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  • Опубліковано 12 вер 2024
  • A three-gun battery that somebody might have chosen in 1954: a Winchester Model 70, a S&W Model 10, and a double barrel shotgun!
    First video with Model 70 PreWar .30-06: • Winchester Model 70 Pr...
    Model 10 .38 Special first video: • S&W Model 10 .38 Spe...
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  • @hickok45
    @hickok45  3 роки тому +260

    First video with Model 70 PreWar .30-06: ua-cam.com/video/_itPllTJvsE/v-deo.html
    Model 10 .38 Special first video: ua-cam.com/video/lGcr5JsYcW0/v-deo.html
    Also, remember that The Zombie movie we're in, "Strain 100," is available on Amazon Prime: watch.amazon.com/detail?

  • @GothamWRizz
    @GothamWRizz 3 роки тому +2013

    He's like the cool grandpa you see once a year at christmas

    • @MausOfTheHouse
      @MausOfTheHouse 3 роки тому +145

      You should see him more.

    • @GothamWRizz
      @GothamWRizz 3 роки тому +45

      @@MausOfTheHouse I agree 😂

    • @ata343
      @ata343 3 роки тому +4

      Ye

    • @GattiJuanIgnacio
      @GattiJuanIgnacio 3 роки тому +94

      A cool grandpa who gives you a thompson for christmas and socks to your dad

    • @ata343
      @ata343 3 роки тому +15

      @@GattiJuanIgnacio best grandpa in the universe

  • @mattiagrana
    @mattiagrana 3 роки тому +808

    This man is a national treasure

    • @jimweston8224
      @jimweston8224 3 роки тому +8

      I had a 22 single shot, a 38 special from the army and no shotgun

    • @xrstevenson
      @xrstevenson 3 роки тому +12

      We must protect him at all costs

    • @davidefraanje9843
      @davidefraanje9843 3 роки тому +7

      The car too lol

    • @highdesertbiker
      @highdesertbiker 3 роки тому +7

      he is also an original gangster

    • @highdesertbiker
      @highdesertbiker 3 роки тому +14

      @@xrstevenson I dont think Hickok45 is the one that will need protecting, but he does have an online army on reserve

  • @jakeshowalter5819
    @jakeshowalter5819 3 роки тому +663

    You should do a video about "guns during The Great Depression". What guns were made and did it effect the gun supplies? That would be a cool video

    • @stc3145
      @stc3145 3 роки тому +51

      Armed in 1930

    • @mikeadams3785
      @mikeadams3785 3 роки тому +38

      @@stc3145 before the nfa

    • @savage22bolt32
      @savage22bolt32 3 роки тому +12

      Good idea. If he does, I'll share my grandfather's Mod 12 story.
      Will save it for later!

    • @davidmaldonado3909
      @davidmaldonado3909 3 роки тому +7

      Pls it would be so interesting.

    • @pisacenere
      @pisacenere 3 роки тому +15

      Lots of sporterized bolt action from the war(Springfield1903), an old side by side (maybe black powder) or pump shotgun, a 1911 if rich a revolver (old or new)

  • @7upac
    @7upac 3 роки тому +218

    Hickok gets out of the car: so anyway, I started blasting

  • @cheeetos1918
    @cheeetos1918 3 роки тому +290

    Theres just something about those 50’s cars its hard to explain, but they’re very nice timeless design

    • @DustinHasVideos
      @DustinHasVideos 3 роки тому +28

      Also the fact that he can slap the car over and over and it’s fine. My cars body is made of Perrier cans and would dent

    • @cheeetos1918
      @cheeetos1918 3 роки тому +13

      Yeah those things are built like tanks

    • @winnerscreed6767
      @winnerscreed6767 3 роки тому +20

      I was getting chills every time hit slapped it, just something about the sound of real metal, even the guns sliding sounds better

    • @saintlulu3387
      @saintlulu3387 3 роки тому +22

      Still think we should remake these designs into modern cars lol

    • @cheeetos1918
      @cheeetos1918 3 роки тому +2

      @@saintlulu3387 right right

  • @DWS1435
    @DWS1435 3 роки тому +383

    I was in elementary school in 1954. Dad had a double barrel shot gun and a German Luger he brought back from WW2.

    • @DWS1435
      @DWS1435 3 роки тому +45

      @abradolf lincler I had it when I went to college. Now my brother has it. Still works quite fine.

    • @sheslikeheroin93
      @sheslikeheroin93 3 роки тому +15

      @@DWS1435 what on earth made you part with that gem?

    • @kishascape
      @kishascape 3 роки тому +19

      @@sheslikeheroin93 his brother gave him an atomic wedgie and made him give it lmao

    • @sheslikeheroin93
      @sheslikeheroin93 3 роки тому +6

      @@kishascape of all places to run into another OS player lol. Small world

    • @donaldmeadows1594
      @donaldmeadows1594 3 роки тому +16

      I bet a very nice German gave it to him as a gesture of friendship.....

  • @jasoncole2876
    @jasoncole2876 3 роки тому +188

    It gives me hope that this guy can post something like this and get the huge audience he does. Network television has nothing on this guy, his guns, and a camera.

    • @kishascape
      @kishascape 3 роки тому +5

      R Lee Ermey used to have a great show on History Channel. RIP.

    • @bigdapramirez6157
      @bigdapramirez6157 2 роки тому +1

      That's because television is dying. "The future is now old man!"
      *Unplugs your TV*
      "Hey! I was watching that!"

    • @Joshua_N-A
      @Joshua_N-A Рік тому

      @@bigdapramirez6157 lol. Android box.

  • @walterpalmer2749
    @walterpalmer2749 3 роки тому +214

    The opening : Americana. The DB shotgun, the epitome of reliability.
    And the .30-06, a proven, battle tested round. The revolver, a classic.

