 14, 2011 4:57:17 GMT
I followed the show for a little while last season because forumite Chris (of Scorpion Bows and Knives) was on it as the archery expert, it was pretty fun. About as good as one of those reality programs can be, I think.
I agree Mike should be on there! :lol:
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Post by Sean (Shadowhowler) on Apr 14, 2011 5:24:58 GMT
Seems to me he stands a good chance of doing really well... a lot of the contestants they have on the show have very specialized skills... really good with a pistol, or a riffle... but versatility and comfort with all kinds of guns is key to doing well it seems, and I know Mike has used many weapons.
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Post by whitefeathers on Apr 14, 2011 11:52:15 GMT
I only watched the first season and it was OK. Ignore the "reality show garbage" parts and its an alright show. I watched just to see what they were shooting and what kind of challenges they had to face= that was what made it interesting.
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Post by Sean (Shadowhowler) on Apr 14, 2011 16:44:07 GMT
Exactly... so many guns and so many interesting ways to shoot em...
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Post by Sam H on Apr 14, 2011 18:03:57 GMT
I watched the first season and enjoyed it once I got over the presence of drama etc.
Many of those challenges I sat there going "Man I wish I could be there doing that right now!".
I haven't been able to catch the second season though - has it come out yet?
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Post by Sean (Shadowhowler) on Apr 14, 2011 18:35:07 GMT
Yup... only 2 episodes left in the second season... and they are casting for season 3 right now I believe... C'mon Mike!
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Post by ShooterMike on Apr 18, 2011 16:48:38 GMT
NO! My GF has been pestering me, and my shooting buddy, to apply for the show. We have both refused. Not my cup 'o tea, the whole drama thing. And they don't really get hardly any trigger time.
But I like watching the show. I have been acquainted with a couple of folks on the show. Not closely, but I know them. And don't want to emulate them.
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Post by Sean (Shadowhowler) on Apr 18, 2011 17:55:57 GMT
That sucks... I know you've done 3 gun competitions... and have a wide range of experience with different weapons. I think you would fair pretty well on there. They got a guy on there right now reminds me a little bit of you... can you guess which one? I'd be curious to know which guys on the show you have personally met... that's kinda cool. I wish you would consider it... I think it would be epic... but I do feel you about the whole game/drama part of the show... that kinda stuff is pretty high school and unappealing.
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Post by ShooterMike on Apr 18, 2011 18:24:13 GMT
No...just no. Chris Tilley and Athena Lee. They're both USPSA/IPSC people, which is my background (since 1985). But I have concentrated much more on 3-gun since the late 90s. I was very active until about 2004-5. I still shoot USPSA, but much prefer 3-gun. I have scaled waaaay back and shoot less than a dozen or so matches a year. I shot the LaRue Multi-gun Championship this weekend. Didn't fare so well. Barely made top 10% and was way out of the running behind Taran Butler. But then again, Taran's hardly human, though he's a lot of fun away from the range when you get him drinking and talk about movies (he's also been a gun coach on a few Michael Mann movies). But if I could pick anyone I know to be on Top Shot it would be my good buddy and brew meister par excellence' Kurt Miller. He is by far the best all-around shooter at every discipline I have ever seen. Whether rifle, pistol, shotgun, machinegun, bow & arrow, or throwing rocks he's probably the only person I know who would just walk away with it. And that's the kind of shooter they can never have on Top Shot. It would make the "regular joe" shooters that they showcase look too bad.
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Post by Sean (Shadowhowler) on Apr 19, 2011 1:00:25 GMT
Did your buddy Kurt Miller work on 'Collateral'? Along with 'Way of the Gun' It was one of my favorite movies as far as weapons use goes... I just enjoy an 'action' movie SO much more when the action is as realistic as possible. Unless of course there is a really good built in story reason for the action to not be realistic... but I HATE movies that are meant to take place here in our world with our physics.., no super-powers or high tech cybernect reflexes or whatever... and they do that stupid over the top imposable BS. Takes me right out of the movie.
