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  1. EXACTLY! So the people favored to win by a landslide are surprised when a target lands on their back. Even if no one actually takes the shot?? Amazing. You would take a month of your life away from family and career to compete in an all-or-nothing event... and not even "consider" every strategy to win? Really?? Seriously ?!?!?!? Then that is funny, because they just announced Season 2 of Top Shot. Time to put up or shut up. Who is IN ???!
  2. Should be very interesting. Three days real-time goes into each 1 hour episode. Not sure what they can or will air in the end. But it should make for some compelling TV!! Do they even have time for shooting amidst all the drama this Sunday!?!?
  3. Really Howard?? Seriously??? As you've known me for 10 years you know that ABOVE ALL I can in fact really shoot, even though I never take my shooting seriously enough. Kelly shoots a smiley face... Blake shoots a bull while looking away... but suddenly its so unbelievable that I would deliberately shoot off target to dot the "i" in Iain !?!??! Of course that was a deliberate shot off target! NOTE - they don't SCORE us for those nomination targets, and you can shoot anywhere you please, so why not shoot the guy's actual name. I still think it was a funny bit!! But lest there be any doubt in the age of TiVO and DVR -- Just compare my hit near where the "i" dot should have been, to where I hit high/right from centere bull. Same variance. And you might also note that three of us put our shots high/right into the same hole when shooting for real at the bullseye. Coincidence?? C'mon now....
  4. Flex - yeah I guess then I missed my exact target... but only by a LITTLE instead of A LOT. Still thought it was funny, and Colby tried to hang me out there. But I do appreciate the editing allowing me to have my say. They could have cut that part out and REALLY tried to do a hollywood number on me. I saw this coming, and aluded to it on a previous thread. But the nomination process plays a role in the story in that Blue really did have fun at the nomination range. We got all our voting choices and drama out at the house, and had nothing but a few shots to do at the nomination range to make it offical. And this drove Red crazy !! Red Team always left the house never knowing for sure who was voting for who. Iain had several good reasons for his choice. First, in episode #1 he missed with the springfield probably 15 times and felt bad about it. And he did poorly in AR practice. So he really wanted to stand up and deliver, and he asked that we vote him to allow redemption. Remember, it would be pretty easy for someone to demand a shot at elimination to prove something, and we ARE competitive shooters!! As for strategy, if you vote the two worst you don't know which comes back. Better to decide on the 1 worst and have a better shooter take them out. That is controlling the game and its outcome. Not a bad strategy, though the elimination challenge does have its risks. That said, Iain taking on Jim is probably the LEAST risky combination he could have asked for, and it gives Iain another practice session and shooting event to sharpen skills for future events. Remember - we hardly ever shot on the television show. A couple shots in the main practice and a couple in the challenge. The eliminations gave you twice that in one day!! But Jim did awesome and damn near bit Iain. Jim sent out like a STUD!! There is always risk and skill (and strategy) and that is what makes this show so darn great in my opinion!! We never know what the next episode will bring, so its hard to guess what skill set you need in the future. Jim's expertise was historic rifles, but I think he means more like WW1 and WW2 rifle stuff (garands, mosins, etc). He is a slow fire Camp Perry champion. And we covered that ground in Episode #1. Tara is a national bullseye champ and there was some thought we might see more speed/pistols down the road. At least.. that was the logic.
  5. In my dictionary, its not a "miss" if you hit what you are aiming at. And YES, I was deliberately aiming hard to dot the second "i" in Iain's name. It wasn't the perfect shot having landed about an inch high/inch right. You might see that when I reshot aiming hard at the center of bull I also shot about an inch high/inch right on the target, about the same ratio off the "i" in Iain's name. And you will see that Big Chris stepped up and put his bullet right into the same exact hole I made. (*note the nomination pistol is a different actual gun than was used in the team challenge, so they had at least 3 floating around). I was the big prankster in the house, though you are not seeing any of it. Heck, I even brought fighing line and waterballoons in my luggage! So YES, I think if you ask anyone who knows me, they will attest that (1) I can shoot pistols and would not have 'missed' that target unless intentionally... and (2) I am the kind of guy that would deliberately aim off target for comedic affect. My AR stage ?! That was just shooter error. I got a little flubbed in my mag load, felt the timer ticking, and pulled my first shot. My fault. Still got 6 bad guys, and 1 guy who claimed to be innocent and just hanging around with bad company
  6. The "Wipeout" set was on the property just down the hill from the "Top Shot" house. But it was not set up at the time. Just a man-made water feature in a fence along with a bunch or props and stuff. A much smaller setup than it appears on TV. Movie magic, huh!?!?! Love that show, fun to watch. But they really clown people out, and beat on them hard...
