Top Shot | |
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Season 1 | |
No. of episodes | 10 |
Release | |
Original network | History |
Original release | June 6 – August 15, 2010 |
Season chronology |
The first season of the History Channel television series Top Shot commenced airing on June 6, 2010, and concluded on August 15, 2010. The season contained ten episodes, and was filmed over a period of 33 days in the spring in Santa Clarita, California. The winner of the season was British ex-Army captain Iain Harrison.
Iain Harrison later appeared as a coach in Seasons 2, 3, and 4; J.J. Racaza appeared as a coach in Season 2; Kelly Bachand appeared as a coach in Season 4; and Blake Miguez appeared as a coach in Season 2.
Chris Cerino, Peter Palma, Kelly Bachand, Adam Benson, and Blake Miguez returned for Top Shot: All-Stars. Miguez finished in 15th, Bachand finished in 9th, Benson finished in 7th, and Palma finished in 6th, while Cerino was the season's runner-up. According to Colby Donaldson's Twitter, J.J Racaza became a father during filming and was unable to come out for the show.
Contestant | Occupation / background | Original Team | Merged Team | Eliminated |
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Mike Seeklander 38, Owasso, OK | U.S. Shooting Academy, former Marine, Federal Air Marshal and firearms instructor | Red Team | 16th Place | |
Frank Campana 47, Yonkers, NY | Retired police officer, FBI-certified sniper and instructor | Red Team | 15th Place | |
Bill Carns 40, Pahrump, NV | Radio Gun Show Host, qualified 5-Weapons Range Master | Red Team | 14th Place | |
James "Jim" Sinclair 48, Dover, NH | Printer, Gunsmith, Truck Driver, Historical firearms collector, competition shooter with various awards | Blue Team | 13th Place | |
Caleb Giddings 27, Fishers, IN | Insurance sales, former Coast Guard, competition shooter with various awards, blogger | Blue Team | 12th Place | |
Andre Robinson 28, Pittsburgh, PA | Soldier, U.S. Army, former Marine, earned "Rifle Expert" status in four competitions | Red Team | 11th Place | |
Brad Engmann 26, San Francisco, CA | Project Manager, USPSA Grand Master | Red Team | 10th Place | |
Tara Poremba 36, Chicago, IL | Police officer, state champ in several states in conventional pistol, and a former National Champion, competition shooter with various awards. | Blue Team | 9th Place | |
Denny Chapman 41, Ocala, FL | Cowboy Mounted Shooting competitor, horse trainer, Wild West entertainer, former benchrest rifle and USPSA/IPSC three-gun competitor | Red Team | 8th Place | |
Blake Miguez 28, New Iberia, LA | Corporate lawyer, semi-professional shooter, USPSA Grand Master, Louisiana state champion | Blue Team | Green Team | 7th Place |
Adam Benson 44, Baltimore, MD | Construction project manager, former Marine, USPSA Master | Blue Team | 6th Place | |
Kelly Bachand 22, Kent, WA | Student, competition shooter, USA National Rifle Team | Red Team | 5th Place | |
Peter Palma 29, Norristown, PA | Plumber, Marine Scout Sniper | Red Team | 4th Place | |
Simon "J.J." Racaza 29, New Milford, NJ | Department of Homeland Security Agent, double grandmaster in the USPSA/IPSC | Blue Team | 3rd Place | |
Chris Cerino 40, Wadsworth, OH | Law enforcement trainer, 42nd place in the International Law Enforcement Educators and Trainers Association | Blue Team | 2nd place | |
Iain Harrison 42, Sherwood, OR | Construction manager, former British Army platoon commander, gunsmith, competition shooter with various awards | Blue Team | Winner |
