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The show, for those unfamiliar, pits the best marksmen in a team competition, to see who is the best. Teams compete against each other, as well as eliminating members.

These are all world class marksmen. They're the best of the best.

Having next to no personal experience w/ guns, I found this an interesting show, for several reasons.

For one, a while back, I posed a question about which fictional forensics team was better, from the t.v. shows of NCIS or Bones.

During the thread, it was pointed out that both Jethro Gibbs and Seeley Booth were Marine snipers. At the time, and based on no real knowledge of snipers at all, my idea was that Gibbs was the better of the 2 snipers, being older, but also because he fit ( what I assumed ) the profile better.

( and yes, we're talking fictional characters here, but based on medals and awards.... I think Gibbs had collected more hardware. I may be wrong )

Now, after seeing a couple of episodes of Top Shot, and seeing the sorts of folks who are truly the best in their field..... I'm kinda having second thoughts.

They sure do seem to act a bit more like Seeley than Jethro.


So, who's the better sniper ? Jethro or Seeley?

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Originally posted by AURaptor:
During the thread, it was pointed out that both Jethro Gibbs and Seeley Booth were Marine snipers....

So, who's the better sniper ? Jethro or Seeley?

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Those guys/gal on the show are not all Marines. I thought only one or 2 were, they seemed to want a varied selection from different backgrounds.

Marine Expert shooters are going to be much more like Jethro.
Seeley may have made the cut to get into Marine sniper MOS, but Booth was the better shot and progressed futher in the specialty, completing more missions.

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As an aside, I recently saw the NCIS episode "One Shot, One Kill" with TJ Thune chastising the NCIS crew for being so outdated. This was the year before he was cast on Bones for the original season.

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Originally posted by AURaptor:
There may have been more than 1 ep where the agents were shown to be envious of other outfit's field gear.

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Those guys/gal on the show are not all Marines. I thought only one or 2 were, they seemed to want a varied selection from different backgrounds.

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I never said ALL the Top Shot contestants were Marine snipers, only that both Jethro and Seeley were. I was wrong. Booth was an Army Ranger sniper, and Jethro was a Marine sniper.

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