Episode 378: A Trip Down Memory Lane with Cougar Mountain Solutions Founder, Erick Gelhaus
Fieldcraft Survival
FieldCraft Survival
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🗓️ 10 August 2023
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Erick Gelhaus is Kevin Estela's guest on the podcast this week. Erick is a former law enforcement officer of 29 years and Army veteran. He was Kevin's primary instructor and rangemaster at GUNSITE and he is the man behind Cougar Mountain Solutions training. Erick is a red dot pistol instructor, shotgun afficionado, and instructor of instructors. The two share memories from training together, discuss firearms history and use, and more.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey guys, welcome to the Field Crap Survival podcast. |
| 0:15.3 | I'm your host for this episode. |
| 0:16.6 | My name is Kevin Estella. |
| 0:17.6 | I'm the director of training here in the North Carolina office, sometimes referred to |
| 0:20.6 | as the fire base. |
| 0:22.0 | And guys, I'm really excited for this podcast because I have a guest on here. |
| 0:25.4 | Who's a friend who is one of my former instructors and normally when people hear like, oh, former |
| 0:29.5 | instructor, they're thinking like, oh, this is one of the guys that like Kevin brought |
| 0:32.7 | up through the ranks and you know, it's now working under Kevin at Field Crap, like |
| 0:36.6 | whether it's Jerry or or Jerry out in Washington or whoever. |
| 0:40.8 | But no, when I say my former instructor, or I should say current instructor, because I'm |
| 0:44.6 | still a student, this is a guy who I train under at gun site a few years back. |
| 0:50.6 | I've seen him multiple times, you know, at gun site, follow him online and I'll tell you |
| 0:56.5 | me something, you know, my firearms background, I don't come from the law enforcement community |
| 1:01.0 | or the military community. |
| 1:02.0 | I always say whenever I take a class, I come from the armed civilian community of two decades, |
| 1:07.8 | right? |
| 1:08.8 | Like, that's my experience. |
| 1:09.8 | But this gentleman brings a lot of information to the table, a lot of experience. |
| 1:13.0 | And I always learn something whenever I talk to him or I follow him or read his posts. |
| 1:16.9 | And I think you're going to enjoy him. |
| 1:18.1 | So with that being said, I want to introduce Eric Gellhouse, Eric, like I said, it was |
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