Glen Eberle: Olympian, Veteran, Inventor, Pilot, Hunter

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🗓️ 1 April 2022

⏱️ 100 minutes

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Summary

Today’s guest on Danger Close is an inventor, marksman, hunter, Olympic biathlete, entrepreneur and a former U.S. Air Force fighter pilot. An avid athlete and outdoorsman, Glen Eberle competed in the 1984 Winter Olympic Games as a biathlete. Redesigning the rifle carried by American athletes, he revolutionized the way first American teams, and then international teams competed in the sport.

After his time in the military, Glen turned his attention to redesigning and inventing new shooting, hunting and tactical gear with his company Eberlestock. ou can follow Glen on Instagram @gleneberlestock and learn more about Eberlestock at eberlestock.com.

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0:00.0	This is the Danger Close Podcast.
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0:13.3	All right, so I get a lot of questions about signed books.
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0:25.8	go to my website officialjackcarrot.com.
0:28.7	Under the blog section and right at the top there's a campaign to support local independent
0:35.0	bookstores.
0:36.0	So I've done that for the last, this is the third time that I've done it.
0:38.5	Did it for Savage Sun, did it for the last book, the devil's hand, and I had these book
0:44.3	plates for those that you could only get from those independent bookstores.
0:48.4	So to try to push some traffic there away from the Amazon Easy button and to support
0:54.3	these local independent bookstores, I did that for the last two.
0:58.0	And then this time I wanted to up the game a little bit because this is a sniper centric
1:03.0	novel of violent resolutions.
1:05.5	And I wanted to do something a little different.
1:06.8	So I shot through the title page after I signed them.
1:10.3	So Simon and Schuster sent out a bunch of copies of the title page.
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