The Military’s Best Kept Secret in Competitive Shooting - #355

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🗓️ 22 August 2025

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Summary

Former Marine turned elite precision shooter Kahl Harmon shares his journey from machine gunner to winning the U.S. National Championship with the Army Marksmanship Unit (AMU). In this episode, Logan Stark sits down with Kahl to dive deep into: How AMU recruits and trains its top-tier shooters What it takes to win at the highest levels of precision rifle series (PRS) Military vs. civilian shooting culture How shooting tech and strategy are evolving rapidly Behind-the-scenes insight into tripod work, sniper training, and weapon systems If you're into long-range shooting, PRS, sniper tactics, or just badass marksmanship stories, you won't want to miss this.

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0:00.0	Black rifle copy, baby.
0:01.5	Freedom kill them.
0:02.6	All right.
0:09.7	Kail Harmon.
0:10.9	Yes, sir.
0:12.0	Army marksmanship unit came out to Utah to shoot a precision rifle series.
0:17.1	And our friend Tom from Alpha Munition said, this it's got to be a good one to
0:21.8	have in the podcast we know uh we got a similar contact in uh one of the guys you work with
0:28.3	that used to be in the scout sniper with so uh we have never talked before sent down today
0:33.6	so it's always fun to get like the complete cold run on things but uh welcome to the show and
0:38.9	i uh i hope you have a good time shooting out at uh that range out at prs is one of my favorite
0:46.5	places in the whole world because that's where we go elk hunting and oh really yeah it's uh
0:52.4	one of the most pristine elk hunting areas uh in the country in my opinion
0:56.6	oh i can't imagine i mean the shooting there's a phenomenal opportunity i i love that area of
1:02.4	the land like being able to shoot essentially almost 360 degrees how you do on there like george
1:08.5	does a really really good job with that place but if I had a
1:11.6	choice between shooting the match and hunting it I might I might choose something that's that's
1:16.5	really cool you'll see a few and we um we we we sponsored the the match because Hornity
1:22.0	always sponsors this one out here right um but we block when I say we black rifles, did one of the stages.
1:29.9	Sure.
1:30.3	Last year, a couple years ago, and we built a van and painted it like the Scooby-Doo mystery machine.
1:38.2	And then we like, we had a four-by-four through the open sliding door.
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