yes hicock 45 and I'm in a 10 mm
mood what did I tell
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you whoa I shot a whole magazine yes
hickcock 45 your internet shooting
companion coming to you blasting from
the hills of Middle Tennessee home of
adopted home I guess of daav
Crockett uh Johnny Cash Elvis Presley
lot of people came here and
stayed many are buried here yeah I guess
they didn't know that was going to
happen maybe if they hadn't come to
Tennessee that wouldn't have happened
actually it would wouldn't it yeah no
don't just kidding really uh anyway glad
you're here and uh uh it's it's a good
day to be out shooting and standing in
the woods again I remember some of you
were here last Sunday most of you in
fact so when I see a few new faces so
that's always good some of you are a
little funny looking but glad you're
here and I'm an expert on funny looking
right I have looked in a mirror
myself and I taught middle school and
high school for a long time I'm used
still looking at a lot of funny faces
yeah really and so were my students they
were very accustomed to looking at one
big funny face weren't they so anyway
I'm glad to see you and appreciate your
support coming here right to see a
little shooting little yaking on Sunday
I really enjoy you know weather not
withstanding it's cold today I'm not
going to complain about it if I complain
too much I just won't do it okay but I
uh
and and that's that's a topic right
there going think of it you know uh
complain about people who complain about
stuff all the
time complain once maybe and then get
over it or do something different you
really you know uh like whatever it is
whether it's something you see online
just just leave it click out uh if you
don't like it uh you ever know anybody
had a job they're always complaining you
know I talked about that before people
on a team you know with bad attitude uh
talk a letic team any kind of team oh
that that word is overused I sometimes
want to gag you know everything's a team
right corporate team but uh but uh yeah
I mean if you're really unhappy with the
the company you work for or whatever the
heck it is you can't stand somebody in
the public World their movies or their
videos or what uh news flash just don't
watch them right just just don't work
there anymore if you can't stand the
company you're working for it makes you
look stupid makes you look incompetent
it must mean you can't do any better
right you get right down to it so uh
just just bug out you know and and find
a different uh line of word or something
although you know what the deal usually
is not always but
often when these people go to a new
company guess what they do yeah they
take themselves with them they take
their attitude with them and it's not
long before that company is the worst
company in the world and that new
manager is the worst manager in the
world or president or vice president or
owner CEO whatever is the dumbest in the
world right just like the last CEO of
the last company they work for and of
the next five companies they will work
for guess what will be the case
everybody at that company will be an
idiot too you know right yeah that's
kind of way it works uh I've observed
human nature for a while I know how they
not everybody everybody's not a
troublemaker and a complainer right and
we all complain at times yeah that's
just kind of what we do you know uh it's
one thing that um I mean if you're
always happy you're really easily
satisfied with everything you're
probably not going to achieve much I
guess you know if you're too easy to
please right so so some of it's legit of
course there are some companies with
idiots working in them right and they're
you know it's not easy to be a good
manager man I've been there it's tough
uh it's tough I've had a lot of managers
I've been a manager a couple times and
it's really tough uh it's tough uh being
in management if you've not been in
management middle management especially
of any kind almost you might be really
good at what you do and uh very good
with people but when you become
responsible for a bunch of people or
department or whatever it might be
sometimes you know uh you know you could
turn into a monster you know just you're
just amazed that people especially if
you were really good at what you did
you're amazed that people don't just do
what they're supposed to do right or
they they're late on this you got to
have this report you know by next Friday
or sometime and there's people you know
like 80 well 20% of them are late on
getting that to you or something and
then it's like and you begin to realize
wow people are can be Slackers even
people you think were pretty competent
you know and just different things like
so it's a tricky business uh and then
the people uh whatever lower level
people uh and sometimes that's the best
place to be but the lower level people
uh don't fully appreciate or understand
what the pressures are on that manager
at whatever level he or she is is that
right uh because there's somebody above
them wanting this done needing this
tomorrow and that Thursday and then all
that's passed on down and they look
really bad if uh the people underneath
them are not uh fulfilling you know
their duty all that kind yall know all
that why am I even talking about but
anyway I did get off on that for some
reason why did I I don't know I just
like to Yak I guess but uh anyway yeah
10 mm got it out today and uh was doing
a video with it and it was still dirty
and and I didn't shoot it as much as I
wanted to in the video uh like I told y
all I got I I ran across a uh an ammo
can one of the bigger 50 caliber ammo
cans full of my handloads of 10 mm okay
and we were running low R I just got
some in but we're running low on 10 mm
from federal and uh just got some in but
I still have some mags load from the
other day where I was shooting some of
that in a video some of the handloads
and uh that was a pleasant surprise to
discover that ammo can it's not that I'm
that stupid or forgetful or maybe it is
but uh I load so many different
cartridges calibers and uh for so many
years and I I I told you before I have
that approach where if I'm going to load
10 mm for example I'll get all my brass
together okay where is it all and get
all my brass and get bullets and get
Prime cameras which these days I don't
do much reloading but get all my my
stuff together and convert the Press you
know to to 10 mm okay and uh so once I
do all that that's what I do for maybe a
week off and on I just load 10
millimeter for an hour or two one night
or whenever and next day or I just just
till I load through all of that
generally okay and put it in cans or
whatever and then then move on to
something else maybe or not loading
anything for a while but you know I just
sort of do it that way often and uh you
know I shoot a fair amount of 10 but not
not I don't know maybe not as much as
some of you and uh I uh so you know I
just kind of forgot about it really I
had that had can at 10 mm it's a pretty
site I tell you uh these days to find
something like that and uh I think I
posted that picture on Instagram month
or two three ago so anyway uh 10 mm I
was in the mood to shoot this Glock 20
some more it's pretty cool you know
we've been shooting the uh Springfield
uh Ronin in 10 mm that is a nice pistol
we did a couple of videos with it you'll
