 There we go Now I do Hey, how you doing everybody good to see you? We've got currently seven people in the chat But I know we've got smash time and Tomcat 941 in the house, so good to see you guys I Tuttle this struggles of YouTube and what does that mean struggles? with YouTube Well, hey Lance good to see you buddy. Thanks for popping in Smash times there too. All right So the struggles with YouTube I say if I was uh Just starting YouTube. I wish I had some mentoring I originally had a gentleman who helped me out in the the very beginning a little bit. This was back when you had to They had private messages with YouTube. They no longer have that and this guy was super cool But I don't know where the guy just he just offed himself and it was a very very tough thing to To see and deal with at the time because I really didn't have any friends I just started YouTube one day and said I'm gonna do this because I used to get fed up watching gun reviews with What people were doing what people were saying the way they were doing it and I would say I think I could do better And then I actually did it when my wife handed me a $50 camera and said if you could do better than do it And I thought I could do better But I tell you I was so bad and I never quite settled into My own way of doing things. It's easy to try to copy somebody else But you can't copy anybody else because in the the very Time you start to copy somebody else you find yourself that you're not being you and and that's that's actually hard To learn that and so If I could advise anybody I would say try to be as creative as you possibly Could be you're gonna have to come up with ideas that you didn't know that you were Able to do you're gonna have to come up with ideas and thoughts because initially When I when I started No, I just filled my pop when I when I started YouTube initially My thing was just get content up. Just get content up content content content and I'm still like that to a degree but the the idea of Coming up with something or at least have something in the works to come up with Something that will Be exciting for the viewer something that you specifically would watch That's that takes effort Smash time 5.56. Thanks, brother Oh, man, we have disastrous effect fluffy defense dad spn. He makes some good videos there Dave dobas the saint TAB videos BEM fluffy. All right. Welcome everybody Well, I was talking about if I if I came up with a youtube channel and I was just starting out How would I do it? I would try to be as creative as possible. I would also Understand that there are going to be haters out there when I first started this I remember I would get some hate and I I was told it would come but then when it actually came I was thinking man, I like this person must know a lot and I think a lot of people on this channel do know a lot But there are a lot of people that they know just enough To be dangerous and when you're just enough to be dangerous You're just enough to Distract the person making the video. So I I had to learn to let go of that Another thing I working with manufacturers is really something I know a lot of people think that Well, you just work with all these manufacturers. You get everything for free. That's not exactly true. I I buy things locally. I buy I buy guns ammo gear locally Quite a bit recently. I picked up the Ruger ec 9s I've been wanting to check that out for a while and I picked it up locally I got a great deal met a great guy and we hung out for a little bit we talked guns and gear and deals and everything else going on and we had a A decent time with it, you know, and so sometimes you work with the manufacturers, but there's there's a little caveat to that There are some and I'm not saying firearm manufacturers by and large if you happen to get a Firearm from a manufacturer by and large they just send the gun to their hands off But it's the products that I struggle with I struggle with products because it doesn't matter How hard you work on it what you do what you say how you demonstrate it It is never ever ever enough You know, oh you you you forgot to mention the coating on the products Which is so much better than everybody else's and it gets it gets old rather quickly. I knew very few product reviews if I I could have a A house filled with holsters if I was willing to do All that gb guns in the house. Thanks, brother 10 to 10 dollar super chat. I appreciate it Jessica Simpson so product reviews are a little difficult because Everybody wants their product featured time and time again There have been occasions where a manufacturer attempted to take over the channel Well, if if we send this to you What are you going to do and you get it for two days and you're getting email saying well Where is it? Where is it? I will tell you For the people who watch videos on a regular basis Watching a video and producing a video are not in the same category You say well tell us something we don't already know. Well For 25 years I've rented houses Now I only have one property that I rent but for 25 years I had Seven properties. Hey, thanks spn. I appreciate it brother Wow getting these super chat. I wasn't expecting this but It was really it was really interesting because when when I would rent these houses I've had Hundreds of families. I've dealt with divorces. I've dealt with Like homes that didn't even look the same prior And that's part of it. Yes, but it's very expensive. I dealt with squatters I've dealt with fully evictions with everything from The couch and the computer on the front lawn I dealt with dealing with city and everything to that degree and everybody who's ever rented a property of their life Thinks that they know what it takes to be a landlord. Well, you have to do it like this Well, you know, some of the advice I would get in the past was You need to get really good tenants Yeah, yeah, that's true. Well, the same effect takes place with youtube The people are our viewers and they say you need to do this You you know, you didn't say anything about this or this thing has me all riled up and yet you remain silent Meanwhile, I may not even have known what was happening. It could be brand new And so it gets kind of difficult sometimes when when you have Certain people have an idea of how things are supposed to go But they really don't know what goes on behind The scenes and behind the scenes can be stressful. It can be It can it could take up too much brain space to a degree that you you wish you didn't even Take it on there. There were certain manufacturers primarily optic manufacturers that I agreed to check out their products And then they started saying okay now if we do this you're gonna have to do this and you're gonna I said You don't want just keep it. I don't want to deal with it because if if that's how it's going to be You're going to tell me what to do Then I'm not interested in reviewing your product and and They say no, no, no dad. No I'm like, you know, I don't even I didn't even get it yet and you're telling me what I have to do It doesn't work that way. It doesn't work that way. I don't see you Going to the range and doing all this