Bloated YouTube reviews?
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I tried, but it is just not there....not sure if it ever will.
YT is a black hole, you may look to see something you are interested in, and then 4 hours later you are watching someone shoot toilet seats.
Olon
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Yeah if it's over 10 minutes they get more money. Though most gun videos end up getting demonized by YouTube anyway...
Olon
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Has anyone tried full 30 or whatever it's called? Hickock 45 was talking about it one day. Seems like a YouTube for just gun stuff.
GBExpat
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Too many of the few "review" YouTubes vids that I have seen incorporate far too high a percentage of blather for my taste.
I have watched parts of Hickok45 vids on a dozen, or so, occasions to get a quick sense of a new-to-me handguns about which I have read.
I have watched parts of Hickok45 vids on a dozen, or so, occasions to get a quick sense of a new-to-me handguns about which I have read.
theotherwaldo
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I don't buy many new guns so I'm not very interested in reviews.
I'm more into firearm history so I'm more likely to go to C&Rsenal. May and Othais put on a solid, educational show - sometimes in cooperation with folks from Forgotten Weapons, iraqveteran8888, The Great War and other interesting channels.
I'm more into firearm history so I'm more likely to go to C&Rsenal. May and Othais put on a solid, educational show - sometimes in cooperation with folks from Forgotten Weapons, iraqveteran8888, The Great War and other interesting channels.
doubleh
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I've never seen a Kristin Joy Weiss youtube video I didn't like. 
Seriously, she is a very good shooter.
I find most of the gun reviewers on youtube too full of themselves, boring, or just inept. A few are good but nearly all spend too much time on trivial stuff and the same long boring intro on every single video they do.
Seriously, she is a very good shooter.
I find most of the gun reviewers on youtube too full of themselves, boring, or just inept. A few are good but nearly all spend too much time on trivial stuff and the same long boring intro on every single video they do.
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Unless they actually shoot the firearms that are reviewed I have no interest.
I do like MAC and the torture test series they have. The guns I own, for the most part, did well in the tests. My HK 45 was one of the only ones to go though, basically, malfunction free.
I do like MAC and the torture test series they have. The guns I own, for the most part, did well in the tests. My HK 45 was one of the only ones to go though, basically, malfunction free.
mdauben
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Yeah, I've got no patience for that. I usually bail if the presenter blathers on for too long without coming to the point of the video. I have the same experience with "podcasts" too. Two hours of talking for 5-10 minutes of worthwhile content.
I generally enjoy his videos. Not super detailed reviews by any means, but he's a fun and entertaining presenter, who generally does not go off on unrelated tangents like many others.
I actually liked some of his earlier videos, where he was more focused on presenting actual product reviews. After a while though his stuff became more about him and his buddies, and whatever random stuff caught his fancy so I stopped bothering with him.
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Hickock 45 and Fortunecookie45LC are the only youtube gun/reloading guys I like to watch. Hornadyloader is okay at times too.
I am a big hunter and used to enjoy watching some of the youtube hunting channels but now days everyone wants to get sponsored and get free stuff so they do a 40min video of how their bow/gun is, what boots, what deer pee. It gets pretty annoying because only 5min is the actual hunt. Same thing with some gun videos. Hickock tells it like it is, he isn't bias, he doesn't gloat what ammo manufacture he uses, etc. Yeah, he gets a little boring with shoot the pot, shoot the pig, shoot the goat. I usually skip that part and listen to the facts of the gun. I tried watching some stock bedding videos and some get pretty annoying because they go off into their own spin about stuff. Give me facts and info not your life story.
We had that guy on here that would use nothing but a shotgun and shoot cars, windows, fences, milk jugs. That was the most ignorant crap i ever saw and couldn't watch 2 seconds of it.
