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Alright everybody, we know this one's going to be a pretty exciting one because we have

Nick Lofenberg and Ian Clem across the table from Mark and myself and when it comes to

long range, competitive shooting, in fact too, I'll say precision shooting as well because

we're going to talk about all different types of precision shooting competitions and even

the definition of what long range is or what constitutes that can change.

Some of the things we'll probably bring up here are like precision rimfired, what not

in which case you're shooting extremely precisely and require a great deal of precision, but

the distances might not be as great as then when we're talking about ELR, extreme long

range and even that's a bit up in the air as to what people think is ELR.

So very excited about this.

I think between you guys, we've got a lot of experience in the varying types of precision

or long range competitions and so yeah, let's just dive in on what all somebody could

get into.

Like, you know you want to shoot in a manner that takes a lot of forethought, some knowledge

of ballistics, it takes some knowledge of how projectiles fly through the air and then

the whole rifle is set up, but you're not sure what outlet you want to go about exploring

that in.

So Mark, you have, as usual, some paper up here, you've got a list, got a little print

out, got a list and yeah, I mean Jim, I mean long range shooting, precision shooting is

getting so popular, it's so hot right now, we always talk about that, but there's so many

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