For Eric Blandford
From Mike Navitsky
October 2026
A partnership idea

Eric, you're sitting on a gold mine.

You've been at this since 2008 and people trust you. From the outside, most of what that pays you runs through YouTube. I want to help you turn it into things you own and sell. You keep filming. I do the rest.

2.73M
subscribers
874M
views across 2,370 videos
1.7M
views in the last 30 days
157
people still paying your Patreon. Last post there was March 2020.

The deal

You
  • Film and edit, same as now.
  • Tell me what you know. A phone call or a voice memo works.
  • Read what I make before it goes out. Nothing carries your name without your OK.
  • Show up for paying members now and then. A live Q&A from the bench.
Me
  • Write the PDF guides, cheat sheets, checklists and e-books from your videos.
  • Build the paid community and run it day to day.
  • Handle signups, payments, emails and member questions.
  • Build the sales pages and put the links where people will see them.
  • Go after sponsors and handle the back and forth.

What we can sell right now

First 30 days. All of it comes from videos you already made.

Freebuilds your email list

Free guides

One link under every video. Someone types in an email and gets a short PDF. Your AR-15 First Time Buyers Guide and Top 5 Military Surplus Rifles videos each pulled close to 300K views, so we start there.

Milsurp Buyer's ChecklistFirst AR-15 Buying GuideReloading Starter List

The list belongs to you. If YouTube changes the rules again, you can still reach your people.

$9 to $29one-time

Paid guides and e-books

Same topics, more depth. A full milsurp field guide. A bench setup guide for a small shop like the one you just built. I write them from your videos and you check them. We test the prices.

$29 a monththe big one

The Workshop: a paid gunsmithing and reloading community

You posted that gunsmithing and reloading is the content you love making. It's also the stuff nobody can fake. Members get your bench lessons in order, a place to ask questions, and a live session with you.

It runs on a site called Skool, and it already works for other firearms instructors. One handgun instructor has 656 members at $28 a month. A rifle and pistol group has 138 at $35.

Patreonalready there

Wake it up

2,563 people follow your Patreon and 157 of them still pay, more than six years after the last post. One "I'm back" post and something new each month, and a lot more of them would.

Ticketsbefore year end

The meet and greet shoot

You already told your audience it's happening. Sell seats to it. I set up the signup page, take the payments and keep the list of who's coming.

What we do next

Once the first things are selling.

Full courses
Reloading from zero. Milsurp restoration start to finish. One-time price, somewhere from $97 to $297.
Sponsors YouTube still allows
Optics, lights, tools, training, insurance. I make a one-page sheet with your real numbers and do the outreach.
A better SDI deal
You've carried their link for years. We go back and ask for better terms.
Merch drops
Small limited runs a few times a year, offered to the email list first.
Your name on bench gear
Bench mats and reloading log books. No guns, no ammo.

Why now

YouTube's branded content rules now list "weapons or ammunition" as prohibited, and the rule covers the whole video. You know this better than I do. It shuts out gun and ammo companies paying for a spot in your videos, so the income has to come from things you own.

Is Skool OK with guns?

I checked. Gun communities are allowed, and paid ones are running there today. What you can't do is sell weapons or ammunition through it. We'd sell teaching and membership. I'll still get Skool's OK in writing before we launch.

The math

500 members at $29 a month$14,500 a month
1,000 members at $29 a month$29,000 a month
Plain multiplication, not a promise. Guides, tickets and sponsors come on top.

How we split it

You pay me nothing up front. I take a share of the new money we bring in together. What you earn today stays yours. We agree on the share between us and put it on paper before anything launches.

How we start

A 30-minute call. After that I build the first free guide from your existing videos and send it to you. If you like it, the link goes under your next video. If you don't, you've lost nothing.

Mike

Call or text me anytime.

Channel, Patreon and Skool numbers and YouTube's policy wording were read from public pages on October 4, 2026. Dollar figures for things we haven't built yet are estimates.