be seeing that and uh a little
comparison and I had this out got it
dirty so before I clean it out I wanted
to shoot it some more didn't really
shoot that much in that that video and
uh so that's why I have the GL o 20 out
really really nice us and keep us going
can I shoot again yeah well and then of
course taling grips you know I don't
have any on this yet I want to get some
of the new ones for this one I did
something different uh I need to let
them know I I put uh I I well really
this is I think the only Glock I have
put this backstrap on you know the what
do they call that one with the beaver
tail on it mainly because it's a kind of
a harder kicking 10 millim big gun makes
it a little bigger it's not like I'm
going to pack it a whole lot anyway in a
pocket holster or anything so typically
I don't need those I don't get slide
bite for some reason don't know why uh
some people do with a Glock you would
think I would with the size of my hands
and everything be an old
guy but I don't I don't get slide bik
with a Glock and uh but I it it does
feel a little better and uh you I just I
kind of like that in this big old Glock
so anyway with that on there and I need
to get the correct uh uh Talon grips for
that the with the pro new Pro Series
stuff put that on there the fourth gen 4
Glocks are not as bad as the earlier
ones in terms of their their grip but
you can always improve it and uh so that
helps it out so anyway I'll get some of
those on there and uh bring that again
how's
that uh yeah I was going to shoot it can
I shoot it and then ball appreciate
Ball's help got some of that on here
get my ears in don't have any Bowa on my
ears I
hope am I uh am I recording testing yeah
I am okay so want make sure I wasn't
really talking to the trees wouldn't
that be funny if I just sat here and
shot and talked for about an hour and
then realize oh I should have turned the
camera
on you're many of you would be saying uh
no you shouldn't have you just don't
bother might be better if you don't
let's put one out at
80 all right good old
10 and how about a bowling pin with his
10 now about one back there a little
further
away who I spun him I was trying to do
that did you notice that I hope you
could tell I spun him around without him
falling over that was
intentional if you believe that I've got
some ocean front property in uh where
Arizona just sell you okay
Nevada yeah 10 mm is a is a nice round
and uh I won't say it's made a comeback
it never really go
anywhere uh it's it's just an
interesting cartridge it had a a nice
little following when it got cranking
out you know what
35 years ago well how long it's
been and uh it
uh and it's just gradually built really
it hasn't it gradually built uh for a
long time there wasn't much the Delta
Elite from Colt you had the Glock 20 and
a couple others and then you just very
slowly you would see a company add a 10
to their lineup and now uh through that
that process wow it's hard to find a
company that makes
1911s that doesn't have a 10 mm I guess
and of course you got Sig there some
nice ones and and uh Glock course has
the what three the 29 the 20 and the 40
I guess that's all right I understand
they're coming out with uh I've been
seeing I don't know if it's real a 43 or
43x and 10
mm uh I mean if that's real that's true
it' be a different model number it
wouldn't be a 43 it'd be whatever number
they give it I guess but uh I don't know
how you do that in a gun that small and
that light in 10 mm I'm not recoil
sensitive but I don't think I'd want to
shoot that with hot rounds in it when
you put some warm rounds in this what
I'll do just for a kick these are kind
those are nice loads that I'm I'm
shooting my hand loads uh they're
similar to The Standard range loads that
Federal uh loads probably not uh
probably a little hotter even but uh let
me shoot a couple of these uh always
forget what they're called the trophy
bonded rounds uh just to remind myself
I'm shooting a 10 uh but uh uh yeah I
don't I wouldn't want to fire one of
these things or even my handloads or the
standard range ammo I don't I think in a
43 and 10 mm my gosh in a Glock 43 you
know even some hot nine you you know
you're shooting a pistol don't you yeah
so so in terms of uh not that I couldn't
do it but terms of
controllability uh I don't know I was
just like why would you do that I don't
know I guess they could uh redo the
spring and maybe add a little weight to
it I don't know it could be done let's
see if these will go through paper
oh yeah did about a red
plate oh I got these are pig rounds I've
got in here so let's take out that
pig oh
yeah yeah good old Glock 20 uh even some
people who don't like
Glocks but are fond of a 10 mm car
cartridge uh I think actually have held
their nose and bought Glock 20s yeah
really or
40s but it is it is a nice Glock or a
nice 10 mm pistol lots of capacity you
think about it you got uh wow 15 rounds
of 10 mm I mean I can put that you know
trophy bonded or this
HST uh well no these are trophy bondage
as well I can put 15 of those things you
know in the guns 15 plus one I guess I
can get a plus two I can have almost 20
of those things in a gun that I can just
carry on my belt without any trouble and
that's one of the uh the appeals of the
Glock and uh especially because it's
known for being reliable and
withstanding the pressure yeah don't
have the problems that they had with the
early Delta Delta Elites I guess they
fixed that I believe uh you're asking a
lot of a of a 1911 you know that that
High Press cartridge but the Glock it
seems to hold up to it not familiar with
anybody that's had trouble you know with
the Glock uh 20 or Glock 40 or Glock 29
Glock 29 is pretty cool it does kick a
little bit more of course but uh nice
nice I'll shoot that what was I going to
talk about I don't know did uh oh you
know last week I forgot to uh I had my
my mule parked over there and I when I
drove up I remember thinking well I'll
just drive it over here sort of into the
camera a little bit I'm always talking
about it and pointing at it you know and
and referring to it and and people are
well it's a fictional four-wheeler I'm
always talking about it's a one of the
deals where I wish I had one or
something uh so I you know going to show
it all I just just park it where we
could kind of see it a little bit uh my
little red buggy and I did but I it was
behind me so I forgot I looked at the
first part of that video oh that's right
I parked the mule there so they could
see it and they probably wondered what
that was about and uh wondered if I was
going to shoot it or something you know
use it as a rifle rest or a pistol rest
or something but anyway CU I was what I
was going to say too I remember when I
parked it there I thought I I know I got
it over there in the the frame there and
again another illustration of how just
because something is out there on the
Range or doesn't mean I'm going to shoot
it I could park my four-wheeler over
there on the hill I could park it right
here in the middle of the range
somewhere and if not for the lead
splatter off of Steel plates I'm not
going to shoot it unless I aim at it and
pull the trigger unless when I pull the
trigger I see it in my sights and I go
bang then I'll hit it in other words if
I want to shoot it intentionally yeah I
could shoot it but I'm not going to
accidentally hit something that big or
