 Hey everybody, welcome to my first live in Over seven years. I tried it a while back and it was a disaster back in 2017 I tried to go live. It was the rage on YouTube. Everybody was Getting in on the live shows and I decided I wanted to give it a try and it was so bad back then It was much more confusing than it is now. So I think I'm live. I Think it says live. So I Suppose I am So I wanted to reach out to everybody in and reach out in a different way I've always took the approach that I would do things according to video and video only but yet people Were asking say hey, how can you never go live? So I decided to do this today and see how it worked out. So I titled it new guns and ammo shortage and Just the TFG channel because YouTube has really changed the way we do things and And people change the way they do things but YouTube also has changed the way they do things and It's it's really interesting. I haven't been in this a long time. I started this in March of 2011 so I've been at this for a long time and I'm just now getting around the lives. I had no problem joining other people's lives never held one myself and It's uh, it was really confusing, but nonetheless new guns. I get asked every day What about the the new car now if you follow the channel you might know that a while back I talked about car coming out with a new pistol a double-stack double-stack nine similar footprint to a subcompact nine millimeter pistol car arms Love them or hate them. They're doing it and I love them I've loved car way before I started making videos I was in the guns and I carried a car and I Just fell in love with the brand itself. I said these are phenomenal handguns But the one thing they were really missing was that double-stack in a year ago. Well after shot I Made a video stating that they're they're going to make a double-stack It is in the process and nobody knew including me when this would actually come about well I recently got word that it is coming very Very soon and I said on that video that I would be among the first to Review it and that's holding true. So it seems as if Very shortly not sure when The new car double-stack Will be shown on this channel and I really look forward to it I'm like that kid on a Christmas story that wanted the BB gun so bad and It's a you're gonna shoot your eye out kid That's how I feel with the car double-stack being a fan for so many years and owning so many car arms I really wanted the double-stack now. I also mentioned in that video that There are going to be some features on there that we haven't seen yet And I stand by that and I was able to handle one for the first time at the NRA show in Indianapolis And I will tell you that everything you know about car is Changed with this new model and I really can't wait to check that out. It's gonna be awesome. I Another experience I recently had with new guns was that I was out in Boonsville, Missouri Now Boonsville sounds like just some town that is like a hick town It's not like that at all beautiful area Boonsville, Missouri, but I was invited out to a CMMG event event And it was the the mark 47 descent is what they featured and it and that was a real neat rifle that they have in 7-6-2 and It it was really nice. It was super nice now at that time. We weren't sure what the MSRP would be I still don't think we know because although it's been introduced It's not out in the wild yet, but that that's a cool rifle I really enjoyed reviewing that love to get my hands on it and take it to my own range But I'm not sure that's gonna happen because I think it's like right around $2,300 So a bit more on the pricey side Another one is Walter. Walter's coming out with some new stuff guys Seriously, they're coming out with some some new stuff. I was actually hoping Which motivated me to do this. I was hoping to get a New or newer Walter even now I have no idea what it is. I want to pick it up at my FFL today It's in and Nobody came to the door to pour and rain. I'm standing out there to pouring rain texting and calling saying hey I'm here and I never got it. So my original plans were to Feature this Walter, but instead I'm on here with you. So I don't know if that's good or bad, but They they're always coming out with some new stuff that a lot of people calling for the Double stack nine from Walter to I think they have it going they are one thing about Walter You have to give them credit. They're very very very tight-lipped when you talk to them. You're like come on now Huh, you can tell Danny tell Danny what it's going on. They're like that. You'll figure it out You'll figure it out. So that's what's going on there You may have noticed that I have been featuring some bull armory see the hat right there bull armory and The latest was the axe full-size hatchet and I I really love that I think that is a phenomenal gun really digging all the comments to here. We have Let's see Marianne's kitchen TAB my man TAB. I've known that guy for years Marriott's kitchen hang on I work with her. Hi, Marianne Pepe shooting gallery Mike Reese Kurt Walker customs who little flores. Oh Wow Writers range my man. So writers range and TAB Videos are two guys that I hang out with on a regular basis Some of the finest people you ever want to meet they really are both very helpful I try to help them out when I can but I never feel like I Give back as much as I receive just by knowing those guys enjoying their friendship and enjoying Everything that I could take in from their knowledge. It's really really quite amazing. So writers range and TAB videos Freediously known as trees are blown. I'm gonna ask you guys to check that out check out those channels. They're great but I Recently showed the axe FS hatchet and I really love that gun. We're on the topic of new guns now I really love that because It is It's patterned after a Glock Gen 3 17, but it's not anything like it at all It just has so many upgrades to it and I find it just the upgrades really matter That's why everybody changes out their glocks and does all types of Aftermarket improvements just because they want to upgrade it this thing for an MSRP of 620 bucks is Already souped up ready to go out of the case optic ready direct mount our remarks. It really is pretty amazing Walters here. Wow, you know what I like about this is that I'm able