Hickok45

Hickok45 is a YouTube and Full30 channel featuring videos about firearms. The videos are hosted by Greg Kinman, 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 Old West 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 Glock 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 saplings and Christmas trees using various guns. These videos have appeared in media in Vietnam, France, India, and Germany.
In 2010, Jay Leno showed a Hickok45 pumpkin carving video on "The Tonight Show".
In 2016, Hickok45's YouTube channel was shut down twice, allegedly for violating YouTube's terms of service, however it was ultimately reinstated.
In April 2018, Hickok45's YouTube channel was again shut down for several hours. This shut down was following YouTube's change of policy in March 2018 which would ban videos that contained content that "Intends to sell firearms or certain firearms accessories through direct sales (e.g., private sales by individuals) or links to sites that sell these items." Subsequently, he began to upload his videos to Full30 as well.
Personal life.
Greg Kinman attended Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, Tennessee, where he played center position on the college basketball team for two seasons, 1970–71 and 1971–72. He decided to forego 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. He is a retired English teacher. In 2015, he was featured in a webinar by distance learning organization the Sonoran Desert Institute.