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GeorgeHWBush said:
Hopefully he can cover some non-forgotten weapons. I think it would be nice to just have some good Ian vids on the basic A1, A2, M4 carbine development, etc...
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What the shit said:
There is only so many firearms in the world you can cover, unless he somehow get's futuristic experimental weapons to cover.
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He's doing highlights from SHOT Show this week.
 
What the shit said:
I personally think Ian should post once a week or maybe even 2 weeks. He's just pumping video after video and that's how he'll run out of content, and I genuinely don't mind waiting a week or 2 for some unique and informative videos about some obscure firearm during a certain era.
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He recently cut back to fewer videos a week, and one of these videos will be some sort of commentary/analysis video. So I guess he agrees with you. Getting access to well-preserved old guns he hasn't covered yet must be getting difficult.
 
Archie_Kimkicker said:
It wouldn't surprise me if at least Karl has gotten blacklisted from ShotShow at this point.
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LOL no.

The only people I’m aware of that have actually gotten banned from SHOT Show were for conducting sales without being paid exhibitors, criminal conduct (convicted felons can still attend), and over the top drunk/disorderly stuff.

Corn Flakes said:
Considering his stance on (by which I mean how he lost his mind about) the 'rona it might be that he just didn't want to go. Lots of people in there, and spoopy Omicron is still going around.

Who knows, we might still get a video from him. He didn't specifically mention not going, did he?
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Karl did specifically mention not going yesterday. It’s not a great venue for generating any kind of thorough content.

Officially show attendance is down 50% to 30,000 people and many vendors backed out. Unofficially people I know that are there say it’s probably even lower. The pandemic has been the catalyst for companies realizing that maybe spending all this money without definitive ROI isn’t really worth it. Sig published it would have cost them $1million to attend + the potential cost of hundreds of employees coming home sick and potentially disrupting production further. People out sick hurts the bottom line.

There are a lot of other ways to spend advertising dollars in the age of the internet with more definitive ROI. Exhibitors cannot sell goods on the floor, only take orders. This hurts direct ROI assessment and limits overall sales because people can’t leave the show with your new widget.

Personally I’ve gotten sick 15/19 times going. A few of those times were really bad. Combine that with the waning business value and expense and I simply don’t enjoy or look forward to going. This is the first time in 20 years I haven’t gone.
 
What the shit said:
I personally think Ian should post once a week or maybe even 2 weeks. He's just pumping video after video and that's how he'll run out of content, and I genuinely don't mind waiting a week or 2 for some unique and informative videos about some obscure firearm during a certain era.
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C&Rsenal’s model seems to work pretty well for this. Longer form detailed videos every couple weeks or so, and a short vignette every few days. I’m sure Ian has a bunch of extra background info on the firearms he covers, and could easily ramble on in longer, less frequent videos.
 
GeorgeHWBush said:
If your rifle is freezing, you have bigger issues than fighting…
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I've seen other people's hunting rifles that weren't maintained well freeze on trips that weren't even particularly uncomfortable. Around here you can't use shitty oil or it'll gum up in the cold, but you have to use some oil because otherwise all the humidity and moisture will condense and freeze in the gun.
 
Corn Flakes said:
I genuinely can't understand why people insist in trying to mix their coom material with their gun material. Like, even if I'm watching a woman doing a presentation on guns, I'd rather she was sensibly dressed. I've seen what happens when brass lands inside a cleavage.
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There was a gun incident where an onlyfans thot shot herself in the pussy with a gun while making a video. If that isn't the peak mix of the two I don't know what is.
 
Meat Target said:
Man, Forgotten Weapons really seems to be running out of material. It's a shame, because I love starting my morning with Gun Jesus Storytime.
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THere are, unfortunately, only so many guns. Really the final frontier for Ian at this point is Russia since that's pretty much the one country he hasn't been able to really get into their museums but I highly doubt that he's gonna get the proper permissions due to world politics.
 
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1) Find the stuff no one is writing about so there is no time crunch. There are entire floors of small, no name manufacturers.

2) InRange was the only place showcasing dumb stuff like the trigger activated flashlight.

3) The pandemic will never be over with people like you.
 
