Bullspit wrote:I was hoping the show would be more like a strongman competition, with a series of shooting challenges (maybe one rifle, one pistol and one "other") with the lowest aggregate score leaving the show.
In case you don't know this, strength sports/bodybuilding are dependent on the patronage of gays, and closet cases. I don't think shooting titillates in the same way, certainly not to as big an audience. (There might be something else, aside from homosexuality, that creates the "closet cases". Sports seems to create very odd behavior in spectators - in racing, there have always been the sociopaths who go to watch drivers burn, there's something similar to that in sports.)
I'm pretty sure that it is the "format" of the competitors bodies rather than the format of the strongman competitions that attracted the viewership of men who are attracted to men.
That said, I agree that the hyped up "drama" of the Survivor style elements of Top Shot appeals to a wider audience (Closet Oprah watchers probably) than a show that was based more on the shooting.
As for me, I thought, and still think, that I would enjoy a shooting show more if every competitor got to do the same shooting challenges on every show and let results determine the attrition.
In the shooting sports that I play or want to play, individual performance is what determine winners and losers, not a team effort. I do like the head to head competition that was part of the shoot-out that determined who leaves the show, I just didn't like the way the two contestants were chosen. That voting process bored me.
That's just my selfish view.
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I thought it was well done myself... I do have suspicions about the gun but I also have read that Mike is mainly a pistol shooter with some tactical rifle experience. Iron sights on a milsurp bolt gun is a big difference if you dont have a lot of experience with one.
That said, I cannot understand how he missed like that unless he was doing something wrong. I know that I have had shitty spotters in the past and I get to a point where I just ignore them and do my own spotting. 100 yards is not a long enough range for me to need a spotter anyways.
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“I no longer need to run as a Presidential Candidate for the Socialist Party. The Democrat Party has adopted our platform.” - Norman Thomas, a six time candidate for president for the Socialist Party, 1944
To follow the Survivor slant, but with an added twist, I rather liked that two candidates are selected for removal, and the loser of the shootoff gets booted.
Who's the Caleb guy? I gather he's well known at the shooting blogs.
Darrell wrote:To follow the Survivor slant, but with an added twist, I rather liked that two candidates are selected for removal, and the loser of the shootoff gets booted.
Who's the Caleb guy? I gather he's well known at the shooting blogs.
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It's up on Hulu, thought it was interesting enough that I'll watch it again. Mostly curious to see what besides rifles and pistols they can come up with for challenges.
Between that, and my own conversation with Caleb, I'm saying it's reasonable that he may have actually missed that much. Mike says he'd never shot a 1903 before the show, and had only put 10 rounds through it during practice. Caleb told me nobody explained the battlesight (zeroed at something like 547 yards). Not knowing that sight, on an unfamiliar rifle, with poor spotting, could very well be the cause.
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We've thus far avoided the temptation to jack an entire forum.
But what the hell.
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Watched it on Hulu. Liked the show. Don't know what happened. Trigger time with the Springfield should not have been necessary going in. The rifle is built so that a farm kid from Missouri or Montana can pick it up and shoot it.
I grew up with several at my disposal. Usually I drew one from the VFW armory to take hunting til I got my own. Took several deer with them. Iron sights, just as issued.
At the first RR I took the first Tannerite target out at 75-100 yards. Offhand. Second shot, if I remember right. With my Dad's Springfield. Those bottles were about 2" wide and 6" tall.
Do ya suppose Mike and some of his fellow competitors would like to come shoot with us at RRV?
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CByrneIV wrote:
I think I've met Bill Carns before at some events, but I can't remember where... Maybe at frontsight, or at and NRA event... And of course I've listened to the show.
Bill Carns was an instructor at that little school in Nevada. But since he left, no one else should go there. So I can find a frakkin' hotel room for under a Grant a night.
