EP82 - Browning Firearms: Behind the Brand with Rafe Nielsen

Dive Bomb Squadcast

Ashur Tolliver

Sports, Wilderness

4.9 • 561 Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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In this episode, Matt Judy sits down with Rafe Nielsen, Director of Marketing at Browning Firearms. The two dive into Rafe’s journey from a lifelong hunter to his role leading one of the most iconic brands in the outdoor industry. They swap stories from recent hunts in Alaska, talk about the legacy and innovation behind Browning, and share how family traditions keep hunting strong across generations. From memorable hunts to the excitement of upcoming seasons, this conversation highlights the passion, community, and commitment to quality that define both Browning and the hunting lifestyle.

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0:00.0	What's up, everyone? Welcome back to the dive bomb squad casting about episode 82 coming at you.
0:14.0	And I'm a little sweaty this morning because right before I hopped on here, one of my cows got out in the roads.
0:20.0	So you see me wiping some forehead sweat off.
0:22.2	I was wrangling a heifer to get back in here.
0:24.2	But today we have the director of marketing for Browning, Raph Nielsen on today, man.
0:28.6	How are you doing?
0:29.7	Good.
0:30.0	How are you doing?
0:30.8	Other than not wrangled cows.
0:32.9	Other than sweating like crazy hopping in the studio this morning.
0:36.1	That's good.
0:36.7	He just got back from Alaska.
0:38.4	I've been doing some crazy stuff. How was that trip, man? I know I saw a few things.
0:42.7	You were up there with Sydney Wells. That looked freaking awesome, dude. Yeah, it was a lot of fun.
0:47.6	We took the 20-gauge A5s up there, did a little tarmigan hunting. And yeah, it's a little weird to travel all the way up to Alaska just for birds. And we typically are going up there, try to kill a caravoo or moose repair or something, right? But that's a long ways to go for a tarmigan hunt. But we had a lot of fun. It was well worth the trip. I did something similar last year as well and had a lot of fun.
1:12.4	So we duplicated again this year. Yeah, that sounds like a ton of fun. I've watched a bunch of
1:18.4	YouTube videos on Tarmigan hunting. I've always wanted to do it. And I'm, I'm in Washington,
1:22.6	so I'm only like a couple hour flight away from Alaska. So but I've never done I've gone up there on
1:28.4	salmon trips looks like you caught a few salmon maybe or were you on the tail end of the run or
1:33.5	something like that yeah we're kind of in the middle of a wave they they caught quite a few fish
1:38.2	before we got there and then they they caught a bunch of fish after we left the while we were there
1:42.3	we caught a wall unfortunately but we didn't know we hooked into a. It was kind of fun. Siddy and I were trying to do it on a fly rod a little bit, and that made it a little more challenging, but still even tied into a few on the fly rods. And so it was good. It was kind of fun to do a little cast and blast. You don't get to do that as often as we'd like to.
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