This does not look safe
NRA Blog has some pics from one of the challenges on the show Top Shot. In that first pic there, that does not look safe. Look on the ground. There are people down there. They are not down range but that guy doing his Mission Impossible impression could easily cover them. No thanks.
April 21st, 2011 at 9:52 am
It’s a good thing these guys act pretty mature when handling the guns. I think if
mostany other reality TV shows included shooting a firearm in the presence of the other competitors, there would be a lot of dead or wounded.April 21st, 2011 at 11:15 am
Doesn’t look like that show took too long to
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April 21st, 2011 at 12:03 pm
Yep. I saw this. Raised all sorts of flags in my mind but then again these guys are “Top Shots”.
April 21st, 2011 at 12:11 pm
I do not think that’s a good setup either, Unc.
April 21st, 2011 at 12:22 pm
I look at that first picture – I don’t see people on the ground? At least they don’t look like people to me. But small pictures and my eyes suck.
April 21st, 2011 at 12:38 pm
It’s not safe, the guy is dangling in the air.
I don’t think any one made the people stand there, any of them could of stepped back if they felt unsafe. The lack of a formal safety line in the ground and the familiarity the people had with each other led to what you saw.
On the other hand if the contestants are on the left, the people on the right are a bunch of people mostly standing around waiting to do something between takes. They don’t need to be there at all.
April 21st, 2011 at 1:40 pm
Having people parallel to the shooter means you can’t have a 180 Rule, and that’s not safe in my mind.
However, I can’t tell whether Joe meant it was unsafe simply to be in the air with a gun. I wouldn’t go that far. The rig looked very stable and they seemed to have a lot of control over the shooter’s body orientation. If that’s not safe, I don’t see how it can be safe to run with a gun, especially in a muddy, rocky, sandy or otherwise loose-footed range bay outdoors.
It’s safe if it’s done safely . . . which, apparently, it wasn’t in this case.
April 21st, 2011 at 3:52 pm
I suspect TV fakery. The guys aren’t wearing helmets, and you can’t get insurance for that type of stunt in the US without a helmet.
I haven’t watched the show yet – any chance they were shooting airsoft and not real guns?
April 21st, 2011 at 4:21 pm
Haven’t seen the show yet.
Being in the air is somewhat unsafe. My wife is a good shot but afraid of heights and might panic in such a situation. If you did put my wife in that rig, the safest place would be above her and not any place of the ground. A shot could be fired at any place on the ground by someone who wasn’t in control of themselves.
After my wife got on the ground there would be no safe places….
The safety of that range was dependent on the people involved, much more so than in normal ranges.
April 21st, 2011 at 6:39 pm
They were shooting a Glock 17 and they were not wearing helmets.
April 21st, 2011 at 7:57 pm
What, is the show running too light on interpersonal drama so they have to introduce a physical risk?