Top Shot (Season 4)

Wasn't really a Colby fan at the beginning, but he's kinda growing on me.

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+1, the episode of Top Guns helped with that...made him a little more interesting then the race announcer.

Also, the explosions in the grenade challenge were definitely either set off by the reactive target or remotely detonated, they definitely weren't firing live HE grenades (it did look like orange chalk marker rounds).

I've been a Colby fan since his first season on Survivor. I thought I had read an interview that his banter during the challenges was done to emulate Jeff Probst.

speaking of shotguns next week i havent caught a long enough look at the shotgun im pretty sure its a benelli is it the m4 again or a supernova or something else

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It’s an M4 shooting slugs at a moving target; which sets off a clay thrower when hit. A Vinci is used for the clays; presumably by a different shooter.

I wonder how many gun companies are now lining up to donate guns for use in filming.

I thought it was a great episode. Two very awesome weapons. I thought the grenade launcher was a great idea, the idea is that they need to be proficient with all types of weapons (hence throwing knives, bows and such). I think that is why they have the chance to practice with them.

I was like holy crap!!! till they missed the targets and they were just smoke. Freaking pyrotechnics makin it seem cooler than it actually was...

Great episode. Once I saw the same reactive targets for the grenade launchers I knew they were using non-exploding rounds.

Those explosions were really big though, some of the debris got pretty close to the shooters. Bad luck if the other guy's smoke drifts in front of your target after it's cleared of your own smoke

Being downwind definetly was a disatvantage...but he still pulled it off doe to the other guy's mistake. Just wish they coulda fired real grenades, that would've been cool.

Not at $200.00 a shot in addition to the cost of the rounds.

Would have had to have some really HUGE distance between targets if they were to use live HE rounds. Just think about how many misses there were. Get close and still "hit" the target with the explosion. No way they could use live HE's.

Live grenades require $200 tax and registration as a NFA destructive device in the NFA registry. Then, after its exploded, you have to have the registered device removed from the NFA registry. Lot less paperwork to use inert rounds.

Live grenades require $200 tax and registration as a NFA destructive device in the NFA registry

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you sure they couldn't obtain a permit?

Live 40mm wouldn't have been visually impressive. The lethal radius of a 40mm HEDP is only 5m, but they likely would have had to stay well back to ensure no one caught a random bit of frag. The white cased rounds with a blue tip are definitely chalk. Here's a link to a promo for a Tac TV episode with Larry Vickers shooting some real HEDP out of an M203 (the one labeled grenade launching and myth busting): http://www.thesportsmanchannel.com/programming/descriptions/description.php?ID=447

Regardless, I thought it was a good episode. I don't think anyone including Colby thought the explosions were going to be that big. He genuinely seemed surprised.

Post 88....Winnner. I've shot hundreds of them in my M203 in the Army. They are not impressive. We hit logs an small bunkers that did little damage. They are probably less than half a grenade in power, we are talking HE. Everytime I see a Chuch Norris movie an he's using them I want to just scream. They also have to have so many rotations (range) before exploding.
A Marine friend of mine that served in Nam said on patrol the grenader accidently fired his at point blank range into the thigh of another guy, of course at that range it didn't go off, they had to fight to keep from laughing as the hit Marine just gritted it out.

Top Shot

Should be better than last, at least I did get to see a SEAL quit. If he was a SEAL.

Episode 3

Wow the Blue team didn't seem like they were competing. It looked more like they were jogging in slow motion. They weren't prepared at all.

Sorry to see Michelle go. She seemed competitive, but was lost in the final challenge.

Which team said a few episodes ago that they were going to send members to the elimination challenge based solely on performance?

The big guy on the blue team that insisted he would not vote to send one of his friends home, even if they were the worst performer, should have been voted off. Also, he stated that if he had to vote off one of his friends, again, even if they were the worst performer, it would be the hardest thing in life he's ever had to do. I guess he's had a pretty comfy,charmed life if that would be the worst thing he's ever faced. Mark

And the eye candy is gone. Darn it, I knew that was gonna happen. As good as she performed in practice, I was surprised that she did so poorly in the elimination challenge.

Sad the pretty one is gone, but at least the guy from Charlotte made it!

Yah, the prettiest girl ever on Top Shot is gone.

In previous seasons, I would have picked a favorite by now. For some reason though, nobody is grabbing me yet.

Littlejohn sat there all sad and said he wouldn't vote to send one of his friends (and he named them) to elimination. Two things jump out here:
1) He declared the others to be not his friends
2) In the end, he voted to send one of his friends.

In my mind, he's the one who needs to go. Then again, we have to have an antagonist-type to keep the show interesting, and he's it.