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Balancing Family and Passion in the World of Shooting

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Growing up in Montana with limited resources, I learned the true art of long-range shooting through trial, error, and a trusty Savage 10T tactical rifle, handed down from my father. This episode uncovers my early experiences and the steep learning curve I faced, all to make your journey a bit smoother. By sharing my progression from a novice to a seasoned shooter and law enforcement professional, you’ll understand how perseverance and community support are vital in mastering precision shooting.

Ever wondered how competing in local precision shooting events could impact your skills? I recount my initial leap into competitions across multiple states with only a .308 rifle, emphasizing the camaraderie and lessons learned. From harsh winds in Montana to the supportive guidance of my fellow shooters, the narrative highlights the significant boost competitions provide in skill development, crucial for both enthusiasts and professionals like myself in law enforcement.

Discover the surprising benefits of rimfire competition shooting as I share my transition from centerfire to .22 competitions. Initially skeptical due to the financial strain of frequent barrel replacements in centerfire shooting, mentors like Shane Scott and Trevor Cunningham helped me embrace the affordability and skill-building advantages of .22 competitions. Despite qualifying for nationals in the 22X series, my choice to prioritize family over competition reflects the continuous balancing act between passion and priorities. Tune in to hear about these experiences and more, as I aim to share valuable insights in the world of precision shooting.

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Hey guys, welcome to the PXP podcast. Today we're going to be covering just a little bit about myself. This is episode one, so I just figured we would allow you guys to get to know your host a little bit, figure out how I tick, what my experience level is, what we're going to be talking about, where I came from, who I am. All that good stuff. So hope you guys enjoy this episode. I can't thank you enough for listening and supporting the channel or the podcast channel. I very much appreciate it. And let's go ahead and get started on this man.

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So my name is Zach Wallace. I live here in Montana I won't say exactly where, but I'm sure you guys will figure it out eventually. But yeah, so I grew up as a normal dude, normal kid, playing around with the neighborhood kids, nothing special and went to high school, had a big interest in long range shooting. When I shooting, when I was, um, you know about that 13, 14, 15 year old age, and you know my, my father got into it, um, pretty deeply as well. And um, one day, uh, we both decided just to go buy some guns. So off we went to I think it was Cabela's. And uh, there we went, I think it was Cabela's and uh, there we went and um, so, uh, we both ended up getting a. Um, it was a uh factory rifle, savage 10T tactical. Uh, I think it had like an 18 inch barrel on it, black synthetic stock, and then we threw some uh SWFA scopes on there, so pretty pretty low end type of uh type of setup just to get started in it.

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And that's kind of where my journey started in this whole long range shooting realm. I um, you know there wasn't a whole lot out there to kind of figure out um, what to do. I mean, this was back in, you know, 2003, 2004 or five somewhere in there, and there wasn't a ton of YouTube channels. The technology for ballistic computers, um, was kind of just really starting. For the most part it was a pretty new um. I didn't know how to get started. We were both learning, you know, we were both um figuring it out on our own and the only thing that we really had was YouTube and, like I said, youtube didn't have a ton of that stuff out there. So, and we would go to the range, try to figure out our dope. We had very, very low-end chronographs. We started out with factory ammunition my father kind of got into reloading, so that's where I started learning how to reload my own ammunition. I was about 15 years old or so and that's where I picked up reloading as well.

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And, man, it's been a journey. It's been, you know, like close to 18 years now of you know reloading and precision shooting. And you know it's been quite the learning curve. And the whole point of this podcast and for Precision X Productions is to cut this learning curve down to close to nothing for the listeners out there. The technology that's out there, the information that gets that's put out there, is absolutely phenomenal. Now, and, um, I just want to be kind of a gateway for um, for people learning how to do this, um, to uh get this information easily and accessible. Um, I'm open for questions, I'm open for all sorts of stuff. I have a website, precisionxproductionscom. That's here, out of Montana, I travel around and put shooting courses on, I do individual sessions, I do big classes and all sorts of stuff.

