Ep. 262 | World Record 4.4-mile (7,744 yard) Impact With Vortex® Razor® HD Gen III 6-36x56

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🗓️ 21 November 2022

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Since the beginning of cartridge time, shooters have been enamored with extending the capabilities of their equipment and their ability. Sometimes going to extreme lengths. Scott Austin, Shepard Humphries, and team of passionate shooters planned and executed the 4.4-mile world record shot on September 13, 2022. Their motive – fun. Listen in and get the backstory on this impressive feat along with the unique equipment used to make it happen.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Vorotex Nation podcast brought to you by lovers of hunting, shooting, public
0:09.0	lands, the Second Amendment, and good food.
0:15.0	Alright, what is up everybody?
0:20.1	Little story here.
0:21.1	When I was a kid, I was enamored with world records.
0:25.5	I would go to the library in grade school, I'd check out the Guinness book of world records
0:30.7	and look at all sorts of wild and interesting things.
0:34.8	I mean stuff that really you shouldn't even care about, but you're just kind of like curious
0:39.0	about.
0:40.0	I mean, longest fingernails, tallest person, whatever, like all sorts of wild stuff.
0:43.6	I've got a buddy who actually he entered his, I think his mom's, anyway, a dog's tongue
0:50.3	into the Guinness book of world records got the record for the longest dog tongue.
0:54.5	So yeah, officially measured what you might be asking yourself, what the hell is this guy
0:59.8	talking about?
1:00.8	And we're talking about world records.
1:02.5	And we're talking about a world record shot today of 4.4 miles.
1:07.6	And we've got two of the people that were on the team that executed that shot today here
1:13.5	with us to talk us through how the heck you get an impact at 4.4 miles.
1:22.2	Gentlemen, welcome.
1:23.2	We've got Shepard Humphries and Scott Austin joining us virtually and actually in the background
1:30.9	you actually have kind of the picture of the rifle system, which is quite the contraption
1:36.3	I might say.
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