Top Shot

[Lokidude]

I watched, and will keep watching unless something big changes. I had the same thought on the rifles, everybody has an off day, but for a guy of that caliber... wow.

[Aegis]

Iain (the Brit) is a local guy, and he's on my other forum, so I'll probably keep watching just to see how he does, if nothing else.

[Darrell]

Survivor, with guns.

I saw elsewhere that the Springfield '03 has a battle zero of 500+ yards. It was suggested that the guy should have used the ladder sight, which has a 100 yard setting. The guy said he knew little of the Springfield...

[Aglifter]

[spoiler]There's a youtube vid. of the same shooter using one in a 35 MPH wind, hitting the same size targets off-hand. I thought it was an odd thing to post, unless its an attempt to show something, w.o. breaking a contract - It can be hard to shoot off-hand in high winds, but its not too bad, certainly at that distance, from a knee. I believe he's a GM in USPSA... Seems very odd. Weird things can happen, but shooting from a rest at a 100 yd target?[/spoiler]

[Mud_Dog]

I give it a big fat "meh."

Too much drama, not enough shooting. And I hate drama. I'll give it a couple more episodes to redeem itself.

[Denis]

Well, the Top Shot site doesn't work without javascript, and it's not on TV in this hemisphere...

Anyone have a web link?

[Bullspit]

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.

Instead it is more like survivor with guns. Don't get me wrong, the show was watchable, but needed more shooting and less talking/drama.

When we were watching the show last night I told my wife, "there is something wrong with that gun". While it isn't impossible for a good shot to miss under pressure, I'm thinking that at 100 yards from a rest, sheer chance should have put a bullet in the target.

If the show comes on again I'm going to see if I can tell if any of the shots that hit the white were keyholing.

I'll watch the next episode.

Editors of the show, if you read this, more shooting, less talking!

[blackeagle603]

1 word for the producers...

TANNERITE!!!

[Bullspit]

Editors of the show, if you read this, more shooting, less talking!

Sorry, but you're dead wrong.

Would you or I enjoy it more? Absolutely.

If they did that, the show would fail.

No-one would watch it but shooting geeks, and even most of us would find it boring. You'd get maybe 5% of hardcore shooters watching it, and no-one else.

As it is, wives and girlfriends might actually watch this; and people who don't know what the term "moa" means.

I agree. The show as it is will appeal to some folks who like drama but not guns. I was being selfish.

[Aglifter]

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.)