Has any TV shows like Top Shot or Sons of Guns influenced your purchase decision?

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After seeing last season's episode of Top Shot, I got myself a S&W 317 with 3" barrel with hi viz site.

I knew I could shoot better then them so I gave it a go. Can't afford the 50 Barrett but maybe after I win the lottery.

With SoGs, it just fortifies my justification for an AK.

I guess their subliminal marketing worked on me.
 
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nope.

well okay, i was watching that clip from sons of guns about shooting a desert eagle and then i went out and bought a beretta! whoops! funny how those guns seem interchangeable to those folks. [rolleyes]
 
SOG is complete crap, unless I want to do something backwards with a dremel.

Top shot is a pretty cool list of things that I don't have ... that mountain cannon ... [thinking]
 
Yes. I want a silenced gatling gun grenade launcher with universal key underneath on the rail. All based on the AK platform.
 
Sons of a gum is a train wreck.

Top shot... I admit I watch it via dvr and speed through most of it. I do like the challenges. I would love to try some of that sort of thing myself. Very creative ideas.
 
I guess Top Shot do influence my craving/taste of firearm a bit. Can anyone willing to donate to my fund to acquire a Barrett M82a1, Larue Tactical OBR and Benelli M4? [smile]

Donation Link.
 
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It almost influenced me to buy a new TV. When I saw these knuckle-draggers gawking at a 6.5 Jap Arisaka telling everyone that you can't buy ammo for it, I threw my coffee cup at my TV, luckily it hit my wife instead.
 
Nope...my opinions are not based on Top Shot.

Back in the Golden Age of television there was a show called "You Asked For It" and it was sponsored by Skippy Peanut Butter (a brand I still buy when I buy peanut butter). People supposedly would write the producers and ask to see different stunts or skilsl that were either unusual or daring. One request was for fancy exhibition shooting. It was hosted by this guy named Art Baker who as I recall had absolutely snow white hair...anyway, I think it was 1956...and Baker had Bill Jordan on the program who was a Top Shot of his day one of the best pistoleros in the country at the time. Jordan was doing fancy marksmanship stunts with the then new Smith & Wesson Combat Magnum (a year later designated as the Model 19) which Jordan referred to as a "peace officer's dream." Now back in the day there were basically only three networks and Jordan's introduction of this .357 K frame (at the time the smallest .357 made) helped boost initial sales considerably because hundreds of thousands of people (maybe millions as it was a popular program) saw that particular episode.

Today it is hard to believe that a show featuring fancy shooting was a mainline network show.
 
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I watch the show cuz i think it's pretty funny.... it serves as good background noise while i clean my guns. I don't know about their guns but i'd fire half of those guys if they welded or built stuff of that quality in my shop. Some scary stuff on those projects. Tho i'm sure a lot of the BS is done for TV.

and no, it has not influenced my purchases.
 
It almost influenced me to buy a new TV. When I saw these knuckle-draggers gawking at a 6.5 Jap Arisaka telling everyone that you can't buy ammo for it, I threw my coffee cup at my TV, luckily it hit my wife instead.

Well, to be honest in MA we really do have trouble buying ammo like that... [grin]
 
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