Shooting USA's Impossible Shots

[Pathfinder]

I got a blurb in the email today about this new show on The Outdoor Channel. Look, TOC, if you're hard up for content, talk with MB instead of putting this lame-ass stuff on for a whole half-hour. We are trying to get fresh people involved in shooting, not send them running away screaming.

I can take trick shooting for 30 seconds. 30 minutes? No way. Good people, watched Jerry and Tom and Bob before, good shows. But this is not IMNSHO a good way to spend 30 minutes of viewers' time.

from the email . . .

September 30, 2008

This week we launch a new series. Shooting USA's Impossible Shots starts Wednesday Night at 7:00PM and 10:30PM Eastern Time.

Shooting USA adds an additional half-hour of programming in Outdoor Channel's Wednesday Night At The Range. The new series expands the feature that has been airing for the past 15 years, as an element of the shows hosted by Jim Scoutten.

Now Shooting USA's Impossible Shots becomes a complete show, providing a half-hour of entertainment and amazement, as the world's best Professional Exhibition Shooters demonstrate their skill, performing shots that would be impossible for any one else to accomplish. The new series is hosted by Brian Speciale, the newest member of the Tier One Media team of Television Professionals.

The Impossible Shots Pro Team of Exhibition Shooters:

Bob Munden -- Tom Knapp -- Byron Ferguson -- Jerry Miculek -- Tim Bradley

More information is at the website www.ShootingUSA.com

[Walter45Auto]

I personally enjoy watching that sort of thing.

[m25operator]

Well I guess the good news is, I don't have to fast forward thru the whole show now to get to the good stuff.

[wisconsin]

The more shooting related show out there the better it is for all of us. Anyway I can't sit through biggest loser and american idol when my wife has command of the remote. 

[ellis4538]

Heck, I just go thru the tape until I get the answer to the free gun question!

Richard

[Sponsor]

[Bill Stryker]

 I am looking forward to watching it. Just as I look forward to every Wednesday night shows. If the show is for archery I'll just skip it.
The sad news this week is that Kelly Gotch will not be hosting Michigan Outdoors any more! The good news is that she will be on the Pursuit Channel beginning in January and is cohosting Step Outside on TOC.
The Wall Street Journal has a front page article on women hunting. I recommend it to you.

[alfsauve]

I don't mind the "impossible shots" as long as it's shooting.

what I mind, and I'm writtin' Jim and John about, is the archery stuff.   Nothing agin' archery, but if I wanted bows and arrows, I'd tune into a bow and arrow show.   Whats I want is "shootin' "  Guns.  Firearms.  Click-boom.   Not twangy-twangy stuff.

[MikeBjerum]

I'm watching the show right now.  Since I love shooting of almost every type I am enjoying it.  The show is made up of segments from past Shooting USA shows, but is still entertaining to me.

Obviously it is not a show for everyone, but anything that shows shooting in a positive light and what practice, practice, practice can do is worth the air time.

On a similar vane  , Shooting USA was on the National Archery in Schools Program.  Our local club has helped put this in our local school, and even though it is archery it has gotten a lot of kids interested in shooting sports.  It is also an easy way to show kids what this sport can do for them for a lifetime, and this show explains that well.

[MikeBjerum]

billstryker and alfsauve,

Please focus on the picture while you explain to me what you have against archery ...

[shooter32]

The o'l stick and string. It is a skill and disapline.
draw
point
aim
shoot
 
I have tried it and can see the addiction. And the bow shooters have my respect.

For me I like things that go BOOM