Hickok45 is a

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and Full30 channel featuring videos about

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. The videos are hosted by Greg Kinman (born July 11, 1950), a retired middle-school English teacher and former sheriff's auxiliary officer. Hickok45 videos also appear on Full30, a video streaming platform dedicated specifically to firearms. HICKOK45 is a registered trademark of Hickok 45, LLC.

Videos

Hickok45's videos demonstrate a wide variety of firearms, both historic and modern, and typically present an in-depth discussion of the history and functionality of each firearm. His early videos often showed him shooting

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weaponry and wearing cowboy outfits. Over time, he expanded his presentations to include a greater variety of weapons, while emphasizing safety. He tends to prefer

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pistols over those of other manufacturers. While most videos feature Greg, with his son John filming, John has occasionally appeared in videos as well. Hickok45 has become famous for videos in which he shoots pumpkins with firearms, destroys watermelons and two-liter soda bottles, or cuts down

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s and Christmas trees using various guns. These videos have appeared in media in Vietnam, France, India, and Germany. In 2010,

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showed a Hickok45 pumpkin carving video on ''

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''.

Personal life

Greg Kinman attended

Austin Peay State University Austin Peay State University () is a public university in Clarksville, Tennessee. Standing on a site occupied by a succession of educational institutions since 1845, the precursor of the university was established in 1927 and named for then-sit ...

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, where he played center position on the

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team for two seasons, 1970–71 and 1971–72. He decided to forgo his senior season as he felt that basketball would not become his profession; he also noted that he was unable to gain weight. College sports records indicate his height as . He has declared himself to be 6'8". Originally from Kentucky, Kinman lives in

Cheatham County, Tennessee Cheatham County ( ) is a county located in the U.S. state of Tennessee. As of the 2020 census, the population was 41,072. Its county seat is Ashland City. Cheatham County is part of the Nashville-Davidson–Murfreesboro–Franklin, ...

. He is a retired English teacher. In 2015, he was featured in a

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organization the Sonoran Desert Institute.

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*{{youtube, user=Hickok45
Hickok45's channel
on Full30 * YouTube channels 2007 web series debuts Living people 1950 births

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Personal life

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