this week. It's about gear. It's about gear made in the USA with TNK hunting's Tyler

cat.

Welcome in gun talk hunters. I'm your host KJ. And today we've got a special guess. Actually,

this is the first time I ever talking to talk to him in person, which it's a great honor for me

to welcome in Tyler cat of TNK hunting gear. Welcome in Tyler.

Thanks for having me, man. It's good to be here.

A man. It's it's it's really cool. And I've got a great back story on how I came to know TNK

hunting gear. And hopefully I know if you listen to this channel, you've heard me mention them

multiple times, but I'm fine. I finally get Tyler on the phone. And on the zoom call. So if you are,

if you're just listening over our normal channels, do yourself a favor. Come see the man, the myth,

the legend on our YouTuber Facebook pages wherever you're at. But before we get into it,

I'm going to go ahead and tell you this gun talk hunt is brought to you by ATN, the future of optics,

six hour, gun dealio and silence or central silence delivered. All right. We're going to jump in.

And first, Tyler, just give us a little bit of your background and a little background on TNK

hunting gear. So right out of high school, about a month after graduating high school, I joined

the Marine Corps. I was an infantry Marine at 0311, did several combat tours to Hellman province

to Afghanistan. After getting out, I just Marine Corps, after getting out, I worked corrections

for about a year in my local hometown here in Rapid City, South Dakota. And after that, I kind of

got the itch to do some overseas contracting. The money was good. So I went to personal security,

a specialist school down in Arkansas, working through the department of state and went overseas

to Afghanistan again and did private military, private security for a little bit. And once I got

sick of that and sick of being in, you know, living most of my 20s in Afghanistan, I decided to come

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