Top Shot Gaffe

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DaleA

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Here's the description for one of their shows.

A returning challenge receives a daring makeover, literally throwing contestants for a loop. The spin of a wheel determines their bodies' angle as they aim with the Rutgers Security Six Revolver.
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http://www.history.com/shows/top-shot/episodes

Hmm...maybe they are correct and Rutgers DID produce a revolver...seem obvious Harvard and Yale would have too...where are our gun historians to check this out?
 
Not especially on topic, but I was reading a book yesterday and read the line "His Sig Sauer P229 service revolver" and it almost ruined the book for me. :p
 
Maybe someone "fat-fingered" the g on the keyboard. The t is right above the g. Proof-reading by educated folk has gone out the window some years back it seems. Just watched the show and it was a pretty cool challenge.
 
Taurus Protector .357magnun....

Maybe in a future ep the contestants can use a Taurus Protector .357magnun like I got in 2004, :D.
 
Also, they showed a Schofield when the voice over stated...>

..."...the weapon? The Ruger Security Six...".

Unusual for the show. They generally match the weapons to the script OK.
 
At least it didn't have a safety.
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That statement could bite you in the butt. It did me.

I was talking guns to my ladies self defense class and pointed out revolvers don't have safetys to worry about under the stress of SD shooting.

In the mean time, my wife who was helping me with the class is setting in the back pointing to her little Heritage Rough Rider 32 H&R revolver that has a safety.

I still accuse her of buying that little revolver just to make a liar out of me.
 
I don't how many times I have tried to shoot my Heritage RR 22lr with the safety on. That is one feature that annoys me.
 
The High Standard Crusader (admittedly a rare bird) had a safety. Lever on the side, one way opened the cylinder, the other put it on safe.


Some Hammerli single actions also had a "safety". If I remember right, the base pin could be locked in a pushed in position that blocked hammer fall.

Revolvers with safeties are rare, but a small number do exist.
 
Top Shot Intro

I'm a huge fan of the show, but I'm bothered everytime Colby says, "There are shots that changed history..." No shot nor anything else has ever changed history. Why couldn't he have said "shaped" history? Anyway, that's me being annoyed by little imperfections.
 
I have always suspected that revolvers with safeties were developed and manufactured by gun companies set up by a cabal of mystery writers so whenever they screw up and write that someone ‘took the revolver from his pocket and snapped off the safety’ they can say ‘well OF COURSE that’s correct, the guy had an XYZ revolver.'

(The same group financed the manual safety available for Glocks.)
 
The biggest gaffe in that same Security-Six episode was when Colby is doing the voice-over introduction talking about 'the venerable revolver bla bla bla' and they do a close-in shot of a slo-mo "Security Six" firing and in fact it is a Scofield being fired. :eek:

Derp!
 
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