to see people that I See on video, but now I see them live And I guess that's one of the benefits of doing a live chat is that you can actually reach out and talk Decided to do this on my own not to have any guests Or anything just to see if I can get into this thing and and make it work Got a cool cool knife recently. This is made by bear Ops. It's a very cool 3-inch blade knife with an aluminum handle and then you can just put it down like that. It has these levers right there and by using those it could deploy and then Sometimes it doesn't go all the way down, but if you give it a little flick, it'll go all the way down and Another cool knife that I just got is made by Tesco. It's called an a5 spry Years back an auto blade was not legal in Michigan and then they became legal by a Republican and Now we can enjoy things like this. This is a tecco a5 spry Auto blade in prior to that. I had the boker coalition a cop and it's just a Flick out blade very small very concealable very small Cool cool little knife there but anyhow so The the bullarmory handguns have been a lot of fun really love the tack four and a quarter love the axe hatchet they The fit and finish on those are pretty supreme. Just think they're first class all the way and really enjoyed it What's up, Mo? Vincent the smoke Walker customs Brian Knight Dean I buy cool stuff Dean Dean so I buy cool stuff He just put a Collaboration video that we did six or seven years ago up on his channel So if you didn't see it on this channel cuz it was a while back go check out. I buy cool stuff Dean's my man He's actually local to me and I tell you I was at his house and he has He he has just an amazing collection. It's like a museum of historic rifles crazy stuff JJ D's of the house Another topic that I wanted to discuss is The potential of an ammo shortage. I have varying opinions about this I put a video out last week and I heard every Side of the concept that anybody could possibly hear some people are saying their shelves are currently Emptier than they used to be other people saying their shelves are full and the people that are saying their shelves are full The places I've done I agree with you the places are Filled with ammo, but if you recall the last ammo shortage It wasn't taken place immediately Immediately once it was projected with the riots and the COVID and the What else everything everything was like the perfect storm the the lack of employees out there people on the Government aid not wanting to go to work all that Took effect and what happened was it was the perfect storm and we had an ammo shortage It wasn't as if it was projected and then the next day there was an ammo shortage. So To protect yourself and there is ammo at your local store Why not just get it if you have the funds like that's what I'm doing I'm getting as much as I can but that really doesn't change as to what I normally do I know I shoot a lot, but it's just really enjoyable Just knowing it's almost like money. They say money can't make you happy but a lack of money will make you miserable and Those who have been poor, which I have to believe is just about everybody there in the chat anyhow I was I was so poor once I I Really really struggled financially and it was miserable because when when you don't have money You're always wondering how you're going to get money And if you recall with our ammo shortage when you don't have ammo The only thing you can think about is how am I going to get ammo and then you end up way overpaying and At that moment where the prices increased to a point where it wasn't even fun to go shoot because all you heard was Not brass clanging on the ground, but you heard Dollars falling on the ground as you shot You kept saying to yourself as did I Man if I only knew this was going to happen. I would have been all over this when I had a chance Is there going to be a shortage that part still up in the air it is projected there will be a price increase And I think that's going to happen a shortage there are a lot of lot of Concepts that have to take place to make that happen But it can happen those of us who have been around and shooting for a long time knows that Ammo is like the stock market it goes up and down like a roller coaster goes up and down and right now We're up time most people can go to their gun store get a box or two of ammo and not really have to worry about it, but It seems that if we miss out on our opportunity now, and then there is a shortage You're gonna say That TFG was right. I should have done it and it's not just me saying that trust me So good to see everybody in here. I'm showing a hundred currently a hundred three people in here I wasn't sure what to expect. What's up Ed Zachary? Joe Morgan Moe some of these guys I see leaving comments all the time. I appreciate you guys. I really do You guys do an amazing job. I'm just following the channel and being supportive. I get people that Have known me and followed me and they say your your viewership is so loyal They are so loyal and I said I know it blows me away because it's not reflective of society who is disloyal Society people are disloyal. Yeah, people you work with say yeah Yeah, I'll get right to that and they never do it and wait for you to take care of the heavy lifting stuff at work But yet here so many people Support the channel they come out with every video and that that is also Through a lot of bad videos and they still stuck with me. Can you believe that? But it's so good to see everybody be em Hey, man. I want to tell you when you left those Shotgun shells with Don they were put the good news. I certainly appreciate that We have ghosts here. Wow YouTube kid the smoke so great to see everybody So the ammo shortage is still yet to be seen is Is it gonna happen immediately? No, are the prices going to increase? Well, if this the outdoors the largest manufacturer, I would guess in the world says there's going to be a price increase So there's probably gonna be a price increase now all the rumors last month about Lake City Much of that has been debunked when they said all the They signed government contracts and they're not selling to the civilian market anymore A lot of that has turned out not to be true But I'm but that's that's just how it's reported and in some of that were Comments from the people at