    • @bobburnitt5389
      @bobburnitt5389 3 роки тому +1

      They are just as good now as back then too. Now people shoot 20 rounds and feel good if they get one hit.

    • @user-qd9gv2op7p
      @user-qd9gv2op7p 3 роки тому

      ظ

  • @aisforamerica2185
    @aisforamerica2185 3 роки тому +144

    In 1952, my great-grandfather was a Sheriff. He probably carried all of these at one point or another.

    • @jedimasterjoe5386
      @jedimasterjoe5386 3 роки тому +13

      The shot gun would probably be a pump and the rifle some type of semi auto and maybe a SMG but the 38 on point
      I want to thank him, I back the thin blue line

    • @kdm187
      @kdm187 3 роки тому +10

      @@jedimasterjoe5386 no

    • @jedimasterjoe5386
      @jedimasterjoe5386 3 роки тому +8

      @@kdm187 yes

    • @jimgollehon8052
      @jimgollehon8052 2 роки тому

      32 special lever action 410 and 303 British…my first firearms. Nice video… Thanks

    • @senosroweretaked9221
      @senosroweretaked9221 Рік тому

      @@jedimasterjoe5386 he probably would not have carried an smg in the year 1954 maybe an ar15 a couple years later but thats on the cutting edge as far as i can tell

  • @edgarbanuelos6472
    @edgarbanuelos6472 3 роки тому +231

    They're American, they came from the 50's, and they still work.

    • @MrEpeeFencer
      @MrEpeeFencer 3 роки тому +21

      A better time.

    • @kishascape
      @kishascape 3 роки тому +8

      @@MrEpeeFencer I like the shortwave radios of the 40s-50s but prefer the Film SLRs and Super 16 cinema cameras of the 80s.

    • @alecfoster4413
      @alecfoster4413 3 роки тому +5

      @@MrEpeeFencer Indeed, my S&W Chief's Special was made in 1955 and it is pristine and shoots very well.

    • @MASTEROFEVIL
      @MASTEROFEVIL 3 роки тому

      100th like

    • @MrEpeeFencer
      @MrEpeeFencer 3 роки тому +5

      @Jimmy Two Times I wasn't talking about guns...

  • @meka7569
    @meka7569 3 роки тому +345

    Everybody gangsta until hickok45 gets out of the car

  • @paststeve1
    @paststeve1 3 роки тому +219

    In 1954 the only thing I was loading was my diaper.

    • @lightweight1974
      @lightweight1974 3 роки тому +12

      LOL 🤣. Yep, we've all dropped "hot" loads in our diapers at one time.

    • @davestelling
      @davestelling 3 роки тому +2

      lol...

    • @joelyates2404
      @joelyates2404 3 роки тому +17

      No shortage of ammo for that

    • @paststeve1
      @paststeve1 3 роки тому +9

      @@joelyates2404 10-4 to that!

    • @paststeve1
      @paststeve1 3 роки тому +8

      @@mikemerrill175 Good heavens! I hadn't thought of that! Its too true to contemplate! Lol

  • @danielmaybee68
    @danielmaybee68 3 роки тому +148

    For Hickok the 38sp revoler has an effective range of 500 yards

    • @MrRufusjax
      @MrRufusjax 3 роки тому +8

      He's better with that .38 than he is with the rifle.

  • @rmsatlantic
    @rmsatlantic 3 роки тому +140

    The car entering the scene: menacing
    A man coming out of it and instantly starts shooting: am i in GTA?

  • @G19Jeeper
    @G19Jeeper 3 роки тому +951

    Armed in 2054: A sharpened stick and a permit to carry said sharpened stick.

    • @AR-GuidesAndMore
      @AR-GuidesAndMore 3 роки тому +235

      You are delusional if you think you could aquire a permit for such a deadly tool of mass destruction.

    • @zorro456
      @zorro456 3 роки тому +57

      Full auto AK-74 that came up from whatever war in Central or South America. If everything is illegal Why settle for a simple shotgun?

    • @G19Jeeper
      @G19Jeeper 3 роки тому +7

      @@gabrielcastileherrera9262 it must be pretty easy hiding behind a fake cloud of safety thinking you have nothing in the world to worry about. That is the true definition of a sheep. 🐑

    • @PuncherUvFish
      @PuncherUvFish 3 роки тому +63

      Or in CNN terms: A DOUBLE BARRELED SAWED OFF FULLY AUTOMATIC HIGH CALIBER PISTOL GRIP BREAK ACTION REVOLVING FIREARM

    • @FiniteBlu
      @FiniteBlu 3 роки тому +26

      Unsharpened, take it or leave it.

  • @ar5846
    @ar5846 3 роки тому +283

    Imagine people driving these sick cars when papa hickok was young 😳😳😳

    • @frankfisher99
      @frankfisher99 3 роки тому +13

      Their feet stuck out the bottom back then

    • @bradleyweiss1089
      @bradleyweiss1089 3 роки тому +37

      I’m 63. My grampa drove a 1950 Buick Wildcat. Black. With a split windshield where the antenna had a knob at the top of the split inside.
      And you turned it down in between the windshields to pull it into the garage. We was poor so our scatterguns were single barrel.
      Carberaters were two barrel.
      And we were free.

    • @tumidpainter3042
      @tumidpainter3042 3 роки тому +9

      They might be a little trash, but when fully restored they are beauties.

    • @Boy-pr2uz
      @Boy-pr2uz 3 роки тому +5

      @@bradleyweiss1089 is the great car still around ?

