Sunday Shoot-a-Round #258
1 Video View·Dec 10, 2024
When you're down in Tennessee, where freedom is alive.
You hear shots ringing from the wall.
Hickok 45, it's here and it's filled with love.
When you're down in Tennessee, where freedom is alive.
Yes, Hickok 45, your internet shooting companion,
coming to you from the cold hills of Tennessee
with a big boomer today.
Yes, Tennessee, the home of Alvin York.
Pretty appropriate.
I believe yesterday was Pearl Harbor Day, right?
Saturday.
So anyway, I thought a big boomer might be appropriate today.
I have not fired the Ruger No. 1 in quite a while.
And it really deserves to be brung out and rung out.
Brung and rung, right?
Speaking of good grammar, bad grammar.
Yes, and .338 Win Mag, if you're not familiar with it.
If you didn't recognize that big cartridge.
Yeah, .338 Win Mag is a Haas.
And hopefully you have seen this firearm in a couple of videos.
It's a beautiful, beautiful firearm.
These Ruger No. 1s, all are really.
And this one especially.
Just very, very nice.
Gosh, what a beaut.
I can't believe I even had that out more.
I should be ashamed of myself.
I didn't mean to do that, but I did.
I was reaching for a hammer.
I'm used to the old-style signal shots
or the Remington Rolling Block or Sharps.
You have a hammer, an external hammer.
Most likely you have a hammer on about every firearm.
At least a striker.
Something needs to hit the primer, doesn't it?
It does. It needs to hit the primer.
So, yeah, I thought I'd get that out.
Punish myself a lot.
I did already punish myself.
It's cold and everything hurts a little more, right?
And I don't know.
When you've got a big boomer shotgun or anything,
you want to get a good grip in your shoulder.
And you don't want to have that finger there loosely
against the front of the trigger guard.
And I didn't really that time.
I'm not sure why it got me like that.
But you want to have a good grip on it
so it doesn't fly back quickly,
even a half inch, quarter of an inch.
So maybe I didn't have it against my shoulders
tightly as I should have.
But that is a pretty gun.
It deserves to be fired, doesn't it?
It deserves some time outdoors out of the safe.
It really does.
Even if it's cold.
So glad you're here.
Out here in the woods with me.
This happens every winter.
I don't seem like we could do something about this cold weather.
I don't know why.
There ought to be a way to fix it
with all the technology we have.
But there it is, cold.
And it's going to be even colder
I think tomorrow and the next day.
It just depends.
But today is bearable.
And I thought I'd get a couple things out
and fire a couple shots.
Talk at you a little bit.
Keep the tradition of the Sunday shoot-arounds going.
This is what number?
Yeah, .257.
We're getting close to what?
Four years worth?
No, five years.
Five years worth of Sunday shoots around.
Is that right?
No.
Sunday shoot-arounds.
That is a good one, yeah.
Shoot-arounds.
Plural, singular.
There's a grammar talk, right,
for the Hickok 45 Talks channel.
It reminded me of the father-in-law, of course.
Or son-in-law would be better.
Daughter-in-law.
Yeah, you don't have two daughter-in-laws
or two son-in-laws, do you?
Yeah, most of you know that,
even if we misuse it sometimes.
We have two sons-in-law,
two daughters-in-law, right?
Two brothers-in-law.
But another topic.
Yeah, grammar topic.
So yeah, .338 Win Mag.
Glad you're here.
Don't forget the Hickok 45 Talks channel
and the Clips channel.
Check them out.
And what else?
Gosh, I don't know.
Anything of interest to you?
No, not really.
Not really.
You know, I've been working.
Speaking of great firearms,
I've been working on my document.
I may have told you about.
If you're a firearms collector,
I recommend everybody do this.
I finally got around to it this year.
I think I started on it last year
and I lost a file or something.
But if you're a collector,
and maybe I can put my gloves on
since I'm not planning to pick my nose or anything.
But if you have firearms in a collection,
a collection started or whatever,
you've got some special firearms
handed down to you maybe.
You want to get pictures of them,
get a nice picture of each one.
And do it however you want it.
What I have done is got a picture of each one
of the special firearms,
like historical or from,
not historical necessarily even,
just ones that were handed down from my dad
and ones I bought early on,
like the Model 29 and some things like that.
Firearms that have a special sentiment
for some reason, whatever it may be.
