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A paradise for sportsmen and women awaits down under – and local YouTubers have been good at taking advanatage of it. From South Island’s mountain hunting for chaois and tahr to the buffalo of Northern Queensland, these are the hunting YouTube channels to watch, ranked in order. Back to Gun & Hunting Channels YouTube Rankings […]

Europe’s hunting channels were quicker than the Americans to see the potential in YouTube. Perhaps that is because Europe has always found it hard to sustain specialist interest hunting channels on cable and satellite TV. Now there is a distribution platform that provides the audience of TV for a specialist magazine advertising market. The problem […]

This is the list of top North American hunting channels on YouTube. European hunting channels’ domination of YouTube is over. The Americans are late to the party but are capturing swathes of audience on YouTube. Two of the top four hunting channels are also bass-fishing channels – but this is a numbers game. Get any […]

These is the list of top shooting and gun accessories manufacturers channels on YouTube. Brownells is back on top after its spat with YouTube in 2018 which sa it briefly closed down. Back to Gun & Hunting Channels YouTube Rankings front page Ranking is supplied by SocialBlade.com, the standard for ranking YouTube channels. Load times for […]

These is the list of top shooting and gun accessories manufacturers channels on YouTube. Calls top the list of companies here, because bringing in animals is a visual activity. Given that most night vision and thermal units allow the recording of video, night vision does surprisingly badly. Back to Gun & Hunting Channels YouTube Rankings […]

This is the list of top gun channels on YouTube. To make the top 20, you need 10 million+ views a year – and the top 20 amassed more than three-quarters of a billion views between them in 2018. However, all is not rosy in the world of gun channels on YouTube. Some of the […]

These is the list of top knifemaker channels on YouTube. From knife-sharpening how-to videos to films about using knives in the field, they are vying with each other to be the top YouTube channel out there. Cold Steel is hard to beat – it has the biggest YouTube presence of any company involved in the […]

Here are the firearms companies’ rankings on YouTube. There is plenty of competition to put out films that engage audience and grow a following. World fascination with fine English guns recently put Holland & Holland into the top slot, where you would normally find mass-market gun manufacturers. Mossberg and Sig Sauer’s rise to the top […]

Here are the bowhunting companies’ rankings on YouTube. The major advantage of bowhunting from a TV point of view is that it brings the audience much, much closer to the action than hunting with a rifle. Hoyt Archery tops the list of companies capitalising on this to sell its products. Mathews is working hard to […]

Realtree practically invented sponsored hunting TV with its ESPN show, so no surprise it tops this list by a large margin. Other channels are investing heavily in good-quality hunting TV, and KUIU is even sponsoring an awards for hunting YouTube channels. Back to Gun & Hunting Channels YouTube Rankings front page   Ranking is supplied […]

Hornady stays well ahead of the competition at the head of this list. However, the list hides the investment that several companies have made in other, consumer channels, such as RWS backing All4Shooters and All4Hunters. Ammunition companies are big sponsors of the consumer hunting channels. Back to Gun & Hunting Channels YouTube Rankings front page […]

The retailers dominate the airgun company YouTube channel list. Until YouTube carried out its mad cull of airgun channels in February 2018 – and then retracted the terminations – Umarex was doing well. Watch it rise through the rankings again in 2018. FX is the dark horse of the airgun manufacturer/distributor list. It does little […]

These is the list of top shooting and gun accessories manufacturers channels on YouTube. Calls top the list of companies here, because bringing in animals is a visual activity. Given that most night vision and thermal units allow the recording of video, night vision does surprisingly badly. Back to Gun & Hunting Channels YouTube Rankings […]

There was a time when airgun channels had the highest views of all the shooting sports channels on  YouTube. Some of the gloss has come off that in recent years but the accessibility of airguns makes this a sport for a wide public. Even now, the channels that make the top ten achieve 1 million+ […]

Bushcrafters, survivalists and preppers are marginally attached to the hunting/shooting industry. They are included here because they tend to have much larger audiences than pure hunting channels. A product included in a film by TA Outdoors, Joe Robinet or Wranglestar will achieve 100,000-250,000 views. Channels need a minimum of 6.5 million views per year to […]