stuff and drop testing it and doing all the stuff But you you're gonna send it and want me to do it I you know, I I don't think so. Are you gonna fix the scratch on my gun when I when I do that? So I would also say that to the new youtuber You have to do shorts Originally, I thought shorts was nothing more than a a tick tock glorified by youtube and this and that but It's like if you're if you don't get in on it, then you're you're missing out and you're cheating yourself so That is pretty imperative to do shorts. I learned how to take full length videos and cut it down to make it into a short But that that's some of the advice I would I would give somebody is that When when you feel like you're fighting the camera That's when it's time to walk away when you feel like the The viewers comments are getting the best of you Pack up do try again tomorrow if you feel like The the manufacturers adding pressure on you tell them you'll send the product back Don't let somebody take over what what you have going and what you have established It's it could be easy to do and haters. Let me tell you something about haters haters actually help the channel You need haters if you have haters that means you're doing something right If you have people that say you're wrong. You don't know what you're talking about. That means you're doing something right because to Attempt to appease everybody you appease nobody And that's just some of the advice I would give people In in the video space if you're gonna make make videos though some but sometimes people say You know, if I only started 10 years ago, there is room for everybody right now That right now Look at all these ai people that show up out of nowhere and banking major views with Other people's work Okay, do I think they're doing a good job? They're great editors. They make great thumbnails But no, I don't think they're doing a good job because it's fake And it's verified fake by me because I was in contact with some of them after I gave or I had YouTube strikes take place and they'd say oh, please take the strike away. Please take and I'd say no No, you stole my stuff. I told you to remove it. You didn't remove it. So there you go And and that's how that went But it's it could be stressful. It could be tough. It could be expensive Don't underestimate the expense it takes To make a youtube channel. See the gun world. Look at the gun world You know, but but to make a simple range view I can't go out into my backyard and just start shooting like some people that would be awesome But I don't have that right now. So when when you do this, you have to make sure your camera batteries are charged You have to make sure you have all the right ammo You have to make sure that you have extra mags for your guns You have to make sure that you have the information that you want. There have been times I've left the house with the With a range bag filled with guns and came back and said I forgot to do what I wanted to do with this one And so it gets it can be overwhelming at times. There have been times I've gone there and I didn't have my sd card in the camera There have been times I shot the lights out with something forgot to push record There have been times when I would get there and I realized I could hardly talk. I don't know It's just one of those things I can Typically just say what's on my mind and other times when that little red light's on in that camera It gets difficult and Those are just some of the struggles that you have with youtube that was youtube itself I got an email today from youtube that said a lot of the comments aren't showing up Well, I started to wonder about that because I would answer all these comments and then refresh to see What I had left and there were all the same comments that I already responded to I couldn't even figure figure out Which ones I did not respond to so youtube itself It's always changing now. Let me say something Good about youtube because I remember this quite well about Eight nine years ago the buzz all over the web was youtube is going to remove gun channels That's what they said the youtube is going to remove gun channels All those liberals are going to screw everything up and they're going to remove Gun channels or they're going to make them all demonetized where people don't want to do it and when you Remind me I have to talk a little bit about monetization, but Here we are eight nine ten years later and firearm And guns and range and all that is still being featured on youtube. So all the predictions turned out to be false Now there were times when I felt like this whole thing is just going to be temporary because youtube's going to go away and Well, they're not going to go away, but they're going to remove the gun channels. That could still happen That that really could happen and it's there's always a possibility that could happen. So if I was advising a new YouTuber, I would say branch out a little bit learn how to write learn how to write reviews I've been writing reviews for years now And it started out with just a Three four paragraphs. I submitted one yesterday with 1,100 words. It was a comparison review And so all that all that helps and I should be in print pretty soon So that's that's what's going on I had real unique experience with the Desperado made by american guncraft. I don't know if you guys saw that But it's a black powder Side by side 12 gauge. It's actually a pistol Has 11 inch barrels called the desperado and I had to learn How to do and how to use black powder And tab who's in who is in the chat right now He he was right there by me side by side and it was uh There's more to that than what you think but what there's there's an easy way to do it And a hard way to do it and I think tab and I chose the hard way to do it And then when we were getting ready to wrap it up was one of those times I didn't push record and it was It was Something we had to do all over again and that happens all the time But uh, good to see everybody here. Let me run through. We got luke p 13th apostle farhan Jonathan jackson samus What's up? Wow gb guns. I see again spn Dave dobos There we have libra peter quill romans, you know, it's so cool to see everybody that I see in the comments here here on alive and uh You know, it's just the struggles of youtube can be overwhelming at times and It's a lot more time. You hear people say if you're going to do this You have to be willing to put your time in and I will tell you I have had many One a.m. Two a.m. Three a.m evenings or morning, I should say That I find myself doing stuff that I didn't plan to do But I really wanted to get something up So it could be hard Many of you know that I I live in michigan I've lived in michigan my whole life for a short while. I went to college in Ohio Uh graduated and now I'm at a point where I've got over 30 years in my career that I never revealed and if you're If you're really keen you'll see if you read the comments every now and again somebody says something They sort of gives away what I've done for 30 years, but I'm on the verge of retiring there. I'm not gonna retire completely I'm going to