General GunTuber thread

[ChampFantana]

I realized I'm the same way (read: old) when I looked at my favorite two gun channels: ForgottenWeapons and Paul Harrel. Man talks about thing for 26 minutes, 2 minutes of very interesting shooting. Kino.

Too bad Paul is dead. Roy does his best, god bless him.

I gave up on FW years ago when it became obvious that Ian had run out of interesting videos long ago.

Paul was the very best of them all, and his passing has left a void that even his brother can't fully fill.

I DO really appreciate Roy though, and he is one of only 3 Guntubers I actually subscribe to.

 

[Zyklon C]

I gave up on FW years ago when it became obvious that Ian had run out of interesting videos long ago.

I think Ian still does interesting videos these days, but only when he has some genuinely forgotten/rare weapon and not some "Hey look, a gun designed in Croatia and being made under licence by Springfield!" kind of crap. Probably explains why these days I miss a fair amount of FW videos compared to when there was a time I probably watched every single available minute of footage that involved Ian, from his channel or otherwise.

Nothing lasts forever, I suppose.

 

[kingfollett]

Ian has a newish diving channel, I think someone already mentioned it in this thread.
I’m not a diver, but I follow cave diving online, for reasons that are hard to explain.
So I have id say an above average knowledge, albeit entirely theoretical, of some topics.
One of Ian’s videos looked like it was advocating full face masks (maybe it was just clickbait to be fair).
I’d never heard any serious cave diver talk about them, so I was curious, after about 1 minute of googling it became apparent that they have some limited niches, such as nasty water, but the downsides tend to outweigh any benefits for the majority of people.

The point I guess is that kind of soured me on him, I think he’s more in the read others materials and summarize category than the actual expert category in some, maybe many, areas.

for another example, his video on USFA revolvers (which I know a bit about, and have owned a handful), compared to Brian Pearce’s video (who extensively talked at the time to the people involved, has owned many, developed loads, rechambered a couple 44 spls to 44 mag after his testing showed they could handle it, etc) was a good contrast to me.

I don’t dislike him, but skip a lot of videos that look to me like they’re more just, here’s a weird gun, here’s some facts about it I googled

 

[PP Police]

I think Ian still does interesting videos these days, but only when he has some genuinely forgotten/rare weapon and not some "Hey look, a gun designed in Croatia and being made under licence by Springfield!" kind of crap. Probably explains why these days I miss a fair amount of FW videos compared to when there was a time I probably watched every single available minute of footage that involved Ian, from his channel or otherwise.

Nothing lasts forever, I suppose.

I miss the videos where he'd spend 20 minutes breaking down a 100 year old gun, explaining all the mechanisms and the way the action worked. There was something kino about that which I haven't really seen from him in a long time.

 

[D.I. Grim]

I’m not a diver, but I follow cave diving online
So I have id say an above average knowledge, albeit entirely theoretical, of some topics.

Sic.

I’d never heard any serious cave diver talk about them, so I was curious, after about 1 minute of googling it became apparent that they have some limited niches, such as nasty water, but the downsides tend to outweigh any benefits for the majority of people.

The point I guess is that kind of soured me on him, I think he’s more in the read others materials and summarize category than the actual expert category in some, maybe many, areas.

I don’t dislike him, but skip a lot of videos that look to me like they’re more just, here’s a weird gun, here’s some facts about it I googled