#253 - "The Reaper" - Deadliest Sniper on Hunting Al-Zarqawi w/ CIA & Longest Kill | Nick Irving

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🗓️ 24 November 2024

⏱️ 137 minutes

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(***TIMESTAMPS in description below) ~ Nicholas Irving 'The Reaper' is an American author and former soldier. He was a special operations sniper in the 3rd Ranger Battalion for the U.S. Army. PATREON https://www.patreon.com/JulianDorey FOLLOW JULIAN DOREY INSTAGRAM (Podcast): https://www.instagram.com/juliandoreypodcast/ INSTAGRAM (Personal): https://www.instagram.com/julianddorey/ X: https://twitter.com/julianddorey GUEST LINKS BOOK 1: https://www.amazon.com/Reaper-Autobiography-Deadliest-Special-Snipers/dp/1250080606 BOOK 2: https://shorturl.at/jypu0 IG: https://www.instagram.com/officialreaper33/ X: https://x.com/irving_nicholas LISTEN to Julian Dorey Podcast Spotify ▶ https://open.spotify.com/show/5skaSpDzq94Kh16so3c0uz Apple ▶ https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/trendifier-with-julian-dorey/id1531416289 ****TIMESTAMPS**** 00:00 - Nick Irving Background, Born in Germany & Military Parents, Shooting Guns & Hunting 07:58 - What’s it Like Killing Someone, Failing Navy SEAL Eye Exam, Too Dumb to Quit Mentality 19:17 - Nick Growing Up with Drug Dealers/Prisoners/Dead People, Hardest Part of Ranger School 25:37 - Ranger School Going from 98 lbs to 155 lbs, Meeting His Wife 34:25 - 1st Deployment in Afghanistan, Afghanistan Bizarre Culture/People, First K1ll in Iraq Story 46:51 - Nick’s Relationship w/ Father, Special Forces Working w/ Each Other (CIA, Navy SEALS, etc.) 53:13 - Nick Young Teen, Propaganda Machine of US News & Conspiracy Theories 01:04:12 - Post September 11th & Warzone Impact, Tikrit -> Mosul -> Baghdad Tours 01:16:35 - Becoming a Sniper, Intense Sniper Training 01:23:11 - 1000 Yard Shot, Physics of Bullets & Factors to Consider, Longest Sniper Shot (Canadian) 01:33:23 - Sniper Routine Before Taking Shot, Most Boring Job in Military, Meditative States Before Shooting 01:41:39 - Feeling of Taking the Shot, All Sniper Suffer From This, Nick’s Gun 01:51:54 - Why Nick was Obsessive w/ Painting Gun, Mark Cunningham (Military Comrade) 02:00:03 - Nick’s Challenge of Deploying & Being Married, Afraid of Death, Nick’s Mushroom Trip CREDITS: - Host & Producer: Julian D. Dorey - In-Studio Producer & Editor: Alessi Allaman - https://www.youtube.com/@alessiallaman Julian Dorey Podcast Episode 253 - Nick Irving Music by Artlist.io Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Like when you would actually go to take the shot, so your fingers on the trigger and you'd pull the release, was there?
0:06.1	Right before I pull the trigger, I'm looking exactly where I want to shoot, what I want to hit.
0:10.5	I might close my eyes for a second and open it just to see if my sights are still on target.
0:15.9	That's determining your natural point of aim.
0:18.7	And if not, that means something's off with your body position.
0:21.7	Still breathing at that point, my eyes are still locked onto the target. I'm not going to be surprised
0:27.2	and, oh, blink or nothing like that. I stays glued onto the target, onto the scope.
0:40.8	What's up, guys?
0:44.6	If you haven't already, please smash that subscribe button and hit that like button on the video.
0:50.9	And if you don't have time to watch this episode right now, I'd really appreciate it if you saved it to your watch later playlist on YouTube.
0:54.7	Finally, if you'd like to follow me on Instagram or X, those links are in my description below. We got Nick the Reaper Irving finally in here. It is great to see you, sir.
1:02.0	Thank you for being here all the way from Texas. All good, man. Thank you for having me.
1:05.7	Well, it's it's our pleasure for sure. I know Alessie and I were both really excited about this.
1:10.6	You have been doing, I think I first saw you with like the business insider thing. Does that sound right? Where you were like, what a real sniper says about movies? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Something like that. That's where I pretty much got started. Yeah. Yeah, that was what? Like two, three, four years ago, something like that. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So I had seen that.
1:28.5	And I, and then you were going on Vlad, obviously doing some content there in the last
1:32.6	couple years.
1:33.4	I'm like, I can't figure out why Sean Ryan hasn't had this guy in.
1:37.4	And then Sean Ryan had you in right away.
1:40.3	Oh, yeah.
1:40.6	We have been planning that for a few months, a couple of months, yeah. Yeah, that was, Alessi said that was incredible.
1:46.1	I haven't listened yet.
1:47.1	I'm going to listen tomorrow after we're done this one.
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