  7. To clafify... when the bit time exec producer had words with Red Team (specifically Andre) he honestly felt bad afterwards. This producer guy was really a stand up fella, and as a peace offering let us all have a movie night. We DID NOT get to keep the TV. It was just one movie (which after a couple weeks of sensory deprivation, was still a fantastic treat!) I don't know if these reality show guys ever ran across a bunch like us before. Maybe they are used to pushing some high school kids around. But when they pushed us too hard, we push back. It was at times bordering on outright rebellion. However, we all had the same goal, to create a great product, and once we aired our griefs (both theirs and ours) we got things back on track.
  8. Frank could not have been a greater guy to get along with. Retired New York cop with the long hair, we sometimes called him Serpico. You may hear the cast talking in interviews, and saying "Ya know" every so often. We got that from Frank (and can't seem to stop!!) Bad photos, but for the most part a great bunch of guys *(and one girl)
  9. In all seriousness, they video record everything on everyone all day long. And when its all said and done, they only have so much time in the total program... therefore final episode after edit features the more important clips to tell the back story. So its not that Red Team had extra drama to feature... its that given the challenge's turn of events, they USE the red drama to tell the back story. Chicken/egg vs Egg/chicken.
  10. I think we can talk about episodes and content after they air it... so for now I can say I didn't see as much tension in the house as I am seeing on the show, but probably because I can't be in as many places as the cameras. Everything you see is real if we are there saying it. Right? The power of editing is simply to focus more on one person than another, even though both may be doing the same thing. Watching the show, I didn't realize Andre was that fired up. He seemed pretty quiet to me and a guy who kept his feelings to himself. But I am Blue Team and he may not have wanted to share Red discontent. But any time we actually talked, Andre and I got along just fine... when Blake did his Colby immitation skit, Andre was front and center in the role of the Seal Expert. There were times through it all that we all shot together and laughed together. Other times it was game on!! And yes Bill really did get furious with Kelly. Not sure if he was just looking for a reason, or if he really stayed emotionally close to his "ex"... but Bill had a position on that issue (and ALL issues) and wasn't shy about saying it. If he and Kelly were going "Hatfield and McCoy" then that is fine, too. Its a competition show and we are competing for a single #1 slot. As Pete famously said in the first episode, "if you want to make omelettes you've got to break a few eggs" !!! [... and I think that brings us into the Episode #3 thread]
  11. Duramaxtech - They literally took dozens and dozens of pictures, and there are several different ones out there for each of us. It was the beginning of a big televised competition so I think for many pics we brought out our most serious game faces! Ha! But I have seen other photos for each of us smiling (except for maybe Iain!) I used the best pic they took for my Facebook "Adam Benson Top Shot" page... but I think because I am not holding a gun in that picture it didn't get much play on the show. Either way, can't begin to tell you how cool it felt as they took professional "hero" shots and mega-zoom footage holding the various weapons. You stand there in your best aimed stance, while cameras on booms swing up and around... or slide from muzzle to eyeball ~!!
  12. I heard about the casting call in an email distributed to USPSA members (and all over the internet forums including here!) and sent in a short bio and photos. They called me back and asked for a 5 minute audition video, and pages of shooting experience background, etc. The show IS 'America's greatest marksmen' (who applied, were willing to sign the onerous contract, and pass background test, shooting skills test, etc.) The show does attempt to acknowledge history in that we use great weapons throughout history in our competitions. But for actual duplication of famous historical shots, they already have the show "Extreme Marksman" and "Impossible shots". The goal here is to take 16 top [all-around] marksmen and challenge them in both teams and individually using important weapons of history. And its only the first season, and a very BOLD adventure for "History" with limited first-run budget, so give them a bit of slack. Be happy its a major network, and that these guys are big supporters of what we all love to do. Why wasn't Rob Leatham (et al] on the show? The application form said it was going to be physical, and the Seal guy wanted it to be faaaar more physically demanging than what you saw so far. And I think Rob has bad knees. And maybe some of the other big names were not able/willing to sign off on the television contract with big restrictions. And maybe there were some big names who applied and did not make the cut for various reasons. In the end, this train has left that station and we (for better or worse) are the passengers. Pick a favorite, cross your fingers, and hold on for a wild ride ~!!
  13. The cast shooters can't discuss ANYTHING until it first airs on TV. So in regards to all of the questions about what might happen or what could possibly happen down the road... just hold on until after you see it. If it looks unbelievable, perhaps it is. Stay tuned....
  14. Backpacks?? C'mon. You know shooting people and their gear!! We really don't know what the challenge might bring so we try to prepare for every possibility. The show provides guns and ammo and squishy earplugs. We pack sunscreen, cleats, gloves, hat, fleece (yes, it was cold in the morning), plus several pairs of shooting glasses, water, snacks, a notebook/pen, etc. That kind of stuff.
  15. And just think... the producers had no idea who was going to shoot through which tube, so the height issue was a real concern. And if you actually VOICED that concern, and they got it on tape, and they strung it together with a bunch of your other concerns... you too might be feeling like Brad right about now. He's really not a bad guy at all. A super smart guy who just said what he was thinking, before thinking what he was saying. Ha!
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