General GunTuber thread

[Bassomatic]

I'm too drunk and slow can someone Tl;dr Ians book?

Some swede maybe nazi wrote a book he helped publish and drama?

 

[Corn Flakes]

For all the hate Karl gets about his personal politics there’s two things he definitely isn’t: a communist; he likes profiting off his work just fine.

Not to ignore the rest of your post and I don't doubt Karl likes his profits, but... it's not like avowedly far-left idiots aren't fond of making loads of money. Our good friend Hasan Piker is here to bear us out on that.

Anyway, good luck with the business. Spikes are never fun, but if things are steady afterwards it's all good.

 

[WhoBusTank69]

Karl

To sum it up plainly; he represents himself poorly and is known to extend an olive branch to those opposite on the horseshoe to those he vehemently denounces.
It's nothing that PR or "He's really nice once you get to know him" can fix, he's putting it out there himself and sees no issues with it.

I'm too drunk and slow can someone Tl;dr Ians book?

Some swede maybe nazi wrote a book he helped publish and drama?

Headstamp offered to publish a book on fighting in Ukraine but because it was written by a guy in a Nazi battalion it's verboten. Funding site got brigaded immediately, multiple times, until he decided to shut it down entirely and plead ignorance.

 

[AGPinochet]

Can someone point me to or give me a quick rundown on guntubers seeming to coalesce in Texas?

I have heard others in this thread say it is related to BRCC especially in relation to Herrera

Is Garand Thumb in Texas now?

He still lives in Washington.

 

[wopirish]

He still lives in Washington.

Oh man, wonder when antifa led by tacticooltranny will lobby the state to confiscate his stuff. "Escape to Idaho" isn't a fairytale; its a prohpecy

 

[The Grognard]

I'm too drunk and slow can someone Tl;dr Ians book?

Some swede maybe nazi wrote a book he helped publish and drama?

The brief summary of that drama is that Ian got a manuscript from some Swedish Azov Battalion soldier, wanted it to be published because he found it interesting and this displeased the pronoun twitter folk most likely because they somehow believe this will spread fascism. Of course, the side-effect of it is that the same pronoun-wonks have started to consider Ian a neo-nazi for daring to even attempt such a venture. I do fully expect one of the smaller publishers in continental Europe to pick up the manuscript anyways because those outlets do not care a rat's arse about what Anglos larpers think of them.

 

[WinchesterWhiskey]

Thanks we had a solid team of people to make it happen from subcontractors and engineers and labor.

Without InRange promoting it there never would have been enough interest to justify all the expense to make this happen. Even with social unrest and the normal election cycle panic we wouldn’t have sold that many if InRange hadn’t made it interesting/acceptable to their audience. For all the hate Karl gets about his personal politics there’s two things he definitely isn’t: a communist; he likes profiting off his work just fine. He likes his business partners being successful as well. And secondly he’s definitely not anti-gun; he helped arm tens of thousands of more Americans.

Im glad things have slowed down. The stress of that extended period of insane business volume had a negative impact on my health and things are finally returning to normal. I would much rather have consistent predictable business volume than this roller coaster that seems to get more extreme every time. I’m dreading 2024 already though.

What are your predictions for 2024?

 

[Mikoyan]

The brief summary of that drama is that Ian got a manuscript from some Swedish Azov Battalion soldier, wanted it to be published because he found it interesting and this displeased the pronoun twitter folk most likely because they somehow believe this will spread fascism. Of course, the side-effect of it is that the same pronoun-wonks have started to consider Ian a neo-nazi for daring to even attempt such a venture. I do fully expect one of the smaller publishers in continental Europe to pick up the manuscript anyways because those outlets do not care a rat's arse about what Anglos larpers think of them.

Yeah. I expect some actual right-friendly press to pick this up ASAP.

 

[SinistralRifleman]

What are your predictions for 2024?

Another wave of panic buying. The severity of which will be determined by who is running and how much chaos there is preceding the election.

It happened in 2008, 2012/23, 2016, and 2020. Each cycle has gotten more severe. The 2004 sales surge was because the AWB sunsetted, 2001 was because of 9/11: so I don’t really put those into the same category. Some of 2020 sales were driven by security fears the same way 2001 was, but part of it was political too.

