Top Shot III - let's keep it about guns and shooting

That rig with double schofields was awesome! And do you think they were actually shooting .357 Mags when shooting the 686 upside down? Probably .38s -- and why would the blue team send Jake (missing pinky) to do the that challenge?

But dang the schofields...I want 1 or 2.
 
-- and why would the blue team send Jake (missing pinky) to do the that challenge?
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Same reason I would ... to get rid of him. :p
That guy's just arrogant.
I guess it's not all bad, now that he's sleeping outside. :D
 
No offense to the bow shooters, but I was unhappy to see arguably the best pistol shooter sent home on a non-firearm competition. Of course, you could also say that he should have prepared better and practiced some of those skills.
 
Finally got around to watching some of the episodes, new work schedule is a female dog.

My under-standing of the Gatling, and some very basic research, shows that most of the military models were in .45-70 Gov't, and that they all had traversing elevation and ragne controls. It is important to note that up until late WWII, the American Army considered the machine gun as both a direct fire and an indirect fire support weapon, hence the myriad of knobs to set the weapon to fry in a fixed position, laying down beating fire, grazing fire and what have you. That tradition continued up until the air cooled Browning thiry caliber became common place.
 
Of course, you could also say that he should have prepared better and practiced some of those skills.
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With the amount of various weapons out there is it possible to practice and prepare for what you may or may not be challenged with? It could also turn into a very expensive ordeal trying to prepare. Just my thought.
 
I was quite saddened to see Cliff go home on a bow shoot. He truly is a remarkable shooter, not just with the handgun which he blew the entire field away with his expertise in that area, but also with the rifle and even throwing rocks of all things. In many ways, Cliff truly is a Top Shot.
 
The air-cooled Browning was adopted in 1919, but it didn't enter widespread issue for awhile, like 1943 or thereabouts. Grandpa waded ashore in the Solomons lugging a tripod for a water cooled .30 caliber. Heck, I read an account where Marines were still lugging around the water-cooled .30 in Korea.
 
Water cooled Browings were used throughouot WWII, and to limited degree, afterwards, but fell out of favor due to the weight and the fast movment needed in "modern warfare".

Note that air cooled guns, when used on a tripod also use the T&E mechanisms.'

Where water cooled guns shine is sustained fire. The drawback is weight and clumsyness. It was water cooled Brownings, and the bravery of Basilone and the other Marines that stopped the Japanese at Bloody Ridge on Guadalcanal.

Early in WWII, the weapons mix was water cooled guns and BARs, and as noted, the 1919 air cooled infantry guns didn't become widespread until after we had been in combat for a year or so. The air cooled versions in tanks, on combat cars, half tracks and in aircraft were there from the beginning, but the infantry didn't get many of them until about mid war on. Marines and many Army units went to war with 1903 & 03A3 Springfields because there weren't enough Garands to go around, too.
 
Heck, even the M-60 tripod, which M- designation escapes me at the moment, has T&E equipment on it as well.

Furthermore, if you are able to find one down range, even the -240B tripod has T&E stuff on it, and I'm pretty sure if I think back to AIT real hard, I can remember how to use it. :)
 
I really enjoy watching this show. Some of the challenges are ludicrous, but I still manage to learn something while watching most of the time.
 
Just watched the new episode. What caught my eye was the slow motion shot of the 40 cal bullet after it left the gun. There was what looked to me like a comet tail following the bullet. You could clearly see the "tail" spinning with the rifling twist. I've never seen anything like that, anybody know what it was?
 
I noticed that also, griz. I've seen lots of high speed photography of bullets in flight, but nothing like that before. It might have something to do with the humidity level at that particular time and location - not sure. The helical "contrail" was very odd looking.
 
It looked to me to be coming from one specific land on the bullet, like there was a anomaly in the barrel rifling ??
If it were normal pressure- humidity wouldn't it have been more even around the whole bullet?
 
It also looked to me like it was coming off of one spot. My first thought was some oil or solvent left in the barrel, but it doesn't seem like it would stick to the bullet in that enviorment.
 
I have to say that I am very pleased on how the individual challenge is being run.
I can't help but hope there is a viewers preference challenge that would bring back some of the favorite shooters from past episodes. I can't help but believe Kelly and others would have prevailed with a playing field like there is now.
Sure would have liked to see that bone head Jake stay, He was an animal!
Now he will be forever remembered as a quitter!
 
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