Almost impossible to find a good YouTuber when it comes to guns but Garand Thumb is one of the exceptions.

Opinions on the army sig Flave?

I like some of his content. I get his sense of humor, though I could do with a bit less of that and he does ramble off topic quite a bit. Is he a PJ in the Air Force? That frozen pistol test doesn't mean much to the average guy in the real world but it was fun to watch. Nice to see the M&P do so well.

Always check out Garand Thumb when he puts up a new video. I'll watch him and TFB TV over most others.

I can't take a guy seriously who always wears a combat helmet to the range. Wannabe commando douchebag is what I see.

He's no Hickok45!!!

I don’t think he’s a wannabe, he trains with his gear, isn’t that what you’re supposed to do?

He’s a little different but I like his video’s.

I take the helmet as PPE no different than glasses. Given he was testing pistols frozen and just arms reach away from his head - probably a good idea. Lest a slide come flying back and clip you.

Seriously

Garand Thumb is without a doubt my favorite gun guy on YouTube.

Some good content on his videos.

Should limit comedy ATTEMPTS to one per video.

Needs Zero-Three haircut, so that he can stop fussing with his unkempt do.

Why are hardhats worn in warehouses, construction sites, heavy equipment, road crews and forestry, etc.?

Headaches from hard surfaces.

Yeah I'm sure you're a much tougher guy with much more experience.

LOL

Yeah he's got some good stuff on his channel.

He just seems to take himself a bit too seriously, but everyone has different tastes.

A gun review is pretty simple and straight forward. Hickock works for me, I like his laid back style.

Watching HIckok is like watching paint dry

Cannot stand Hickock.

Am neutral on G thumb.

TFB TV for the win.

LOL

Feel free to start a DumbCock 45 thread.

I've never had any contact with that particular model but I'm a fan of the 320 in general.

I'm really not into youtube gun channels, I'll let you take care of that.

I'd say that's pretty obvious.

I can't get into Hickok. Just seeing him shoot soda bottles - meh

No wonder boomers are disregarded around here. Mas wears a hair hat as his ppe and you are cool w/ that.

LOL



mike r

GT is a great channel, really entertaining. It’s meant to be entertaining and it’s probably aimed at a younger demographic than most of the folks present.

And he’s not a wannabe commando - I believe he’s USAF special forces.

I have watched a couple Buffalo vids, or whatever hes called.
Laid back dude but not the sleep inducer like Hickok.
Thought Buffalos vids were tolerable.

I watched Paul Harrel for a while, but have basically lost interest. He seems to have run out of ideas, or money, or maybe both. He is pretty much down to just making videos of him shooting offhand paper targets and bags of oranges with viewer-donated ammo.

I tend to become interested in the subject more than the person. So I watch some of all, but not all of any one.

Some of the content of Garand Thumb seems tongue and cheek, meant in good humor.

Many people have not experienced or experimented. YouTube can be useful for them to a degree.

Tfb is good.

Cannot stand the Yankee marshal.

Only by you, you stupid fugk.

Lol.

Good God.

That dude is awful.

LOL

I do like TFB.

His Pop Tarts ads at the start of his latest videos are kinda funny. But everything else is... yeah, really just plinking at paper and bags of oranges.

His videos kinda made me depressed.

LOL

Side note, does anybody know what’s being credited as bringing in more gun enthusiasts than any other?

GT was a SERE instructor, that’s cool.

Liberal politicians in State Gov.

🦫

Gaming has to be near the top.

That "Wannabe commando douchebag" is an actively serving USAF Special Warfare TACP officer that started as an enlisted guy. If you are not familiar, TACPs work within SEAL, Ranger, Army SF and other white SOF units and call fire, and generally handle their precision airstrike and close air support needs.

Since he is a "wannabe commando", please feel free to tell us about your time in the military, or time as a sworn certified police officer..

I've enjoyed all the Garand Thumb vids I've watched. Informative and entertaining. He puts a lot of effort into making quality content. I'm glad that people of his experience are sharing online.

I also like Pat McNamara's content. Good stuff.

Pat Mac is a good dude.

