My Top Shot Casting Video

[DDGator]

Hey guys,

So...perhaps my taste in TV is not too sophisticated.  I love the new Top Shot series on History Channel.  More than anything, I love the fact that they are making guns and shooting mainstream entertainment and portreying the shooting sports in a positive light.  Its about time!

Anyway, I applied for Season 2 and didn't hear anything, but I got a call for Season 3.  I did some phone interviews and was asked to send in a casting video.  

I just found out I didn't make the short list.  Oh, well -- it would have been fun.  But, I thought I would share the video anyway.   My wife and I put this together over just a couple days because of a short deadline.

Enjoy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWs5MR5WXfE

[dano]

Duane;

I enjoyed the video, I am sorry that you didn't make the short list. Maybe they will watch the video again and have a change of heart. Good luck on the second time around.

Danny

[ccoorreeyy]

Duane I just watched the video, it was great!.  I learned a few things about you I did not know.  I bet if you had shown a couple of them purty Rohrbaugh's you have you would have made the cut!  

[DDGator]

Thanks.  Everyone gives me good feedback on the video -- it's just a really competitive process.  I certainly don't have the professional shooting credentials of most of the people on Seasons 1 or 2.

However, you can see that being a world champion pistol shooter or a gold medalist doesn't necessarily mean you can hit a pool ball at 30 feet under pressure!!!  

[tracker]

Good show, Duane; you're a Top Gun with us and this isn't an easy task sometimes, either.

[kjtrains]

Duane.  Excellent video.  I, too, learned a few things about your life.  Great shooting as well.  Sure think you should have made the short list.  Keep trying.  You do have what it takes.

[chameleon]

I can not tell you in just a few words here how impressed I am with you at this time.
First off, your video was outstanding.
I have watched Top Shot, I watched all last season all in one long day, none of those guys have anything on you!
I don't know what those producers are looking for in a competitor, but they should not have passed you up.
Maybe you're not arrogant like some of those big mouths on the show that can't shoot.
Who the heck can shoot a snubbie like that?
Great job!

It would have been a hoot for all of us here on the forum to follow you along on the show.
I think you are still our hero anyway.

[tracker]

Maybe Top Shot is looking for bull shooters.

[DDGator]

Thanks guys, I am humbled by your compliments.  

I will keep trying.  Mabye it just didn't fit with their plans this time.  I hope the show continues to succeed and show off all the shooting talent in this country.

[yankee2500]

Duane,
  Very nice video, they don't know what there missing.


John

[Richard S]

Great video, Duane! They should have selected you. It reminds me of the time Toby Keith was turned down for a record deal and told that he had no future in country music.  

[DDGator]

Perhaps next time I will start an e-mail campaign!  

[chameleon]

Perhaps next time I will start an e-mail campaign!  

Let's make it this time! I am willing to bet that the producers need alternates.
Get the E-mail campaign going now and submit for 2012.
At the very least get on as an alternate and if their first choice had to cancel, you may be in.

[DDGator]

Well, if they are doing things like they did the last time, they have about 50 people scheduled for final casting in California the week after next.  They only need 16 -- so they have plenty.

Maybe my background just didn't fit for that season.  I hope they didn't get a different gun writer!    But, most writers don't want to stick their necks out that far...

[Richard S]

I watched Season One. You belong in the cast of Season Three.