bdickens
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Spoiler alert: clickbait videos with totally unrealistic "tests" prove nothing other than some people have too much time on their hands.
Spoiler alert: clickbait videos with totally unrealistic "tests" prove nothing other than some people have too much time on their hands.
Not implying that anyone gets any money out of promoting certain manufacturers over others, but the ad sales in a niche market video don't typically make anyone rich and with one's own channel, you've got to have an substantial number of subscribers to break even; and who's paying for the equipment, guns and ammo anyway?
Better carry more than one.
Spoiler alert: clickbait videos with totally unrealistic "tests" prove nothing other than some people have too much time on their hands.
Yep, there are a few out there who actually do well -- and they (like the guys on DR) -- are the one's making the more creative and interesting videos. The guys whose videos are basically one theme, showing them "testing and evaluating" (usually just pouring rounds downrange ) are boring. Frankly (and it's not solely because I'm an old curmudgeon), I'm not interested in watching twenty-something bearded dudes (especially the guys who have nowhere near my hard-earned fifty+ years of experience with firearms) playing with guns, no matter how awesome, with no real point to the production. It's no surprise that the folks actually earning money with internet videos are those with the highest production values, the best writing and actual humor that appeals to the firearms community. I do recall one DR video made a couple years ago with one of the most egregiously incorrect remarks -- made as a statement of fact by Matt -- that lost total credibility for me. I think one reason I always liked Best's videos (later BRCC) is that those guys are so good at spoofing the gun community, finding humor in all our traits and characteristics, spoofing the military, spoofing politicians, spoofing the anti-gun faction's idiocy, and all the while being entertaining with being only about the actual guns.#1 YouTuber earns about 54million per year. With 128m subscribers. I think the highest gun channel is Demolition Ranch with 11m subscribers.
They earn between $2k to $15k per million views. (Not including their sponsorship $$$)
That can pay for a lot of guns and ammo.
Yeah, but there are some folks out there making videos (that inexplicably to me actually garner a lot of views) whose videos, even though they might include a cool gun or two, are almost as boring a watching televised golf or soccer. By the way, you forgot bowling. Pro bowling is strangely still broadcast on sports television.I like to watch most anything pertaining to firearms. I guess some of you guys would rather watch golf or soccer.
We Torture Your Favorite Pistols In Mud (Glock, Sig, M&P, Desert Eagle, Staccato, etc) - by Garand Thumb - Jan 15, 2023
Spoiler Alert! Glock fails!
Your pistol firing 10's of thousands of rounds of ammunition at the range with out a malfunction is all well and good. But will it operate under worst case conditions in a self defense situation?
A big reason that I carry a striker fired trigger with a plain trigger without a dongle that is hinged at the top is that it is less likely to fail under worst case conditions than other pistol styles with 1911 style triggers that are not hinged at the top, with triggers with dongles and hammer fired pistols.
Freezing Pistol Test (Desert Eagle, Glock, M&P, CZ, Staccato, 1911) - by Garand Thumb - Apr 24, 2022
Maybe they should have tried the Morgan Freeman approach.Yup. I guess you could maybe make the argument that the military needs to be concerned with how guns function when covered in mud or frozen, but it's not anything I'm concerned with. I don't remember the last time I fell in the mud, and if it's cold enough for my gun to freeze I had probably died from hypothermia long before that happened. I got 18 seconds into the frozen pistol test video and turned it off. The guy in the video is just silly.
Maybe they should have tried the Morgan Freeman approach.
I bought some bad flannel cleaning patches. The more I cleaned the gun with them, the dirtier it got.Mine was "the person buys the gun and keeps it in the underwear drawer for ten years" type lint test.
But I refuse to abuse them.
The stepping on it while in the soppy mud I would call abuse. Grinding grit into the actions can’t be good for the internals and who knows how long it may stay gritty even after cleaning a couple of times. As you said about scratching, its very easy to scratch bluing with the bits of mud-grit on guns doing that. (With some having DLC or other finishes maybe not, but not all of my stuff is so finished.)Its mud... It will rinse off and possibly leave a scratch, thats about it. Not sure if I would consider that abuse.
Here in Minnesota, Land of 10,000 lakes and a whole lot of swamps, we have wet conditions, muddy conditions, and freezing conditions. We have winter road slop consisting of snow, ice, sand, silt, anti-freeze, and oil. If you drop your pistol in that crap and it might not operate.
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