Lake City themselves, but I do think there is going to be a Price increase. I'm not sure if there's going to be a shortage But even if there is even if there's a price increase we tend to look back and say I should have got it basically when it was on sale compared to where it is now Which is A better way to go and then I gave the example of having money versus not having money same same thing applies So we'll have to see That last shortage was tough though. I I ran into some people I bought a lot of ammo and parking lots during that time because these guys had certain Certain ways I even made a video about it sharing ways that To to kind of beat the online algorithm with certain Gun stores and speaking of online gun stores. That's another thing you get you get companies like cheaper than dirt and others just skyrocketing the price of ammo and People that hit that desperation mode they get it no matter what the cost and and They're just totally ripping people off and yet we're saying well at least I can get it How many stories have you heard where people had something in their cart? And they go to check out and it was more than what they agreed to pay when they put it in their cart That is a reality It reminds me of going to the gas station the gas that was purchased was already purchased At a certain cost, but when gas went up they immediately raised their price Because that is the market value, but when you buy it Scammers like cheaper than dirt. That's not the market value. That is their value Which is a complete ripoff and there are others out there And I wasn't prepared so much to talk about cheaper than dirt. I hate that company I hate what they do to to gun owners and the gun community by taking advantage of them back in 2012 They were selling magazines AR mags for over a hundred bucks just a total ripoff making fools of us While people are running around trying to get mags because obama and biden were saying that they're going to get rid of them and Meanwhile, all these other places are out of stock because there was mad rush to get these AR mags and ak mags and anything that held 30 rounds mad rush to do it They would have a couple cases in stock and bam, they were gone. But who has them Cheaper than dirt has I'm sure if you want to pay over a hundred bucks to get a mag Even locally there were guys that That would load up a mag because the ammo was so scarce, especially the 556 so hard to get They would load up a mag itself for 150 bucks I could have made a fortune to be honest. I could have made a fortune had I gone that route But it's not good for the gun community It's also not good just to give it away and say here you go five bucks I have so many mags and I could have easily loaded them up because I have a lot of rifle ammo I could have easily loaded those up and sold them and made a fortune And I could have justified it, but I wouldn't I wouldn't have Felt right about it. I would have felt very wrong about it and some of these scammers like Cheaper than dirt dicks boarding goods some of these other online Losers who are ripping off the gun community just so embarrassing and speaking of online. I will tell you I I trust no site that I have not done business with And there's a reason for that. I don't care if it's ammo. I don't care if it's fishing gear. I don't care who it is it is It could be a scammed site Hey, Kurt. Thanks a lot, man. I appreciate that. Hey, so my first ever Super chat right there by Kurt. I appreciate that. It's going right toward ammo, brother So thank you very much Kind of caught me by surprise actually. This is my first chat. I ever did by myself 20 minutes in and really enjoying it But anyhow, where was I? It's talking about the scammed sites you They show up first in many cases on The searches you go to search say you you want to search a uh Glock 19. What do you have the the Glock? handgun store and it's all fake one after another and Everything is fake and you go to like they they are they are so sophisticated that they They target every manufacturer out there and they're all Fake and the one thing that you know is that that just kind of proves themselves to be losers is that they have The payment of Crypto, you know, you can pay with bitcoin. Whoa, Alan. Thank you, sir Wow I am I am grateful and I'm humbled at the super chat never expected it. It's going to go right back into Uh ammo so I can continue to make content and I certainly appreciate it. Thank you very much But these fake sites are so Dangerous and you know, what's weird is that you may be wise enough to know the difference you may have Then scammed yourself. It's not something you're going to go brag to your buddies about But some people leave public comments to me And they say I got ripped off I thought I was getting a great deal and I got ripped off more than just a couple guys more than just a couple I've had several people say I totally got ripped off by these scammed sites And now they're out there with ammo and one of the first things they do is try to friend you on the gram or facebook and Develop this little relationship so that you gain trust in them. They say, oh, yeah, by the way I I had this store that Offers the best deals. Oh, we could we could beat buds. We could beat grab a gun We could beat them all just come to this store. It's just you know, I do it out of my basement It's it's not like the other ones that have Large overhead costs and then they will rip you off terribly And people tell me that it really does Work And that they have been ripped off. Once again, Alan. Thank you so much and Kurt. I'm I'm truly humbled by that It really means a lot Um, the third subject about the way I should probably uh take a look at some of these This is not only do you know You're an old man When you don't understand technology just to do this Really freaked me out. Thanks pepe. I appreciate that sticker that's uh Humbling to me as well, but you also need readers. I have contacts in Okay, I've been wearing contacts since I was a teenager But when you need contacts and readers You're uh, you're in trouble All right. Dale's in the house. He said love the videos and the topic of fake sites. I appreciate that I used to make a lot of Videos on the fake sites not a lot. I probably have eight or nine out there And I literally could start its