Talking Lead Podcast

This episode will wrap up our Artificial Shoulder Pocket's (ASP) coverage of the 2016 SHOT Show. Sergeant Major Lance Nutt and Jessica Mesko of the Sheep Dog Impact Assistance non-profit organization join Lefthand, Pepper & Brian for the first time since last year's SHOT Show and catch us up on the powerful differences Sheep Dog IA has made in our communities and the lives of our Nation's bravest men and women since our last interview. Get involved with the mission! Joe with 13C Gun Reviews drop in to say "Hey!" and talk about their recent endeavors and his SHOT experiences. The MultiCam Trivia Question prize from episode 139 is still up for grabs so get with it and win Leadheads!

In this episode Talking Lead continues the Asymmetric Technologies' coverage of the 2016 SHOT Show. We interview Todd DeGidio CEO of Paradigm SRP. Todd is former Military Special Forces and brings his knowledge and experience together to design the "TALON", an easily transported and installed gyro-stabilized platform system which can be operated from a revolutionary hand controller with an integrated HD color monitor and fire control system. Laser range and inclination data is overlaid directly to the hand controller’s monitor for extreme precision shooting.

Friend of the show, singer, song writer, hunter & actress, Morgan Mills drops in to say hey and get us caught up on her new TV Show, "Universal Huntress" on the Sportsman Channel, which she and Colt Ford sing the Theme song "Let's Ride". Morgan also lets us in on the new album she's working on. Check Morgan Mills out on iTunes, Youtube, Twitter, Instagram and at www.morganmillsmusic.com.

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We shift gears in this episode to some good ole off-road badasseryness! Ernesto Rodriguez, brand manager for Multicam brings their Baja 1000 Ironman Team to the show. Jeff Benrud, Army Special Operations veteran and 3 time Baja Ironman competitor along with Jeff's trainer and coach, none other than the The Legend himself and hall-of-famer of motocross and off-road racing, seven time AMA national championship winner and 2 time Baja 1000 winner, Ricky Johnson! Jeff, Ricky and Ernesto tells us about last years Baja 1000 race's trials and tribulations and what they need to do this year to improve from last. Jeff and Ricky also tell us about their company "American Off Road" where they train special forces how to drive off-road. The Jackwagon Train, Facts to Fight the Myths and yes, TRIVIA are all back this week! Buckle up and enjoy the ride Leadheads...

In this episode the owner of Asymmetrics Technologies and creator of the Artificial Shoulder Pocket, Brian Borkowski helps Lefthand kick off the 4th part of our 2016 SHOT Show interviews. We have a whole slew of people join us for this episode...Ron Belan aka Reaper 01 drops in to catch us up on his TV show "Reaper Outdoors, Surviving The Hunt" and he brings his friend Jeff Axelson, brother of Matt Axelson (posthumously awarded the Navy Cross for his actions during Operation Red Wings), and owner of Axelson Tactical. Ron and Jeff also fill us in on their latest charity endeavours with Hawks Locks for Kids, Special Operation Wounded Warriors, The Matt Axelson Foundation and more...LT Col Mikey Hartman can't get enough of Talking Lead and drops by as we interview Sgt. 1st Class Dillard "CJ" Johnson author of "Carnivore" and organizer of the Big 3 East events...Frequent Co host, Curtis "Spectre" of the VSO Gun Channel also drops in for a visit during our interview with CJ...

In this episode: Avidity Arms, Rob Pincus' new venture (or would it be adventure), is revealed along with his new handgun design the PD10! Magnus Johnson, Mission 22 founder, joins Lefthand and Pepper for the first time...Now you know him you can not ignore the Mission, get on board LeadHeads! Rob Boss drags Tim and Joe of Tactical Walls into the secret Talking Lead recording studios at SHOT. Another first on the show we are joined by Oversight Shooting Technologies and learn about their tritium "see all open sights". Thanks to our SHOT Show sponsor Asymmetric Technologies creators of the Artificial Shoulder Pocket, ASP, check them out on facebook at Artificial Shoulder Pocket and asymmetric.com

The Artificial Shoulder Pocket (ASP)/Talking Lead coverage of the 2016 SHOT Show continues with interviews from SEAL 1's Dwight Settle (former Navy SEAL UDT). Talking Lead regular and friend of the show Chad Enos along with Matt Stanek of Kel-Tec brings by his posse from HI VIZ (Scott Steiert) and Warne Scope Mounts (Leilani Smith & Justyn Schmidt). Tony Lambraia, COO, of Ultimate Training Munitions (UTM) introduces Lefthand to their training rounds. And last but not least for Part 2 of our 2016 SHOT Show coverage, STL Joesph Garcia and Max the giant schnauzer join Lefthand as we learn more about US C-SOG and a heart touching story about Max...Part 3 coming soon!

In this episode we have our good buddy Andrew Breneman and LTC (Retired) Mikey Hartman formerly of the Israeli Army and current Big Cheese at Kalashnikov USA, CAA Tactical USA & Israel, and Hartman Optics on to talk about all the cool things they are offering and especially innovatively badass is the Hartman Optics MH1 Reflex Sight! Chris Cheng drops in for a quick catch up and tells us about a very cool new target system he is involved with, Mason Target Systems, bringing affordable technology to the firearms smart target industry. We kick off this episode with the rowdy, but hilarious, gang from Cobalt Kinetics. Jeremy brings their shooting Team Keith Garcia, Rick Birdsall, Nick Atkinson and Kalani Laker in for some good but educational fun Talking Lead style...more from 2016 SHOT coming soon thanks to our sponsor Artificial Shoulder Pocket www.asp.co

With SHOT Show just days away Lefthand is scrambling to get packed and out the door. Chad Enos with Kel-Tec Weapons drops in to lend a hand and get Lefty on track. We get caught up with Chad and his latest 3-gun endeavours and find out how he really injured his leg. The guys discuss some of their expectations for SHOT this year, their plans for the show and what surprises Kel-Tec will drop on us at SHOT. Chad clears the air about the "situation" with Hank Strange.

This week Lefthand kicks off 2016 by having Tactical Walls's Tim Matter and Sonoran Desert Institute's Zeke Stout aka "Squatch" join him on the show! Tim and Zeke tell us about their Holiday's. Tim talks about their new lock systems. Zeke gets us caught up on what's new with SDI and his and Chad Hoover's (Hook1) new Radio Show "Outside In". We missed him last time Tim was on the show but not this week, Rob Boss makes an appearance and tells us about his latest antics and how he really feels about Tim...New Jackwagons and Facts To Fight The Myths

Since the Facts to Fight the Myths Best Of episode was so well received we decided to do a "Best Of" Jackwagon Train. Lefthand is joined by Pepper for the intro. Pepper tells us about her"Christmas Vacation" and Lefthand gets some new equipment which he has no clue how to use. This episode The Gunny brings us Jackwagons thrown on the train by James Yeager, Don Shiply, Nicole McClain, Paul & Jarred Markel, Andrew Brinamen & Matt Best...Featured episodes include TLP 11, TLP 34, TLP 35, TLP 36, TLP 53 and TLP 63...To hear all of the episodes featured here visit www.talkinglead.com or iTunes.