Shooting Gallery covering IDPA (STOVEPIPE)

Well, Michael Bane occassionally posts here. Maybe he'll chime in.

Recently had to reset my DVR, Aaryq, thanks for the inadvertent reminder to set my season pass for it! I think the new season starts soon as well as his new show! Can’t wait to watch it in an hour when it repeats!

Aaryq, Thanks for your service!

I dunno, I have yet to own a gun that NEVER jammed when worked heavily. A 10 round a year safe queen, maybe. But if he has 20-30,000 rounds through that pistol and this was his first malfunction, I'd feel ok about it

Or maybe he was shooting reloads he knows are iffy on reliability, while the defense loads he uses are more reliable.

As a rule, I don't edit out failures...they happen in the Real World, and as such should be allowed to be seen on television. I have fallen on my butt in simulations, and I have insisted to my editors that my mistakes be left in the finished show. As to the gun in question, I grabbed it out of the safe and rather than cleaning it, I sprayed it down with lube. We used up all the ball we had shipped up, by late afternoon I was running it on what I could borrow. If I may borrow a phrase from the great Emeril Lagasse, "We're really cooking here!" Stuff happens.

That particular Kimber, BTW, is one of the Olympic Commemorative guns, a project I conceived and babysat (I even did the original spec on the gun) to fruition and that has resulted in the single largest infusion of cash into the U.S. Olympic team in history.

Thank you for watching!

Michael B

That doesn't sound anywhere near as bad as when the guy on Future weapons was explaining how the full auto shotgun could NEVER EVER EVER jam just as the gun stovepipes.

well not to hijack but since the great Bane has spoken I feel that I can chime in.

I am one of the unlucky people who dont get the outdoor channel however I do listen to the down range podcast religiously. So thanks for making me even more jelous.

As far as malfunctions, every gun will have them if you shoot it enough especially in non-ideal situations. This is why any instructor worth their salt teaches them.

I've had failures of my guns during matches... I cleared them and kept going.
Its ironic timing on the part of the show, but it doesn't mean anything negative against Kimber.

If you own a gun that has never jammed you're not shooting enough.

If you own a gun that has never jammed you're not shooting enough.

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Didn't know jamming was a goal I should be striving for. Maybe I should sell my Springfield Armorys.

There are myriads of reasons for FTE's. When discussing IDPA, if you haven't made corrective actions a reflex, you aren't shooting enough.

I think the new season starts soon as well as his new show! Can’t wait to watch it in an hour when it repeats!

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What new show???

The New show is going to be called Best Defense

http://www.downrange.tv/bestdefense/

If you own a gun that has never jammed you're not shooting enough.

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My S&W 686 has never jammed.

I don't own a single autoloader that I've put more than 2,000 rounds through that has NEVER jammed.

Even my P7M8 has jammed. (Now it was only once in over 5000 rounds, and it was on American )

Sweet... Since PDTV went away i have been craving another similar show...

Thanks for the link...

PDTV is still lurking around, I think Tom is trying to get things worked out elsewere. I know he is shoot the new sesion, just not sure where it will wind up.

IMO, I would have shot another take, without the stovepipe, then informed the audience that the first take had a stovepipe....just for fluidity

You don't get a reshoot in IDPA for shooter's equipment failure, even if you are a TV star.

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If I may borrow a phrase from the great Emeril Lagasse, "We're really cooking here!" Stuff happens.

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Well then, dagnabbit, take responsibility ON THE SHOW and explain what happened and why! Sure stuff happens, but explain it to us, your viewers. Doing so validates your credibility.

And while we have your attention, lose the shows about shooting competitions. Yeah, they're easy to produce for youse guys but they're farking boring. Oh jeez, a half hour of really talented guys punching holes in cardboard. Just what I want to watch. Hmmm...I wonder what Jennifer Love Hewitt's wearing on The Ghost Whisperer tonight?

Cheers!

I, too, wonder what Love Hewitt's wearing on "Ghost Whisperer..."

She never calls...she never writes...

You know, over on the Brian Enos Forum, they urge me to loose everything BUT the shooting competitions...go figure. I have cut out all 2-part competition shows...started to bore me! I also cut way back on this year's Steel Challenge, because I don't think I got the bang for my buck out of last year's shows.

I've pulled a lot of the self-defense stuff out of SG in 2009 and put it into THE BEST DEFENSE, then recast SG.

More .50 BMG stuff, more suppressors, a little Todd Jarrett training, some buzz guns...strangely enough, I won a couple of Tellys (essentially cable Emmys, except I didn't get to go to some Hollywood event that involved a lot of low-cut dresses) for the Knob Creek shows...I'm thinking the Wyoming machine gun shoots where they try to shoot down radio-controlled planes for next year...I have an idea for a retro African safari show following in the footsteps of the great writer Robert Ruark's last safari, if we can figure out the logistics...

I also just finished a complete overhaul of COWBOYS...new host, more guns, no wild mustangs and chuck wagon cookoffs.

And for the record, Im never "great," not even ironically...

Michael B

I recently went back home for a week to see old friends and we revived our old Wednesday night tradition of ingesting fine ales and watching all of our "Wednesday night gun shows" that I haven't had since I moved.

Thanks to Mr. Bane for all of his efforts. I forgot how much I enjoyed those shows until this week.

Mr. Bane,

First thanks for posting on here! I really enjoy your show Shooting Gallery. Of all the other shows like Guns and Ammo, and Shooting USA, your show and American Rifleman are my favorites. I mostly enjoy all the personal defense things you guys cover. I guess I now have something else to be looking forward to with your new show. I'll be programing the DVR to record it shortly.

Thanks Again for personally posting up and keep up the good work!

SS

I glad the guy didn't edit the stove pipe. Doing so shows me, (watcher), that the program is not a "perfect" situation all the time. Everyone who ever shot a gun, played any game or cooked on a TV program, (even Emril), isn't perfect.

I watch it every week hoping to actually see some "shooting galleries"!
My favorite part of the show is in the opening, where the kid is at the shooting gallery. I'm working one up for my basement this next year.
Jack

Clearing a stove pipe in a 1911?

Isn't that S.O.P. for that particular platform?

Which is the maine reason why I sold mine sixteen years ago and used the money to by a .357 mag. revolver. A Taurus even!

And in the sixteen years to follow, I've never experienced any kind of failure with it.

I guess I had the audacity to expect that my primary home defense weapon performed 100%

Go figure!