I recently learned about a shooting reality show in the works for the History Channel. I e-mailed the casting director Greg Fiesher and he got back to me with info on Top Shot.
Are you America’s “Top Shot” ?
The History Channel is seeking marksmen with amazing firearm skills!
If you are skilled with a pistol, rifle or any other firearm, you could win $100,000 in prizes on TV’s first marksmanship competition show. The History Channel and the producers of The Ultimate Fighter are looking for anyone with mind-blowing shooting skills and a big personality to take on exciting physical challenges with multiple guns and mystery projectile weapons.
It doesn’t matter if you’re a professionally trained shooter or a self-taught, average Joe (or Jane!). As long as you’re in good physical shape, have mastered a firearm and can adapt to new weapons and demanding physical situations, you could be America’s first”Top Shot.”
APPLY TODAY!
To apply, email TopShotCasting@gmail.com with your name, city/state, phone number, a recent photo of yourself and a brief explanation of why you should be on the show. Deadline to apply is January 18, 2010. For more information, visit www.pilgrimfilms.tv and click on”CASTING” or call 818-728-3729 TODAY!
* Applicants must be at least 21 years of age, a resident or citizen of the United States and reasonably proficient with shooting and marksmanship
University of Alabama Birmingham professor Timothy Kraft, PHD is developing a new gunsight design using his experience as competitive marksman/shooter and Retinal Electrophysiologist. Dr. Kraft is a member of the Vision Science Research Center in Birmingham, AL and has trained with the US Olympic Shooting team.
According to UAB Magazine Kraft “is developing a new kind of gunsight that relies on a trick of the eye to improve a shooter’s aim.” Little information is available about the new sight but trails are expected soon. The sideshow below from the UAB Magazine provides some insight into the groundbreaking new weapon sight.
The video below shows Tim Kraft demonstrating and talking about the new gun site at the very same range I practice.
As new information becomes available I will post and keep you up to date. I look forward to seeing more of the sight. I especially like to see great innovations coming out of a great University in my home town.
If you have been following me on Twitter for awhile you know that I have been absent. Since about the first week of April until today I have been wide open with bits of time in between that I used to catch up on living.
I started off in April planning to work 7 – 10 hr day’s a week for 1 month and then move to 6 10’s for 6-7 weeks. Well that didn’t work out exactly as planned. In the world of Carpentry contract work the job only lasted 4 weeks before labor cut backs. So then I got day jobs a couple times a week in the same place for other companies for the next few weeks. Then without notice I got offered a really good job doing electrical work with a commercial construction company. Since being laid off from the initial job back at the first of March I have made a couple one day trips up and down the East Coast. At the electrical job I have managed to work quite a few hours and been very busy on the weekends catching up on things I missed during the Spring Work triathlon.
Speaking of triathlon I managed to loose about 10-15lbs and started to get some muscle tone back after having office jobs for the last few years. Work seems to be leveling off now and I have what I hope is a job for the summer and possibly even further with a good company. Things should be returning to normal around here for me soon.
The end of the week I will be shooting in the Alabama State Tactical Carbine Championship. Since I have not been practicing or even fired a weapon in a couple months I’m not sure I will be ready. After this weekend I’m sure to have plenty of ideas for post and catch up in all the goings on in the world. The debate over 2nd Amendment rights is heating up recently with the attachment of carry laws in national parks to a credit card bill. So the summer is looking pretty good from where I sit as a blogger but kind of rough and action packed as a 2nd Amendment Supporter. I am sure I will have more on that in the future.
I recently learned about a shooting reality show in the works for the History Channel. I e-mailed the casting director Greg Fiesher and he got back to me with info on Top Shot.
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