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#10MinuteTalk - Hunter Marksmanship Course Recap — Do you Need this Class?

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4.91.5K Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Vortex Edge® Hunter Marksmanship Class of 2024 Valedictorian, Erik Barber, drops by to recap the course. Experienced hunter and crack shot, Erik proves once again there is always something to learn when it comes to hunting and shooting.

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0:00.0

What is up?

0:02.0

What is up everybody, Mark on the mic here?

0:05.0

I am joined by Mr. Eric Barber and Mr. Corey Elias and Geysa precast.

0:10.0

We talked about steelhead fishing, grouse hunting, archery deer hunting, rifle

0:14.8

hunting, how corry should do more archery hunting, and everything in between.

0:20.5

And those are all great topics, but they're not what we're going to talk about for the meat of this podcast, which is vortexes

0:28.7

slash vortex's vortex edges Hunter Marksmanship Course.

0:33.2

Yeah.

0:34.2

Which Eric, you're a recent graduate.

0:35.8

Recent grad, yep.

0:37.2

Not at the top of a class, but I was in the, I graduated.

0:42.0

Cori, what, you're one of the instructors at Vortex Edge.

0:46.0

You were one of Eric's professors the other week.

0:48.5

Tell us about the Hunter Marksmanship course

0:51.2

and you know what it is and the core of it and then I've got some some

0:54.3

follow-up questions for you. Yeah yeah so our hunter marksmanship course is just kind of a

0:58.6

class we designed for you know somebody that has a little bit of hunting experience or maybe no hunting experience but can just kind of navigate their way around a firearm safely and they're looking to extend their capability to a reasonable degree.

1:12.0

So we take people into the class, we kind of, you know, do the typical stuff, zero the rifle, but then we also get them going on ballistic software and we obviously talk about fundamentals of marksmanship, and then we validate and true data out to about 500 yards.

1:28.0

So we push everybody in the class out to 500 yards.

1:31.0

Make sure the ballistic data is lining up for them, and then we have a field course at the end of it that they can shoot through to kind of test, you know, that data on something more practical, like a 10-inch-sized steel steel plate putting them in various positions.

1:45.2

So you know there's definitely some instruction that goes along with it as far as like shot placement,

1:49.8

getting into a good stable position and things like that.

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