Bob Dana is the South Texas Territory Manager for Leupold Optics and is a walking encyclopedia in regards to optics, CDS reticles, parallax, scope anatomy and bullet trajectory and velocity. Bob and Derrick discuss extending your effective yardage as a hunter or competitive shooter and how important optics have been in the technological advancement of the sport. Bob brought several Leupold scopes with him to the studio and the various series are discussed as well as the well-known “Leupold Gold Ring Guarantee.” And there may have been a small portion of the discussion regarding horse chiropractics! 

Leupold Optics

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On The Horizon podcast: Founder of Horizon Firearms Derrick Ratliff gathers guests to share and discuss outdoor industry expertise and memorable hunting adventures. Favorite topics include long-range shooting, custom rifles, 22 Creedmoor, outdoor experiences, and from time to time some family talk and life lessons.

Billy Carter owns and runs the legendary Carter Country retail stores in the Houston, Texas, area and is known for a world record 2 mile shot as an ELR (extreme long range) enthusiast. Derrick and Billy talk about the nuances of the wind when shooting extreme distances as well as Billy’s favorite rifle to shoot. Derrick presents Billy with his Horizon Firearms 300 Weatherby truly custom rifle with the family's Sombrerito Ranch brand and a mesquite wood stock gathered from the ranch near Laredo, Texas. Billy’s first memory of helping with the family business was when he was 4 years old loading skeet one by one for visiting shooters. With 70+ years experience and three generations of family involvement, Carters Country currently includes 4 retail stores with a total of 50,000+ square feet, a warehouse and distribution center, a full-service gun repair shop, a public shooting facility, and commercial hunting and guiding operations in three main hunting areas of Texas and Colorado.

Carters Country
Sombrerito Ranch World Class Whitetail Hunts
Cotton Mesa Trophy Elk Hunts
Apache Springs Hill Country Whitetail Hunts

Store Addresses:
6231 Treaschwig Rd, Spring, TX 77373
8927 Katy Freeway Houston, TX 77024
2120 Shaver St, Pasadena, TX 77502
11886 Wilcrest Drive Houston, TX 77031

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On The Horizon podcast: Founder of Horizon Firearms Derrick Ratliff gathers guests to share and discuss outdoor industry expertise and memorable hunting adventures. Favorite topics include long-range shooting, custom rifles, 22 Creedmoor, outdoor experiences, and from time to time some family talk and life lessons.

Derrick Ratliff, founder of Horizon Firearms and host of On The Horizon podcast, answers 22 questions about the 22 Creedmoor that he has regularly encountered over the last decade of building 22 Creedmoor caliber rifles. 

What is the best twist rate?
Small rifle primers versus large magnum primers?
Why shoot the heavy bullets versus the light bullets?
What bullets should I shoot?
Does barrel length matter?
How easy is it to load for the 22 Creedmoor?
Is it a long or short action caliber and what bottom metal should I use?
What rifles can be rebarreled/rechambered to a 22 Creedmoor?
What powders are recommended?
Is it a fur friendly round?
What suppressors do we recommend for the 22 Creedmoor?
When I switch brass manufacturers, what needs to be adjusted?
Can I fire form a 22-250 brass? 
Where do I find a headspace gauge?
Can you shoot deer with a 22 Creedmoor?
How far can you shoot larger game?
22 vs 22-250?
22 vs 6mm Creedmoor?
22 vs 6.5 Creedmoor?
Where do I find reloading data?
What rifles are available?
Is it SAAMI approved?

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On The Horizon podcast: Founder of Horizon Firearms Derrick Ratliff gathers guests to share and discuss outdoor industry expertise and memorable hunting adventures. Favorite topics include long-range shooting, custom rifles, 22 Creedmoor, outdoor experiences, and from time to time some family talk and life lessons.

Derrick Ratliff brings his favorite hunting buddy, 10-year-old son Rhyder, into the studio to discuss their latest aoudad and hog hunting adventure in the Davis Mountains of Texas. Rhyder gets to show off his bruise from the hail storm that snuck up on them on the mountain while running for shelter. They discuss the performance of the 22 Creedmoor on aoudad-sized game and the multiple one-shot kills they experienced. 

Derrick offers the first ever sneak peek of Horizon Firearms’ soon-to-release 22 Creedmoor rifle line, the Vandal and VandalX, and Rhyder gets to proudly claim the first kill shot ever from the VandalX. Rhyder is not yet an interview pro, but he loved every minute of getting the honor of being Dad’s guest in the podcast studio. Fun interview with lots of great information on the 22 Creedmoor and Horizon Firearms’ coming soon rifles. 

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On The Horizon podcast: Founder of Horizon Firearms Derrick Ratliff gathers guests to share and discuss outdoor industry expertise and memorable hunting adventures. Favorite topics include long-range shooting, custom rifles, 22 Creedmoor, outdoor experiences, and from time to time some family talk and life lessons.

Danny Farris, bowhunter influencer and extraordinaire, and Derrick Ratliff, rifle hunter influencer and extraordinaire, cross over to each other’s worlds for a lively talk about their commonalities and love for the hunting industry. Danny hosts the Hoyt Bowhunter Podcast, owns Ultimate Predator Gear and is on the board for the Colorado Bowhunters Association. He was the producer of Bowhunter TV, Arrow Affliction and Predator Nation TV and is a monthly columnist for Bowhunter Magazine. Derrick’s outdoor career began at Bowtech Archery, so their worlds collided for many years and Derrick often likens the archery experience to the long range rifle experience in regards to the nuance of tweaking technology and equipment to be successful. Danny shares details on the influence of a committed mentor as he developed his writing skills, his Shiras moose adventure and the creative use of his company’s decoy on a Texas aoudad hunt.   

