Nice episode of Bizarre Foods

[Glenn E. Meyer]

Andrew goes to New Mexico, shoots prairie dogs and comments on how he likes to shoot guns with clips of nice big guns! Then he shoots an dog with a neat AR. Later he uses a bolt gun for buffalo.

The Food Channel is quite gun friendly. Alton Brown, Zimmern, Bourdain, Ming Tsai - all have happily shot guns.

 

[Nine the Ranger]

Huh.

I think I'll start watching more than Man .v. Food.

Although I cannot for the life of me stand Anthony Bourdain

 

[Glenn E. Meyer]

He likes to shoot full auto, hunts and hung out with Ted Nugent (that might not be a recommendation). You have to watch the classic episode where he eats the wart hogs tush in Africa.

I like that channel can show guns in a context that show they are fun and have utility in a quite normal fashion.

Better than that crap like Son of Guns or American Guns. They are not role models. But I don't want to start that up again.

 

[Nine the Ranger]

It does sound like it does show it in good context.

Maybe I'll give Bourdain another shot.

Pun intended.

 

[Mike Irwin]

When did Alton Brown shoot a gun on Good Eats?

 

[Glenn E. Meyer]

Brown didn't shoot a gun but he certainly has displayed 'tactical' knives aplenty. However, he is well known as a gun guy and has posted pictures of himself with a SCAR on the range and his support for the RKBA.

I first noticed something 'strange' about him when he hunted mushrooms with a Sypderco police.

 

[Mike Irwin]

I did not know that about him.

 

[curt.45]

I'm just glad a Sypderco police is a knife and not a gun.

 

[drail]

Bourdain has done a number of shows where he was invited to shoot with his hosts. The best was the show he did with Ted Nugent. Now that guy has some fun toys.

 

[2damnold4this]

Steve Rinella had a show I enjoyed called "The Wild Within" on the travel channel.

 

[Glenn E. Meyer]

So relaxing after today's match, I watch Andrew's show about Austin. He goes to game ranch near town and harvests an exotic with a high power rifle with a suppressor. So not to scare the animal. Surprisingly, they show him take the shot and take down the critter with one hit at a significant distance.

Then, they stick some electrodes up the .... of the critter to bleed it out faster. That's new to me.

He seems quite the decent shot for a NYC foodie.

 

[oneounceload]

Good chefs know - if you don't grow it, you have to kill it

 

[Loronzo]

Anthony Bourdain is the man... he drinks excessively in his show (Vietnam I, II, Russia II)... a wise man once told me shooting guns is the best cure for a hangover... if you note he is almost always blotchy faced when he does fire a weapon.
(But sober at the time I would hope, "because guns and alcohol don't mix")