Ep. 432 | Electric Lead Ballon: Remington 700 EtronX

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Sports, Vortex Optics, Shooting, Scope, Gun, Long Range, Wilderness, Hunting, Riflescope, Vortex, Vortex Nation Podcast, Binoculars, Vortex Nation, Optics, Rifle

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🗓️ 9 February 2026

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Mark Boardman and Ryan Muckenhirn engage in an electric conversation about the revolutionary, cutting edge (at the time), and very short lived, Remington 700 ExtronX rifle. The world wasn’t ready for this tech and its execution. It still isn’t. But that’s what makes it so fun to talk about. Tune in. We’ll be shocked if this isn’t one you enjoy.

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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.
0:17.7	What is up, everybody? Mark on the mic, my good friend Ryan Muckin-Hern across from me.
0:23.0	Ryan, a while back, we created a piece of content.
0:25.6	And I believe this comment that I'm about to read, which is still one of my favorites,
0:30.7	came from when we were talking about the WSMs, the Winchester super short magnums. You called the series, the whole series
0:42.9	kind of a lead balloon. Ladies and gentlemen, Mark Bordman. So this, like I said, I don't have it
0:50.7	I'm not certain. I believe that's where this comment came from.
0:55.3	And this person, Kyle dash SR6JM says, like, so he's speaking from, it's like a quote from Winchester.
1:05.3	Yeah.
1:06.3	This is one of the most serious mistakes we've ever made.
1:10.3	And then the next line is from Remington, hold my e-tronics.
1:18.2	It made me laugh then.
1:19.8	It makes me laugh now.
1:21.5	I'm going to start using that.
1:22.8	I'm going to see if I can find.
1:24.2	And I don't know if the machine will let me go back far enough.
1:30.7	What are you looking for?
1:32.7	So, on the original lead balloons list, I believe I had the Etronics listed first and foremost.
1:43.4	What is this list you're always talking about?
1:45.8	It's the one that I emailed you when you said,
1:47.5	fine.
1:49.2	Electronic mail?
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