Military Channel’s newest show, “Triggers: Weapons that Changed the World,”

The show was so bad that I thought the History channel had hosted it. Might be a good film for elementary school viewing. I saw so many problems with it, that it is hard to tell where to start.
 
My son is 14, and has been cowboy action shooting for about a year. When the Hollywood "expert" started spinning and tossing his loaded revolvers around in the air, my kid looked at me and said "Jeez, what an idiot." We turned the show off.
 
Did everyone notice when talking about how hard the trigger was on the Patterson Colt, that the "trigger" took 20 pounds of pressure, when it was the "hammer" was the problem? These are "experts".
 
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I did not have much to do with the show overall, but I was the guy throwing around the "loaded colts." Actually they are cimarron firearm "colts" and they were not loaded. Couple different camera takes. Some of me just spinning guns, and a couple of me shooting. I don't spin loaded guns. I could, with an empty chamber in front of the hammer, but I choose not to becuase I am anal about safety too and it makes those who dont know much about guns nervous as well. I have been a guest on a lot of these shows. They walk a fine line between information and entertainment. I love you guys and you guys could be the experts! But there is a greater viewership of people who kind of like guns and want to see eye candy than those with a lot of guns and want just technical data. So a lot of times they need to throw in the fluff. My gunspinning is some of the fluff I know, but it's what God gave me as a talent, and I think it's important to preserve as it's pretty extinct. As far as giving kids the wrong idea of how to handle a gun, I think gunspinning is inside any kid regardless. You guys never twirled your cap guns growing up? Never idolized Autry or John Wayne or Clint eastwood? If you think noone should twirl a gun in front of a kid, dont take them to the movies. And what they do with video games simulating kills and bloodshed with semi autos and rifles is much more desensitizing these days than some cowboy gun expert twirling a 100 year old gun. My thoughts anyway. God bless you guys take care!
 
Thanks for showing up here and I hope you stick around. For what it is worth, I taught my youngest son how to do a road agent spin because he wanted to. (Nerf gun). He then neatly did it and center punched me with a foam nerf dart.
 
awesome! Thats funny. My boy is 5 and he is trying to outdo me with his cap guns. He gets on stage with me now and then if it is a local show. For a few seconds anyway.
 
Watched both episodes so far, and it's all over the place. The Garand episode hardly talked about the Garand at all, nothing about John Garand, the delevopment of it (like its original caliber and why it was changed), nothing about it's operation other than it was a semi-automatic. And why do we really need hear about yet another new sniper rifle? I guess they were a sponsor.:D
Maybe it's just me...but why does every one of these types of shows generally demo the thing at 25 yards or less? I'm not that impressed by someone's ability or a rifle at that range. I can watch the mall ninjas do that at the range.

This week's show is about the Thompson...anyone want to bet they spend more time talking about the FN P90?
 
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I was finally able to catch this show.

I really wish that I hadn't.

It was pretty awful.

Numerous times they referred to the Colt Navy as a .38.

Talking crap about ballistics.

Stupid, contrived scenarios.

Bad gun handling.

Bad history.

Bad (no?) facts.

I turned it off about half an hour into it.

It's simply not worth watching.
 
Watched both episodes so far, and it's all over the place. The Garand episode hardly talked about the Garand at all, nothing about John Garand, the delevopment of it (like its original caliber and why it was changed), nothing about it's operation other than it was a semi-automatic. And why do we really need hear about yet another new sniper rifle? I guess they were a sponsor.
Maybe it's just me...but why does every one of these types of shows generally demo the thing at 25 yards or less? I'm not that impressed by someone's ability or a rifle at that range. I can watch the mall ninjas do that at the range.

This week's show is about the Thompson...anyone want to bet they spend more time talking about the FN P90?
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Not staying on topic is my biggest complaint about the show.
I can deal with fluff and even some inaccuracies, but if I tune into a show about 1911's or Garands, I want to see a show about 1911's or Garands. It's like producers of the show have A.D.D. or something. :D
 
It's like producers of the show have A.D.D. or something.
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That is a very good explanation of the show! They quickly jump around from item to item / topic to topic, and come commercial break you ask yourself what the heck just happened. Makes no difference if you are a gun newbie or a seasoned veteran, you will not learn a thing from this show.
 
To be fair, it's not the producers who have ADD.

They producers simply know that most of their viewers have the attention spans of amped out chimps.
 
Maybe I'm just jealous, but the two guys featured most prominently seemed to be closer to male models than firearms experts. Great hair, nice pecs, but guns and shooting? Not so much! :D
 
At least in the Garand episode they only made about a half a dozed errors. Did you notice the "expert" couldnt hit many of the targets in the last segment of the episode? They finally had to stop the last moving target so it could be hit before he ran out of ammunition.Them experts seem to not know the difference between a sub machine gun and a machine gun.
 
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