Those interested in Precision Rifle Shooting will be happy to hear that Vortex Optics has begun a new show recently with the introduction of their “Go Long-Range” series. The show focuses on Mark and Jimmy as they embark on their first Precision Rifle Series Match where they learn how to tune their gear, their training and also features tips and tricks from pro shooters like Nick Laufenberg and Dave Preston who help Mark and Jimmy shore up their PRS game.

Today we have the honor of hearing from one of our most senior writers Adam Scepaniak. Adam has been with TFB for years now and has filled many of the gaps that the blog would otherwise have unfilled without him. Adam has extensive knowledge in regards to hunting – especially for his home region in the snowy white north of Minnesota. Adam is currently the Managing Editor for AllOutdoor.com and as you probably already know, a frequent contributor to The Firearm Blog as well as OutdoorHub.com.

Welcome to TFB’s Podcast Roundup 5. This week we’re getting a chance to hear from somewhat of a legend within the YouTube gun community: Dugan Ashley. For those of you who don’t know or don’t remember, Dugan Ashley was a pioneer of the “GunTuber” variant along with a few notable others. As far back as 2012, I remember tuning in to Dugan’s channel CarniK Con (Carnivorous Kinetic Concepts) which featured both a heavy dose of satire, humor and legitimate information/review. Sadly, Dugan deleted his channel along with all of his videos but there are still some fans out there dedicating to archiving his videos and keeping them online for others to enjoy. Dugan occasionally likes to drop into podcasts and random YouTube videos. This week I’m sharing a dated episode from 2016 to help fans of Dugan’s get a clearer view of where he went and what he’s been up to since his sudden disappearance.

Today on the podcast we have, well, me – Luke C. This podcast interview was done during SHOT Show 2020 during my very first SHOT Show both as a TFB writer and as a general gun enthusiast. I’ve learned a lot since joining up with the TFB crew and it truly has been one of the most rewarding experiences in my life. The amount I have learned and continue to learn on a daily basis makes me both humbled and honored to be part of such a fantastic group of writers and teammates.

Welcome to the TFB Podcast Roundup 4. I recently took a trip out to Wyoming to do some prairie dog hunting and while my time out there was phenomenal, I was unfortunately stuck for many hours inside of the increasingly unbearable air transit system. Thankfully, this gave me plenty of time to reach out and discover a few new podcasts that I hadn’t encountered before. To my surprise, I actually got to meet up with one of the hosts from this week’s podcasts and gleaned a lot of invaluable information from him. So to my friend Paul G. Markel of Student of the Gun – thanks for all the info!

There is no more ubiquitous name in the military optics game than Trijicon. With their Iconic series of ACOG riflescopes, the Trijicon brand name as well as the unmistakable appearance of their products has been burned into the memories of nearly every firearms owner I know. This year, Ryan Sikorski, the product manager from Trijicon, spoke with Pete about the new product lineup coming from Trijicon in 2021. Ryan also talks at length about some of his favorite optics the Trijicon produces and gives us an inside look at some of the design decisions that went into Trijicon’s most popular optics.

Welcome to the TFB Podcast Roundup 3! This week we’ve got some fresh new podcasts that only recently started up this year. Silencer Shop now has their own podcast that started up just a few months ago and they are one of the few gun podcasts out there that really dive deep into firearms history. Their inaugural episode featured the history of the Silencer and its inventor Hiram Percy Maxim. If you’re looking for a history-focused podcast, you might want to consider checking out the new Silencer Shop podcast.

TFB’s very own resident gun runner Benjamin F might be the team’s most underrated powerhouse of creativity. Some of Benjamin’s posts in the past have triggered those who have a proclivity for 1911 pistols as well as those who are short on wit and big on assumptions. For those of you who don’t know, staff writer Benjamin F is responsible for what has to be one of my personal favorite articles on the site. His article entitled “ Crossing The Border – The Logistics Of Running Guns with TFB“, was more than just an insightful look into the struggles that some of our fellow countrymen have to contend with to purchase guns. The article was also a hilarious look at the lengths that a young man will go through to acquire a firearm for the purposes of his own entertainment.

Welcome to the TFB Podcast Roundup 2: This week we’ve got a fresh new variety of podcasts as well as one special throwback episode featuring the legendary Chuck Pressburg from Presscheck Consulting. I was drawn back to this particular podcast because of the recent uptick in activity surrounding the Next Generation Squad Weapon. In the podcast, Chuck goes on to explain why we’ve historically gone with lighter calibers over larger ones and why we’ve often opted to go with smaller calibers to carry more ammunition. We’ll save that one for the end and instead start this week out with Vortex Nation’s excellent podcast in which they take 10 minutes to talk about a 6.5 Creedmoor life hack they think you should all know.

