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[Assistant] That's exciting. You gonna shoot anything else? Anything gets them away. No, I, I think that they have, um, some exceptional kudu and nyala. So those would be my two natural, uh, additions there. And then I've, I've never shot a good boar or warthog. So those are, I've shot some meat hogs.


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[Assistant] I remember shootin' a, uh, shootin' one one time with a 45-70 while we were over there and, and this thing, it sounded like just walloping a watermelon with a 2x4.


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[Assistant] And I remember visually just seeing this warthog running off, you know, they, they're pretty steady as they run the tail straight up in the air. And this thing was running and it was just like growing paint red. And I'm like, any North American animal would just want to toppled it over. And this thing ran about 60 or 70 yards and rolled over 45, seven because they're not, they're not,


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[Assistant] Nope. I got a, I got a representative kudu, but I w I want to, I want to move him to the back room and replace him with something a little bit more spectacular. Well, good luck to you. Thank you. Are you taking


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[Assistant] I will, yeaah, maybe 6.5 or I don't know what, but I'm gonna take a Plains game rifle.


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[Assistant] Since we're talking about going on a hunting trip, what do you use? You're going to get me in trouble with a lot of people. Say whatever you want. Is that plural? Favorite optics? I mean, if you, if you got to tow the party


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[Assistant] Uhm, you know, I, I'm, I'm, the older I get, the more I'm a firm believer in, uhm, quality optics. So, with that being said, Swarow, Collis.


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[Assistant] Um, I like Vortex, uh, depending on the configuration. Um, Zeiss, Leopold, those are, I'd say those are my five go-to and, and you know, and on my.


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[Assistant] Uhm, my 22 that I've got set up for NRL, uhm, 22 competition, I've got a Bushnell on it. Uhm, and it, and it's a, it's a nice optic. So, uhm, my, anything quality related, I'm, I'm a big fan of. But what are you gonna take there?


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[Assistant] I've got a loophole. Uhm, I'm not sure the, uh, I need to look back at the model. I think it's like a 1-6. Uhm, but a very, just a low power.


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[Assistant] They're coming out with some new, I've heard that they've got several new bottles coming out, uhm, soon.


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[Assistant] Policies. You can end that one right there. No, you know, I think Remington has, uh, I think their senior leadership was probably their ultimate demise and the money behind them. Um, but we won't, uh, you know, we won't go down that rabbit hole. Um, not cutting corners. Yeah. What did you know?


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[Assistant] I'm sure I'm missing something. We're probably both missing something, but that one, you know, I probably scratched my head a little bit over that.


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[Assistant] I don't know. They haven't started it back up yet. They're supposed to be, but it, look, hey, hey, you know, power to them. Um, we're not, if we do with our brand, what we're supposed to do, it doesn't matter what anybody else does. And that's what we tell our guys all the time. They'll, they're like, well, you know, brand X or brand Y. And I'm like, dude,


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[Assistant] We are who we are. It's in our DNA. If we execute, even execute at 90%.


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[Assistant] Yeaah. Rest of them don't matter. You know, we're gonna have as much business as we want, and we're gonna be relevant, and we're gonna be a part of, you know, the firearms community's lives for a long time.


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[Assistant] Stay, stay true to who you are and, and you know, you're going to keep crushing it too. And you're going to, I know that you answered yes, exponentially to every one of those questions you answered me. So it speaks for itself, right?


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[Assistant] In a town where our factory is based in Spain.


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[Assistant] And drum roll, the name of the town is Begarra. There it is. So we were literally, we were literally sitting there after, you know, when we, when we decided that we had a, a business with the barrels, right? So we were like, oh cool. We need to name them. What are we going to name them? I don't know. We were literally sitting in the town having dinner.


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[Assistant] Uhm, we're like, it's a, it's a European company. Uhm, maybe we should make it, you know, name it something that has a European theme to it.


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[Assistant] Well, it, it, that's what it morphed into. It started out as an old, there's a church there that, and I'm gonna...


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[Assistant] You know, I'm going to make this up. The church is like six or eight hundred years old. And so we originally had a steeple with the cross as our original logo for, for Begar Barrels. And then, and then we kind of outgrew that and we're like, all right, well that maybe doesn't make sense. It's a little bit old school.


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[Assistant] Uhm, you know, it's a more modern process that we're using. So we kind of dropped the church steeple. It didn't translate over to, uh, to gun barrels or to engraving. It looked great on apparel.


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[Assistant] In Spain, which is where our factory is, which is where we make our really cool, accurate barrels. That's sorta north on the coast. Yep, northwest in what they call the Basque region. So we're probably an hour from, yeaah, used to anyway.


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[Assistant] They've, they've kinda, kinda gone away now. Yeah, yeah, that all died. But, uh, yeah, good surfing up there in that area.


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[Assistant] Probably two different answers. Okay, what are they? Uhm, I like mule deer hunting. Oh yeaah. Short answer, I like it because you can glass and walk and hike. It's beautiful. It's beautiful.


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[Assistant] I'm a fan of sitting in a little squirrel deer stand for, you know, for 12 hours a day and seeing, you know, I'll do it.


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[Assistant] How about the, uh, jumbo shrimp? Oh, for six five.


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[Assistant] You know, for me, uh, again, started out with heavier, longer, and then I realized that that wasn't all the bees knees. So, you know, now I'm on the trend of lighter, shorter.


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[Assistant] You know, don't care if it's the quietest can out there in the world. I want to be able to maneuver it. I cut a lot of our barrels down that I'm going to use for myself personally. So people get all hung up on velocity. Screw that. I cut them down. I want to be able to maneuver with it. And then there's never an animal that I'm going to be able to miss. It's a result of the barrel length.


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[Assistant] I'm a one piece rail, unless I have a floor plate. And if I'm, if I'm using a floor plate, I want two piece bases. Yeah, so, you do. So you're not covering up the ejection port.


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[Assistant] They make good stuff. I'm, uh, I'm a whore. Yeah. You know, I've got, I've got great friends at Realtree, got great friends at Malcio, got some Kuyu, I've got some First Light. Um, I don't typically spend my own money on, uh, Sitka cause it's too expensive. Um, but I, but I, you know, it will change your life.


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[Assistant] Again, that's like optics. The older I get, the more I believe in that. And I don't want to be out there wet if it's raining. I don't want to be...


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[Assistant] Kevin and Adam, I, you know, I can't, uh, thank you guys enough. Appreciate the opportunity to be here and, and, uh, first time I've ever had Southern hospitality in New England. So, uh, hats off to you.


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[Assistant] You know, you gotta be hard on the guys that you, especially the ones you believe in, cause...


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[Assistant] You know, earlier I said the US market might not be ready for a straight pull. My feeling on that was perceived safety with that thing coming straight back at your face. That's maybe my ignorance or whatever it is, but what are you guys taking back?


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[Assistant] What was the 650 for the standard version or the carbon fiber barrel? 100 more for carbon fiber.


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[Assistant] Well before we get into the new product real quick, I just want to say I really appreciate you guys doing standard footprint on that top and bottom because it uses our top rail.


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[Assistant] Yeah, we get a lot of grief from our high-end customers with these custom actions where they can't use the side-check because the top or the diameters are different or this or that.


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[Assistant] I mean, there's still not a lot of AR15s out there with unique triggers or anything like that. It's all the same, just different branding.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean they buy, a lot of people buy, you know, the cheaper ones because they have every intention of upgrading it with the aftermarket parts of it. That's right.


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[Assistant] So we let you have your shameless plug. I want to throw ours in real quick and then I want to circle back to the 22 short gun. I interrupted that and we're way off course from that. But I'm all about that. So this is going to air today. If you're watching is April 23rd, I think. And so that means there's seven days left for the mystery shirt.


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[Assistant] We do a mystery shirt and you buy a shirt, you don't know what it's gonna be. And it's gonna be the same shirt for everybody. But if they buy this, they're entered into a chance to win a product of their choice. Well Adam's wearing a pass one now. So this was the last mystery shirt we did. It's a little army guy kick flipping his base with a honey badger.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so it's on the homepage, LiveCureDie.com. You just go there, click on it, buy your size, buy a size for your kids, your wives, whatever it's going to be. You can buy more. The more you buy, the more entries you get to win this. Uhm, I'm trying not to make it sound like a raffle. It kind of sounds like one. It's a giveaway.


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[Assistant] No, but if it is, I'll give it to Jose, it's okay. It will be, it's gonna be kid friendly. Alright. It's a school and it's gonna be a design, hopefully that they can, the kids can actually wear it to school without getting thrown out or having their shirt be put inside out. Yeah, sometimes that's not the case.


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[Assistant] No, sometimes not. And if there's a kid size available, it's kid friendly. Perfect. We'll say that.


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[Assistant] And of course, Matt has experienced tie-dying shirts, like. Fuckin' hippie. Let's see, from Vermont. Cue camo. Right here. Anyways, to wrap it up, mystery shirt at the end of the month. Uh, you got six or seven days.


