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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The last gun I shoot is the gun that's most
sentimental to me. And uh, if you watch the video,
I start crying. I honestly, I'm kind of I'm almost
tearing up now it's just a gun.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
I'm Ryan Gresham and this this is Guntognation. Gun talk
Nation is brought to you by FN Silence are Central,
(00:38):
ARCon Firearms and Range Ready. Hey, welcome to the gun
Talgnation Today. On gun Talgnation a guy that you have
probably seen on the internet shooting guns, being very accurate
and uh, just a general jovial kind of guy. Twenty
two Plankster, Hey, maas, welcome in, man.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
What's up, how you doing? Thanks for being here, Well,
thanks for having me.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
You know this is going to be real easy because
you're not shy. You're a talker.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Yeah, I am a talker.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
So twenty two Plinkster. I mean originally fair to say
known for your YouTube channel, your YouTube videos.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Right, Yeah that's what Yeah, my mom would say something different,
but but yeah, that's what I'm kind of known for.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Where did it all start out for you? Because people
see it and go, yeah, he's this guy. He's got
a million subscribers and he's doing all this crazy stuff.
But like for me, I remember seeing your stuff and
going where did he come from? Because he wasn't like
some guy that I knew who was a competitive shooter
or or something else.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Well, it's funny that you mentioned that. This morning. You know,
I was filming with Chris and believe it or not,
the show Top Shot. I can blame everything on that show. Okay,
So season two Top Shot. I watched season one, loved it.
I even dvrd it, and you remember those days. Yeah,
So I watched every episd because I love to shoot
(02:01):
and guns and everything. And then season two came along
and there was a guy on there called Dustin Ellerman. Okay,
and Dustin Ellerman shot a I remember to lead to
get him into the final episode. He shot a golf
ball at one hundred yards with the courts and rifle.
And I love twenty two's. Always shot twenty two's and
it's cheap, it's fun. You know, they're accurate, you know,
(02:24):
in the right hands and with the right gun. And
I was like, man, that that was such an awesome shot.
Watch him shoot at golf ball one hundred yards of
twenty two rifle. Well, the next day, my buddy lived
in Florida and he was in the Navy, and of
course I lived in Tennessee. We grew up together and
hunted together and fished together. And we were talking about
that episode. He was like, dude, that was the biggest
luck shot I've ever seen in my life. And I'm like, now,
(02:45):
if you have the right mo, you have the right gun,
you know. And at this time, I had never even
heard of the courts and before top Shot, okay, never
even heard of them. And now look who I'm wearing
and who I'm sponsored by. It's kind of weird. But
we were talking about it and he was like, yeah, no, man,
that's a luckshot. And I said, oh, I'll tell you
what when I get home from work, because this is
when I had a real full time job. And I said,
(03:08):
when I get home from work, I'll film myself shooting
a golf ball one hundred yards. I said, but I
won't use a rifle. I'll use a pistol. And he
was like, there's no way. I said, all right, So
I went home after work and changed clothes and I
put up my cell phone because I didn't own a
video camera. You know, I had the original droid that
filmed in seven twenty okay, this was two thy and eleven.
(03:28):
And so I screwed in some screws on a two
by four that had a stake on it, and I
put my phone between me. Oh yeah, because I did.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
That's a Tennessee tripile.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
I was Tennca trifile because I wasn't a video guy.
I wasn't you know, I was just Dave, you know.
And and so I put that phone up there behind
the golf ball, and it was so awkward. That video
is still up there, and it's so so awkward. You
see me up there, and I'm like Dustin Ellerman hit
a golf ball one hundred yards of the twenty two rifle.
I'm going to hit one with the pistol, like wouldn't
make eye contact with the camera, and like all the
(04:00):
whole video is me walking one hundred yards away because
I didn't know how to edit, you know, this was
all live, you know, action, And so I back off
at one hundred yards and I was using a Ruger
Mark two slab side six inch and shot first shot missed,
second shot, golf ball went flying. So I walk up
there and I pick up the golf ball to show
the camera. I'm like, look, you know, and I'm just
(04:20):
doing this to where my buddy can watch it, okay,
and I'm like look, I hit it, and I looked.
I'm like dad, gum, and I forgot to hit the
record button. So I had to go back inside the house,
get another golf ball because I didn't want to say
that I was faking it. Got another golf ball, did
the whole thing again. Third shot, golf ball went flying
and I uploaded to YouTube. And it took me three
days to upload it to YouTube. Because I lived down
(04:41):
the country, I did not have high speed internet.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
And internet through the barb w Yeah, I had.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
Three g Okay, now this is the you know, I'm
telling my age, but this is the very early years
of cell phone technology and data. So uploading a two
hundred and fifty meg video that was three minutes long
and seven twenty on three it would take literally an
hour and a half to two hours to do it. Yeah,
all right. However, if someone called or texted it, don't
(05:09):
dr upload. So yeah start, So for like three days
I tried to do this.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Nobody called me.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Yeah. So finally one night I went to bed eleven
o'clock and I was like, I'm gonna try it again,
you know. So I uploaded when I was asleep. It
worked the next day. Like when it was uploading, it
said you have to create a user name because I
was a no name user, you know, because I didn't
have an account through YouTube.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
I was.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
I watched like like fell videos, people like skateboard. I
watched all kinds of stuff. I didn't really watch a
lot of gun content. And so I was like, well,
you have to have a user name. I'm like, what
can I use your name? And I was like, well,
I'm shooting at twenty two? How about twenty two? And
I'm like, I'm a child of the nineties. So it
was like Dave'ster and like Bobster and all this other stuff.
(05:51):
And so I was like, I'm going to be twenty
two plinker. That's who I want to be. And I
was like, well, upload this like user name taken. I'm like,
all right, how about twenty two plinkster And they're like,
all right, that name is available. I'm like all right,
So A created an account and guess what, I got
that Gmail account with it twenty two plinkster at gmail
dot com, which I still use all the time. Man,
I just thought I just threw up my email came together.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
It wasn't. There wasn't any market research about this happened.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
This happened in my bed at eleven o'clock at nine.
I'm like, manw this works, you know whatever? And so
I put I used some kind of avatar. Of my
avatar was me laying on a I think a three
hundred win mag with a beanie on my head or something.
I wasn't even having a twenty two in the picture.
I just wanted to change my profile name. Well, the
next morning I sent him a link. We watched the video,
(06:38):
we laughed about it, we talked about it. That was it.
That's all I wanted YouTube for. And so fast forward
about thirty forty days. I get an email. Back then,
if someone commented on your video, or some someone subscribe
to your channel, you got an email from YouTube, right okay?
And I got an email and it said so and
(06:59):
so I'm in it on your video. I'm like, what
video is he talking about? Because I don't go on
there and comment, you know, I say, what is he
talking about? So I logged in and it had like
seventy four views in a month, and I'm like, seventy
four people have wasted their time and watched the worst
video on YouTube.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
This was just literally for me and my buddy.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
Yeah, that's all it was. And this guy said nice shot,
and then a couple of days later I got a
couple more comments, and it was like a week later
this guy said, well, can you split a twenty two
bullet on an ax blade? That would be pretty cool.
I'm like, yeah, I can do it.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
So have you tried trick shots before? I mean yes
and no, Like when you set the golf ball at
one hundred, were you thinking I don't know if this
is possible, or were you thinking it's totally doable?
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Yeah, I don't ever walk up. Well, I can't say that.
So I will usually know within three or four shots
that I've attempted something, whether I'm want to do it
or not. It usually tasts me three or four shots.
