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Ultimate Fighter/Top Chef style reality show for Marksmen !

Looks pretty cool

I believe it is on the History channel

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Kinda pissed I missed this, I'm going to have to look for a rerun because I thought this looked pretty cool.

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Is this BP's next plan?

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The show is somewhat similar to "Bull Run" on the "Speed" Channel, -the 16 marksmen (each specializing in a different type of weapon) are broken into two teams and given a target-shooting challenge (using rifles of a historical nature than none of the competitors have previous experience with) that employs elements of an obstacle course. The losing team must choose two of their teammates (everyone gets one vote) to go into a second head-to-head challenge and the loser goes home. There's a certain amount of strategy and "politics" that goes into choosing the two for the final challenge. One interesting element is that many of the competitors know each other from outside the comp and the player who most clearly lost the challenge for the team had some of the others covering for him out of loyalty. Much like "Bull Run", the producers dress up what is obviously a lower-budgeted show by using explosives, -in this case when the marksman hits a target, its marked by an explosion.

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Seemed interesting in the promos. Ended up as sort of a let down since they structured it like a paint by the numbers reality competition show (teams,competition,voting,eliminations challenge). It would have been better if they ditched the teams and eliminations and everyone got a score each week based on performance and at the end the person who accrued the most points won. The exploding targets are stupid. It even affected one of the competitors shooting in the elimination challenge. The guy who shot second said he had to wait for the smoke from the explosion to clear to take his shot. That kid was pretty nasty with that rifle though.

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Awwww, I thought it was going to be the latter for sure. :(

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The "logic" used by the three people who voted Kelly was horrible. I was happy to see him crush Mike. That was a really impressive performance.

Agreed. Colby was even mimicking Jeff Probst 100%. Oh well, I'll stick around.

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I was entertained enough by the first episode to stick around. I'm a sucker for competition shows like this as long as I can watch it off the DVR and filter through all the filler.

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i just like guns cos we can't get them easily in Australia

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Wow I'm really enjoying this show, glad Kelly beat Brad. I can't wait they have throwing knives coming soon. I think I also saw a preview for sling shots. I hope the show gets picked up for a second season.

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The show has been renewed. I've enjoyed it a lot more than I expected to, -the challenges have been clever and I've been really surprised at the amount of ego and animosity going on.

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Challenges have been great, can't stand Denny, pulling for JJ and Kelly to win

Would love to see a John Woo style shooting 2 handguns at once challenge

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I fast forward through everything thats not on the shooting range.

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not bad, but the forced drama is annoying

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watching this week's
brad and denny need to go suck donkey dick. this is twice where denny has sucked and yet he didn't get sent to the elimination

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Nice finale. I really liked the final challenge. Overall, this was a fun show. Glad to see it renewed.

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great show, really enjoyed it

Hope they can come up with new imaginative challenges for next season

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once it got to the individual stuff it really got good as it was almost all shooting
surprised iconic American guns like the 1911 and M1 Garand didn't make appearances

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Good stuff.

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Bumping to let fans know that Season 2 has started. I just happened to notice it on Hulu. Good start to the season.

They remedied that in the first ep this season.

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I dvr'd it but lost it when i cleared the spongebob recordings from the list. :mad:

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I see they still have cocky people that continue to be cocky in their post vote interview after they're voted for elimination due to sucking out

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love this show

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Tonight's challenge looks pretty interesting:

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We watch this show for the first time today, the. 22 caliber ep, and my wife became instantly hooked. Turns out she wanted to be Annie Oakley when she was growing up!