ON YOUTUBE Paul Harrell’s last video showed him having a good time at the shooting range while his brother shared sad news about how his health was getting worse.
The Oregon gun expert told his YouTube subscribers about his death on Tuesday after his family posted a video that was already made.
He told people in the six-minute video that he had died of Stage 2 pancreatic cancer.
His brother Roy shared some new video clips of Harrell at the shooting range and an update on his health on Monday.
Many of his subscribers asked about his health, so he replied, “Friends and family are spending as much time as we can with Paul.”
Roy also said in a vague way, “His time with us is getting incredibly short.”
Roy has done most of the work for the channel since Harrell told everyone about his diagnosis in July 2023.
Roy said in the video that they were going to keep Harrell’s channel going even after he died.
“We are going to do what we can to continue in the guise of Paul and with his style, we are going to do what we can to continue to the legacy he’s built,” he said.
FRONT AND REAR LOADED
The four-minute video had “family videos” of Harrell and other people shooting at a range for about two minutes.
There was a table with handguns and bullets next to Harrell’s camping chair. He used one of the guns to shoot at a target.
In other videos, the gun expert hit the target with a bigger gun and then sat back and watched someone shoot birds in the air.
The brothers sat down at a table at the end of the video and sent each other a short message.
Because Roy has been doing “damn near all the work,” Harrell said, they are going to change the name of the channel.
They might change it from just Paul Harrell to Paul and Roy Harrell to show that they are brothers.
“I’M DEAD”
On Tuesday, the YouTuber shared his video called “I’m Dead” with his more than 1.14 million subscribers.
“If you’re watching me, I’m dead,” Harrell told viewers at the beginning of the video.
He also said that the video was recorded on December 20, 2023, ahead of time.
Harrell told them the news while sitting on a log in the forest. It was the same spot where he told them he had cancer.
“We did catch it early but not as early as I had thought,” he said.
“It’s gone around more quickly than I thought.”
“My time is drawing very short.”
A 58-year-old man also said that he knew his subscribers knew he was on crutches after breaking his hip, but that it was because his cancer had spread to his bones and made them “crumble.”
He then told fans he “sincerely apologized” and said he “felt like he let everybody down.”
“I had hoped that I would continue in this format for the next 10 or even 15 years,” he stated.
He also said he was “thrilled” to have had the chance and had “very few regrets” about the channel.
On his channel, the expert talked about everything he knew about guns, such as gun safety, ammunition, reviews, and how to shoot accurately.
He said that his channel was for “real firearms information for citizens.”