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[Assistant] I had a question earlier about, you mentioned you did optics packages. Yeah. So maybe we can leave the, you know, join the two questions.


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[Assistant] You're gonna have some Leica Glass on your Africa trip. I know the field ethos guys are big into the Leica stuff.


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[Assistant] No, I'm not saying you're going to get, I'm saying they're going to be using it. Well, whatever with those guys.


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[Assistant] Today we're going to get after it. Customer questions. Jay is going to say some stuff. He's mildly funny here with Adam as well.


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[Assistant] Uhm, we're gonna cover some stuff going on in the industry, but a lot of customer questions on the why we...


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[Assistant] So those are some of your questions. Thomas just got a payroll deduction. Thanks for tuning in.


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[Assistant] I wonder how big the industry would have grown if...


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[Assistant] It weren't for social media and the ability to flex and show what you got. Cause guns are cool. It's not like-


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[Assistant] Hey man, I mean, I don't even with cars, like man, look at these sick ass tires I've got like, or you know, whatever, um, just basic things that you would want. Like I'm old enough to where you didn't have the ability to flex. Like you had machine guns cause you like to motherfucking shoot machine guns. Right.


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[Assistant] Like I found some pictures and moving some of my stuff from Georgia a few weeks ago, but you know, and it was taken on film and I found some photographs of us when we had a machine gun shoot, but there was no video of it. There was no documenting it. You just shot because you really wanted to shoot. Like there was no way to flex on other people. What are you going to do? Buy a magazine ad and put yourself in there with all your guns, like an idiot.


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[Assistant] Well, I'm even talking pre that. I mean, the forums with the pictures, cause there were forums, but you couldn't post pictures in 97. I think like I was on machine gun news forum, which is the predecessor to small arms review.


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[Assistant] And you couldn't post pictures, like pictures coming along, that was probably just with AR15.com or something, which is what, like 20 years old maybe? I dunno. Maybe not even, I dunno.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it'll be cool when there's this throwback and considered vintage and we can have a forum. I can understand forums a little better. But that, the flex part, I think you're right.


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[Assistant] Really? I just do it, I think, for, for social media for the company. Otherwise I would never take pictures of any of this stuff, but I would shoot every single day.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I want to educate and there's a couple things like the selfish reasons for me to do it. Um, increases the value probably of my collection, but also, you know, I'm just trying to pimp the stuff awareness, get people interested.


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[Assistant] It helps cube, but also like the book coming up, you know, and I hope the book series of silencers, um,


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[Assistant] It's going to help with a lot of things and hopefully it helps the company. But yeah, I mean, it's not like, oh, I have this silencer. I mean, literally, I think tons of people are interested in my historical silencers.


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[Assistant] But there's only like five people that would buy them. Like it's not that it has tremendous like value from a financial perspective.


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[Assistant] Um, but hopefully it can use it, you know, as foundation. Cause when I think about it, when I hear people talk to me about.


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[Assistant] Guns are silencers and I am a student of this by far.


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[Assistant] You know, I am not the most knowledgeable person about firearms or silencers or anything by a long shot.


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[Assistant] But I do have tons of experience and I do know more than the average guy that's in the guns now. And I, and I have like a serious deep rooted interest. Um, with the silencers, you know, I have hundreds of silencers and.


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[Assistant] I wouldn't sell them for millions of dollars and they're probably not worth hardly anything. I mean, the Maxim stuff, some of the stuff is, but the other things.


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[Assistant] You know, it's important to me because it was a failed project for a military unit. And in my mind.


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[Assistant] When you, when you guys asked me about something that we did for the Mark 13, like we were talking about earlier.


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[Assistant] Oh, well, fuck. I forgot that. And we did that because we did this and it didn't work. And oh, look, I have one right here and this is where it failed. And you know, so for me, it's just kind of part of my history.


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[Assistant] You know, it would have been interesting to have social media like 30 years ago when I started in guns because all you had, there weren't, you think everybody flexes now on the accessories and I'm guilty of it. And you know, I do it to get free stuff too, but they, um, like,


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[Assistant] Everybody just had a Glock and a basic AR. There weren't flat tops, there were no optics on them, there were no, uh, you know, railed forends, there were...


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[Assistant] There was nothing special about anybody's guns. We just all had a .22, we all had a Glock, we all had an AR-15, we all had a Remington 700 and .308 with a little pulled Mark IV on it.


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[Assistant] Part of it started with, you know, some of the haters and stuff, and they'll...


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[Assistant] And a lot of them are very knowledgeable, but then there's a cutoff, you know, if you're.


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[Assistant] 25 years old and you've been super in the industry for 10 years.


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[Assistant] I sold my last company more than 10 years ago. So all the knowledge you have prior to that is you heard it from someone who heard it from somebody who saw something one time, right? Like you don't know. And you know, for me, that's part of the interest of the historical stuff for me to say whatever you want. I was there. I was involved.


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[Assistant] Here's the stuff. Here's what really happened. Yeah, what this idiot's saying. This part's true, but this and this are not true. And here's actual, a photograph of it and you know, talk about it.


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[Assistant] And it's good for me as I'm starting to do writing for the book and all to kind of go through this. Cause you know, it lays dormant. Like I forget about a lot of these things until like I start digging through these bins of parts and silencers and.


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[Assistant] You know, it reminds me of things. I mean, I know Ethan and I have the conversation every time we hang out and have a beer and something will come up that we forgot about. You know, like we didn't even remember doing it. It's like, Oh yeah.


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[Assistant] And I'm like, why did we do that? And then Ethan will remember one part and then I remember a part and we start kind of weaving it back together at things that we would have both forgotten. And that's kind of why it's important. Like Ethan's a bit of a hoarder too, but for me, because as time goes on, we're going to forget about this stuff. And it's important for me with Q, cause I didn't do a good job at advanced armament. I want us to have a, uh, uh,


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[Assistant] A real timeline in the new facility of all the products from the beginning, because it doesn't seem like we're going to forget about


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[Assistant] Some things we changed on the fix early on are the honey badger or the silencers. But if we have those pieces...


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[Assistant] You know, it's always going to be locked in time and there'll be something everybody can trace and we can understand why we did this. Cause I guarantee you, you know, Nick, the head engineer on the fix.


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[Assistant] You know, that's consumed him for five years and he's probably already forgotten some stuff he did, but definitely in 10 years from now, he's going to forget some of the reasons that something's done a certain way. So.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I think, I think that's pretty interesting. And it's the demographics and everything with the industry and social media and just like Snapchat, like any news of any gun thing that happens and sparks all this political stuff.


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[Assistant] Um, but you know, I said it a hundred times before, but when I was a kid working in the gun store, 35 to 55 year old blue collar, white dude was your only customer.


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[Assistant] And how different that is now, and to me that's like a wonderful thing. And I do love seeing...


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[Assistant] I like all the incredible liberal interest in firearms now that they're afraid they're gonna be banned.


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[Assistant] Well, I think a lot of people don't realize if you've never really been interested in it and you, I don't know, you know, I'm 20 something years older than you, but.


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[Assistant] Like going through school, it was made clear to me that it was a right to have a firearm.


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[Assistant] Like, even in public school, like, when we, you know, went through the constitution and the amendments, like, this is your right, and this is why.


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[Assistant] And I remember my teachers teaching it that way, but I think now it's almost under the guise of it's a privilege.


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[Assistant] And the government should decide what guns you should have. And it's like there is.


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[Assistant] No way you read the second amendment and think that that is a privilege and the government should control it and it controls, uh,


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[Assistant] The type of firearm that you should be able to have that, you know, it's a privilege and you don't really need that. And it's like, oh my God, this is why we had a revolution in the first place.


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[Assistant] I was growing up in Maine too, like I grew up in a, in a big city. Right. So maybe that was different, but you know, I look at it and people ask me, um, different things like why I didn't go to engineering school. And part of me is like, Oh, I wish, I wish I'd gone to engineering school, but then I'm afraid like I, I'm mechanical enough in.


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[Assistant] I think it would change the way that I think creatively if I'd gone to engineering school. And I think the same thing with art school. Like I love all kinds of art and design. I don't care if it's architecture, uhm, if it's, you know, printed art. Like all media is like, I just love art and design.


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[Assistant] And if I'd gone to art school, I would probably feel very differently about it.


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[Assistant] The point is, I'm glad that I grew up with a family that didn't have guns. I was kind of anti-gun.


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[Assistant] And it's something that I came to on my own. You know, when I was young, if you would ask me if somebody should be able to own a machine gun or something, I'd be like, hell no.


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[Assistant] Like my journey and process through this, and I think it gives me a better understanding where like you, if I had grown up where my whole family had guns, it would, you know, I think I definitely would have felt like that. It's definitely my right. And how could you question it? But.