Sometimes I will say no, I can't do this with
my skill level ords, I'm like, yeah, I can do this,
(08:02):
give me a second. Let me figure it out, because.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
You'll invent stuff. You're like, what if we did this,
And it's amazing when you do it. But there's probably
times when you think, oh what if we did this,
and you figure out maybe it's not really doable.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
Yeah, so there was so there was one. I can
only recall of one trick shot that I've never been
able to pull off. And it's funny. I've got a
water bottle right here in my hand. You remember about
eight ten years ago the biggest you know, the bottle flip.
So what I tried to do is I had a
table on my range. I would take a bottle and
(08:36):
I would flip it and as it's in the air,
I would shoot the cap off, not shoot through the cap,
like untwist the cap, untwist the.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
Soap as the bottle's flipping through that.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
Yeah. So I didn't want anybody to shoot the cap off,
but the bottle had to land back where it wanted. Okay,
it sounds pretty good, sough. Yeah. And so I was like,
because I split one, I untwisted the bottle cap with
my pistol upside down. And then the week after that,
I split one on my run. I was doing my
zero turn and I drove by and spun the bottle
(09:08):
off as I'm driving on my mower. So I was like,
let's do the bottle flip thing, because that's that's popular,
you know, you try to do viral stuff. Dude. I
got so sore bending over picking up water bottles that day.
After after about forty five minutes to an hour doing it,
I was like, I'm done because I would hit the
bottle or the bottle would stick, or I would shoot
the cap off and the bottle wouldn't stick, And I'm like,
(09:31):
I'm done because I'd have to flip it with my
right hand because I can't do anything left handed. You know,
you're trying to it would go everywhere, yeah, and I
shoot right it, so I'd have to flip draw like
shoot it and then it just never would work out.
So that's the one trick shot that that wasn't never successful.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
For two tricks in one really is yeah, bottle flipping
and it has to land on its bottom. Yeah, and
you have to unscrewt Well, there you go, guys. If
you want to do the un.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
It's got to be in the air, it's got to
be in the air, so you can't slip and then
shoo it off. That's easy. So uh but yeah, that
was that was a little bit complicated. So thank you
for bringing back those horrible memories. I've already forgotten about
that until now.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
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sitting here with Dave twenty two Plinkster, mister Dave Nash.
So that's how you got started in the YouTube world.
At what point did you make this a full time thing?
Speaker 1 (11:50):
So I juggled a full time job. I was a
youth leader at my church and a full time job
with ADT Secure youth leader. I was chairman of the
trustee board coaching basketball. I was doing all these things
for about a three year time period, and it got
to a point that, you know, the first two years
(12:12):
of me making video content on YouTube, for the first
two years, I never made a dollar, not a dime.
I was doing this because it was fun. People were
sending me a request every week to do and it
was fun. I was making a minute and a half
two and a half minute videos. We call them shorts now,
but you know, it was just fun stuff to do.
I never wanted to go out and say, hey, I'm
this great shooter. I wanted to put a twist and
(12:35):
show other people there's a lot more to shooting than
just shooting still and shooting paper. You can get small
targets and challenge yourself and anybody can do this if
you just take the time and learn your gun, amo
and still and so forth. And so I did that.
For after two years, I became a YouTube partner. They
sent me email and said, hey, we'd like to become
a YouTube partner. So started making very little money, like
(12:58):
one hundred and twenty five one hundred and fifty dollars
a month. That for I saved up for three months
and I was able to buy a Sony handicap for
three hundred and fifty bucks at a pawnshop, and so
then I did not have to use the droid anymore.
I was filming in ten eighty then, and so I
did that. And then after about the third year, to
tell end of the third year, I started going into
(13:19):
people's houses working on their alarm systems. Because I was
in eight to ten different houses a day, and at
least once or twice a week, people were recognizing me.
They're like, hey, do I know you from somewhere? Do
you shoot guns on YouTube? I'm like yeah, yeah, that
would mean like, why are you working here, and it's
I'm like, a good question, Why am I working here?
Speaker 2 (13:35):
Why am I?
Speaker 1 (13:36):
Man? So? But I never could. I'd have to. I
didn't make enough money on YouTube to justify leaving a
job of eighteen years with benefits and everything. And towards
the end of the third year, I think twenty twenty
thirteen or twenty fourteen, I had some company sponsored me,
you know, Federal Premium and Henry and of the Courts,
(13:57):
and they all came together to allow me to do
my dream, you know, to shoot guns and just talk
about the wonderful world at Rimpire and so been doing that,
doing this about almost eleven years full time.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
You know, you're the twenty two plinkster, you know, twenty
two's rim fires all that stuff. It's interesting because at
gun talk we cover everything, right, We're very broad, we'll
talk about everything, and a lot of the talk when
it comes to guns.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
Is very serious.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
It's like whether it's winning a competition or it's tactical
and all that's it's all good, it's all useful, it's
all important stuff. But often I'm like, guys, guns are
allowed to be fun.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
I think that's kind of like I heard you say
it earlier. It's like showing people like, well, what if
we split a bullet on an axe?
Speaker 1 (14:46):
Right?
Speaker 2 (14:47):
Like like this just talk about that as guns is
being a fun thing, because I think you're one of
the people who've really helped promote that.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
Yeah, and you know, I don't even own a pair
of cargo pants. I am like, are you to do YouTube? Yes,
believe it or not. I don't wear gloves when I shoot,
and I don't even have a lot of hair left,
so I can't have this really good looking there like
John Lovell, And I think I can't grow beard. I
made Cherokee, so like I've got too much Cherokee Emmy
to grow full beard. And you know it's just twenty
(15:19):
two's are fun. That's what most people like are starting on.
And I am like the least tactical guy you will
ever meet in your life. Now do I have the
ars and AR fifteens and AR tens, I've got Oozy's,
I've got Tommy guns, I've got I've got all the
guns fifty BMGs. You know, I've got them all, but
they're not as fun to shoot as rim fire. And
(15:40):
you know, I teach probably on average of probably twenty
different people a year to shoot for the first time.
And you know, I'm a I'm not an instructor. You know,
it's just people here like, Hey, my wife doesn't like guns,
or she's never shot guns, or she's scared of guns,
but I want to teach her, and she won't listen
to me, you know, because it's the whole husband wife dynamic.
(16:02):
Can I bring her over to help you, you know,
you teach her how to shoot, and I'll set them
up on a good sim automatic twenty two that's suppressed.
I'm like, take your ears out where your glasses because
we're shooting still. Let me go through your stance, your
grip and there's no recoil, well a little recoil. There's
no noise so it doesn't scare them. And after you
shoot a couple hundred rounds, then you can move them
(16:23):
up possibly to a three eighty and then to a
nine millimeter and then they find out, you know what,
guns are pretty cool because you know, I used to
have a shirt that said twenty two long rifle was
a gateway drug because it, honestly is. It starts you
into all the other calibers that are out there, but
you can't shoot them as cheap as twenty two so
and you can't have as much fun. You know, I
shoot on average of twenty five hundred rounds a week
(16:45):
every week of my life, and there are some days here.
Recently I shot eight thousand rounds in one day. So
I do a lot of shooting.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
Wow, that's a lot of shooting.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
It is a lot of shooting.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
And it's funny because that progression of kind of people
start out with twenty two's. A lot of people do
start out, maybe with pellet guns and BB guns, but
then I start then twenty twos, and then they work
their way up, and then you work your way up.
And I think this happens in a lot of places,
in a lot of hobbies. And now we're shooting three
hundred PRC or fifty bmg or whatever, and then all
(17:17):
of a sudden they jump back to twenty two twos yep,
and go, oh my gosh, these are so fun yep.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
And you know, only an accurate gun is an interesting
gun to me. And you know, if a gun's not
accurate and reliable, I don't give it two cents of
my time. But you get a good accurate sem automatic
twenty two pistol or a rifle or a good boat gun.
