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Appleseed IIT on TOP SHOT (History Channel)

Started by SAR_Squid79, January 17, 2011, 02:04:11 AM

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Boba Fett

#30
January 28, 2011, 06:46:54 PM
Quote from: SAR_Squid79 on January 28, 2011, 04:21:08 AM
I utilized the sling. We had 1 minute to shoot 10 shots at 150 yards - any position you wanted. So that was straight out of the Appleseed. I shot from a good prone position, using the sling. The guys I was shooting beside did not. I made it on to the show. Neither of those guys did...

Bout says it all right there.  ;)

Well Done Jamie! You make us proud.  O0

Boba

Heimdhal

#31
January 28, 2011, 11:32:20 PM
Good deal man.  I'll be looking for ya on there.  I watched the full last season, but grudgingly.  It had way more drama than I would have liked, or perhaps way less on-air shooting (im sure yall shot alot more than we see after editing).  But I will watch it this time around because one of the family is on there! :)

Hope you did well!

:---

NEEDJOHNGALT

#32
January 29, 2011, 03:40:34 AM
Jamie:  Thank you for your service in helping to protect and defend our country!  I have run a small, very successful restaurant for nearly 24 years now.  All of our successes and the good lives we have are due in part to brave men and women like you, who dedicate their lives to our country.  Without people like you, we would not have the freedoms that allow us to have the opportunity to prosper!  Thanks again.  I am a brand new instructor in training, attending a IBC in Lincoln, NE on Jan 29th & 30th.  My best score so far was a 222 at my 1 Appleseed shoot so far. Not too bad for an old man!   ;)  I plan on doing better and look forward to helping train more people, including my Grandson!  I have watched Top Shot in the past and will Tivo the show in order not to miss it.  Good luck and good shooting!

dwarven1

#33
January 29, 2011, 01:22:11 PM
Quote from: SAR_Squid79 on January 28, 2011, 04:21:08 AM
Once I had been selected as a semi-finalist, and had to go to Los Angeles and do the final-casting tryout, one of the rifles they had us shoot had a sling on it, and it was up to you whether or not you used it. Of course - as any good Rifleman would - I utilized the sling. We had 1 minute to shoot 10 shots at 150 yards - any position you wanted. So that was straight out of the Appleseed. I shot from a good prone position, using the sling. The guys I was shooting beside did not. I made it on to the show. Neither of those guys did...

This needs to be mentioned at every Appleseed Shoot...
Unhappy it is ... to reflect that a brother's sword has been sheathed in a brother's breast, and that the once happy and peaceful plains of America are either to be drenched with blood or inhabited by slaves. Sad alternative! But can a virtuous man hesitate in his choice?

GEORGE WASHINGTON

Heimdhal

#34
February 08, 2011, 11:34:30 PM
Jaime, good job so far! ;) :---

Altarboy

#35
February 08, 2011, 11:52:36 PM
i think i speak for all of us when i say we support you for representing appleseed
"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."         -U.S Constitution  2nd amendment

vernic82

#36
February 09, 2011, 09:46:16 AM
This is a great selling point for promo events, Gun Shows, Cabela's, etc.

Perhaps some kind of Promo Flyer can be made up featuring Jamie/Top Shot?
"To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?"
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

"You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant."
~ Harlan Ellison

"Yeah well, that's just, ya know, like, your opinion, man."
- The Dude

spitstickler

#37
February 09, 2011, 12:56:29 PM
"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work."  -Thomas Edison

R1SGx2

#38
February 10, 2011, 10:25:06 AM
Jamie,  :bow:  :bow:  :bow:

Good Job, makes ya proud times 2... Thank you for your service in the United State Navy AND Appleseed.  O0  O0  O0
One of our club members was a controller at these events and was showing video of it last night,
nice, club now has one of the flags from these different courses on club house wall.

Thank you Jamie
"Eyes of the Warrior - Always open"
"What's the weather got to do with it, lets go."
"Appleseed, where good people come together to save a nation."

SAR_Squid79

#39
February 11, 2011, 01:45:10 AM
Quote from: vernic82 on February 09, 2011, 09:46:16 AM
This is a great selling point for promo events, Gun Shows, Cabela's, etc.

Perhaps some kind of Promo Flyer can be made up featuring Jamie/Top Shot?

