So, we don’t watch much in the way of reality television outside of Dirty Jobs and Mythbusters, but the kids and I hooked my computer to our television tonight (no cable, no satellite, but the computer hack works great) and caught the first episode of Top Shot on Hulu. It’s a new reality show on the History Channel pitting some of the nation’s best competitive and professional shooters against each other for $100,000. I know nothing about competitive shooting, but damn was it fun. Had me and my four-year-old boy and six-year-old girl jumping and down.
And, as it turns out, one of the contestants is none other than Caleb from Gun Nuts Media, who I read daily, link to on a fairly regular basis, and who has stopped by here to offer much-welcome advice. Something which, after I mentioned it to my daughter, elicited the following picture and a promise from me that I would post it on my website so he can see he has fans. (Because, as my daughter told me, when you post something on the internet, everybody sees it.)
So here it is:
She says she like him even better than Justin Beiber.
Update: There was one cringe-inducing portion of the show that had to do with a 100 yard target and an M1903 Springfield. About which, Tam provides an interesting factoid:
For those of you who watched it and haven’t much experience with old rifles, an interesting factoid is that the v-notch battle sight on the M1903 Springfield is set at 547 yards, the theory being that, if you hold on the belt buckle of an enemy soldier standing anywhere between 100 and 547 yards, the bullet will hit him somewhere between his hat and his trouser fly. (And if you hold dead center on an 8″ bull 100 yards away, your POI is going to be… er… a little high.)
Update II: I don’t want to spoil it for anyone who hasn’t seen it yet — and I’m betting most of the people who read this blog are not out-of-the-box shooting sports enthusiasts; I know I’m not — but there’s been some controversy about the M1903 meltdown summed up by Chris Byrne. Byrne links to a blog post by Mike Seeklander about his experiences on the show. I don’t know nearly enough about this subject to even think about commenting.
I was about to crash out the other night and ended up watching the entire episode. It was entertaining but I wish they would cut out the “coming up after the commercial” previews.
Yeah, absolutely. That’s one of the nice things about Hulu: there’s less of that shit. I’m looking forward to next week, when they get to pistols.
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I was rather surprised about how much the wife and I liked the show. We do our own private shooting competitions but nothing like what they had. And I doubt the mrs’s will be crawling under barbed wire any time soon.
One thing about the show on Hulu… there’s a ~20 minute demo show, with a lot more of the shooter interviews.
Thanks, Chad. I’ll check it out.