own channel just on fake sites But what people stopped watching them that it was just more of the same I guess But also even though people stopped watching them I also had a lot of feedback from people saying Hey, thanks for this. I had items in my cart was getting ready to check Check out and I came across your video after I did a search and found out this was fake and so I I'm like, you know what? It's worth it. If I could save somebody Uh sports was warehouses. What most says. Yeah, no argument there. I would buy there Mike Reese is in the house Uh, he said he lives near Blesses on the east coast. Okay Squib load wait squib loads man. We went to uh some two a rallies together in lansing, michigan. Good to see you. Yes social media Uh, we have robert Dad you can get multifocal lenses. I could But I when I take these off that I look past my hand right now I see I see fine but to to look at the fine print of The chat I have I do this and I can see everything. It's just like jumps out at you. So I do I do like that We have jeff in the house gun wild one awesome guy He's always putting out neat stuff. He reviews those random things that you don't really See too often on youtube something that you He's like, I didn't even know that product existed and then there he is reviewing itself Springfield, Missouri prop doctor prop doctors been with with me a long time Yeah, cool guy no doubt same with walter. I see some of the names in the chat And it's just like it just rings a bell because these people have been been with me for so long Which which makes me amazed that they even stuck with me after so many bad videos um Another topic that I want to touch on is the channel itself Because I one of the things that worries me when I when I get a new gun when I Do a video is that it becomes so routine that it's predictable I I worry about that. I don't want to be so predictable that If I'm going to review a gun You know Exactly what's going to happen because I do the same thing I don't think I do because if you notice One of the things I do on many occasions is I don't have 40 cut scenes. I try to just go all the way through it And if I say something wrong say something that's not right. Whoa shooting gallery. Thanks, bro Well, the one thing I'm learning is that these superchats jump out at you Like do this neon color And it just kind of jumps out at you and I want to acknowledge the people that are supporting the channel And I really appreciate it. I don't have What's that one everybody ran to they were asking for The one where they ask everybody to donate money I can't remember right now. I never bothered with it But this is cool. I like this is I like doing this reaching out and getting feedback. This is great. I love it But I don't want to be too routine But at the same time I have to be me. I have to be the way I do things So I'm hoping that it's not too routine. You may have noticed that I had I started two new series one called think about it thursday and I was Trying to come up with something that could be more regularly scheduled Because every youtube expert out there will tell you Schedule patron. Thanks chubby Love that name chubby catfish. Yes patreon everybody was doing patreon But I never did I never felt right doing that But this is something different people are are Doing it through a live chat and I'm not asking for it But I want I am going to talk about channel membership because I want to get Some thoughts about it because I'm not looking to enrich myself in doing it at all But it is a way it is another format To do something like this just in a little bit of a more Private setting so we're we're going to get to that part But the think about it thursday is more of a schedule thing I don't know that i'm going to hit every thursday, but every youtube guru out there says Schedule your videos let your viewers know when you are going to upload what they can expect and then deliver on that I've never done that. I I'm like if I have the video made and If not midnight Why not just throw it out there like what do I care if they don't see it tonight They'll see it tomorrow and if they don't see it at all that means they weren't interested to begin with like I've never bought into the schedule The video at a specific time. Maybe you guys can let me know if you think that's a a good idea I honestly, I don't care That's it to to say hey every wednesday at eight o'clock eastern time i'm going to Just do a video you can expect that every wednesday And then I don't do it on a wednesday and then I feel like I just let everybody down But anyways, that's why I I tried to just delve into it a little bit put my put my little Pinky in the water and said think about it thursday. I'm gonna try to do something every thursday Something that we have to think about and we'll see if people watch Uh, I'll keep doing it if people stop watching like the fake ammo and gunstore videos I was making with all the frauds Then uh, then I'll let it go But I also started another series called is this pistol still relevant and that one I think I could keep going for a while because There are so many different ways you can go with it, you know, is this pistol relevant Hey, merry christmas 313 good to see you michael 3 Wow, this is you know, one of the one of the advantages of doing a live chat is that You you reach people in a different way and it's pretty cool because you get so Caught up, especially when your old geezer like me 56 years old by the way soon to be 57 Smash time. Thanks 556. I've seen that on your channel. See see what he did there. Very clever Very clever 556. I appreciate it, bro Next on your next chat, I'll be sure to give you 5.57. Okay, just to be weird but Is this pistol still relevant? Many people will say Well, if it shoots, it's relevant period well Perhaps so but I'm trying to get a little bit of feedback here like I get the I get the Idea that it shoots. It's relevant Okay, you ever you ever get a gun where you actually shoot it and it goes like three feet to the right? Okay, so not it's not Equal across the board whether it shoots or not But nonetheless, so I wanted to do that series there um, I want to also take a minute and talk about shorts because Shorts on youtube is an interesting concept. I fought them at first. I did not want to do them I said