LMT Defense (Lewis Machine Tool) has been a long-time supplier of both the United States military as well as law enforcement and commercial consumers. The company is popular for manufacturing high-quality AR-15 rifles and parts as well as some heavier hitting items like the M203 40mm grenade launcher. TFB had the pleasure of hosting Joe and Randy from LMT Defense who showcased their new MRP offerings, Estonian Rifle, and their new two-stage trigger offering for 2021.

Welcome to the TFB Podcast Roundup 1! With the amount of gun-related podcasts currently out there, it can be quite overwhelming trying to pick out what to listen to. With this weekly series, we aim to give you the bullet points of a few choice podcasts from within the gun-o-sphere to make your listening choices easier. Each week we’ll try to get you a good variety of content so that you have a wide selection of podcast interests to choose from. Everything from hunting, long-range shooting, competition, silencers, and manufacturing is on the table so if you don’t see something on the list that you think others would like, feel free to leave us a comment down below and we’ll keep an eye on it for future editions of the Podcast Roundup.

Austin Rex is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma. Or maybe that is his beloved cat Bandit. Austin Rex is one of TFB’s most skilled long-range shooters and highly knowledgeable when it comes to some of his favorite subjects like reloading, ballistics, suppressors, combloc weaponry, and fighter jets. Austin currently calls Salt Lake City, Utah his home base and thus has access to some of the heavy hitters of the firearms industry like DeadAir Silencers, Christensen Arms, and SilencerCo.

Burris is a household name in optics when it comes to hunting equipment, magnified optics, electro-optics, spotting scopes, and even thermal optics. During TFB Gun Fest 2021 we had the opportunity to talk with Phil Harding with Burris optics about all the new and exciting optics that Burris has now brought to the market including the FastFire 4, Oracle X Crossbow Scope, Oracle 2 Rangefinding Bow Sight, as well as their new lineup of thermal optics including a Thermal Clip-On and Thermal Riflescope.

Tom R is a staple in the TFB Community. With his vast knowledge and dedicated research into survival and medical equipment and practices, Tom is often a valuable resource for both the firearms community who read TFB as well as the writers who look up to him for advice and experience. Today on the podcast Tom and Pete talk about firearms, long-range shooting, favorite firearms, Tom’s experience as a Navy Corpsman as well as Tom’s journey as a member of the TFB staff, and his transition to the Managing Editor of the curated survival and equipment wiki theprepared.com.

Subsonic ammunition is a world unto its own when it comes to the firearms, loading techniques, and materials used in their design and manufacturing. Handloaders will know the hell that it is to get a loading right and it’s places like Discreet Ballistics and people like David Stark who make it that much easier. Discreet Ballistics specializes in subsonic ammunition production and also produces some pretty unique suppressor innovations like their PopStop first-round pop reduction system. Today on the podcast Pete and David will talk about the company’s origins in New Hampshire and their recent move to Wyoming as well as the methodology and design behind their subsonic projectiles and ammunition.

The world of firearms optics is vast and ever-growing. Steiner has been a name in the industry since just after the second world war – born out of the ruin of ware in Bayreuth, Germany. The company, started by Karl Steiner, was created from a one-man workshop whose goal was to create sturdy yet flawless products capable of providing soldiers with reliable optics. This one-man workshop eventually grew into the world-renowned name in optics you know today as Steiner Optics. Today on the show we have Product Manager Chris Gaddy who showed us back at TFB GUNFEST 2021 that Steiner Optics has progressed well beyond their humble beginnings in 1947 and is now producing some extremely high tech battle-ready optics for the modern warfighter or sportsman.

Magpul Industries is an almost ubiquitous name when it comes to the firearms industry. My first AR and now some of my pistol are hosts to some of Magpul’s durable and reliable polymer magazines. Today on the show we’ve got John Canipe from Magpul Industries to tell us all about the company, how things were for the company during 2020 and where Magpul and its product lineup is headed for 2021 and beyond. We’ve recently been able to pick up steam on the podcast front so you should have a steady stream of listening material for your morning or evening commute. Thanks as always for turning in to TFB’s Behind the Gun Podcast and for making content like this possible.

I know my lane – if you are looking for a 300BLK or rimfire suppressor, I can probably point you in the right direction. But, if you want to see in the dark, I’ll hand you off to someone like Nick C. who, if he can put down his LEGO Millennium Falcon long enough, has enough night vision expertise to outfit a platoon. So, when it came time to talk with our friend Steve Lemenov from ATN Corp, I asked some pretty basic questions about thermal imagery and traditional night vision. ATN Corp manufacturers a wide variety of feature-rich imaging solutions that are affordable for the average shooter. Their new clip-on thermal imagers have really caught my and I hope to dive into a night time pest control series as time permits. Enjoy the listen.

