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I can’t see me dragging any of my guns behind the car on a rope just to see if it will still shoot.
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Insane test. But fantastic outcome
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Torture tests are for Youtubers and writers who've run out of interesting and relevant issues to address.
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They can be entertaining but are far from reality. These days they're pretty much clickbait for their sponsors and views.
I've seen Sigs frozen in blocks of ice and then hammered to get them free, ARs dropped from helicopters, Glocks buried in swamps.
As tough as these weapons appear on video, they often don't survive a field strip by some new owner who didn't RTFM.
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Torture tests are for Youtubers and writers who've run out of interesting and relevant issues to address.
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Absolutely, but also credit to s&w
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As tough as these weapons appear on video, they often don't survive a field strip by some new owner who didn't RTFM.
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Quoted for truth.
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05-01-2024, 12:55 PM
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It's a torture test, some of you need to get over it. It was cool.
I swear some people on these forms will complain about anything no matter what. I definitely wouldn't want some of you living next door to me that's for sure.
Not directed at you OP.
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Is hail truly a threat to the proper functioning of any firearm? The likelihood of a hailstone large enough to possibly threaten the proper functioning of a pistol (i.e. a baseball/grapefruit sized hailstone) is truly remote.
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It's a torture test, some of you need to get over it. It was cool.
I swear some people on these forms will complain about anything no matter what. I definitely wouldn't want some of you living next door to me that's for sure.
Not directed at you OP.
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It is pure entertainment made for the masses. Many on here are serious competitive shooters, people who do or have carried a handgun for a living, serious collectors, handgun hunters, military veterans, pistolsmiths, etc. They tend not to get excited about such things.
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What a waste. I mean, what if I want to store my guns outdoors ALL winter, in a block of muddy ice, under my bulldozer. These tests do me no good at all!!
And what if I want to retrieve them with C4 in an emergency? How do I know they'll be any good at all??
Honestly ...
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It is pure entertainment made for the masses. Many on here are serious competitive shooters, people who do or have carried a handgun for a living, serious collectors, handgun hunters, military veterans, pistolsmiths, etc. They tend not to get excited about such things.
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So thinking something is cool or entertaining in the shooting world makes one not a "serious shooter?
LOL nice try.
Swing and a miss.
That's like saying a musician is not serious if they like music.
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I know a guy who gave his M&P 2.0 5" 40,000 rounds of whatever ammo he could get. He had at least a couple of double charges, and got it hot enough to melt the fiber optic front sight insert on a few occasions while putting on classes.
His barrel's rifling was pretty much gone after that 40k, but the pistol still functioned.
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So thinking something is cool or entertaining in the shooting world makes one not a "serious shooter?
LOL nice try.
Swing and a miss.
That's like saying a musician is not serious if they like music.
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You missed the target! I just tried to explain why many here wouldn't be stoked about silly torture tests of guns. If that is your jam, fine.
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When buying a vehicle I never base my purchasing decision on which one can run the longest without engine oil or coolant, or which one has tires that last longest when under inflated by 15 PSI.
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Torture test can be scewed toward the one you want to win........Not much interest in tearing stuff up......So I don't watch/believe any filmed torture test.
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It's a torture test, some of you need to get over it. It was cool.
I swear some people on these forms will complain about anything no matter what. I definitely wouldn't want some of you living next door to me that's for sure.
Not directed at you OP.
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Wild. Great SN! Lol
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Torture test can be scewed toward the one you want to win........Not much interest in tearing stuff up......So I don't watch/believe any filmed torture test.
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I don't think so. Garand Thumb is a hardcore Glock guy. He was bummed it failed
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You missed the target! I just tried to explain why many here wouldn't be stoked about silly torture tests of guns. If that is your jam, fine.
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I shoot competitions, and I hunt and protect myself with my firearms, but according to you because I might want to sit and watch some kind of torture test, that makes me not a serious shooter?
Give me a break.
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Are these videos torture tests or abuse tests. Seems to me they are abuse tests and I do not abuse my firearms.
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Are these videos torture tests or abuse tests. Seems to me they are abuse tests and I do not abuse my firearms.
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Bullseye.
I've professionally designed and performed destructive testing on high value mechanical components to provide useful data based on projected service life expectancy and mean time before failure.
None of these Youtuber torture tests are anything other than, as you so very well put it, "abuse tests".
Amusing to watch perhaps, and they provide the content creators with clicks, but of no actual value regarding their "findings".
Which firearms can best withstand being run over by an Abrams Tank after being submerged in salt for 7 days and then buried in sand after being dropped from an altitude of 60,000 feet into boiling muriatic acid ?
Enquiring minds want to know.
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I shoot competitions, and I hunt and protect myself with my firearms, but according to you because I might want to sit and watch some kind of torture test, that makes me not a serious shooter?
Give me a break.
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It's not always about YOU!
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Kind of reminds me of people I've known who abuse a piece of equipment and then complain that "it wasn't never no good anyhow". I never lend those people my trailer.
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GarandThumb was using the M&P 2.0s with the hinged-safety trigger instead of the new trigger from the Shield Plus that works like a Glock. Some of the issues that Glock had were with the trigger safety. That said, the Sig P320 has no trigger safety and it also lost to the M&P.
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It's a torture test, some of you need to get over it. It was cool.
I swear some people on these forms will complain about anything no matter what. I definitely wouldn't want some of you living next door to me that's for sure.
Not directed at you OP.
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Everybody is entitled to their opinion..........I live in the middle of 80 acres......Thank God.........YOU or no one will EVER live next door to me.
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Everybody is entitled to their opinion..........I live in the middle of 80 acres......Thank God.........YOU or no one will EVER live next door to me.
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You and Ted Kaczynski both have something in common, congratulations!
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I don't know why so many of you are so critical about entertainment? It's a fun little video. The M&P showed its durability, I was expecting more of an excited response.
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I agree they are fun to watch and I get a kick out of watching them. However, to be statistically significant something would have to occur 95 out of a 100 times. So we would have to start with 100 guns and 95 of them would have to do that 95 times. I suppose we could lower that significance to maybe 51 out of 100 and say the majority of times. Testing one pistol proves nothing much less the likelihood of the test happening in real life.
Still they are fun.
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You and Ted Kaczynski both have something in common, congratulations!
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Since you're being smart. Who is Ted. Apparently you're jealous of us that don't live in a "hive".
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I'll happily watch someone else abuse commonly available guns that I didn't pay for , why not . Dudes want to put a SCCY under water and shoot it then throw it off a cliff? Knock yourself out. It ain't my gun
However, those idiots who bought an old Colt 38 and bent the barrel, then shot it triggered my anger sharks
The most "torture test" stuff I do is put lots of rounds through my range shooter guns, I put 2000 rounds through a Taurus 905 in about 2 months , running it hard because I use it as a "trainer" but that's just normal use
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Since you're being smart. Who is Ted. Apparently you're jealous of us that don't live in a "hive".
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Your damn right I'm jealous!
Ted!!!!!!!!
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