Ep. 40 | What is The Mammoth Sniper Challenge?

Vortex Nation Podcast

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🗓️ 3 January 2019

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Jimmy, Mark and Nick Laufenberg join Chris Andrews of Best Targets and Kristina Pugh from Grunt Style to discuss one of the most grueling and challenging shooting matches ever spawned – The Mammoth Sniper Challenge. This 3-day event takes place in early January and tests shooters’ endurance, skill and willpower as they ruck nearly 10 miles every day with precision long range shooting stations dispersed amongst their route. In the evening, those who opt for the tough-guy challenge are also required to camp out overnight, carrying all their gear on their backs throughout the entire challenge. Chris and Kristina have played an integral role in developing this year’s match which will be the first sniper match that is both open to civilians and takes place on an active duty military installation. Check it out and if you’re thinking this sounds like the match for you, start preparing for next year’s event right now! 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 everybody what's up now it's kind of interesting the fact that we're here in the end of December at the time of this recording and we are talking about
0:27.8	Competitive shooting already again. It's here. I mean heck
0:32.3	2019 hasn't even kicked off.
0:34.0	Again, at the time of this recording,
0:35.2	I don't know exactly when you'll be listening to this,
0:36.7	but we're talking about competition shooting.
0:39.9	And we have some special guests here
0:41.4	who are gonna talk about a really cool event called
0:44.9	the Mammoth Sniper Challenge.
0:47.6	So we have Chris and Kristen and they're going to give us some information. We're going to ask them some questions and talk about this this super cool sniper challenges with kind of long-range shooting slash rucking.
1:01.0	We've talked about the vortex extreme before and I think that you know if you were to put this in terms of the vortex extreme it would be the extreamer because you got it's a pretty good description three day long competition and you're actually you're actually like
1:16.0	you're camping in the middle of it overnighting yeah it seems pretty cool it's sweet
1:20.0	so Kristen Kristen we'll have you guys interdo oh and I should say too we also have Nick Lothenberg here as well from Vortex.
1:27.0	He'll be out there at the Mammoth Sniper Challenge.
1:29.7	But Kristen Kristen will have you guys introduce yourself.
1:32.8	Now they're joining us remotely here because it's quite an
1:35.2	orchestration from some folks across the nation to get this thing moving.
1:39.3	So Chris, how about you first to start off? Just kind of give us a little background on who you are and your involvement in on the Mammoth Sniper Challenge here?
1:49.0	Sure, sure. Well, my name's Chris Andrews. I'm calling you from Mooresville, North Carolina. I'm a engineer by profession and owner of Best Target's and I've been a competitor at the Mammoth Sniper Challenge for the last five years.
2:05.0	And this year with Grunstile taking the event over,
2:09.0	and knowing Tim Jensen talking about kind of the history event and what it's been and what he
2:13.4	wanted it to become had the opportunity to become the match director and so now
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