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Top Shot Good final 4 here. I think Gary getting to pass into the final 4 without the elimination match should put him square with Mike coming back. Alex seemed like an okay guy, but he seemed like one of those dudes that just barely squeaked by for most of the season. I had the same feeling about Chris, but tonight he really smoked that circle course. Dustin continues to be some kind of boy wizard. American Guns Rich and his family oddly enough do not strike me as tremendous douchebags. Based on what you guys were talking about regarding Sons of Guns, it's nice to see a shop actually be able to use a CNC machine to make things. I only saw the first episode, but they're a business and they're pricing and selling things to earn a living, so I can respect that. I've been in so many gun shops that just don't give a poo poo that it's kind of nice to see one that's well-kept and where people generally know what they're talking about. Granted, I might change my mind on this, but I'd watch another episode or two.
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hangedman posted:it's nice to see a shop actually be able to use a CNC machine to make things. I only saw the first episode, but they're a business and they're pricing and selling things to earn a living, so I can respect that.
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Mad Dragon posted:FIFTEEN THOUSAND DOLLARS for an SAA clone. Their price means nothing if someone isn't willing to buy it. If people want to pay that much let them, a fool and his money and such.
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Diggie posted:Their price means nothing if someone isn't willing to buy it. If people want to pay that much let them, a fool and his money and such.
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Mad Dragon posted:A rich fool. I just wonder if they feel like 15 grand. I wasn't exactly impressed with the way they built the preacher's gun. It was nice, but not ten grand nice.
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Sten Freak posted:..it was a nice gun (whatever the base price is) with $1000 or so in custom gunsmithing and engraving and painting on it. So, $1500.  Who had that matched pair of semi-custom revolvers? How much were those?
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Stephanie Hayden "Sons of Guns" posted:Much love guys and gals! Not too much longer and we will be back!! (November) This seasons really gonna throw you for a loop! Hope your ready!!! Lots of changes and lots of the crazy builds you guys love!! (my fav being one you probably wont see till almost the end of next season, but it was the scariest thing ive ever ummm,"shot?"lol!) Cant wait for you guys to see it!!! ~XOXOX~!! 
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Daddy's pretty little princess.
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Diggie posted:Their price means nothing if someone isn't willing to buy it. If people want to pay that much let them, a fool and his money and such. That's what I appreciate about Rich and Renee's attitude when I watch the show: they seem like decent businesspeople. They buy low and sell at a price that allows them to keep the doors open, and their clientele isn't made up of cynical/knowledgeable twenty and thirty-something gun enthusiasts who actually know the worth of things. I would venture to guess that quite a few people here would probably spend that same $10,000 (assuming it had to be spent on that kind of gun) on a second-generation Colt SAA and then send it to someplace like Turnbull or Heritage or Hamilton Bowen to get something that oozes quality by any measurable standard. But for certain people with a lot of disposable income, there's something brag-worthy about being able to say that someone made you your gun from scratch out of a solid block of steel. And there was a fair amount of work that went into it. I guess what I'm saying is that there's a novelty in paying someone $5,000 to reinvent the wheel just for you. Let me share with you all a story: My uncle is a completely insufferable son of a bitch. He's also a multi-millionaire. I will probably never see any of this money after he keels over because I haven't talked to him in the better part of 10 years. He's a loudmouth, braggart, and incapable of seeing any perspective other than his own. He will defer to no one's expertise because they're not as rich as he is. He and his friend were out hunting in Central California. At the end of their trip, they stayed at a hotel and requested Martinis made with Bombay Sapphire Gin. The bartender told them that they didn't stock the gin. (Presumably, they only had Tanqueray.) My uncle and his friend's response was not to change their drink order, but to have a helicopter pick them up and fly them to a new hotel that had Sapphire. For most of my life, I thought that Bombay Sapphire was some kind of super-high grade, unobtainable gin. When I realized that I could buy said gin, affordable on my income of less than $30,000 a year and available at just about every grocery store in the country, it was an eye-opening experience. My uncle was willing to pay for the cost of a helicopter pilot's time and fuel (I'm guessing somewhere on the order of $2,000 to $4,000) because he was a whiny bitch and couldn't have his $10 cocktail just so. I could see how Gunsmoke would want to court people exactly like my uncle who would be willing to overpay for something on the order of more than $7,000 just so they could say that they owned a luxury item more rare or more labor-intensive than something their friend had. Which, admittedly, is smart loving business if I understand Gunsmoke right.
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Tanqueray is better tasting anyway.
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Phil Morden talks about all the stuff they didn't show you of Jake on Top Shot, because they couldn't air it on TV. Also, he talks about Jake leaving. http://www.examiner.com/firearms-in...p-shot-season-3 quote:Jake, on the other hand, was. There were times he was ten or twenty times worse then they can show on cable television because they can’t bleep out that many words in an hour-long segment. This is supposed to be a family show and it turned into some MTV thing with him constantly swearing. People have asked me, since I’ve gotten home, if he was really like that in real life and I have to tell them at times it was worse. This is surprising to them because they can’t fathom how it could be worse then what is portrayed on TV.
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Steak Flavored Gum posted:Tanqueray is better tasting anyway. It's Hendricks>Bombay Sapphire>Tanqueray Rangpur>Beefeater>Tanqueray Also,  the chair in the reverse zipline challenge looked like an office chair.
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Mad Dragon posted:
Top Shot: That ferris wheel challenge looked hard as gently caress. Colby's teeth were extra white.