We (me & Appleseed) are going to work on this when I get home from Afghanistan. I have to get History Channel's permission for that. I am also going to try to go on 'Rifleman Radio' when I get home too. So we'll see.

I got off to a bit of a slow start, but it gets better. Stay tuned and keep the faith! Thanks for all the support, guys and gals!  8)
~Jamie
U.S. Navy Rescue Swimmer
"So Others May Live"

SamD

#40
February 11, 2011, 01:49:04 AM
We'll have you on "Rifleman Radio" bout any time you want.
Believe we can make that happen  O0 O0 O0

Patent guy

#41
February 11, 2011, 10:49:54 AM
Quote from: SAR_Squid79 on February 11, 2011, 01:45:10 AM
Quote from: vernic82 on February 09, 2011, 09:46:16 AM
This is a great selling point for promo events, Gun Shows, Cabela's, etc.

Perhaps some kind of Promo Flyer can be made up featuring Jamie/Top Shot?

We (me & Appleseed) are going to work on this when I get home from Afghanistan. I have to get History Channel's permission for that. I am also going to try to go on 'Rifleman Radio' when I get home too. So we'll see.

I got off to a bit of a slow start, but it gets better. Stay tuned and keep the faith! Thanks for all the support, guys and gals!  8)
Hey folks, let's be careful here. 
I'm guessing that Jamie has signed an Agreement which strictly controls Jaimie's use of the History Channel's Intellectual Property, and we should be patient with him as he consults with them for the permissions (meaning that its premature to proceed with promos & flyers).
My .02
District of Columbia v. Heller (US 07-290, 2008)  "The Second Amendment protects an individual right to possess a firearm unconnected with service in a militia."  McDonald v. Chicago (US 08-1521, 2010) "[T]he Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms [is] fully applicable to the states"

dwarven1

#42
February 11, 2011, 03:42:00 PM
He's also had to sign bloodthirsty agreements to not disclose anything before it gets aired, so no asking him how he did overall and no asking what other types of weapons he got to shoot.

He can't tell us until AFTER it gets aired.

Which doesn't stop ME from saying that I hope you kicked some serious butt, Jamie! I can be patient and wait to see it, though.
Unhappy it is ... to reflect that a brother's sword has been sheathed in a brother's breast, and that the once happy and peaceful plains of America are either to be drenched with blood or inhabited by slaves. Sad alternative! But can a virtuous man hesitate in his choice?

GEORGE WASHINGTON

GoldFish

#43
February 11, 2011, 03:47:23 PM
Quote from: dwarven1 on February 11, 2011, 03:42:00 PM
...I hope you kicked some serious butt, Jamie! I can be patient and wait to see it, though.

Copy that! O0 :--- :--- :---
"Freedom is preserved by those who die for it, but it will not survive unless people are willing to live for it."
-Boba Fett (The RWVA Instructor, not the Star Wars Bounty Hunter)

'Yes, I am a Rifleman, but I'm also a Ninja....and a Jedi.'

"Integrity first, service before self, and excellence in all we do."

"Remember, my opinion on the totem pole of life is somewhere below whale s***..." -Chris Costa

"The more you care about something, the deeper the fight will come from within."  -Travis Haley

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AFTERMATH

#44
February 11, 2011, 05:40:59 PM
Quote from: dwarven1 on February 11, 2011, 03:42:00 PM
He's also had to sign bloodthirsty agreements to not disclose anything before it gets aired, so no asking him how he did overall and no asking what other types of weapons he got to shoot.

He can't tell us until AFTER it gets aired.

Which doesn't stop ME from saying that I hope you kicked some serious butt, Jamie! I can be patient and wait to see it, though.

I suppose it would be fruitless to try and extract the info from him! :-X
A retro-active good luck!  And a pro-active good job!

Now, if only I could find a way to watch the show. :'(
"We intend to produce men who are able to light a fire for Liberty in men's minds, and make them the finest rifle marksmanship Instructors on the planet." - Son of Martha

"Tyrants rise and fall, but tyranny lasts forever." -Me

[What kind of megalomaniac quotes himself?]

Earl

#45
February 11, 2011, 06:00:19 PM
"I would say that those are the things that came into play the most while I was competing on the show. They never would give us a sling - I asked for one a few of times!" quoted..