It wouldn't have to be extreme,
but just something that is sentimental
or has a story behind it
or a story at all with it.
And just write that up in a paragraph or two.
Next paragraph, the title,
the model of the gun, serial number,
and then when I bought it,
under what circumstances,
when I fired it, why I like it,
why I keep it or whatever.
And so I finally got that together
to pass on down for special firearms.
And I keep that in a locked box
and send a copy to John.
But down the road,
it will be worth the effort,
the little bit of effort,
to your heirs,
your sons, daughters,
grandsons, daughters, whatever.
It will be interesting to them.
Think about that.
What if you have an old gun?
Some of you probably do.
From your dad, your grandpa, your grandma,
whoever, great, great, great grandma.
You've got a firearm
and all you know is that
your great grandpa owned it.
It was his old shotgun
or whatever it might be.
Muzzleloader, you name it.
But that's all you know.
It's pretty well verified it did belong
to your great grandfather or your grandfather
or an uncle, whoever.
But you really don't know anything beyond that.
Well, it would be kind of cool,
wouldn't it, to have a couple of paragraphs
written about that firearm from them?
I started to say while they're alive.
Having written it while they're alive
because that is the very best time
to write something when you're alive.
It's just so difficult when you're underground.
I bought this old rabbit gun
at a hardware store in downtown
Frankfort, Kentucky
in 1942 or something
or 1947
and paid X amount for it.
100 rabbits with it
for the next 10 years.
Traded it to my brother-in-law
and bought it back from him
in 1960.
You know, that'd be pretty interesting
to know, wouldn't it, about it?
Anyway, got that done.
Thanks for the people that help us.
Bud's Gun Shop.
Yeah.
Over 10 years with Bud's
and they're right there
on your electronic device
no matter where you are, right?
Your computer screen.
Check them out.
And so is Silencer Central.
Wonderful outfit.
You've seen all the Banish
line of suppressors
that we have demonstrated
and have some,
I think a couple you haven't seen yet.
So I've been shooting
one of them this week, some.
Having fun with that.
And then the Sonoran Desert Institute.
They do exactly what they say they do
and they offer courses
in lots of different areas.
Drone technology, firearms technology.
You can get yourself on the path
to becoming a gunsmith.
Wonderful outfit.
Appreciate their support.
So I have another gun out here too.
Speaking of firearms,
I might fire, I don't know.
I think I should get it dirty.
Who knows what that is?
It's a pistol.
It's a revolver.
Anybody know what model it is?
Some of you are figuring it out.
Also, you see that pin barrel.
Oh, wow.
Pretty cool, huh?
Looks like a vintage revolver
to some extent.
The fact that it's stainless steel
tells you it's not like 1860 or anything, right?
But it's not a recent manufacturer
because it is pin barrel.
Recessed cylinders.
So it is a model 66.
Some of you were right.
It's a model 66-1.
You should have seen it
in a video somewhere before.
.357 Magnum.
Model 66.
Don't see as many, maybe,
in that configuration
with a 2 1⁄2 inch barrel,
round butt, and everything.
But that's a jewel.
That's a little jewel
that deserves a little attention occasionally.
More so than just fondling.
Perhaps a round or two
coming out of that barrel.
Don't you think?
Why don't we just do it?
It's all worth it.
It wants a little cleaning.
Yeah.
I'll take it easy on myself
and start off with some .38 Special, maybe.
Oh, man.
Yep.
Pretty nice.
He believes the 7 or the 8.
I can't believe it.
So, there we go.
All right.
Nice little revolver.
Very nice.
I haven't shot this in a while.
See if it'll go through paper still.
Yeah, pretty nice.
Let's put one on the cowboy.
And maybe Clyde, if I can reach him.
Little .38s take a while, don't they?
Clyde likes .38 Special because they tickle.
They don't hurt him very much.
They're just sort of tickling.
Yeah.
All right.
See, it's an ambidextrous firearm.
Pretty nice.
I normally don't like gloves.
Don't shoot in gloves much.
Anyway, it's really cold.
If I've got firearms that can handle it,
I can handle them.
Yeah, it's not too bad.
So, that's a beauty.
It's hard to beat a good old Smith & Wesson revolver.
It's hard to beat a good old Colt revolver.
It's hard to beat a good old Target.
Yeah.