    • @bradleyweiss1089
      @bradleyweiss1089 3 роки тому +2

      @@Boy-pr2uz Unfortunately no. He was really a Teamster back when they had a team of horses. I always wondered where the two horse heads came into play with a trucker.
      Anyways when he passed we all said it was the passing of an era.
      My grandpa’s bottom land was filled with all kinds of horse drawn equipment. And about 75 old cars my uncle his oldest son had brought for parts. Well he got the farm and sold everything for scrap.
      My grandpa was born before cars and phones. He told how he took grandma to see an airplane in a field as a barnstormer was rounding the country.
      And he had seen too much. He didn’t believe we’d been to the moon.

  • @GattiJuanIgnacio
    @GattiJuanIgnacio 3 роки тому +80

    I'll never get bored watching this old man teaching us that life is fun when you have enough weapons to arm a small army
    Love from Argentina Buenos Aires hickok!

    • @andrewabraham7597
      @andrewabraham7597 3 роки тому +5

      Old dudes with guns, man.

    • @uan588
      @uan588 3 роки тому +1

      Let’s quit calling our mighty king old man. He’s not.

    • @BilgePump
      @BilgePump 3 роки тому +1

      and this is the best part, you’ll have a head start, if you’re among the very young at heart ❤️

    • @chrisXlr8r
      @chrisXlr8r 3 роки тому +1

      @@BilgePump hoping to get a gun as soon as I turn 18 😌

    • @BilgePump
      @BilgePump 3 роки тому +1

      @@chrisXlr8r excellent. Hope to see u on the range 🤠

  • @drivesideways6550
    @drivesideways6550 3 роки тому +624

    "If you find yourself in a fair fight, your tactics suck."
    Jeff Cooper
    Happy Thanksgiving!

    • @ladonnaghareeb4609
      @ladonnaghareeb4609 3 роки тому +5

      We miss Cooper.

    • @G19Jeeper
      @G19Jeeper 3 роки тому +3

      @Floyd Vaughn hes got a point. when hunting, you hope to get two holes so the animal bleeds out quicker

    • @blueschild61
      @blueschild61 3 роки тому +3

      That was Steinbeck. Still a good quote.

    • @randyschaff8939
      @randyschaff8939 3 роки тому +1

      So true

  • @ixion_cyb
    @ixion_cyb 3 роки тому +93

    Alternative Title:
    *How gangsters pull up in 1954*

  • @coderexe30
    @coderexe30 3 роки тому +92

    This man’s everyday life is essentially my dream existence

  • @40_BluntsYT
    @40_BluntsYT 3 роки тому +146

    He literally has weapons from every era

    • @edsz6458
      @edsz6458 3 роки тому +23

      Average american citizen

    • @andrewabraham7597
      @andrewabraham7597 3 роки тому +6

      Depends where you live

    • @Ziqrul
      @Ziqrul 3 роки тому +1

      @@DaedalusHelios can I ask you something? How much did you buy those guns for? I am just curious because I am not from the US

    • @Ziqrul
      @Ziqrul 3 роки тому +1

      @Orion Glass thank you for the explanation

    • @punjivr
      @punjivr 3 роки тому +3

      @Orion Glass I wouldn't say cheap, but they can be affordable. Guns range from $20 to tens of thousands (for your standard firearms, not mentioning auctioned one-of-a-kind ones). It's a whole market and it's fascinating to study i and how it fluctuates

  • @xxnoobxx1900
    @xxnoobxx1900 3 роки тому +145

    He really bought a whole car for one video
    Respect

    • @WessStewart
      @WessStewart 3 роки тому +9

      Also, a potential tax write-off. :)

    • @MiguelRodriguez-tm2yc
      @MiguelRodriguez-tm2yc 3 роки тому +16

      Its John's. He traded one of his classics for that car in the video. Hickock just loves to drive it

    • @rolux4853
      @rolux4853 3 роки тому +18

      Would be stupid to buy half a car for one video, wouldn’t it?

    • @kishascape
      @kishascape 3 роки тому +2

      @@rolux4853 Filming props are always decent investment. Just depends how much you got it for and how much you end up using it in production.

  • @ashtonpotts9787
    @ashtonpotts9787 3 роки тому +45

    My grandma was born 1918 and passed away last month, she was the first cowgirl in our area and her sister was one of the first female trick shooter

    • @briancaine9130
      @briancaine9130 3 роки тому +6

      Congratulations on a full life. My grandma was a shooter too.

    • @Brandenuzis
      @Brandenuzis Рік тому +2

      That’s really impressive. My great grandma til 97 and when I was cleaning out her house I found 2 Winchester model 77s in 22lr and a Winchester model 21 in 16 gauge and I got to keep all of them and my grandpa told me my great grandpa bought them for her and I thought it was the coolest thing that my great grandma was slinging lead back in the day

  • @ronthomason8388
    @ronthomason8388 3 роки тому +79

    Not gonna lie, I was kind of hoping he'd bring out a Tommy Gun and just start unloading lol

    • @smgs921
      @smgs921 3 роки тому +10

      Im thinking thats more 1920-1930s with a 1911 and a coach gun for a bonnie and clyde style prohibition gangster video

    • @kishascape
      @kishascape 3 роки тому +9

      The ole Chicago Typewriter. Still well in use in the 50s during Korea War.

  • @jeffpiatt3879
    @jeffpiatt3879 3 роки тому +2

    One of the things that I REALLY like about this channel is that there is no noisy, flashy, obnoxious and repetitive intro.

  • @wailnshred
    @wailnshred 3 роки тому +39

    Nothing wrong with a double barrel shotgun. A lot of the old men I knew used to say a 12 gauge double barrel was their only gun for hunting. Birds, small game and even deer.