I'm cheating my viewers by doing shorts But as they went on I noticed something I said You're either going to get in on it or you're going to be left behind Because there are certain channels out there That are just killing it doing shorts and shorts only Is it my goal to? Kill it and just be like this famous guy on youtube. No, it was never my goal to do that But I also don't want to go backward Okay, so it's a it's an interesting dynamic when you're in this. It's like I don't want to be too routine I want to come up with something different But I don't want to take away from who I am and what the people can expect What next and that's why I came up with think about it thursday and is this pistol still relevant? So We'll see if uh We'll see if it has lasting power, but shorts If you don't do Some type of shorts you literally and you make content you're going to get left behind because You're reaching a different crowd. You're you're not just sending content out to your Subscribers you're sending content out to the masses on youtube And the shorts is a great way to get you there So I've been doing a lot of shorts plus. I got a new computer Man, I tell you some of the people I'm going to go to shot show in a couple weeks. I'm only going by the way I'm only going to the show itself one day One day. There's a reason I'm gonna tell you that but one day. I'm going to the show That's it. I hate vegas. I literally hate vegas. I can't stand it It's sin city for a reason and uh I try my best to avoid sin at every opportunity I'm uh on this side of the earth nonetheless Where was I going? I already talked about channel memberships. Let's talk about that When channel memberships first came out people said hey, you can get your people to donate to you and then you Will have to offer them something and I said well if I wanted my people to donate to me Then I could have opened up patreon, but I didn't do that because I don't want my people to donate to me Okay, like we're we're to a degree that I'm going to be asking for every video It's just not me, okay and The membership seem to have a different twist to it. It's not just give money and here I am taking your money and There's there's no benefit Like you didn't sign up to follow this channel so that you could just Have your wallet a little thinner each time you watch a video and I get that I would never expect that of anybody But the memberships Also have Advantages and people are doing live chats with just their members. They're doing giveaways with just their members They're doing all kinds of stuff with just their members and I said now that is something I wouldn't mind getting involved with So if you would please Let me know if it's something and I don't even care if it's the least amount offered If if that's something you would be interested in joining because I I look around my gun room I see stuff that I I don't use it's valuable that has good good value to it and I just Don't use it. I'm like somebody could could really enjoy this and I was thinking Maybe channel membership is the way to go. Oh another caliber 7.62. Thanks bill I appreciate it, sir I might just buy some 7.62 with that although I have quite a bit of 7.62. I I take After that Obama Travesty years ago I I stocked up on rifle ammo and what happened was when It went south with the last ammo shortage. I was able to give some to my friends when they got a new rifle Thank you bill. I really appreciate it, sir So let me know if you think a Channel membership would be a good thing And it would be something we could do private live chats I could invite you guys in and we could have a Little bit of a group discussion not like this where I just talk and everybody gets the wonderful luxury of listening to me But just a little more of a Of a relationship, I guess would be a good way to say more of a more of a relationship instead of just an online thing So I'm thinking uh thinking about that. Let me see I talked about my three subjects. If anybody has anything For me, let me know. I'm currently looking at the comments Uh, yeah, I'm sure it is three one three Triggers so smooth. I have a I have a Awesome a k it's an m70 and it's a ab2. It's an under folder Love that thing, but I had the trigger changed out And I can't remember the name of the trigger They they pretty much went out of business with ak's because you had to do some light gun smithing to get it to work Right. Well, apparently mine Needed some light gun smithing and it never happened and it made the the trigger spring too light So I was getting light primer strikes and it sat in the safe And now I'm seeing that same ak on the used market sold for 13 $1400 kind of blows me away. I'm like people are paying On the new market 12 13 $1400 and I've got one sitting in the safe and I don't even touch it I don't even look at it and it's really a shame. I really need to do something Let's see. I would join a membership If it wasn't a tier system one flat rate not a dozen different levels See now I have to learn about that because I really don't know All the details. I'm wondering if that's something I would control or if YouTube controls it because if youtube controls it which Probably how it is then it It may not be great, but if I have some control over how it's going to do or how it's going to be Ran then Which you should have control. You're doing all the legwork behind it youtube just sits back and caches the money Well, dang late to the party again. Well, I'm still glad you're here patrick. I'm not going to be on here too much Too much longer Okay, okay. B.m. Thanks No youtube gestapo Subscribe star is great. No youtube gestapo. I guess I don't know what that is you see If I even if I tried to open up a patreon account, I probably wouldn't I wouldn't do it But even if I tried I still wouldn't get how it goes. Okay. I I'm just not Awesome when it comes to fit just to do this was a big deal Uh tungsten colored Oh, yeah, there's a big difference mark huge difference With the uh with the color. Yeah, you're talking gray and a dark green Uh, dan you totally controlling. Okay, walter. I appreciate that. I did get your answer You said you'd join if it's a flat rate. I think you have to make at least three if I read that correctly you have to make At least three payment structures. I think that's