retire from that job, but I'm going to be looking and uh state that they call The heart of it all You know what that is Ohio looking to move south to Ohio And in Ohio it's a more free state. I tell you michigan Michigan was always fair. It was always okay. It was always. Yeah, it could be a lot better, but It's getting kind of lefty over here Well, what went kind of lefty went full all out liberal And that's where my wife and I drew the line and we said we we got to get out of here. This is just not worth Dealing with at this time and you say well, what could be so bad? Well, you look at They want to register long guns most states have zero Firearm registration Ohio doesn't Ohio has constitutional carry Ohio has permitless carry Ohio is cash and carry with any firearm transaction with michigan You fill out a whole bunch of paperwork tedious I could still live with that then they have let red flag laws now. They're talking about magazine Restrictions now. They're talking about this and that and Soakland bands and all that they love the supreme court held up Rifle bands You know the supreme court held that up so the state of Maryland wants to do that the state of Illinois wants to do that They can do that Well, I can see it happening in michigan So I don't trust them So we're going to move to Ohio. We've been looking actually my wife is down there today look at six different homes She's got expensive taste. I will tell you But yeah, so I'm going to be looking to retire and move to Ohio a little more A lot more free state and if we know exactly where we want to be or somewhere in the area But we're looking forward to that another thing in Getting back to the youtube thing is lighting you have to if you're a new youtuber You want to make sure your lighting is good that that could be tricky especially outdoors You want to overcast the day too much too many shades? Too many shades on a sunny day will will ruin your video pretty much All right. Well, hey good to see everybody here I started out talking about youtube. It's talking about the the 12 gauge american guncraft Desperado real interesting concept for those who Understand black powder under they know that it's it's a process, but it's super cool goes about this big and it's a side-by-side 12 gauge that the packs of punch The easiest way to do that's just to stick a slug in there in a powder pellet and a primer and you're good to go had had TAB and I If we just did that the whole time it would it would be easy But I've got some things in the cooker. I've got some Pretty decent things if If I were to change directions of the channel away from gun reviews and go into 2a news and just report on 2a news Those channels tend to do very very well And I I used to get into that a little more than I do And I used to mix it up a little better than I do now But it just seems that you know my comfort zone is gun reviews. That's that's what I enjoy doing And people tell me I'm pretty decent at it. So and also one more thing. I'll let you have a little secret there is Well, you may hear my voice on another channel Very shortly and it's a little deal that I go I have going on that is Could be advantageous for all parties involved We'll see how it works out, but I'll put a community post out And maybe you guys if you see it, you can check it out and I will have I will have access to a lot more firearms when this whole thing goes down And it won't be firearms that I that I own But it'll be firearms that I can feature and many cases go shoot them And so to to get your hands on firearms Some of the best youtubers have friends with a lot of guns Okay, because you have a a large supply Of what you can work with So that's uh, that's my advice to those who are new to youtube those who Struggle with ideas. You just you keep it's like anything else. You know, you go on you want to work out Well the first Week two weeks, you're gonna struggle. You're gonna be sore. You're gonna be Struggling for time. You're gonna realize that you're not as strong as you once were You're gonna do all this stuff, but you just have to keep it going You take one step backward two step forward with everything One step backward two steps forward next thing, you know, you're already across the room next thing, you know, you're down the block Yeah, you're gonna get kicked around a lot, but that's that's part of it and you know, that that's one thing that is Hard with a lot of people's longevity when I first started this the the people that I that I knew back then the people that I Used to communicate with that a lot of them just stopped making videos and just Packed up and left the whole youtube scene and then there are others that I I talked to on a regular basis So people would would get all involved in everything then realize, you know what this isn't fun Like I thought it would be so I'm out And I started in 2011. So I'm in year 13 of this And no, I actually yeah 13 years 13 years And the following here is really good. I really like the followers here. They they Are are just amazing and I learn a lot and I learn a lot and that's another thing You have to be open to learn Because there's a lot that you don't know and I don't care who you are What experience you have when you're talking about guns ammo and gear there will always be A lot that you don't know. Okay. Let's see who we have here Let's see k bower Says that he enjoys reviews and finds them informative, but then he also said something else whereas I appreciate that. I think he said too much two-way news is exhausting We had gizzard gary there Let's see samus says I love your arms gonna infuse appreciate it I found that you are dialed in with describing your experience with firearms. I appreciate that It wasn't always that way You look at some of my videos from years back I I tell you I I had to learn I had to learn a lot and anybody who makes videos and they're honest with themselves They will tell you they had to learn a lot even even even just the opening line Like how am I going to present this? How how am I how am I going to? Open this thing up and and get going without a hundred different edits Here we have bubba bogey. You do great reviews. You go to two a change Change your channel name Little two information is good. Yeah, I used to do more of that And then sometimes when things come up I get I get upset that I I didn't cover it There's the one it was be what? They they're they're just exhausting to watch. It's really good news. Yeah, I agree with that I it is and It Like I don't want to always get on you like sometimes you work all day You come home and you fire up the web and the last thing you want to do is get depressed about how Someone's good, you know, you're just going to lose all your rights and you know, biden this biden that biden itself biden himself is depressing Paris Is depressing You you listen to those people and they get a tough question and they start giggling. That's angering It's like this place is going Downhill fast and all you could do is giggle Really interesting here. We have Midwest picker Hey, how you doing man? Good to see you. Welcome here glad you're here