  • @Zimbo1212
    @Zimbo1212 3 роки тому +50

    If politicians didn’t make such a big deal about capacity, I don’t think people would care as much.

  • @reservoirfrogs2177
    @reservoirfrogs2177 3 роки тому +53

    "What were you packing in 1954?"
    Me, born in 1998: Good question partner

    • @MASTEROFEVIL
      @MASTEROFEVIL 3 роки тому +3

      1999

    • @popindosin228
      @popindosin228 3 роки тому +1

      2001

    • @nekrospike
      @nekrospike 3 роки тому +1

      What’s kinda funny is I was born in 1980 and when I was 18 I bought a 1954 Plymouth Savoy. None of my guns are that old, though.

    • @BigWheel.
      @BigWheel. 3 роки тому

      98 as well.

    • @Adamu98
      @Adamu98 2 роки тому

      1998 right here bud.

  • @mortachi8816
    @mortachi8816 3 роки тому +7

    I was born in 1954. Still love the guns from that era, and still shoot 'em. First shotgun I ever shot was a Harrington & Richardson 16 gauge single shot, when I was 5 years old. I held it at belt level, and it spun me around like a freakin' top. H&R and New England firearms are still my favorite to this day.

  • @mohawkdriver2504
    @mohawkdriver2504 3 роки тому +6

    In 1954 as a twelve year old kid living in a small town in Maryland, I was walking down a state highway with a Hi Standard Double Nine .22 revolver in a holster on my hip and a Winchester .22 slung over my shoulder when a state trooper pulled up beside me and yelled “don’t shoot near the highway” and then drove off. At any one time, you could go out to the parking area of my high school and find a rifle or shotgun unsecured in the back seat of a students vehicle. My, how things have changed. Maryland is now one of the most oppressive gun control states in the country. I currently own and drive a really nice original 1954 Chevrolet 3100 pickup that I found on a ranch in Nevada 18 years ago. Driving it brings back the feeling of the good old days before feminism and Marxist socialists ideology took root.

  • @joelerk6298
    @joelerk6298 3 роки тому +170

    His tactical assault vehicle is so scary

  • @athanasiuschekouras1344
    @athanasiuschekouras1344 3 роки тому +18

    I would have been riding in the front passenger seat (no seatbelt), but my dad’s choice would look something like a Colt Woodsman, a Sears double barrel, and a Winchester 94. Thanks for triggering some great memories.

  • @awizardalso
    @awizardalso 3 роки тому +2

    I was born on May 3rd, 1954 in Upper Manhattan, NYC. My parents moved to Cleveland in 1957. I didn't start buying firearms until I turned 21 in 1975. 1954 was 66 years ago!

  • @AmericanPreacher
    @AmericanPreacher 2 роки тому +2

    I always love how fun and pure these videos are, but imagining Hickok in a movie set during some post apocalyptic event, surviving in the wastes while still carrying on his normal show with his unflinchingly calm attitude would be hilarious for all the right reasons.

  • @johnrose2157
    @johnrose2157 3 роки тому +56

    Happy Thanksgiving Hickok & Son!!

    • @hickok45
      @hickok45  3 роки тому +40

      Thank you. My cats don't seem to know it's a special day. I guess when every day's just another day to get spoiled by their servants, every day is "special" for them. :-)

    • @DesertFoxWRX
      @DesertFoxWRX 3 роки тому +2

      @@hickok45 You're the GOAT 🐐
      Happy Thanksgiving

  • @davejob630
    @davejob630 3 роки тому +28

    70 year old weapons, looking like they were bought yesterday. Speaks volumes, Hickok 45.

  • @johnking2551
    @johnking2551 3 роки тому +87

    I was carrying a cap gun in 1954.

    • @foreverbrownsfan
      @foreverbrownsfan 3 роки тому +13

      Cap gun was my first here, too. High capacity roll 😉. The Lone Ranger and Roy Rogers were my heroes.

    • @bradleyweiss1089
      @bradleyweiss1089 3 роки тому +4

      @@foreverbrownsfan Still are.

    • @model7374
      @model7374 3 роки тому +4

      Yeah. Hickok45 mentioned a fanner 50. An excellent cap gun by Mattel I believe. But in 54 you’d probably own a Hubbley cap gun. Fanner 50s coming along the late 50s along with greenie stickum caps

    • @bradleyweiss1089
      @bradleyweiss1089 3 роки тому +3

      @@JW...-oj5iw Yeah my buddy and I used to make those strike anywhere match rockets with the foil. And the lighter fluid pop can cannons.
      But yeah my buddy heard you take a hat pin and poke through the middle of the black powder dot on the red rolls roll em back up and stomp on em it was louder than a milk carton in a cafeteria. ( Can you imagine if a kid did that now?!)
      Well he did and it was pretty impressive. So he did another and it’s been so long I don’t remember what he did different but it was really loud and he said his foot was numb for like 15 minutes.
      Aahhh those were the days.
      Experimentation.
      Testing and finding limits.

    • @catfishredneck88
      @catfishredneck88 3 роки тому

      my mon was 4 years from being born.

  • @stephenkeown3707
    @stephenkeown3707 27 днів тому

    I was born in 1954. My dad's Arenal consisted of a S&W Combat Masterpiece in .22, a 16 ga single barrel shotgun and a 98 Mauser from WW2.
    I still love those cars of the early 50"s.

  • @AudioCalibrator
    @AudioCalibrator 3 роки тому +28

    Ah the double barrel shotgun. An elegant tool, for a more civilised age. Love them.

    • @daviddonaghy6494
      @daviddonaghy6494 3 роки тому +2

      I need a new double barrel. Mine is an over 100 year old outside hammer one. Don’t trust is with modern ammo.

