WestKentucky
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The masses have taken to reality tv and have shown that it can be cheap to produce and still be a hit. Why would they not make a firearms version?
The masses have taken to reality tv and have shown that it can be cheap to produce and still be a hit. Why would they not make a firearms version?
Because the media doesn't like real firearms handled by ordinary people. Those are evil. Prop guns, handled by actors, are apparently OK.The masses have taken to reality tv and have shown that it can be cheap to produce and still be a hit. Why would they not make a firearms version?
There already was a version with guns.
Son of a Gun (starring the child molester) would go like this:
1. Client would come in a request a build (sometimes reasonable more often something like a 20mm on a pickup).
2. Client would come in on Monday and say he needed the gun by Thursday. Will would always take the job. He'd stomp into the shop, demand everyone's attention and tell them what they had to do with two days to do it.
3. The staff would build the gun working 24/7. Wednesday night (it had to be ready the next morning) the staff would be working out the bugs and Will would walk in and say he would show them how to do this.
4. In the morning they'd go to the range, shoot explosive targets attached to drums of gasoline and whoop and holler in amazement. The client would pay a stupid price for the job.
The pattern of drama could only be repeated so many times before it was boring. Without the drama the entire show was boring.
They tried this formula with other shows and none of them lasted.
So Doug takes your custom gun and shoots a salmon and says: Your gun will kill!
Agreed, but they could use the same concept. Rather than do a complete build, maybe they could start with identical guns and build them to a customer's vague request, then for the final challenge of the episode be sent home for a week to do their best on more intricate build. Say they start with 3 guys and do a mild custom job... let's just say they get a stock Ruger 1911 and the customer wants custom grips, trigger and action work. They have time to rip into the guns, clean up burrs, work the trigger, and do something to the grips. Any extra time could be used on slide serrations or something to give it visual appeal. Then some professional shooter tries them all out and kicks one guy off.
Then they get sent home to build something different...lets just say they are to build a rifle for 500-1000 yard competition, or a double action revolver for back woods survival etc... Then run the guns hard to test it for the purposes it was built for.
It would be impossible to start from raw materials and make an interesting TV show about machining.Why would they not make a firearms version?
I tried to watch Forged in Fire once. All of the dudes heat treated their knives, but never tempered them. Why anyone would want to watch a gun version of that derpfest is beyond me. TV rots the brain anyhow. Go read something.