even small uh you when I'm clinking
around at here you know I'm there's no
pressure on me I don't think yall are
giving me a grade are you there's a lot
of Marksmanship contest I just like to
shoot but when I'm just plinking around
like
this all
right hit the
cowboy but when I'm out here flinking
around even uh you know not in a
Precision match and just enjoying
shooting uh I think just in that mag I I
I missed like what second or third shot
on one of those plates there and but I
just missed him about that much I saw it
going by or hitting the dirt or tree
just just like that much so just because
something else is out there you I go
back to that that video years ago when
there was a dog on the Range you know
behind me but like right now if I
talking you saw my dog which I don't
have a dog or a deer anything walking
around over there and
range he or she is not in danger I'm not
going to shoot that deer or that dog or
that cat or that squirrel or anything
unless I lay the sights on him and pull
the trigger you know just not going to
do that uh now that's not to say it's
not dangerous to be out on the Range uh
because mainly from lead
splatter you know even all those targets
were paper you know maybe a bullet goes
through into the ground and there's a
little rock or something on top of the
ground and a piece of rock you know
splinters off and hits it I mean it
wouldn't go very far but you know
somebody like right there close or your
car is parked there or your dog and put
his eye out you know so that's that's an
issue but you're not going to shoot the
dog now if you have no experience
shooting a handgun you just not much at
all and when you shoot at Targets like
this you're missing by 6 ft you miss or
you're you're still pulling down the
trigger yanking the trigger and you're
doing all that stuff and you're you're
in the dirt you know pulling down at a
Target 50 yards away and it's 4 feet in
the air and you're hitting the ground
below it you're really jerking the
trigger occasionally or whatever or
shooting 2 feet high and all that sort
of thing it's a little bit different all
right but by and large you know you know
I mean just like just like I I showed
you there that's okay so uh plinking
around uh so anyway the the vehicle yeah
sitting on the Range I wasn't going to
shoot it I could have pulled out a
little bit further as as some of you
know one of the very first videos we did
in fact the very first thing I
did I've always been a bit of a camera
buff a little bit just mainly not a
camera uh uh what would you call it a a
nerd in terms of being a student of
camera so much but
I even back in the film days when the
camera started getting smaller you know
about the well they were bigger than
that but not twice that big at least uh
where at least we could stuff them in
your pocket if your pocket was pretty
big or a jacket pocket without ain't
trouble you know the point and shoot
cameras I still got one was a Vivitar
Manola or some kind of thing he the film
camera is poin and shoot but you know
it's it's not too small but not too big
um and I can put it in my pocket
especially in the back baggy jeans
Pockets like I wear and I I would carry
that a lot and then with digital
photography I I got hooked on the little
digital uh the elf the Canon elf cameras
and those were really nice right and
they were they got a lot smaller than
they were initially but I had one of the
earlier ones that was a little bit
bigger I carried that would have been
around late 90s I guess and the
resolution wasn't all that
great was better than most other things
like that and then you can do movie the
pictures were fine the uh the movies
were low resolution and that's what I
used uh something I don't know second
generation of those or third on that
very first video called 45 cult you know
if you go back to the first video posted
on our uh channel of me shooting the
five shots at the
Buffalo uh with the black powder that I
just had in my pocket that's the reason
the only reason I thing with that was
videoed is because I always had one in
my pocket just like we now have a phone
all the time and I pull it out and I
just held it there and in shot you know
and uh so there I had it and uh but
anyway it was with probably that same
camera a buddy of mine was out shooting
with me one day and I had my I had the
Honda Element then and I had it up on
the upper part of the driveway and I
just opened the doors and I put a chair
out there and I said won't you film me
doing this and I put a chair out there
and I just shot I still got that it's an
old Impe shot through the Honda Element
over onto the range and then later I did
it myself I put it on a tripod and that
one was a little better video and uh I
put put it down kind of where the
shooting table is on the driveway there
the Honda Element opened up the doors
and I shot through it quite a bit with a
Glock 27 or something and uh posted
those on on this channel and those were
some of the very first things we posted
ever just goofy stuff I've told the
stories before many of you haven't heard
it but because that's back in h 2007 I
guess when I set up the channel uh where
that's all people did on YouTube seem
like just goofy stuff that's what it was
for really uh cat videos or something
Goofy and uh there was probably some
educational stuff on there too even back
then I just wasn't aware of it uh and I
wasn't into it but uh but those were up
there a while and people would give me a
hard time for shooting through the car
and and being Reckless and that sort of
thing but it was kind of the same deal I
think that's why it came to
mind it looked more Reckless than it was
we did a video later I might have been a
year later I don't know back you know
when we actually started the videos I
forget what's the name of that shooting
through my truck or something I have to
find that I you know it's still up but I
think it's shooting through my truck or
something and we
parked uh which truck was
it uh it was the old green truck I guess
that yeah yeah the green truck that John
has now and I think and I just parked it
there on the driveway opened the window
and and literally did the same thing but
IE where the windows open weren't any
big you know suicide doors or anything
like on a Honda Element it was just the
main the windows it was just a two-door
truck and I just shot through it at some
targets I'd be kind of careful on that
one that was some Precision shoot a
little bit well it was all that hard but
still it it looked harder than anything
else we did and and it's a deal where
you could shoot the truck pretty easily
if you flinched okay so even that though
is my point uh you're still you're
shooting at a Target if you see that
video look it up shooting through my
truck I think it's called Uh yeah if
you're not shot much you wow that looks
dangerous oh man he doesn't like his
truck does he he's risking his truck and
all that kind of thing but then again
it's because you're shooting think about
parking out a Rolls-Royce or a a
Mercedes out on the driveway and opening
the window and shooting through
it I mean yeah really wow look at the
risk in that but what would be the
difference between that and putting uh I
well what that Target that the paper
part of that Target yeah it' be about
the same uh putting that out there so
say that's a Mercedes sitting there I've
