General GunTuber thread

[White Devil]

Fighting with nods is a relatively new phenomenon when you think of it. Well for conventional forces. End of the day its still shoot, move, communicate.

Yet guntube seems to think slapping a PVS 14 over your eye turns you into a terminator.

Can't wait for all the broken ankles when these assholes actually try to larp for real with NODs.

 

[Corn Flakes]

Can't wait for all the broken ankles when these assholes actually try to larp for real with NODs.

I can only imagine them going full ED-209 the moment they try to go down a flight of stairs.

 

[Cpl. Long Dong Silver]

I can only imagine them going full ED-209 the moment they try to go down a flight of stairs.

Or they have to go through a transitional lighting situation/somebody flicks on the lights in a room clear.

 

[Club Sandwich]

speaking from experience, the biggest advantage a PVS gave me was better land navigation when wandering around or doing observation. when shooting, most of the time you either had one or two team leaders point with the IR laser at something and others would follow it like old school tracers to engage a point target or area, or you would have a weapon mounted optic like a PVS-14 in front of a red dot. the rest of the time, if you're in darkness and your enemy has a brighter background, you're shooting into the light and you get a good silhouette without needing a PVS, and if it's bright enough you get PID too from outlines of a nearby vehicle or their weapon or hearing any stuff they might say.

before binocular vision was common (and even red dots were common, so early 90's), you would use a PVS-7 for landnav and an older PVS-4 passive on the weapon mount and before you ingressed, you would use a spare lens cap with a pin hole in the front to zero at dusk at whatever range you expected and just shoot center mass all the time with bursts. you would have to keep the lens cap on too if you had a bright muzzle flash or you'd damage the phosphor tube.

Hop has very strong opinions on optics too

i've heard all kinds of things about optics even from otherwise pretty knowledgeable gun people. i think it's a bit worse these days since a lot of optics are being pushed based on dubiously useful features or because of marketing/branding or because some secret squirrel types supposedly use it so it must be good, et c. it's the same trap some fall into thinking that gadgets can provide ability/skill/talent vs enhance what you already have through genuine training and regular practice.

 

[HumptiDouji]

Are ACOGs and red dots just not good enough anymore?

 

[Archie_Kimkicker]

Influencer culture in the gun world brands any old gear as "fuddish" when it clearly is not, because it's all about convincing retards to throw down for the latest and greatest rehash. It's the Apple effect, where bugmen line up each year for the "refresh". Now imagine that with guns.

 

[Cpl. Long Dong Silver]

Are ACOGs and red dots just not good enough anymore?

No they're fine, don't buy into the latest chinesium super double motion activated acss reticle hype.

Maybe I'm just becoming a fudd but I really don't like these super busy reticles PA is pumping out. On a long distance precision bolt gun sure but if you're only going out 2 to 3 hundred meters that shit is clutter.

 

[Badungus Kabungus]

The BAR conversion would be hard. most of them have a hinge mag system sorta like a french RSC 1917
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Now I'm picturing a Mk. II BAR in with a Magpul SGA stock and a matching forend, fed from a home-made 20rd mag. Hmm. Could be an interesting project.

 

[UVB-76]

It's the Apple effect, where bugmen line up each year for the "refresh". Now imagine that with guns.

I think the more apt comparison is the "min/maxing" and "meta build" effects. It's not even about the cult following, even though it clearly exists in the gun world, but trying to have a configuration that maxes out the stats as if it was a videogame weapon.

 

[White Devil]

I think the more apt comparison is the "min/maxing" and "meta build" effects. It's not even about the cult following, even though it clearly exists in the gun world, but trying to have a configuration that maxes out the stats as if it was a videogame weapon.

Which is useless if you don't have the skills to utilize the weapon.

 

[Only A Retard Sometimes]

I think the more apt comparison is the "min/maxing" and "meta build" effects. It's not even about the cult following, even though it clearly exists in the gun world, but trying to have a configuration that maxes out the stats as if it was a videogame weapon.

hop's channel used to be all gaming content before he started doing the gun stuff. he's scrubbed that off the internet pretty well though.

 

[Archie_Kimkicker]

hop's channel used to be all gaming content before he started doing the gun stuff. he's scrubbed that off the internet pretty well though.

>being afraid of past content tainting your current brand when your current brand attracts the exact same personalities and thought processes

 

[HelpingNoone]

its because he spent 4k on NVG's and now he has to justify that purchase you see it in most people that buy nods.

I stumbled on this guys channel dedicated to hikes and dog walking with NVG or thermals.

 

[Sleazy Car Salesman]

Are ACOGs and red dots just not good enough anymore?

ACOGs and simple RDS don't have enough feature creep.

 

[An Account]

God forbid you say anything about NODs are NVGs on /k/. It’s like stepping into a nest of fucking Pokemon named “Poor.”

 

[Jaded Optimist]

New British Muzzleloader vid

 

[Cpl. Long Dong Silver]

Wake up babe, new hot take dropped

 

[Sleazy Car Salesman]

Wake up babe, new hot take dropped

I hate prism scopes, I'm gonna buy this prism scope and then talk shit about it.

EDIT: "I'm also going to shoot AR platform rifles but never even once in my life will I use the nose to the charging handle trick to ensure that I have a consistent grip with my too long stock so that I can't use most optics.

 

[HelpingNoone]

Wake up babe, new hot take dropped

I kinda of think Hop is loosing his way with this Gucci gear. I'd much rather hear his take on a swampfox or some other crap tier gear.

It's fairly well known that the Elcan is heavy, pricey, and old.

NVG is changing him....

 

[Only A Retard Sometimes]

I kinda of think Hop is loosing his way with this Gucci gear. I'd much rather hear his take on a swampfox or some other crap tier gear.

It's fairly well known that the Elcan is heavy, pricey, and old.

NVG is changing him....

yeah he used to be the patron saint of taurus.

and why is he complaining about it blocking the charging handle? you only have use it once.