Find the moo it likes, dude. I can, literally and
(17:45):
I shoot guns for a living. You know, that's my job.
It's not really a hobby anymore, but I can. I
find myself sometimes three hours just sitting on the rain
shooting little pieces of steel at one hundred yards and
golf balls and lollipops and it's just Plinkol's just fun, dude.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
Well, and if you have a gun that's really tuned in,
Oh yeah, it's tuned in. You're tuned in. You guys
are one. Then it at first it becomes too easy,
and then you became okay, let's go smaller, let's go
further distances.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
Or whatever that is, right. I tried all that stuff out. Yeah,
so yeah, My longest shot on target was on a
twelve ounce Coca Cola can at seven hundred yards. Really, so,
if I remember correctly, the bullet dropped one hundred and
forty two feet, if I remember correctly, So I had
(18:34):
had en stories fourteen stories fourteen you're exactly right, and
it's so yeah. There was a video that went kind
of viral last year with Grandthamb and it was called
the twenty two Man with this guy claimed in the
target in the comments that he could shoot a can
at seven hundred yards with an open site rigger ten
twenty two. Everybody's like, dude, we got to see this.
(18:55):
And he was like, man, I promise I do it
all the time. And he was like, man, are you joking.
He's like, no, I can do it. Well. Grandtham like
flew him there, and it was like, all right, here's
a twenty two. There's a cocne at seven hundred yard shoot.
They shot through bricks and bricks and mamma, he never
hit it, which I could have told you if you
do hit it at that distance with a bare bone
ruger ten twenty two, it's completely locked. And with Baul Camo.
(19:17):
So I was like, all right, I want to make
the video me hitting you can at seven hundred yards,
but I'm gonna give myself all the benefit of doubt.
I want to use a voodoo. I want to use
a cold shot, you know base. I've got, you know,
a three thousand dollars piece of glass on this atlas bipod.
I'm using match ammunition. Let's make this a perfectly calm
day at six o'clock in the morning, you know, Dusty
(19:37):
Field or I can see my shots. And I had
a I think an eight inch or a ten inch
called well plate with that can in front of it.
Because I couldn't see the can because it was red
on that red clay dirt, I had to put it
in front of the yallow target. And I think I
got it on the twenty fourth shot, but I hit
the plate. I think eight times out of twenty four
that I just hit the plate around it. So you
(20:00):
can you do it consistently? No? But can you do
it you know, one out of twenty five times? Yeah,
I think I can on a calm.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
Really, honestly, one out of twenty five on a shot
like that, it's pretty dang good. I mean we've talked
about we know there's been the trick shot thing where
it's like, yeah, but how many times did it take
them to do it? Is it still impressive if it
took you a thousand shots and ten hours.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
To do it? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (20:26):
Or is it just luck at that point?
Speaker 1 (20:27):
So? You know, me personally, and I've said this multiple times,
I never want to be known as the best shooter
with twenty twos. That's not what I want. I want
to show a different aspect of how fun twenty twos
can be shooting, and if it can be done, not
if you can do it over and over and over again.
(20:50):
Play splitting playing cards at thirty feet. I can do
that my eyes closed, Okay, But doing some of these
trick shots that I've pulled over, pulled off in the
past fourteen years, could I probably do them again, but
it will take me a while. One of the hardest shots,
probably the hardest trick shot I ever did, was an
old story about you know, old folk tale about Annie
Oakley and what the folk tale was. She would take
(21:13):
a playing card and set it up at thirty feet.
She would take a Marlin lever action rifle and she
would shoot that card in half. Okay, pretty simple at
thirty feet with the rifle, and as the other part
of the card is flying through the air, she would
wratch in another round and shoot it before it hit
the ground. Well, I've heard the story over and over
and over again. I was like, all right, I gotta
(21:34):
try it. Well I did it. It took me two hours,
but I did it. I split I think like sixty
seventy cards before I hit it, because sometimes the card
would go this way, sometimes it's split to goes you
don't know where. Sometimes it would fall just straight down.
Sometimes it would go up in the air, so you
never knew it was go. But yeah, I split it
in like perfectly in the middle, and then I put
a bullet right through the center of that card. And
(21:55):
I still have that card on my desk a trophy. Yes,
that was my trophy.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
Well you think about that. You you shoot a playing
card on its edge, and that's you said, it's easy,
but it's hard. I mean there's some concentration if you.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
Think about it. If you think about it, you get
almost a half inch of rum of error. Yes, so
that's what people don't understand, you know.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
So but then but then I see what you're saying,
So that top half flies if you if it was
a semi auto.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
Yeah it be bam bam, it would be as bam.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
But if you have to run the gun, which kind
of takes you a little bit off the sites or whatever, Yeah,
that's that's yeah, that's challenging, man.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
Yeah, it was. It was a tough one. And uh,
the video is still there and it's got several hundred
thousand views down through the years, and if you look
real careful, there is a trail that I have worn
in the ground because it was real wet outside a
trail going back and forth to resetting cards in that
and I was just like I'm doing then, you know,
at the beginning of the video, you know, it's it's
daylight and it's like getting dusk, and I was like,
(22:55):
I already told myself I could try this two more
times before I ran out of daylight, you know, and
I got it. But that was probably one of the
most memorable ones of the hundreds, if not thousands of
trick shots that I've done.
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don't you.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
I do. So you know my mom always called me
David Dumplin doodle hopper growing up. So that's the one
the Internet now knows that's going to show up with
the comments now, David Dumplin Doodlehopper.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
So all right, we were talking earlier on the range.
We're actually the reason you're here, and they'll be hearing
a lot more about this. Is this plink of Palooza,
rimfire event with a bunch of media, a bunch of cons.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
My circus. It is your circus.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
You're like, damn, I got to be here for this.
But we were talking about you recently made a video
shooting all of the guns.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
Couldn't it right? Yeah? I still have PTSD from that video.
Speaker 2 (24:48):
You already put it out right, Yeah, yeah, it was.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
It was. We started at eleven o'clock and we got
done at eight thirty and at seven people helping.
Speaker 2 (24:57):
So tell us about why you made the video and
what the video.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
I'm an idiot, That's why I made the video. So
it was about six months before I was kind of
I was kind of looking said I don't really look
at a lot of numbers. I'm not a big number guy.
And I've said that over and over. And I looked
one day and I was like, holy cow, I'm creeping
up on a million. And so I'm making this random
review video on this gun. And you know, I always
(25:20):
close out my videos, you know, guys, if you know,
if you have any questions, put them in the comments
below until next time. You'll be safe, keep linking and
all that other stuff. And I was ending the video
and my cameraman's behind the video camera and I said,
you know what, I noticed, I'm coming up on a
million subscribers. And I said, when I hit a million,
I'm gonna shoot every twenty two that I own. And
he's behind the camera going no, no, don't, don't do it.
(25:42):
And I'm just like so I was like, all right,
leave him in the comments below until next time. You'll
be safe, keep linking and turning off the camera. He said,
are you out of your mind? He said, you don't
even know how many twenty twos you owned. I was like, yeah,
that's what's gonna make it fun. So I got a video,
made a video. I was supposed to hit a million.
About JUNI or July the numbers, the monthly track. Well,
(26:04):
I made a video and it went viral and it
did something like thirty million views within a week. And
with that, I gained forty thousand subscribers in a week.
And I'm like, I'm not prepared, you know. So I
had to made it, make a quick video. I'm like,
all right, I promised you guys I hit a million.
I will be making the video, give me a couple
of weeks. The logistics, I'm going out of town and
(26:25):
then getting people over here. And I did it, and
you know, it took it took three trips from from
the gun vault to the range on an eighteen foot
trailer being pulled. Three trips to just haul out the rimfires.