Uh, we have scott scott's been a regular viewer Uh, you're the man buddy. I appreciate that I appreciate the kind words You're a great job Most of the collection. Oh man, that that means a lot and I tell you what that that's one of the things I talked about the struggles of youtube But one of the greatest benefits is something like that when when you hear that You know, it's it's as hard as it gets sometimes and sometimes you Feel like just packing up and and tossing it all away. You hear something like that and it just keeps you motivated When you have some spare time to be a guest on my next podcast. Yeah, hit me up with a Hit me up with a email. I'd love to talk about it That sounds good Jessica simp So something tells me that the dude in his name is not Jessica. You're not sure though Yeah, sorry about that Alvaro's here. I appreciate that Uh, wow So it's good to see everybody here Don't pop on it's been about a month and a half since I've done a live chat I like it just to Have this type of interactions is super cool and To to do this is a different perspective than making a video You make a video you get to watch the video. That's it. This is more interactive and I uh I appreciate that Uh kev says uh responding to people's Uh who leave comments. Yes, and I don't know if you're here earlier, but I got a notification from youtube that they said that the The comments many have been deleted and they were never even posted And then I would go through leave a bunch of comments I'd refresh and all the comments I left were never even posted And they said what they always say we're working on it We're working on it. You're working on it, but I just spent a half hour answering comments and they're gone Are they just going to show up? I'm not sure But uh, but I appreciate that I try I try So, uh, you know one thing that kind of surprised me Is when I picked up the ruger ec 9s And I titled it budget ruger nine millimeter I was kind of surprised at the interaction with that That one took me off guard because the gun's been around a while prior to that it was the LC 9s prior to that it was the LC 9 the ec 9s Same as the LC 9s except for it has a little heavier trigger which is good And it has fixed sights that are milled into the slide Outside that it's pretty much the same gun, but you can't change the sights out But they also made it less expensive I thought about I thought about getting rid of the is this pistol still relevant series But um People say they like it. I don't know. I don't know if you if you think I should dump it. Let me know Hey rich good to see you buddy Farkels here Savage lee What is your favorite pistol the one you'll never sell? Well, I just I just made a a video on that I titled it five Firearms that are going to the grave going to my grave and the pistols I used Was a a bull armory tack four and a quarter and my colt python And the colt python I I don't know how you guys feel. I'm pretty down on colt currently So the way the way that whole thing's going with Colt and cz colt. I had this confirmed by the way colt is running the show there 100% colt is running the show Not cz cz is not the same company that they were prior to the the Joining merging however you want to say it colt is running the show So all that stuff we heard about cz acquiring colt It's not true They merged and colt is running the show now On the european side Maybe cz is running it. Maybe they have a little more say in what's going on but You know, I have people telling me how wrong I am But yet I have people that work for cz or used to work for cz Get on there and tell me i'm right I had one guy that just said everything that you said. Well, no, he stated it I Most of what you said is exactly true is how we said it most of what you said Is exactly true And so I actually pinned the comment because I got a lot of hate and and that's fine I don't mind But sometimes you have to go back and say, you know, all you people that said I was wrong Now it's proven Turns out I was right now. It's not like that all the time many times. I am wrong, but there have been times When when you when you talk to somebody, you know and trust that worked for the company for years Somebody you would talk on the phone with And you see him at shot show and they're out of That job and into something else And they say hey I want to talk to you for a minute because you're not going to believe what's going on with CZ and you start hearing this And You you guys say what about this person? Oh, they're gone. They left. They saw the writing on the wall. Oh, so so's gone The CEO is Not gone by choice They got the female she got let go and all of this everything we built from turning cz into a A moderate sales, you know military contracts law enforcement kind of deal especially overseas But they had they had a decent to Basically just this company that so many people were chasing after they built it up that way colt came in and ruined it Got rid of them and now Now it's all about colt. So I am pretty pretty pessimistic about what to expect with Cz in the future. They are going to put out a new p10c That that was in the works well before colt Merged with cz that was in the works well before so they say well They're going to put out a p10 a new p10c. So you you didn't know what you were talking about Do you know how long it takes from beginning to end to put out a gun? You don't just 3d print a frame and throw some parts in there and throw it on the market like it takes Years And you look at car with the x9. They've been working on that for years This these are not baseball bats. These are not The the the type that you know, you could just go buy and enjoy and dribble around the park like a basketball These are firearms that people are going to use to protect themselves. It has to be pretty darn good It has to work more often than it doesn't and when you When you're in charge of this of a company that You know people are going to protect their lives And if they hear the dreaded click word at that time when they they need that gun to fire And it doesn't work That's a problem And you know that a long time ago. There's a spaceship that went down. Well spaceship I guess that's what it was called. But One of the apollos who went down they said it went down by like a dollar fifty Part went bad like a dollar fifty part a multimillion operation And in a little dollar fifty or seventy five cent part went bad and the whole thing Went down and people lost their lives I'd hate to be the manufacturer of that part and so it takes years and years and years to to Get the design team get the engineers to to try to make this thing stand out from the rest What are we going to do? Oh, we're going to change the slide serrations. That's fine How's it going to affect the cycling? How's it going to affect and we as the buyers say I just do it this way. It's not going to affect anything. We don't know that You may Have success with one type of ammo and not another and what if It's one of those people that throw that type that it doesn't work They throw it in there and just start carrying it without shooting Or or just as bad. What