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front wing flexing posted:It's Hendricks>Bombay Sapphire>Tanqueray Rangpur>Beefeater>Tanqueray For Martinis, I would argue: Hendricks>Junipero=Tanqueray 10>Bombay Sapphire>Tanqueray Rangpur>Beefeater>Tanqueray However, for a gin & tonic, the order shifts to favour a more botanical bouquet: Farmer's Botanical small batch organic>>Bombay Sapphire>Tanqueray 10>Tanqueray>Junipero>Hendricks For gin & juice, you want lots of aromatic components: Junipero>>Tanqueray>Tanqueray 10>Bombay Sapphire Of course, in all of these, the gin is only part of the equation. A martini must have adequate, quality vermouth, otherwise it is cold gin. A good tonic with adequate quinine is near-impossible to find in this century but perhaps less difficult than the waning years of the last one. And I know that reasonable people can differ on this and I respect them, but the proper juice for a gin & juice is fresh-squeezed grapefruit juice. The remainder of the battle consists of ensuring that any absolute douchebags in the area are convinced that there's a helicopter that will take them to a better place. Now at least you will have a pleasant thing to drink in a nice atmosphere while you watch awful TV shows.
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I've come to the conclusion that this is playing on permanent loop in Jake's head. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYaQgp8DFCk
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MazeOfTzeentch posted:I've come to the conclusion that this is playing on permanent loop in Jake's head. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1uaGkwmDa0
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Watched american guns with my fiancee last night. During the shooting sequence, she just had one question - "Why the hell is that guy touching the shooter the whole time?" I didn't have an answer. Also what the gently caress who set up that last target? That seemed ridiculously dangerous.
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Not sure what the answer would be in his case, but if I were doing it it would be so that the shooter a) didn't forget I was there and b) could be partially prevented from turning towards me with a pistol in-hand.
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Alternatively: ready to use the preacher as a human shield in case the discovery assholes overcharged an explosive target 
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Looks like RJF is selling Mega piston guns now. How much for this fine product? $2,285.00   PRE-ORDER YOURS NOW!
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Mad Dragon posted:Looks like RJF is selling Mega piston guns now. RJF posted:nothing like it is available on the market! 
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thermobollocks posted:If people believe that and don't do any research then they deserve that gun at that price. Besides, if you say something enough times it makes it true.
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Gamechanger going on here! loving game changers!
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I don't get why "game changer" is a good thing. Having a game of rugby break out during a game of pool would be disruptive & confusing.
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Packed Lunch posted:Having a game of rugby break out during a game of pool would be disruptive & confusing. I'd watch that until my eyes fell out.
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Packed Lunch posted:I don't get why "game changer" is a good thing. That sounds like a great thing, guy.
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American Guns is so scripted that it is almost painful to watch. And I actually kind of like Sons of Guns. Also, if some dude was trying to buy something from me and put a lowball offer down on the table in cash and told me "Pick that up in ten seconds or I am going to walk out of here with it" I would tell him to go gently caress himself. What a douchebag.
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Packed Lunch posted:I don't get why "game changer" is a good thing. What about chess-boxing?
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Mad Dragon posted:Looks like RJF is selling Mega piston guns now. I assume this price includes the lightning and the homely girl?
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As someone living in the Sonoran desert it actually really bothers me they're using that as a backdrop. No saguaros in Washington or Louisiana or wherever they are
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:What about chess-boxing? I will never reveal the Wu-Tang secret.
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Mad Dragon posted:This photo reminds me of a wolf and moon t shirt. That is not a good thing.
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Facepuncher posted:American Guns is so scripted that it is almost painful to watch. And I actually kind of like Sons of Guns. I haven't seen American Guns, but it couldn't possibly feel more scripted than Sons of Guns, could it? I mean, from the "Hi, I'm a random customer, totally not an actor, and was wondering if you could make me a fully-automatic 18" battleship gun" to the painfully forced quasi-romance thing between mouse-girl and weasel-boy, it is just straight out difficult to watch. You know how sometimes you get uncomfortable because you're embarrassed for the performer? That's how Sons of Guns feels to me.
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Mad Dragon posted:All I can see is.... 
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Fat Ogre posted:All I can see is.... AHAHAHAHAHA
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Force McCocken posted:I haven't seen American Guns, but it couldn't possibly feel more scripted than Sons of Guns, could it? I mean, from the "Hi, I'm a random customer, totally not an actor, and was wondering if you could make me a fully-automatic 18" battleship gun" to the painfully forced quasi-romance thing between mouse-girl and weasel-boy, it is just straight out difficult to watch. You know how sometimes you get uncomfortable because you're embarrassed for the performer? That's how Sons of Guns feels to me. It is more of a family interaction show and a "I am going to take a loving nice helicopter to buy a gun for $10k because that is financially reasonable  There is a bit less customer interaction than on Sons of Guns. A lot more fake breasts. Explosions and high speed camera shots are also carried over from the other show.
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I like turtles posted:As someone living in the Sonoran desert it actually really bothers me they're using that as a backdrop. No saguaros in Washington or Louisiana or wherever they are That's in her "fan art" folder, if that makes any difference. Basically, yeah. If some rich shithead flew to my house in a loving helicopter and tried to give me a ~$100 chunk of silver instead of the extra 50% I want for my gun, I'd tell him to pack sand.
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Mad Dragon posted:That's in her "fan art" folder, if that makes any difference. Her, as in she has a website? I need this yesterday please.
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WouldDesk posted:Her, as in she has a website? I need this yesterday please. Facebook. https://www.facebook.com/pages/Step...13777398?ref=ts
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Fat Ogre posted:All I can see is.... Should say "GAME CHANGER"
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