Ah, yes. The difference between television Reality Shows and Appleseed is RWVA really wants you to shoot better and TV just wants the attention of the audience for commercial interruptions. I hope you did well there, and really hope your tour in Afghanistan is great.  Speaking of commercial interruptions I think Appleseed doesn't need the head nod from Top Shot, we can stand on our own, and the better we produce shooters and citizens the less likely Hollywood or other parts of LA will want us around. Are we having any Southern California Appleseeds?

Not that Top Shot wants my opinion, if they want the shoot off, fine. Then allow all the shooters to compete on the same targets with the same firearms. And you could have that not recorded - or save it for the SPECIAL additions on the DVD. More shooting less shoving and shouting would make a better show. But I am hibernating what would I know?
... to catch the fire in another American for sharing the skills and our heritage to our posterity. Maybe my perfect shots will be made by those I met along the trials and trails of Appleseed. I know that America is a nation of Riflemen.

Carolina Gal

#46
February 11, 2011, 08:01:13 PM
FYI for those who don't get the history channel you can watch the show on Hulu.com for free. Enter Top Shot  and search it will take you to Season two, Episode: one.   

sashok.privetov

#47
February 12, 2011, 12:12:00 AM
I thought that the only people in the Navy who could shoot were the Marines...   **) 

Good luck to ya from a nasty, dirty leg!
There is a saying in Russia, a notion really--Texan Politeness:
If you know that everyone around you has a gun, and everyone around you knows that you have a gun, everyone is very polite to each other.

Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.  --Thomas Jefferson

This message was sent with 100% recycled electrons.

Heimdhal

#48
February 15, 2011, 11:38:50 PM
Jaime, you better beat her you dog you!  ;D O0

Heimdhal

#49
February 15, 2011, 11:58:37 PM
Good job dude! That must have been fun as hell!

Teflon John

#50
February 16, 2011, 12:26:51 PM
Did anyone catch the AS Rifleman patch in last night's episode?  I spied it on a coat/shirt that Jamie was packing into his bag before the elimination challenge.  O0
Jamie ->>>    :---
Athena ->>>  :~
Slow and steady wins the race.

JustJeff

#51
February 16, 2011, 12:47:35 PM
Quote from: TeflonJohn on February 16, 2011, 12:26:51 PM
Did anyone catch the AS Rifleman patch in last night's episode?  I spied it on a coat/shirt that Jamie was packing into his bag before the elimination challenge.  O0
Jamie ->>>    :---
Athena ->>>  :~
Slow and steady wins the race.

I missed last night's episode, so I'll have to catch the replay.
Your version of "ineffective" does not necessarily reflect the truth....
Having been "ineffectively" taught to the Rifleman Standard and having been "ineffectively" taught to teach others to the Rifleman Standard, I believe I prefer the "ineffective" over the other choice.

Teflon John

#52
February 16, 2011, 01:21:04 PM
It was his coat. Here's the screen shot from about 36mins in (without commercials) when he was folding it just perfect so the patch was on top.  ^:)^

bob 210

#53
February 16, 2011, 02:39:44 PM
Good job Jamie!!! Talk about strategic product placement!!!! ^:)^ ^:)^ ^:)^ ^:)^ ^:)^
If ye love wealth better than liberty,the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom,go home from us.We ask not your counsels or arms.Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you.May your chains set lightly upon you and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen. SA

dart67eb

#54
February 16, 2011, 02:44:32 PM
Muy whole house is pulling for you!
Ignorance may be bliss, but it's not a virtue.

The Log

#55
February 16, 2011, 07:00:31 PM
My wife and I both let out a whoop when we saw Jamie's Rifleman patch. And again when he beat Athena! Way to go, Jamie - nice to see that aimed fire in cadence beats out spray and pray.
"The future belongs to those that show up." - hawkhavn

Andre

#56
February 16, 2011, 09:03:48 PM
Jamie,
Good go on the Rifleman patch!

AND

Good to see that you have a teachable attitude and good discipline to work the Tommy the way you needed to.

:~ :~ :~

SAR_Squid79

#57
February 16, 2011, 11:31:12 PM
Alright guys - thanks for the continued support! I'M SOOO GLAD MY RIFLEMAN "PRODUCT PLACEMENT" WORKED OUT!!! Hopefully you'll see me actually wearing it later, too.