if it's Gets in the hands of some youtuber that rips them to death When it's a pre-production model this thing's horrible. Don't buy this You know, it's just not that I don't think that's responsible You know, you have to work and and and help Help them do the best job they can so if somebody like you have to use it to Protect yourself that that gun's going to function exactly as it's intended to And that will be The true measure Of a good gun CZ has to maintain the reliability record. They cannot launch. No, that's true That's true. I tell you what a couple bad youtube videos can really you guys remember honor defense Honor defense Had a A firearm similar to a smith in western shield It was a little overbuilt The gun world treated Gary was the owner's name. He's out now Treated him terribly. Do you know why they treated him terribly? Because his gun wasn't drop safe Okay The gun should be drop safe. Do you know how many guns are not drop safe if you took a mallet And loaded up your guns and one by one just Whacked the back of them. I would be willing to bet you would be surprised at how many fired It's not all guns are drop safe But when it gets in the hands of a youtuber that that intentionally whacked this thing and it fires then Yeah, that that literally could kill a A specific gun or even a Manufacturer and I think that's what happened with honor defense And I really felt bad for the guy because he worked so hard And did everything that he felt was right and his gun did fire with a mallet in the back and Yes, the honor guard honor defense honor guard. Thanks k Yep, they weren't bad guns but it Wasn't drop safe He was willing to clean it up. He was willing to do recalls He was willing to do all that and they just the gun world just lambasted this guy and he worked so hard It wasn't like The Hudson team You know the husband and wife who they were nice people. I met them. They were nice people They were just in over their head and they made some bad investments and couldn't couldn't Swim out of the deep end And so they sank and then thankfully Well, I don't even know if they were involved whoever owned the patent was purchased by DD Daniel defense All right, so we have some people out here. Good to see everybody 82 people in the chat right now I appreciate each and every one of you This is my my fourth chat. Like I said, it's been about a month and a half since I did this And I ideally I was going to do about once a month But life got in the way had a couple health issues with family members And uh, we got we got through the majority of that thankfully I tell you what that's when that's really when you lean on your faith And I don't know some people don't don't have faith. I have faith. I have Pretty strong godly faith. It's a big part of who I am and it means a lot and when when you hit that crisis Point where things can go any direction I find it best to lean on your faith and and to uh You know pray it's a big deal. It's a big deal people say well, all I could do is pray for you. That's the That's the best thing you could do That's the best thing you could do Hey, bro daddy. Good to see you bro daddy 1911 man. I love 1911's When when you hear somebody say oh man, come on 1911 suck You wonder if they'd ever really shot one Like if 1911's were so horrible, then why why is there this huge Amazing uprise with 2011's It's huge like the 2011's are huge that market and in this bum economy that we're living in right now that 2011 market is massive People are spending five six seven thousand dollars On a gun to get that perfect gun where they can make that perfect shot and then do it again And then do it again and then do it again It's massive and so If the 1911 so bad, then why is the super popular 2011 Flourishing Oh, we have dropping like Scott in the house. I met Scott. I met him at the NRA show Who do we have here jacob especially your gun stores? You know, I love stuff like that. I tell you what that was an editing nightmare That was a lot of editing and that's another thing for those who are going to start youtube You're ready to learn how to edit I can when I started this I could barely turn the computer on I came from that age where You know, they said well computers are going to be a part of the future and we were like, yeah Yeah, yeah, yeah, I believe it when I see it. I said one day you're gonna Hang a tv on the wall. Yeah, believe it when I see it all that came true I remember my dad was a tv salesman for zenith And when he came home one day And the neighbors heard this was going to happen He came home. He had this box pulls his tv on the box puts it on the stand He goes everybody watch next thing, you know, the neighbors are pounding on the door Hey, we want to see come on in come on in this was back when neighbors actually talk to each other And they knew their names and they knew their kids and they knew what they did for a living And they would have outdoor barbecues together Something that the american society does not do much anymore So they would all come in to see what my dad was up to he turned that tv on And it had color And everybody was like Whoa I can see red And blue and they're looking at each other like this is modern technology And it was and a couple years after that my dad came home and the same thing happened And all the neighbors came over same ones and plus more because he was the man who had the information on the tv's He goes everybody watch this Took it right on the box watch this had remote about this big He hit the button and the tv went on And people were blown away They were blown away. They couldn't believe it. They go. You don't have to get up to change the tv Oh, he's a lot. He raised the volume a little bit and people were like, whoa modern technology is amazing And so I I grew up at a time when you know, somebody would have told me I would have been Making videos for a lot of people to see I would have said, you know, wow, no, why would I do that? Who would do that? but Here I am Get there gary Thanks, buddy. Yeah, man When people say hey All I could do is pray I tell them that's the best thing you could do by far Travis is here Hey, thanks Travis rock on yourself, brother And then we have over here Joe morse keeping on my brother in christ. You got that right All right, and and and you could be a brother in christ And we could all be brothers and sisters in christ But there's a difference between when people say, well, can't you just give god one Hour of your week. Oh if I gave god one hour of my week, I would be empty I would be I would know what to do I give Much more than that much more than that So anyways getting back to guns and ammo the one the one of the reviews that I did that did horrible I was like, I don't understand why I get I get the whole Fantastic plastic I get it people are sick of fantastic plastic. They say Why why do I want another striker fire palmer 9 millimeter 17 round mag? I get it. I have that I have a glock. I have an m&p. I have a Ruger americans. I have I have my gun. I don't I don't need any more I understand but the couple with one In what I'm talking about is the gear sign