Now I wasn't I shot a couple of twenty two mags.
Wasn't all the twenty two maggs. I didn't even shoot
the seventeen eighty mars that I have. Yeah, but yeah,
(26:45):
it was three hundred and twenty one rimfires on the
range that day.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
See, and people will say, oh, I have this many
guns or that many guns. I'm like, then you don't
have that many guns. Yeah, if you know how many
guns you have, you don't have that.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
You're exactly right. And the funny thing is like, that
wasn't even all my rimpires. Like I still had forty
of them in the house or at my dad's or
my brother in laws or where have you. And people
were like, well, it's not a true video. You didn't
shoot everyone you own. I'm like, I'm ND. Eight under
a lot of this stuff. I can't show you guys yet,
Like I'm working on stuff.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
So more than three hundred guns. It took you how
long did you say? About nine hours?
Speaker 1 (27:18):
Yeah? About nine hours now to.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
Shoot all of them on camera.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
No, No, it took nine hours to get the tables out,
to get them out, to put the drop clocks for
that animal beside them.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
You got a load mags, Yeah, all that stuff.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
I know, I loaded everyone I'm on camera. I single
shot every like loaded bag, talked about two seconds about
the gun shot it loaded the other mex because I
didn't we had seven people there and I did not
want three hundred and twenty one loaded guns or the
firing line. And because a lot of my guns were
antique guns and they sometimes got a mind to their own.
So but yeah, yeah, that was I still do sleep
(27:49):
over that video.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
So since you just kind of recently made this, I mean,
I know you get the question what's your favorite gun
and all that, but liked think about are there any spells?
Are there? Is there one that maybe is your most
accurate gun or you know, your go to and some
of some of those ones that stand.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
Out for you. Yeah, my most accurate sem automatic are
definitely you're going to be mobile Cordsons. So my most
accurate boat gun is still my Voodoo. And I would
I if you watch this, If guys, if you're you're
listening to this podcast and you've seen the video, go
back and watch not all of it, but go back
(28:29):
and watch the last probably two minutes of the video.
I come to a specific gun.
Speaker 2 (28:37):
Because it's a long video, it is.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
It's I think it's an hour and forty eight minutes long,
I think, or something like that. And the last gun
I shoot is the gun that's most sentimental to me.
And uh, if you watch the video, I start crying,
I honestly, and I'm kind of I'm almost tearing up now.
It's just it's just a gun. It's just a blooming gun.
But the gun was inherent. I inherited the firearm from
(29:02):
a good friend of mine who passed away, who left
me two Colt Woodsman's. He left me a six six
match target, and that's that's what started my YouTube career.
I used that. I didn't use the gun on the
first video, but every video. What I did all my
trick shots with was that pistol. I put over ninety
thousand rounds through that Colt Woodsman and it still shoots
(29:24):
as good today as it did in nineteen sixty one
when it was made, and since then I owned twenty
four Colt Woodsman's, different barrel size, but that gun. If
you look at the video, like I start tearing nine
and I was choking back the tears. And because I
just got through shooting for an hour and forty eight minutes,
you know, the Mildstone of hitting a million subscribers, Like
(29:45):
all the emotions just came right there, and I'm just like,
you know, I did it.
Speaker 2 (29:50):
That gun. Did it changed your life?
Speaker 1 (29:52):
It did? It changed my life. That's who I was
known for for at least seven eight years of my
life was twenty two Plink Street is Colt Woodsman. And
now I get I get accused of driving up the
prices on that gun because those guns have been viewed
millions and millions and millions of times, and they were
(30:14):
good guns back when I started doing but the price
of Woodsman's now have gone through the roof and a
lot of people accuse me of doing it, and I'm
just like, if you can get them, get them. And
I you know, I've got some really rare ones, and
like I said, I own twenty four of them, and
they're just a lot of it's the sentimental part of it,
but it's who who made me who I am.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
Yeah, So it's interesting because you're right, a gun is
an inanimate object. It's just this mechanical device. But for you,
that Colt Woodsman enabled you to quit the regular nine
to five job and have a very successful and very
fun new career. And new life. You know, it's putting
(30:56):
food on the table for your family and putting your
kids through college and all this. I mean, for a
lot of people, a gun is something that it's not
just a gun. It's how we put food on the table,
or it's the way, it's my connection with my dad.
Yeah where it's or it's advice that saved my life
and enabled me to go home to my family that night.
(31:17):
So that's why, for you, for me, for those who
look at guns in a different way, it's more than that.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
Yeah, it's much more than that. And you know, being
blessed in the industry like like we are. You know,
there's no way that I could afford to buy all
the guns that that I show on my channel, and
you know companies send them to me. That's no secret.
You know. I'm transparent about I always have been. But
you know, I look at guns now, Yeah, they're cool,
(31:46):
they're fun, they're they're they're good shooters, whatever have you.
But give me the old blueing, give me the steel,
give me the walnut grips, give me get when I
look at something. When I look at an older gun,
I'm like, just tell me the stories. I just want
to know everything that you've been through the you know,
whether you shot an animal or not, you know, or
(32:07):
it just you know, where was this gun fifty years ago?
Was it with a grandfather and a grandson going on
a hunt that they tried for three days to shoot
a deer in nothing? But that's a story. That's memories,
and you know, you'll never know them unless you're told
and passed down from generation and generation. And that's one
(32:27):
reason why it's very important in my opinion. Yeah, I
get rid of you know, if you want to sell
your dad's glock or grandpa's glock or Okay, that's fine.
But if he has an old you know, old mouser,
or if he has an old Browning ba in there
or sweet sixteen or something cool that he's told you
stories about and trips, dude, it's like my grandma's gun.
(32:51):
I've got my grandma's gun that my grandpa bought my
dad in nineteen fifty seven, right before my dad left
the military. He couldn't take it with him, so it
stayed on the farm and a small farm in Tennessee,
and my grandma used to just shoot squirrels and deer
and everything out of the garden. She's killed thousands of
squirrels with this twenty two rifle and it's now in
my safe. The gun's worth four hundred and fifty bucks.
(33:12):
It's a Belgium made Brownie BA. It's got a lot
of scratches, a lot of wear and tear. One of
the first twenty two's I ever shot. But I wouldn't
take a million dollars for it. And yeah, I want
to sail and get rid of a lot of my
collection when I get ready to retire. But I guarantee
you one thing that gun ain't going for sale. That's
going to go to one of my kids or to
my grandkids, and it's gonna be passed down from generation
and generation. And that's that's one thing that I wish
(33:35):
gun companies would would understand and would kind of go
back in time, create a masterpiece, create something that's not synthetic,
not you know, scary black rifle. Look at those are fine.
I've got tons of them. But that's one reason why
like Henry's like, like give them an heirloom, give them
(33:58):
something that you can make the memories with. But it's
also it's going to beautiful generations and generations that just
looks like craftsmanship.
Speaker 2 (34:04):
Guns are one of those objects that we own and
we assume if we take care of it, it will
last our lifetime and our kids' lifetime and their kids' lifetime.
And it can be that's something that's passed long and
then it's connection back to Grandpa.
Speaker 1 (34:19):
Yeah right, you're exactly right. You know, I've got I've
got firearms that were my grandfather's. I've got firearms of
people that willed me that I knew, and you know,
I've got guns that are my dad's still alive. He's
eighty two, but I've got guns that he grew up
with and you know, uncles, and it's just if I
know the history of the firearm, it's never leaving my collection.
Speaker 2 (34:44):
Very well said man, Thanks for being on with us.
Speaker 1 (34:46):
Well, thanks for having me, Bud.
