Reality, "Reality", and Winning.

So the History Channel has a new reality TV show: Top Shot.


And unlike ones like their fishing or trucking ones this is less of "camera records stuff that would happen anyway" and more "gameshow!".

Now the nice thing is that this is a shooting game show. A bunch of contestants do shooting challenges for the grand prize. The history fig-leaf comes in the use of historical weapons and talking about their history. So more historical than their –oh- show about a Pawn Shop.

The winning comes from the continued mainstreaming of firearms and firearm competitions.

On a personal note I've meet Caleb at a couple of blogmeets and it was a pleasure to see him in action
The show does have some of the expected reality show nonsense, but it does have a fun subject matter, and does deal with the safety and other operating details.

Here's Tam's thoughts on the show.