    • @georgesakellaropoulos8162
      @georgesakellaropoulos8162 3 роки тому +4

      Bought two in the past 2 years to go with my semiauto and my pump.

  • @Kingj411
    @Kingj411 3 роки тому +36

    That Model 70 is just beautiful

  • @Rusted_Link
    @Rusted_Link 3 роки тому +175

    My Dad: Believe none of what you hear and only half of what you see.
    Today we can't even believe what we see sometimes.

    • @hickok45
      @hickok45  3 роки тому +228

      Yep, it's not just an "old saying" any longer. It's pretty much true as true can be. We've learned to believe very, very little we hear from media or government.
      And on top of THAT, one would expect to get more relevant "truth" from social media, where it's the voice of regular people.
      However, it seems 99% of posters are so desperate for clicks that almost any type of "embarrassing click-bait" is the order of the day. All thumbnails are beginning to look alike - anything to get attention, even to the extent of trying to make lame content appear more important than it actually is.

    • @lucasfreitas4803
      @lucasfreitas4803 3 роки тому +12

      @@hickok45 I 100% agree

    • @jamesguitar7384
      @jamesguitar7384 3 роки тому +14

      @@hickok45 Nowadays a person has to learn to navigate through tons of b/s . Perhaps we are developing a nose for this but how do we regulate it without doing something bad ? We don't want to end up like Russia or China . Libel or slander are bad enough but the constant stream of dodgy content seems to be getting overwhelming .

    • @michaeledlin9995
      @michaeledlin9995 3 роки тому +14

      It is a crying shame that people have been duped by everyone and everything.. Honesty is no more.

    • @jcapp1698
      @jcapp1698 3 роки тому +13

      @@hickok45 absolutely. The word of the year is hypocrisy.

  • @jrzoska
    @jrzoska 3 роки тому +12

    Yes indeed, the simplicity and beauty of pure American iron and wood... Remnants of a bygone era and a reminder of how much closer we have still much to be thankful for. Thanks for all you do Hickok with all the hard work you pour into your channel, it is much appreciated. Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours !

  • @bearsausage8599
    @bearsausage8599 3 роки тому +5

    My grandfather had that 30.06 there. He died this month. 1933-2020.

  • @ethanbaker6264
    @ethanbaker6264 3 роки тому +4

    Based on what my grandpa had at the time, some came back from Korea with him some came back from WW2 and others he had just bought. I'd say his options would have been either a Russian made SKS or model 70 270, either a star model B or Enfield No. 2 Mk 1*(no hammer spur or single action) , and most likely an 870

  • @steflo4544
    @steflo4544 3 роки тому +46

    The gaps on this 66 year old car are better than gaps on cars made yesterday.

    • @Awizzo4shizzo
      @Awizzo4shizzo 3 роки тому +19

      Back when cars were built for humans, by humans.

    • @italianboyz12345
      @italianboyz12345 3 роки тому +2

      Gaps?

    • @steflo4544
      @steflo4544 3 роки тому +7

      Mr. Anonymous the gaps between the body panels

  • @elmermason9685
    @elmermason9685 3 роки тому +8

    Great year. I was born in August 1954. It was a great time to grow up. I was lucky to have a Dad who taught me how to hunt and use different weapons safely. Sure wish I had a time machine. Thanks for the video.

  • @phprofYT
    @phprofYT 3 роки тому +8

    My Dad's choices were M1 Garand for a rifle (modified front sight and stock to be more "hunter like"), 3 round bolt action 20 gauge, cheap 9 round 22LR Hombre pistol. He added a carbine in there and it was a Universal Mfg. 30 Carbine. I'm now the proud owner of 2 of these fine guns after his passing a few years back. He also picked these in the early 60s but I'm not counting.
    Love the 38 special, however. Wouldn't mind getting one myself.

  • @ricktaylor5744
    @ricktaylor5744 Місяць тому

    I would like to see more of the armed in series. Thank you Hickok 45.

  • @bcbloc02
    @bcbloc02 3 роки тому +6

    That car is probably one of the few cars Hickok has headroom in. :-)

  • @af4od02
    @af4od02 3 роки тому +54

    I wished he would have lifted the hood to see the hemi.

    • @BSLO48
      @BSLO48 Місяць тому

      I wanted to see the dashboard.

  • @virgule888
    @virgule888 3 роки тому +12

    That which is old and still around is positive proof of it's quality. It survived the test of time.

  • @kennethwilson7315
    @kennethwilson7315 3 роки тому +29

    Happy Thanksgiving all.
    If I had to arm myself in the 50’s, I would have chosen from WWII era American arms most likely. At that time, an M1 Carbine or Garand would have been my choices in carbine or rifle depending on what power factor I needed. A good old 1911 would be tough to beat for a handgun. For a shotgun, something like an 1897, model 12, or any pump would do just fine. Hell, I wouldn’t feel terribly outgunned in 2020 with that loadout. I’m also looking at it from the perspective that if I were about 30 years old in 1954 like I am today, I probably would have been in WWII and be predisposed to that familiar manual of arms just as I am predisposed to the AR-15 because of its semblance to what I carried in Afghanistan. Not that a bolt action, a revolver, and a double barrel couldn’t or can’t get the job done. There’s just a certain intimate familiarity with a weapon with which you’ve fought.

    • @andyd2960
      @andyd2960 3 роки тому +2

      As much as I agree with where you are going with this, I have to say that a military spec ar variant is kinda a bad choice. The only reason I'd own a quad rail ar is to remind me how much I hated carrying an overweight cheese grater around in the desert.

