I’m better, but still hating it. Still a slight fever, a pretty good headache, some intestinal cramping. Fun, eh?
I have been watching Outdoor Channel’s Wednesday Night at the Range.
Yeah, I gave SWAT Magazine TV another try but my complaint remains the same. It talks about providing instruction and it’s just not there. Tonight’s episode was featuring sniper shooting, but there was really no instruction of that… check that, there was about a minute of instruction at the very end of the show. Otherwise the show was just a lot of “here’s someone shooting”, plugging a product, plugging the magazine, or people talking. Don’t get me wrong, entertainment is fine, but if the show is to be about instruction then instruct.
By contrast, an hour later was Sighting In, the episode about care and feeding of your AR. It started right off with an instructional segment on how to clean the AR. It showed how to field strip, how to clean, how to reassemble. This was actual instruction. Then the Pro Tips had Sgt. Johnson actually telling how to sight in, e.g. shooting 3 inches high at 100 yards to be zeroed at 300 yards. This was actual instruction.
Compare and contrast.
Mr. Pincus, this is what I said before and I’m saying again. I gave the show another chance, but the content remained the same. For what it is, it’s not horrible. I mean, it’s entertainment, sure. But if there’s actual instruction, please tell me just what segments were true instruction. In that episode, apart from the 1 minute at the end where you are taught how to bring the rifle off sling and into position, what other true instruction was there? The GunVault segment was informative, but was advertising; doesn’t count.
Anyway, the Advil is starting to wear off. Need to go back and lie down. Besides, Invader Zim is on. Never watched it when it was originally broadcast, but man… it’s fun.
Stuff From Hsoi 
I’ve been infected with some funk myself.
I like all the Wednesday Night at the Range shows. I’m hooked.
I haven’t seen this week’s episode of SWAT TV, but last week’s show with the scenario at the bank was pretty instructive I thought.
Yeah, I generally like the Wednesday Night lineup. A lot of it is typical of industry stuff in that the industry is truly a small body… you need advertisers and sponsors and there just aren’t that many to go around, so when you go to review products you really can’t speak too ill of things else you won’t have ads and sponsors. I mean, when was the last time you saw any sort of truly negative review?
Nevertheless, there’s still some good things in the TV lineup there, and if you work to take things for entertainment, it’s good. But there’s still decent instruction too. For instance, the Shooting Gallery last night talked about small guns, and featured the Ruger LCR and LCP. While again a bit of a marketing piece for Ruger (if it was truly a small gun show, they’d have mentioned, at least, Kel-Tec in the same breath), the instructional stuff wasn’t too bad.. the things Ed Head was saying was solid instructional stuff.
As for SWAT TV, the show isn’t horrible, I just think it misrepresents. Maybe I’m just catching it on all the bad nights then. In the couple episodes I’ve seen, it’s just not instructing. But maybe I have the wrong impression of the show. Maybe it’s just about training, not actualy training. i.e. the show showcases training, shows it off, talks about it, but doesn’t actually do it. *shrug* And again, there’s nothing wrong with that.