got the window open and I'm just going
to shoot through the other side hit
something on the other side of the
car uh and I've got an opening that's
almost as big isuse that white paper
yeah well I'm not likely to miss that
paper am I so I shouldn't miss shooting
through the car now I'm not advocating
you do this okay boys and
girls do not do this at home I'm a
professional or what's uh Paul say I'm
want you call a professional yeah now he
is I'm I'm not really but I can call
myself uh so yeah I'm not advocating you
do that just kind of explaining uh
oh I don't know there's just a lot of
people that think guner it it kind of
falls under that same category that
guner just wildly dangerous you know
semi-automatic she's putting bullets out
so fast or a full auto and or just
whatever you know that man one of those
could go anywhere uh you know somebody
can get hurt what you you're shooting
that you're going to hit that other
whatever that's over there that tree or
something you well it's a lot more
precise than than it appears isn't it
sometimes s you're looking down that
site and like on any of these targets
you see out here if I just have a
reasonable P trigger pull right I should
not
miss uh I shouldn't miss the Target but
I shouldn't Miss more than like inches
okay how' I get off on all that H who
knows so speaking of accuracy I know
some of you I saw last week you you
don't watch Super Bowls you don't care
for football or you've been turned off
by it and uh I have too to an extent I
uh I get weary of being talked down to
as if uh uh that is this weird world
it's like like everybody out here now
everybody is being treated uh like we're
all all of us are bigots and so media is
taking on the
responsibility of re-educating everybody
and trying to get us all out of this
incredible level of in tolerance that
we've been
living it just does get weary doesn't it
the uh oh man you everybody's a
supremist of some sort right uh well
there's a lot of social justice
supremacists out there that the word I'm
not thinking today but but you do get so
weary of that oh man they don't even
realize how ridiculous they are you know
stupid they are you know how unwoke they
are really unenlightened they are are
but anyway enough on that so I did watch
the Super Bowl and uh and uh it's pretty
interesting and it it reminded me of uh
of how we we we love superheroes don't
we we just love superheroes and uh and I
think that's one reason so many people
now you may have hated even if you watch
football you might hate uh Tom Brady but
uh there's just something cool about
somebody who gets to that level of
something it's like Michael Jordan we
could name a lot of people right Picasso
or anybody who is just
unbelievable at uh at something whatever
they did chose to do and they're like
Rob lean you
know uh great poets you know anybody we
can think of but uh to have and some of
it's random it just the way the chips
fell and and uh uh you know perfect
storms here and there maybe but to be
able to even be in 10 Super Bowls there
are so many Super Players out there that
are incredible have never been in one it
was it Dan Marino never won won did he
he was amazing so I mean it can just
work out that way some incredible
basketball players that were as good as
maybe anybody out there that never won a
championship for just various reasons uh
just didn't have the right team mix or
whatever might happened kind maybe came
close a couple of times or whatever uh
happened to be in the in the league the
same time Jordan was
there uh so it is pretty amazing uh
really amazing and then on top of that
you got a guy who by all descriptions
and reports uh Tom Brady is just a a
phenomenal fellow you know everything
negative about him seems and has it's
like idelic life in a lot of ways but we
we love uh superheroes and that's kind
of where that falls under I think you
know I remember hearing uh Colin coward
who's a sports guy an intelligent one
whether you agree with him or not he's
an intelligent one and uh very
intelligent but uh he was talking about
how we uh we always complain this was a
year or so ago I heard him talking about
how we we just expressed so much disgust
like the Yankees back when they were
winning everything or the Celtics were
always winning or the Lakers or the
Dallas Cowboys and uh the Patriots how
it was uh it just I don't know if
fashionable is the word but it it's just
so so in to hate on these these
incredibly successful teams that just
keep winning and it's understandable
isn't it you know you you got a team you
live in a city where you support your
team and they just can't get past the
the Patriots or the Cowboys or whoever
it is depending on the era right or the
Green Bay Packers back when they were
always winning or or Alabama college
team you know uh so we love to hate
those teams and those players uh people
who are that good you just keep winning
year after year oh no not this again
they put my team out again or whatever
it might be so lots of good reasons not
to like them but uh one of the points he
was making though was how we actually do
like them and they exteme dynasties are
extremely good for the league or
whatever League it is uh uh I think he
had done some research and how just the
overall viewership was down and various
uh Sports because it just didn't have
any interesting thing going on a dynasty
you know like the Yankees or the Celtics
or or in football like the Dallas C and
part of his point was how parody you
know is good where they've got the
drafts and everything stuff to where the
talent has spread out more than it used
to be in the early days or some of these
leagues and so you could be in a smaller
Market uh Nashville or somewhere and
have a team that could possibly get to
the Super Bowl where if it were just
based on say the money in the market and
all that right there in that town that
Green Bay Wisconsin or something then
it's harder to to do that you know and
uh but but now where it's all spread out
like the TV money is shared and the
draft and you know how drafts work it's
the worst team you have the better pick
you get the next year and all that kind
of thing to where you're trying to even
up the teams
but uh when there's seemed like the
better the his point was the more parody
there is in a
league the the less excitement there is
and less viewership in a lot of ways uh
we almost need a dynasty for people to
hate right you bring people to it you
know uh same with an individual player
if you have a Michael Jordan in the
league you know when he left you know
the ratings were down on the NBA uh and
you might talk about hating like the
Patriots or Tom
or whoever it might be but in a lot of
ways we we really don't hate them it it
brings us back it's interesting to to
watch or moles you know someone that
good who is probably the next
Brady um and just even more exciting
probably a better player in a lot of
ways all around athletically at least
but uh so and he'll have his turn now
but uh I would guess but anyway just
interesting that the that somebody we we
like super look at the comic books uh
Superman was one of my favorites back in
the day and uh you know all those
superheroes that we grow up with we just
love it you we think about it and
fantasize being able to be that strong
like the Man of Steel and being a steel
raw and bullets bounce off of us and uh