# | Contestants | Episodes | ||||||||||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | |||||
1 | Iain | WIN | WIN | WIN | NOM | SAFE | WIN | WIN | WIN | SAFE | SAFE | WIN | WIN | TOP SHOT |
2 | Chris | WIN | WIN | WIN | SAFE | SAFE | WIN | WIN | WIN | SAFE | SAFE | BTM2 | SAFE | SECOND PLACE |
3 | J.J. | WIN | WIN | WIN | SAFE | SAFE | WIN | WIN | WIN | SAFE | WIN | WIN | OUT | |
4 | Peter | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | WIN | WIN | SAFE | SAFE | NOM | WIN | SAFE | OUT | ||
5 | Kelly | NOM | SAFE | SAFE | WIN | WIN | NOM | NOM | SAFE | BTM2 | OUT | |||
6 | Adam | WIN | WIN | WIN | SAFE | NOM | WIN | WIN | WIN | WIN | OUT | |||
7 | Blake | WIN | WIN | WIN | SAFE | SAFE | WIN | WIN | WIN | OUT | ||||
8 | Denny | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | WIN | WIN | SAFE | SAFE | OUT | |||||
9 | Tara | WIN | WIN | WIN | SAFE | SAFE | WIN | WIN | QUIT | |||||
10 | Brad | SAFE | NOM | NOM | WIN | WIN | SAFE | OUT | ||||||
11 | Andre | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | WIN | WIN | OUT | |||||||
12 | Caleb | WIN | WIN | WIN | SAFE | OUT | ||||||||
13 | Jim | WIN | WIN | WIN | OUT | |||||||||
14 | Bill | SAFE | SAFE | OUT | ||||||||||
15 | Frank | SAFE | OUT | |||||||||||
16 | Mike | OUT |
Premiere date | Team challenge weapon(s) | Team challenge | Benched player(s) | Winning team |
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June 6, 2010 | 19th/20th Century Rifles M1903 Springfield SVT-40 Mosin–Nagant 91/30 M14 | Obstacle course/relay race with four shooting stations, one rifle per station and targets at 50/100 yards using iron sights. Each team splits into four pairs, with each player shooting one target and spotting the other. | None | Blue Team |
Elimination challenge weapon(s) | Elimination challenge | Nominated for elimination | Eliminated player | |
Scoped Remington 700 sniper rifle | Shooting targets at 200/400/600 yards | Mike, Kelly | Mike |
The trainer for both challenges was Craig Sawyer, Navy SEALs instructor and former sniper.
Premiere date | Team challenge weapon(s) | Team challenge | Benched player(s) | Winning team |
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June 13, 2010 | Beretta 92F 9×19mm pistol | Shooting through seven tubes of decreasing diameter (4 inches to 1.5 inches), one player per tube, one shot per turn. Distance not stated, but described (for the smallest tube) as the equivalent of hitting a US quarter from 25 feet. | Blake | Blue Team |
Elimination challenge weapon(s) | Elimination challenge | Nominated for elimination | Eliminated player | |
Beretta 92F 9×19mm pistol | Shooting targets while riding down a zip-line; maximum 15 shots per player | Frank, Brad | Frank |
The trainer for the team challenge was Ben Stoeger, practical shooting expert. The trainer for the elimination challenge was Matt Burkett, practical shooting expert.
Premiere date | Team challenge weapon(s) | Team challenge | Benched player(s) | Winning team |
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June 20, 2010 | Fiberglass version of an English longbow rated at 40 lbs. | Shooting at a 30-foot target from 100 yards, 30 seconds per player. Closest arrow to the center of the bullseye wins the challenge. | Adam, Chris | Blue Team |
Elimination challenge weapon(s) | Elimination challenge | Nominated for elimination | Eliminated player | |
Modern hunting crossbow with scope | Shoot apples on stands at 10/20/30/40 yards. A recreation of the William Tell legend. | Brad, Bill | Bill |
The trainer for the team challenge was Chris Palmer, longbow and traditional archery expert. The trainer for the elimination challenge was Bill Troubridge, crossbow expert.
