Nononsense, Re: 'Top Shot'
Obviously no apologies necessary. It had the potential to a very good and informative show, though as you noted, apparently was designed to attract non-shooters more than shooters.
It is too bad it turned out to be 'Survivor Shoot-out', but had we not been given the heads-up, we could very well have missed a good one.
Thank you,
Don
It is too bad it turned out to be 'Survivor Shoot-out', but had we not been given the heads-up, we could very well have missed a good one.
Thank you,
Don
0
-
It woulda, shoulda, coulda ... ! It'd been very easy to have been a very together presentation: informative, educational and even so, still, very interesting! However, just not the case, this time around! What a shame. The shame is on them, not on anyone alerting us that it was on and showing. I appreciate folks letting everyone know when there is something coming along that may be of interest to everyone. And thanks for the feedback. 0 -
I watched the rerun last night & was dissappointed also. I can't watch survivor, & I could barely sit through this. This is where the young folk learn the back stabbing & back door politicing. Shameful. 0 -
Stupid show. 0 -
What a disappointment the show was,I expected something very different.I was really suprised at the "Profesional Rifle shooter" that fired umpteen shots with the 1903 Springfield at a 100 yard target without sucess,I think I could have done better except for crawling under the barbed wire. At my age i would still be crawling when the other team finished.Did you notice the ladder sight was all the way down to battle sight position which i think is about 400 yards.I won't be watching next sunday. 0 -
I haven't watched the show but I'm getting a little disappointed in the History Channels programming. A straight up contest would be cool. A big drama round-up is not.
I for one am sick and tired of their 30% UFO programming. Since when were UFO's 30% of mine or anyone elses history. Ax-men focuses more on drama than it should but still gives some good insight as to what happens up on the hill to bring wood down off of it. I miss the R. Lee Ermy shows. He was fun.
'Course anything on TV these days is getting on my nerves with more commercials than shows.0 -
I watched it for the first time last night. Was very disappointed. It was more like survivor with guns. When they did the pistol shoot to remove someone from the competition by shooting a target with their name on it, I lost interest.
I was on a show called "Front Sight Challenge" a couple years ago. We started with 4 people and one was eliminated after each shooting stage. The last place shooter left the show each time. It was based solely on shooting ability, not popularity, which is the way it should be.0 -
I haven't watched this program (and from these reviews I probably won't), but to be a bit fair here, its seems possible that the contestants were handed completely non-zeroed guns.
On TV in general. . .98% of it is crap (and probably 99% of so called "reality" TV). My life is too short to go looking for that good 2%.
quote:Originally posted by Laredo Lefty
I was on a show called "Front Sight Challenge" a couple years ago. We started with 4 people and one was eliminated after each shooting stage. The last place shooter left the show each time. It was based solely on shooting ability, not popularity, which is the way it should be.
Of course actual competitions should be based on ability, but that doesn't necessarily make for "compelling" television.
Straight up accuracy shooting sports generally make absolutely lousy TV. You have someone sitting dead still aiming. . . aiming. . .aiming. . .aiming. . .aiming. . .then moving their index finger about 1/4", bang then recoil for about 1/2 a second, eject a spent shell and repeat.
Fun to do. . .but BORING BORING BORING to watch. From a viewers perspective the competitors are basically just sitting there doing nothing most of the time, and there is not a lick of difference between them. The camera simply can't capture what they are actually doing (ie aiming and doping wind).
So from a programming perspective, these things work for maybe 5 minutes just to see the competitors, what kind of equipment they're using, and what they are doing. You can squeeze another minute out interviewing them for the "human interest" angle. But after that, its over. You can't sustain a weekly TV program (or even an hour-long one) with just the actual competition.
Again, I love shooting, and I'd go out there on the range for 10 hours a week target shooting if I could. . .but even with all my interest, I couldn't spend more than a few minutes watching other people doing it on TV!
You can make things more interesting from a VIEWER's perspective with moving targets, moving shooters, etc, but now you're getting away from the traditional shooting disciplines.
If, say, simply televising say an IPDA match were compelling TV, there would already be a weekly program doing just that. Its not.0 -
From what was released early, I had hoped they would have taken the recognized best from different shooting disciplines such as 3 gun, IDPA, Trap, Skeet, long range rifle, long range pistol, SASS, SASS mounted, etc, had a little history and background of each sport and then a competition each week to see who was best overall total score after all the competitions. It would have been far more informative and interesting.
Having Jerry Miculek, Ron Latham, Kim Rhode, and others along with maybe R Lee Ermey in the mix would have been far more interesting.0 -
beantown.... The show I was on "Front Sight Challenge" (FSC} was MUCH more interesting than Top Shot. I was in the semi-auto shotgun group. We did "running gun" up a canyon shooting falling steel plates wearing small cameras on our head & guns and followed by a cameraman so multiple angles were shown.
At the end of the first show I was on I hunted a fellow competitor, Aaron, a swat cop from Lincoln Neb. We went into the 4 room shoothouse and shot at each other with Benelli Super 90's loaded with paint rounds. I killed Aaron to win that show and was invited back to tape another episode the next month.
The FSC producers had other shows using different weapons, bolt rifle, pistol, sub-machinegun etc. We also shot at huge exploding napalm type targets for visual effect from a plank on a 90' tower while teathered to a cable to keep us from literally falling to our death.
I suspect the guns used in Top Shot were zeroed just fine. During a practice round for the elimination event both shooters, Mike and Kelly, used identical scoped Remington 700's. Kelly, the young kid shot a happy face on his target while Mike, the older guy, couldn't hit squat.0 -
Sounds like another TV loser show...
Bring back Jackie Gleason.0
Please sign in to leave a comment.
Comments
10 comments