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Over a Million Rounds Fired + Becoming a Better Shooter | Gun Talk Nation

Gun Talk

Gun Talk Media

News, Hobbies, Leisure, Politics

4.61.6K Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2026

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

What happens when you hand a pro shooter the keys to Colt's R&D department for 19 years? You get Mark Redl — and he's sharing everything. From why your magazines are probably to blame for your malfunctions, to the real maintenance schedule your 1911 needs, to why mastering a revolver will make you deadlier with any handgun you pick up. 

This Gun Talk Nation is brought to you by Range Ready Studios, FN Firearms, Silencer Central, and Archon Firearms.

About Gun Talk Nation
Gun Talk Media's Gun Talk Nation with Ryan Gresham is a weekly multi-platform podcast that offers a fresh look at all things firearms-related. Featuring notable guests and a lot of laughs. Gun Talk Nation is available as an audio podcast or in video format.

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0:00.0

I think a lot of people become better shooters if they master a revolver just because they learn that trigger, I call it a stroke.

0:07.3

It's not even a trigger pull.

0:08.3

You're rolling through that trigger.

0:10.3

And that equates much better with the plastic, you know, the Glock triggers, the XD triggers, or more of a long deliberate pull.

0:20.2

And they do become better shooters.

0:23.1

I'm a firm believer in that.

0:25.4

And do I feel undergun if I had one to carry?

0:28.4

No.

0:32.5

I'm Ryan Gresham.

0:35.3

And this?

0:40.3

This is Gun Talk Nation.

0:51.3

Gun Talk Nation is brought to you by Range Ready, FN, Silencer Central and Arcon Firearms.

0:57.0

Hey, welcome to Gun Talk Nation today on Gun Tong Nation.

1:00.0

Mark Reddle, pro-shooter, guy who's been with Colt Firearms for a long time, right? How long?

1:06.0

Shooting for them 19 years, okay? Working full-time, 11 years. Everybody says, oh, it's a dream job.

1:13.8

You get to work at a gun company. And you've done, it feels like you've done a little bit of everything

1:17.9

there. I have. I've had a full career there, I suppose I could say. Start down a product

1:24.9

management. Paul Spatali brought me in to revamp the 1911 line

1:28.9

when we got done that, doing the changes we wanted to do to that. There was an opening for

1:34.6

a law enforcement national sales manager, and they asked me to do that because I knew the guns,

1:42.0

and that position took somebody to could talk about the products and everything.

1:46.1

I loved the job. I did that for six years. I met some wonderful people in law enforcement.

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