...I absolutely hate to make excuses for poor shooting. 99% of the time, the weakest link with any weapon system is the shooter.

That being said - I hated that Colt Police Positive!!! We each had our own seperate pistols, and every single one of them shot differently, and NONE of them shot straight. These were not reproduction pistols - these pistols were actually from the 1920's and they were all worn out! ...I think mine must have been recovered from the Titanic!

The first team challenge with the billiard balls - I think I just choked. I was extremely nervous. The Prohibition Challenge - as lame as it sounds, I have to blame that gun.

I ran up, loaded my pistol (having dadged all paintballs), lined up on the first bottle, squeezed the trigger. I saw my shot go left. Now - with a right-handed shooter it's a common trigger pull error to "push" your shot to the left. I assumed the error was ME. So for the 2nd target, I lined up my sights the same, concentrated on a good trigger pull, and the shot still went left. Then I realized that it was the gun - not me. So for the last shot, I compensated to the right, and fired on the 3rd target, and I hit a little high of the explosive bullseye.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colt_Police_Positive

If you look at the Colt Police Positive, the front sight is a tall half-moon blade, the rear sight is a V-shaped groove cut into the top of the receiver. So for a proper sight alignment, you have to sink the front sight abnormally low. Everything about it feels wrong. This is what accounts for my last shot being too high...

BUT - Excuses are like buttholes, and I (rightfully) went to the elinimation challenge, and wrecked shop with the Thompson!!!

I swear - I don't really suck this bad! Just keep watching!!!!
~Jamie
U.S. Navy Rescue Swimmer
"So Others May Live"

JustJeff

#58
February 16, 2011, 11:46:01 PM
Quote from: SAR_Squid79 on February 16, 2011, 11:31:12 PM
Alright guys - thanks for the continued support! I'M SOOO GLAD MY RIFLEMAN "PRODUCT PLACEMENT" WORKED OUT!!! Hopefully you'll see me actually wearing it later, too.


...I absolutely hate to make excuses for poor shooting. 99% of the time, the weakest link with any weapon system is the shooter.

That being said - I hated that Colt Police Positive!!! We each had our own seperate pistols, and every single one of them shot differently, and NONE of them shot straight. These were not reproduction pistols - these pistols were actually from the 1920's and they were all worn out! ...I think mine must have been recovered from the Titanic!

The first team challenge with the billiard balls - I think I just choked. I was extremely nervous. The Prohibition Challenge - as lame as it sounds, I have to blame that gun.

I ran up, loaded my pistol (having dadged all paintballs), lined up on the first bottle, squeezed the trigger. I saw my shot go left. Now - with a right-handed shooter it's a common trigger pull error to "push" your shot to the left. I assumed the error was ME. So for the 2nd target, I lined up my sights the same, concentrated on a good trigger pull, and the shot still went left. Then I realized that it was the gun - not me. So for the last shot, I compensated to the right, and fired on the 3rd target, and I hit a little high of the explosive bullseye.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colt_Police_Positive

If you look at the Colt Police Positive, the front sight is a tall half-moon blade, the rear sight is a V-shaped groove cut into the top of the receiver. So for a proper sight alignment, you have to sink the front sight abnormally low. Everything about it feels wrong. This is what accounts for my last shot being too high...

BUT - Excuses are like buttholes, and I (rightfully) went to the elinimation challenge, and wrecked shop with the Thompson!!!

I swear - I don't really suck this bad! Just keep watching!!!!
Hey! I LIKE my everyday carry Colt Police Positive Special.... But, mine was in mint condition when I got it :P
Your version of "ineffective" does not necessarily reflect the truth....
Having been "ineffectively" taught to the Rifleman Standard and having been "ineffectively" taught to teach others to the Rifleman Standard, I believe I prefer the "ineffective" over the other choice.

The Log

#59
February 16, 2011, 11:46:54 PM
Is it just me or is it the COOLEST damn thing in the world to get an AAR from the guy we just watched shooting on the show?  I hope we get 13 more AARs from Jamie. Keep going, brother!

BTW, the only reason we still have cable is to watch this season of Top Shot. Once it's over, we're pulling the plug.
"The future belongs to those that show up." - hawkhavn
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