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Vortex Nation Podcast

Ep. 434 | WHCE 2026 Cool Product Highlights

Vortex Nation Podcast

Vortex Nation Podcast

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

4.91.5K Ratings

🗓️ 23 February 2026

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Mark Boardman and Ryan Muckenhirn take the show on the road as they traverse the Western Hunting & Conservation Expo in search of cool products. They go booth to booth, grabbing folks to chat about gear and equipment that caught their eye.

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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.

0:18.0

What's up everybody? Ryan and I are at the Western Hunting Conservation Expo.

0:21.6

We're going to do a little run and gun podcasting here. We're going to traverse the show and check out some cool new products.

0:29.6

Follow along with us.

0:30.6

All right, we've got them everybody. We've sequestered the most popular, charismatic person at the show, always dressed proper.

0:38.3

I try.

0:39.3

Mr. Rob Gearing was smart precision.

0:41.3

Ryan, you and I have a ton of experience with the Springbok tripod, or bipod, I should say.

0:49.3

What we're going to talk about today is the Springbok tripod and some other stuff that fills out the Springbok line as well.

0:56.0

Well, I'm delighted you here, gents. I'm hugely excited about this product range.

1:01.0

Namely, it's affordable. It's silicon, it's not rubber, so it's not temperature sensitive, as rubber would be.

1:08.0

You've killed quite a few things off the Springbok bipod. The natural progress is to move on and offer some other products in that line.

1:15.6

Now a lot of people will be used to a rabbit head kind of system, right?

1:20.6

With this, having the Spartan Magnus switch system, you're locked in place.

1:25.6

And I've got 360 degrees of rotation.

1:28.3

There's no buttons on knobs to press with this.

1:31.3

If I need to move, I just pull out a leg and drop down.

1:34.3

So it's a collapsible system.

1:36.3

It's really light, very, very fast.

1:40.3

We won an NRA Golden Bullseye Award for it, so we're really chuffed about that.

1:46.0

That is deceivingly, it's just, deceivingly lightweight.

1:49.0

And even with a heavy rifle, I haven't got a heavy rifle here, but you can lock that on and it's just going to support it.

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