Ep. 171 | This Birding Enthusiast is Now a Hardcore Shooting Fanatic - Mike McDowell

Vortex Nation Podcast

Optics, Sports, Vortex Nation Podcast, Long Range, Rifle, Scope, Gun, Vortex, Binoculars, Riflescope, Shooting, Vortex Nation, Hunting, Wilderness, Vortex Optics

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🗓️ 22 February 2021

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

Mike McDowell, Vortex’s in-house expert for everything birds, bugs and binos, takes us through his journey into firearms, shooting and the “friends” he lost because of it along the way. Any time we chat with Mike, we can’t help but dive into super cool bird stuff. We inevitably do that, tell the story of the famed “Golden Crowned Sparrow Conspiracy” and his “involvement”, as well as cover his new-found passion for guns, shooting and how it affected his reputation in certain circles…It just made you even cooler in our book...Every time we chat with Mike McDowell, it’s a darn good time, and this podcast was no exception. As always, we want to hear your feedback! Let us know if there are any topics you'd like covered on the Vortex Nation™ podcast by asking us on Instagram @vortexnationpodcast

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Vortex Nation podcast brought to you by lovers of hunting, shooting, public
0:09.4	lands, the second amendment, and good food.
0:18.2	Alright everybody, what's up?
0:19.2	We got a good one for you here today.
0:20.6	We are joined, Mark and myself when I say we are joined across the table by Mike McDowell
0:25.4	and he is from Vortex.
0:27.4	You've probably heard him before on some of our other podcasts.
0:29.9	You've been on ones where we were discussed, but in our case, there's a lot of observation
0:33.3	optic stuff and Mike actually just got done educating us as well with his extensive
0:38.6	birding background that actually when you call a seagull, a seagull, you apparently sound
0:43.5	like an idiot.
0:44.3	That is insulting Jim.
0:46.9	You might as well actually just go hold me if you call it a sad old person.
0:50.9	The context would be it's a gall and each gall is a specific species and they're galls.
0:58.1	If you say seagull, your peg is a noob.
1:02.4	It would be that's a ring-billed gall.
1:04.3	You must announce it by its correct name.
1:06.7	If you don't know the idea of the gall, you have to say gall, you should say gall and
1:10.2	not seagull.
1:11.3	The moment you say seagull in a group of birders, you would hear giggles and it's a gall.
1:15.5	It appears to be a gall of some fashions.
1:17.9	Yes, exactly.
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