Likewise. Now that every huckleberry who owns a gun and a cell phone thinks he can be an internet authority on all things firearms, the antis have a large library of crap from which to stereotype the rest of us. It's nice to see quality content being offered for consumption.

Go back and read my earlier posts; I have already covered that.

Okay.
Lol

In reality a gun review is just a passing along a gun's specifications, and usually some shooting results.

Anybody could do that. But it's the personality of the individual is what makes or breaks a gun vid (in my opinion). I never got the impression that GT takes himself too serious. To me he seems to have a good sense of humor, but he does take his interest in firearms seriously.

Having nearly 2 million subscribers on his channel is a good indicator that a lot of folks enjoy his style of presentation, and appreciate him sharing his knowledge and experience..

LOL!!!
Hickcock45....
Never really veiwed his vids for more than a few mins.
Lame.....
One day I just did some google fu on him.
Hollow shell Bio.
Spent his entire life in academia and that time line was easy to read into and put his self serving interest together for my way of seeing things.
Dude is the ultimate mooch IMO.
Ammo, soda,s, clay pots...😆😆😆

Anyways I hit him 3 times with comments on 3 different vids of his one day inside of an hour doing a test run to see how thick his skin was.

#1 was some foriegn pistol he was " reveiwing"
Shoots low
Blah blah blah blah.
Low low low....
Manufacturer needs to fix this shooting low issue
Blah blah blah blah ..

I made a comment

It's a 3 dot combat sight picture for that pistol Zippy.
You should know that in your "expertise"

He replied inside of 15 mins making excuses they need to adapt to US shooters and no one uses a combat sight picture here

Big ole cock sticking outta his forehead moment...
Dont even know if he realized that....


#2 He was talking off hand about some rifle and deer hunting.
Mentioned shooting blind stuff and reach out factor to kill deer.

I hit him.
Please dude your probably like most any TN private land deer hunter shooting slickheads off your corn feeder anyways.

He lost it that one.
How dare you tell me how I hunt on my private land "slick"..
Blah blah blah this
Blah blah blah that.
Never said he didn't bait.
Responded in less than 10 mins this time.

In my mind confirmed....


#3 was the capstone event...
Totally confirmed ole Hickock45 has thin skin....

He had his cowboy outfit on playing the role shooting some revolver.


I hit him.

Having childhood flashbacks to Howdy Doody and Buffalo Bob show now???
And put in a buncha 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

He replied inside of 2 or 3 mins on that one.
Obviously had his attention..
All he said was...

I dont know what your problem is " slick"...

I responded back to him.

Sears dont sell tough skin jeans anymore????


Crickets after that....
😄😄😄😄



Ever since when I'm surfing firearms related vids .
Ole Thin skin Hickock45 vids don't seem to appear at all outta the blue like they always used too for some reason 😄😄😄
Guess he can't take being poked.......
Poor little fella......
😄😄😄😄😄

Hickock does prattle on a lot. I've enjoyed some of his vids, but often times I'll set the play speed to 2X, just to get through it faster.

I like Garand Thumb. I have always thought the combat helmet thing was (usually, not always) part of his humor and joking style, as he has made fun of the tactical wannabe gamer crowd before.

He is about the only gun guy I will watch on the ‘tube.
The freezing water and mud tests on rifles was good. My feelers were hurt concerning how the M1A/M14 fared, but I got over it.

I can't see how anyone would/could expect a firearm to function with water inside and freezes into ice.

Stones thrown by a "gunwriter" how fitting...

I've had the opportunity to watch and compete with some very good shooters. One guy in particular made GM with a RIA 1911 beating nearly everyone along the way, finishing third in Nationals a few years ago. His skills are phenomenal and he can explain things so even I can understand. This guy can shoot anything well and when he talks, everyone listens. This is the kind of guy I want to watch and learn from.

Then there are guys that buy high dollar custom pistols and cool toys that can't shoot and try and do reviews. Who cares?

GT is a guy that I would take a class from. I won't even watch Hickcock's videos.

And I won’t buy a gun rag either.

BWAHAHA!!!

You Win Dude

Youtube reviewers just stumpin for clicks. Some people think that crap is somehow important...hahahaha.

