History has never aired a reality competition before, but that will change next year now that the channel has ordered ten episodes of “Top Shot,” which will pit contestants against each other in a battle to determine the best sharpshooter. I was pretty skeptical until I read the description:
Each episode has contestants facing elimination challenges inspired by real-life events in history, from Wild West shootouts to sniper missions.
Ordinarily I’d say this would be boring, because as anyone who’s ever seen Olympic shooting can tell you, marksmanship is an exercise in patience and control, and it’s not really fun to watch unless the targets are people or filled with explosives. No matter what John Woo or the Wachowskis might have told you, it’s actually pretty damn impossible to hit a moving target with a pistol while doing a cartwheel. But this could be okay if the contestants have to do stuff like hit a moving cutout of JFK from the Book Depository. My other suggestion for an elimination challenge:
Road trip to Vietnam!
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They should do a beer pong type thing but with hard liquor and shotguns.
They should have an episode called “Do It, Faggot” where each contestant has a duel with Bas Rutten. They’d get a single shot pistol and Bas would get to be Bas.
And ditto on The Short Timers. Kick ass book.
.”..it’s actually pretty damn impossible to hit a moving target with a pistol while doing a cartwheel.”
Like I tell my son, don’t say you can’t until you’ve actually tried it.
Any Simo Häyhä challenge would require the participants to wear ear protection because of all the noise being produced by the clanking of their enormous brass balls.
There should be a Simo Häyhä inspired challenge. In the snow, no scope, against counter snipers and artillery.
I’m enough of a firearms geek that this actually sounds interesting, but I wouldn’t think there are enough people like me to make this successful, even if it doesn’t suck.
BTW, Ufford, I’m assuming you’ve read The Short Timers and Herr’s Dispatches, but just in case you haven’t: Do so, immediately. You’ll be glad you did, and a better person, as well.
This should be filmed in Boston…maybe at a Red Sox game. Definitely at a Red Sox game.
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Does this mean bodies are going to hit the floor?
To clarify, with paint balls or something. Not actual live ammo.
They should try to hit Usain Bolt running the 200 as he comes around the turn.