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Bonus Podcast: Training Insight from Gunsite

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4.61.6K Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2020

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Gun Talk's Tom Gresham talks with Ken Campbell, the newly-minted CEO of Gunsite Academy, about why the academy is a gun fighting school and not a training school, what a Gunsite class can do for you, and more.

Transcript

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0:00.0

All right, we are out at Gun site, one of my favorite places, so they talk about the happiest

0:04.5

place on Earth. For a lot of us, this is the place. And it's a chance to talk about what's been

0:09.2

going on out here and really what has happened over the last couple of decades were joined by King Campbell.

0:13.2

He's the new CEO. Congratulations.

0:16.2

Thanks, Tom. I guess I should be careful what I wish for.

0:18.7

That's true, you know, despite your best effort you have succeeded, well it was a a big surprise to me

0:24.8

when Buzz and Sonia Mills at the Gunside alumni shoot came up on stage and said

0:29.7

a we've got some accolades to pass out here and I thought I was going to get an

0:34.3

atta boy type thing and they're talking and said the board of directors had met a

0:38.4

month ago and they wanted to acknowledge the work that my team and that's what it is. It's a great team of people have done and that I'm the CEO and I looked over and I thought, oh wait, that's me.

0:51.0

So I'm very honored and and but again it's I've got a great team of

0:56.4

people here at gun site that's what like Ronald Reagan said you know you surround

0:59.9

yourself with good people that you trust and you empower them to act and it's a

1:04.7

wonderful thing. And we're now looking at 20 years. Absolutely.

1:08.1

Buss bought it. Well basically saved it you. Yeah it's exactly what he did. Buzz

1:12.0

Mills. I mean he, it was originally it was API, Colonel Cooper, everybody knows

1:16.6

Jeff Cooper, and then it became Gun site and then it was owned by somebody else.

1:21.4

Didn't didn't treat it well. How that they were they were not a good steward

1:26.2

a gun site and we were very challenged and probably not going to continue on it's

1:32.0

because it was it was spiraling down.

1:33.7

It was going down without fail.

1:35.2

And Buzz walked in here and bought it and just poured gobs,

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