Watched a recent TAA from my DVR.
Opening and later narration scenes about Selous and Jamieson: Music is too loud, drowns out narration.
Shooters' ears would appreciate a sound re-mix of lower volume background inanity during the narration segments.
The show deserves better.

Selous' and Fletcher Jamieson's rifles owned and hunted by Bill Jones. Fantastic.

Bill took a cape buffalo in Mozambique (no caliber restriction laws) with F. C. Selous' .256 single shot rifle (6.5x53R, 160-grain RNS at about 2300 fps?).
One shot through the boiler room was sufficient.
Yes, Bill is good.

Next, the 500 Jeffery of Fletcher Jamieson took a great tusker in Zimbabwe with a single side brain shot. More good shooting.

Excellent show overall.

Real men don't dwell on their booboos.
No mention was made of how Bill got this booboo on his forehead, shown in the final scene.
Did he forget to duck while riding up top in the bakkie?
Certainly not a scope bite.
The Selous and Jamieson rifles were not scoped:

I too thoroughly enjoyed the show.
1 shot with a relatively small caliber did the job quite quickly.

Awesome rifles! Good on Bill

I think this is the same rifle.
https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/17947/lot/298/

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Watched a recent TAA from my DVR.Opening and later narration scenes about Selous and Jamieson: Music is too loud, drowns out narration. Shooters' ears would appreciate a sound re-mix of lower volume background inanity during the narration segments.The show deserves better.

Couldn't agree more. It was very annoying to have that cheap and loud porno movie soundtrack in the background drowning out the narration. Normally TAA has much better production values, but this show was awful.

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I think this is the same rifle.

The Selous rifle featured had a brace built onto the buttstock of it.

I certainly would not call the show awful. I'm watching it for the 2nd time this week because I really enjoyed the story line.
I do find that what is suppose to be background music drowning out the dialog on just about every show I watch, not just TAA.
Maybe we're just getting old & cantankerous because it is definitely annoying.

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Originally posted by Mark Clark:
I think this is the same rifle.
https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/17947/lot/298/

What a lovely rifle. I really like the H&H peep sight. AFAIK the one Bill Jones bought was bought at a Holt's auction in 2011 and had Selous Side Plates. I think I bid on that rifle through a Holt's agent, I was camping in the bush in Tanzania at the time so internet wasn't the best.

Thanks, Chris

I commend to you the DVD from which the show footage was extracted. It is very enjoyable.

http://forums.accuratereloadin...541050691#3541050691

I feel much better reading this. I thought I was going even more deaf than someone here tells me I am. Backround music must go. Great show. Great rifles and good shooting.

You guy s are right, the one on the show had the side plates.

Mark

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Originally posted by MJines:
I commend to you the DVD from which the show footage was extracted. It is very enjoyable.

http://forums.accuratereloadin...541050691#3541050691

Thanks Mike

I will order it today.

Best wishes, Chris

Great show except the background music.
Simply awful

I also thought it was just me, but with the background music I could hardly understand any of the commentary. I just wondered how much those guns cost Bill.

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Bill took a cape buffalo in Mozambique (no caliber restriction laws) with F. C. Selous' .256 single shot rifle (6.5x53R, 160-grain RNS at about 2300 fps?).
One shot through the boiler room was sufficient.

I agree, there has been a problem with the audio mix the last couple of episodes.

say it isn't so, Michael!

I suppose our older ears are not as discriminating and this makes it difficult to pull conversation out of the background clutter. I struggle with this nightly and on many shows, not just TAA.

I was having trouble hearing the show as well, so I clicked on the closed captions and that was better.