 

[Mikoyan]

Another wave of panic buying. The severity of which will be determined by who is running and how much chaos there is preceding the election.

It happened in 2008, 2012/23, 2016, and 2020. Each cycle has gotten more severe. The 2004 sales surge was because the AWB sunsetted, 2001 was because of 9/11: so I don’t really put those into the same category. Some of 2020 sales were driven by security fears the same way 2001 was, but part of it was political too.

2020 was a confluence of a lot of things with amazing timing. I was telling everyone to stock up in anticipation of it due to the political cycle but it hit sooner and harder than even I predicted.

I agree about 24, as you'd imagine. The expected red sweep this fall might create some opportunities for consumers to get ahead of the next cycle.

But they won't. They rarely do.

In general industry stuff: Was it any easier this go-round as far as the cost and production time for molds, vs. the earlier versions of the poly lower? I've been wondering how the proliferation of CNC and such has impacted that market.

 

[SinistralRifleman]

In general industry stuff: Was it any easier this go-round as far as the cost and production time for molds, vs. the earlier versions of the poly lower? I've been wondering how the proliferation of CNC and such has impacted that market.

The CAV-15 and CAV-15 MKII molds were made by Shawn Nealon at his parents’ mold shop. They had aluminum cores and cavities. Development time was roughly similar. It took about a year for the full development cycle of the CAV-15 MKII. Some of that was because sonic welding didn’t work and it had to be converted to vibration welding for production. Cost wise was probably less with the family connection and doing some of the labor himself.

The KP-15 is a production steel tool rated for a million shots. Under normal circumstances it should have taken 6 months to get done. Covid disrupting everything made it take just under a year.

 

[Pocket Dragoon]

Ammo will take years to correct. The over all appetite for ammo increased with 8 million new gun owners and that many more guns in circulation.
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Ammo manufacturing infrastructure is being expanded but the lines to make more faster take months to years to set up.

I've been hearing rumblings about composite ammo becoming a thing in coming years, but it's tied to the Army's Next Generation Squad Weapons (NGSW) Program; in that large manufacturers are waiting to see if the composite 6.8 is adopted, before producing composite-cased ammunition to the civilian sector.

Do you expect to see composite ammo take off sooner as the technology matures, with the help of smaller manufacturers who could retool & adapt faster than large suppliers? I'll use True Velocity .308 as an example.

 

[SinistralRifleman]

I've been hearing rumblings about composite ammo becoming a thing in coming years, but it's tied to the Army's Next Generation Squad Weapons (NGSW) Program; in that large manufacturers are waiting to see if the composite 6.8 is adopted, before producing composite-cased ammunition to the civilian sector.

Do you expect to see composite ammo take off sooner as the technology matures, with the help of smaller manufacturers who could retool & adapt faster than large suppliers? I'll use True Velocity .308 as an example.

I don’t think it’s going to work well in existing chamberings not designed to be polymer. The neck of the casing is the weak point. It is less forgiving to misfeeds and feeding angle deviation.

Designing new cartridges based around it that require a barrel change but use the same bolt and magazines is the way to go. Make a 5.56 equivalent with a fully supported neck.

 

[HelpingNoone]

The CAV-15 and CAV-15 MKII molds were made by Shawn Nealon at his parents’ mold shop. They had aluminum cores and cavities. Development time was roughly similar.

Did they only ever make two molds? No wonder the quality varied so much over time...

We often would build an aluminum mold and run under 30-40 parts and never use it again.

If they already had a die shop, the extra time cutting steel and material cost is negligible. Aluminum is so soft, I've completely ruined an insert by dropping an allen wrench 6 inches into it while assembling.

 

[SinistralRifleman]

Did they only ever make two molds? No wonder the quality varied so much over time...

We often would build an aluminum mold and run under 30-40 parts and never use it again.

If they already had a die shop, the extra time cutting steel and material cost is negligible. Aluminum is so soft, I've completely ruined an insert by dropping an allen wrench 6 inches into it while assembling.