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[Assistant] Me growing up without them, I kind of thought guns were bad when I was young. And then in school, actual school, public school learning that that's our right. And the reason we have it is like tyrannical government and to be afraid.


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[Assistant] And you know, then I just got into firearms and my late teens and, you know, just fell in love, but I appreciate that.


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[Assistant] Journey, cause I think it gives me a perspective that I wouldn't have if I'd grown up with a family with firearms or whatever.


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[Assistant] I understand, you know, I think Sig probably...


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[Assistant] I don't know, we'll let Adam speak to this and I think he might feel the way you did.


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[Assistant] But I think when Ethan started at SIG, you know, Ethan, even as young as he is, he was the first agreed engineer that ever worked at SIG in America.


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[Assistant] So when he went to work there and was an intern there when he was in college, like the head of engineering wasn't an engineer. Which...


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[Assistant] You know, I don't, I don't know. I don't think like Eugene Stoner has an engineering degree either. I don't believe. But he's pretty special. But thinking, I think Sig at the time was probably like Q.


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[Assistant] You know, and it was fun and that's a question that we had that I have in here. So we'll just skip to it right now. So Adam, I want to ask you. You respond to this and then also.


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[Assistant] Uh, the question is how, what is the right size for Q to B? Cause I think what happened with SIG is it just grew to where they didn't manage it correctly and it just became.


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[Assistant] A corporate job to where if you love guns and you dream of working at a gun company in Sig, I will say Steel is probably one of the better ones.


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[Assistant] You will more than likely, if you went to work there because you want to work at a gun company, more than likely you won't stay and you're going to wish you had never done it.


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[Assistant] Uh, special weapons was kind of the skunk works, a special group inside of SIG that was isolated from everything else. You couldn't even enter that part of the facility and worked on all the military government, like super cool prototype, interesting things that weren't necessarily geared towards commercial stuff.


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[Assistant] I agree. You know, my response was going to be, you know, like right now, see I'm reignited at Q again, cause.


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[Assistant] But you know, for me, I always want to like, my mind is let's conquer the world.


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[Assistant] But so, okay, now we don't have those worries anymore. We've got to get to this next thing. And that's super exciting for me, but you know, as we start to divide the company up into like real categories and groups and you know, different departments, it's like some of it, I think SIG could have done.


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[Assistant] A better job at, and it's what I hope we can do to maintain the culture.


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[Assistant] As a company grows, but there's still that element of like, you know, you're in, you're in your own little group and club and you know, everyone and you hang out and it's not, you know, like Sig, it's almost.


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[Assistant] In my time there, starting in 2014, February I think, uhm, you know, it was all about numbers.


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[Assistant] And the entire company. And so there was started to become a shift, which you saw probably even within special weapons where we're just, we don't worry about money. We're doing these cool things. We're going to develop this next generation products.


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[Assistant] You gotta keep them busy and it becomes about the numbers. And the numbers are important for production. But for me, it's...


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[Assistant] Uhm, cause it is interesting, like we could grow so much right now just on this political wave, but staying true to what we want to do, the highest quality stuff and innovative stuff, build a brand. And I think at least for our employees, you know, that's, that's the passion. Like if,


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[Assistant] You know, it's great. We can all make more money and everybody could, and that's wonderful. But if we just focus on the numbers, it totally sucks the fun out of everything.


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[Assistant] The leadership started to really want to isolate themselves from the employees. You know, like for me, when I come to Q and even when it was 11 people and you know, we've grown a bunch since then it's.


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[Assistant] Like, I want, you know, I come there, I have a meeting with you.


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[Assistant] I mean, you know, we deal with marketing stuff, but I want to go see everyone in the company and every part of the company. I want to touch everything, know what's going on.


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[Assistant] And not to be like the prison warden, it's like I...


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[Assistant] But we, the company has to grow, you're growing or you're dying, but how can we maintain that culture? And it can't be, you know, me putting my office, you know, on the top floor and isolated from everyone and having, you know, tab the guard dog at my office to where no one can come in without going through her and an appointment. Like, I hope I don't ever have an office there. Like, I hope I never have an office again.


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[Assistant] Like I come up there, I want to be in shipping, receiving. I want to be handling guns that are about to ship out to make sure everything looks the way, you know, cause my job now is probably to.


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[Assistant] Maintain and secure a future for the brand. Grow the brand.


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[Assistant] And that's all encompassing. So, you know, there's things like with manufacturing that part of operations, we have to be, we can't, you know,


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[Assistant] You know, fly loose as much in that part as we can with the creative side of the company. So like understanding that.


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[Assistant] Yeah. And so we got to do that. And then the expectation is we're going to make it the greatest place in the world to work.


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[Assistant] And I don't even have to say it, but we're going to have these projects and goals every year and you're going to.


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[Assistant] Develop the greatest product, but also, you know, not for you to get a bonus.


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[Assistant] That part is great for everybody, but to where you are so proud, you know, when I see when there's something going on with, with, uh, one of the products and then I see the engineers there every, every night until 10 o'clock at night, making sure everything got sorted out.


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[Assistant] You know, that's wonderful. There's nothing mandated about that. Those guys care about every single product that goes out because you know, they're, they're invested in the product and then in the company and that's what's going to help the growth of the company.


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[Assistant] You know, for me, it is different. Like I used to just think about just the product and I love product and product guy.


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[Assistant] But it's really the company and the brand that we have to, we have to develop the best brand.


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[Assistant] Like you want to produce the best part. And I think there's some people you can never motivate to really care about that. And I think there are people that you can. I think we've been through a few of people who you just.


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[Assistant] You just can't, they don't care enough. And you know, we don't need to change that. There's plenty of people who are wired in my opinion to.


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[Assistant] Want to take pride in their work, but they do need the opportunity and the culture and the appreciation of doing it. And to me it's even like a mandate and we don't need to change people. You know, you come in, you do it.


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[Assistant] You know, it's just a job to you. You're not going to go the extra mile to make sure everything's great. Just probably not a good fit at our company.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, but, you know, I think people, even at entry level positions, uhm,


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[Assistant] It's important for me personally, and I say personally, but really for the brand, I believe, just my opinion.


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[Assistant] But you know, like owning the place, then my opinion carries a lot of weight is that they are appreciated just as much as you or you or anybody else. They're just as important there as I am. Um, you know, I just.


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[Assistant] But I don't feel that, you know, I'm more important. It's like my vision of what we want is important.


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[Assistant] You know, I want things to the products to turn out a certain way. And so that.


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[Assistant] Is an obligation from the engineers that I feel they have to me and response they get.


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[Assistant] You know, to work on things that they love, they get employment, they get paid, like all the benefits of being, working somewhere.


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[Assistant] And they have an obligation. It's not, and it is to me, but it's to the company. And I think it goes all the way down. I mean, you know, I get involved in shipping, receiving, like I cause it is for the customer and that's what I want people in shipping or receiving to understand.


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[Assistant] That's great for you to make me happy, but all I want is when a customer, every time a customer opens a gun box or even a plan B that it's a great experience for them. And sometimes that's some minutia that.


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[Assistant] So a lot of people doesn't matter and some people that can't even see, but I have a vision of how I want our company represented and everything from our online presence to the product, to the packaging. Um, you know, I want everything to be the best. I want it to be interesting. I want it to be beautiful. I want it to work the best.


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[Assistant] Like, you know, and to me, I think that's why I stay excited because I'm never going to be completely happy.


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[Assistant] And, and I don't want to be like the tyrant that's like on everyone's ass. Like I want to try to get everyone to understand, you know, like.


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[Assistant] The vision that I have and I think what the consumer wants and what allows us to do more with a smaller group and


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[Assistant] You know, create the best value because I mean that ends up great for the employee. We have a higher pay scale.


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[Assistant] Get more time off. There's more benefits. There's all these great things because you know what I want from an employee like I know.


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[Assistant] Like, I don't care how much money anyone makes at our company. Uhm, but I want them to be efficient.


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[Assistant] And they need to do a good job and it needs to benefit the company. I would love to pay everyone a million dollars a year. It would be great.


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[Assistant] And if we can get there, that's great. Like, I'm not greedy. Share the money. Uhm.


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[Assistant] And we could potentially do it. I don't know, probably not. But uhm, it would be fine with me. But everybody needs to take that approach to the company for us to be.


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[Assistant] Successful and by successful to me, like we're plenty successful for a company, but I want to be the greatest brand and company ever in our industry.


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[Assistant] Cause you know, when I think about, when I think of that, I think of H and K, Knight's Armament, like these aspirational companies that have done incredible things.


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[Assistant] And not only, like we just looked at manufacturing. I don't know, maybe Ruger is the best manufacturing company in the world. We could never do that. That's just one aspect of it. You know, HK, their quality, their innovation, their design, their engineering.


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[Assistant] And when you see a product, like I brought up the other day when I was, uh, two days ago, I think I told you.