Premiere date | Team challenge weapon(s) | Team challenge | Benched player(s) | Winning team |
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June 27, 2010 | AR-15 rifle | Shooting at a grid of red and blue targets, one player at a time. Each player sees the grid for 30 seconds before it is covered up, then has 20 seconds to fire up to 7 shots and hit only the other team's targets. | Blake, J.J., Iain | Red Team |
Elimination challenge weapon(s) | Elimination challenge | Nominated for elimination | Eliminated player | |
South African TZ99 pistol | Fire up to 4 shots at swinging targets in 15 seconds, trying to hit the red "foes" and avoid the blue "friends." | Iain, Jim | Jim |
The trainer for both challenges was Craig Sawyer, Navy SEALs instructor and former sniper.
Premiere date | Team challenge weapon(s) | Team challenge | Benched player(s) | Winning team |
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July 11, 2010 | Kentucky rifle | Shooting targets at 25/50/75/100/125 yards, one target per player, head-to-head at each distance. Closer shot to the center of the bullseye wins that distance for the team. | Adam, Chris | Red Team |
Elimination challenge weapon(s) | Elimination challenge | Nominated for elimination | Eliminated player | |
Winchester Model 1873 rifle | Sever a rope with weights suspended from it, loading 3 rounds at a time. Based on Old West accounts of a superior marksman's ability to cut a hangman's noose by shooting through it. | Caleb, Adam | Caleb |
The trainer for both challenges was Garry James, historical rifle expert.
Premiere date | Team challenge weapon(s) | Team challenge | Benched player(s) | Winning team |
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July 18, 2010 | Colt Peacemaker revolver | Fire at 50 targets set up in a shooting gallery styled after an Old West storefront, 10 rounds per player per turn. Shorter time to hit all targets wins the challenge. | Blake | Blue Team |
Elimination challenge weapon(s) | Elimination challenge | Nominated for elimination | Eliminated player | |
Colt Peacemaker revolver | From 25 feet, players take alternating shots at a deck of 52 playing cards arranged on a wheel, trying to make the highest possible poker hand. Maximum 7 shots per player; neither one may use any cards shot by the other. | Kelly, Andre | Andre |
The trainer for both challenges was Spencer Hoglund, historical weapons expert and four-time national champion speed shooter.
^3 There was a second-place tie between Denny and Andre. It was broken by Brad's vote.
^4 Both players tied in the first round by making a royal flush. For the tiebreaker, each was allowed only 5 shots and could not use any cards shot in the first round. After 4 shots, Kelly hit three fives, making it impossible for Andre to win as he only had a pair of fours at that point.
Premiere date | Team challenge weapon(s) | Team challenge | Benched player(s) | Winning team |
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July 25, 2010 | Winchester Model 1873 rifle Smith & Wesson M&P Revolver Schofield Revolver | Recreations of famous trick shots: 1. Fire the Winchester over the shoulder to hit a soda bottle, sighting the target with a hand mirror. 2. Using the M&P, hit the head of a nail driven partway into a board from 25 feet. 3. Throw a soda can into the air and hit it with a shot from the Schofield. 4. Same as 3, but using a smaller soda can. One player per trick shot, three attempts each. | Adam, J.J. | Blue Team |
Elimination challenge weapon(s) | Elimination challenge | Nominated for elimination | Eliminated player | |
Beretta Xtrema 2 shotgun | Throw clay pigeon targets into the air and shoot them, starting with one at a time and working up to five. In each round, the shotgun is loaded with one shell for every target being thrown. | Kelly, Brad | Brad |
The trainer for the team challenge was Jon "Trick Shot" Wilson. The trainer for the elimination challenge was Scott Robertson, eight-time sporting clay shooting champion.
Premiere date | Team challenge weapon(s) | Team challenge | Benched player(s) | Winning team |
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August 1, 2010 | Throwing knife based on design of the Bowie knife | Throw at 6 targets from 11 feet, while balancing over a mud pit on a beam whose width decreases from one target to the next. Maximum of two throws per player per turn; each target must be hit before the next can be attempted. Shorter time to hit all targets wins the challenge. | Blake, Chris, Tara | Blue Team |
Elimination challenge weapon(s) | Elimination challenge | Nominated for elimination | Eliminated player | |
Modern slingshot | From 20 feet, fire up to 20 shots at a grid of 8/10/12-inch square targets in 60 seconds, trying to hit only the targets of the assigned color. | Denny, Peter | Denny |
The trainer for the team challenge was Todd Abrams, member of the International Knife Throwers Hall of Fame. The trainer for the elimination challenge was John "Chief AJ" Huffer, slingshot world record holder.
