{"id":4773,"date":"2010-07-12T11:36:39","date_gmt":"2010-07-12T16:36:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/?p=4773"},"modified":"2010-07-12T11:36:39","modified_gmt":"2010-07-12T16:36:39","slug":"welcome-to-reality-television-dude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/welcome-to-reality-television-dude\/4773\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to Reality Television, Dude!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>Oh Monty, Monty, Monty, I am walking down your  hall<\/em><\/strong><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>Got beat, lost my seat,  but I&#8217;m not a man to crawl<\/em><\/strong><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>I  didn&#8217;t get rich. son of a bitch<\/em><\/strong><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>I&#8217;ll be back just wait and see<\/em><\/strong><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>Cause my whole world lies waiting behind door  number three<\/em><\/strong><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>Yes my whole world lies  waiting behind door number three<\/em><\/strong><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">Jimmy Buffett<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>&#8220;Door Number Three&#8221;<\/em><\/div>\n<div>\nMy friend Caleb Giddings at <a href=\"http:\/\/gunnuts.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">Gun Nuts Media<\/a> got voted off the island on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.history.com\/shows\/top-shot\" target=\"_blank\">Top Shot<\/a> last night,  but you can still follow his Quest for Master Class over on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/the-quest-for-master-class-first-shots-downrange\/4546\/\" target=\"_blank\">DRTV<\/a>.  Don&#8217;t worry, Caleb&#8230;you&#8217;re safe on <strong><em>our<\/em><\/strong> island!  In all honesty, I&#8217;ve sorta lost interest&#8230;they&#8217;re doing some cool  stuff, but it seems to move with glacial slowness. I&#8217;d have edited it a  different way, but that&#8217;s a <strong><em>Jealous Executive Producer<\/em><\/strong> talking!<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/sewingmachine.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4774\" title=\"sewingmachine\" src=\"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/sewingmachine-289x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"289\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/sewingmachine-289x300.jpg 289w, https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/sewingmachine.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 289px) 100vw, 289px\" \/><\/a>Anyhow, not much going on yet this AM. Did a long hike with Alf the  Wonder Beagle yesterday \u2014 she&#8217;s getting her strength back after her paw  injury. Speaking of &#8220;glacial slowness,&#8221; stitched some more on my  Taylor&#8217;s Model 3 rig belt&#8230;believe me, hand-stitching a double-layer  gunbelt causes one to have fantasies about sewing machines, even ancient  ones.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I also sketched out my next project, a leather pouch for the Ruger LCP  and other small semiautos. If it works out as well as I hope, I&#8217;m going  to pass it on to my friends at Ted Blocker and see if they want to offer  a version. Of course, the speed at the speed I do leatherwork projects (<strong><em>slightly  slower than the speed at which I write new books<\/em><\/strong>), it&#8217;ll  be done when the glaciers start moving south. I&#8217;ll post pixs of the  Taylor&#8217;s rig when it&#8217;s finished&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to spend the week working with a double-barreled shotgun and  see how that feels. If I&#8217;m not a complete monkey with it, I&#8217;ll try it in  a club cowboy match this weekend. If I like it, I&#8217;ll start shopping for  a good solid double for me to abuse to death.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh Monty, Monty, Monty, I am walking down your hall Got beat, lost my seat, but I&#8217;m not a man to crawl I didn&#8217;t get rich. son of a bitch I&#8217;ll be back just wait and see Cause my whole world lies waiting behind door number three Yes my whole world lies waiting behind door [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4774,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[753,702],"class_list":["post-4773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-michael-bane","tag-caleb-giddings","tag-top-shots"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}