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Lever Guns, Ammo Innovations & Suppressed Hunting | Gun Talk Nation

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4.41.6K Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Gun Talk Nation, we bring you exclusive insights from LeverFest, a special media event celebrating the red-hot lever-action rifle market. Host Ryan Gresham is joined by JJ Reich of Federal Premium Ammunition to explore groundbreaking ammo innovations and deep-dive into topics every firearms enthusiast will love.

Key Topics Covered:
  • Lever-action rifle calibers: .45-70 Gov’t, .44 Magnum, .45 Colt, .357 Magnum
  • New HammerDown ammo optimized for lever guns
  • Self-defense ammo insights: .22 LR Punch, .327 Federal Magnum, Hydra-Shok Deep
  • Introduction of 7mm Backcountry: high-pressure cartridge made for suppressor use
  • Subsonic rounds and suppressed hunting advantages
  • Discussion on future trends: .32 caliber resurgence, revolver and suppressor fest ideas
  • Shotgun ammo updates: paper hull nostalgia & sporting clays innovation
Gear & Ammo Mentioned:Don’t Miss This If You’re Into:
  • Lever guns and legacy firearms
  • Ballistics, cartridge design, and hunting ammo
  • Suppressors and tactical firearm setups
  • New ammo tech and bullet bonding processes
  • Real talk from industry insiders and gear nerds
Learn more at: federalpremium.com

Be sure to like, comment, and subscribe for more deep dives into firearms, ammo, and gear! What should the next "fest" be? RevolverFest? SuppressFest? Let us know below!

This Gun Talk Nation is brought to you by Smith & Wesson, Range Ready Studios, Ruger, and Vortex Optics.

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04.23.25

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0:00.0

So when you're squirrel hunting with the suppressor, you want to shoot the ones on low branches so that they fall to the ground.

0:05.9

You don't want to shoot the high ones first because then the ones in the low branch will see the one falling and know something's up.

0:15.0

I'm Ryan Gresham.

0:17.8

And this?

0:23.8

This is Gun Talk Nation.

0:32.3

This Gun Talk Nation is brought to you by Smith and Wesson.

0:34.9

Range Ready, Ruger, and Vortex.

0:39.6

Hey, welcome into Gun Talk Nation, this podcast.

0:44.3

So this week, we're doing a special event, Leverfest.

0:50.4

And Leverfest is a media event, all celebrating lever action guns because they're hot right now.

0:51.2

My guest is J.J. Reich.

0:53.6

Correct.

0:56.6

All right. You know, I always want to make sure I'm saying people's names right. And then what's funny is when people go, I say, is that right?

1:00.5

They're like, whatever. I'm like, no, no, there's a right way. There's a, there's a correct way.

1:04.7

JJ, you work with federal ammunition. You came down. You sent us a variety of stuff to use for Leverfest, but we'll also talk about

1:12.3

what's new with federal in general, because you got some really new stuff, including a brand

1:18.0

new cartridge that was released earlier this year. Yes. So when you invite me on something like

1:24.7

this, well, first of all, you didn't even have to finish your sentence and I wanted to come down for lover fest like this that's awesome so i really chose a lot of

1:33.8

target and kind of plinking ammo yeah to bring for down here and that's great because you get a

1:38.7

lot of coverage on on your legacy type you know product lines as i've been for a long long time and that's what you

1:45.1

need to shoot you want to shoot some FMJ and you want to you want to pull the trigger a lot so

1:49.2

you want to get some target ammo but the real beauty of these events are all the conversations

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