Weapon Masters | |
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Starring | Chad Houseknecht Mike Loades |
No. of seasons | 1 |
No. of episodes | 10 |
Original release | |
Network | Discovery Channel |
Weapon Masters is a television show that was premiered on the Discovery Channel on December 31, 2007, and on the Military Channel. [1]
The hosts, Chad Houseknecht and Mike Loades, a weapons historian, choose a different historical weapon each week. While Loades explores its history — often traveling to the country from which it came to interview modern practitioners — Houseknecht capers about, gibbering and gurning, while attempting to improve on it using modern technology (for example, a pneumatic device was added to a blowgun in one episode). At the end of each episode a challenge test of the new version is held.
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