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POV Of Me Shooting my Simson and Co in Suhl Gewehr 98

ernie8 said:
Don't get me wrong , it is great you are out shooting , but why would you post it on Youtube ? Did you hit that wall of dirt ? Why were you holding the rifle crooked ? Other than making noise , what did you do ?
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Just plinking rounds and test firing it was all! Try out the duffle repair and giving people who dont own g98s a glimpse into what its like shooting one!
 
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ernie8 said:
Don't get me wrong , it is great you are out shooting , but why would you post it on Youtube ? Did you hit that wall of dirt ? Why were you holding the rifle crooked ? Other than making noise , what did you do ?
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Those kinds of videos aren't my thing, but I've also made a few of them (not on Youtube, just filmed and emailed) as reference material for people I knew modeling firearms in video games. Frankly min weren't that good, I didn't have a gopro or anything just an awkwardly set up tripod that I had my arm reached around.

Point being, there are people that that kind of reference material is useful for. Not saying that's why OP was doing it, but those kind of videos have their uses.
 
I think it looks cool doing POV (thanks and like your channel!) , I do the same but not on youtube, just for load development at present.
Video snapshot of my (not very G98 sorry). Its my matching M91 Sestroryetsk from 300 yards plus target. Yep I have both hands on the rifle.
 

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Loewe said:
When a youngman enjoys being at the range with a Gewehr98 (a Simson no less) it is cause for celebration!
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Read my first sentence , I asked why post the shooting on you tube . With poor form , and no targets it would be like me posting a you tube vid of me sitting in the shop and revving up one of the race cars . There is a lot more to either than just noise . I do not know about celebration . At my range shooting a Gew-98 is not uncommon , they were popular in the matches . Even 1.5 inch 5-shot groups at 100 yards was not too uncommon with just a little celebration .
 
ernie8 said:
Read my first sentence , I asked why post the shooting on you tube . With poor form , and no targets it would be like me posting a you tube vid of me sitting in the shop and revving up one of the race cars . There is a lot more to either than just noise . I do not know about celebration . At my range shooting a Gew-98 is not uncommon , they were popular in the matches . Even 1.5 inch 5-shot groups at 100 yards was not too uncommon with just a little celebration .
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You are such an ———. This forum is better off when you shut the —— up.
 
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PrayingMantis said:
You are such an asshole. This forum is better off when you shut the hell up.
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You are so tough to say that on the internet . The internet gives people like you a way to feel tough when they would never say it to someone's face . I feel this forum has gained some from when I corrected a lot of the Gew-88 information , like bore sizes . I have helped several people figure out how to shoot their old rifles with the correct ammo or bullets .
 
ernie8 said:
You are so tough to say that on the internet . The internet gives people like you a way to feel tough when they would never say it to someone's face . I feel this forum has gained some from when I corrected a lot of the Gew-88 information , like bore sizes . I have helped several people figure out how to shoot their old rifles with the correct ammo or bullets .
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Ernie, some of us appreciate your commentary on the 88s, and don't want to discourage you--- though in this case, I can see how it came across as picking on a new guy.
 
ernie8 said:
Read my first sentence , I asked why post the shooting on you tube . With poor form , and no targets it would be like me posting a you tube vid of me sitting in the shop and revving up one of the race cars . There is a lot more to either than just noise . I do not know about celebration . At my range shooting a Gew-98 is not uncommon , they were popular in the matches . Even 1.5 inch 5-shot groups at 100 yards was not too uncommon with just a little celebration .
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This is kind of funny, because "videos of people revving up a car engine" is pretty much an entire sub genre on YouTube.

Here's one of an actual race car:


Here's one of just an engine on a test bed:


Lots of non-technical people watch Youtube and have an interest in these kinds of things. It's not content I particularly enjoy, but there are plenty of people out there who do, and I'm glad they have something fun to watch.
 
Another thing to keep in mind is that not everyone has the same access to antique firearms as the people posting in here do. God knows I've done more than my fair share of range trips taking visitors from Europe out shooting, and gotten some pretty amazed looks when I pull out something their great-grandfathers might have carried. There are tons of people out there for whom shooting a 100+ year old rifle just is not something they expect to ever be able to do, but they're still curious about what they look like, what they sound like etc.

As a matter of fact, typing all that out I take back what I said earlier about this content not being for me. I've absolutely watched a few videos of one Swiss Italian guy in particular shooting Dreyse rifles, mostly because I don't own one (yet), and while I'm none too shy about shooting my black powder cartridge guns I was very curious how the process worked for him what with the paper cartridges and all that. It's a heck of a lot easier to dig up that guy doing some Alpine plinking than it is to try and find someone local to me who A) owns a Dreyse B) is willing to fire it and C) is willing to let me rubberneck while he does.
 
ernie8 said:
Read my first sentence , I asked why post the shooting on you tube . With poor form , and no targets it would be like me posting a you tube vid of me sitting in the shop and revving up one of the race cars . There is a lot more to either than just noise . I do not know about celebration . At my range shooting a Gew-98 is not uncommon , they were popular in the matches . Even 1.5 inch 5-shot groups at 100 yards was not too uncommon with just a little celebration .
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Cool. It was just to give someone a Point View of Shooting the Rifle who might not own one. Nothing serious dude.
 
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