what I read a while back when it first came out One of the Yeah, now I'm now I'm circling back. I'm going to back to the guns because I'm at the 40 minute mark still enjoying this by the way One of the guns I was so Stike stoked to get and I still love it is the bull armory tack four and a quarter that thing is so nice and um When I shoot that it's just like so soft with that aluminum frame And a little short lightweight trigger pull the double stack 19 11's 2011 I don't care how you call it. They are there are still new manufacturers coming out with their versions And I'm telling you guys People are paying four and five thousand dollars for these. It's true. They really are and And if you think about it, you know, that's a ton of money, but If you only have yourself and a buddy making them and your hand fitting and hand polishing everything You can't even you can't sell that for $2,500. You're wasting your time You're not you're not going to put all that work into everything that it takes to make a dynamic handgun to take a loss and so There's a market for these and everybody's all staccato staccato all staccato I like staccato, but I like the bull better I like the bull better. It just it just is really nice and I did a comparison with writers range out at his range And uh, we really enjoyed it. We had a great time comparing both of those He's a big staccato guy. He I think he has three of them and I tell you what if you guys want to watch Somebody that can shoot the nuts off a nut Go to writer's range. I I get humbled because each time I start feeling special Like I think after I leave I have to call my mother and tell her that I'm sad and I need ice cream Because that guy really he can does it's not even it's not even It cannot be described at how well this guy could shoot if he's just got the gift and he's I don't know a lot of time practicing. I'm sure of it, but uh, he's got a beautiful range I really love going there Uh, what else we got going on tab still leaving comments I love that guy He's been I tell you what he's been growing at a rapid rate tab videos trees are blowing growing at a rapid rate and uh You know, we I spent a small part of that You know, I meet them up north and we shoot Some of the guns that I have and speaking of uh One that he recently put up and so did I is the new x star ep 9 carving x star When they just had the ep 9 Let's think about this now everybody was saying oh x star at that time it was 400 now it's 450 they're saying for $400 is Like half the price of a cz scorpion Is it over the same quality if they're both 400 I choose to scorpion. Okay, but They're not full 400 so x star was getting high praises by many people Then they came out with the gen 2 made an m lock hand guard They made nicer grip. They came out with their own mags. They changed the overall profile a little less bulky Put a brace on there That was great And then people said well, that's not enough we want more so then they came out with the ep 45 Same thing now by this point they took the brace off because it was being fought in the courts and everything about the the whole brace thing but They also made it so if the brace Battle is one you can easily put it back on. Okay, but they put a rubber pad on there anyhow They came out with the ep 45 And a lot of people liked that but they said but I want 10 millimeter well x star is not sig SIG has groups and groups of engineers. They have assemblers. They have parts makers. They have all this stuff If you ever did a factory tour at a gun manufacturer facility You would be amazed at how it looks and this is what I just did when I was in boonesville, missouri with cmg cmg is now making their own barrels. Do you know how big of a deal that is to make rifle barrels? If you make rifle barrels you instantly have A multitude of potential customers out there because some of these some of these smaller rifle companies are literally making them Making their products in their basement To be a barrel producer Is huge and the first question I asked what they this machine was beautiful state of the art They bought it from germany for millions and I said hang on you guys are making your own barrels. Yeah I how long you've been doing this? Under a year. I said you have customers that you sell barrels to so yeah Quite a few and so When you when you see something like that and you see What it takes to Produce a firearm and you have all the offices on one side with the engineers and you have People assembling here and you have parts inspectors and you see a machine go down And all of a sudden people have to go fix the machine and then over here You've got a a shooting area where they shoot into a hole in the wall that is meant for that and you come over here And they're polishing things it really is It's pretty amazing and and so when we think about x star They they just they they don't have all that, you know, so some of these places have these big huge literal factories and you have other people that have this little non-branded building on the side of some random road in the middle of nowhere producing guns And we think here they are up at some high tower new york city live in the high life They're not are they hurting probably not probably not at all, but they're also Not the way many people envision a gun manufacturer to be All right, where are we at? Dan what's your email the firearm guy at gmail.com I believe I have that right on the channel page too The best way to good at good and is to go to the range and see if they have Want to rent yeah Yeah, I've done that several times and sometimes I just go if there's just something there. I've never shopped before I'll do that But I don't go to indoor ranges too much Most of my company sales are barrels and carriers. Isn't that interesting el tenda my man El tenda awesome guy Doesn't make videos too often these days Um, let's see What else could we discuss if anybody If anybody has anything for me go ahead and throw it in there Dean Dean works with my mom and he said I will mention to your mom that she's a youtube star Yeah, do that, please Tell her next time, uh I shoot with rider. I need her to take me out for ice cream because my self-esteem has been shot Mary Ant's kitchen. Hey bring me some of that bread tomorrow. Would you lady? All right Yeah, that's a very