Television Show Looking for Guns

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Are you paying a salary for any of this? Meaning ideas scripts, experiences, or anything at all? or is this just a means for you to get ideas that you will be paid for?
 
gym said:
Are you paying a salary for any of this? Meaning ideas scripts, experiences, or anything at all? or is this just a means for you to get ideas that you will be paid for?
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If that's the case, for any idea inspired my me that you decide to use, I require the following compensation: That you be realistic (no over-hype), that you be entertaining, that you be balanced and without bias or agenda, and that you be safe. :)
 
One good idea for a episode would be the Cottage industry formed around the Ruger 10-22 . ...WVleo
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Or the AK or the AR or the 1911....

You get the idea.
 
hi everyone. thanks for all the responses. i'm tyring to answer all the emails and inquiries. my purpose for this post is to find out what you all would like to see on the show. i'm researching new ideas, content, etc. and i need to know what you, as gun collectors, owners, novices, professionals, connoisseurs - would find interesting, unique, bizarre, cool, over the top, insane, educational, informative, entertaining, etc.
the gun maker, will hayden, of red jacket, is passionate about what he does, an expert in his field and the sky's the limit for ideas and directions we can go in. unfortunately, i don't have any compensation for an idea except the possibility of exposure on television. thanks again - from a novice's pov, this stuff rocks!
 
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As far as "over the top, insane" I think I can speak for a great deal of gun owners when I say that I would like to not see the show contain any "reality TV" angst/conflict drama. As long as the show is actually informative in nature, I would bet most people here would be into anything you wish to show, whether it be about building AR15s or an "Antiques Roadshow" of guns, or anything else. Please, just don't let it focus on petty conflicts between cast members. That stuff is really best left for MTV or FOX.
 
A show that focuses on american or other countries for that matter gun designers - John Moses Browning and the 1911 and modern development of it with all the bells and whistles - or Barrett his fifty caliber firearms and competitive shooters and snipers and gunsmiths who accurize them. Or the AR15 and from the basic design to the modern evolution of the rifle. Or handcannons - from the .357 mag up to the .600 nitro express revolver. Or the big bores - 20mm semiauto rifle in the modern day and the older design 2 bore rifle.

Full auto - think knob creek - you could find a lot of interesting guns there.

Or contact the NRA and or estates of famous individuals or gun collectors - lots of historical guns - guns of Alvin York or Audie Murphy or Wild Bill or Ed McGivern or Annie Oakley or Al Topperwein and his wife.

Or if you are looking for emotional intensity - then the guns of infamous or famous individuals who have been forced to see the elephant - the guns of Suzanna Gratia Hupp or Nikki Goeser - then have your gun smith customize a personal carry firearm for them. Or the guns of individuals who have had to use them in self-defense - average americans - and have your gun smith produce a personal firearm for them. Their stories would be intense and would add interest to the gunsmithing project - similar in a somewhat different way to the house show that customizes or builds a special house for an individual.

Anyway just a few ideas.
 
I really like the idea of a show about builing your own rifles AR, AK, 10/22, ect

Ohh and maybe hit on NFA stuff I know most Americans think it's all off limits unless you have a "class 3 permit" Talk about the steps to getting a tax stamp for SBR full autos, and suppressers. I mean just look at that stuff major cool factor=major ratings
 
If produced and aired you might have a short segment on actual cases where a gun saved someone from a BG.
If the perp was a felon or an individual deemed not allowed to have a gun in the first place so much the better..
Mexico does not permit citizens to be armed thusly 28,000 known people murdered by guns or so reported. Probably another large group buried someplace and forgotten.


Just a thought.
 
Look at custom gunsmiths and manufacturers. Do a variety so that varied interests would be covered. Look at rifles and handguns and their applications. Hunting, civilian defense, law enforcement, military.
 
Sent in an idea that's been banging around my head for a couple of decades, surprised no one else has come up with it...

Makes me a bit nervous to send the idea to someone else...I'll be pissed if this gets made because someone miraculously came up with the idea after I sent it in...

Tried to cover my butt by CCing three other addresses at the same time, so there is a record of when the mail went out...

We'll see. If this gets made, I think I stand a pretty good chance of making good money off of it!
 
hmmmmm, I have a gun that is interesting to me...

an 1878 Borchardt-Sharps rifle, only 20k were made, and it was the last rifle that the Sharps Company made. It was internally fired, no external hammer, and was designed by the guy who designed the Luger.
 
It's quite important to figure out early on which direction you plan on taking this, as I see three main concepts introduced by people in this thread:

1) Firearms history
2) Firearms culture
3) Firearms use
 
My trade is mainly in consignment sales, and I just had a gun through here that had an interesting "story" behind it ... and and interesting "story to be" on the buyers end as well.

1911 A1, Remington Rand Production. The owners father had brought it back from WWII, where he was an MP and had repatriated this gun from a German officer. That officer had removed the (I assume broken) grips, and replaced them with some bits of plexiglass he got from a downed airplane. Behind the glass he put pictures of his family.

The fellow who bought it was going to give it to his mother on her 86th birthday next month. She had run away from home in 1944 to marry his father, who was on his way to Europe for the D-day invasion. He had pictures of them from that time and was going to put -them- behind the grips. His father died some time ago.
 
What I would like to see...

Get one of those loud mouth tacticool idoits and offer to build them what they think is the perfect firearm. Anything they want, that is possible. Interview them on their reasons they think their uber weopon and accessorys are the best. Maybe get them to tell sories of thier shooting skills or hero experiences. Let them pick a rusty old firearm they think is worthless.. Give the old firearm to a real gunsmith and film the work required to get it functioning. Give the restored firearm to a real shooter and let him compete against the idiot with the new custom firearm with the scopes and lights hanging off it.

Skill and hard work vs. dollars and gadgets. Skill and pratice vs. hype and talk.
 
I'll suggest two things:

1. Do at least a couple of shows on building custom bolt-action rifles.

2. There is a thread running on the subject of guns not currently in production that members want to see. It might offer several good ideas. It's HERE

And when you speak of us, speak kindly :)

KR
 
Maybe part of the show could be molded toward correct pronunciation of terms, names, etc. You know, like the name "Makarov". Nobody ever pronounces that name correctly. :rolleyes:
 
Maybe part of the show could be molded toward correct pronunciation of terms, names, etc. You know, like the name "Makarov". Nobody ever pronounces that name correctly.
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Are you asking that of a gunsmith from Baton Rouge?
 
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