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welcome to the team v-t podcast. I'm your host Kyle Lamb, and today I am,

I don't want to say behind enemy lines, but we're close to the war zone of Portland, aren't we Bruce?

We are, we're here.

We're here.

You know, Oregon is an interesting place, I'll tell you.

It's, it's got an incredible mix of folks you know and you get downtown Portland is you know it is what

it is you get outside that and you have you know this incredibly large group of hunters and shooters that

are insanely passionate and it just is what it is we we're in it every day

we're really lucky to be Oregonians and andians and have been here as long as we have because it's

been a great state to us and it continues to evolve.

All right, if you're wondering who this Suripre voice dude is that we got on the other end of the line here,

and actually I'm sitting across the table from him.

Bruce Pettit, you're the boss man here at Leopold. Yeah, Louphold and Stevens. We are a

112 year old family-owned business and a uniquely American company still

making rifle scopes right here in Beaverton, Oregon,

700 employees doing it every single day of the week.

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