Speaker 2 (34:47):
All right, that is it for us. We will see
you guys next time on gun Dog Nation.
The last gun I shoot is the gun that's most
sentimental to me. And uh, if you watch the video,
I start crying. I honestly, I'm kind of I'm almost
tearing up now it's just a gun.
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Talgnation Today. On gun Talgnation a guy that you have
probably seen on the internet shooting guns, being very accurate
and uh, just a general jovial kind of guy. Twenty
two Plankster, Hey, maas, welcome in, man.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
What's up, how you doing? Thanks for being here, Well,
thanks for having me.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
You know this is going to be real easy because
you're not shy. You're a talker.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Yeah, I am a talker.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
So twenty two Plinkster. I mean originally fair to say
known for your YouTube channel, your YouTube videos.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Right, Yeah that's what Yeah, my mom would say something different,
but but yeah, that's what I'm kind of known for.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Where did it all start out for you? Because people
see it and go, yeah, he's this guy. He's got
a million subscribers and he's doing all this crazy stuff.
But like for me, I remember seeing your stuff and
going where did he come from? Because he wasn't like
some guy that I knew who was a competitive shooter
or or something else.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Well, it's funny that you mentioned that. This morning. You know,
I was filming with Chris and believe it or not,
the show Top Shot. I can blame everything on that show. Okay,
So season two Top Shot. I watched season one, loved it.
I even dvrd it, and you remember those days. Yeah,
So I watched every episd because I love to shoot
(02:01):
and guns and everything. And then season two came along
and there was a guy on there called Dustin Ellerman. Okay,
and Dustin Ellerman shot a I remember to lead to
get him into the final episode. He shot a golf
ball at one hundred yards with the courts and rifle.
And I love twenty two's. Always shot twenty two's and
it's cheap, it's fun. You know, they're accurate, you know,
(02:24):
in the right hands and with the right gun. And
I was like, man, that that was such an awesome shot.
Watch him shoot at golf ball one hundred yards of
twenty two rifle. Well, the next day, my buddy lived
in Florida and he was in the Navy, and of
course I lived in Tennessee. We grew up together and
hunted together and fished together. And we were talking about
that episode. He was like, dude, that was the biggest
luck shot I've ever seen in my life. And I'm like, now,
(02:45):
if you have the right mo, you have the right gun,
you know. And at this time, I had never even
heard of the courts and before top Shot, okay, never
even heard of them. And now look who I'm wearing
and who I'm sponsored by. It's kind of weird. But
we were talking about it and he was like, yeah, no, man,
that's a luckshot. And I said, oh, I'll tell you
what when I get home from work, because this is
when I had a real full time job. And I said,
(03:08):
when I get home from work, I'll film myself shooting
a golf ball one hundred yards. I said, but I
won't use a rifle. I'll use a pistol. And he
was like, there's no way. I said, all right, So
I went home after work and changed clothes and I
put up my cell phone because I didn't own a
video camera. You know, I had the original droid that
filmed in seven twenty okay, this was two thy and eleven.
(03:28):
And so I screwed in some screws on a two
by four that had a stake on it, and I
put my phone between me. Oh yeah, because I did.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
That's a Tennessee tripile.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
I was Tennca trifile because I wasn't a video guy.
I wasn't you know, I was just Dave, you know.
And and so I put that phone up there behind
the golf ball, and it was so awkward. That video
is still up there, and it's so so awkward. You
see me up there, and I'm like Dustin Ellerman hit
a golf ball one hundred yards of the twenty two rifle.
I'm going to hit one with the pistol, like wouldn't
make eye contact with the camera, and like all the
(04:00):
whole video is me walking one hundred yards away because
I didn't know how to edit, you know, this was
all live, you know, action, And so I back off
at one hundred yards and I was using a Ruger
Mark two slab side six inch and shot first shot missed,
second shot, golf ball went flying. So I walk up
there and I pick up the golf ball to show
the camera. I'm like, look, you know, and I'm just
(04:20):
doing this to where my buddy can watch it, okay,
and I'm like look, I hit it, and I looked.
I'm like dad, gum, and I forgot to hit the
record button. So I had to go back inside the house,
get another golf ball because I didn't want to say
that I was faking it. Got another golf ball, did
the whole thing again. Third shot, golf ball went flying
and I uploaded to YouTube. And it took me three
days to upload it to YouTube. Because I lived down
(04:41):
the country, I did not have high speed internet.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
And internet through the barb w Yeah, I had.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
Three g Okay, now this is the you know, I'm
telling my age, but this is the very early years
of cell phone technology and data. So uploading a two
hundred and fifty meg video that was three minutes long
and seven twenty on three it would take literally an
hour and a half to two hours to do it. Yeah,
all right. However, if someone called or texted it, don't
(05:09):
dr upload. So yeah start, So for like three days
I tried to do this.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Nobody called me.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Yeah. So finally one night I went to bed eleven
o'clock and I was like, I'm gonna try it again,
you know. So I uploaded when I was asleep. It
worked the next day. Like when it was uploading, it
said you have to create a user name because I
was a no name user, you know, because I didn't
have an account through YouTube.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
I was.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
I watched like like fell videos, people like skateboard. I
watched all kinds of stuff. I didn't really watch a
lot of gun content. And so I was like, well,
you have to have a user name. I'm like, what
can I use your name? And I was like, well,
I'm shooting at twenty two? How about twenty two? And
I'm like, I'm a child of the nineties. So it
was like Dave'ster and like Bobster and all this other stuff.
(05:51):
And so I was like, I'm going to be twenty
two plinker. That's who I want to be. And I
was like, well, upload this like user name taken. I'm like,
all right, how about twenty two plinkster And they're like,
all right, that name is available. I'm like all right,
So A created an account and guess what, I got
that Gmail account with it twenty two plinkster at gmail
dot com, which I still use all the time. Man,
I just thought I just threw up my email came together.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
It wasn't. There wasn't any market research about this happened.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
This happened in my bed at eleven o'clock at nine.
I'm like, manw this works, you know whatever? And so
I put I used some kind of avatar. Of my
avatar was me laying on a I think a three
hundred win mag with a beanie on my head or something.
I wasn't even having a twenty two in the picture.
I just wanted to change my profile name. Well, the
next morning I sent him a link. We watched the video,
(06:38):
we laughed about it, we talked about it. That was it.
That's all I wanted YouTube for. And so fast forward
about thirty forty days. I get an email. Back then,
if someone commented on your video, or some someone subscribe
to your channel, you got an email from YouTube, right okay?
And I got an email and it said so and
(06:59):
so I'm in it on your video. I'm like, what
video is he talking about? Because I don't go on
there and comment, you know, I say, what is he
talking about? So I logged in and it had like
seventy four views in a month, and I'm like, seventy
four people have wasted their time and watched the worst
video on YouTube.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
This was just literally for me and my buddy.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
Yeah, that's all it was. And this guy said nice shot,
and then a couple of days later I got a
couple more comments, and it was like a week later
this guy said, well, can you split a twenty two
bullet on an ax blade? That would be pretty cool.
I'm like, yeah, I can do it.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
So have you tried trick shots before? I mean yes
and no, Like when you set the golf ball at
one hundred, were you thinking I don't know if this
is possible, or were you thinking it's totally doable?
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Yeah, I don't ever walk up. Well, I can't say that.
So I will usually know within three or four shots
that I've attempted something, whether I'm want to do it
or not. It usually tasts me three or four shots.
Sometimes I will say no, I can't do this with
my skill level ords, I'm like, yeah, I can do this,
(08:02):
give me a second. Let me figure it out, because.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
You'll invent stuff. You're like, what if we did this,
And it's amazing when you do it. But there's probably
times when you think, oh what if we did this,
and you figure out maybe it's not really doable.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
Yeah, so there was so there was one. I can
only recall of one trick shot that I've never been
able to pull off. And it's funny. I've got a
water bottle right here in my hand. You remember about
eight ten years ago the biggest you know, the bottle flip.