disruptor gear sign really made a name for themselves They really are Like putting out some pretty good stuff. We could talk about the origin of gear sign. We could talk about The factory we could talk about all sort of stuff. The fact is people are buying them And they're buying them because they are budget priced How do you suppose torus came out of that dark place and you want to talk about Drop fires and mist fires and all types of things going on with torus And they were they were dark torus was to be avoided years ago torus was if you're just getting into this and you say, oh I love my torus. Keep in mind. There was a time when torus was The devil okay, just horrible stay away from torus Some people still feel that way the reason they still feel that way is Either because they had poor customer service or They remember back in the day when torus was but they came back by one producing Better functioning firearms, but they priced them to sell the pt 111 The handgun before the g2c the g3c the pt 111 was the one That really put torus back on the map And then what happened was They did it and then they did it again Then they came out the gx4 then they came out the g3 Where then the g3 tactical and they kept building on that same platform And then when they came out with the 10 millimeter that one shocked me a lot And that one I I struggled with to get working properly, but then after I would say after three or four boxes it started functioning better, but Taurus kept the foot on the pedal and kept moving forward because then they came out with all the revolvers If you look at their line of revolvers It's pretty Expansive. I mean they they have everything from the big 44 magnum the massive ones rail optic ready that big ugly grip to the little pocket carries And typically those Those perform pretty well. I mean I have an ultralight defender with a three inch barrel and a night sight. It's pretty cool But it's It's the budget guns that one get new people into the shooting world to It's less on the wallet. So even if you do have a big collection, you say I can't get hurt too bad with this I mean, it's not that expensive. It's not like I'm going and getting a sig 226 Legion So it's it's the budget guns that People tend to gravitate toward especially if they don't have Anything and they their wife is saying well, you keep saying you want to buy a gun. You better not spend over $300 They're going to buy a Taurus But they're going to buy a diamond back or they're going to buy Something that is cheap and get cheap gear son and that that mc9 disruptor review Review I did tanked Tanked meal hunter says he likes rock island. Yeah rock island. It's it's good One of the reasons why rock island is cheap and I know they're doing some u.s production But they literally have 13 year old kids in the philippines assembling 1911's like they They they have like really cheap labor and and those kids I wouldn't want to put my skills up against them because they'd probably blow me away when they Whip those those things up, but that's like you're talking about the philippines here and Any one of us could quit our job now pack up our savings go to the philippines and live like kings You could have a chef you could have a big beautiful house You could drive wherever you want you could have all this stuff, but I don't want to live in the philippines I want to live in the u.s But I don't want to live in the u.s with I mean I don't well I take that back. I want to live in the u.s But I can't stand our stupid nonsensical dementia president And one thing people say well, we don't we don't think Biden is you know people are wondering if he's Fit for all if he's mentally fit Hello Where people are wondering if he's mentally fit. He's not mentally fit he's lost and On top of that let's say he is mentally fit look at these policies that drove this country to a Just a disastrous state it was never like this and this is the first time we're having New presidents Run against each other That were back to back this has never happened before it back to back so we saw the trump economy Now we see the biden economy, which is a disaster If if biden did nothing and stayed in the basement we would be in a better situation But he didn't do that He started putting in all these liberal policies and spending our money On places that shouldn't go like illegal mexicans getting Getting credit cards getting expenses getting health care getting education getting free plane tickets getting everything They need and yet they want to tax you more. I could never vote for that Don't forget the wonderful commie governor. Yeah Uh, you're right me. Oh, and I uh, I they're mile. It's mile. It's not meal He lives up a mile. Um You're right and I spoke earlier that my wife and I and daughter we we are We're looking to move to ohio And we're looking to do it soon And when we do it It'll be uh It'll be a More free experience Especially with guns, but but ohio is way more conservative than michigan michigan's turned into A place I just don't live anymore. Obama controls biden if that doesn't scare the daylights out of you I don't know what will I don't know what will so it's It's it's bad. You know, this this is a guy that left thousands And thousands of high-end rifles With first-class optics the kindly you and I would say this one's staying with me for life with these Incredible accessories everything was perfect left it for terrorists left it for terrorists and yet Don't trust you with it And you're looking at some of these illegal coming over the crime in those cities. Oh my goodness Or they're bullying some of the local residents squatting in their homes all types of stuff It's it's it's horrible It's horrible. Here we have lee TAB still in the house bill Midwest Good to see everybody I'm wondering if eight o'clock's a good time to do these or a little bit later would be better. I don't know Biden is just a puppet censored one said yeah, and it's it's really a shame because This guy has big decisions to make and he has no clue. He just He just out there. He never he was never great as a senator You know, but it's not until he was in this role to you. Do you see how corrupt he actually was? He's bikes corrupt. I mean trumps going through all these All these indictments Biden is pulling the switches on these the justice department is involved with these it's It's pretty bad So anyways, let's get back to some guns and ammo. They play out there use siley optics Or go tar Or or how about cv life? When I was at shot, I went to cv life and They they've been wanting to send me stuff for years. I was like, yeah, thanks, but no thanks You know, they make bipods. They make they make precision rifle scopes I never shot one precision rifle scope. I I feel like I was gonna spend the money to get a real nice precision rifle I wouldn't get a a cheap scope Like that's that's 50 of the deal right there if I'm gonna be successful with a great rifle I need to have a great scope 50 power And I would never get a cv life, but they have pistol optics. They have decent bipods That are like 40 bucks, but they I was checking them out and I was like