HelpingNoone said:
3) The pandemic will never be over with people like you.
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In all fairness conventions have always been known as disease breeding grounds even before the Corona panic set in. SHOT, E3, ComicCon, etc. All those big national conventions with tens of thousands of attendees have always been followed up with mass reports of people getting the flu and VD.
 
waffle said:
I've seen other people's hunting rifles that weren't maintained well freeze on trips that weren't even particularly uncomfortable. Around here you can't use shitty oil or it'll gum up in the cold, but you have to use some oil because otherwise all the humidity and moisture will condense and freeze in the gun.
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Oh damn, I didn't think about the condensation...
 
Sleazy Car Salesman said:
In all fairness conventions have always been known as disease breeding grounds even before the Corona panic set in. SHOT, E3, ComicCon, etc. All those big national conventions with tens of thousands of attendees have always been followed up with mass reports of people getting the flu and VD.
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The term "con crud" exists for a reason, after all.
 
GeorgeHWBush said:
Oh damn, I didn't think about the condensation...
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Yeah, an oil that'll stay liquid in the cold will do you a lot of favors because it will keep moisture out of the action. Karl and (to a lesser extent) Ian both seem to have a blind spot related to the fact that how you maintain your gun is atleast partially dictated by your local environment. Karl had a recent eyeopener on this with his pistol freezing in Finland because he didn't have any oil in it and the striker channel filled with water and froze.
 
waffle said:
Yeah, an oil that'll stay liquid in the cold will do you a lot of favors because it will keep moisture out of the action. Karl and (to a lesser extent) Ian both seem to have a blind spot related to the fact that how you maintain your gun is atleast partially dictated by your local environment. Karl had a recent eyeopener on this with his pistol freezing in Finland because he didn't have any oil in it and the striker channel filled with water and froze.
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They're from the Southwest. In a place like that you could leave a gun outside in a shed for years and it might not even rust. Never having to deal with something makes people ignore it until they can't anymore.
 
I think it was in one of the Primary & Secondary podcasts that some former special ops were talking about extreme conditions, and one thing they learned from training in Norway was that they didn't bring their rifles into their tents. Because the temps are kept higher inside the absolute humidity increases, bringing the rifles in will condense that humidity into the action, and getting out again would freeze the weapons.
Also apparently if you change barrels on a machine gun while laying on a decent amount of snow, you have to have a shooting mat or else it vanishes.
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All those big national conventions with tens of thousands of attendees have always been followed up with mass reports of people getting the flu and VD.
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If you're not tongue kissing and rawdogging everyone what's even the point of attending?
 
UVB-76 said:
I think it was in one of the Primary & Secondary podcasts that some former special ops were talking about extreme conditions, and one thing they learned from training in Norway was that they didn't bring their rifles into their tents. Because the temps are kept higher inside the absolute humidity increases, bringing the rifles in will condense that humidity into the action, and getting out again would freeze the weapons.
Also apparently if you change barrels on a machine gun while laying on a decent amount of snow, you have to have a shooting mat or else it vanishes.
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Anything hot will sink into the snow and you won't find it unless you dig. It's worse on ice since it'll melt itself into the ice and then the water will refreeze around it and lock it in until you either chip it out or the motherfucker melts through the ice and then you're SOL. Lot of ice fishing gear gets lost through similar means. If you're out in the cold and bring your gear into your house one of the first things you do with your gun and anything else that can rust from moisture is you put it on top of your heating vents with the action open so that warm air from the vet gets blasted up the barrel to clear out that condensation as quickly as possible, at least that's what my family does.
 
Sleazy Car Salesman said:
Anything hot will sink into the snow and you won't find it unless you dig. It's worse on ice since it'll melt itself into the ice and then the water will refreeze around it and lock it in until you either chip it out or the motherfucker melts through the ice and then you're SOL. Lot of ice fishing gear gets lost through similar means. If you're out in the cold and bring your gear into your house one of the first things you do with your gun and anything else that can rust from moisture is you put it on top of your heating vents with the action open so that warm air from the vet gets blasted up the barrel to clear out that condensation as quickly as possible, at least that's what my family does.
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Yeah. I've seen firsthand hot things get stuck in ice within a matter of seconds. I was trying to cool down one component of a thermal fit and accidentally dropped it in my icebox. It was almost instantly stuck in the middle of 10lbs of ice.
 
What the shit said:
I personally think Ian should post once a week or maybe even 2 weeks. He's just pumping video after video and that's how he'll run out of content, and I genuinely don't mind waiting a week or 2 for some unique and informative videos about some obscure firearm during a certain era.
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Did he ever finish discussing the guns used in the original Star Wars trilogy? Content like that could be a good way to space things out.
 
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