Welcome. Welcome to the Huntsback Country podcast. Today we are talking about becoming

more proficient, more accurate, more consistent, and more precise when shooting in the mountains.

Specifically, we're speaking with John Pinch.

He is a precision rifle competitor and a very experienced mountain hunter.

And so we wanted to speak with John to understand what he's learned over years of dominating and

competition, but also how he takes those same lessons and those same skills and applies them to hunting situations and making that shot on an animal when it really counts.

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And come on back. Let's dive into this conversation with John Pinch. Well, John, John, welcome to the podcast, excited to chat with you today.

This has been a long time coming, really, so excited to finally make it happen.

Before we get into the topic of the day and start talking shooting, can you give us some

introduction and background for who you are and I think a helpful context is your

combined experience of shooting competitively but also very practically in the mountains

I know that some of our listeners are be familiar with you but a bunch won't as well so it would be good to have some context.

You bet. My name is John Pinch. I live in Oregon. I'm 43 and I've been shooting

competitively long-range rifle a lot since 2015-16 air time frame so eight nine years competitively I shot long-range rifle

for a long long time just initially like kind of DIY second focal plane scopes and figuring out like with a duplex

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