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Glad to see your back running your cack holster again!

Who said I have 10 round mags, f uck face?

Seems like a great guy. And he reviews some nice stuff. Shoots pretty good too.

But watching his videos are like going shopping for fishing equipment. It's about stuff I like doing, but it's NOT doing what I like.

I look at his channel and sometimes watch a part of a video. Til he gets to the table and starts talking. If he'd keep all his videos under 10 minutes he'd be better.

TnBigBore;
Good morning to you sir, I hope that your part of the world is getting the weather you're needing and that all who matter to you are well.

Thanks for the post and for confirming both the nature and size of the chap in the videos.

Sometimes I've found, like many things I've found it the hard way, folks who do video reviews might be more helpful if they'd start it with, "Oh by the way I can palm a basketball with these mitts!"

Now for sure and certain at 5'6" I'm no giant, but usually buy medium or large gloves - yes "men's" gloves too for those of you inclined to be unkind to short folks.

I purchased a ZT folding knife one time based on the online review of such a chap and when it got here I was somewhat surprised at how big it really was.

Then too, I recall reading a rifle review by Brian Pierce where he was in the picture and it appeared to be carbine sized. When I asked our resident gun writer John Barsness just how tall Brian might be, he confirmed my suspicions that he's not a small man and then the photo made more sense.

Anyways, all that to say when I started watching Hickock45 and saw some of the pistols I've shot look very different in his hands, I suspected he was not a smallish fellow.

Thanks again and all the best to you all.

Dwayne

I covet his range set up.

Had something similar in an earlier life and miss it.

I guess his fans disagree with you. Have you noticed his subscription numbers?

I wouldn't award the expert marksmanship badge for the shooting demo in that video clip.

Haven't watched all of his stuff, but from what I have seen he lives by the motto "If you can't say something nice about a gun, don't say anything at all." He seems never to have met a gun he didn't like. Not that there's anything wrong with that.

Not true. He says what he likes and what he doesn't like about every gun he reviews, and will not accept firearms from manufacturers for review so he will not feel beholden to them.

That was Jeff Quinn, RIP.

Hickok45's videos are entertaining, mostly because of his gentlemanly personality, and somewhat informative. I'm never all that enthralled by watching someone else shoot but at least he does give some history and various info about the firearms. The worst videos are just some guy shooting for 20 minutes without saying much of anything about the firearm, and the very worst ones are the amateurs with a new gun who post vids of themselves shooting their new toy and being very obvious about not knowing much about it or about firearms in general - or video production values.



In unrelated news - don't comment much on youtube and even then mostly to thank someone for making a good video but had to make a comment about a guy reviewing a motorcycle I was interested in. He never gave any info at all on the bike, he just stuck a Go-Pro on the handlebar and subjected the viewer to 10 minutes of driving down some highway while he kept saying how "awesome!" the bike was. "Oh man, this is awesome!" "This thing really corners f*ckin' awesome!" Please, at least video yourself crashing so we'd have something to laugh about.

By definition a Frontier Six Shooter is a 44-40....not a 45.

Who said it was a 45?

I'll say nothing at all..

Here's a full video where it is specifically stated at the 12:26 mark to be a 44-40. Before that he had said it was "44 caliber".

As for not accepting firearms from mfrs for review, that's certainly to his credit but still seems that he's very positive about every gun I've seen him review. Undoubtedly I have too small a sample size to have seen those which he didn't like.

Amen.

I.have to admit, about the only time I watch him is when TRH posts one of his reviews. He seems like a nice, easy-going guy who, unlike a lot of i’net personalities, doesn’t pretend to be something he’s not. Beyond that, I’ve no idea if he’s a good shot (of what kind???). I do admire the guy, he seems to be making a pretty good living pretty much just having fun.

Guessing that the large majority of his fans are occasional shooters. And there's really nothing wrong with that. I'm trending that way myself. It's Tuesday afternoon and I haven't fired a shot this calendar week, as of yet.
But I'm 63 years old and began shooting when I was 7. I get bored easily watching someone compare grip shapes and sizes in detail.

When I first found the videos by Paul Harrell, I though he had a lot of good content. He seems to have run out of stuff to say. But he's still talking...

Rather spend 10 minutes at the dirt pile shooting than an hour of watching stale videos, but that's just my take...

I still click on both Hickok and Harrell every couple of weeks to see if they've got anything compelling. 10 minutes or so between them generally catches me up sufficiently...

not all of them

I would agree...but hen, most gun owners are casual shooters. People into it with the intensity of many (most?) here wouldn’t find too much in-depth content in what he does...just see a particular gun get fired and a brief, “Here’s what I like/don’t like about this gun.” There’s probably a lot more money to be made catering to the new/casual gun owner than to us.

The ones he was shooting appear to be between 5-10yds.