Ep. 443 | Q Rifles

Vortex Nation Podcast

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

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🗓️ 27 April 2026

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Cody Osborn from Q sits down with Mark Boardman and Ryan Muckenhirn for an in-depth discussion about Q, their ethos, and some very cool products. Known for their engineering, bucking the status quo, and personality, Q is a unique company doing impressive things in the firearms space.

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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	All right, what is up, everybody? Mark on the mic, my good friend, Ryan Muck and Hearn,
0:21.8	to my right, across from us, Mr. Coye Osborne from the company Q. Pretty simple. That's an easy one
0:29.3	to remember. And we are at the Western Hunting Conservation Expo here in Salt Lake City, Utah,
0:34.4	again. I think this might be number 17 for me, Ryan.
0:38.4	Best show in the universe.
0:39.9	Boy, you got that.
0:41.5	We really enjoy it here.
0:43.3	And we're about to enjoy a really cool conversation about the company Q
0:49.3	and some of the really, I mean, cool, innovative, revolutionary products that you guys have.
0:56.5	Cody, we met for the first time. I like to, this is like my one and only flex in Scotland.
1:03.4	Big international guy over here, Ryan. I don't know if I've reminded you of that lately.
1:08.1	But a super fun hunt for primarily red stag. We both shot just fantastic stags,
1:15.7	had a great time doing it. And that was my first introduction to you, but and the Q-Fix that we
1:22.7	got to shoot on that hunt as well. That was a fun trip, man. That was proper.
1:28.5	Take me proper. It was proper. Take me back. Yeah, man. He has been glowing about that since he came back. He bought tweeds, the whole thing. My man. He showed me. I love it. But, yeah, Mark came back. He was taught, the first thing was talking about the fix. Yeah. So super cool. I was really concerned when he bought the kilt, you know,
1:45.1	and he was running around no underwear underneath it.
1:46.9	Yeah.
1:47.5	Proper Scottish style. Yeah, yeah. I figured so. Okay. Like, I realized it may have crossed a few boundaries, right? But, yeah, you know. Bring it back, Mark. Went in Scotland. Scotland. Oh, man. No, that's a good time, man. Yeah, like Scottish Islands was like one of my bucket list places. So, yeah, it was a good time of good people. Me, you, Jordan, and Andrew from Yetty too. Like, that was a good crowd. And Rob from Spartan, Precision, he's a, he's a trip as well.
2:20.3	So, oh, man.
2:21.5	Yeah, it was, you couldn't, you couldn't have picked a, a better crowd.
2:24.8	And, I mean, honestly, a better, a better rifle to do it with.
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