Look out hickok45

[DustyGmt]

Disagree. We need to be welcoming to new, young shooters and while I personally love watching Hickok, my kids hate when I start watching that "rambling old man" as my wife calls him. And hickok is far better than many of the other douchy gun channels out there featuring middle aged white men with beards and arm tattoos and tight shirts pretending they're all operators. Kids don't want to watch any of that crap.

Youtube is the new TV, my kids spend 90% of their TV time on Youtube over normal network programming. Most of it is content featuring kids their own age so I think it's great that someone has taken the time to teach their kid gun safety well enough that she can bring young shooters into our world. I'm going to save this girls channel and watch a few video's with my 7 year old daughter and see if she likes it.

Agreed, the train is moving and you're either on it or off of it. I personally have no desire to run a yt channel, but we shouldn't just assume the dad is out to "exploit" his child. We don't know the man, I would assume he is doing a great job raising her based on her and her skills. Maybe they were shooting alot together and she said "hey dad wouldn't it be really cool to have a yt channel" and he was willing to help her and supervise.....

 

[CapnMac]

Well, it's not an either/or--plenty of YT channels out there.
With all kinds of people enjoying what they do.
From Matt at Demolition Ranch, to Kirsten Joy Weiss, to Mike at Bloke on the Range, to Mae at CRsnal (and how can you not like it when Mae really smiles after shooting some cranky old historic firearm?)

Mind, the other thing that can be hard to appreciate is the effort all the YT content represents.

What you see is often only about 50% of all the video footage taken. Nor the hours fighting cranky video editors or splicing audio in. Or agonizing on breaking down and buying both a good, professional video editor suite, and decent microphones. Or of finding good graphics stuff to make the channel look good. Or actually planning out, in editing, so the video has an Intro, the meat of it, then an Outro.

Then, there's the necessary interaction with your subscriber base. Which will include trolls and haters as reflexively as day follows night. Oh, and you have to police the spam in the Comments, too.

It's the sort of thing that takes work and cuts into time for going shooting.

 

[tws3b2]

All I can say is that I was very impressed by this little girl. Not only is she adorable. She's safe. She likes what she does. She's good. I really don't care if her dad is out to make a few bucks on youtube. In this day and time who is not out to make the all mighty dollar. I see Hickok45 as one major representative of our cause and Autumn as a "Hopefully" future representative.
I have to add this. I'm just a little prejudice.
With her tinted shooting glasses on, Autumn looks looks pretty much exactly like my Great Granddaughter. It would be very hard for most to tell them apart.