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[Assistant] I think I even asked you to go look at them. Uh, I went into fix assembly. They're building the fixed rifles and the bolt body and the bolt and the extra. They had like bolt body assemblies and I picked it up.


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[Assistant] And I almost brought a tear to my eye. It was so beautiful. I looked at it and I said, you know, and I love Savage, Ruger, Sig. I just fucking love guns. But I was like, this could never be.


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[Assistant] An American, like this is an HK part. And I mean it, it's like the biggest compliment to HK.


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[Assistant] And our machinist, our engineers, everyone involved. When I looked at that, even compared to the parts two years ago in the fix, it looks like we bought that part from H&K. And I mean that with the most respect to H&K. That's the company that I aspire to like conquer in our industry.


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[Assistant] I agree. I think when it starts with design, we design the better stuff. When we make a better product. When the marketing is better.


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[Assistant] The customer service and again, like I don't ever want a room of customer service people, which we're going to have eventually. It'll drop me nuts, but most of it.


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[Assistant] There's another question in here, so we're gonna get into these pretty quick because we're starting to get into all these questions. But uhm, the best, again, the best customer service we provide anyone is the best product where we never hear from them. That is number one.


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[Assistant] Like to me, I, I can't, I don't know, I always reserve the right to change my mind, but I can't imagine changing my mind on that one.


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[Assistant] Like make the best product. You know, the, the thing that I do a bad job of is really like.


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[Assistant] Being in charge of marketing is the conversion process of.


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[Assistant] And there's people that just heard about us last week.


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[Assistant] Although I harp on tapers and that becomes a thing. Well, I harp on it because it's super important and I wish everyone would do it.


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[Assistant] And I see some of the biggest haters now are using our taper in their silencers on their rifles, which to me means I'm doing a better job than I thought. And it's, you know, the engineers did a great job and now I'm starting to convince people of things. So I want to go over some questions.


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[Assistant] And you know, to me, this is, this is the response. It's like, we're so copied because it's correct. Like when we talk about the taper on the muzzle or on the barrel, and we talk about the taper on the muzzle device, it's the right thing. It's the right thing to do. And that's why we do it. And that's why we're so copied.


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[Assistant] You know, there, there is nothing in a taper that is.


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[Assistant] Uh, that we invented that smart every lathe, every mill that everybody uses to put a square shoulder on their barrel.


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[Assistant] Why doesn't your machine use a square shoulder? Because it's stupid. Don't use it. Your silencer comes loose and you don't get alignment.


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[Assistant] There is a concentricity tolerance with threads, so if you just have a square 90 degree shoulder, every time you thread the silencer on it's in a slightly different position. And that's why threaded silencers suck. They come loose. I had it.


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[Assistant] Taurus, the CEO, I don't even know who he is. He sent me their new pistol. Shout out. That pistol is awesome. I love it. I went and shot it. I'm not sure I like it as much as my hammerling.


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[Assistant] But it's, I like it better than the Smith & Wesson 41 that I paid $1350 for. I like it better than the Ruger Mark 4 or 2245, which I really like.


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[Assistant] Uhm, the Browning Buckmark, everything. Any Ruger Mark 1, 2, 3, 4, 22, 45. I like it better than all those. Yeaah, and they're great guns, but this is better. That Taurus, and I was not expecting, because I've never been proud to own a Taurus.


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[Assistant] Sorry CEO, if you're listening until now and it changed my mind. Whoever they have now doing the engineering and design.


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[Assistant] Keep him or if I find him, I'm going to hire him away from him.


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[Assistant] I think so and company wide, like the quality of it was great and it's the,


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[Assistant] Before listening, we'll pop it up on the screen. And, or the link, is that what you're supposed to say? Put it in the link below. The TX-22 competition, so it takes the red dot and it's on the barrel, which is smart, rather than the slide, which is stupid. Fixed barrel. Yeaah, so you can put it on the, uhm, it's a striker fired gun.


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[Assistant] The trigger is phenomenal for that.


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[Assistant] Comes with a threaded barrel, needs a taper cause my silencer came loose while I was shooting, which pissed me off. Cause I'm shooting and I was like, this thing is so accurate.


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[Assistant] Because I can tell a difference in my hammerly, the accuracy with that and my 2245, the hammerly is better.


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[Assistant] And so I'm shooting groups and, um, I got, I got a one MOA RMR on it. I think it's one of my, it's small. So I'm shooting little groups, but you know, towards the end of my session, I'm like, my groups doubled in size and I'm like, huh?


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[Assistant] Maybe I'm getting tired, whatever, made an excuse, load another mag, shoot. I'm like, yeah, it's not me. And, um, the silencer was loose.


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[Assistant] Yeah, and the tapers are, and we provide the drawings on the website for everyone. So all you gun companies that are hating are silencer companies do like, uh, you know, our little hater Paco and put, put our taper in your silencer. It's the right thing to do, even if you're a douche.


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[Assistant] Yeah. Cause we, we're going to owe some of these companies. Like I almost want to copy some products, whether it's CGS or dirty or just because like.


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[Assistant] They copy us to, to an embarrassing degree where they'll post haters will say it's a copy.


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[Assistant] I wish they would do something good we could copy just to be assholes, but, um, so, okay, so here's another thing that I get questioned on. 86. So I can't see it now, Jay. What all does this say?


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[Assistant] It's 4.308 base guns or 6.5 and it's just like 300 blackout. Barrel change only. You don't need a bolt or a new mag or anything. Oh, you got, yea, a round.


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[Assistant] So, uh, yeaah. So it's like a 338 and a 65 shortened case. Barrel change only. What else you got?


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[Assistant] I didn't say that. It's not for the minifigs. Nope, it's for the full size fix. 308 base guns. Big guns.


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[Assistant] Yeah. So you get the super and subsonic just like 300 blackout. That's why it's called eight six blackout.


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[Assistant] If it, if it wasn't for educational purposes, the ease of people understanding blackout. Oh, that means 300 blackout, super subsonic full Mac capacity barrel change only.


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[Assistant] Blah, blah, blah. It totally would have been eight, six Cosby. Oh my God. Greatest name ever. Shout out. I think it was that Nick, Nick. It seems like a Nick or Drew. Yeah. Yeah. One of them.


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[Assistant] Full mag capacity, cause you know, there's a lot of good killing rounds, which talk about a lot and whether it's a 458 SOCOM, even 6.8 SPC.


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[Assistant] Uh, 375 Raptor, 30 Remington AR, all these cartridges that are good.


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[Assistant] But when you start altering the magazine or limiting mag capacity,


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[Assistant] Excuse me. The reliability just goes in the shitter. So that's an objective to us full mag capacity. Yes.


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[Assistant] Fast, oh, fast twist. I'm so excited about fast, faster twist. So here's the thing. Cause I had some douche on YouTube comment on a video the other day saying, I keep saying it gives you more velocity going fast twist, which is absolutely false. And I never said that. However, it is also true.


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[Assistant] Rotational velocity, spinning the bullet faster, does not give you linear velocity increase. It doesn't affect it, it's not slower.


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[Assistant] But Fast Twist gives you several things. Number one, if you're using a big long subsonic bullet, it stabilizes it better so you get better accuracy. But the Fast Twist really gives you


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[Assistant] Greater energy, because you spin the bullet faster, you get rotational velocity increase. So, if I shoot you with a hollow point,


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[Assistant] You gotta, so the hollow point expands because of linear velocity.


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[Assistant] But rotating it faster also makes the bullet open up easier. So that's cool. Especially if you're using solid coppers.


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[Assistant] But you, so the body or the target has to stop the bullet, so that's an energy dump into the target. So that's from linear velocity, but you also have to stop a bullet from spinning.


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[Assistant] Which is rotational velocity, and we talked about it last week with David Stark. He said it best, the blender. The blender, I know, my daughter put that in a video of me shooting the 8.6.


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[Assistant] But that's where you see, like if you see, and we'll post it up because I got a picture of it, uhm, an 8.6 bullet with a fast twist barrel, rather than the pedals just expanding, they expand and they're twisted.


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[Assistant] And that is also an energy transfer. And now I have shot animals with eight six and I can tell you a 12 inch.


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[Assistant] 12.5 inch 8.6. I shot that 600 pound nil guy at 225 meters. It's like I shot it with a 300 ultra mag or 300 wind mag. And I had 2000 feet


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[Assistant] Of linear velocity, but we had a one in three twist. So we're creating so much more energy and putting it into the target and you know, 600 pound animal that is incredibly durable, 60 meters and was dead. Yeah. Shooting it behind the shoulder. So that's eight, six. You got anything about eight, six, Joe?


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[Assistant] That's a good point. You know, and it is something that, and I don't know, maybe Pew Science Jay, our homie, he can do something about that.


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[Assistant] But uhm, we have a big hole through the silencer, which is generally not good when you have lower pressure. Uhm, like a 45, it was very difficult. The Tyrant 45 that we did at AC was the first hearing safe 45 dry silencer.


