Welcome to the Vortex Nation podcast brought to you by lovers of hunting, shooting, public lands, the Second Amendment and good food. food. What is up everybody, Mark on the mic, Mr. Ryan Muck and Hearn, to my right, that's a new position for you, Ryan.

It's not a seat I get often, but Mark, I sure am honored to be here.

Well, we had to make room for the person across from us, which is Mr. Chris Hodgedin from the Hodgedin Powder Company. Now, for the

listeners out there, for anybody, if you've ever fired or shot, you did use gunpowder, which is what we're going to talk about today. We're

going to talk about gunpowder. We're going to talk about the Hodgton Powder Company, some

history, pretty darn storied history from what I can tell Chris and man we're just

excited to have you so let's start this thing off with a bang what's going on?

Hello how are you guys doing today in this

cold winter day? We're doing good. I wish I was using some of your powder to go chase

coyotes right now. It's a good hobby to have for sure.

Chris, if you can, and I was on the website

tootling around a little bit, but you and your family

have been in the powder game for quite some time.

I mean it's it's it's really really cool. Can you give us your version of that history and how your family got started in this venture?

Sure, well I have to, hats off to my granddad, Bruce Hodgton, back in 1947. He got out of the Navy and you're right after World War II and he bought about 50,000 pounds of government surplus.

He read about it before World War II

that they'd thrown a lot of powder away,

surplus away in the ocean after World War I.

It's just unbelievable.

The environmental headache, I'm sure that was.

But anyway, he borrowed from his life insurance policy.

It was about $1,700, which was a lot of money back then. That was in November of 46 and he took out an ad

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