So what I tried to do is I had a
table on my range. I would take a bottle and
(08:36):
I would flip it and as it's in the air,
I would shoot the cap off, not shoot through the cap,
like untwist the cap, untwist the.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
Soap as the bottle's flipping through that.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
Yeah. So I didn't want anybody to shoot the cap off,
but the bottle had to land back where it wanted. Okay,
it sounds pretty good, sough. Yeah. And so I was like,
because I split one, I untwisted the bottle cap with
my pistol upside down. And then the week after that,
I split one on my run. I was doing my
zero turn and I drove by and spun the bottle
(09:08):
off as I'm driving on my mower. So I was like,
let's do the bottle flip thing, because that's that's popular,
you know, you try to do viral stuff. Dude. I
got so sore bending over picking up water bottles that day.
After after about forty five minutes to an hour doing it,
I was like, I'm done because I would hit the
bottle or the bottle would stick, or I would shoot
the cap off and the bottle wouldn't stick, And I'm like,
(09:31):
I'm done because I'd have to flip it with my
right hand because I can't do anything left handed. You know,
you're trying to it would go everywhere, yeah, and I
shoot right it, so I'd have to flip draw like
shoot it and then it just never would work out.
So that's the one trick shot that that wasn't never successful.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
For two tricks in one really is yeah, bottle flipping
and it has to land on its bottom. Yeah, and
you have to unscrewt Well, there you go, guys. If
you want to do the un.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
It's got to be in the air, it's got to
be in the air, so you can't slip and then
shoo it off. That's easy. So uh but yeah, that
was that was a little bit complicated. So thank you
for bringing back those horrible memories. I've already forgotten about
that until now.
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sitting here with Dave twenty two Plinkster, mister Dave Nash.
So that's how you got started in the YouTube world.
At what point did you make this a full time thing?
Speaker 1 (11:50):
So I juggled a full time job. I was a
youth leader at my church and a full time job
with ADT Secure youth leader. I was chairman of the
trustee board coaching basketball. I was doing all these things
for about a three year time period, and it got
to a point that, you know, the first two years
(12:12):
of me making video content on YouTube, for the first
two years, I never made a dollar, not a dime.
I was doing this because it was fun. People were
sending me a request every week to do and it
was fun. I was making a minute and a half
two and a half minute videos. We call them shorts now,
but you know, it was just fun stuff to do.
I never wanted to go out and say, hey, I'm
this great shooter. I wanted to put a twist and
(12:35):
show other people there's a lot more to shooting than
just shooting still and shooting paper. You can get small
targets and challenge yourself and anybody can do this if
you just take the time and learn your gun, amo
and still and so forth. And so I did that.
For after two years, I became a YouTube partner. They
sent me email and said, hey, we'd like to become
a YouTube partner. So started making very little money, like
(12:58):
one hundred and twenty five one hundred and fifty dollars
a month. That for I saved up for three months
and I was able to buy a Sony handicap for
three hundred and fifty bucks at a pawnshop, and so
then I did not have to use the droid anymore.
I was filming in ten eighty then, and so I
did that. And then after about the third year, to
tell end of the third year, I started going into
(13:19):
people's houses working on their alarm systems. Because I was
in eight to ten different houses a day, and at
least once or twice a week, people were recognizing me.
They're like, hey, do I know you from somewhere? Do
you shoot guns on YouTube? I'm like yeah, yeah, that
would mean like, why are you working here, and it's
I'm like, a good question, Why am I working here?
Speaker 2 (13:35):
Why am I?
Speaker 1 (13:36):
Man? So? But I never could. I'd have to. I
didn't make enough money on YouTube to justify leaving a
job of eighteen years with benefits and everything. And towards
the end of the third year, I think twenty twenty
thirteen or twenty fourteen, I had some company sponsored me,
you know, Federal Premium and Henry and of the Courts,
(13:57):
and they all came together to allow me to do
my dream, you know, to shoot guns and just talk
about the wonderful world at Rimpire and so been doing that,
doing this about almost eleven years full time.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
You know, you're the twenty two plinkster, you know, twenty
two's rim fires all that stuff. It's interesting because at
gun talk we cover everything, right, We're very broad, we'll
talk about everything, and a lot of the talk when
it comes to guns.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
Is very serious.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
It's like whether it's winning a competition or it's tactical
and all that's it's all good, it's all useful, it's
all important stuff. But often I'm like, guys, guns are
allowed to be fun.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
I think that's kind of like I heard you say
it earlier. It's like showing people like, well, what if
we split a bullet on an axe?
Speaker 1 (14:46):
Right?
Speaker 2 (14:47):
Like like this just talk about that as guns is
being a fun thing, because I think you're one of
the people who've really helped promote that.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
Yeah, and you know, I don't even own a pair
of cargo pants. I am like, are you to do YouTube? Yes,
believe it or not. I don't wear gloves when I shoot,
and I don't even have a lot of hair left,
so I can't have this really good looking there like
John Lovell, And I think I can't grow beard. I
made Cherokee, so like I've got too much Cherokee Emmy
to grow full beard. And you know it's just twenty
(15:19):
two's are fun. That's what most people like are starting on.
And I am like the least tactical guy you will
ever meet in your life. Now do I have the
ars and AR fifteens and AR tens, I've got Oozy's,
I've got Tommy guns, I've got I've got all the
guns fifty BMGs. You know, I've got them all, but
they're not as fun to shoot as rim fire. And
(15:40):
you know, I teach probably on average of probably twenty
different people a year to shoot for the first time.
And you know, I'm a I'm not an instructor. You know,
it's just people here like, Hey, my wife doesn't like guns,
or she's never shot guns, or she's scared of guns,
but I want to teach her, and she won't listen
to me, you know, because it's the whole husband wife dynamic.
(16:02):
Can I bring her over to help you, you know,
you teach her how to shoot, and I'll set them
up on a good sim automatic twenty two that's suppressed.
I'm like, take your ears out where your glasses because
we're shooting still. Let me go through your stance, your
grip and there's no recoil, well a little recoil. There's
no noise so it doesn't scare them. And after you
shoot a couple hundred rounds, then you can move them
(16:23):
up possibly to a three eighty and then to a
nine millimeter and then they find out, you know what,
guns are pretty cool because you know, I used to
have a shirt that said twenty two long rifle was
a gateway drug because it, honestly is. It starts you
into all the other calibers that are out there, but
you can't shoot them as cheap as twenty two so
and you can't have as much fun. You know, I
shoot on average of twenty five hundred rounds a week
(16:45):
every week of my life, and there are some days here.
Recently I shot eight thousand rounds in one day. So
I do a lot of shooting.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
Wow, that's a lot of shooting.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
It is a lot of shooting.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
And it's funny because that progression of kind of people
start out with twenty two's. A lot of people do
start out, maybe with pellet guns and BB guns, but
then I start then twenty twos, and then they work
their way up, and then you work your way up.
And I think this happens in a lot of places,
in a lot of hobbies. And now we're shooting three
hundred PRC or fifty bmg or whatever, and then all
(17:17):
of a sudden they jump back to twenty two twos yep,
and go, oh my gosh, these are so fun yep.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
And you know, only an accurate gun is an interesting
gun to me. And you know, if a gun's not
accurate and reliable, I don't give it two cents of
my time. But you get a good accurate sem automatic
twenty two pistol or a rifle or a good boat gun.
Find the moo it likes, dude. I can, literally and
(17:45):
I shoot guns for a living. You know, that's my job.
