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Zeke/PA said:Real CRAP show.
I would rather watch a Soap Opra1
Watched it for the first time. This show *is* a soap opera. Absolutely awful.
Zeke/PA said:Real CRAP show.
I would rather watch a Soap Opra1
IIRC, Andre had a 2 of spades and a 6 of spades. Kelly was shooting for a pair of 5s. All Andre had to do was shoot a 6 and he'd have won with a pair of 6s to Kelly's 5-5. So it would have changed the outcome.I disagree, it added an element of strategy. Shoot for your own hand or block your opponant's. On the tie breaker, Kelly was able to block and made very hard for Andrew to get a good hand. The fact that Andrew didn't know what would be the best poker hand available to him after the block affected the outcome very little, imo.
Going into the show, did you do any special training? You’re going to get a kick out of my answer. Here it comes. {laughs} I hadn’t shot live ammo in about 10 years before I went on the show. I literally hadn’t shot anything other than a little bit of .22 rimfire just fooling around.
If I can get my wife to watch stuff about shooting, ask questions about guns and just shoot the breeze with her over that kinda stuff, I'm all about it. It puts it into context for me.
I'm sure I'm not the only one.
They ride around a course shooting in every direction. Blanks make it safer for everybody involved, including the horses.That is the dumbest thing that I have ever heard.
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If I can get my wife to watch stuff about shooting, ask questions about guns and just shoot the breeze with her over that kinda stuff, I'm all about it. It puts it into context for me.
I'm sure I'm not the only one.
You're not. My wife can't stand any of the other gun shows I have on our DVR, but she'll watch Top Shot with me.
And my two sons (ages 4 and 6) love it as well.
atomd said:Just the other night she said to me out of the blue "Hey, let's watch top shot" (she had taped it). I think it's fantastic because it brings up guns in a good light during normal conversation and makes people more aware that guns can be used for friendly competition and how it takes actual skill to put a bullet on a target. I think that's just great. If I can get my wife to watch stuff about shooting, ask questions about guns and just shoot the breeze with her over that kinda stuff, I'm all about it. It puts it into context for me.
I think this notion that mounted shooters are just riding around shooting blanks and not having to hit anything is wrong. They do shoot "blanks" in the fact there is no lead, but the rounds are capped with wax or plastic so when they shoot at the balloons or what ever else they have to shoot at, they still have to hit the target while mooving.
Viewers who know their blunderbuss from a Winchester and who understand the technical elements obviously will be more richly rewarded here, but it's easy enough to get into the spirit of the thing — even if you (as I) harbor no particular or even general affection for firearms — because what the players are doing is patently difficult, and they do it well. (Some of them are famous in their world.) And given a cast of even moderately differing characters, a little back story and a contest, it is nearly impossible not to root for some of them against others.
As one who has never spent any time in a gun shop, and indeed would be happy to see all your Glocks beaten into plowshares