cool chat with you. Hey, I appreciate it brian Hey, I'm watching me for years. You're right here in michigan. Hey, that's awesome Um, I have to say though. I'm not sure how long that michigan thing is going to last I haven't mentioned it on video once I don't know how long this michigan residence is going to last in michigan I just don't like that. I just don't like the climate. It's and I'm not talking about the weather I can deal with the weather. I don't like the political climate I I've I've gotten sick of this state and you know what else you drive around michigan and the roads, you know, they're always They're Ever ever since I've been alive. They're been problems with the roads. Okay, that's normal and They are so bad here when like immediately when you cross over to the border in Ohio My family did last summer vacation trip. We're down in arkansas. We're all through kansas and Where else you name it? We're all throughout the south. We came back through st. Lou or not st. Louis. Um What am I thinking of beautiful city? I'll think about is in missouri Kansas city. That's what I'm thinking about. Can't city missouri. We're through there And then this summer as a trigger con and and wichita, kansas fellow The roads are so nice the minute you you pull into michigan and you know Um, that's like what the hey, I was just they didn't even notice how nice the roads were until I came here and how bad they are But that's not even why I could live with the roads. I can't live with lansing Can't stand them All right smash time says everyone push the thumbs up. Hey if Through this chat you have fallen in love with me even more. That's our chasm Smash time is going to run a chat later on tonight. He said he is we'll see he usually does this guy has a show that a lot of people love anyhow He may he may invite me on there. We talked about it beforehand. He's one of those guys we talked on the phone and Uh, let him cry on my shoulder. No, I'm kidding. I'm kidding, but I may be on his show tonight smash time two words smash time You may notice I have a hat that says smash time. I wear it on video on occasion smash time smash this guy All right Well, I think I'm going to wrap it up guys. We're at 51 minutes. I really enjoyed this Um, if you want to see this type of format again now that I have it And I've done it and I know I can do it unlike last time when it was a total disaster Perhaps I will maybe once every couple weeks or so. I don't want I don't want to regularly schedule anything and Become this guy because let me tell you something I have seen people who had dynamic channels Like really good content where they worked hard and they sought out after various guns and then the ammo to feed them and They did their research and they presented well. They had a good stage presence They did everything that it takes to run a successful youtube channel But then they started doing live chats. Now, there's nothing wrong with doing live chats At all This is why I've been wanting to do this for a while Before I finally took the time to figure it out but there's no research No sweat equity in this You just talk from the top of your head and if you have guests on you just hold the conversation It's like it's almost like the difference between youtube and instagram YouTube to make a video and to make a good video and make it informative and to demonstrate and to know What you're talking about and take ownership of that product so that You are answering questions before they're even asked because you took the time to learn That's hard That's hard taking a picture of that same product and put it on instagram and getting 100 000 likes. That's easy There's a huge difference and so when you talk about people who Used to put forth the effort and energy to make a Good dynamic video and then you have high hopes for the video and all of a sudden it gets 2000 views And it's a big let down And so what do they do they do live chats are like this is no stress Anybody could do this I can get out there and just talk and my buddy's on there just talk And then they do it and they do it again and they do it again and they do it again And next thing you know they wonder why their channel is sinking It could be one of the greatest Reach out Concepts that you could have to your people or it could be the death of your channel if you make make it an everyday thing So I don't want to do it all the time But you get the pulse of your subscribers you're right Dale And that's why I was asking about the channel memberships and asking if if that's something that Would be a good route to to go Um not not to get enriched by it. That's not the motive but more of a more intimate setting with members where It would be just a member and plus certain giveaways that I have Uh, I'd be able to do that easily. I've got a lot of stuff here Uh, okay. What else do we got going on here? I bet your investment And uh, well dean, let's see Contact live with your subscriber But your investment is this that's that's true, but it's not it's not the same dean You know Imagine if I went to your house that day with that video you just uploaded where you and I worked together on Actually, you you were the branch behind the project. All I did was introduce and close out the video but If I if I took one of those rifles home with me And I had to learn everything about it And then I had to go get the ammo and then go shoot it and talk about my shooting impressions And talk about a little bit of the history of it and go through all of that That's work That's work and then I then I need to make sure I don't scratch it by time I hand it back to you because you're bigger than I am But that that's the difference of work between this this to me is not work This is enjoyable um Just reading the comments knowing that I have People that are taking time out of their Sunday night to be here with me. This is enjoyable That other stuff is work. So when people make a habit of just doing live chats and they avoid the work And yet other people will say of videos of videos of videos so long as you have a video Well, that's true too But I've been at this long enough to know a video is not a video because a good video and a bad video Don't carry the same weight A bad video is one in which you just throw it out there But you haven't done