Weekly Review: Back on Wednesdays
It has been an exciting week so let's get into it:
1. Growth for the channel has been somewhat limited but the MG08/15 manged about 10k views before demonetization. That seemed to pull in some new viewers!
Just two days ago some 20-odd videos were suddenly demonetized. After appealing and emails etc, every Anvil was denied, shooting videos vary, and all but two Primers are monetized. Those two failed appeal before: episodes 101 and 102 of all things.
2. The final Thank video has been delivered. 8 Thanks!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iv36g778aXQ
3. I spent last week scrambling my scripting because, as usual, I delayed too long. Sorry if I've been a bit quiet on email etc because of that, BUT, I'm pretty excited for these next two episodes to air.
4. I did a video with Karl: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzaK3kJVOEI
It is about monetization. Well, about how we really just care about reach more than monetization.
5. On a personal note, I now own a sub-2000 because it upset someone that I might buy one. I'm adding all of the accessories as well. It's going to be needlessly over complicated just so I can irritate my friends.
6. Crozier has decided he does not like it when the keys hit him on the head while he is shaking them. This angers him so he shakes them harder as punishment. The keys appear to also be angry, as they hit him on the head harder and more frequently.
7. I have been having a lot of fun digging through old periodicals trying to find references to early repeating shotguns in order to pin down some dates on evolving designs. Hathi Trust has a bunch of Hunter Trader Trapper and they are... unique. Be warned, some of the ads and articles are... dated.
https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000059382
8. When you are at your local gun shops, keep an eye out for Union Fire Arms shotguns. I'm gathering serial and features data to see if I can unpack their transitions. Other models so far are pretty well in hand. We've easily exceeded our expected time to acquire and are way below budget there. It is definitely going to be cheaper to buy than to ship, insure, and do the communication overhead for loans on this series.
9. I'm making a quick trip to the North East so if anyone knows of large gun shops, especially the sort that horde old shotguns, between Charleston and roughly Pennsylvania, let me know!
All right gang, that's the download. Lots of you are receiving shirts so that's good too! Internationals, let me know when they start showing. Australians... God speed....
Thanks again for all the support! I promise we are not yet out of interesting guns for the war!
Comments (48)
Australian address here: t-shirt arrived today!
Fellow Aussie here. Got mine today too! I gave up trying to explain to my family why I had a sheet of stickers of machine guns, fruit and guinea pigs.
UK addressee here- t-shirt has just arrived- and I forgot about the sticker sheet! Nice.
Thanks for the support!
Is there a list of the shotguns you're looking for? It's not rare, but I've got a Remington Model 11 I'd be willing to lend you guys.
We currently have a private group at work. Sadly I cannot make public lists as, and this has happened, there are several large collectors out there who will outbid us on rare pieces just to say "no." I wish I was kidding.
T-Shirt arrived (UK) today. Thanks - and for the stickers as well. They have however, started my wife singing that Damn song again...
My apologies.
In the region, Clark Brothers is the largest and most diverse. I could spend a whole weekend there. http://www.clarkbrosguns.com/
Thank you for the tip!
I had a sub-2000. Fun shooter! Let me know if your charging handle picks at your beard. Hurts like hell. Mine got sold off rather than shaving.
I have only been tugged on when handling it OFF range. Once firing I have not been caught strangely
I just picked up a Sub2k Gen 2. A great little shooter. My only complaint is the trigger, it’s not as good as it should be, especially after shooting my RDB. If Kelgren can make a bullpup trigger that good why can’t he do it for something as simple as the Sub2k. Guess a trigger upgrade is in its future, just not right now.
I have tried the trigger upgrade from mcarbo and it makes it a reasonable firearm.
Being from Maine, the idea that PA is the "northeast" to you is.......amusing!
Right? I was going to mention KTP...
If you make it into PA, we're the Land of Fudd Guns; even the flea markets usually have a bunch of the old Sears-branded whitelabel shotguns. Hit any little rinky-dink rural gun shop you pass, because I can't remember ever seeing one that didn't have a dusty rack of old working-man shotguns and .30-30 leverguns. It's usually next to the case of old Ruger hunting and silhouette sixguns. Ironically, the big shops seem to make an effort to stay more mainstream, so they're more likely to have modern guns and milsurp. If you happen to overlap with one of the big Eagle Arms gun shows ( http://eagleshows.com/ ), they tend to get bad press online specifically because they're usually heavier on 20th-century sport guns and lighter on the trendy stuff than most people want (and that's even the FFLs, so an interstate shotgun sale would be fine).
Duly noted!
love my new shirts as well, even the fiancée wanted and got one. thank you.
Nice, thanks for the support!
Keep up the good work! Any plans to resume poster campaigns?
Once we have some. Trouble is all this video expansion means we have not finished another series of poster shots. Trying to photograph every this or that in a category is hard!
Loving my shirts, also #6 made my morning.
Thanks!
I've read loads of issues of Hunter Trader Trapper while researching the story of the Vetterli rifle in the USA. It's awesome. Think that Ginseng was invented by some Hippy in 1967? - Think again!
That gun seriously goes way back in the commercial market.
Shirts arrived today and I'm in New Zealand. Wasn't expecting them for another month or so. I'm looking forward to wearing them while I'm out and about.
Nice! Thanks for the support
My tshirt arrived yesterday here in Germany. It looks even better in person. Thanks! :)
Thanks for the support!
Enjoy your new (to you?) PCC.
It's green.
The Green Top in Ashland, VA usually has a halfway decent stock of antique/used guns including shotguns. I-95 exit 86B. There is also a gun store on Hull Street in Richmond, VA called Bob Moates, which is on the small side but is crammed with antique guns of all sorts.
Noted, thank you!
It’s weird commenting here when your using the discord page. In a good way
Me and Tao, internet buds.
T-Shirts arrived and are great. Also, word to the wise on the Sub-2000, don't drop the hammer with the bolt out. Had a friend bring me his and ask very nicely to get it back into one piece.
Oh man, yeah that thing could swing the corner
I’m angry at myself for not getting some shirts
It’s only a year and you can get a new design🤪
Got my t-shirts in the day before my birthday. Keep up the great work.
Thanks for the support!
Feel free to stop in Jamesville, NC at Mackey's (http://www.mackeyslanding.com/). They claim to be the largest gun shop in the world, and while I can't confirm the claim, I've never been to one with a larger selection (new and used). They are just off highway 64 a bit east of interstate 95; if you go, be sure to stop at the little gift store next door for peanuts, fudge, and muscadine wine...
I went there once the year before we started the show and had a great time. We still shake our fists at Peanut Pete.
Just out of curiosity, have any of the “Thank” or “Just for Gun” videos been demonetized?
No thanks, I think some Just for Gun but not regularly
W.E. Shooting Sports in PA
Noted.