be able to fly doesn't hurt either right
but we just love that you know somebody
that nobody is going to defeat you know
and uh so I think some of that transfers
to to sports it's just really cool to
see somebody who can do what what
Patrick Mahomes can do amazing falling
down his head's almost on the ground he
throws a perfect pass you to the end
zone 40 yards away he even did that last
night a couple of
times unbelievable and uh and Michael
Jordan you know and then of course Tom
Brady and and many others uh it's it's
just phenomenal to see human beings who
can do those things and we we just like
it Rob Le them same thing I mean I've
shot enough to that's one thing if you
haven't played Sports you might not even
be able to appreciate the uh the skill
it takes like that you see on the screen
sometimes to actually how good they act
they are okay somebody at that level
well I played just enough that I can
appreciate it and this thing with
shooting I've shot enough that uh I
watch Rob Le them some of those guys wow
it's it's just amazing how fast they can
put all those rounds into you know the
same hole move on do the same thing to
the next Target and uh just it's just
phenomenal really it is so it's cool
they're like Supermen someone who
reaches that level and I don't mean to
be a a to to to worship uh these people
as an idol I'm just it's just cool
though when somebody just reaches the
Pinnacle of uh of human capabilities you
know almost and and then also throwing a
little luck and it's just neat I like
like it now I know I know it's not the
right attitude we're supposed
to hate on them Envy them right and uh
tear them down because that's what we
like to do we like to build people up
and then tear them down right that's
that's the next step it's fun building
them up and seeing them achieve and then
it's even more fun just ripping them up
you know or whatever it might be at that
point because they're superheroes were
able to rip up yeah so anyway that's my
little speech on that I enjoyed it and
uh yeah I'm like a lot of people I I'm
really fed up with
uh oh everybody uh uh judging the rest
of us
right because it feels so good it's such
a extreme example of virtue signaling
you know the rest of you people just are
not woke you're not you're just
Neanderthal bigots you don't realize it
let us clue you in really yeah can I
shoot
not better all right oh man 10
mm uh I got a I got a little ammo so uh
it's it
uh it's incumbent upon me to shoot for
you okay I have to do it whatever you
want me to shoot what what do you want
me to shoot I mean you're the boss okay
the cowboy again all
right all
right the gong again okay do you really
want
it all
right somebody said the coffin I'll try
it am I steady enough
today
boom uh if I slow down I'd Be steady
enough how about the pig okay
I mean 10 mm is a good old Hog Gun it I
mean you could do a lot better you could
even shoot paper with it you
wanted yep know Glock 20 is a pretty
nice
pistol this is a Gen 4 you have the Gen
3 we did a comparison video uh have we
posted that one yet we might not have I
compared the Gen 3 and the Gen 4 I'll
get that up if I if we hav't uh yeah
with the with the uh the shutdown over
last year uh John and I have done a lot
of videos and uh We've uh we got several
like in the bank so uh you know again
I'm not going to be out here freezing to
death uh this winter uh that's for sure
and even for for this so like I said you
know I can see the light at the end of
the tunnel though you we're we're uh
like kind of the middle of February so
uh you another month we'll be going the
other direction on weather but uh I see
some really cold weather looking bad
weather like in the future here looks
like so I may do what I said I'd do
might just uh uh the next time I'm not
going to schedule a shoot what I'll do
the next time I'm in the mood to shoot
something and the weather is decent I'll
bring it out here and shoot and I'll
film it okay and then I'll save that as
a Sunday shoot around all right because
that's that's what this is all about
it's a gun I want to shoot and it's a
chance to touch base with you all and
just just something I want to shoot
whatever it might be and uh and you know
and even if it's a couple weeks old or
something and because it's rainy and
cold and messy and I really can't get
out and and shoot and don't want to get
out and shoot then uh you know uh it's
still fairly timely you know that's
that's the nice thing about this I'm
kind of checking in every week so and so
far far it's been every single week
hasn't it yeah okay so uh well anything
else going to talk about before I shoot
the last rounds here do I have any
advice uh I've been uh throwing my big
opinions out already having a what about
vocabulary did I make anything uh I love
vocabulary and words words mean things
you know like uh I I still see people
calling not well we we get that
periodically occasionally but you other
people sellouts all the time or shields
for this or sellouts for that or
whatever and it almost every time I see
that word or phrase
used uh or whether it's against us or
you or anybody almost every time it's
used incorrectly you know because if if
somebody's a sellout or shill or
whatever something they're they uh would
be the strict definition they are they
are taking money or they're getting some
benefit
uh and twisting their own Integrity or
or opinions because somebody is paying
them they're they're uh they're not
being true to themselves or to the
viewers or whatever it might be okay
like someone who is against smoking is
accepting sponsorship from a cigarette
company or a Cigar Company or
something uh extreme or clear example
you know of that sort thing but what
what it usually the way people are using
that whoever it is young people old
people uh I don't know envious people
mostly right but um they're using
it in the context
where they are just they just don't
agree with with someone who is helping
you is what it comes down to it's really
what it is you know I mean you know if
uh if I'm a big fan of of Chevy and I
hate Fords for whatever reason and I I
see a video in somebody or a show
whatever it might be and they're
sponsored by Ford well it's that's just
dumb it's it's like what you see there's
a shield for Ford for the Ford Motor
Company who a sell out to the Ford Motor
Company it's only because you don't like
Ford okay so whatever it is that's
usually what it amounts to some company
is supporting us or anybody else uh and
somebody doesn't like that company or
that product or whatever it might be
that's all it is it's not you're not a
sellout unless you are you're bending
your integrity for something okay
something you don't believe in and uh so
it's just really on the the commenters
uh from the comment it's the commenters
problems what I'm trying to say they
just don't they just don't like whatever
it is the product or the company they
don't like forward or whatever it might
be even when we were being sponsored by
n by the NRA which that was that was a
little if we probably shouldn't have if
we could rethink that and go back in
time maybe we would have uh because we
thought seriously about it you know but
we didn't we don't review gun rights
organizations so anything we don't
review then obviously we're not being a
hypocrite in any any way but but even
with that uh it uh any of the criticism