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On The Horizon podcast: Founder of Horizon Firearms Derrick Ratliff gathers guests to share and discuss outdoor industry expertise and memorable hunting adventures. Favorite topics include long-range shooting, custom rifles, 22 Creedmoor, outdoor experiences, and from time to time some family talk and life lessons.

Jimmy Mauric, brewmaster of Shiner Beers at Spoetzl Brewery in Shiner, Texas, joins Derrick Ratliff, founder of Horizon Firearms. Horizon Firearms is a subsidiary of Kaspar Companies (125 years old), which is located right across the street from the Spoetzl Brewery (114 years old). Jimmy and Derrick talk about how these historical companies affect the small town of Shiner, Texas, and it’s national prominence. Jimmy shares how he grew up in Shiner and started working at the brewery when he was 17 years old, beginning his now 45 year tenure brewing craft beer that’s distributed in all 50 states. He shared about the German/Czech history of the brewery, what unique ingredient elements make Shiner Beers special, and the current developments in Shiner of the distillery and tour/hospitality experience. Jimmy was a charming guest full of interesting facts about a niche industry that most enjoy. 

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On The Horizon podcast: Founder of Horizon Firearms Derrick Ratliff gathers guests to share and discuss outdoor industry expertise and memorable hunting adventures. Favorite topics include long-range shooting, custom rifles, 22 Creedmoor, outdoor experiences, and from time to time some family talk and life lessons.

Clint Salisbury, regional director for Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation in Michigan, joins Derrick to talk all things elk hunting. Clint and Derrick swap hilarious first time elk hunting stories and discuss the role that Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation plays in preserving the opportunities for future generations to enjoy and experience elk hunting. Mission and legacy are important words to both Derrick and Clint. They discuss the weighted lottery system for drawing tags in Michigan, the wolf controversy across the nation, and the commitment RMEF has to maintaining public land and even converting unique private lands to public lands for future generations. Their stories include a friend fainting from adrenaline on an elk hunt, icing down a bathtub to contain elk quarters and ripping off the quarter panel of a truck in order to get an elk out of the wilderness. Clint also introduced Outdoor Class, an outdoors-focused streaming platform, built for hunters of all levels to learn and refine their skills.

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On The Horizon podcast: Founder of Horizon Firearms Derrick Ratliff gathers guests to share and discuss outdoor industry expertise and memorable hunting adventures. Favorite topics include long-range shooting, custom rifles, 22 Creedmoor, outdoor experiences, and from time to time some family talk and life lessons.

Katherine Rice, founder and owner of Wildcat Marketing from Eugene, Oregon, joins Derrick Ratliff as a long time friend, former co-worker, former remote employee, current marketing contractor, and ongoing expert in the field of outdoor industry marketing and media. They discuss how real relationships shine through in small town local business marketing, how the explosion of social media has transformed marketing reach and trends to hunters and outdoorsmen, and how Kat is probably the first person to harvest a blacktail deer with a 22 Creedmoor. And there may have been a random conversation about dancing goats …

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On The Horizon podcast: Founder of Horizon Firearms Derrick Ratliff gathers guests to share and discuss outdoor industry expertise and memorable hunting adventures. Favorite topics include long-range shooting, custom rifles, 22 Creedmoor, outdoor experiences, and from time to time some family talk and life lessons.

Director of Engineering for Kaspar Outdoors (and Derrick’s youngest brother), Austin Ratliff, reminisce about the entrepreneurial old school days of Horizon Firearms. Austin was Derrick’s first “college kid helper” in Derrick’s home garage during the founding days. Derrick and Austin discuss the growth of the company and the facility moves from the garage to the first 3,600 square foot building to the now nearly 30,000 square foot building that headquarters Kaspar Outdoors’ manufacturing facilities and offices. Austin was also very involved in Kaspar Outdoors’ acquisition and current rebuilding of Stiller, advantages of a composite stock from iota, an engineer’s role in the outdoor industry, and the current projects that are affecting 2023’s product development trajectory.

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On The Horizon podcast: Founder of Horizon Firearms Derrick Ratliff gathers guests to share and discuss outdoor industry expertise and memorable hunting adventures. Favorite topics include long-range shooting, custom rifles, 22 Creedmoor, outdoor experiences, and from time to time some family talk and life lessons.

James Hard, founder of Hard Retrievers, shares his training expertise in the gun dog world as he operates training programs from basic obedience to competition retriever. Hard Retrievers has had Derrick’s German Shorthaired Pointer pup, Duke, for the last two months starting him on gun dog basics. James discussed his entrepreneurial venture turning his hobby into his profession and serving as a dog psychologist versus a trainer and what that means for different personalities and breeds of dogs. He explained the advantages of teaching a dog to work, force fetching, and proper e-collar training techniques. James spends half his year in Texas and half his year in Illinois, depending on the seasons, training dogs full time and shared a bit about his soon to release online dog training venture, solvethedog.com. When he’s not training clients’ dogs, he’s earning prestigious titles himself with his handsome chocolate Labrador retriever, Bow.

Find out more about James' programs at Hard Retrievers Website
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On The Horizon podcast: Founder of Horizon Firearms Derrick Ratliff gathers guests to share and discuss outdoor industry expertise and memorable hunting adventures. Favorite topics include long-range shooting, custom rifles, 22 Creedmoor, outdoor experiences, and from time to time some family talk and life lessons.