I am a big hunter and used to enjoy watching some of the youtube hunting channels but now days everyone wants to get sponsored and get free stuff so they do a 40min video of how their bow/gun is, what boots, what deer pee. It gets pretty annoying because only 5min is the actual hunt. Same thing with some gun videos. Hickock tells it like it is, he isn't bias, he doesn't gloat what ammo manufacture he uses, etc. Yeah, he gets a little boring with shoot the pot, shoot the pig, shoot the goat. I usually skip that part and listen to the facts of the gun. I tried watching some stock bedding videos and some get pretty annoying because they go off into their own spin about stuff. Give me facts and info not your life story.
We had that guy on here that would use nothing but a shotgun and shoot cars, windows, fences, milk jugs. That was the most ignorant crap i ever saw and couldn't watch 2 seconds of it.
here is to hopes they stay away from the guy at the pawn shop.
Jim Watson
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I like Lucky Gunner. Under their video, they print a transcript with pictures, almost like reading a book or magazine. No yak, yak, yak, required.
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Them, and Ian (Forgotten weapons) are about the only ones I routinely watch..
I like watching firearm related YT videos but I agree there is a lot of junk out there. My favorites for actual reviews are Sootch00, James Reeves from TFB and Paul Harrell. Fortunecookie45LC is my favorite reloading video maker. I love the way he explains things.
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Was that the guy who would deer hunt with a Mossberg Shockwave just for the hell of it?
Don't forget capandball
British muzzle loaders....not sure I would call that a "gun" channel....but good stuff there as well.
As with all this junk to each their own, there are a few that I WILL NOT WATCH, because I know they have put out content on stuff they have zero clue about and come across as an expert.
Don't remember that one. This guy is a member here SP guns. He's the guy from another country that doesn't allow rifles, so he does a bunch of airgun and shotgun videos.
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Another top notch YT channel for gun info, not gun babble, is GunBlue490. That guy is an encyclopedia.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCv8VFOY6bGo7y6_X9y0uNJA
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCv8VFOY6bGo7y6_X9y0uNJA
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This is so true. (To a lesser extent, THR is similar in this respect.)
And on that note, I have to go do my taxes, which I have been putting off for 10 straight days! LOL
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We all want instant consumerism, don't we? We want unbiased reviews with no extraneous information. We want somebody else to do the work for us so that we don't have to and to present it in a manner that doesn't take up too much of our time for us to know exactly what we want to know and not anything superfluous.
I am not completely harshing on you. I sort of feel the same way. However, I learned to fast forward through videos to get the information I needed and to skip most of the extraneous crap. It isn't a perfect method, but I can sample a video and at least learn if it has what I need or not pretty quickly and if not, move on to other videos.
As for all of that nonsense that you don't like, while I agree it can be useless and annoying, it really plays well to many viewers. I am a YouTube creator and post hunting videos. One thing I have learned is that no matter how I do a video, there will be people who don't like some aspect of it. I get everything from me talking too much to not explaining enough. If I include the stalk in my video showing how I got to the animal, somebody won't like it because all they want to see is shooting and action. Afterwards, seems like everyone knows how I should have done it differently, LOL. I try to streamline things to viewer interests.
My point? Most creators customize their videos to viewer responses and what they are comfortable with doing and are capable of doing. I know there are some of MAC's or Hickock45's videos that include monologues about issues not directly relevant to a particular gun review. I skip through them. Many viewers, however, feel like those guys are talking directly to them and feel like they are a part of what is going on as a result and that garners them a lot more viewers.
My advice to you is to not deselect such channels because you feel that they are too long. As a consumer, you will be missing out on free information that you may not get elsewhere from guys who know something of what they are talking about. Learn to bypass the drivel and get to the meat of the issue about which you are interested. It will help you in forming your impression of what you are wanting to buy as compared to other reviewers.
Full30 exists mostly because creators get paid off of YouTube (originally) and later off of Patreon, and of course off of direct sponsors. Full30 is a closed club, only allowing certain people to present. They don't (or didn't as of a few months ago) pay their creators.
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