we got it was from people who didn't
like the NRA it wasn't we were not being
hypocrites I'm supporting the N been a
member since I was 20 or even before
years old and uh and so yeah so it was
just people didn't like the NRA and so
we're sellouts or or or Shields or
whatever well no they're one of our
sponsors you know we don't review gun
rights
organizations you know like we can take
money from Ford unless we reviewed
pickup
trucks then we just have to review
nothing but Ford
you get you follow me on this anyway
anyway so that word that phrase is is
misused maybe one of the miss most
misused uh phrases because I see I see
as I prow around videos and blogs and
different things people being uh accused
of being
sellouts and just used wrong it's just
incorrect you the word is now if you
want to say I don't like fors or
whatever I don't like the people that
help you that's different you know so
anyway but you're not a sellout unless
unless and and of course if you have a
little bit of Integrity you're not going
to take help from something you hate for
example if I did not like taling grips
you know I really hated those things but
uh they want to sponsor us so I'll
pretend I like
them you know battle style same thing of
using both products long before the
sponsorship you know so uh you know it's
just just the way it is uh so uh you all
know that I ain't telling you nothing
but I I don't know there's I don't know
who I'm talking to yes I do I'm talking
to you all I'm talking to people of all
ages really uh talking to people who
very young watching even these very new
to our videos uh people I 20 maybe you
know people are 40 people are 70 cuz I
hear from all of you and you tell me
often your ages and I I saw a couple of
comments just this week uh wow I see
more and more of those I've been
watching your video since I was 10 you
know and all this kind of thing I bought
my first gun and all that so uh I know
we have all ages and and all experience
levels and uh so anyway I I bore a lot
of you but hopefully some of what I say
makes some sense to somebody in some age
group and maybe slightly helpful I don't
know I don't know about that that might
be a stretch helpful but uh I try to be
try to make a little sense and I don't
know what else I need to tell you you
know again uh the Glock 18 is back on
its way so it is fixed I'll let you know
more specifics you know about that but
uh so that's cool Glock fixed it for
silencer Central uh and again some of
you were commenting about how wow that's
a tough call to make you know I broke
your gun your Glock and all that and
yeah and and that's one reason yeah I
was on the on the phone
right of the video Just to let them know
but uh because it you know just I always
hate to break somebody else's stuff oh
man uh I through my life I've been
really reluctant to
borrow Machinery from anybody or even
borrow stuff and uh but this is a little
different it's uh you know it's uh most
of what we borrow we get from other
people to use or whatever it's a company
we're working with and they uh they want
the exposure you know whatever whatever
happens you know all that kind of thing
it's kind of for the exposure you know
and so it's a little different but and
then
two you know this just one of those
things you know that uh it's like you're
driving somebody else's truck you know
and they've lent you and the tire wears
out finally it was about to go you I
mean that gun uh that metal had reached
the point where it was going to go I
would I would guess on that round
because there was nothing we were doing
any differently just shooting Factory
ammo and you know and and uh not even
particularly high pressure ammo or
anything so it on that round whatever
round it was and the life of that slide
whether it was
379,000 you know it it was in my hand
when that that round count came up when
my number came up or when its number
came up it was in my hand and some ways
that's that's good it was just under
very control situations uh I wasn't in a
in a shootout with terrorists or
anything and all that kind of thing so
but I know they were really good about
it don't worry about it no problem and
got it to sent back to Glock and got it
fixed so really really uh really good
out uh classy outfit uh silenter Central
yeah really classy outfit cuz I they
knew they knew that' bother me you know
some and uh and so they were really good
about it and don't fix that's just been
a couple of weeks three weeks so anyway
I'll let you know more about that so I'm
going to shoot maybe one more time I'm
going to get out of your hair I really
am
uh okay hope you enjoyed that
uh speaking of Silence Central that
quiet big game hunt this week it wasn't
that cool that was a lot of fun uh oh
man 300 Blackout it just is doesn't
exist and uh you know this ammo
apocalypse apocalypse and uh and I found
uh I was in a a shop and they had I what
I bought a 200 rounds of that stuff paid
an exorbitant price for it um month ago
maybe more cuz it was the heavy bullets
and I've got to do something with this
you know we haven't shot the 300
Blackout and it's just hard to
find and uh I was in the mood to shoot
it just haven't done for a while and now
with the
suppressors uh that we have access to
and and uh I remember it being fun it
been years I think since I'd fired any
300
Blackout and so that was just really
that was really neat uh if you not shot
a suppressor especially one that really
works with ammo like that that is really
truly subsonic uh it it's just cool it
really is I know I get uh I get tickled
uh when I'm I'm shooting them it's just
so strange you when you stand here and
shoot you got all this blast and noise
and it it's such a a huge difference
between blasting that steel like that
and then with a suppressor pulling the
trigger and it's almost just a a click a
and it's just the sound of the steel so
I don't know all that comes through on
the camera uh the speakers and
everything but it is just so
dramatically different and it's it's
like you're in this different dimension
or something you know because most shots
you fire you fire I fire probably
they're just like that they're loud
right that's that's just shooting
so it it just makes it so different that
it it makes it uh just humorous I have
to say so uh anyway uh I don't have any
advice for young people this week I I'm
just I'm sorry young people you can make
it on your own just work hard and do
what you're supposed to do and uh uh
really uh you I've been saying that for
years uh some of the expectations are so
low these days and there are so many
Slackers out there there's my advice
this week you know it you've seen some
of your classmates you know some of the
people you hang out with that live in
your neighborhood or whatever a lot of
slackers I bet right you can name
them uh uh if you're not a
slacker and you show up on time to
school or work and you do what you're
supposed to do you show up early at work
and and uh you go the extra mile a
little bit even like early maybe a
little late you you're not watching your
watch your phone who wears a watch
anymore uh I use my phone I've never
liked watches I haven't uh but you know
and you just really uh take pride in
what you do and uh you understand the
company you're working with you
understand the pressures and the
problems that they have and that your
manager has like I was talking about