leg work and heavy lifting to make it a good video At least to a standard that you believe is high And so if if there are times when I go through everything exactly as I wanted to and I said I just don't like it. I don't like the way that sounds. I don't like The way I did that. I think I can do better and I'll do it all over again Just because I I have a high standard of what I think is acceptable and I've been at this longer. I'm going on 2,500 videos Some of them are really bad and I'm not here to say. Hey, I I know what I'm doing. I'm so good I'm not saying that at all But what I am saying is that I have a certain standard that I have to reach Not necessarily for you the viewer For me so that I have the peace when I hit that private the public setting That I know that I'm giving these guys The the best that I have and if I fall short of that Then I know it and and that would bother me and so When I first started this when youtube was only a couple years old I used to say just just get something out there. Who cares everybody just they'll grab a gun They'll just pop up. I'll make a six second video and I'm like they have to wow. I'm like, this is stupid What did you offer anybody? I didn't offer anybody anything. They got to watch me shoot a gun There's no value in that So that's uh That's just the way I think guys. I hope this wasn't a rant or I hope I didn't cut on anybody I certainly didn't intend to but Uh You know, it's just what I think I've been at this long enough I do hold a little authority with uh longevity that part I do hold some authority over I do have longevity with this All right, what else is going on the chat got all my friends here uh, huh Smash time says it takes three hours to research A guest on my live chat. Yeah, he he did that with me. He said I was one of uh I was in early on with this show and that he went and watched a bunch of my videos and I'm like, what are you doing? All you have to do is watch one or two and think uh Perhaps it's not too late to cancel this guy off my show is probably what he was thinking Okay, you know the the refrigerator and shotgun videos that Uh, you've got youtube kidding What a name The refrigerator door. Okay. I got a place up in northern michigan. That's where I see tab yet and It's a three hour drive from where I live And um, I love the place my wife and I bought it Back in 01 They don't have curbside pickup. They have a dump where you Take your trash to and then in the dump is a big big metal section So sometimes I'll go back in the metal section just to see if there's anything that I can shoot Either target to keep or something that would make any range review Well, there's been very little the last couple years But I found this commercial grade refrigerator door and I got a ton of content out of that because it was so much stronger than The the refrigerator that you and I have in our homes So it made it really cool a lot did not penetrate and a lot did but I'll tell you when I took that 50 action express Right through it like a knife and butter. I'll tell you Yeah, it was pretty cool All right, join me here in springfield, Missouri area. Oh, I would love to I Would love to be in the middle of the country Um, but I do have and my wife has parents that Uh are around we want to be there for them if uh, if we're called upon it and uh Plus I had my place up in northern michigan Our place our place. We bought it together. We love it So, uh, that's what's going on. So yeah, we're we're not we don't want to be too far away from that or our parents who uh Who we need to keep a close contact with And um, I'll leave you guys with this last thing. I'm at an hour now. So I'll close it out soon But just listen to this point I I I took a three-hour drive yesterday because I want to say a friend I I know I can't necessarily call him a friend Because he's 10 years older than I am but he played a very vital role in my life. He was My strength coach in college. He he he worked with all the athletes in college. I played hockey I played at a varsity level And this guy was Our strength coach, but he was so much more than that. He was a mentor in life He was a phenomenal guy. He was somebody that You could cry with you could laugh with you could joke with you could do anything with Except for slack off in the weight room out the you don't want to do that with coach long But I got a phone call the night before and said hey coach long died and I had no idea We were just with him. He owned a pizza shop. We were just there eating pizza a couple years ago And he was just had some great pizza and was happy to give it to us and I heard that he died. So My buddy and I we drove out yesterday We drove three hours there and three hours back And are we great for doing that? No, not at all, but it just reinforced the idea That relationships in your life are so vital And when the people are gone, I'm not saying anything that is going to be this profound news But being that I just went through it And you hear the stories about what great Person he was and and I had my own stories about what a great person he was as did everybody I never saw him much after college other than when we went to his pizza place But yet I miss him Because I know he's not there. I know I can't pick up the phone to call him I know I can't go to his pizza place and and eat dinner. I know I can't do that anymore so When I say I'd love to live in the middle of the country I would love to live in the middle of the country. I think it's great. It's it would suit my personality perfectly It's just that there are some people many people I cannot cut that distance tie with and just say bye. Bye. I'm here now because Love is stronger than a political climate Love is stronger than too much snow or bad roads and that is My closing message tonight. I hope you enjoyed this live chat. I certainly did it. It was a lot of fun for me I'm thinking perhaps Maybe once a month or once every three weeks or something. I really enjoyed it. Thank you for being here Thank you for being a part of this channel. Thank you For supporting the TFG channel. It's not just me. I'm not the firearm guy We are all the firearm guy and we are a community of people that love guns But we love each other. Thank you so much. Have a good night. God bless you and I'll see you next video