It's not really a hobby anymore, but I can. I
find myself sometimes three hours just sitting on the rain
shooting little pieces of steel at one hundred yards and
golf balls and lollipops and it's just Plinkol's just fun, dude.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
Well, and if you have a gun that's really tuned in,
Oh yeah, it's tuned in. You're tuned in. You guys
are one. Then it at first it becomes too easy,
and then you became okay, let's go smaller, let's go
further distances.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
Or whatever that is, right. I tried all that stuff out. Yeah,
so yeah, My longest shot on target was on a
twelve ounce Coca Cola can at seven hundred yards. Really, so,
if I remember correctly, the bullet dropped one hundred and
forty two feet, if I remember correctly, So I had
(18:34):
had en stories fourteen stories fourteen you're exactly right, and
it's so yeah. There was a video that went kind
of viral last year with Grandthamb and it was called
the twenty two Man with this guy claimed in the
target in the comments that he could shoot a can
at seven hundred yards with an open site rigger ten
twenty two. Everybody's like, dude, we got to see this.
(18:55):
And he was like, man, I promise I do it
all the time. And he was like, man, are you joking.
He's like, no, I can do it. Well. Grandtham like
flew him there, and it was like, all right, here's
a twenty two. There's a cocne at seven hundred yard shoot.
They shot through bricks and bricks and mamma, he never
hit it, which I could have told you if you
do hit it at that distance with a bare bone
ruger ten twenty two, it's completely locked. And with Baul Camo.
(19:17):
So I was like, all right, I want to make
the video me hitting you can at seven hundred yards,
but I'm gonna give myself all the benefit of doubt.
I want to use a voodoo. I want to use
a cold shot, you know base. I've got, you know,
a three thousand dollars piece of glass on this atlas bipod.
I'm using match ammunition. Let's make this a perfectly calm
day at six o'clock in the morning, you know, Dusty
(19:37):
Field or I can see my shots. And I had
a I think an eight inch or a ten inch
called well plate with that can in front of it.
Because I couldn't see the can because it was red
on that red clay dirt, I had to put it
in front of the yallow target. And I think I
got it on the twenty fourth shot, but I hit
the plate. I think eight times out of twenty four
that I just hit the plate around it. So you
(20:00):
can you do it consistently? No? But can you do
it you know, one out of twenty five times? Yeah,
I think I can on a calm.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
Really, honestly, one out of twenty five on a shot
like that, it's pretty dang good. I mean we've talked
about we know there's been the trick shot thing where
it's like, yeah, but how many times did it take
them to do it? Is it still impressive if it
took you a thousand shots and ten hours.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
To do it? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (20:26):
Or is it just luck at that point?
Speaker 1 (20:27):
So? You know, me personally, and I've said this multiple times,
I never want to be known as the best shooter
with twenty twos. That's not what I want. I want
to show a different aspect of how fun twenty twos
can be shooting, and if it can be done, not
if you can do it over and over and over again.
(20:50):
Play splitting playing cards at thirty feet. I can do
that my eyes closed, Okay, But doing some of these
trick shots that I've pulled over, pulled off in the
past fourteen years, could I probably do them again, but
it will take me a while. One of the hardest shots,
probably the hardest trick shot I ever did, was an
old story about you know, old folk tale about Annie
Oakley and what the folk tale was. She would take
(21:13):
a playing card and set it up at thirty feet.
She would take a Marlin lever action rifle and she
would shoot that card in half. Okay, pretty simple at
thirty feet with the rifle, and as the other part
of the card is flying through the air, she would
wratch in another round and shoot it before it hit
the ground. Well, I've heard the story over and over
and over again. I was like, all right, I gotta
(21:34):
try it. Well I did it. It took me two hours,
but I did it. I split I think like sixty
seventy cards before I hit it, because sometimes the card
would go this way, sometimes it's split to goes you
don't know where. Sometimes it would fall just straight down.
Sometimes it would go up in the air, so you
never knew it was go. But yeah, I split it
in like perfectly in the middle, and then I put
a bullet right through the center of that card. And
(21:55):
I still have that card on my desk a trophy. Yes,
that was my trophy.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
Well you think about that. You you shoot a playing
card on its edge, and that's you said, it's easy,
but it's hard. I mean there's some concentration if you.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
Think about it. If you think about it, you get
almost a half inch of rum of error. Yes, so
that's what people don't understand, you know.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
So but then but then I see what you're saying,
So that top half flies if you if it was
a semi auto.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
Yeah it be bam bam, it would be as bam.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
But if you have to run the gun, which kind
of takes you a little bit off the sites or whatever, Yeah,
that's that's yeah, that's challenging, man.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
Yeah, it was. It was a tough one. And uh,
the video is still there and it's got several hundred
thousand views down through the years, and if you look
real careful, there is a trail that I have worn
in the ground because it was real wet outside a
trail going back and forth to resetting cards in that
and I was just like I'm doing then, you know,
at the beginning of the video, you know, it's it's
daylight and it's like getting dusk, and I was like,
(22:55):
I already told myself I could try this two more
times before I ran out of daylight, you know, and
I got it. But that was probably one of the
most memorable ones of the hundreds, if not thousands of
trick shots that I've done.
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aka twenty two Plinkster. You have a lot of nicknames,
(24:10):
don't you.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
I do. So you know my mom always called me
David Dumplin doodle hopper growing up. So that's the one
the Internet now knows that's going to show up with
the comments now, David Dumplin Doodlehopper.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
So all right, we were talking earlier on the range.
We're actually the reason you're here, and they'll be hearing
a lot more about this. Is this plink of Palooza,
rimfire event with a bunch of media, a bunch of cons.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
My circus. It is your circus.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
You're like, damn, I got to be here for this.
But we were talking about you recently made a video
shooting all of the guns.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
Couldn't it right? Yeah? I still have PTSD from that video.
Speaker 2 (24:48):
You already put it out right, Yeah, yeah, it was.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
It was. We started at eleven o'clock and we got
done at eight thirty and at seven people helping.
Speaker 2 (24:57):
So tell us about why you made the video and
what the video.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
I'm an idiot, That's why I made the video. So
it was about six months before I was kind of
I was kind of looking said I don't really look
at a lot of numbers. I'm not a big number guy.
And I've said that over and over. And I looked
one day and I was like, holy cow, I'm creeping
up on a million. And so I'm making this random
review video on this gun. And you know, I always
(25:20):
close out my videos, you know, guys, if you know,
if you have any questions, put them in the comments
below until next time. You'll be safe, keep linking and
all that other stuff. And I was ending the video
and my cameraman's behind the video camera and I said,
you know what, I noticed, I'm coming up on a
million subscribers. And I said, when I hit a million,
I'm gonna shoot every twenty two that I own. And
he's behind the camera going no, no, don't, don't do it.
(25:42):
And I'm just like so I was like, all right,
leave him in the comments below until next time. You'll
be safe, keep linking and turning off the camera. He said,
are you out of your mind? He said, you don't
even know how many twenty twos you owned. I was like, yeah,
that's what's gonna make it fun. So I got a video,
made a video. I was supposed to hit a million.
About JUNI or July the numbers, the monthly track. Well,
(26:04):
I made a video and it went viral and it
did something like thirty million views within a week. And
with that, I gained forty thousand subscribers in a week.
And I'm like, I'm not prepared, you know. So I
had to made it, make a quick video. I'm like,
all right, I promised you guys I hit a million.
I will be making the video, give me a couple
of weeks. The logistics, I'm going out of town and
(26:25):
then getting people over here. And I did it, and
you know, it took it took three trips from from
the gun vault to the range on an eighteen foot
trailer being pulled. Three trips to just haul out the rimfires.