Trying to figure flaws in them and I really couldn't do it So I was I was thinking man, I make I may give one of these a try and See how it goes. Maybe even do a review on it. Who knows? You know Yeah, I hear you k. Yeah, he does that He Yeah, just yesterday said his uncle was eaten by people in one of the One of the wars that he was eaten by people said it twice Really real a real joker I don't know Anything else to talk about people? We got Lee in the house And put in the chat what your favorite 1911 is And and also put in the chat if if you like nine millimeter 1911's and the reason I ask that Is because your standard 45 acp 1911 is Seven rounds is original eight rounds a little extended but the nine millimeter magazine Is nine rounds So you're only gaining one round and that's a big advantage with some of these double stacks That you get so many rounds nine millimeter compared to 45, but a single stack 1911 You're looking at Only one additional round In that case, I'd choose the 45 TAB says any 1911 brude says cold gold cup national match. That's just screams quality TNM diecast reviews. He likes his kimber Aaron says he can't afford one ammo is cheaper But don't have one. Yeah Well, the the 2011's are on them Did you ever sell your pistols? Let me answer this? Let me see if I got the right one here Oh, no, that's a 1911 Joel that that sounds awesome Uh, let's see Do you ever sell your pistols? Yeah Yeah, I do on occasion Um, if they if they sit there and do nothing Then I do because somebody out there Needs to be armed and they don't have Either the money or the knowledge to go get anything decent And yes, I will sell them my pistol If I don't use it if I don't if it just sits there and Over time I have several that just sit there Uh Let's see Thank you for for that held 10 rounds. Yeah, and I have those mechar mags too the 10 round ones. I actually have a I have a remington r1 limited that holds Is it 15 rounds? I think it's 15 rounds of 45. The thing is awesome It is awesome Yeah Really dig that Yeah, I'm 19 the tesis 1911. I would like to check out their new 2011 That thing looks awesome. We're here. We have dragon in the house. Welcome board, brother dragon the regular viewer commenter On the channel certainly appreciate that Yeah, but that's another one tesis You know the px nine I've got the px nine tactical night stalker that thing is a That's such a nice gun and it's it's rmr cut it's It's a good it's it's just got a great trigger Super nice to shoot accurate threaded barrel gray sericote frame and slide just a nice gun That it's not that expensive that one's a little bit expensive, but not not too bad Not too bad at all tesis is is they're doing some good stuff. They're imported by sds imports Out of noxville, tennessee, I believe It's not nashville. It's noxville. Yeah Yes, that is correct We have travis here pair ordnance. Yeah pair ordnance acquired by remington Actually, there are some of the parts on my r1 limited 1911 It it says p0 on there so When they you know the remington the remington handguns are gone they're still they're still producing rifles and Shotguns they they basically went back to the roots. They got rid of Well, clearly the marlin line and their ammo line Um, I don't know if anybody picked up their handguns. I haven't seen or heard a of anything like that but um they They had they had some some flops And then they had some decent Handguns and their 1911s were actually pretty nice. They're they weren't super tight they they weren't flawless, but they were 650 bucks And they had the g10 they had the stainless and the blued models and all that stuff But they worked well And they had the fiber optic front sights and everything so Uh, no dwayne. I'm fine I sound like i'm down. No, if I sound like i'm down it's because we're just talking about biden So everything's fine here yeah, I don't mean to To make it sound like no to actually kind of over an hour here and Just hanging out talking to everybody uh what I say E-watt says he has the uh He says duty feels cheap in the hand compared to his rock island But shoots better and cycles great and never failed after seven. Yeah that Those those were nice and I believe the duty has the the threaded barrel and possibly night sights i'm not sure That's about a $370 gun you get a lot for the money with that That's pretty cool Well fellas We're going to hour four now I'll take a look at the chat desert eagle 1911 you yeah, I have that that is awesome That's got a three inch barrel Yep Just could you have the The stainless or the the blued model I've got the stainless That's uh, that's a Really nice. It is what they say seven rounds seven rounds 45 yep What we have here libra says I got the law enforcement ruger american duty 45 Yeah, that underwood stuff is serious Not your normal 45 round But we're 45 should be Yes, I have I have that same one But it's mine's not Designated law enforcement. I've got the gray model that came seraco from the factory Uh, let's see fluffy says still going Well, where to go What do you say? Right here Dan's still going to try to get a meet and greet And shackle in this year Um, you're doing that fluffy Are you doing a meet and greet? That would be cool I never played on doing it Tanfolio witness long long slide from the 90s. Oh man. I bet that thing is awesome Uh, let's see We got lance kelly lance comments on every single video And that is uh, even my even some of my uh My real duds That's another thing I started off by talking about youtube get ready because even you could try your hardest and The ones that you think will do well don't and the ones that You think are going to do horrible do awesome I'm going to explain it Uh the wing Good job. I have a gear sign regard uses bread. Yeah, I I I had that I got rid of that No issues can't find factory 18 round Yeah, go with uh mechgar Pretty sure they make that with the plus two base plate Yeah mechgar mechgar makes great mags they work with sig I think sig may have dropped them to start going on their own because Mechgar will will typically stamp their mags mechgar But if they have contracts not to do that then They will Not do that. I mean they they're business like any others. They have to make their money What else do we have going on here? Just put bear creek arsenal, you know bear creek just came out with a grizzly they call it the grizzly it's a Glock pattern handgun. So all the people that say I'm so sick of fantastic plastic Compact palmer striker fire. There are a diamond dozen Are you also sick of the Glock pattern? handguns coming out And If you are I get it It could be exhausting But the grizzly msrp is around 360 bucks That's budget priced and it has slide cuts and it's optic ready So all those people Who said These budget handguns i'm not talking turkish made i'm not talking Made overseas with cheap labor and parts and mem parts and everything else They said if if these companies that are us based can Make a handgun itself for 350 bucks How bad has Glock been ripping us off all these years? And i've heard that a lot And i'm not saying they're wrong But the only way you get ripped off is if