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[Assistant] And it's because it's low pressure and there's a big hole through the silencer, so all the gas wants to escape.


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[Assistant] So I didn't have like incredibly high expectations, um, for.


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[Assistant] Supersonic being very quiet. Cause I've shot, you know, Ethan and I originally started working with three 38 federal, which is what we started this project with. And we ended up with eight six.


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[Assistant] Creedmoor or no, it's eight, six blackout now, all the name changes, but, um, I was expecting it to be loud, supersonic and it is so quiet. I almost convinced myself I was shooting subsonic loads and didn't know.


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[Assistant] Um, but I think there's a velocity thing when it's only 2000 feet a second, you know, the guests aren't traveling as fast. It's just not producing as much sound as if, you know, we bumped it up and it's going 3000 feet a second. So.


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[Assistant] Maybe Jay can get into that one, his podcaster tests. Anyway, not this Jay. My other podcast, Pew Science. The Jay situation.


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[Assistant] Uhm, our, our homie out there in Texas doing all that testing. Uhm, okay, so another question.


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[Assistant] So muzzle taper versus a square shoulder. Number one, if you have a tapered muzzle, doesn't loosen.


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[Assistant] Number two, provides alignment. So a square shoulder only stops something from threading on.


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[Assistant] A muzzle taper is like a funnel. It sends everything to the center. It gives you alignment, just like machine tools. We talked about a lot more surface area. Yeah. Tons more surface area. So it requires our taper requires 20% more force or torque to.


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[Assistant] Remove it than to install it. So it means like your wife can install it and torque it on as hard as she can, you can't get it off. So it makes you feel like a weakling.


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[Assistant] So that's a great thing. So you can even shoot full auto, but like my 22 CEO Taurus, appreciate you sent me the other day.


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[Assistant] Square shoulder, had a taper on it and we made an in cap for the erector that was tapered. Silencer wouldn't have come loose. I'd have been shooting tight groups the whole damn time. So.


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[Assistant] Tells me we gotta do barrels for 22s with tapers and the erector with the blast baffle being the serialized part, we can do a rear mount that has a taper.


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[Assistant] Talk to the engineering department. So, and then also our tapers, so if it's half 28 or 5H24, our muzzle devices that go onto our barrels are also reverse compatible so they'll work on square shoulders.


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[Assistant] You're gonna get probably better alignment than you do out of a factory threaded barrel. So Jay, what do we say right here for taper?


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[Assistant] Yeah, so the shit comes loose when you thread it on there without threadlocker on a square shoulder. So 1991 Madonna and everyone my age knows exactly what I'm talking about. Dennis Rodman.


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[Assistant] Alright, so this is another one, people asking about all the time, so the fix, you get 8-6, you get 3-0-8, you get 6-5, so the fix


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[Assistant] Well, yeaah, this has nothing to do with order. You're absolutely correct. It's like, you know, uh, ascending diameters, uh, descending. Um, but anyway, that's the full size fix 308 base eight, six does not go into the mini fix the mini fix 300 blackout two, two, three, Remington. Um,


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[Assistant] Six five, grand dollar, what, whatever, you know, nine by thirty nine. This, AR mags. Minifix. AR mags.


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[Assistant] Hey, I'm Kevin from Q. This episode of the Q and S podcast got a mother fricking sponsor. Tactical distributors, you're on fire.


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[Assistant] You know, anything to go in my pool or hot tub, it'd probably be these board shorts.


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[Assistant] But these are summertime hunting boots. Thin sole. Like skate shoes. They're lightweight. They breathe. They repel the water. A cool thing about tactical distributors. Alright, number one. Cool motherfuckers. Number two.


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[Assistant] Their return policy? Simple. Easy. I never know, cause I got like the fat feet. So this could be a ten and a half, could be an eleven. I don't know. Order two sizes, I pick one, send it back.


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[Assistant] It's no troubles. Get a little label. Send it back. Cost me no money. tacticaldistributors.com promo code. I don't know what you call it. Whatever code at the end. All right. Unpossible 15. Unpossible 15 gets you 15% off tacticaldistributors.com. Give them a look.


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[Assistant] That's right. So, uh, send your ETA questions, um, to your mom.


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[Assistant] So the new trigger is a drop in. The fix does not use an AR trigger. Nope. It's got its own trigger system. So the trigger that we're doing was, uh, which Adam's spoken to before, but it's kind of a supply chain bottleneck kind of issue that we did.


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[Assistant] And so we decided to dedicate ourselves, developed the literally the best trigger ever for the AR and it's probably going to be available.


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[Assistant] Well, we're not giving ETAs, but, um, I don't know if it's going to go in the guns first or it'll be in a, uh, just, uh, as an accessory sale first.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so we'll see. But, uh, it's not far out. It's not far out.


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[Assistant] Oh, I didn't even know that was a thing. Oh yeaah. I'm old school, they were all Oshel.


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[Assistant] Oh, that is a cool feature. So let's think about that guys with the AR when the hammers dropped forward, you can not put the safety on. It seems a little lame with ours, you can.


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[Assistant] Well, for me, I would never care, but if I'm shooting with my kids or teaching someone, I like for myself, the visual indicator, the guns on say for me, when I'm by myself hunting or shooting, I never use a safety. Like just, yeah, just don't shoot if I don't mean to don't, don't point it at my junk. Like pretty good. Yeah.


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[Assistant] Okay, so yours is a muscle memory argument. Which, which is valid. Okay, well. Kinda.


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[Assistant] If you were designing from the ground up and the M4 didn't exist, would you be able to put the safety on at all times?


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[Assistant] And those are not entry level people using the, uh, 16.


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[Assistant] Comment down below. Let's discuss it. It's going wild down there in those comments. Let's get at it.


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[Assistant] I was unaware. I just thought it was a little ploy to get people in there, which I thought was pretty savvy. His videos, Grand Thumb, one of my favorites.


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[Assistant] All right. Well, Adam, I know you're a huge fan of the direct thread silencers with the taper. Why so?


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[Assistant] That's good. You do a great job. Great picture. Thanks. Thanks. I like the Sherbert sort of style you got going on now. Yeah, I'm playing with different colors.


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[Assistant] I think direct thread does not make sense if you have a square shoulder and no taper.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it, they come loose. If you use our taper now, well, SIG uses the taper. HK uses the taper. Some of the silencer companies are using it now. It should be the industry standard for barrels because you get alignment.


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[Assistant] Yeah, yeah, we did. The fir- the first taper that we did was on the third generation honey badger.


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[Assistant] Maybe the second, third, the ones that were purchased on contract are.


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[Assistant] Have tapered muzzles and direct thread silencers. And then, you know, Ethan would, yeah, you guys did it for the MCX same taper. Um, so actually it's kind of the sick taper, but it originally is an AAC taper. Um, and, and we use the same thing. So here's a little.


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[Assistant] Piece of art that I did that I love, like I use a lot of our, because taking pictures, social media, I use a lot of our, uh, quickie Mount, the cherry bomb silencers.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and then I can take the silencer off. I usually have more guns with me than silencers so I can move it around. But also taking a picture to show how well the taper works because of the carbon build up that accumulates on the cherry bomb. But I am 100% with you.


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[Assistant] I don't ever shoot without a silencer, so it's kind of stupid if I weren't doing some social media stuff or marketing for the company.


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[Assistant] I would just have a silencer for every gun. Never have a cherry bomb. Always direct threat. Because here's what people need to understand. Here, you have this tolerance and this tolerance.


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[Assistant] Here, with the quickie mount, even though it's the best, cause we're using tapers, we're not using stupid shims, washers, all this other timing, alignment bullshit that gives you misalignment, you get a taper.


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[Assistant] A taper inside the cherry bomb and a taper inside the silencer. Tapers on tapers on tapers. Three tolerances.


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[Assistant] You're right, so it's, I don't know, it's probably six times worse than this. Like, this is mo' better for alignment. It's so funny, I was watching one of uh,


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[Assistant] The copycat competitors today, they also build rifles. Watch the video on them.


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[Assistant] And they have a removable front end cap insert. So when you inevitably get a baffle strike or an end cap strike, you can replace it easily at home for $20.


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[Assistant] It's like number one, you're providing more misalignment out here cause your tolerance stack at the muzzle, you douche.


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[Assistant] And it's like, okay, well why don't you taper your barrels in your silencer so you don't get in cap strikes?


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[Assistant] And what people don't realize if you get the cause there is a tolerance, even with a taper, the concentricity. So if you're talking about your muzzle and then the silencer. Okay. So if you get a little bit there.


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[Assistant] If you go out here, eight inches, it's like 10 times worse. So the idea of putting threads there and worrying about that concentricity and it's ridiculous.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean they do the end caps are already threaded. They weld them up. This company isn't EDMing and then they thread something in there. And I mean, we know like you can say whatever you want. You melt that material.