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Post by ShooterMike on Apr 19, 2011 15:33:17 GMT
You got the names confused. Taran Butler was a gun coach for the Johnny Depp movie Dillinger.
Ditto on unrealistic action. I thought he gun work in Way of the Gun and Collateral were spot-on. The only things unrealistic about Way of the Gun were that they did too many pistol reloads for the number of magazines they were shown carrying, and the .308 Galil Benicio Del Toro used had no recoil and cycled too slow on full-auto. Everything in Collateral was absolutely textbook perfect, or at least as good as can be shown to dramatic effect on film.
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Post by Sean (Shadowhowler) on Apr 19, 2011 18:42:02 GMT
Ah so I did, my bad... I didn't see 'Dillinger'... any good? Yeh... in 'Way of the Gun' they did seem to have a metric $emprini-ton of reloads going on. I kinda liked it... as Hollywood often ignores reloading totally and shots 30-40 rounds out of a pistol without reloading... so they maybe went the other extreme on this one. As to the recoil and cyclic rate of the .308 Galil... I never noticed cuz I wouldn't know! :lol: So in that case my ignorance is bliss. I did have the honor of firing a M60 on full auto once when I was 10... which I recall being awesome... but that is my only experience ever with a fully automatic weapon. If you can think of any other films you think the action was depicted in as realistic a fashion as was possible, let me know... always looking for such films.
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Post by avery on Apr 21, 2011 1:59:46 GMT
....little late to the discussion, but I watch this show almost religously, and I don't really watch a lot of tv. I loved season 1 and was rooting for Ian to win. This time I like Chris. The skeet show at the end of last night was awesome, and my first thought was " Between me and my cousins, how many slingers to we have?"
And surprise surprise, when this season started and it featured a tomahawk in the opening segment, I got Stoked! But the crane challenge last night was way more cooler than the hawk challenge, IMO. That would be just plain out fun.
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Post by Sean (Shadowhowler) on Apr 21, 2011 2:48:26 GMT
I was pulling for Jamie... Not only is he Navy, but the poor guy was singled out and picked on for no good reason that I can think of. I tend to root for people like that. I can't stand George. Gah. As long as anyone left other them him wins, I'm good.
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Post by ShooterMike on Apr 21, 2011 14:49:42 GMT
Ditto and ditto.
Shooting skeet from a moving truck bed sounds like a truckload of fun. Only cooler way I could think of to do it would be from a helicopter shooting down on flying claybirds!
I was pulling for Jamie too. Can't stand George. What an a-hole.
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Post by Sean (Shadowhowler) on Apr 21, 2011 16:22:08 GMT
Yeh... that truck skeet shoot did look like an awesome pile of fun... too bad it was only 8 clays tho... looks like it was over in the blink of an eye. I didn't really like or dislike Jamie at the start... I just noticed all the $#@% they were giving him... and unless the show edited out a bunch of Jamie being a douchebag, it just looked unwarranted to me. I liked Ashley at first, but he started being a douche as it got closer to the money... I guess maybe he got stressed out. All in all I liked the first seasons group of shooter more then second season. As much as George is a tool-bag... I was still very impressed with his shot on the Barrett 82A1... may not have been the fastest by a few seconds... but by far the best.
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Post by avery on Apr 22, 2011 3:25:03 GMT
I'm going with Chris this year, but I think it'll be one of the younger two to win. Still, I'd like to see a Tennessee fella win.
What would be really cool is if they'd do this show with a time period in mind. I think a primitve version of this show would be awesome. Time trials with an atlatl, foot run course with a tomahawk target set-up, fire a sling with accuracy or something like that.
I will now stop derailing.
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Post by ShooterMike on Apr 22, 2011 15:04:04 GMT
Going back a bit, my favorite elimination round this season was the "bank job" setup where the contestants had a race to see who could shoot open the doors with Thompson SMGs. THAT!...was cool.
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