There are a lot of firearms that we could say that, couldn't we?
It's hard to beat a fill-in-the-blank.
Yeah.
About a thousand firearms would fit in that blank, wouldn't they?
Gosh.
Yep.
All right.
Let's shoot this thing again, too,
before it colds me out.
Can I use cold as a verb?
I got colded out.
Temperatured out.
That ought to be a verb.
I got colded out.
I got weathered out, I think, is a verb.
I don't know.
Maybe that's not weathered.
Weathered is.
That's an old weathered something.
It's worn.
But I guess nobody's really decided that's a verb.
That means the weather ran you out or ran you inside.
You got weathered out.
You got weathered in.
There we go.
I'll start a new phrase.
I'll call Webster.
Get that started.
Yeah, it was just bad weather, so I got weathered in.
Back in there.
Weathered in.
Yeah, actually, I think that is used that way.
I didn't make that up.
I think that is used that way.
The cold's affecting my brain.
Sorry about that.
All right.
All right, now.
I can't shoot Clyde with this.
It possibly would go through him.
I'd ruin it.
He's not very thick.
Not very thick-skinned.
Very sensitive boy.
But I did put up a couple of water jugs.
One of those Arizona tea containers.
I had my ears in tight.
I've got some plastic to pick up.
Look, I did a better job of getting that one against my shoulder tight and everything.
Just something to remember.
If someone hands you something, you're not accustomed to firing.
Could be a 12-gauge.
You know, some high brass rounds in it or powerful.
Fire them like this or more powerful than this.
This is not the most powerful.
Don't worry about the recoil.
It's probably not going to hurt you.
Especially if you stood there and saw your dad or your uncle or brother or somebody else shoot it.
Sister.
And they're still alive.
They're not on the ground.
It's probably not going to actually hurt you in that way.
Just make sure you've got it tucked in well.
And you've got your finger back there on the trigger.
Don't have it to where if that thing comes back a fair amount or very, very quickly,
you've got a grip on it to where it's not going to ram your knuckle into the front of the trigger guard.
That can get you, especially on a shotgun, a double-barreled shotgun.
I've had that happen a few times.
Especially where you have two triggers.
And by the time you pull them and boom, your knuckle goes into the back of the trigger and all that.
So, such is life.
Tough, huh?
Life is tough.
All right, what did you want to know about? Anything?
Let's see.
Let's get you some advice, you young people, before I get colded out.
Weathered in.
Yeah, I think weathered in issues.
Mountain climbers would use that.
I've heard that before, I think.
Yeah, yeah.
I'll tell you something.
Boy, we all need advice.
So many things come down to what?
Being able to delay gratification on something, right?
It's always that deal.
Well, I want to lose weight, but man, those donuts look good and I just need that pleasure right now.
I should get out and exercise, but I just don't do it.
I'm trying to lose weight or gain muscle or whatever I'm doing, but I just...
Eh, tomorrow. I'll do that tomorrow.
I got too much junk food to eat today or something.
It doesn't matter what it is.
We have a human tendency to put it off.
Don't we?
Procrastinate.
Whether it's investing, saving money, diet.
You name it.
What else?
It could be education, if that's important to you or what you're planning to do, what you'd like to do.
Taking courses.
Whatever it is.
Just putting stuff off is such a problem.
And I would highly recommend you get a book on procrastination.
I've got one somewhere.
Joked about that.
I didn't get around to reading it for a long time.
But really, there's something about reading about an issue that just helps.
Tips on how people overcome it or whatever it might be.
At least you're focused on it.
But anyway, it's that short-term gain versus the long-term gain.
We just, as humans, for the most part, it's a real challenge for us to think long-term.
Long-term.
I mean, it gets everybody.
It's not just young people.
It's everybody.
It's one of the reasons I know people...
One reason people don't make money in the market.
People, I don't know, have pretty good means or whatever.
They end up not making what the market brings in, basically, on average.
Because they're constantly moving money around and buying and selling.
Oh, invest in this fund or this stock, whatever it might be.
Oh, well, they get bored.
Six months, they hadn't done anything or it's been flat or it goes down.
That's just what the market does.
So they sell it.
And they're locking in their losses.
They end up doing just the opposite of what you want to do, ideally.
They're selling low and buying high.
And that just happens so regularly.
Ask anybody that's in that field.
It's just the long-term.
