Okay, welcome into a gun talk nation. As you can tell, no, I am not Ryan Gresham. He unfortunately is out and I get to step in and I'm very excited to bring on our next guest.

Our next guest is a guy that I was showing up to a Sporting Clay's event to a trap game.

Anything like that? This is the last guy I'd want to see walk up to that line but our gun

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focused on your needs in optics and everything else. So our next guest and I'm gonna I'm gonna go out on a limb and

I'm gonna say that our next guest doesn't remember the first time I met him. I'm

gonna almost guarantee it because it was back in 2008 in San Antonio and I see this guy at the

time is this kid walking around in a Kansas State shooting vest and just smoking the entire field.

And it was a joy to watch him work the it was a

a c ui national championships or I mean

It was an amazing display of shooting and joining me today is Mr Derek Mine Derek welcome in

Hey good to be here. Well, it's been a lot of long time since you know since we've talked last but but I remember

distinctly and and watching you shoot that and going back and just shaking my head

because I've never seen someone so proficient at what they do.

And where did you pick up this art?

You know, I was very blessed that as a bunch of our friends and fellow competitors say, I fell pretty close to the tree when it came from my dad.

You know, he's a pretty good competitor in his own right,

won a world championship. so I guess you'd have to say I came by it honestly.

Well it's you know shotgun I mean you can't really necessarily say shotgun shooting because there's all types of

disciplines and everything like that and we'll kind of get into that but I really kind of

of wanted to focus on you know your initial like lessons that you really learn and you really

gravitated towards because growing up in a shotgun and family man I bet you

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