"Combat Pawn"... no comments yet?

While some of the customers may truly just show much, the other pawn programs do have customer screening which means only certain folks make it to the TV area for transaction videoing. I would not be surprised if they did not have a casting call for customers like Gunsmoke does for buyers.
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They're all like Antique Roadshows (the English version) on testosterone.

My FiL was asked to bring a few of his firearms to an Antique Roadshow. It was set up well before the filming of the show. He was asked to bring in a .557 double, A Drilling (can't remember the calibers) a Tower pistol, and a Sabre thats been in the family for years.

He was then told to look surprised at prices.
 
Most of the Reality Shows on TV these days are really fake, ironically. Its better to watch fictional tv shows like CSI, Lost, or Walking Dead. At least you know its not real and its still entertaining.

These reality shows are just annoying, and they get worse every season.
 
You know I agree that most of these shows are fake, however, if any of the shows are real, I believe it may be American Pickers. For some reason I just do not get the "fake" feeling I get from the rest of the shows. Then again, it could be even more fake than the rest. Just my 2cents.
 
You guys know you have ruined all reality TV for me. I used to think everything I saw on TV was real, now you guys are claiming most of it is staged and/or faked. :o

Oh well, I still have radio talk shows I can listen to.


I am still surpirsed by the number of my family and friends who find these shows realistic.
 
There's always the real shooting shows.
On NBCSports channel, beginning next weds at noon, there's three shows back to back.
Guns and Gear,
Guntalk TV
3 Gun Nation.
 
You know I agree that most of these shows are fake, however, if any of the shows are real, I believe it may be American Pickers. For some reason I just do not get the "fake" feeling I get from the rest of the shows. Then again, it could be even more fake than the rest. Just my 2cents.
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American Pickers has casting calls as well.
http://www.facebook.com/events/272869796095560/

There are very few people who know as much as folks like that do. I would also bet they are being coached before the recording of the cutaway shots so that they appear to have all the information...like on the other shows.
 
OK, I'm man enough to admit I watch that show. If only to laugh at the mistakes and see guns being owned and fired in the US of A.

But I did throw a salute to the screen when they showed the crippled paratrooper (guy in wheelchair mentioned above) meeting the large black ex-Ranger salesman, who is the nicest guy in the shop.

When the customer in the chair told about his very bad para-drop, the salesman tapped the brace on his leg. "Me too. They dug me out of Georgia."

That jumping for Uncle Sam business is dangerous and deserving of some praise and respect. That was a good scene.

Bart Noir
Who also watches to see the day that an employee gets fired or knocked on his fanny. How can a shop owner or manager put up with that kind of lip? Or is it, just maybe, scripted fiction???
 
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