    • @connorfoster2712
      @connorfoster2712 3 роки тому +3

      I agree with your load out and thank you for your service

    • @moriscoley5328
      @moriscoley5328 3 роки тому

      @@andyd2960 Thank you Sir for your service in our military 🇺🇸

  • @jaymcdude1291
    @jaymcdude1291 3 роки тому +6

    The .38 was a popular gun for a long time. Great choice for someone living in 1954. By the way.. Y'all should get that car painted.

  • @joegun9237
    @joegun9237 3 роки тому +6

    Fanner 50's were the choice of every kid in my neighborhood. Nostalgia is good.

  • @dcrog69
    @dcrog69 3 роки тому +39

    I would be completely satisfied with '54 and earlier firearms.

    • @michaeledlin9995
      @michaeledlin9995 3 роки тому +2

      I am too

    • @matthewmorel3758
      @matthewmorel3758 3 роки тому +1

      @wolvieguy at least in 1954, you could own machine guns as long as you paid the stupid $200 tax stamp and didn’t take it out of state.

  • @gangweedernigga4012
    @gangweedernigga4012 3 роки тому +7

    Hickock's intros keep gettig better and better

  • @ledsled01
    @ledsled01 3 роки тому +38

    The car looks like a Jonathan Ward Derelect resto. Fantastic

  • @thenkk4914
    @thenkk4914 3 роки тому +1

    My great grandfather would walk through his farm with his colt 1911 on his hip and a Swiss vetterli (weirdly enough) over his shoulder. And now i walk the same fields with an ar and his .38 special s&w. Its terrible i never got to meet him but I now curate and take care of most of his old guns and only recently started living on the farm.

  • @charlesh1735
    @charlesh1735 24 дні тому +1

    That 1954 Chrysler New Yorker would look awfully nice restored,with some new white walled tires and some rally wheels. 😊

  • @LionquestFitness
    @LionquestFitness 3 роки тому +27

    I liked seeing the S&W Hand Ejector back in action.

    • @dillpickle8015
      @dillpickle8015 3 роки тому

      You need to do a collab with Hickok, would love to see you guys shoot some classic and new revolvers together

    • @LionquestFitness
      @LionquestFitness 3 роки тому +1

      @@dillpickle8015 That would be quite an experience getting to see the old maestro up front and in person. But, Hickok is big time, whereas I am small time. Maybe one day our paths will cross. It's a small world.

  • @Gunlover6500
    @Gunlover6500 3 роки тому +25

    Put it up at 6 AM so the old heads see it first I love it

    • @ns7353
      @ns7353 3 роки тому +3

      boomer moves

  • @RobSmithSporty
    @RobSmithSporty 3 роки тому +60

    Then there was the "forgotten war" in Korea, which had just ended.

    • @connorfoster2712
      @connorfoster2712 3 роки тому +6

      Two of my great grandfather's fought in Korea

    • @sallybrown1459
      @sallybrown1459 3 роки тому +2

      @@connorfoster2712 My father in law was a Combat Medic in the 25th Infantry in 51 and 52. Told me there were so many times we could not get to all of them.

    • @milsurprifleguy7091
      @milsurprifleguy7091 3 роки тому +2

      My dad came home from Korea in 1956

    • @docsridingadventures2880
      @docsridingadventures2880 3 роки тому +2

      My grandfather was a navy corpsman in Korea, he was awarded the navy cross for his actions. Unfortunately he passed in 95 from an aneurysm and I never got to meet him. I also joined the navy out of high school as a corpsman and I never knew his story until after I graduated boot camp my grandmother sent me his medals and citations. Let’s just say I was a little surprised and proud to follow his footsteps.

    • @kishascape
      @kishascape 3 роки тому +1

      @BADSPOCK No it pretty much ended in every real world sense. Technicalities are meaningless these days.

  • @jeremyrogers4839
    @jeremyrogers4839 Місяць тому

    I LOVE the historical aspects of your content!

  • @danielmcgill3322
    @danielmcgill3322 Рік тому

    My Dad bought a Remington 30.06 and Remington model 870 Wingmaster 12 gauge pump. I inherited his old Winchester. 32 Special lever action and 20 gauge double barrel shot gun as soon as I was big enough to keep both ends off the ground.

  • @jackdelvo2702
    @jackdelvo2702 3 роки тому +4

    I would argue a lever gun for the rifle, I was a boy but a 30 30 was what all the men carried. They also drove Fords or Chevys.

  • @nathangilbert7774
    @nathangilbert7774 3 роки тому +7

    To each their own. I think my picks would have been: M1 Carbine, Winchester Model 12, Browning Hi-Power.

    • @BilgePump
      @BilgePump 3 роки тому

      Amen to the Win. Model 12. I’m hunting w/a 1954 model myself this year..

  • @donsimpson3935
    @donsimpson3935 3 роки тому +8

    Happy Thanksgiving Hickok and all your viewers

  • @adequatebus8280
    @adequatebus8280 3 роки тому +22

    mom . . . gramps is here, and he’s shooting up the yard, again . . .

  • @jamesfenter916
    @jamesfenter916 7 днів тому

    1973 my shotgun was a Fox model B 12 gauge ,was my feild gun for 30 years wore it out .

  • @alessandromugianesi7284
    @alessandromugianesi7284 3 роки тому +50

    0:15 mafia in a nutshell

  • @hahamadeyouread214
    @hahamadeyouread214 3 роки тому +16

    I am questioning if this IS doomslayer's retired grandfather

  • @joehosier6187
    @joehosier6187 3 роки тому +5

    Always happy to see a new episode of Hickok45, aka the Bob Ross of firearms.

  • @kennyshepherd8311
    @kennyshepherd8311 3 роки тому +1

    I had the pleasure of meeting Hickok 45 and his son John as they were leaving Cracker Barrel in Lakeland, Tn, made my day (a couple of years ago)! My dad had a 55' Pontiac (Star Chief)! God bless!

