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🗓️ 15 March 2020
⏱️ 40 minutes
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0:00.0 | Welcome to the Jay Scott Outdoors podcast. Today we've got my friend Nick Charnie, one of the co-founder of Apex Ammunition on the line. Nick, how you doing? |
0:10.0 | Doing good Jay, thanks for having me. |
0:13.0 | Yeah, for sure, I'm excited. |
0:15.0 | I just got in the mail some TSS, some Apex Ammunition TSS, |
0:20.0 | Tungsten Supershot, both in a 20 gauge and in a 12. |
0:25.0 | I've got two boxes right here in front of me. |
0:28.0 | I've got the GT20, 3 inch 1 and 5 8 ounce 9 shot at, at you know it's shooting 1175 feet per second and then the |
0:36.8 | GT 3 which is the 3 inch 2.1 quarter ounce 9 shot shooting 9 or excuse me 1190 feet per second and I can't wait to go |
0:47.3 | turkey hunting with these here next month we can't wait to hear about your |
0:50.6 | success on it sounds like it's gonna to be a gamup time in Mexico. |
0:54.0 | Yeah for sure. So Nick, basically for the listeners out there, I want to introduce you and |
0:59.8 | Apex Ammunition and talk about you and your other co-founder of this company. |
1:05.0 | So I'll let you take the floor and kind of talk about you getting together with this idea and the dream and you know got how you guys formulated |
1:15.1 | Apex Ammunition. Sure that'd be great so we started in about 2016 kind of kind of stumbled on to some of the shot was hearing through kind of the only way to get it was kind of like this underground black market and so kind of got some of the shot experimented with it at first we were |
1:35.7 | kind of a little thrown ourselves based on shooting such small sizes you know |
1:39.2 | seven and a half eight nine to even nine and a half. Traditionally, I used some other, you know, competitors |
1:45.1 | loads beforehand, typically heavier than lead alternatives. |
1:49.7 | And so when we kind of got our hands on this this I went out one day and I loaded some up |
1:54.0 | to my 10 gauge and went to pattern it and it was just absolutely unreal. |
1:58.0 | You know being a military officer by trade is my primary job at the time you know I really didn't have too much |
2:05.7 | time to load this up so I called one of a friend of mine over and showed him |
2:10.0 | kind of a pattern and I said you know man nobody nobody's loading this stuff and I said |
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