It's tough for us to think long-term as humans.
As humans.
And a lot of things just take time.
There's no quick fix on a lot of stuff.
If you're 100 pounds overweight, guess what?
You're not going to be looking like who?
I don't know.
You're not going to be slim and trim in three months or six months, probably.
If you're 100 pounds overweight.
Maybe in a year or two years, even.
But you can get on the road, can't you, to fixing that.
Just like anything else.
You're not going to get that degree.
You'd like to have or you need.
You plan to get.
You're not going to get it in six months or two years.
It's going to take a few years to get it.
You just have to chop away at it.
Like chopping down a very large tree with a hatchet.
It just takes a long time.
My dad used to say, you're not going to learn any younger.
You're not going to get it any sooner.
You just have to start hacking away at it.
I've not always followed that advice.
That's one reason I have some credibility there.
I have failed in all these ways that I've talked about.
I have experienced failing in all these areas.
I've gotten a little better, though.
I kind of saw.
I have seen my ways, the error of my ways.
And I have tried to do better.
And I have in a lot of areas.
I really have.
It's just tough.
It's tough being a human.
If you young people haven't figured that out.
Don't get the notion that adults haven't figured it out.
Because they don't.
They don't.
All they do is watch the news.
Adults don't have it figured out any more than you do, by and large.
If you're 15 or 20.
But don't be discouraged by that.
We're all just human.
At least you all are.
I'm not really human.
Just do better.
Try to do better than most people.
How's that for a goal?
All right.
This is nice.
I've got to try to put one on the gong.
That little bitty short barrel.
Short sight radius.
You remember what the .338 Win Mag did to the 2 liter and that other thing of water?
I'll just show you the contrast.
Let's shoot that half a gallon water container right there above that red plate.
How's that for a contrast?
It's leaking and it fell off.
It didn't just obliterate it.
That's a little better because that's under pressure.
I still have another one.
Let's give that to the cowboy.
Pretty cool.
Cool little revolver.
I have to say.
Very, very nice.
Very nice.
All right.
Get this big boy out.
Fire him again.
Seems like there was something else I wanted to tell you about.
I do want to thank Alabama Holster for their support of the channel.
Great outfit.
I upgraded my phone recently.
Basically the same Google phone.
Fits in my same Alabama holster.
I got the same case for it.
Anyway, great little Kydex holsters.
Wonderful, wonderful Kydex holsters.
Love them.
If you ever carry a pocket carry.
I know you folks that live in Europe or somewhere.
You're just like, what are you talking about?
You can't even own a firearm or whatever.
Well, if you're in the United States or one of the free states,
which is most of them,
maybe you have never pocket carried.
You've thought about it.
One of the hurdles you've not gotten over
is maybe finding a holster that you like.
That's a lot of it.
Having a great holster that just fits.
Fits in and is totally safe.
Trigger guard is covered and all that.
You feel perfectly safe that way.
It is an important factor.
It is.
They're not the only one that makes them.
Alabama Holster makes great little pocket holsters,
belt holsters, purse holsters, that kind of thing.
Appreciate their support.
Think about the way you carry.
There's probably a holster,
if not made by Alabama Holster,
made by somebody that would suit you
for wherever you're planning to carry that firearm.
You need a good holster, whatever the brand is.
You just need a good holster.
There are people that carry a revolver especially,
maybe even a semi-auto in their pocket
without a holster.
I see comments about that.
Generally, they'll claim they don't have one in the tube,
in the chamber,
or they've got a great safety or whatever.
I don't know.
That's a little iffy as far as I'm concerned.
I just like a holster.
It keeps it in place and positioned.
It's another topic,
but a worthy topic, yes.
Something worthy of your concern
if you're going to carry that way.
You want to be sure you're safe with it.
Most of the safety is right here
between the ears, of course,
but you just don't want to get reckless.
It comes back, that issue.
Anybody's messed with firearms long enough.
They probably had one go off and they didn't want it to
or didn't expect it.
You mess with firearms long enough.
There was another point I was going to make,
but it got colded out of my brain.
I know what it was.
It's not just firearms.
It's just anything,
driving, you name it,
whatever it might be that you do
that has a little bit of risk involved.
Of course, firearms and driving or big ones,
maybe using a chainsaw,
chopping, climbing on your roof,
using a ladder, whatever it might be
where there's some risk involved.
