SOTG on Importance of Training, Dry Fire | Gun Talk Nation
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🗓️ 12 January 2022
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Student of the Gun's Paul Markel joins Gun Talk's Ryan Gresham to talk about the importance of training, why most gun owners need to take a firearms training course this year, the magic number of hours to become proficient at something, how much dry fire practice pro shooters really do, favorite new products, the guns of the African bush wars, and lots more. Gun Talk Nation is brought to you by Savage Arms and Smith & Wesson.
Gun Talk Nation 01.12.2022
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| 0:00.0 | Today in the show, we've got Paul Markle from Student of the Gun. |
| 0:03.3 | Paul is one of the friendliest savages in the gun world. |
| 0:07.3 | He rubs some people the wrong way, and that's why I like him. |
| 0:10.9 | This gun talk nation is brought to you by Savage Arms. |
| 0:18.7 | All right, welcome into gun talk nation. |
| 0:21.5 | Today on gun talk nation, it's one of my favorite people in the world of guns. |
| 0:27.5 | He is a funny, slash militant, slash lovable, slash knowledgeable dude. |
| 0:38.3 | And he makes people uncomfortable sometimes, which I really like. |
| 0:42.1 | It's Paul Markle from Student of the Gun. |
| 0:43.9 | Welcome in, man. |
| 0:45.1 | Well, that's why they call me the Pimp Hand of America, |
| 0:47.2 | because every once in a while, people need a slap. |
| 0:50.4 | And it wasn't a job I was looking for, but it was a job I accepted when it came to me. |
| 0:55.5 | So thank you very much. |
| 0:57.3 | Yeah, it's not the hero people wanted, it's the hero people needed, right? |
| 1:00.7 | Essentially, yeah, I was I was doing that before it was a thing. |
| 1:05.5 | Yeah, Paul, Student of the Gun, you guys have been at this quite a while now. |
| 1:10.7 | We've we've kind of run parallel paths with this thing. |
| 1:13.5 | And 12 years have your own media company, talk about Student of the Gun for a minute. |
| 1:20.0 | Just give a little background look. |
| 1:21.1 | Oh, man, it was 2010 that I took a yellow legal tablet and wrote the word Student of the Gun across the top of it. |
| 1:28.7 | I actually, somebody had talked me into setting up a website, like an O7. |
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