  • @glensoldan4536
    @glensoldan4536 3 роки тому +1

    In 1954 Dad bought a Model 12, a Husqvarna 4100 lightweight 270 Winchester and a K38 target pistol. He still owned them when he died two years ago. They served him well and were well taken care of.

  • @45acp2go
    @45acp2go 3 роки тому +12

    I agree with you Hickok on the fanner 50. Unless you our age no one would know what it is.

  • @KQOAmericanLady
    @KQOAmericanLady 3 роки тому +7

    You brought a smile to my face. This reminds me of my dad. Rest his soul 🙏🏼 Thank you for showing daughters like me reminding us what our dads did in their spare time. Dads teaching us about hobbies worth having. Hunting, Archery and Guns, clocks 🕰 brought a peace, a tradition, good old fashion America’s best.
    Oh, My Father in Love is 92, You and him would be instant buddy’s. He has a lot of knowledge about old guns too. The history and story’s gives me a calmness. Happy we still have men like you two still around to teach this generation and refresh my generation.
    Happy Thanksgiving 🍽🍁 Merry Christmas 🎄 Happy New Year . 🙏🏼

  • @robertkreamer7522
    @robertkreamer7522 3 роки тому +15

    Those were the days my friend 9 years old and life was real , I lived in a real country with real men and women . Sorry to see it gone but at least I experienced it

    • @ftdefiance1
      @ftdefiance1 3 роки тому

      K frame was much more affordable then a new 1911.

    • @shelw195
      @shelw195 3 роки тому

      I got to see the tail end of it.

    • @choosegamingfps2032
      @choosegamingfps2032 3 роки тому

      I wish I was there

    • @DeimosPC
      @DeimosPC 3 роки тому

      Wish I grew up in that era

    • @robertkreamer7522
      @robertkreamer7522 3 роки тому +1

      Here is more that is never more at my school Ramsey HS in Ramsey NJ
      About 40 min drive from NYS hunting areas we had a Rifle Club ! Where you met on club day to learn all about weapons that you had brought to school that day . There never was a school shooting in a school of about 1000 students. Remember our teachers were WW 2 vets in many cases , no one feared guns we respected them and others.
      A rifle club just ponder that and now look at our world today .....

  • @stevebutters306
    @stevebutters306 3 роки тому +31

    As soon as he opens the door: "So anyway, I started blasting..."

    • @rolux4853
      @rolux4853 3 роки тому

      This comment screams „I’m 12“ like nothing else in this world

    • @stevebutters306
      @stevebutters306 3 роки тому +2

      @@rolux4853 You sound like you're upset about a comment on youtube. I wish I had the time to complain about such things.

  • @amf1717
    @amf1717 3 роки тому

    My wife who passed away in 2012 was born in 1954, still enjoyed the video. I have that same five screw S&W in 38 spl love it. I also had a pre 64 model 70 in 270 I wish I never sold it. Life is good...

  • @sgtmajtrapp3391
    @sgtmajtrapp3391 3 роки тому +4

    HAPPY THANKSGIVING MR H. IN 1954 I WAS 3. HOPE YOU AND JOHN AND FAMILY HAVE A SAFE AND BLESSED DAY.

  • @texasbeast239
    @texasbeast239 3 роки тому +4

    Feels like this could almost be a throwback episode of Supernatural.
    Hickok45 would make a good Hunter of any era.

  • @philbrown4111
    @philbrown4111 3 роки тому +15

    I was born in 1950 and remember most of this , it was better time , slow and easy living !

    • @roflryan1
      @roflryan1 3 роки тому

      Today it's all about bio weapons and drones that can fry your brain with frequencies. Good times!

  • @granddad-mv5ef
    @granddad-mv5ef 3 роки тому

    At the age of 3 in 1954, my guns were toys. However, my Dad still had the same guns when I was ready to begin shooting. They included a Savage bolt-action .22, a Parker rabbit-eared double 12 and a "sporterized" German WW2 Mauser. My first handgun was my own, a .38 S&W break top. Good memories.

  • @fourhillsfarm
    @fourhillsfarm Рік тому

    The armed in series just started showing up in my recommended. Don’t know how I missed it first time around. Fantastic, bravo.

  • @britishbalaclava
    @britishbalaclava 3 роки тому +59

    It's pretty much what we have in Britain today minus the handgun.

    • @Chris-vs4wt
      @Chris-vs4wt 3 роки тому +13

      I didn’t even know brits were allowed to own guns

    • @Rozmic
      @Rozmic 3 роки тому +2

      Shotgun's too short though.

    • @chesterpanda
      @chesterpanda 3 роки тому

      Can you get one of those Black-Powder conversions?

    • @MotoSera
      @MotoSera 3 роки тому +9

      @@Chris-vs4wt a commonly held misconception that we like to maintain. But in reality we can own a lot...

    • @MotoSera
      @MotoSera 3 роки тому

      ​@@Rozmic you could hold it on a FAC. A SxS or O/U only needs to be 12" barrel 24" OA length (same as an S1 rifle). Anything more than 2 shot needs to have 24" barrel even on a FAC.

  • @vegabaker
    @vegabaker 3 роки тому +11

    I’m really enjoying this video series! History and firearms are so interrelated that there is a real need to explore this aspect of American history and traditions. I’ll put in my request again for December 8, 1941. Thanks again !

