Armed in 1994

Hickok 45 here it's 1994 and I got a 40. I sure do and it's empty now because I took the mag out but it's a 40 I promise yes. So here we are 1994 we're always going back into time aren't we seems like maybe we'll go forward sometime into the future but we're looking at three firearms and three firearms battery that someone might have chosen in 1994 there's some of you not even born then probably but there were some good firearms then before then and after then right and here are three a Glock 40 Glock 23 40 caliber would have been very popular at that time period and how about a Benelli super 90 yes 12 gauge m1 they're very yeah into I say desirable in 1994 they were kind of pricey like they are now so not everybody had one but there were a lot of them and there's one okay a good choice in a shotgun maybe and then for a rifle how about a good old SKS Russian model a lot of them had come into the country by then and were floating around for whatever 69 bucks 99 bucks which is what I paid for this one 99 and so yeah not a bad choice most of us kind of like an SKS right not maybe the ultimate rifle of all time but not bad not bad so we're traveling back it was a interesting time and we'll talk over here so uh yeah we appreciate everybody helps us out and we're just going to look at 1994 again as I repeat in every one of these armed in videos the uh the uh what was like oh yeah the uh these choices are what someone might have made okay they're not the best choices necessarily in your opinion or mine but they are some of the choices at that time probably decent choices okay and uh you know lots of possibilities lots of possibilities but it was a great year I remembered I was around you know uh see Nelson Mandela was elected president of South Africa uh what else uh Forrest Gump the movie came out you know my hero Forrest Gump that's all I got to say about that and uh Jerry Springer was big on TV most of you probably watched that show a lot which is why your IQ now is about 30 points less than it might have been uh 1994 Michael Jordan was a famous baseball player in 94 yeah I think one of the baseball years you know when he was playing baseball and he was famous he was a famous baseball player I mean he was great but he was famous so it was a great year of gas was about a buck nine a gallon I saw that car average price of a car was about twelve thousand right so uh interesting time and uh those of you who are there might remember it many of you old enough 94 is not exactly ancient and you might have been collecting firearms buying firearms buying gasoline at a dollar nine a gallon and uh shooting ammo uh nine millimeter at two cents a shot too or whatever it was at that time so these are some interesting firearms I think and this is a fun one because uh these are all my firearms and guess what these are kind of some of my choices in 1994 this is a Glock 23 let's start with him a little bit and uh the 23 came out in about 1990 and 40 you know if it's a Glock 23 it's 40 caliber and this one's so old it even says 40 S&W on it because you know uh Smith & Wesson Winchester they got together and created the what the cartridge and everything and then Glock was the first one with a firearm that was available if you remember that uh and then Smith & Wesson right on its heels I guess but and then you know uh Winchester had the first boxes of ammo out again I was there and it's uh it's funny how fast time flies but it doesn't seem that long ago but gosh it was like what 30 32 three years ago and uh we were all excited about the the 40 caliber coming out and because I was involved in USPSA shooting and everything and there was a lot of talk about it and the development of it and you'd be able to shoot it in a standard size handgun and make major caliber you know in competition we talked some and of course about defensive but it was uh the fact you could you didn't have to go to a 45 or a bigger bullet with much less capacity in order to get to count major on your targets you know you got minor points and major points all that sort of thing in competition and many people use it and still do I guess uh a lot of people built guns based around it 1911s and everything else and then of course as we all know is extremely popular in law enforcement you know the FBI adopted it the 40 uh the the uh US Marshals yeah trying to say and I think the DEA and then innumerable law enforcement agencies around the country you know sheriff's departments city police's you name it I think at one point well I think Glock had like 65 to 70 percent of the law enforcement market I think in general and it seemed like everybody was carrying not everybody but whatever say 80 of the people that had adopted the Glock and law enforcement seemed like it was in the 40 wasn't it now we know that's mostly in the nine now but uh yeah but anyway if you weren't around then and you're just 15 years old and you're one of the cool cats cool kids you think it's cool to to bash the 40 on the internet and you don't even never even fired one or whatever uh you missed a little bit of life there bud because it is uh it ruled the day uh really did and it's a good cartridge there's nothing wrong with it at all I've got two guns just like this in 40 and they're sweet I'm going to shoot this one let's shoot some of this uh federal 40s yeah 165 