It's really easy to get cavalier about it
because I've never fallen off a ladder.
I've hardly ever had a traffic accident.
I've never caused a fire.
The fire's never gotten out of the fireplace.
We have fires all the time.
It's never happened.
Just because something hasn't happened,
it doesn't mean it's not going to happen today.
There's always a first time.
If something happens,
it's going to be after it didn't happen
for a long time probably.
I don't know if that makes any sense.
It's just so easy.
Everybody that's been murdered in the last week,
for example, in the United States,
everybody that's been murdered
in the past week,
I don't know how many that would be,
quite a few probably,
I'll bet you,
newsflash,
they had never been murdered before.
Everybody that's broken a leg,
maybe never broke a leg before.
Anybody that's fallen off a ladder,
there's a good chance
they hadn't fallen off a ladder yet.
There's probably a phrase for that.
I know it's,
oh,
one phrase for it,
I can't think of it,
but you get relaxed about things,
and just because it has not happened
doesn't mean it's not going to happen tomorrow.
Maybe it hasn't happened your whole life.
I know women are cautioned about this.
It's real easy to be real cavalier,
whether it's out walking at night
in a neighborhood that seems safe.
You've never had a problem.
No one's ever assaulted you,
attacked you, whatever.
Well, probably most women
who have been attacked, assaulted,
it hadn't happened before.
I mean, it's that first time.
The fact that it hadn't happened yet,
you haven't fallen off that ladder,
you've not had a firearms negligent discharge,
you haven't had it yet,
it's really easy to get lulled
into a sense of security,
false security is a phrase
I think I was looking for.
It really is.
Not that you want to be paranoid
all the time about everything,
but I try to keep that in mind
because it helps when you've had some age
and you've lived a while
because most of those things
do catch up with you.
Somewhere along the line,
your entire life,
you do finally fall off a ladder somewhere,
you have a traffic accident,
the gun goes off, you and me,
all those things that people,
your mommy and daddy warned you about
when you were young.
A lot of those things happen.
You broke that arm, whatever it is.
You fell down the steps,
which you thought would never happen.
It educates you,
the older you get,
into realizing that
just because this hasn't happened yet
doesn't mean it can't happen.
Normally,
common sense tells us
if I trip on that sidewalk,
that rock on the sidewalk,
it seems like one out of five times
as I'm walking up that sidewalk
in my neighbor's yard,
I've got to really watch that sidewalk.
I'm going to fall,
maybe walk around it.
Something happens regularly,
then you get the message,
you try to avoid it.
But there's a lot of things
that can be pretty bad
that when they do happen,
it's really bad.
And they haven't happened yet, maybe.
So you haven't had that warning.
You haven't had that education.
I don't know how I got off on that.
How'd that happen?
I know what I need to do.
Get my brain, right?
Jar my brain back into place.
What am I shooting?
These are some,
for you hunters,
people that know rifle ammo,
this is some Korlok I had.
I remember when I bought this,
I had trouble finding it.
I don't know if it's a lot better yet.
It's still really expensive,
two to three dollars per shot.
I saw some somewhere,
I looked online a little while ago.
But this is Remington Korlok.
It's a good grain.
These are 225.
But yeah,
it's not easy to find
at your local gun shop necessarily.
338 Win Mag.
All right.
I don't know why,
I think it used to be even more popular.
And of course you can get the ammo.
You don't need hundreds of rounds.
But yep, it's got some punch to it.
It's a nice round.
You think it's adequate for bowling?
Let's see.
I guess this one on the left.
Y'all see that one on the left?
I'm sure what, yeah.
Yeah, let's pop that thing.
Bang!
It knocked it pretty far,
but I think it actually went through it.
It seemed to.
Because these are pointed bullets.
And where the .45-70
usually won't go through it,
it knocks it further away because of that.
If y'all stay there,
I'll see if I can find it right here.
Well, it didn't make a very big hole going in,
but you see where it came out.
So,
I shot both of those with it, right?
Yeah.
Oh, well.
Bowling pins.
There are people who still think
those are for rolling balls at.
They don't realize what they're really made for.
They're made for chunking big rounds at.
Let's throw another one in there.
We got another bowling pin
if y'all can see him.
I'm going to pop him, too.
All right.
I'll try to.
Yeah.
Sweet rifle.
