Oh la la la.
 
Congrats on the score, Top Shot is a good show and I'm sure they knew what they were doing when asking you to make the atlatls.

Wait a minute....only 4 atlatl's? This seems like something for green team.....

Congratulations Chris!
We'll not get the show here in Italy but I'm sure your gear will work superbly!
Greetings,
Mauro.

thanks, guys  
 
the atlatl segment will be an elimination challenge so it's just between two people. at the time they ordered the gear they didn't know who would be participating in it so they had to have two righties and two lefties just in case. they initially wanted eight throwers and 400 darts! luckily, that got reduced to 4/150 but it still took me the better part of a month to produce. the atlatls i did in one day, the darts took me 22 days
 
the cool part is that i got to go up to the ranch and meet everyone (yes, even Cody) and after the season was over i got to buy back the darts at a drastically reduced price
 
what's really exciting is that we are finally going to get some of the best slo-mo footage of darts in flight that have ever been recorded. the high speed camera work on the show is some of the best in the business.

unfortunately, due to contractual agreements with certain advertisers, my name or company name will not appear in the credits. however my buddy Todd (Jack Dagger) did manage to sneak the word 'paleoarts' into his intro. now, whether or not this made it through editing niether of us know. in any case i still get bragging rights and can still promote my wares as 'seen on Top Shot'. this isn't the first time my stuff has been on TV. i've had gear in several History and Discovery Channel shows and even a couple of films, but this one will be the most watched i think.

Good on you! What an honor and rightly so, your work is outstanding!

I can't remember the name of the program or what network it was on. I stumbled on it one afternoon while flipping through the channels. They took 8-10 men and women, put them in an alpine environment, Colorado/Montana maybe, took thier clothes and gave them skins to wear. They had to "survive" for 10 days. No one there knew about the flora or fauna, no one there seemed to have any pre-1800 skills, no one built anything substantial other than a hide covered stack of sticks to sleep in. They didn't seem to do much but sleep and complain about each other. Into the 5th day or so, a gentleman came in with a handful of atlatl. He showed them the basics and part of the group went out hunting. They were able to walk in close enough to a herd of elk, threw their darts into the mass and stuck one of the animals in the neck, eventually killing it. It was little interesting and tragic at the same time.