All right, if you got guns going off in the background, it means we're still at the shooting range here at Media Day at Shots.

Lots of things to see. And people are talking about the 300 Whispers, and we're with Paul Plough from Smith and West of Paul.

You guys have added this to the line. You got a wide background in shooting. What's your impression of this cartridge?

I personally like it. It's pretty neat. I mean, one of the things that we're starting to see is we're starting to see more and more people get into hog hunting. We're seeing that they really take off. What the 300 Whistper does is it gives you an advantage to go out there and be able to shoot and shoot much more before, you know, the animals start to recognize that you have something out there that shooting at them. The nice thing about it, also the 300 Whisper, it's basically what they've done is they take that standard 556 round. They've shortened it, and it's the standard case, they've shortened the case a little bit to accept the length of a 30 caliber bullet. Right. Okay. And then what they've done is instead of necking it down to that 2-2-3 or 5-5-6, they necked it up to the 30 caliber. So you have a 30-caliber round. And then you have the ability to shoot it both supersonic, okay, and subsonic. And when you put it in that subsonic round at 200 grain, you really still have enough terminal ballistics to go out through,

and actually to go out to about 200 yards, and it really falls off.

Now, if you want to shoot longer distances, then you really need to go with the supersonic,

which is, you know, if you're going to go supersonic, then it becomes a good deer rifle

because it is a 30 caliber.

In that case here, you know, it's legal for deer hunting in many states where the subsonic stuff with the suppressor on is not.

Well, so we're shooting it on an AR.

We can just drop an upper onto it.

So if you own an AR right now, you can get the upper that's chaper for the 300 Whistper,

and then just drop it on, use the same magazine? Same magazine. That's the only thing, you know, the only thing different is just the upper and that's the chambering in the chambering in the barrel itself. Well, I'm just looking at this and thinking, why wouldn't you do that? Well, it makes all the sense in the world. It just looks like a cool round. You can use it for deer hunting. You can use it suppressed. You can set yourself up with a suppressor with your 300 whisper. Now you're a sunsonic, but you're still shooting around with enough energy to actually do something. I mean, if you wanted to, there's no reason you wouldn't use a suppressed whisper gun for hog hunting.

Oh, absolutely. That's been the crazy. I've got to be honest, we've already been out there doing that.

We've done that with the suppressed round.

90% of the time when you're hunting hogs, you're within that 50 to 100 yards, maybe 150 yards max.

So it's well within that range to maintain enough energy and accuracy for that thing

to be deadly on hogs.

What do you see, and you talk to a lot of consumers out there in terms of interest in

suppressors?

You know what?

Suppressers really catching on.

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