Pistol videos on youtube

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As I'm in the market for a new pistol, I'm looking at videos on youtube, including size comparisons and carry options etc.
But even though the posters do great jobs in most videos, why on earth must they always show the gun is safe? I mean they can't shoot any of us through the computer screen and they obviously know how to handle their onw weapons
Secondly while watching the videos regarding size comparisons. Why show the pistols with their magazines lying on the tables:banghead: Do we intend to carry the pistols unloaded with the magazines in our pockets.

Sorry, rant over, I just want to know the reason/s for youtube posters doing this. I'ts a bit anoying to watch size comparisons with the magazines not in the pistols. It makes sense to just put them in, don't it? I mean the guy shooting alone on his farm does not have to show me his gun is safe. I don't care how good he is, me and my computer screen feel totaly safe:)
 
It is a creditability issue.

When shooters don't adhere to the 4 Rules, it hurts the creditability of everything else they may have to say...because they look like either newbies or wannabes.

It is also a bad idea to model that awareness of gun safety is conditional, as there is no way to determine the awareness of the viewer
 
a) They don't want to be included in the 'morons who should never have guns' subset on Youtube, such as Cokeman running down a road firing two AR15s into the air.

b) A lot of people watching Youtube videos will have little or no experience with guns. Some will have experience, but no formal training. Repeatedly demonstrating safety will help drill the need for it into the most solid of skulls.

c) Personal safety. If every time you handle a gun you make it safe, then you will not have an ND while working with it.

A couple of decades ago I unloaded a revolver, but did not check it clear after the mechanical action of emptying the cylinder. A round hung up on the ejector, further stupidity on my part resulted in a negligent discharge. Some months later I took an 'unloaded' gun from the safe, put my finger on the trigger and....
I then went out and got some formal training. Now each time I pick up a gun I check it clear. Each time I put down a gun, I check it clear. I must be approaching 40,000 rounds of 9mm fired since then, not counting other calibers. No NDs, no property damage, no persons injured.
I approve of people who formally make safe a gun, because I used to be a bone head who didn't.
 
I get why they do it, but I also agree it's kind of a given..... or at least it should be...... that there is no round in the chamber, magazine, cylinder..... If I were to make a gun video, I would simply state that the gun had been checked off screen and was empty or loaded with snap caps.

When I watch a movie, I don't need to be told the guy jumping out of the 50th floor while on fire is actually a trained professional who is really wearing a fire proof suit and jumping into a pool from 15 feet up, and not to worry because everything's OK. I just figured they did all the safety stuff before the cameras were rolling. Maybe that's a bad analogy.

Oh well, that's why we have that lovely red bar at the bottom, so we can skip all the talky talky and get to the good part!
 
I think that
b) A lot of people watching Youtube videos will have little or no experience with guns. Some will have experience, but no formal training. Repeatedly demonstrating safety will help drill the need for it into the most solid of skulls.
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is probably the best reason. You and I don't need to be shown that it's safe, but someone who only knows about guns from google and is getting ready to buy their first one needs to be shown as often as possible how and how often to safety check a gun.
 
Thanks guys, your comments makes sense. I just wish they could put the empty magazines where they should be, in the pistol and not on the table
 
One thing I've noticed is that when shooters are shooting .40, .357mag,.45acp, their support hand comes off the hand holding the pistol and readjusts. Many people do this constantly. You don't see that nearly as much with a 9mm.
 
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One thing I've noticed is that when shooters are shooting .40, .357mag,.45acp, their support hand comes off the hand holding the pistol and readjusts. Many people do this constantly. You don't see that nearly as much with a 9mm.
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That is just poor support hand technique...they are cupping, rather than grasping. Even when a gun is substantial muzzle flip, it shouldn't lift out of the support hand
 
One thing I've noticed is, any idiot can post something on YouTube and is somehow considered an expert of sorts.

There was one "training" school that did "combat rolls" with loaded handguns, sweeping everyone behind them including the camera man. Just because it was posted on YouTube doesn't change the fact they were total and complete idiots.
 
As a writing teacher I encourage my students to use action rather than exposition to reveal to the audience necessary information. I for one would like to see these reviewers/commentators simply demonstrate that the firearm is safe rather than discuss it as if the viewers are children (though I suppose many of them are).

For me, having an Internet reviewer blabber on about how he or she safety checked the firearm(s) before filming but then doing it again anyway does not enhance his or her credibility. To you reviewers -- pick it up, with your finger off the trigger and muzzle safely pointed, show it's clear while you're talking about its coolness or something, and get on with it. Establish your credibility by showing me that know what you're doing and having something useful to say about the firearm, not by talking through how to do a safety check.
 
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Then you would hate to watch me when I do my cleaning sessions. Checking that a gun is in a safe condition is never out of style. A simple reiteration of safe conditions would go a long way to elimination of NDs.
 
Optimus, if that was meant for me, you misunderstood. Safety is huge deal for me, but I am ok with watching a guy pick up a gun and do his checks without having him explain what he's doing.

When I go to the range with a buddy, we don't talk each other through safety checks---we just do them. Teaching a new shooter is different, but most gun reviews are not intended to be safety lessons.

When you watch a car review, does the test driver buckle up? Sure. Does he discuss buckling up? No.
 
No sir, not meant for you Beatle.
In my case, I'm surrounded by kids and wives and newbies so I rarely rarely rarely get to hang out with seasoned shooters. I find myself constantly saying the same safe things over and over and making them do the same. So to me, hearing a guy repeat safety mantras on a video just sounds like the voice in my own head. To each their own.
 
Optimus,

With kids and new shooters you can't overdo safety; that's a given. I make my daughter go through and verbalize checks when I take her shooting, and she's graduating from high school in 8 days.

I just don't think it's necessary for a gun reviewer who's supposedly got an audience of experienced shooters to overtly talk through the process. Openly do it, but don't spew it!
 
I own several guns and it is easy to forget which ones were loaded and which we're not. When I train my son on handling, I always include the clearing process. Amazing as it sounds, I have witnessed guns firing after they were supposed to have been cleared. Some people do not think about what they are doing and do not understand the magazine must be removed BEFORE racking the slide and that they must perform a chamber check. We had a sand can where people would clear weapons upon entering one of our secure facilities. The guns are supposed to go "click" into the sand can, but some would go "bang."

Another check I alway do is make sure my weapon is fully loaded before it goes into my holster. Often, people just remember the safety checks and do not perform the combat ready checks. More than once, I found the gun I thought was loaded was not. The time to figure that out is before you holster the gun. I also make sure my magazines are fully loaded, including the spares.

Though it may not do anything, I have always tapped the magazines to ensure the rounds are flush to the back. In the Army, I would tap the magazine against the side of my helmet. Now, i tap the side of my leg This may be one of those things I do because it became a habit.
 
I'm all for safety, but cokeman is hilarious to watch. He used to have a video up totally unrelated to guns. It was about catfishman driving his truck off of a driveway dropoff and getting stuck.
 
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