One mold base, two different sets of cores and cavities.

With maintenance they should have been able to last a hundred thousand shots or more.

 

[HelpingNoone]

With maintenance they should have been able to last a hundred thousand shots or more.

Maybe if it was a simple cavity and core. With all the ejector pins and slides I can't imagine those things looked all that great after 10k cycles. Especially using glass filled.

Good on you for doing it right. Your customers 500k from now are gonna be just as satsfied as the first 1000. Probably more so as the secondary operations improved.

 

[HumptiDouji]

More proof Ian is a gigantic faggot. This isn't the first time either.

I know you hate the guy, but if he only bought the gun to do a video, what the fuck is he supposed to do with it if it doesn't interest him? Just hold onto it for the hell of it? I'm led to believe it's an uncommon Mauser, so it probably is worth about that to an interested collector.
Now, if the buyer is some kind of simp freak and is more interested in it because he owned it once, rather than its history, that's still on the buyer for being a retard.

His auction house videos have always had a big element of trying to pump up that lot in the auction, and that's... sure a thing.

I imagine it's part of the agreement with the auction houses and sellers, he shows the things off and gets to act as sort of commercial for them, it's not like they were doing it out of the kindness of their hearts.

I still think though all this is iffy the RTI junkpile was the scummiest thing he's done.

Agree, that could have been a lot more transparent.

Hey, I'd love to have one of james earl jones' guns.

Love his moves, but I seriously don't understand the value of this provenance, the man is known for buying up the stock of bankrupting gunshops and thus accruing all kinds of random crap, some which happens to have value.

Saw a guy show of some old German .25 caliber pocket gun which had this provenance, and it wasn't remarkable outside of somewhat low production numbers. If it was a gun he had used in a movie maybe, or he had carried it for real and shot a deranged celebrity stalker with it or something, then that would have been actually interesting, but as it is, it's probable that this gun may not even have touched his hands.

Another wave of panic buying.

I'm expecting a lot of firey, but mostly peaceful protests.

I don’t think it’s going to work well in existing chamberings not designed to be polymer. The neck of the casing is the weak point. It is less forgiving to misfeeds and feeding angle deviation.

Didn't know that, I guess that's on me for not paying much attention to that kinda ammo.

 

[UVB-76]

Can someone point me to or give me a quick rundown on guntubers seeming to coalesce in Texas? Is this a thing or am I being a schizo? I don't actively watch a lot of guntubers but over the past year have noticed collaborations with those in Texas, starting with apparently Demo Ranch and it seems to have grown.
Is Garand Thumb in Texas now? Did he get out of the Air Force to become a full time e-celeb?

Is this like when youtubers move to California so they can all do gay collaborations and generate e-drama in an attempt to network and kick off their e-careers? Am I crazy?

A ton of "online people" such as podcasters, youtubers and such are converging into Texas. It's not just a guntuber thing. Hell, Joe Rogan was supposed to bring over a ton of comedians with him to Austin, although only a few of them stayed. Long story short is, unless you want to star in TV shows or movies there's no point in moving to LA or NYC to "make it". Even liberals are fed up so they're moving to the next big blue city, Austin, and this snowballs into Texas becoming the trendy place to go.
With guntubers Demo might have been their Rogan but it's probably more than just the opportunity for collabs, they're also doing a rational business decision because no income tax and cost of living is below national average.

 

[WhoBusTank69]

Even liberals are fed up so they're moving to the next big blue city, Austin, and this snowballs into Texas becoming the trendy place to go.

Lefty tech has been pushing Austin pretty hard for the past 10 years and it's slowly making a dent in voting demographic to the point where people who have actually lived there are having some concerns.

 

[HelpingNoone]

Lefty tech has been pushing Austin pretty hard for the past 10 years and it's slowly making a dent in voting demographic to the point where people who have actually lived there are having some concerns.

Thats my fear for Florida. It does appear COVID has made it a little less of a swing state in the right direction.

Texas is gonna have some huge census issues in the near future. About 1000 illegals crossing their border every day. Even if you don't get illegals to vote, there is a huge incentive for the left to gain seats.