Tara received news of her father's rapidly declining health (due to lung cancer) and withdrew from the competition after the team challenge. A note at the end of Episode 10 stated that he has since died.
At the start of this episode, Donaldson announced that the teams were being dissolved, and that all players would compete head-to-head to determine who would be eliminated in each challenge. The seven remaining players were given green shirts to wear for the rest of the competition.
Premiere date | Elimination challenge weapon(s) | Elimination challenge | Winning player(s) | Eliminated player(s) |
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August 8, 2010 | Beretta 92F 9×19mm pistol | From 25 feet, shoot and break a burning fuse on an explosive charge; maximum 10 rounds per player. Failure to break the fuse (or shortest length of unburned fuse, if all break it) leads to elimination. | Peter, Adam | Blake |
TZ99 pistol Heckler and Koch HK93 rifle Mosin–Nagant 91/30 rifle SVT-40 rifle | Run uphill and stop at four shooting stations, with one weapon and one target at each (50 feet for the TZ99, then 100/125/150 yards for the rifles). Players must load and clear the weapons themselves. The two slowest times to hit all four targets are eliminated. | J.J. | Adam, Kelly |
The trainer for the second elimination challenge was Craig Sawyer, Navy SEALs instructor and former sniper.
^5 In the first round, Iain, Blake, Kelly, J.J, and Chris failed to break the fuse. A tiebreaker was played under the same rules, with only Kelly and Blake failing this time. For the second tiebreaker, each player had 10 seconds to fire one shot at a target; the one who hit closer to the center of the bullseye stayed in the game.
No practice sessions were held in this episode. The five individual players eliminated prior to the final challenge returned to watch it.
^6 J.J. and Iain were the first-round winners, and Chris won the playoff between himself and Peter.
The episode concluded with an epilogue revealing the recent activities and achievements of all 16 players, in order of their elimination.
Original Teams | Merged Team | |||||||||||||||
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# | Episode | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | |||||
Nominated | Kelly 3/8 Votes | Brad 3/7 Votes | Brad 2/6 Votes | Iain 5/8 Votes | Adam 3/7 Votes | Kelly 3/5 Votes | Kelly 2/4 Votes | None | Peter 1/3 Votes | None | None | None | None | None | None | |
Eliminated | Mike 3/8 Votes | Frank 3/7 Votes | Bill 2/6 Votes | Jim 2/8 Votes | Caleb 3/7 Votes | Andre 2/6 Votes | Brad 2/4 Votes | Tara No Votes | Denny 2/3 Votes | Blake | Adam | Kelly | Peter | J.J. | Chris | |
Contestants | Votes | |||||||||||||||
1 | Iain | None | Caleb | None | None | None | None | None | None | None | ||||||
2 | Chris | Iain | Caleb | None | None | None | None | None | None | None | ||||||
3 | J.J. | Jim | Adam | None | None | None | None | None | None | |||||||
4 | Peter | Mike | Brad | Brad< | Andre | Brad | Denny | None | None | None | None | |||||
5 | Kelly | Brad | Bill | Bill | Denny | Brad | Denny | None | None | None | ||||||
6 | Adam | Iain | None | None | None | None | ||||||||||
7 | Blake | Iain | Adam | None | None | |||||||||||
8 | Denny | Brad | Frank | Bill | Kelly | Kelly | Peter | |||||||||
9 | Tara | Iain | Caleb | None | ||||||||||||
10 | Brad | Kelly | Frank | Andre | Kelly | Kelly | ||||||||||
11 | Andre | Mike | Bill | Brad | Kelly | |||||||||||
12 | Caleb | Jim | Adam | |||||||||||||
13 | Jim | Iain | ||||||||||||||
14 | Bill | Kelly | Frank | Kelly | ||||||||||||
15 | Frank | Mike | Brad | |||||||||||||
16 | Mike | Kelly |
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