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[Assistant] You're going to get some distortion. You're going to get some misalignment. So out at the end. So it's not done after the thing is welded. It's done before when it's made. So then.


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[Assistant] You know, and then, and their inserts are also aluminum. So the aluminum threads taking it in and out fatigues in the stainless steel. So it's also in a different spot every time you torque it in.


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[Assistant] Well, you know, it's so funny because when dead air copied the erector and did their Odessa nine millimeter and Mike Pappas told me they did


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[Assistant] Well, what he said was they plan to weld it all together to be tubeless, but when they welded, it was so warped that they couldn't weld it. So they just had to thread it together. So when they asked permission for me to like copy the erector, but even threading it together, you know, the lack of engineering there, they wire the silencer after they do it. So.


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[Assistant] They number every baffle and then the end caps wire and you can see on ours like the misalignment if you take the front end cap out and look at it of where they cut it with a wire.


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[Assistant] All those parts threaded together, that all fatigues some. So like it doesn't all line up the way it did originally every time you disassemble it and put it back together.


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[Assistant] Yeah. And when you torque it down, if it fatigues the material and the thread and it's a little more every time. And so then if you wire it.


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[Assistant] It's only good that one time, once you just somewhat put it back together, the wiring...


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[Assistant] I almost want to pay an engineer to go work at dead air, but whatever. Um, anyway.


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[Assistant] Twist. So this question comes up a lot. Fast twists?


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[Assistant] So, we're running fast twists. So here's an example. This, what twist means, cause I got some pretty basic questions, which I appreciate cause it tells me some of the audience, I appreciate them being engaged. They didn't understand what twist meant. So you're rifling.


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[Assistant] Rifling is a twist. So generally you see a number, it'll be like a one colon and a 10. So that means there's one twist and 10 inches of barrel. One rotation. Yeah. One rotation. So we're running fast twists and this would be a standard twist. So it's much slower.


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[Assistant] So what are the advantages here and why do we do this? And again, your subsonic, your slow long bullets, you get better accuracy here and you get more energy and they're spinning faster. So they'll open up faster and more reliable. And when you say here, you mean the faster twist.


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[Assistant] Oh yeah. Yeah. So with a fa- good point. Faster twist with a slower twist, you don't get that. So subsonic 308 has to be a light bullet because.


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[Assistant] Almost all 308s are a 1 in 10, 1 in 11 twist. Very slow.


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[Assistant] So, the long heavy subsonic bullets are not accurate because they're not being spun very quickly.


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[Assistant] And they don't expand, so they have to make light bullets for subsonic 308.


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[Assistant] So that it will be reasonably accurate out of a slow twist barrel.


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[Assistant] And they'll expand. So 308 subsonic is never going to be as good as 300 blackout because we run fast twist and the limited case capacity, you get more consistent standard deviation.


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[Assistant] You know, for instance, you might get 20 feet a second deviation in muzzle velocity. I have 300 blackout subsonic, but out of 308, just because there's so much case capacity and when you load subsonic, you don't put much powder in there. So there's a lot of case volume. So it might be 75 feet a second.


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[Assistant] Standard deviation of muzzle velocity out of a subsonic 308 and the only reason that matters to you is that difference gives you vertical stringing and so you can miss your target.


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[Assistant] So 308 subsonic is better than no subsonic, but it sucks compared to something like 300 blackout with fast twist, fast twist. And again, fast twist doesn't give you more linear velocity, but it really greatly improves the rotational velocity, which is going to give you more energy on target, which kills stuff more better.


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[Assistant] And that's, and that's bullet design as we move forward.


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[Assistant] Uh, the way I envision eight, six growing in 300 blackout is people understand. We'll, we'll develop projectiles just for super fast twist barrels. Like maybe we get to one in one, like we've tested it.


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[Assistant] But it requires special projectiles because everything's designed to expand out of a one in one twist. We'll expand. We stopped at one in three with eight, six, because if you have a bonded bullet or a solid copper with a one in three twists and three 38, it will not expand out of the muzzle. But if we go to one in one, the thing comes apart out of the muzzle. So you've got to have special bullets.


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[Assistant] Yeah. And the great thing about that is what, what, what it does, this super, super fast twist, a one in one twist, which is absurd. It gives you the ability to have a very short barrel and deliver a lot of energy in a light compact gun. So you kill something more effectively and, um, you know, a lot of our products, that's what it's geared towards.


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[Assistant] So what are the differences in our silencers? So we have our half Nelson, full Nelson. We have the trash pan and thunder chicken. So they're not exactly, but kind of the same silencers except.


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[Assistant] The trash panda and thunder chicken attached to our cherry bomb, which is our muzzle device or muzzle brake.


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[Assistant] And the half Nelson, full Nelson attached directly to barrels. So.


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[Assistant] They have a square shoulder on the back of the silencer, which will go on any five eights, 24, any threaded 308 65 gun, 300 blackout gun you've got.


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[Assistant] But they also internally have our muzzle taper, so they work on our tapered barrel. So these, if you have one of our guns, get the thread mount silencers. They never come loose unless like Adam said earlier, if you want to move the silencer from gun to gun, then it's easier to do with the quickie mount.


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[Assistant] Because for instance, every one of the Trash Panda or Thunder Chicken silencers comes with a 5H24 muzzle device.


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[Assistant] And a half 28, so you can put these on your five, five, six and all that. And five, five, six is generally threaded half 28. And if you have the half or full Nelson.


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[Assistant] You can't really install those on the half 28 barrels, but for me the half Nelson is my favorite.


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[Assistant] Because I can put it on my hunting rifle, the rifle I do most of my shooting with, and I eliminate the cherry bomb and all those tolerances. The silencer never comes loose. I have less parts, less weight, less expense. This is great. So these are kind of our two versions of silencers and we have short length for hunting competition, minimalist.


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[Assistant] Lightest weight and then we have the, the Full Nelson and the Trash Panda, or no, the Thunder Chicken, which are the quietest offerings.


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[Assistant] Just for people who, who don't know. Because it has the funny name like these.


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[Assistant] Yeah, cause people would install these. We didn't even know there were 30 caliber barrels. So at half 28 people would shoot a 300 wouldn't matter.


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[Assistant] Sacrificial blast baffle, like 17 fours to the titanium. If you're using short barrels, taken the, uh, high velocity powder and get like it's better.


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[Assistant] No, not for 308 or 300 blackout, only if you're really going to use it on 556, which you would need anyway.


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[Assistant] If you want to be able to move the silencer from gun to gun, get one of our quickie mouth trash pan to thunder chicken. If you don't.


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[Assistant] Get one of the direct threads. It's more better. And anyway, I will say.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that's a big sounds here. I mean, that's the thing, you know, like we can have all these dorks getting into silencers, trying to invent a new baffle or you can just create some volume.


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[Assistant] All right. So I got this, oh, breaking news question from, uh, some fan named Adam Johnson. Yeah. Then let's talk about the difference between, uh, what a key mod Nimla.


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[Assistant] There's probably so many people that are into guns now who are even watching this that don't even know what key mod is. Yea, that's true too.


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[Assistant] Kind of like uncle Mike's, like you need a print to make stuff.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's all, it's always a thing, kind of like what we're doing with eight, six. And it's the same thing. Magpul did a good job with them.


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[Assistant] Open source and they make you engrave their little logo on it and they'll give you all the drawings and it's easy to use. You know, M lock, I think, you know, they did it because they could injection mold it into plastic too.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but it has to be thicker and stuff. I mean, that's why our Q-Sert handguard for the fix with like 39 additional stainless steel pieces in it or whatever the number is, is still two ounces lighter than M-LOK. Uhm, yeaah. I mean, to me, M-LOK


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[Assistant] I mean, they're both okay, but they suck compared to QCert.


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[Assistant] Here's why I think Keymod wasn't successful.


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[Assistant] Magpul just had a lot of marketing power and they made the accessories and.


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[Assistant] That came later, but you know what? I think the biggest hindrance with, uh, and this is why square dropped happened at AAC. The biggest problem with key mod is it's fucking ugly. Yeah.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but yeaah, I think it's also, it's ugly.


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[Assistant] I think it's one of the reasons I think that's stupid, but I think it's true. I mean, but it was a culmination of things. They didn't present it properly. They didn't give all the specifications. They didn't control the market. And I think, you know, Magpul was in a great position. They make like tons of plastic stuff that's cheap. And so, Oh, we can do all these accessories.


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[Assistant] Well, we can't put key mod into plastic hand guards and stuff. So, hey, we need another design. And they did a key mod that goes on a rectangular, you know, uh, what would you call that?


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[Assistant] Just a hole in the handguard, but so they could injection mold it in plastic. And it is better looking because Magpul is very good traditionally with the style and aesthetic.