Pretty good round for a single shot
because if you were hunting with this,
deer hunting,
or about anything,
probably not going to need another quick shot.
So, not going to be a problem
that it's not semi-automatic.
And 10-round magazine,
my guess.
Yeah, pretty sweet.
All right.
Y'all ready to leave?
Probably are.
Appreciate Talon Grips.
Best grips on the planet.
And Ballistol,
one of the best lubes, I think.
Love it. Still love it.
And, of course, Gun Fun Targets.
Appreciate their making our paper targets for us.
And, yeah,
just everybody that helps us,
we really appreciate them all.
Most of them have been with us a good while.
And, like I've said before,
they all do what they say they're going to do
and offer what they say they offer.
And, yeah,
good outfits really are.
So, it's nice to be associated
with quality people
and have the support we have
from them and from you
because it's just fun to do.
YouTube and the Internet and everything
has gotten pretty crazy.
But, yeah, we plan to keep doing this
as long as you come and watch,
you know.
And, again, you can't rely on YouTube.
I've seen at least two people.
It's funny.
You probably see some of my responses
if I see one of those comments.
Someone will say,
I haven't seen one of your videos
in a long time.
Good to see you.
And, you know, of course,
we're making two or three videos every week
for the last 10 years.
So, posted right in the same place.
But they're relying on YouTube
recommending them or suggesting them
or something, of course.
They're being notified,
which we can't rely on anymore.
But I'll usually make a comment.
You might have seen it
about how sorry I am
that they've been in prison
and that I thought the Internet
was available there.
Why else would you not
be seeing our videos, right?
You've been in prison
and not having access to YouTube.
But, anyway, yeah,
we appreciate you all hanging out
and coming back.
We post every Sunday
and Tuesday and usually Thursday,
Friday, you know.
And then sometimes some other.
We're going to be doing
a few more shorts coming up.
Let's see.
There was a video this week
that I meant to comment on.
Forgot what it was.
But, anyway,
I almost brought out my...
I got another blackout barrel
for my...
I got a 300 blackout barrel
for my Daniel Defense V7,
you know, M4 V7.
And I almost brought it out today.
But I just didn't do it.
I have a scope,
a low power scope on order.
In fact, thanks to one of you all
left a comment on a video.
I don't know which one
and what I was talking about.
Probably my eye issue
with red dot sights and things,
astigmatism.
And somebody mentioned
an LPVO.
Yeah, you need an LPVO.
You might have seen it.
I said, well, what is that?
I'll check that.
LPVO is what you need.
I said, okay.
And I did.
I googled it.
I've learned a lot from you all.
I googled it and I got
from the comment,
it seemed like he was talking
about a sight of some sort.
You see how dumb I am.
And I googled it.
Oh, okay.
Low power variable optic.
Okay, it makes sense.
The comment now makes sense.
I got to googling
or searching around.
Okay, a low power scope
with a variable power.
And well, okay.
And I saw a bunch of them
and some were like 1 to 10
and 1 to this and that.
I got a 3 to 10 scope.
It's the only real telescopic
sight I guess I have
that I had on the BAR recently.
And I got it moved now.
I sent it back to Bud's.
But so I got to looking around.
I say, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, absolutely.
I thought about that.
If I got a good reticle,
because that's kind of
what the prism scope does.
You know, those come
in different power.
Usually they're not variable,
most of them, I guess.
But you got like a 2 power
or a 1 power
or you've got a 4 power.
But these are actual scopes,
telescopes,
telescopic sights
that many of them are 1,
1 to 3,
1 to 6,
that kind of.
I saw some 1 to 10, I think.
Not exactly low power in my book.
But so anyway,
I ordered one.
Yeah, y'all cost me money.
But I really would like,
for firearms I want an optic on,
which is generally a long gun.
I don't really use them on handguns.
But a long gun,
it doesn't matter as much.
On a handgun,
I don't like anything that makes it bigger
if I don't need it, of course.
But on a rifle or a shotgun,
you've got something sitting here.
You've got this big thing
to pack around anyway.
And so I ordered one.
In fact, I think it comes in
in a day or two
from a Vortex.
I paid more than I should have,
but I felt confident enough
and got a mount and everything.
And it's 1 to 6,
I believe,
what I ended up getting.
And I don't remember
whether it has a lighted reticle.
