[Snake45]

Pretty good kick-off last night! Especially liked the M1 carbine challenge. The team challenge was also quite interesting and well thought out. Was surprised that it went so close.

Some random observations:

* The two teams were put together "randomly" (for all practical purposes), yet each team "just happened" to end up with one of the two women and one of the two African Americans. Anyone else find this curious or interesting? I wonder what the mathematical probability of that is. I'm no math whiz but near as I can deduce, the odds of the four of them being squadded that way is 25%. And then there's the odds of all four of them (or, for that matter, any four shooters you'd care to designate) passing the first-shot elimination and making the Top 16 in the first place, which I make as 62.4%. So the actual odds of the two women and the two African Americans both making the top 16 cut AND being squadded with one woman and one AA on each team are 62.4% X 25%, or 15.6%, or less than one in six (but more than one in seven). I smell a PC rat.

*If I'm not mistaken, in Seasons Two and Three, a woman was the first shooter eliminated, so I'm glad to see both ladies survived the first episode.

*Michelle is the hottest woman contestant they've ever had so far (IMHO). The other woman might be the second hottest.

* I don't have any favorites yet, but I've already taken a dislike to several contestants (the ones who seem to be running their mouths the most).

SPOILER ALERT on the next one (you might not want to read it if you haven't watched it yet).

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*In the final elimination, the left-handed guy definitely had an advantage shooting from the sidecar. Apparently it wasn't enough of an advantage. I wonder if there would have been protests if the left-handed guy had won it.

 

[bearcat6]

I'm afraid I took an immediate dislike to the guy who won the elimination round. He runs his mouth too much for me. Although that may the fault of the TV people.

 

[Javlin]

I'm afraid I took an immediate dislike to the guy who won the elimination round. He runs his mouth too much for me. Although that may the fault of the TV people.

I am surprised he won to be honest he sucked when shooting stationary.The M1 carbine has to be by far the easiest 30 cal in my collection to handle with little recoil persay which leads to quick target reacquistion.Yea his s$#* doesn't stink could just be all the training in the past to be confident also?I wanted the other guy for personality reasons also.

 

[Snake45]

I am surprised he won to be honest he sucked when shooting stationary.The M1 carbine has to be by far the easiest 30 cal in my collection to handle with little recoil persay which leads to quick target reacquistion.Yea his s$#* doesn't stink could just be all the training in the past to be confident also?I wanted the other guy for personality reasons also.

Yeah. The lowly school janitor hit as many targets as Mr. Been-Trained-In-Shooting-From-A-Moving-Vehicle. The tie was broken by round count.

And yes, he's on my "Dislike" list. For some reason I don't think he'll be around long. A little too much talk, a little too little action. The "police captain" seems to fall into that category, too.

I'm kinda hoping the whole thing gets won by somebody who could really use the job. Haven't picked a favorite yet. (So far my alltime favorite TS contestant is still George Reynas of Season 2.)

 

[Javlin]

Snake the reason the other fella lost he waited to long to squeeze that last round off he had passed the target for the most part.

 

[Snake45]

Week Two:

The little ladies (literally) did amazing well with the Big Bad BAR. Glad to see them both last another week.

Glad to see that ass-hat Kyle get sent to challenge. Sorry to see him come back from it. He's my new Least Favorite Contestant.

So far, my favorites are Michelle and the Asian kid--the one who "rode the pine" last night. I got a kick out of him when he said "I hate you, and I hate you, and I hate YOU..." because they didn't let him shoot (they feared him!). Would be fun to see him wipe the place up with all of them, unless he turns into a loudmouth blowhard, in which case I'll hate him.

 

[Javlin]

Yea Snake they did handle the BAR rather well.I am not good on names but what was it 5 mins to take out one target?I mean come on does anyone shoot open sights these days?That is all I shoot.We have a gong at our range 335 yds out 18"X18" plate and I ping that thing with my M1a usually 4 out 5 shots.Oh and in the elimination selection did you see how fast that lady acquired her target and plugged it in the center,sheeez!

