Ep. 30 | The Winter Shooting Rut: Real, Easy Tips, Techniques, Activities and Hunts to Stay Sharp

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🗓️ 5 November 2018

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Days are getting shorter, snow is starting to fall, old man winter is making it harder to get to the range to hone our skills and practice our favorite pastime of shooting... If you're in the North that is... Jimmy and Mark chat with Reuben Aleckson and Adam Maxwell, two top-level shooters who manage to shoot and practice year round despite living in the frozen tundra of Wisconsin, about methods for honing one's shooting skills during the winter months indoors. Dry firing, practicing motor skills, joining indoor pistol leagues, performing maintenance on critical pieces of equipment and mental/physical preparation for competition if applicable are all things that could even take your game to the next level despite limited access to shooting ranges and minimal rounds down range. So get that fire roaring, pour up a cup of hot chocolate and take some notes. Even if you live in the southern states and have more range time during the winter, these tips and tricks are things you can do in your basement and will almost surely make you a better shooter. As always - let us know if there are any topics you'd like covered on the Vortex Nation podcast by asking us on any one of our social media platforms and using #VortexNationPodcast.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Vortex Nation podcast brought to you by lovers of hunting, shooting, public lands, the Second Amendment and good food. All right picture this it's the middle of winter there's snow outside you probably have a cold like I do and you like shooting
0:25.8	But you know now you can go shooting out in the snow. We're not saying that it's impossible go shooting out in the snow
0:30.9	But a lot of times you get up and it's dark out you go to work and that's when it's
0:35.8	actually light out and then when you're done with work it's dark out again at least that's
0:38.8	how it is in Wisconsin I know that for a fact so it's tough to go out and go shooting as much as you would
0:44.2	ordinarily get to in the summer or spring and parts of the fall too. So we were
0:49.2	talking about this a little bit. Actually we've talked about it I think
0:51.3	Scott briefly brought it up. Scott Parks brought it up. I've talked about it here.
0:55.0	And Mark and I have talked about it here with Rubin and Adam who join us today.
0:59.0	Actually, Adam, we're going to have to have you introduce yourself too.
1:01.0	But basically we're going to talk about what you can do to
1:03.2	stay sharp on your shooting skills when it's the winter so you don't come out in the spring
1:07.4	shooting like I do which is basically terrible and yeah you know just
1:11.6	basically staying sharp maybe even coming out of the winter a better shooter who knows
1:14.8	But first off like we said you've all met Rubin before Adam you have been on well, you've been on you know many podcasts in the past but this is your first time on
1:24.0	this podcast for our listeners how about a quick intro? Well yeah first first time on
1:29.8	the Thunderdome so I am a member of the consumer sales team here at vortex optics and then
1:36.7	my personal life I'm also a three gun shooter I've shot at the pro level for a few years
1:41.6	and and been a match director and things like that for years before that.
1:46.5	So been very active in the action shooting scene both in three gun, USBSA and IDPA for several years.
1:53.0	And tactical shotgun.
1:54.0	Oh yeah, did that do the tactical shotgun thing too when it was cool.
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