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[Assistant] Well, I agree, but if everybody looks at the advanced armament handguard, it is very close to M-lock and that's prior M-lock. That's what we were doing at AAC. And it was kind of, it was going to be a, uh, the attachment was going to be a turnbuckle situation like the handguard.


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[Assistant] Yeah, and, and that might be the cut that was in the Honey Bedringer. I don't know. This rifle's cool. So this was, uhm, it's a Nevesky rifle, obviously. But, uh, I don't know, they made like six or ten of them.


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[Assistant] Uh, for like Johnny's friends after he died. So they sent me this one. It's so cool because as soon as I got it, all I did was hunt with it for a year or so. Cause I was like, man, you know, and I'm probably the only guy that shot it.


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[Assistant] But I'm like, Johnny would have wanted people to shoot, kill shit with it. And that's what I did. Yeah, it's five, five, six. 16 inch, five, five, six.


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[Assistant] Uhm, you know, and Johnny was cool too. He was like the first guy that did a lightweight forend. Uhm, you know, using, he used Keymod.


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[Assistant] That's important. Yeah, so that comes to some of these other questions that are in here. But, you know, with Q-Sert, basically, so with M-Lock and all these other things, you have the screws, but there's some


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[Assistant] There's some blind part of it where you're working with a piece. It's inside the hand guard that could drop off, or maybe it's locked in. Maybe it's not with QCert, you have the pieces.


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[Assistant] Mounted directly into the handguard permanently, so all you do is you stick a rail or whatever accessory in there has the lug on it. It has two holes, you have screws, you torque them down, bam, you're done. Stainless steel inserts.


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[Assistant] So 900 pounds a pull per section. It's way stronger than anything else on the market. And lighter.


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[Assistant] Lighter and, you know, mainly because we're not trying to put shit in plastic. Yeaah.


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[Assistant] Alright, so, alright, moving on. 308 subs, we already talked about this. We just got rid of that one. They're fun. Alright, so uhm, alright, oh, hunting story.


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[Assistant] Yeah, but that's different than the story you told because that could have been a lot of things like you a deer actually jumping over you. That's insane. Yep. I have been hunting 10,000 times. Never had that happen. That would be awesome. I'd fucking love that.


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[Assistant] It's cool cause they hop instead of running. Yeah, they're bigger, but not a ton, but it's interesting cause you know, a deer runs.


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[Assistant] But did you know this like mule deer when they fucking get going. So they trot just like a normal deer, but when they run, they hop like a, like a kangaroo or something. It's, it's so bizarre and.


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[Assistant] No, they run. What? I don't- Well, I mean, maybe pronghorn, they kinda hop, but uhm, no, do they?


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[Assistant] Yeah, they look like it. I think they run. They may hop at like a medium speed. I think they run speed goats. If people have. I don't know, I should know this. If I hadn't had a couple drinks, I probably wouldn't know.


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[Assistant] What does that say? It says, Bill Day's coming back, question mark? Sure. Sure. Okay. Details? Next question.


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[Assistant] It is, it is a distraction. Yeah, I agree with that. All right. 70 degree selectors. Who knows the answer? I mean, okay, Jay.


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[Assistant] Let's just do em here. We got plenty of room, we're living in a fucking house.


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[Assistant] We could see if they'd want to come do one here, bring one of the engineers here.


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[Assistant] Okay. I'll get after that next week's podcast, you guys will have some breakfast here. Great. I don't, don't say that because if on us, she made us so much shit. She made grapes today. Oh God, they were so good. I just had another one when I went to take a pee.


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[Assistant] Well, if you take everything to the extreme, you don't get the seer engagement and the gun can fire with it on safe, not in all receivers, but in extreme cases. So we build so that everything and design so that everything can always go together. So it's gdnt.


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[Assistant] You know, most companies, I mean, God, it's, it's embarrassing that most companies in our industry don't even have mechanical engineers, much less ones that have experience with this sort of.


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[Assistant] You know, tolerancing and gdnt to where they can do the tolerance stack.


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[Assistant] But you know, guys like Johnny, who...


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[Assistant] Mechanically inclined, brilliant guy, not a degreed engineer.


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[Assistant] So he, you know, his are probably, the 45 degree selector is probably always safe in the receivers that he made.


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[Assistant] What's the same thing when people talk about Knight's arm at silencers and the attachment method, it's loose and sloppy and the silencer it's like three MOA. Well, the, the SOPMOD contract about the time you were born.


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[Assistant] That's the allowance. That was the objective was, okay, we want three MOA of accuracy, three MOA of shift. And so the Knights Mount meets that and you know, it's another thing.


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[Assistant] Alright, so this is probably me, big bang party story. So, an advanced diamond. When did you go to a bang party?


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[Assistant] Yeah. So I did these parties season finale party two or three years at advanced arm it right before I sold maybe the last, I think the last year when I sold, we did one, we had already planned it, but then I had, I sold in October shot show was in January. So then I had to get the board of Cerberus to approve it.


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[Assistant] Which I think I told the story before, Ed Renzi, who was the CEO of McDonald's and had retired.


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[Assistant] An old guy? Funny as shit? See, he's in his 70s.


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[Assistant] And, uh, you know, the parties are like a quarter of a million dollars a piece. So what I thought for Shot Show was we do our booth and we have a party. We don't have some glock dinner where we serve you steak and it's formal and you sit down and it's boring and we ask you to sign up for shit.


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[Assistant] All it is customer appreciation. We're going to be cool and awesome. It's going to be a real party. It's going to be fun because there's two kinds of people that go to shot show and Vegas that work there. Me.


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[Assistant] Never drink, didn't party, didn't go out. Because it is a long, long week. It is the most exhausting week of my life.


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[Assistant] My year, every year, and they're the people that are getting away from their wives. They're getting away from their families and they go bananas in Vegas and they're like, whatever, snorting coke, drinking, partying all night. Is it's just like the two kinds of people that go. And so I was like, we're going to have a party, you know, and it was easy for me because I didn't even drink.


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[Assistant] And it's going to be a great time and we're going to invite people, we're going to make it exclusive. And it was a huge hit. We did it in the, the Rio, uh, the voodoo lounge, which is like on the 50 something floor. It's on two floors and big balconies. And we had like circus. So we had a music performance. It was.


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[Assistant] Seriously, the best parties I'd ever been to. So we did two or three with AAC, then we did one with Q. And...


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[Assistant] I remember, I think the last one, maybe it was the first one at AAC.


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[Assistant] So I brought like my mother-in-law, my mother, my grandmother, who is, she is the best time in the entire world. She was a pinup in the fifties, completely wild, different from the rest of my family.


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[Assistant] Yeah, yeah, in Tampa. Yeah, that's where she lives, Jean. Yeah, she's sweetie. So she's fuckin' whole areas. Uhm, so she loved the party, and...


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[Assistant] I was super into it. And so this was before many kiss the, uh, little people kiss band is before they were on the super bowl halftime thing. And we had this guns and roses, all chick tribute band and then butcher babies. If you Google that.


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[Assistant] It's like, yeah, Google, Google image butcher babies.


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[Assistant] I tell ya, they are, they are two like ex playmates. It's like some kind of death metal. I don't know the music. I wasn't into it, but crowd favorite and they perform last, but man, many kiss. Oh my God. Why are they not called smooch?


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[Assistant] Oh, it was. And you know, because they're little and they have like one beer, their shit face, they get up there. The music is just an abomination. Um, and then they were like hitting on all. It was like the greatest time because there I am probably the only person at the place sober.


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[Assistant] And they're hitting on all the chicks. And it must work sometimes. I mean, they're, some of them are literally like two and a half feet tall.


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[Assistant] Um, their music was terrible. The guns and roses chick band.


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[Assistant] Phenomenal. They were so good. That was a good one. The Cirque du Soleil is like tribal Cirque du Soleil. So like fire dancing, all this weird stuff. Great parties. Um, but my story from there, other than that, my grandmother had the greatest time. My mom's a good time too. She had a great time.


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[Assistant] They were jam packed, like Lou Ferrigno was the first person, the incredible Hulk. He's the first person that showed up at the party and the security wouldn't let him in. I had to let him in. They told me like, uh, well, you know, they called me and I'm upstairs. Somebody's trying to get in.


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[Assistant] And, and then, uh, and he's like, he's asking if he can come up, like, blah, blah, blah, and I got the feeling he was someone, like,


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[Assistant] But you know, he, he didn't want to be in a crowd cause he's deaf and like everybody asking him for shit. So he just wanted to go up there and like find a place to kind of hide out till the party started. So you know what's so funny too? So you, this is 10 or 12 years ago. So Eric Graves, soldier systems, who's a great friend of ours, 10 or 12 years ago, that's when, um,


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[Assistant] What's the Las Vegas movies that are so popular with Bradley Cooper? Uhm, Hangover. Hangover. I think Hangover or Hangover 2 had just come out and they were the biggest movie in the world.