Now I wasn't I shot a couple of twenty two mags.
Wasn't all the twenty two maggs. I didn't even shoot
the seventeen eighty mars that I have. Yeah, but yeah,
(26:45):
it was three hundred and twenty one rimfires on the
range that day.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
See, and people will say, oh, I have this many
guns or that many guns. I'm like, then you don't
have that many guns. Yeah, if you know how many
guns you have, you don't have that.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
You're exactly right. And the funny thing is like, that
wasn't even all my rimpires. Like I still had forty
of them in the house or at my dad's or
my brother in laws or where have you. And people
were like, well, it's not a true video. You didn't
shoot everyone you own. I'm like, I'm ND. Eight under
a lot of this stuff. I can't show you guys yet,
Like I'm working on stuff.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
So more than three hundred guns. It took you how
long did you say? About nine hours?
Speaker 1 (27:18):
Yeah? About nine hours now to.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
Shoot all of them on camera.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
No, No, it took nine hours to get the tables out,
to get them out, to put the drop clocks for
that animal beside them.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
You got a load mags, Yeah, all that stuff.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
I know, I loaded everyone I'm on camera. I single
shot every like loaded bag, talked about two seconds about
the gun shot it loaded the other mex because I
didn't we had seven people there and I did not
want three hundred and twenty one loaded guns or the
firing line. And because a lot of my guns were
antique guns and they sometimes got a mind to their own.
So but yeah, yeah, that was I still do sleep
(27:49):
over that video.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
So since you just kind of recently made this, I mean,
I know you get the question what's your favorite gun
and all that, but liked think about are there any spells?
Are there? Is there one that maybe is your most
accurate gun or you know, your go to and some
of some of those ones that stand.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
Out for you. Yeah, my most accurate sem automatic are
definitely you're going to be mobile Cordsons. So my most
accurate boat gun is still my Voodoo. And I would
I if you watch this, If guys, if you're you're
listening to this podcast and you've seen the video, go
back and watch not all of it, but go back
(28:29):
and watch the last probably two minutes of the video.
I come to a specific gun.
Speaker 2 (28:37):
Because it's a long video, it is.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
It's I think it's an hour and forty eight minutes long,
I think, or something like that. And the last gun
I shoot is the gun that's most sentimental to me.
And uh, if you watch the video, I start crying,
I honestly, and I'm kind of I'm almost tearing up now.
It's just it's just a gun. It's just a blooming gun.
But the gun was inherent. I inherited the firearm from
(29:02):
a good friend of mine who passed away, who left
me two Colt Woodsman's. He left me a six six
match target, and that's that's what started my YouTube career.
I used that. I didn't use the gun on the
first video, but every video. What I did all my
trick shots with was that pistol. I put over ninety
thousand rounds through that Colt Woodsman and it still shoots
(29:24):
as good today as it did in nineteen sixty one
when it was made, and since then I owned twenty
four Colt Woodsman's, different barrel size, but that gun. If
you look at the video, like I start tearing nine
and I was choking back the tears. And because I
just got through shooting for an hour and forty eight minutes,
you know, the Mildstone of hitting a million subscribers, Like
(29:45):
all the emotions just came right there, and I'm just like,
you know, I did it.
Speaker 2 (29:50):
That gun. Did it changed your life?
Speaker 1 (29:52):
It did? It changed my life. That's who I was
known for for at least seven eight years of my
life was twenty two Plink Street is Colt Woodsman. And
now I get I get accused of driving up the
prices on that gun because those guns have been viewed
millions and millions and millions of times, and they were
(30:14):
good guns back when I started doing but the price
of Woodsman's now have gone through the roof and a
lot of people accuse me of doing it, and I'm
just like, if you can get them, get them. And
I you know, I've got some really rare ones, and
like I said, I own twenty four of them, and
they're just a lot of it's the sentimental part of it,
but it's who who made me who I am.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
Yeah, So it's interesting because you're right, a gun is
an inanimate object. It's just this mechanical device. But for you,
that Colt Woodsman enabled you to quit the regular nine
to five job and have a very successful and very
fun new career. And new life. You know, it's putting
(30:56):
food on the table for your family and putting your
kids through college and all this. I mean, for a
lot of people, a gun is something that it's not
just a gun. It's how we put food on the table,
or it's the way, it's my connection with my dad.
Yeah where it's or it's advice that saved my life
and enabled me to go home to my family that night.
(31:17):
So that's why, for you, for me, for those who
look at guns in a different way, it's more than that.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
Yeah, it's much more than that. And you know, being
blessed in the industry like like we are. You know,
there's no way that I could afford to buy all
the guns that that I show on my channel, and
you know companies send them to me. That's no secret.
You know. I'm transparent about I always have been. But
you know, I look at guns now, Yeah, they're cool,
(31:46):
they're fun, they're they're they're good shooters, whatever have you.
But give me the old blueing, give me the steel,
give me the walnut grips, give me get when I
look at something. When I look at an older gun,
I'm like, just tell me the stories. I just want
to know everything that you've been through the you know,
whether you shot an animal or not, you know, or
(32:07):
it just you know, where was this gun fifty years ago?
Was it with a grandfather and a grandson going on
a hunt that they tried for three days to shoot
a deer in nothing? But that's a story. That's memories,
and you know, you'll never know them unless you're told
and passed down from generation and generation. And that's one
(32:27):
reason why it's very important in my opinion. Yeah, I
get rid of you know, if you want to sell
your dad's glock or grandpa's glock or Okay, that's fine.
But if he has an old you know, old mouser,
or if he has an old Browning ba in there
or sweet sixteen or something cool that he's told you
stories about and trips, dude, it's like my grandma's gun.
(32:51):
I've got my grandma's gun that my grandpa bought my
dad in nineteen fifty seven, right before my dad left
the military. He couldn't take it with him, so it
stayed on the farm and a small farm in Tennessee,
and my grandma used to just shoot squirrels and deer
and everything out of the garden. She's killed thousands of
squirrels with this twenty two rifle and it's now in
my safe. The gun's worth four hundred and fifty bucks.
(33:12):
It's a Belgium made Brownie BA. It's got a lot
of scratches, a lot of wear and tear. One of
the first twenty two's I ever shot. But I wouldn't
take a million dollars for it. And yeah, I want
to sail and get rid of a lot of my
collection when I get ready to retire. But I guarantee
you one thing that gun ain't going for sale. That's
going to go to one of my kids or to
my grandkids, and it's gonna be passed down from generation
and generation. And that's that's one thing that I wish
(33:35):
gun companies would would understand and would kind of go
back in time, create a masterpiece, create something that's not synthetic,
not you know, scary black rifle. Look at those are fine.
I've got tons of them. But that's one reason why
like Henry's like, like give them an heirloom, give them
(33:58):
something that you can make the memories with. But it's
also it's going to beautiful generations and generations that just
looks like craftsmanship.
Speaker 2 (34:04):
Guns are one of those objects that we own and
we assume if we take care of it, it will
last our lifetime and our kids' lifetime and their kids' lifetime.
And it can be that's something that's passed long and
then it's connection back to Grandpa.
Speaker 1 (34:19):
Yeah right, you're exactly right. You know, I've got I've
got firearms that were my grandfather's. I've got firearms of
people that willed me that I knew, and you know,
I've got guns that are my dad's still alive. He's
eighty two, but I've got guns that he grew up
with and you know, uncles, and it's just if I
know the history of the firearm, it's never leaving my collection.
Speaker 2 (34:44):
Very well said man, Thanks for being on with us.
Speaker 1 (34:46):
Well, thanks for having me, Bud.
Speaker 2 (34:47):
All right, that is it for us. We will see
you guys next time on gun Dog Nation.
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