#289 - The Navy SEAL Physicist - Ryan McMillan of Grayboe

Black Rifle Coffee Podcast

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Society & Culture, Comedy

4.8 • 3.3K Ratings

🗓️ 25 October 2023

⏱️ 103 minutes

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Ryan McMillan’s resume is insane. He was born into a firearms dynasty, has a degree in physics, was a U.S Navy SEAL, and started one of the most elite American-made custom rifle stock companies in existence. McMillan sits down with Black Rifle Coffee Co.’s Evan Hafer to talk about the company his grandfather started in 1973. You may have heard of it: McMillan Fiberglass Stocks. The company and his grandfather, along with the US Marine Corps, created the modern sniper rifle. Ryan talks about what it felt like to use some of the rifles his grandfather and uncle designed on sniper ops while deployed in Afghanistan as a member of SEAL Team 2 in the early 2000s. They also dive into how McMillan finally got his physics degree and continued his family's legacy by building the Grayboe custom rifle stock company with a mission to make mass-produced, affordable stocks with a quality never before available to regular shooters.

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0:00.0	And so I get to the team and things are just so different, even from buds to getting to the team
0:05.6	you're now with like men, like real men who are like warriors and it's like holy cow in this.
0:10.2	I went through seal training but I'm not a warrior. We were working a lot and so it was like I
0:16.0	knew right away once I got to war and why that's why they wanted us a certain way and why
0:21.8	sometimes the way that I presented myself wasn't always the best and I got hammered for it.
0:26.2	But that really put put me in line pretty much. So when I came back from my second deployment
0:31.2	I was a much better operator, a much better team member.
0:36.9	Black Rifle Podcast starts now. You have a really interesting background because I mean
0:41.6	you're a team guy but don't you have like a degree in physics or something? I do, yeah. Yeah.
0:46.0	Did you have your degree in physics before you joined the team? No, I got it after.
0:49.7	Actually I did I did part of it before and part of it after. Really? Yeah.
0:53.7	Where front? I was in a state. No, okay. So it's like a legit physics degree too.
0:58.7	It's not like Columbia. On my life.
1:04.0	Yeah, it was made even harder because I had four kids at the time. Oh, really?
1:09.3	It was a lot and I was running a business. Yeah. Yeah, this is wild.
1:14.0	You know, I tell people at all the time where I'm like if I were smart I would go I would have
1:19.6	gotten a physics degree, right? But I'm not. So I got to do the best that I can, right?
1:24.0	I got to like push this thing, push this thing to the red line. Well, I wasn't very smart.
1:29.6	I don't think I have any of an I any higher than I have Q than anybody else but I just worked hard.
1:34.6	Yeah. And that's what, you know, if you're in the military and you did what you did,
1:37.5	it's just all about how hard you can work. I had it like a 3.3 GPA. That's the reason why I didn't
1:42.1	go and do more in physics because I loved it. Yeah, I knew that it wasn't like I wasn't going
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