grain of personal defense ammo and uh to be loud because I don't have a suppressor on this thing I want to thank Silencer Central for their support speaking of that silencercentral.com uh they really will help walk you through picking out the right suppressor for you and your firearm and uh once you're approved they'll ship it to your door so check them out and we really appreciate their support all right hey how about a rotten pumpkin let's blow it off there boom he's on the move all right didn't know I was gonna get a mover a moving target oh man move that one the cowboy just just a great gun great gun uh bash it all you want I've kind of gone denied myself I've explained why many times but it's not because this is not a great cartridge and a great gun you can feel a little more recoil you know a little snappy in this size firearm no doubt but uh I don't know early on I didn't hear a lot of people complaining about that they make a remark on it how it kicked a little more a little more recoil but hey no kidding it's a heavier bullet you know in the same gun as a Glock 19 and uh you know but I don't know it wasn't long before it seemed like people just complained about that a lot a lot of new shooters I guess and I still maintain that one thing that that hurts the 40 is just a lot of people don't handle recoil well and I understand that it's a lot easier shooter nine let's let's empty this mag it's a 40 round mag I think or a 20 round or it was mighty good to me yeah uh-oh I wounded that uh so the 40 would have been a good choice it would have been a very common choice very popular choice it was a very common choice for me okay the Glock 23 it carried for 10 years Glock 23 and they started out with a Gen 2 it came out about 1990 and uh you know after Gen 1 really had run its course and so it started with more or less the Gen 2 you know without the uh didn't have the uh rail yet or finger grooves and that sort of things you got with the Gen 3 and so this is a Gen 2 model an old one and uh had this a good while now so uh so the Glock 40 would have been a very a common choice and a very good choice and still is a very good choice despite what the naysayers and the had to say about it that's my opinion so what about the uh shotgun how about a Benelli Super 90 now I've replaced the stock on this you know it came most of them with a pistol grip a really nice pistol grip kind of like the M4 you know just that the rubberized is a great feel probably worth three times what this stock is but I I'm not a big fan of pistol grips on stocks or shotguns so I took that off replaced it and uh but uh yeah the Super 90 oh man I remember seeing videos on VHS at the time of people shooting in uh USPSA matches and things and and mowing down targets and seemed like the top shooters had a Benelli Super 90 and I wanted to be a top shooter I wanted to be like them you know and so I started looking around and I bought this one in 1989 okay I think they came out in 86 the M1 Super 90 this one's so old it's imported by it's got what HK yeah H and K on the side people ask about that all the time when they see it in the video and uh and so in 89 I bought it over in Oak Ridge Tennessee Kingston around in there and uh and I shot it I shot it in matches and just had a lot of fun with it it's a it's a great shotgun but it would have been one that was highly desirable uh a little pricey it was like six 650 you know at the time that was a lot of money for a shotgun and uh and so this this would have been a very understandable choice you know in 1994 it really would because it was a hot gun at that time and the M2 wasn't out yet I'm just and highly desirable and so this person whoever this is this mythical person they chose a Glock 40 which hadn't been out all that long new caliber and Glock and everything that's cool uh Super 90 shotgun inertial uh bolt action you know no gas operation very very reliable really shootable speaking of that let's make sure it's really shootable and uh so this would have been safety on a pretty good choice because if you wanted to shoot fast and have a shotgun that was pretty light not heavy to lug around yeah it would have been my choice again this was my choice you know lots of times uh maybe these are not my first choice and firearms in these videos I don't know these are my first choices but it's definitely my choice let's just take a couple shots with it and uh let's shoot one on no let's don't let's save that target let's just shoot that uh tombstone see it'll really smoke you can empty that magazine in no time if you want to it's uh uh just a wonderful gun I'm gonna shoot again if you'll let me safety on look at that that's the only negative it will not let you put a shell in backwards I've written to Vanelli about that and uh you know they just they just won't answer my emails for some reason when I uh remind them that their shotgun is not very flexible the primers have to be in the rear or else they won't fire and well I get the impression they're just laughing at me maybe wasn't that hilarious so yeah uh I've had this a long time and it was one of my choices in 94 basically even though I bought it before then because it was it was just a firearm that uh had a great reputation and it still does so now now watch me have a malfunction I just wanted to yeah it sort of did one hung up