you Are the type And i expect this but if you're the type that's going to buy like every single Glock out there And then get sights and then get a trigger then get a steel guide rod Then get extended takedown then get your grip stippled and then this and that and this like it adds up So yeah the the five The five hundred dollar Glock new is gone It's the Well the mo s versions are over six hundred dollars What do we have here dale said Every other gun related channels experiencing the same issue with the comments. Yes YouTube is dropping people subscriptions. Yes And so you have to check to see if you are still subscribed. Yes. Thank you Dale I have had multiple people and this is not just recently. This has been going on a long time multiple people Tell me that They were once subscribed and no longer are And they know for fact they did not unsubscribe me the Wayne Bear Creek Arsenal we're just talking about it check those out um, and they have side chargers for Which is nice because charging handle won't get in the way of your optic if you're running a decent size optic But yes youtube has is having issues with the comments They're having issues. Well, I don't know if they're having issues. I don't know if what's going on there, but They are unsubscribing people I I don't like we kind of say it's happening only to gun channels Not that's not true all the time But I do believe there is a little target on our back that part I I do agree with I think that's I I I'm not sure they value us, but they're they're they still Allow us to feature pretty freely The content that we want to feature so in that regard they've superseded expectations from 10 years ago or so It has the right size charging our four mississippi thunders YouTube is changing notification status as well I didn't hear that Uh, yeah, youtube is always changing something some for the good some not good There are people that well some of the the Most popular youtube channels will say you need to take advantage of every single Opportunity that youtube offers so channel memberships if you were on my chat Last time I talked about opening up channel memberships. I never did that yet. I don't have patreon I I don't like the idea of asking people For money All right. I I don't like that idea, but at the same point There are things that you can do And and actually make a little side community with your members And that seems Pretty cool. And so I was going to do that And I never did perhaps I should I don't know last time I asked people if they were if anybody wouldn't be interested in joining And a lot of people said they would have you seen the sig sour equinox? 1911 I've seen a ton of sig 1911's. I'm not sure if I saw the equinox I'm wondering what would make that any different Uh Gun tests magazine nick nox says Look where'd it go Gun tests magazine. I remember seeing a uh online version if that's what you're talking about Smash time dan are you starting only fans? I really don't even know what only fans is But uh to answer your question smash. Yes. Yes, I'm starting only fans Whatever that is Sounds sounds kind of perverted in a way. Sure it is All right. I have a bca side charger gen two 20 inch here. Haven't shot it yet. Oh, that's cool fluffy That's really cool so that's one thing that's cool too is that the the variety of firearms that people have you know when when I feature a gun a lot of people say yeah, that looks fine everything, but I'm not I'm not giving up my so-and-so and you know It's just something that maybe you haven't thought about in a while or you know, I have this and I like I like the what you're showing, but I like mine more because it has this well, that's cool I read all of those so if you're ever wondering if People actually read your comments. I do Too early Dan still driving home. Well, you made it Yeah, next time I might start this at nine. Who knows I was going to do this about once a month spent about once every well A month and a half since I've done it last But I don't know guys. Is it time to wrap it up? I believe so fluffy, okay All right. Well, I'm going to wrap it up here guys I certainly enjoyed hanging out and spend some time with you Still have some things coming up some things you haven't seen before others maybe a comparison or two The yeah, I've got to get to the range and do some things check out some new things, but I do plan to keep one foot forward and just keep moving I originally talked about youtube and how you get kicked down a little bit, but you keep taking one step forward two steps back I've been doing that for years and years and years two step one step back is never fun But yeah, use all your might you can to take those two two steps forward next thing, you know You're a little further than you thought you would be and You know, it's never to a point where you're like, oh things are so great. Oh You know, some people may be that way. I'm not But it's there's always room for improvement and finding out what that improvement means and what sacrifices you have to do to to make that happen and learning about it and trying to get better and trying to to be a better demonstrator and Use words more proficiently as well as shoot. Well, it could be challenging It could be challenging You never quite have it But you can never ever ever stop trying And as long as you're sacrificing and putting forth effort Your works will pay off and I say that very confidently And I also say that with a lot of experience Failure is good If you learn from it Failure is bad If you're a snowflake and you pack up and take your ball and go home and go cry to mommy and ask grandma for ice cream that's where You're not going to advance in this world because as bad as the government is This is still america It's the land of opportunity It's not the land of entitlement Some people have that backwards. It's the land of opportunity. How do you get your opportunity? Through hard work Sacrifice learn from your mistakes Keep moving forward Don't take no for an answer Get through that wall climb over that wall dig a tunnel underneath that wall But you get to the other side and you will find success Just in time To do it all over again because this is a journey Called life and you never want to Retire from it because you'll expire from it and if you expire from it start digging your own grave But if you can keep moving forward and keep the eye on the ball Stay focused be willing to sacrifice Get kicked and then fall down and get your butt back up Keep moving forward and you will be exactly Where you want it to be from the very beginning It's called goal setting and you never ever ever quit. I've certainly enjoyed this chat I hope you guys have too. I appreciate each and every person that was here You guys are amazing. You keep me motivated And I just want to express my appreciation For every single one of you who have been so dedicated To this channel. I'm not the firearm guy We are the firearm guy We're respectful, but yet we're resilient And we will bicker about our issues But in the end, we're all on the same team Have a good night. God bless you and I'll see you with the next video