Ep. 68 | Listener Special – WW2 Guns & History

Vortex Nation Podcast

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

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🗓️ 22 April 2019

⏱️ 100 minutes

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Summary

Nick, a frequent listener of the Vortex Nation podcast, reached out to us after our first WW2(ish) podcast revolving around a few historic firearms and not only explained how the M1 Garand’s grenade launcher system actually worked, but also explained that he and his dad are avid (Understatement) WW2 era firearms collectors and reenactors. Jimmy, Mark and Ryan Muckenhirn were lucky enough to sit down with these two as they went through 14 different firearms (And a WW2 era grenade launcher) from the allied, axis and neutral countries during the war. These incredible pieces of history literally shaped the landscape of the war and history as we know it, so to have pieces like this in our presence and be able to talk about them with some knowledgeable folks was a gift we won’t soon forget. Nick and Ray own, regularly shoot, reload for and maintain these rifles, so it was also great to see some historical tools still being used to this day many decades later. We also discussed some of the ways these firearms plowed the way for more modern (Or sometimes just direct rip off!) rifle designs we know and use today. Check it out and like Nick, if you have something super interesting you’d like to talk about with us, feel free to bring it up in the comments on one of our social media platforms and maybe we’ll have you on the podcast some day as well! 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. Vortex Nation, now we're going to call this a listener special, because every time we have an episode we're like,
0:24.0	hey, you know, shout out to us on YouTube,
0:26.2	Instagram, whatever, we'd love to hear back from you.
0:28.6	And you know, one listener in particular took us up on that. And he's actually sitting across the table for me right now with his dad who came up to visit us at
0:38.0	Vortex. We're in the range right now. If you're watching on YouTube and the cameras are on this time, then you'll know that already.
0:45.0	But we had a podcast a while back that was World War II-ish guns.
0:51.0	We had Ian, Adam, Ryan on there talk about some cool old firearms from that era.
0:57.0	And Nick, across the day from me, he commented on YouTube and actually pointed out one slight error
1:01.9	that we had in there, which we actually asked people to comment on, which was when we were talking about the grenade
1:07.2	launchers on the M1-1-grand?
1:11.2	Is that what it was?
1:12.2	And we weren't exactly sure how it was that they were firing them out of the rifle. They were essentially, you know, back then they didn't have some kind of like an under the barrel grenade launcher they actually used their
1:23.7	their regular barrel we weren't sure if it was how that was actually then
1:27.4	projecting the grenade out and Nick answered that question for us and well on behold
1:31.5	we wound up found a bunch of other cool stuff about
1:33.8	Nick and his dad so before I do too much introducing for them we'll have them
1:38.0	introduce themselves say a little bit about what they do and how they got to this
1:41.6	point again you said if you're watching on YouTube,
1:44.0	you'll probably see him right now
1:45.1	with a plethora of incredible firearms
1:49.0	from that era behind them.
1:50.1	But anyway, how about Nick?
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