Welcome to the Vortex Nation podcast, brought to you by lovers of hunting, shooting, public lands, the Second Amendment, and good food.

What is up, everybody? Mark on the mic, a cross stream. It's a Monday. It's a Monday. Across from me, my good friend, Mr. Ryan Muckin-Hern.

Not too long ago, we were brainstorming about topics, things we want to talk about. And you said,

well, why don't we talk about, you know, one of my traditional muzzleloaders?

Sure.

You know, we do a bit of a gun highlight or muzzleloader highlight.

And I said, perfect, because we did a podcast a while back on muzzleloaders where we, not intentionally, but we kind of left out traditional muzzle loaders and we got a few

comments hey those aren't muzzle loaders and there's a flintlock guy in the comments already that oh that's he's

saying that even this isn't you know thousand percent thousand percent. Absolutely. He's mad.

Well, maybe we'll do those at some point as well.

But you're going to have to find somebody else who thinks those are neat because that ain't me.

I mean, even the most modern, advanced, you know, like I've got my CVA.

It's incredibly accurate, all the things. At the end of the day, personally, no, I know they're not this, and I know they're not a flint lock, but they are still a muzzleloader. And they come, I don't know, man. Sometimes I think it's just hard enough. And then you dial it back to something like this or a flintlock, and boy, here you go.

We can touch on that a little bit.

Tell me about this one in particular.

What is it?

When did you procure it?

Why did you procure it?

And we'll go from there.

Okay.

This particular example of firearm that you're seeing in front of you is made by the Pedersoli Arms Corporation out of Italy.

This particular example is called the Rocky Mountain Hawken.

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