    • @thIDthIRreenactor
      @thIDthIRreenactor 3 роки тому

      If your talking about pearl harbor its December 7th 1941 December 8th was when roosevelt said his speech to the American people

  • @_Bucky
    @_Bucky 3 роки тому +4

    Happy thanksgiving Hickok45 and everyone else 🦃

  • @johnwalters191
    @johnwalters191 3 роки тому

    I was 12 in '54 and very much into guns. In my area of NE Ohio, a sporterized Model 98 Mauser was the rifle to have! Many gun shops were specializing in these. Anything in .38 would have been correct, however most were in .38 S&W - the .38 special was the "magnum" of the day. Everyone had a least one shotgun.
    When I was a young mechanic in the early '60's I had the exact same 54 New Yorker - even the same color combo. The Hemi engine was 354 cu in. The 331 was the first hemi and ran from 1951 to 1953.
    Thanks for all the great videos you guys do, I watch each and everyone. Have a great Thanksgiving! God Bless ...

  • @delholford987
    @delholford987 3 роки тому

    Bought a 55 Buick Special 4 door hardtop in 1965. It had a small V8 that never had a problem in the 3 years I owned it. My much younger wife was born in 1954. :-)

  • @robertomotrin5717
    @robertomotrin5717 3 роки тому +16

    This Chyrsler was the first production car to have disc brakes.

    • @wk3818
      @wk3818 3 роки тому

      Yeah I wanted to mention the Tucker. But you said production car. And the big three made sure to murder that baby in the cradle.

    • @robertomotrin5717
      @robertomotrin5717 3 роки тому +1

      @@wk3818 YES I did, VICTORINOX is the BEST

    • @robertomotrin5717
      @robertomotrin5717 3 роки тому +1

      @@wk3818 My FATHER had faith in TUCKER and bought their STOCK

    • @joekurtz8303
      @joekurtz8303 3 роки тому

      I recall👁 some older Chrysler brake calipers mfg by Lockheed ....

    • @patrickgriffitt6551
      @patrickgriffitt6551 3 роки тому

      Did not know that. Thank you for the info.

  • @jstutzman1301
    @jstutzman1301 3 роки тому +17

    Happy Thanksgiving everyone.

    • @grassroot011
      @grassroot011 3 роки тому

      Same to you, Your name Jerome? I knew a guy by that name, first and last.

  • @luis.vuitton
    @luis.vuitton 3 роки тому +7

    There’s something about the Model 10 .38 that just feels right to me

  • @MrGsteele
    @MrGsteele 3 роки тому

    In 1954 my dad took me to a gun show in downtown Boston, and we prowled around for hours. The prize I took away from that show was a copy of Stoeger's Shooter's Bible, which I read cover to cover, backwards and forwards, learning about military weapons and commercial rifles, pistols, revolvers, shotguns, and ammunition - obsessing like only a 9 year old can, over "the list I was gonna buy when I grew up." Many, many years later I opened up a gunshop, got my FFL, and ended up with a fair number of those prized icons of my youth, which I still have. I think admiring those guns gave me a life-long appreciation of well-built, precision machines that endures to this day. I'm almost as happy taking them down and cleaning and oiling them as I am shooting them (and it's a lot less expensive.) Thanks for recalling those days long ago.

  • @raygomez6212
    @raygomez6212 3 роки тому

    I agree with all three of your choices. In 1954, my dad, a WWII Army veteran, purchased a Winchester Model 70 featherweight in .308 caliber that I still use today. Great rifle.

  • @stonealone977
    @stonealone977 3 роки тому +68

    what real americans do when they leave a car

    • @jetdavis9414
      @jetdavis9414 3 роки тому +7

      You mean the school bus (il American I can make this joke)

    • @summushieremiasclarkson4700
      @summushieremiasclarkson4700 3 роки тому +3

      @@jetdavis9414 what joke?

    • @IceBear702
      @IceBear702 3 роки тому

      @@summushieremiasclarkson4700 oof

    • @regan.8077
      @regan.8077 3 роки тому +3

      That's how we greet our neighbors in the south.

    • @stonealone977
      @stonealone977 3 роки тому +1

      @@jetdavis9414 im not american but i know what you mean. school shootings

  • @KarlM777
    @KarlM777 3 роки тому +8

    Could have added a 22LR to the list. Like the old Stevens single shot or the Winchester bolt action single shot. I have my Grandpa's single shot Winchester he ordered from the Sears catalog.

    • @stevenmiddleton61
      @stevenmiddleton61 3 роки тому +1

      Yep. Very Right about the 22. I bet he would agree

    • @bradleyweiss1089
      @bradleyweiss1089 3 роки тому +1

      I was blessed with an uncle by marriage that owned a real gun shop. He dealt in furs traps ginseng and goldenseal roots.
      And I too had a Stevens bolt. And I don’t say this to one up. But it had a peep sight and a globe front sight. Aaand it took a 10 shot magazine!
      I was in heaven. And did it shoot.
      Those were the days.

  • @lukutis002
    @lukutis002 3 роки тому +31

    Wow at the beginning he shot with pistol and i got scared xD

    • @ata343
      @ata343 3 роки тому

      Same

    • @jackd2083
      @jackd2083 3 роки тому

      Why were you scared? Ricochet through your screen?

  • @boydgrandy5769
    @boydgrandy5769 3 роки тому

    I was born in April, 1951.
    I got my first rifle, a Remington single shot bolt action 22, in 1958.
    I didn't know anyone who didn't have at least one plinking/squirrel rifle and a 30-30 Winchester for deer. Well, except for one old guy who lived about 6 miles north of our place. Fellow named George Cook, who owned the same 45-70 Winchester he'd bought in 1900. He was still taking deer with that rifle in his late 80s.

  • @GlidingZephyr
    @GlidingZephyr 3 роки тому +3

    My Father was born in 1955 in Alabama. I imagine at least some of his close relatives owned one of these.
    Suggestion: I was born in 1981. Would you be willing to make an "Armed in the early 80's" video?