Top Shot

Top Shot is a reality TV show from The History Channel that features sixteen skilled marksmen competing for a handsome grand prize and the title of "Top Shot." In The History Channel's first-ever competition elimination series, the contests showcase their speed, timing, and precision to win creative shooting challenges using unfamiliar weapons. Two teams of eight competitors face new obstacles in each episode only to be eliminated one by one. Hosted by Colby Donaldson (Survivor), Top Shot's challenges include obstacle courses, relay races, and shooting targets while riding down a zip-line. In one episode, contestants are asked to shoot apples 40 yards away in a recreation of the famous William Tell legend. In another, they're asked to sever a rope with a Winchester Model 1873 Rifle in the spirit of Wild West accounts of marksmen being able to shoot a hangman's noose. The competitors include not only professional shooters, retired Police Officers, and world-record holders, but also a radio gun show host, a historical firearms collector, a Wild West performer, and a plumber (who, to be fair, is also a Marine Scout Sniper). Weapons faced include Scoped Remington 700 sniper rifles, Beretta pistols, English Longbows, slingshots, and even throwing knives. Top Shot, History's first competition reality TV series, is an innovative look at history with some of the world's most skilled marksmen. MORE