hung up didn't didn't feed I have actually had uh I don't know what that was about I have actually had over the last since we've been doing videos a couple of malfunctions with this thing and that's disturbed me I think I need upgrades on my springs you know it's pretty old and shot a lot I don't know I just never have gotten around to do it I keep talking about it but great shotguns we all know Vanelli so I've been a choice right for a shotgun you know not everybody you know would have made that you can get so many good old pump shotguns used ones off the police market or anything you know for a whole lot less money even then uh but uh great great choice and then for a rifle again lots of choices in the 90s right all sorts of ars and you name it bolt guns and everything else but the sks the russian models I think they a bunch of them were released around oh 88 I think it was so since the late 80s a lot of these were coming in now load it while I'm yakking at you and uh and so you know they were very popular you might remember if you were around or had some out they uh they and of course they were priced you know like crazy cheap you know back then even the russian models were like yeah I think I remember them at 59 you may remember them even cheaper but seem like 69 59 69 seems to be the price I remember the most and then I think by the time I bought one though uh I paid 99 for this one all right make you sick huh and uh I meant to look that year up uh that was you're right use the right ammo we have a video called that yeah the round seemed short to me all of a sudden uh so yeah in the 90s you could get these things for nothing almost and uh it's what happens with all these surplus rifles and shotguns or whatever you know they when once a bunch of them are kind of released or dumped on the market they're very inexpensive uh for a while and we tend to not regard them that valuable because they're so cheap but they're nice rifles aren't they many of you have one of these got safety on good old sks the russian models highly highly desirable let's go over there and pop something let's take the safety off might help really nice come on haven't shot him yet let's bolt off that two-liter thinks he's gonna get away right there got him on the last round yeah sks is standard everybody knows about them i put this on i wonder why it could be because i'm six eight you think this is tool i believe and uh it's made in 1954 and i i think this one you've seen this before in videos maybe we've done a couple of videos with it it's uh i don't think it's a refurb i think it's i think it was just never really you know user issued you know it's not any smarts on or me that's from probably a gun safe uh you know you can you can sort of tell a rifle the stock you got even though it's been redone refinished you got some deep gouges here and there and darker and everything uh all the blemishes on this are me it was like brand new so i'm sure they didn't just take it and sand it down totally or anything like to get that finish and it's just got a totally unused look about it now we're empty of course cool thing about them was that that bayonet just like uh you know the spiker uh ak uh opens the same way great rifle and because they were so inexpensive it was just a really really common choice and and a good choice they tend to work they really do 10 rounds semi-automatic they're available nothing special you know like even though it's a russian firearm it's not full auto select fire and have to go through all kinds of hoops to own it it's just like buying you know these other firearms are all semi-automatic of course so yeah for less than a hundred dollars uh that would have been something a person could buy and again this less than six or seven and the glocks you know what they sold for back then about four i guess like that three something uh good good good choices uh for that that that time period as well as today i would say wouldn't you not bad not bad at all a glock 40 and 12 gauge super 90 m1 and an sks you really could do a lot worse uh that's my opinion so uh i owned all three of these i want to say 19 1994 1995 but it was right around that time period so basically i owned these firearms and in that year we're talking about now they weren't my only ones i i think kind of the spirit of this these armed in uh videos the spirit of it is maybe if you just had these these three you had to choose a pistol a rifle and a shotgun this these would have been the choices of you know somebody maybe a lot of somebodies you know uh many of us we have three or four rifles maybe uh and you know so it's it's a little different but i did own all of these three and so they were my choices just that they were not my exclusive uh choice it's okay that making sense do i ever make any sense so anyway that's just uh my take on it those would have been three good choices and i'm sure beyond a shadow of a doubt that those were the choices of somebody somewhere who had maybe no other firearms 22 revolver or something you know so sks uh m1 super 90 and a glock 23 i tell you what i could live with those today actually i do they're mine life is good oh yeah that's better this is a great gun for defense oh hey didn't see you guys there uh while i've got you here i want to remind you of 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