History Channel's "Top Shot" on Sunday night

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Your taking it out of context. If you click the link he posted, its a video of Mike Seeklander knocking out a crazy fast pass!
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Well you know what they say about assumptions right? Being the internet savvy guy that I am, I actually watched the link before posting my response. The "Wow" was quite in context as I was amazed at the speed and precision with which the shooter in question completed the course.
 
Well I gotta confess...I DVRed it, got bored, and flipped over to the Celtics/Lakers game! Don't really like basketball, but I do enjoy a good competition.

After seeing the comments in here, I had to go back and watch before I erased it-I really loved the Glock guy! :rolleyes:

What little bit I saw, I'd stick my money on Andre or Kelley-those two stood out to me 'cuz they didn't seem to be as guilty as some of reading their own press releases.
 
This show had potential, but chose to suck instead. Crappy "let's all try to care about these vacuous simpletons" approach to storytelling. I really hate this kind of garbage: all fluff, no substance, fake drama and posturing jackass hosts.

And that's not even from a shooting enthusiast's standpoint...

Why even make such meaningless drivel?
 
10 minutes of shooting in a 60 minute show...

I really hate this kind of garbage: all fluff, no substance, fake drama and posturing jackass hosts.
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Don't forget the music-gotta make shufflin' in line to the range dramatic somehow!

Mebbe it just needs a little more cowbell? Yeah, that's it-MORE COWBELL! :what:

If not in order to hype up the practice line shuffle, mebbe they could have the Glock guy find, not a Beretta, but a Glock laying on the stump for the next competition.
As he picks it up, they should immediately launch into an overly loud Also sprach Zarathustra (in slow motion, of course)!

Now tell me that just wouldn't be just SO right! :D
 
Would'nt mind if both Brad and Bill went out together. Seems like grown adults that signed on the dotted line would know what they were getting into. I dont get why Kelly is being called a "kid", he is 22 yrs old, while Brad is a whopping 26 yrs . Whining about things that you disagree with is flat out childish, something Brad has done his share of on the 2 episodes so far. Personally,Bill showed no class and cussed like a sailor and didnt do anything for me.bye bye bill
 
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Brad congratulations on your second victory in a shoot off. I did not see the show tonight but just watched the elimination interview on-line.
 
Good job tonight Brad. That is some pretty impressive shooting with a weapon that you had never shot.

Next week looks pretty good with all the ARs and what not.
 
RE: Kelly next week. Sounds like added drama to me. The "kid" (I'm 30, I can call him a kid ;) ) can shoot anything you put in his hands with enough instruction. Rifles are his game. I think he'll be fine.

Bill really showed his class (or lack thereof) stonewalling Kelly like he did. If you didn't like it, say so, and get over it. He's on your team. Be a team player and suck it up. You can't let stuff get in your head. Be a man and get it over with. Kelly at least tried to make ammends, several times.

Next week looks like fun.
 
My main beef with this show is that it is simply 10-15 minutes of actual show..and 45 minutes of commercials and nothing else! This show should've only been 30 minutes on TV and still would have plenty of time for commercial breaks. DVR helps, but jeez..they really slam feed you commercials if you don't DVR it..

As far as the what took place..Bill is a stubborn ole clown..Yes Kelly offended him, but Bill showed further immaturity by not accepting an apology..What a fool, and now he's gone..Funny how that worked out.

JJ seems like he's pretty skilled..In 3 shows, he's done pretty well..
 
While the drama I can do without..Bill and the kid, everyone else and Brad.

I thought a speed event with a crossbow and shooting apples looked like a lot of fun.. ..just sayin'
 
I agree eerw...Shooting crossbows like that seem like some pretty decent fun...I'd certainly like that alot more then having to shoot a longbow...
 
With all due respect to those grousing about sundry media type ploys to attract an audience that's pretty much the field they're playing in.

The various drama, conflict and soap opera devices employed by Top Shot are insignificant next to stuff like Bachelorette, Survivor, Fear Factor and a dozen or so others that comprise the reasons I don't generally watch TV.

I see Top Shot as marksmanship competition with a sprinkling of marketing rather than drama with a sprinkling of marksmanship.

In other words, it's far closer to the marksmanship analogy of Olympic wrestling than the theater of the absurd that is the (widely watched) WWE and their cousins. There are real marksmen in Top Shot but I'm uncertain if one could dredge up a real Olympic caliber wrestler in all of the cage match PPV stuff over a given weekend.

As a group we self-proclaimed aficionados of the firearm seem to sometimes be preoccupied with nuances of a message while ignoring utterly whether anyone other than ourselves is actually listening.

And, in the case of Top Shot, it would appear that people are actually listening. Compliments of these guys:
...premiering at 10pm on Sunday, the debut of HISTORY’s first competition series, TOP SHOT, drew 2.1 million total viewers, 1.3 million adults 25-54 and 1.1 million adults 18-49.
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They present the community in a positive manner and I hope they continue to do well. Of course they follow Ice Road Truckers which, as we all know, is totally unburdened by manufactured conflict, soap opera moments and drama.

...oh, wait.

I'm certainly no TV maven but I'd bet a donut 2.1 million neatly waxes, probably by an order of magnitude, anything remotely as "gunnie friendly". If the 2.1 million holds they probably won't get a whole lot of agita over the several dozen forumites that have sworn the thing off.
 
I'm puzzled why so much importance is placed on the "Red Team-Blue Team" thing. In the end it's going to come down to one person left standing. Finalist could likely be two people from the same team.....can someone explain?
 
The good news is, there's no really week-to-week drop off for the ratings. They got 2.1 million viewers for the premiere, and the second week was 1.9 million viewers.

Now, it'd be better if the ratings were increasing and not declining slightly, but that's 2 million people each night watching a shooting show. If 1/10 of those people get turned on to shooting, that's 200,000 more shooters.

And that's a good thing.
 
there's no really week-to-week drop off for the ratings. They got 2.1 million viewers for the premiere, and the second week was 1.9 million viewers.
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I bet the #'s go back up next week when the bust out the AR-15's

i still haven't watched the Bow and arrow episode. It doesn't interest me in the slightest bit.
 
I havent watched the 3rd episode fully, yet. I have read about some of the drama on different gun boards so I Hulu'ed it. All I have to say is,
"Bill, suck it up cupcake. Cursing as you did made YOU look like the child in your petty grudge with Kelly. Good bye and good riddance."
 
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