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After catching a few scenes of this show at a friend's house, I was impressed enough to roll the dice and purchase the first season from Amazon. Halfway through the episodes, it became pretty obvious that the show relies heavily on the ignorance of its audience, going so far in a few cases as to actively try to deceive those who may not know any better. I'm thinking in particular of the now infamous scene where Stephanie Hayden, daughter of Will and general manager of Red Jacket, is shown "firing" a .50 Desert Eagle at the shop's indoor range. The camera, however, never shows Stephanie actually firing the weapon, but rather cuts away to show the target, now with several small, tidy holes. Later, when a buttstock is affixed to the DE and fired again at the same range, it punches ragged holes in the target roughly twice the size of those put there by Stephanie. The consensus is that while Stephanie was shown firing the DE, she was actually firing a much smaller 9mm off camera, probably to spare her the embarassment of the DE's enormous recoil. The show had an opportunity to be honest and self-deprecating at this point, but opted not to in favor of keeping Red Jacket's staff, and Hayden's daughter in particular, on the pedestal of special expertise. Other examples of this dishonesty are in episode 1 when Joe is shown "firing" a Saiga (yet no recoil is observed and no shell casing is ejected from the weapon), and in episode 5 of season 2 when the staff fire High Explosive grenades from a grenade launcher, but no HE rounds were actually used and the targets were instead rigged to explode, a staple of the show.
My other main beef with SoG is the psuedo-innovation it credits itself with: a customer has a special need or a custom weapon in mind, and only Red Jacket can bring it to fruition. In episode 8, for example, the local sheriff brings Will and the gang a Thompson replica in the hopes that Red Jacket can create a full-automatic, tactical entry weapon chambered for the .45ACP round. Red Jacket procedes to reinvent the wheel and make a modern subgun out of the old Thompson design, yet in a later episode Stephanie showcases an already-existing .45ACP version of the AR-15 for another customer. Later on the staff make both a remote-controlled, vehicle-mounted turret and a water-cooled, riverboat-mounted turret for the M-16, both of which are a bit absurd as there are far more suitable belt-fed weapons for use with turrets...including some of the very weapons Red Jacket uses on other projects (240B, Mag 58). In season 2 Will gets the idea for an AK-style sniper rifle. Unfortunately, that rifle entered service five decades ago as the SVD (or Dragunov sniper rifle).
Lastly, of minor annoyance is the extremely contrived nature of the episode structure. In fairness to all involved, I barely watch television, so it's possible that all reality shows are more or less the same in this regard. Still, after a while it gets a little annoying that every customer just happens to have a ludicrously short deadline, and that at least a few said customers look to be professional actors with heavily scripted dialogue ("Marco" and Secret Agent Man from the remote-control episode).
Overall, this is not a bad show for those who know nothing about firearms and those willing to suspend disbelief for the sake of pure entertainment. But anyone looking for a genuine education on firearms and the firearm industry should look elsewhere.
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