 

[IrishCop]

Yeah, BOTH ladies impressed me, and I really like Chi Kwan, too. The blowhard not so much. Same reason I hated the "ex SEAL" last season.

The team break down was planned. No doubt. There might be a lot of stuff on this show that's "planned". Who knows (besides the producers, participants, host, crew...)?

I wondered about the difficulty some had hitting relatively close targets with the BAR...but who knows if they get any zeroing shots beforehand, or how they react to the stress of competition. And it might be the iron sights. NOBODY seems to use them much anymore what with scopes, lasers and red dots.

 

[Tim Burke]

I am surprised he won to be honest he sucked when shooting stationary.

Well, he sucked because all his shots were to the right. However, when shooting from a moving vehicle at a stationary target you have to take a negative lead, ie, you aim behind the target. Thus, when the targets are on the right, you aim slightly to the right of them. His error actually gave him his negative lead.

 

[Javlin]

Well, he sucked because all his shots were to the right. However, when shooting from a moving vehicle at a stationary target you have to take a negative lead, ie, you aim behind the target. Thus, when the targets are on the right, you aim slightly to the right of them. His error actually gave him his negative lead.

That makes sense thus he was lucky by default.

 

[DavidE]

So far I have liked this season. I haven't seen all the episodes but I have noticed a lot less "drama" and more cool headedness and focus on the shooting. Then again that may be down to the nature of oany of the players this year.

Some excellent weapons. The All-British episode was fun, nice to see the "Mad Minute" done as one of the challenges. That made me want to be on the show. I also dug the contestants getting to do the "Michael Caine in Zule" thing with the Webley MK VI. The nickeled one was a neat touch, I hadn't seen one in that finish before.

The 1898 Cannon was amazing, and I loved the Atlatl because it was such an early use of an enhancement of natural human throwing strength to launch something.

 

[Snake45]

George Reinas, my alltime favorite TS competitor, will be guest-coaching on tonight's show. It might well be the highlight of this whole crummy season.

 

[Tim Burke]

I've enjoyed this season. The challenges are more interesting and there is less drama. I like the Red team as much as I have any team so far.

 

[DavidE]

That one gentleman had better have gotten the lady shooter's number before they had to part ways.

Tim B., plus 1 on what you said. Red team as shown a very good example of teamwork and positive attitude. Top Shot works best when played as a shooting match and not as a "drama" reality show, there's enough drama in having to shoot without people creating more, and the ones who go out of their way to create more almost always get caught up in it themselves eventually the way the show is structured. I did like some of the Blue Teamers this year too, the British guy for one.

 

[Snake45]

Chatty Cathy Kyle FINALLY got sent home. Was cool to see how it got done, too.

Now if that big whiny puss Greg doesn't win the whole thing, I'll be happy.

 

[WaltGraham]

I should have recorded it; I'm going to have to run the season down and watch it.

Made another one of those shots today that Tim and Charlie make routinely; there were a couple of young bucks in attendance.

To the sudden silence I remarked, "Reckon I'm done, ya'll go ahead, I'll walk up and grab some tea."

There are advantages to being an Ancient One...

 

[Charlie Petty]

Do you have a praire dog now?

 

[IrishCop]

Chatty Cathy Kyle FINALLY got sent home. Was cool to see how it got done, too.

Now if that big whiny puss Greg doesn't win the whole thing, I'll be happy.

A BIG Plus 1. I cringed when Greg did as well as he did with the mounted machine gun.

Guess we'll see come Tuesday.

 

[IrishCop]

I should have recorded it; I'm going to have to run the season down and watch it.

Made another one of those shots today that Tim and Charlie make routinely; there were a couple of young bucks in attendance.

To the sudden silence I remarked, "Reckon I'm done, ya'll go ahead, I'll walk up and grab some tea."

There are advantages to being an Ancient One...

Congrats Walt. And you're not ancient. You're experienced!