OK, today we are announcing the summer giveaway winner, teasing a new giveaway, updating everyone on Beachmasters, and more...

Giveaway Winner:
The winner of the YUUUUGE summer giveaway on the 7/31 post is...

PRailing of SubscribeStar!

Congrats! I'll get ALL of this swag out to you today. You should have already received tracking.

New Giveaway:
I have about ten of the limited run of 500 Blue Force Gear VCAS slings to give away. They are totally sold out, so we have the very last of them.

Here's the video from BFG if you want to see it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYBotxDAW7s

Link to sign up: https://forms.gle/8SJF8EyfGG4Ev3HBA

Beachmaster Shotguns:
As alluded to previously, the shotguns are good to go. There will be 200 of them - 100 SBS and 100 18.5" Beachmasters, all individually numbered.

The only hold up right now is for the extras - slings and fanny packs. The fanny packs are denim Possums and Bandicoots from Helikon-Tex, and the slings will be Coyote or Wolf Gray slings from BFG. We are getting them at 50% off but that's still going to be about $75 total cost we would have to add on every gun to add them at our cost.

Basically, we are looking at $1,199 for subscribers only without sling/fanny pack, or $1249 with BFG sling and Helikon Tex Denim fanny pack (I would eat $26/gun for supporters to make the price $1249). Standard price without slings and fanny packs to non-supporters will be $1,399 on Vang Comp's website, so supporters will be saving $200/gun just for supporting TFBTV.

I will email everyone with final details on shotguns later this week with a link to prepay a small deposit and probably run a video about it, formally announcing the Beachmaster. Supporters will have first dibs on the shotguns. Go back a post or two for the sign up link.

CZ Video:
A new(ish) CZ is dropping on Thursday. Make sure to stay tuned to TFBTV. We have been asked to push release time to 10am CT.

Personal Updates: 
I'm headed to Ireland this Saturday with friends and family for the FSU/GA Tech game in Dublin. We'll be stopping in Athlone, Galway, Killarney, Cork, and Dublin for the game. Let me know if you'll be there, too.

Next month, Lindsay and I will be in Germany for Oktoberfest. 

At the beginning of September, I'll be in NH to film a new release for Sig, so stay tuned for that. It's pretty rad, not going to lie. Maybe we'll host another meetup at the D Street Tavern.

Thanks for your support!
- James

I know it’s been a while since the last update. I was on the road for basically the past month, spending a week in New England to film with Sig and Q, then a week in Florida to film some car content on my personal channel as well as watching the Fourth of July and Blue Angels airshow on back to back weekends with my family on Pensacola Beach. I capped it off with two weeks in Europe. I visited CZ and S&B in the Czech Republic, and then Black Trident in Austria. I’m finally back for a few days and my next big trip won’t be until the end of August, when I go to Ireland for the Florida State - Georgia Tech game with my family of proud Seminoles (me, Lindsay, my brother D.C., my dad, and my mom are all FSU grads).

We have monthly giveaway winners to announce, and I want to tell you about the trip to Europe, but first and foremost...

Beachmaster Shotguns:

We have pricing on the guns and quantity. Three hundred and forty nine of you signed up for them. Mossberg and Vang Comp will make 200 of them, individually numbered 1-100: One hundred 14" and one hundred 18.5" guns.

I am in disbelief at the pricing. I am not marking them up/making money from this and Mossberg is not charging any profit for them. Vang is charging roughly 10% overhead because they are doing all of the work and fulfilling orders. I told you they would be over $1,000 (Vang's cheapest, most basic 590A1, "the Standard," is $1,000). These are indeed over $1,000, but just a little. I'm going to make this the last tease before I give all of the details, probably later this week. We are still waiting on pricing for denim fanny packs and BFG slings, but honestly, I will probably just pay for those out of pocket rather than up the price on the guns. We should have everything finalized by the end of the week.

Priority will be determined by total amount of support given. We will also randomly select 20 supporters who signed up regardless of their seniority because we also want to make sure our newer supporters have a shot at cool shit like this. We take care of those who take care of us at TFBTV.

Pre-sale sign up (no $ required) here, if you have not filled it out already: https://forms.gle/wGLfCuUk2SyegMgC9

Giveaway Winners:
If you want proof of how behind I am, here it is: It's almost August, and I am announcing June 2024 giveaway winners.

Every month (kind of, apparently!), we give away SIX $250 gift certificates to Top Gun Supply that you can indeed use on GUNS, and FOUR $100 Blue Alpha Gift Certs. Five of the TGS certs go to automatically chosen members at the $5 level and higher. One of the TGS certs goes to the limited $25 supporter class. The four Blue Alpha certs go to four randomly selected supporters at any level.

The randomly selected winners this month are:
MikeyCNY, User#df86a998, tennrelax423, Mikey T., Jake Stapleton, JohnnieH873192, SteelRifle, herrerabena, Mooster, and webbserf!

Blue Alpha $100 gift certs:
SteelRifle
herrerabena
Mooster
webbserf

Top Gun Supply $250 Gift Certificate Winners ARE:
MikeyCNY
User#df86a998 (SubStar)
tennrelax423
Mikey T.
Jake Stapleton

And the TOP $25 TIER $250 Gift Cert Winner IS:
JohnnieH873192

Congratulations, and watch your inboxes!

Euro Trip:
The trip to Europe was a blast. The primary reason I went was to compete in Czech Combat, which is CZ‘s first ever competition. I used a Bren II with Aimpoint CompM4, and a CZ P10F pistol with an ACRO. Bear in mind I had very little trigger time with either, but I did finish in third place in the Light division (no armor) anyways. I have a full analysis of all of the gear that I used coming to TFBTV soon.

I was lucky enough to compete with two of my good friends, Ziga of Polenar Tactical, and Ian of Forgotten Weapons. I know many of you probably wonder what many Youtubers are like in real life. Ziga and Ian are good human beings, and as real as it gets. I went to a wine festival with Ian while we were in Prague (seriously), and a few nights later, I stayed out until about 3 AM with the Polenar boys. In true Slavic fashion, we drank beer and somewhere between 8 to 10 bottles of wine in the streets of Prague, and I woke up with a killer hangover.

I closed out the trip by visiting my friends with Black Trident and Austria Arms. You all probably saw the video we published yesterday where I discussed pistol considerations with two of my special forces buddies who live in Vienna. We have a couple more videos coming from that trip as well. On AUGust 1, we will have a video from Austria Arms talking about the AUGs issued to police and military units in Austria. 

I also have a video that I recorded with Ian about the top five Czech firearms of all time, but this post has run on long enough, so I will save that video for later this week. I will post a sneak preview of the video for all of you, possibly tomorrow. 

As usual, I think you guys know that we appreciate everything you do. Ryan and I could not afford to take the time off of work to go on this trip if it weren’t for our supporters. Thank you.

- James