In a time where polymer and plastic is popular, Boyds Gunstocks is still producing high quality hardwood and laminate stocks for a large variety of long guns. I recently hard the opportunity to sit down (virtually)with Dustin Knutson from Boyds and talk about everything from proper stock fitment and bedding to the 40 year anniversary of their creation. Headquartered in South Dakota, the Boyds team takes a fun, laid back approach to business in the firearms industry, providing customers with beautiful stocks and top notch customer service. Enjoy the listen.

TFB’s Behind The Gun Podcast continues with an interview with Angela Harrell from Heckler & Koch USA. H&K USA has moved mountains in the past few years to bring the SP5 and SP5K-PDW to the American market – guns that we have begged to own since we were kids watching summer blockbuster movies in the 80’s and 90’s. So what’s next for the German icon? Well, they just slipped in the new SP5L that will hit dealers later this month. But is there more? Listen in and find out.

Welcome back to the unofficial debut of Season 2 of TFB’s Behind The Gun Podcast where we dive into the inner workings and the brightest minds behind the industry’s most influential organizations. Like the rest of the world, COVID thrashed our plans of recording in-person podcast interviews at all the industry shows in 2020. Virtual interviews are an acceptable placeholder, but nothing beats a real face-to-face conversation. We open the 2021 podcast season with Cody Wilson and the rest of the team from Defense Distributed Ghost Gunner 3 where they talk about their latest addition – the ability to mill AK receivers. They also share their insights on the industry, the political landscape and various challenges moving forward.

Happy Friday listeners and readers. As we get ready to celebrate the unofficial end of Summer, I thought we should cap off GLOCK week (retro P80 and updated slimline guns) with our SHOT show interview with product manager Jacob Witten. In this episode, we talked about the G44 rimfire pistol and I put Jacob on the spot with some tough questions that we all would ask given the chance. Besides being a great guy, Jacob is a smart and talented product manager in Smyrna, Georgia. I look forward to the release of his future projects. Enjoy the listen.

Welcome back dear readers (and listeners) to our latest installment of TFB’s Behind The Gun podcast featuring informative conversations with firearms industry leaders and experts in their field. Today we welcome our friends at SureFire, Andrew Wright and George Syrengelas, to talk about illumination, lasers, suppressors and more. Both of these guys are a wealth of knowledge and we were lucky to steal some time from them at the 2020 SHOT Show. Enjoy the listen.

Welcome back to TFB’s Behind The Gun Podcast series – today we are joined by Zach Hein from CZ-USA. We took a brief summer hiatus but we are back with conversations with more firearms industry leaders. There are a few additional interviews from SHOT Show 2020 coming up, some fun discussions with TFB staff, a couple recently recorded episodes and we’ve got some new guests already lined up. So thanks for listening and making TFB’s Podcast possible.

Hey everyone and thanks for joining us for the latest installment of TFB’s Behind The Gun Podcast featuring our friends Jordan Wilson and Mike O’Dell from CMMG. Growing from an internet parts seller to a firearms industry powerhouse in just a few years, CMMG is comprised of fun and knowledgeable innovators. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the company has been providing free meals to healthcare workers and first responders all while keeping up with the insane demand for firearms. Mike and Jordan are great guys who love their jobs. Enjoy the listen.

Welcome back to another episode of TFB’s Behind The Gun Podcast where we take a behind-the-scenes look at the firearms industry. Today we talk with Jeremy Gresham, Director of Sales and Marketing at Israel Weapon Industries (IWI). Jeremy and IWI have been our friends and partners for a number of years, trusting us to give input on product refinement during reviews like the TS12 shotgun. Enjoy the listen.

Welcome back to the latest episode of TFB’s Behind The Gun Podcast. This week we sit down with Jack Carr, the New York Times Bestselling author of The Terminal List, True Believer and Savage Son, all of which are published by Simon and Schuster.

Welcome back to the latest episode of TFB’s Behind The Gun Podcast. This week we sit down with Mike Pappas and Eric Rogers from Dead Air Armament, manufacturers of some of the best silencers on the market. Not only does the Dead Air team know how to make great suppressors, but they are also a fun group of guys. Their latest release is the Nomad L – a personal favorite of mine – but rumors are circulating of a pending new release later this month… Enjoy the listen.

Welcome back to the latest edition of TFB’s Behind The Gun Podcast that features industry leaders talking about their backgrounds, company history, products and information that can help you become a better shooter.

Good morning readers and thank you for joining us for another episode of TFB’s Behind The Gun Podcast. Joining us today are Kevin and Chris Graham from Yankee Hill Machine. YHM makes everything from parts to complete rifles to suppressors. As the sponsor of TFB’s Silencer Saturday, I am continually grateful for their support in allowing us to bring you quiet content every week. Last year, the two brothers launched Graham Brothers Rifleworks which manufactures the bolt action MARC chassis and complete pistols. This interview was recorded at the 2020 SHOT Show.