They had to have
a feature where it lights up
the reticle,
at least right in the middle,
like a dot.
I forget whether it's got that now.
I settled on it.
I did so much looking around.
But that's kind of like
the old ACOG, isn't it?
I had an ACOG for a while back.
I don't know,
15 years ago or something.
I had one of those.
They were large.
Which was a little big,
a little powerful
for what I wanted to use it for.
So anyway,
that's what I got.
Low Power Variable Optic.
LPVO.
Who knew?
Another acronym I was not familiar with.
So it doesn't matter
how much you're into firearms,
how long you've been around,
there's always something else.
Partly because I'm not a big optic person.
So that makes sense.
I knew that probably.
But I'm not into optics
like most people.
So that's the reason
I'm not familiar with that.
But I like that concept.
That might be where I evolved to,
away from red dots
and even the prism scopes perhaps.
Because I can't seem to get
a reticle I like on a prism scope.
But at least it solves that issue
of the red dot being
like jelly on me sometimes.
So yeah,
let me just get that in.
And I'm thinking I'm going to put that
on the new Blackout
upper for my
Daniel Defense V7.
And that might be my rig.
I'm really getting into
the 300 Blackout in bigger ways.
You know me,
I like bigger bullets
over really small, fast bullets.
You know,
you just know that, don't you?
Even the 5.56,
it's fine round of course.
But there's just something
more attractive to me
to the 300 Blackout
since I'm not going to be
shooting at 600 yards.
And for a long time,
for many, many years,
I have thought
it'd be cool to have something
because I love the Russian round,
you know, the 7.62x39.
That intermediate round
I've liked it a long time.
I've experimented with
different things.
But the Blackout,
since now there's much more
ammo available for the Blackout,
lots of different offerings.
It's a little more expensive
than 7.62x39.
But anyway,
I don't need to shoot
thousands of rounds through one.
That I think finally
is what I'm going to land on
for my AR and .30 caliber
that I like
because it's basically
the AK round,
7.62x39
with supersonic ammo.
Just hardly any difference.
And probably more options
for ammo
and better bullets
and construction.
It's a true .308
instead of the oddball
7.62x39 bullet.
So anyway,
it's not like I'm trying
to sell it to you.
For several years
by and large,
we had some trouble
with some of the magazines.
I understand that better now
what it is about the 5.56 magazines
that can be an issue
with .300 Blackout,
particularly the heavy bullets
and all that.
I've learned a lot about that,
what the problem was
that we were having.
It's not an extreme lack
of reliability,
especially with it
in the just plain 5.56 mags.
Well,
in recent years I've discovered
there's lots of
.300 Blackout specific mags
and
it's not a problem.
So that solved
most of that
as an issue.
So I like it.
Okay,
can I shoot this one more time
before I make you run?
I'll save that for another day.
All right,
you think I should put my ears in?
All right, .338 Win Mag.
If you couldn't get an idea
how big that bullet is,
let me illustrate here maybe.
Oh, I've got the bases.
I can't with these gloves.
It kind of hides a little bit of it.
I've got the .38 Special,
the base of the bullet
and the .338 together.
They're lined up together.
These babies,
they're the
it's just a
massive difference there, isn't it?
Wow.
So,
yeah, let's do a video.
.38 Special versus .338 Win Mag.
Everybody wants to know that, don't they?
Okay.
Think I should shoot this at the paper?
No, let's do another
bowling pin.
I don't think it'll hurt the gong,
but I don't know.
I don't want to shoot too much steel with it.
Let's shoot that bowling pin right there.
Bang!
Got him on the side.
He spun like a top.
All right.
So, Browning,
or not Browning, but Ruger.
Yeah, looks like a Browning.
Who knew Ruger could make such a beautiful rifle?
Yep, number one, single shot.
Something special about a single shot.
It really is.
very well made,
very strong.
Knocked the hammer again.
So, my old Ruger number one
and .338 Win Mag.
I'm ready for bear.
I am loaded for bear.
So, appreciate y'all coming by
on this fine Sunday.
And I hope you are enjoying your coffee
and I hope you have a great week.
Great week at work
or a great week in retirement.
Whatever you might be doing.
Okay?
Hopefully it's not criminal activity.
Although these days
almost anything we do
might be considered criminal
by some people, right?
So, I'll let you go.
Life is good.

