[Karl] Hi, I'm Karl Kasarda. I've been running the two-gun action challenge match near Tuscon for about ten years now.
I'm a masterclass NRA high-power shooter with 28 of the 30 required points for a distinguished rifleman badge
and I was also the second class, frontier cartridge duelist down in Tombstone, Arizona, for... three years in a row.
[Ian] Yep!
[Karl] So I have a pretty good variety of... of competitive shooting, as well as match running and-
[Ian] You're a very well rounded and highly experienced shooter, I'll say it because you're too self-conscious to say it yourself.
[Karl] OK, fair enough... and I do have a drawer full of tactical certificates from a whole myriad of tactical companies.
[Ian] And I'm Ian (McCollum), uh, I run a website called Forgotten Weapons and,
uh, if anything I'm a specialist in older guns and weird guns, and together we decided to put together a programme called InRangeTV.
[Karl] Yeah, so if you've been following InRangeTV, it's about a year old now and we thank you for your support.
Thank you for watching, we love you fans, appreciate it... all the support.
If you haven't seen it, we want to give you an introduction and talk about something else here.
So, InRange is exactly what we described. My kind-of modern experience, and modern competitive and training experience
along with Ian's historical [experience], bringing together reviews and concepts around the current firearms community, gear, and guns through an historic lens.
[Ian] Right.
Once you know where it came from, only then can you really understand what something is and where it's going.
[Karl] And this interesting cycle which you'll see in our content if you continue to watch, and I hope you do, uh, that nothing's new.
[Ian] Right.
[Karl] So, that's one of the interesting takes we do on this, we've done some history too, some old west stuff as well.
So, what we're coming to about is; a year into this project now, one of the things that's one of the very basic concepts of InRange
is to not be beholden to anyone's specific interests or goals. We wanna review or talk about our content with no overlords.
We wanna look at modern guns and gear honestly and without a bias, and we wanna be able to have the ability to say
what we feel is appropriate to say about that gun, not only it's historic origins but the realities of running it in a practical environment.
[Ian] Is it worth buying or not? And you know what?
There's a corrupting factor even if you just get a review gun from a company... even if you try not to you kinda feel beholden to that company
to give them the benefit of the doubt or to give them a better review in hopes that they'll come back
and let you try out a loaner of their next gun.
[Karl] It is interesting to note that if you reference our review of the MasterPiece Arms rifle which we got as a loaner gun,
kind of through a channel, and unfortunately had to give it a negative review
[Karl] Well, besides the light-strikes on the primer, the charging handle cutting into the buffer, well, the locking lug for the butt stock,
and, uhm, the strange malfunction we had with the bolt and that ammunition,
we now have noticed that the C-clips are falling off of the fire-control group.
[Karl] The amount of guns coming to us as free loaners depreciated dramatically.
So that loaner thing doesn't work. Even if you think there are guys out there that are getting loaner guns
it's hard for them to be able to give as honest a review as they probably want to because of the
mechanism that they're stuck underneath.
[Ian] Right, so what we need to do is fund this project in a way that, we can actually afford to buy everything that we want to review.
[Karl] Right, and so we're not doing that for our own profit, in fact one of the plans we wanna do
is buy these items, review them, and if we get a sufficient amount of support-
[Ian] If we can afford to do it... absolutely, we'll give them away.
[Karl] We're gonna give that stuff away.
So, as long as you're legally allowed to own it, one of the ideas here is we'll review something
whether it's an optic, or a knife, or a gun, or armour, or... or computer program - we go to Defcon too -
uhm, that someone, every quarter of the year, out of the supporter base will be essentially raffled that item.
[Ian] Yep.
[Karl] It isn't for our profit, it's just because we wanna give these honest reviews.
So, we need to find a clever and unique funding mechanism to do this.
We've tried a couple of things over the last year, some were more successful than others, it's not getting where we need it to be to do this right.
So that's where we're coming to you today with this Patreon project. This is specifically to support the InRange effort
which is this convergence of Ian and I, with this focus that we've discussed, and if we can hit these numbers,
we're going to do some things with this.
[Ian] Yeah! Uh, we wanna give away this stuff that we're reviewing...
and we wanna be able to bring you guys a different sort of perspective and an honest perspective, and a no-bias perspective
on what's out there that you might or might not want to buy for yourself.
[Karl] And this will also enable us the ability to bring some of the older content but all of it in time, in high def, free on YouTube.
[Ian] Right, as Karl said we've been doing this for about a year now and we have not put most of our material up on YouTube.
I think, uh, if we can get some funding through patreon I think it would be feasible for us and it.. we'd like to have more people able to see what we're doing.
So we're gonna go ahead and put our high-def content up on YouTube as well where everybody can see it.
[Karl] Right, so that's the goal! So, we thank you for your support if you've already been watching this.
If you're new to the channel please watch it and check it out, let us know what you think. We need the input.
[Ian] We'd love to have your financial support, I totally understand people who can't or simply aren't interested in it.
If you enjoy the channel, uh, share it with your friends. let other people know. That's almost as much of a help as funding directly, financially.
[Karl] You know I'd agree with that, our first, our really, our first mission here is to get the word out.
InRange has been, it needs more sharing. People need to talk about it more, get the news out there.
If you can do that for us, and that's all you can do, thank you. We appreciate that, and that's really one of the best things you can do.
If you're willing to support the project and get us to that place where we can review these things with that honest perpsective... awesome!
Thank you for watching and we appreciate your support either way.