I don’t think the intent of the ice test was necessarily done with the expectation that guns could still function when completely full of ice. Rather, how reliable they are at keeping water (and thus, ice after it freezes) out of the critical places, due to part quality, tolerances and overall design. Not to mention which actions had enough force with “normal” loads to break ice seals on moving parts, the ejection port, etc.

I can't see water not getting in any place that isn't sealed. Frozen solid enough ice is super strong.

I do believe that this did benefit some people. I've seen ice crush steel

Me neither, and that isn’t the point (I think).
The point was which actions/trigger systems are designed best to minimize the amount of water that gets in and freezes, or which had the best overall design to break the ice seal when the trigger is pulled, the gun is fired and the action cycles.

Garand Thumb totally acknowledged it was a very unscientific and informal test. I too thought it had value, despite not being under very controlled circumstances. It also wasn’t terribly cold so deep freezes could definitely skew his results.

Uhhh, no you didn't.

Start at 25:55.

Correct.

For those interested, here's one of his more sincere gun reviews:

I like the intro action. Looks he's getting jocked-up for a run to Walmart, after dark.

Fugk yeah!

LOL

One of his better videos:

Bring back FPS Russia.

You mean the former U.S. Navy SEAL and RECE instructor... now AF Base Security Officer?

You go girl.




GR

Former Navy Seal?
Source?

i remember back in the late 80s/early 90s there was a guwriter who did an article on the MP 5 all duded up like a cheezy 80s movie spook with his MP%K in a briefcase. all kinds of every day dudes gonna use that info

Fugkin' guy is funny.

LOL

Hiccup doesn't do 5000 round review.

Hickock makes me want to pound my dick with a 2x4. It'd be less painful and more productive.

Kyle, while nowadays in the Witness Relocation Program (or maybe just drunk, I dunno) is among my favorites.

I’ve run into him a few times on post. He’s actually a pretty nice guy and was nothing but professional. His name is Mike.

Seems to be a true patriot.

I wouldn't want to be his neighbor. In that second video the background in the last sequence has a lot of buildings downrange.

Kyle is on PKA podcast.
Watched a few, dunno if a reg or what ( seems to be ).

Common knowledge.

This is after his AF commission and subsequent SOSFS gig.




Been followin' this guy since he was a tadpole.






GR

Roddy steps on his little clitty again.
Lol

Bullshit, he was never a Navy Seal and has never claimed to be a Navy Seal.
You're FOS, but we knew that.

He may not be a seal but you are without doubt a pussy.
That means you no wall roddy.

You're slow, borderin' on retarded.






GR

Plastic?

I mean, polymer, economical firearms?

Because nothing else is being made stateside right now....

He is, or was, in the Air Force. Last I checked the Navy Seals were in the NAVY. You show us pictures of him in his Air Force uniform as if that's proof he is, or was a Seal.
Like I said, you are are FOS. But keep digging retard.

DelFarve: Have you lost your mind and become a small twig wannabe???
WTF - a 29 minute video on how to freeze a pistol in ice and then go hunting zombies!
Again WTF are you thinking???
I have been shooting pistols both professionally and privately for nearly 60 years and I have NEVER had to shoot or want to shoot or needed to shoot an iced up pistol!
Not ONCE.
And I have never heard of anyone needing to do so.
I am beginning to question your sanity, motives, mental acuity, motivation and personality.
17 seconds of that video was more than enough for me.
I am going Hunting today and taking my well cared for and NOT frozen stainless steel heavy barrel Ruger MK-II with red dot sight and my Browning BuckMark with heavy barrel and red dot sight.
I fully expect that at the end of today they will have accounted for 40 to 50 of my quarry and they will DEFINITELY not be frozen, iced up dunked in water, kicked around etc etc etc.
Sheesh and WTF?
In my opinion ANYONE who would intentionally abuse a firearm is untrustworthy.
Hold into the wind
VarmintGuy

The 1301 is growing on me. Garand Thumb does a good job here of breaking it down and comparing it to the Benelli M4. Supposedly, the action is faster than an M4.