earlier and and uh
his job is not to spend 23 hours a day
trying to understand you is to manage
the department or get that fast food
restaurant profitable and working right
or whatever it might be so uh you need
to help her or him all you can just do
good work you know just do good work my
gosh same for school I wish I could go
back and do school over I I didn't learn
to enjoy school until I don't know about
I was junior senior in high school and
then in college I became a much better
student when I got into college I was
just more motivated I was more mature
and I'd love to go back and uh wow in
into those years even into the fifth or
sixth grade no I don't want to start
over no I don't want to do that but oh
man I could have I could have been such
a better student so easily so easily you
know it just uh but uh yeah so you don't
get a second chance you know fifth grade
sixth grade 12th grade whatever it is
you know so uh so just uh have fun but
keep your nose to the grindstone keep
schedule your work you know keep a to-do
list and follow it and just do good work
you may not do the best work in your
class and don't also by the same token
be bent out of shape because you're not
the number one person in your class
maybe if that's not you where you ought
to be just do good work you'll be fine
you'll be find most of the people I've
worked with in a lot of different
companies and places over the years uh
and did some hiring a lot of hiring at
one company and different you know where
somebody even went to school and all
that it was it mattered a little bit but
by and large it was what their work
experience was and their references and
and what they did when they got there
and uh how they performed you so don't
major in figuratively speeching don't ma
figuratively speaking don't major in
things that are oh unimportant not as
important you major in with your
interest and your effort in the things
that make a difference you know just do
good work put in the hours and and the
thinking and the analysis or whatever it
is you do just do good work okay doesn't
have to be the best uh you may not be I
sometimes I I uh I used to feel sorry
for some students that so much I was in
private schools when I
taught and uh there's a lot of pressure
there's College Prep schools and there
were always kids students who it's funny
some people used to get bent out of
shape if you call them
kids uh but uh those are probably some
of the today's social justice Warriors
but their kids are fun uh it's just a
word but uh uh there were always you
know some students who who things just
came so easily for and every single year
when it came time for award Awards uh we
always had academic Awards and was
mainly just based on the highest average
you know in whatever seventh grade or
ninth grade English you know around and
and so those were the awards the medals
they were given in an awards day they
came up on stage and Mary Lou would have
the award for for math 101 whatever it
was you know and uh it was a big deal
highest average and the kids would
compete for that of course and uh
but it would be so often those same
students every year because you know had
uh visibility on all of them you know
they were all in the middle school and
high school I so all the way from I
observed one from like sixth grade right
on upper fifth all the way through high
school and it would most of the time be
the same students you know there might
be it'd be some little shuffling around
would have the highest average and uh
and I always thought that was great but
but then again there were all these
these other kids who were almost at that
level and then others that were really
sharp and then other kids that were that
were really sharp they played a lot of
sports and but they weren't at the very
top you know level and uh and I'm not
one of those guys that thinks well we
shouldn't give Awards and everybody
deserves a trophy I'm not going there of
course but but then again I think you
have to be careful uh to think it a
little more deeply or overthink it
probably
probably um I in some
ways yeah I mean there's another way to
look at it too sometimes we might uh
over award some people or some students
here's what I mean by that because some
people some students literally are just
born with the uh the capacity to do that
math you know whatever it's just very
easy for them they don't even have to
work at it it just comes very easily and
same for any any subject and so every
year they're the ones that are trotting
up to the stage to get that award around
their neck and a hug or a handshake and
and and be complimented and then
everybody else you guys are the second
class sorry that's an
exaggeration but uh but in a moment of
great Insight I remember sitting there
in Awards day I was usually presenting
Awards but I was thinking uh you know
in some ways though this is great and uh
love all these kids you know students
but but uh how different is that in some
ways uh from but not in every way but in
some ways from let's let's give uh an
award for the uh for the the tallest
student how's that I could have gotten
that award that's that's me I was
envious I wanted an award for being the
tall but I mean literally some people
are born with the physical
which mental physical I mean it's all
kind of the same you're born with this
uh this ability uh to compute math it's
just that simple so you're the one who
all the way through school is going to
get that award doesn't matter how hard
your classmates work at that or how much
they love
mathematics they just don't quite have
that thing you were born with now
sometimes it's because you're they were
born with some skills and they developed
it and they work they work their butts
off and that's how they get the award
okay so I'm not you know see you get
that
too but but then again you know it's
it's a
uh I don't know I don't know what the
answer is but it it occurred to me you
know that that's in a way you know
that's how different is that for from
giving somebody an award every year
because they're the prettiest you know
you could have that award too we do we
have beauty contest right I never won
any of those for some reason uh but but
on one level it's and I'm not being sire
grapes cuz I never did you know win
those kinds of awards I'm just it's just
uh trying to overthink it a little bit
like Emerson would have done you know uh
cuz so often it's based on effort but
it's not entirely effort uh you got
because I I know their kids very well I
spent a whole year with them in class
you know engaged back and forth all year
with everybody in that Auditorium
whatever grade they were in you know so
so I know them all and that's part of
where that that thinking came from again
I'm not an advocate of everybody get a
TR I'm not saying that but I knew I
could have named you know 50 of them
that incredible workers and creative and
loved all those subjects and were
diligent students and uh and just right
on down the line but they were never
going up on stage they never did get and
get that award they just didn't quite
have that that ability that uh some of
them were born with more or less Okay so
and perhaps put in less effort than they
did and sometimes much less creativity
than they have you know they're sitting
out there not getting the awards so I
don't know just just food for thought no