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[Assistant] And I turn around the party and Zach Galifianakis is standing in the party and I'm like, man, we have a party. Like Zach Galifianakis showed up. It was Eric Graves. He looked exactly like the ginger beard, the ginger hair, like, you know, like 30 pounds past his prime. It was, it was great.


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[Assistant] So one of the major gun companies, the CEO and founder.


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[Assistant] I don't know, what are you, like, Eminem? You don't know. So anyway.


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[Assistant] So, he, uh, you know at the time of the party, probably my age,


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[Assistant] He always wore a bad suit. Nice guy. I like him a lot.


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[Assistant] He was bald like me, but still thought he wasn't bald like me.


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[Assistant] He's holding on. I mean, there's probably a journey song about it, but.


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[Assistant] So anyway, he got very upset because there was, you know, a 2025 year old supermodel that just happened to identify his personality from across the room.


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[Assistant] And attach themselves to him because you know, he's sitting in the VIP section with his suit and is like $25,000 whatever. And, uh.


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[Assistant] So gets back to his room later that night and realized he doesn't have his wallet with him anymore.


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[Assistant] Cause I controlled it, did not do that, but it's, you know, it's a thousand person party in Las Vegas. It's like, I'm pretty sure Victoria's secret models have never been attracted to you in the past at the gas station.


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[Assistant] Alright, you're 47 years old. You oughta fuckin' know better. And uh, get rolled.


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[Assistant] Lost his wallet, all his credit cards, somebody racked up a bill in a matter of a couple hours and it was my fault. So anyway, they were a good time, man. Well, Daniel Horner, who just won this new, uh, working for SIG shout out, probably best shooter in the world can win with anything.


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[Assistant] I think he made all the shots closed in the bolt, but with the cross and some new hunting division of some hunting, like shooting competent, like whatever, who cares? Um.


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[Assistant] Yeah. So he had a great time too. And, and, uh, had such a good time. He was a young fellow at the time, um, got on the elevator and then kind of passed out. So he went up and down the 50 floors for like three hours or somebody picked him up, a little fella, took him to his room.


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[Assistant] Great time. That's funny. All right. So speed round. Wait, you said Colin has a question once again.


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[Assistant] I don't know, it's such a, it's a rabbit hole if you go outside the industry. Night vision is kinda magical.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that's a good call to me. Thermal. Like I don't use night vision a ton. I use thermal a lot. Um.


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[Assistant] I mean, I don't know. That's funny. Cause I said that I think in a previous podcast, like magic ain't cheap or whatever. And.


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[Assistant] You know, I know what we pay the fricking engineers. I have high expectations, but develop something awesome.


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[Assistant] That you want to use all the time that changes the way you shoot or hunt or your life.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that's true. It does. It is a smile with a trigger, but yeah, thermal night vision is, it seems like magic.


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[Assistant] I like that answer. Okay. All right. Speed round. Speed round. Here we go. Explain the erector nine.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's pretty cool, but you also can do three log fixed weapons spacer, cherry bomb compatible. So.


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[Assistant] Booster for some browning tight, tilted barrel, pissed glocks. Nielsen device? Nielsen was actually, I think Mickey Finn's.


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[Assistant] At Qualitech when they developed the booster, he was his attorneys. She wife was Swedish or something. It was her maiden name. It's some stupid story is where Nelson school.


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[Assistant] So Adam, why don't we use QCert on the honey badger? And when are we? And god dang it.


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[Assistant] So the Q-Sert sustainable steel piece with the threads with an anchor that are pressed in from the rear.


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[Assistant] So excited about that. All right. Oh, this just says import should say important dyslexia, important features, priorities in silencer design. So just pretend that says important Thomas. Can you like Photoshop import ant in there?


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[Assistant] Why don't we do a piston honey badger was a question.


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[Assistant] Well, that's the question. Like people ask that and they think automatically, well, a piston is more reliable.


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[Assistant] Well, there's not, and we know what we talked about in a couple of the last podcasts with the SOCOM award, the eventual mainstream award of the MCX over the honey badger, which the honey badger, you know, it was over the other 12 guns. Um, the honey badger was four times more reliable and it's a impingement gun. So we're talking 300 blackout impingement. Why do you want a piston?


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[Assistant] Most of the crap comes down the barrel, doesn't go through the gas system into the gun. That's how you get crap in your actions, back through your barrel.


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[Assistant] People never say it. I think they say it. They throw it out there and they're all aloof. Like I'm so in the know, you know, piston, but I don't think they fucking know. But I think what they're trying to say is reliability.


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[Assistant] And there is not a direct correlation with a piston and reliability of the gun in 300 blackout in the honey badger.


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[Assistant] Well, I mean, we're obviously a gun company and we post pictures of guns and we link to a website that sells guns, so there's probably some violation of their user policy. I'm not going to play the innocent victim all the way. I think that


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[Assistant] No, it's no, you can't sell knives or weapons or guns or drugs or things like that.


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[Assistant] Well, we need to not do it on Instagram or have a way where people can participate without having a purchase. That way it's a giveaway. Kind of like what Adam Kra was saying with theirs when he was here.


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[Assistant] Alright, working on it. And then my third theory is our company is called Q.


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[Assistant] I say that too. Keep on rolling. No big deal. So new Instagram is Unpossible underscore by underscore Q. Yep.


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[Assistant] Yeah, probably a couple guns, a couple silencers, a bunch of accessories, some schwag. From us and the, uh, company that partnered with us. Bergara. Bergara. Still Bergara. I'm not sure yet.


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[Assistant] Well, even at that price, it's worth the risk. Maybe you have to leave, but it's cheap.


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[Assistant] You know, buy a fix, come out, build it, go out with the guys that used to work here, learn how to shoot it.


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[Assistant] No, by no means. So you took a couple rifles, but no silencers.


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[Assistant] Yeah, we still have to use that mount. There's another plate to add on. Well, I guess the Harris has a mount on it. It just goes to a...


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[Assistant] Other than the bipod, what would you change on the gun after using it in those conditions, positions, whatever you want to call it? Is there anything you'd do different?


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[Assistant] It was a good size animal, whatever it was. It was probably the rabbit that was hopping around your yard. Don't tell Ivana that.


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[Assistant] Well, while you're scratching stuff off, we have, uhm, a giveaway in the works with some people. Yea, we're pretty- Wanna talk about that?


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[Assistant] Yeah, so when they go to Texas for this hunt, uh, all those companies that you mentioned, there'll be representatives from each company there. Yep. Also. Yeah.


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[Assistant] But uhm, so yea, FPC is doing a mini fix this time. So same deal, go to FPC's website. You can donate money, uh, up to, I think there's increments, $5 up to $100. You can also just enter, uh, no purchase necessary. It's a giveaway, not a raffle.


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[Assistant] Lot of good fundraising. Yeah, absolutely. Community giveaway, whatever you want to call it.


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[Assistant] Well these guys, Warm and Fuzzy, uh, Fog, uh, you know, Bruce from Shooting Surplus, a lot of the community think stuff kinda comes from, uh, the veteran groups in the industry. They're pretty big on the community aspect of it.


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[Assistant] What do you think about it? I think it's heavy, I think. My time at Sig, I don't see a lot of differences between it and the 516.


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[Assistant] It's cool for cool factor for sure. It's super cool if you're a collector, if you're into cloning, and you're into like real, like real use guns. You know, bin laden gun, whatever you want to call it. Uh, it's worth something to somebody. A hundred percent, yeaah.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's, it's like, the Geissele is the same thing. That's where they got it from. It's smart. It's very, uh, well retained.


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[Assistant] It is a cool gun though. Yeah. And I mean they're... It's smooth, like the action feels nice, the trigger's nice, everything about it is very nice. Germans don't do a lot of shit, man. You know, the stock's nice and tight on there, it's not rattly, it's a well-built gun. Yeah. Yeah.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's got the big S, sling loops on the side of it, and the Germans are big with that.


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[Assistant] It was all painted up when I got it, I stripped it down and cleaned it up as best I could.


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[Assistant] It was used for sure though. The hangar had seen some.


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[Assistant] Yeah, god. I got a Geissele rail coming forward. I'm gonna put that on and then sell it. Sweet. Yes.


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[Assistant] I'll include the original with it, but, you know, just to maximize my sale potential.


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[Assistant] Oh, so you abandoned New Hampshire State Police? No, I'm saying they've been lodged.


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[Assistant] Let's go back to the archives and repost it on this day in the future.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, do you? Yeaah, I mean if I had one. Brattlecan, Cerakote.


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[Assistant] Can you both? Like the accents could be the brush stroke, like a sling. I don't know. No?


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[Assistant] On the, uh, Facebook queue owners group, every once in a while there's a painted gun, and they look like painted guns. They look different, I'm not used to seeing it, especially on the fix. Like an all OD green fix. Looks very strange.


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[Assistant] I've seen. We're all about the accents and different colors and shades of this. And it's just one. We're having one consistent color.