Posted on 05/01/2011 5:52:11 PM PDT by TheConservativeParty
Anyone want to discuss this season's Top Shot? It just ended on Tuesday. I picked the winner from the first time I saw him and heard his background.
Until the finale, I perceived the contestant George to be a total bleep, but after the finale was over, I changed my opinion somewhat,based on his odd behavior in the finale. I thought it was very interesting the bond he had with the winner of the competition.
I missed a few episodes, so could someone explain why they all picked on Jaime so much? I thought he seemed like a stand up guy.
I am a female NRA member and gun enthusiast. I enjoy the many shooting challenges Top Shot sets up, and the array of weapons they use throughout the season.
I do not own a shotgun yet and the Benelli they used at the end of the season looked very appealing. Anyone have one, or can recommend a great shotgun for a woman? Money not important, I want quality. I might like to take up shooting skeet sometime, and I know there's nothing like a shotgun for home defense too.
Any comments are welcome, and thanks for participating!
I agree that the amount of drama was sickening at times. I enjoyed the shooting, the challenges and the weapons. The juvenile drama was like watching high schoolers.
LOL! The trumped up drama is half the fun. It just proves that women aren’t the only ones who are catty gossips.
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Another funny thing George said at the finale, after he’d missed on purpose to save Chris... he said if Chris didn’t win he’d “punch him right in the junk”. I was surprised he even had a sense of humor after his lousy behavior towards Jaime. Ashley was really harsh with Jaime too. To his credit, Jaime remained civil through it all.
George was great: a guy who said what he thought and backed his stuff up with actions on the gun range. Did Jamie deserve his ire? I don’t think so, but hey, egos collide when you take that many different kinds of people and put then into competition.
IMHO, George threw the game to Chris, but Chris still had to beat “Gunny” to earn it.
I love the way they slow down the action too, so you can see the bullets and the slow-mo on the hits. Neat stuff.
If you’re willing to pay up for quality, Benell makes an excellent product in semi-autos. I know two gals who shoot Super Black Eagles in the field for upland game and in sporting clays.
For trap or skeet, you might not want a semi-auto. I shoot a trap league and shoot my semi-auto Beretta, but I was strongly “encouraged” to put a shell deflector on it, which I did. The auto-eject of semi’s into the person at your right is considered offensive by many trap shooters. If you had a pump, you’d be better off because you could wait to eject the shell towards the ground (or some pumps eject out the bottom), but many pumps are kinda heavy for all-day trap shoots.
For serious trap and skeet shooting, most people go to a break-open action and then get a high-rib barrel for trap, and over/under for trap doubles and skeet. Many sporting clay competitors use over-n-unders as well. An over-under gives you an edge in that you can mount two different chokes in the two barrels, and use one barrel with a more open choke for your closer shot on doubles, and the tighter choke for the farther second shot.
Above all, get your shotgun fitted. Gals ain’t proportioned the same as guys, and it really wears you down to have to shoulder a shotgun that doesn’t fit. If you become a serious competitor in shotgun sports, you’ll be shooting hundreds (NB the plural) of rounds in one day. If you’re really good and get to shoot off against another competitor for elimination in something like trap, you might have to shoot 200+ rounds non-stop until one of you misses. If your gun doesn’t fit, you will be sore. I guar-an-damn-tee it. Even with AA loads.
The thing about shotguns is that there are few “one gun to do everything” options out there if you’re going to be competitive. You can “get by” with a pump or semi-auto as your primary shotgun as you’re starting, but at some level in trap and skeet competition, you’ll find you’re at a disadvantage or you’re getting beat up far worse than you need to be. For home defense, you want a much shorter barrel than you’d use on either a hunting shotgun or a gaming shotgun. A trap gun often as a 28 to 30” barrel, and a defense shotgun will be 18 to 20”.
“The guy i was rooting for won.”
That may be, but he didn’t earn it; George and Gunny gave it to him.
First off, good on George. Unlike some I didn’t hate his actions as he always backed up his bravado with results. As they say, it ain’t bragging if you can do it.
As for a shotgun, IMO there’s no “all around option.” For home defense it’s hard to go wrong with a Mossberg or Remington pump with a 18” barrel. Simplicity, capacity, cost and assesories are the factors there. For clay sports most competitive shooters will run multiple guns for Trap, Skeet and Sporting Clays. I like the Browning Citori XS Skeet with 28” barrels; many skeet shooters will get additional barrels to shoot other gauges, (20, 28, .410,) so they can shoot 5 gun. While the Browning are nice, Kreigoff’s and Perriza’s are commonplace but in most cases they don’t out perform.
Honestly to get started I’d look closely at a Remington 1100 Skeet or a used Browning/Beretta O/U to start out with. as always, YMMV.
Exactly why I quit watching it after the first ep.
The reason I quit IPSC was I grew tired of the “rule lawyers” and drama queens on the range.
I simply refuse to watch a bunch of grown men act like prissy high schools girls when they’re shooting guns in competition, regardless of whether I’m on the same range with them or they’re on my TeeVee.
Thanks for the great info!
Perhaps I could get one for home defense, and another for skeet.
I’ve never shot skeet,but it looks like a lot of fun.
No need to watch after Maggie lost-nice lady, great shooter, and...oh yeah! Hawt!
Many thanks for the information. I’ll add it too my notes.
I loved that show but my husband, not so much even though he loves guns. Too much drama, I think. lol I picked Chris at the beginning too and was sooo glad he won! What George did totally changed my mind about him. What a guy! And yes I think Brian (gunny) took a dive, too.
LOL, yes the gals didn’t last long on the show.
Last year there was a blonde gal who stayed pretty long, but her father was very ill and she left to be with him before he passed away. She seemed very skilled and the men accepted her into the group very well. She would not have won, but I would have liked to see her be eliminated rather than having her quit like she felt she had to.
Yeah, they all seemed to have decent senses of humor, which is always nice to see, even if they were being jerks after a while.
It’s funny, when I watched the finale, it wasn’t obvious to me that Gunny missed on purpose, but now that posters have pointed it out, I am sure he did. I mean he tried and tried to hit those lined up targets,,,my grama could have got them faster!
George was so blatant in it, picking out that huge plate to be at close range and then missing it...it was almost insulting to Chris. I thought at that time that Chris was angry about it. Like George picked something so easy that it was insulting.
However I didn’t know their close relationship and George proved later to be quite a big hearted friend to Chris.
I wouldn’t have thrown the competiton in any way though had I been there. A competiton is a competition, not a charity event.
Although I am happy Chris won, it would have meant more to him without the help from his pals. Perhaps Chris was in more dire straights financially than we knew and George and Gunny were teamed up on a mission of doing good for a worthy and humble man.
Testosterone, it’s almost as bad as estrogen!
LOL!
Almost ;-)
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