answer I don't have any bottom line on
that but it's just something to think
about uh something to think about uh and
and I got off on that because uh you you
may not be one of those persons don't be
discouraged because it's probably more
discouraging for someone who is really
smart and is close to getting that award
board and is working your butt off and
you just can't can't seem to get it and
uh those are the people who get
discouraged I think probably most easily
about things like that but but don't
just work hard uh those are great to get
those Awards in in school and everything
but you know once you get out of school
once you get out of college and it
you're all that is so important to you
when you're in college and you're in
high school and it is you know important
it follows you around some extent but
not as much as a lot of people think it
does does not as much it really doesn't
um it uh you know it's it's it's your
work record it's the most important what
you do what you actually do what you
actually can do will do your attitude
you know your creativity all those
skills of those people I was talking
about that don't necessarily get up on
the stage for uh many of those will be
the ones that that really uh make a
difference and uh shine you know in in
the company that's so think of Tom Brady
back to Tom Brady where he was drafted
199th or something
so uh the thing they couldn't measure at
the time I guess was his work ethic you
know and his willingness to uh to
improve and all that so I preach more
than I meant to I'm sorry can you know
since I did I I owe you a couple of
shots let me let me find a
couple okay let's get a couple of these
trophy bonding and just shoot them off
okay cuz I want to is I'm going to have
to clean this gun and uh if you haven't
noticed no matter how much you fire a
gun it really takes the same cleaning
process right uh if you fire it 10 times
or you fire 500 I don't want to
overshoot it though we're still sort of
in an AM ammunition
apocalypse but let's take a few more all
right remember I just do this for you
all I think I have uh
left the propane tank unscathed so
far all right n a malfunction today
imagine that with a Glock uh by the way
I did not hit that pump that uh that uh
bowling pin what was it sitting on
sitting on top of the propane it it it
just fell off it got hit with with a
little splatter or something I guess or
got vibrated all yeah I guess it was
sitting on top of
the I don't know can't see on top of the
propane tank and it fell fell right off
they make good targets uh they really do
so I'm going to let y'all
go and
uh uh it's cold but you know it's not
horrible so I might just keep you
another hour yeah I really might so uh
10 mm is always fun to shoot uh and it's
just one of those guns this this is
another firearm I keep
handy uh uh I I like yeah I keep it
handy let's put it that way uh but safe
you know safe but I can get to it
in you know about 3 seconds 5 seconds or
something and I keep here it is the with
HST H points right there in it and uh
there's not much that won't handle you
know uh if I grab that I I kind of
really believe that now it's not
necessarily my primary firearm but it's
one of them and uh you know just happens
to be something a little tougher Strays
into the yard tries to stray into the
house uh I have that I have shotguns
like I can handle I think almost any uh
situation so uh I'm uh as long as it
doesn't take too much intelligence like
I said I was not one of those guys
people students kids that was going up
on the stage to get the medals for
having the highest average in class all
right yeah I really had to tell you that
didn't
I you you would never have believed that
I again now there's another lesson for
you
youngsters uh no wait a minute maybe
it's not a lesson well my lesson was
going to be uh you know I was an average
student most of my academic career I got
little better in college and uh became
more were interested in academics and
things uh yeah so so I was so I was
about to you the lesson was going to be
you know I was just average when I was
in in school as a student and look at me
now you know that was going to be my
lesson but then I I got to thinking now
wait a
minute that's that's not very valid now
uh so anyway but yeah really you can you
can kind of change gears whatever your
whatever your academic performance is
right now or even athletic but uh if you
just been a little bit of a slacker
you've never been interested in
academics uh just just step it up a
little bit it's amazing to this day I'm
I'm still amazed at how with just a
little more effort a little more Focus
you can figure things out that you
thought you could not figure out really
whether it's how to break down a gun or
directions for something you ever gotten
something I don't want to put that
together you look at the direct gives me
a headache to even look at I'm not going
to may never do that or whatever but
then you get out there same directions
or whatever it might be or a map and you
said
okay uh I got a little downtime here let
me let me look at that I'm not in a
hurry I'm not stressed let me just look
at that again figured out piece by piece
just like a math problem a word problem
or something you know in school or or
anything let me let me see if it's
really that intimidating am I really
that stupid how does Joe figure that out
how does Joe do it because he he ain't
no smarter than I am
let me see if if I can figure that out
let me let me come to a determination am
I really this dumb am I really this
dense let me look at this more closely
and guess what you'll begin to see
through it you put a little more time
into it because I think a lot of times
the reason we can't figure things out or
we do shoty work is we just in a hurry
we just we expect it to be really really
simple and easy answers and and
sometimes you do have to focus and think
about it a little bit and take some time
with it right so I've taken too much of
that time today and I appreciate you all
coming by right getting some bad weather
coming like I said I'm a little earlier
this week than than normally but uh 59
wow I tell you what it's just hard to
believe it's the Valentine's Day the
14th and uh and that it's come this
quickly it really has and uh so
hopefully in a few weeks we'll be Beyond
this cold weather and and we'll start
seeing things blooming you will yeah
that's one thing about the week that
just happened last spring it happens
every spring if you haven't notied the
things start to bloom out a little bit
and the trees are not necessarily most
of them early the polers usually come on
a little earlier the harder Woods hoax
and hickories are a little bit later but
uh we'll begin to see that maybe in a
few weeks we have some good weather but
before then there's going to be some
cold weather so I'll see you again and
I'm glad you came by I appreciate your
support and uh I hope uh the ammo
situation gets a little better the gun
situation and uh you know for for
everybody and it's going to be a kind of
a slow comeback I think I I'm just
afraid it is but uh maybe we'll get
through it all maybe this time next
year hopefully we'll be living in a
different world I hope one that's a
little bit like the world world we lived
in a couple years ago yeah we' all take
that wouldn't we so I'm going to sign
off and uh wish you well because life is
good