YouTube Videos & "Safety Check"

[JeffShrugged]

I've been watching a lot of YouTube videos lately to gather information about my next gun purchase, and I have noticed a bizarre trend. What is going on with the safety checks? It seems like every video I watch, the person makes a big production of a really over the top clearing.

When I check my guns, I drop the mag, pull back the slide and inspect. The end. These guys are sticking their finger into the barrel, shaking them up and down, flipping the gun over and jamming their fingers into the mag well, I've even seen some guys shine a tac light into the chamber. It's like they're TSA agents.

I've seen one or two videos where a disclaimer is flashed that the gun was safety checked, which seems perfectly reasonable. Now that I've noticed it it's kind of funny, I just can't stop noticing it. And now no one who reads this thread will be able to either.

 

[dcxplant]

The video makers are getting slammed in the comments. "Oh you didn't clear"

 

[Gunsnwater]

It's from the nd videos. Some people get lazy and bang. Some people keep ammo around while handling a gun in places other then shooting places. Then the bullets find themselves in the gun and bang. You ever drive to work and forget the last few miles? People allow themselves to handle guns in that state. The extra steps keep you from auto pilot. Lots of new shooters and gun owners who didn't grow up around guns and the normal amount of wing nuts in any given population. Every bit helps. ND make us all look bad. Extra safety is a good thing no matter if it's goofy or not. I started sticking my finger in the chamber after I saw in person an instructor do it and explane why.

 

[Alpo]

People are strange. If I made a video showing shooting, and someone commented, "OMG, you didn't CLEAR", or "OMG, you left your finger on the TRIGGER", or something similar, I believe I would reply to their comment, "Screw you".

But then, I can't really see myself putting up a video on youtube.

I did put up this picture, once, on some board. My granddaughter shooting a single-six. The boy in the background bothered someone.


Some fecal-cephalet made a response about how dangerous it was to let little kids shoot. "OMG, he's pointing the gun UP, which isn't SAFE".

I responded, "Screw you. He's not pointing it up. He's in full recoil."

The world is full of morons. You shout not let their opinions bother you.

 

[fideau]

YouTube has spawned so many would be experts it's pathetic sometimes. Choose any subject, there's an instant expert or two dozen. Bad part is if you don't have any experience, you can't always pick the nitwits from the knowledgeable ones. Not that I consider myself an expert in all matters, but I have a lot of experience earned by doing, not by parroting what some greenhorn posted because he likes to video himself.
There are some well done and informative posts there I have enjoyed viewing however.

 

[gdnagle]

Yep if you look at the picture you can see his finger is all the way to the rear on the trigger. Full recoil.

 

[Mcwsky09]

Could also be in response to know-nothings reporting people for alleged violations such as the photo of the dog in a plastic bag with the top wide open and only in the bag to keep it still long enough to take a picture but there were people calling for the folks in the photo to be executed because self appointed experts decided that was animal abuse. Or cases where someone posts a picture with a gun pointed at someone else with no way to be sure if the gun is even real and whether of not it is loaded.
Better safe than sorry but no need to take an inordinate amount of time to demonstrate safety.

 

[Alpo]

She's in full recoil, too, but you know, that 22 didn't seem to kick as much as that 45 did.

 

[coltle6920]

I learned a lot from watching vids on YouTube.I use it a lot to get others opinions on what might be a future purchase for me.

Unfortunately too many people use YouTube to get some face time just like Facebook.Too often I see a vid of some kid emptying a mag at a paper target.The vid lasts maybe twenty seconds and there's no comments on the firearm or its results.Then there is the vid of a range report where the person spends thirty minutes showing the unpacking of their new firearm and all of the contents and then just ten seconds of shooting it.

It is what it is and you have to deal with it.After a while you find yourself only looking at vids by Miculek,Hickok45 or some of the other veteran firearms experts.

 

[forindooruseonly]

I'd rather watch a guy make a big production of being safe than watch the person make no effort, or worse, break all the rules.

New shooters and people looking for information about guns everyday visit youtube videos - and I'd like them to think that being extra safe is the normal way to handle a firearm, and that our community does care about safety, rather than having them think being cavalier about safety is ok, or that we as a whole are a bunch of walking accidents waiting to happen.

For that, I'll put up with the tediousness of watching someone rack a slide fifteen times and stick their pinky in the barrel. Just my thought.

ETA: Come to think of it, look at how many negligent discharge stories we see posted in our own firearm forums - happens way more than it should, or the number of people who refuse to go to public ranges because of the careless behavior of other shooters. Maybe some of our community should slow down and emulate the exaggerated safety procedures.