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So, anyways, back to my journey. So, yeah, and you know, after shooting, you know one, two, 300 yards, we're wanting to shoot long range, right, that's the whole point of this thing. And so what we would do is, uh, we'd go out to, you know, some block management land or some state land or whatever. We could find that was public land that was legal to shoot, and we would, uh, you know, pick a rock way out there, you know, and we'd range it and we'd shoot. We would pick a rock way out there and we'd range it and we'd shoot, and of course we'd be way off and we wouldn't know why and it was all sorts of frustrating and I had no idea that temperature, humidity and elevation and all this sort of stuff played a huge factor. And I was just guessing and eventually I'd be able to hit the target but I wouldn't know why.

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I wouldn't know what the issue was and why, like my dope, like that on previous engagement, wasn't lining up and, um, you know, then I went through the oh, I forgot to mention that the reticle that I was using in that scope was a? Uh, it's just a regular mill dot reticle. That's pretty much what the popular thing was back then was just a just a regular mill dot reticle. And the funny part is is um, the reticle was uh mills. Obviously in the turrets were MOA. That just added to the problem. Um, so thank God nowadays, um, um, scope manufacturers you know, it's it, there's, they just, uh, they make sure that they match up and, um, yeah, that that took out a lot of confusion there. But okay, so let's fast forward a little bit.

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Um, God, there was years and years and years in there where I just couldn't figure out like a good program to use that was accurate, and I couldn't find any information out there that told me exactly like what I needed to do. And I was, you know, really young and um, you know, instead of uh sitting down and doing all the research, I just wanted to go out and shoot and figure it out myself, which, uh just obviously extended my, my learning curve. And, um, I did that for many, many years. I rifle hunted. I was a very proficient rifle hunter, um, obviously, to the, you know, two, three 400 yard range and yeah, so that's kind of what I did for a really long time.

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And after I graduated high school, I had a very big interest in law enforcement. My father's been in law enforcement for 32 years now, so I grew up with him doing that. He was, um, he was a canine officer for many years. He was a SWAT officer, swat commander for many years. So I got, uh, I got a really good exposure for what law enforcement was about, how they operate, their values, morals and ethics and all sorts of stuff, and I wanted to emulate that. I thought it was great, a very honest job and, um, yeah, so, uh, I went down that path and in 2000 and gosh, it was 2010, I became a reserve for the local sheriff's office and with, uh, the reserve program, um, you know, you wear a badge and a gun.

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You do the exact same thing as the, uh, the normal deputies do, um, minus a couple things like you can't investigate DUIs and stuff like that, because, uh, you have to be DUI certified and that happens at the academy. Um, and they put us through, like this, uh, three month reserve training program and, um, yeah, that's what I did for a year and a half. Absolutely loved it. Um, still was doing the, the long range shooting thing on the side and, um, you know it was pretty good deal and the the cool thing was is that, um, I could pick up security details where they would have a concert here in town or something was going on and they needed security. Well, reserves could pick that up for the same overtime that full-time deputies could, which was really cool at the time. That's changed since, obviously, but that's how I paid for a lot of my bills and no, it was great. I absolutely loved it.

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It got me hooked in the law enforcement world and after that I knew I wanted to go full time. So, um, I uh applied for a department, um that was in a County next to us it was the sheriff's office got hired full time there and, um, it very much enjoyed the job. It was great. I loved it, Um, but I wanted to work at the police department here back home and um, so that's what I did. I applied a year and a half later, um, I went to the academy, um, and then I uh, after I got back from the academy, I applied at the police department here and I got hired, and I've been here for 11 years since. So I have, uh, I guess, total law enforcement experience. Um, with my reserve experience is close to 14, 15 years or something. Full-time experience is like 13 years. So, um, with my reserve experience is close to 14, 15 years or something full-time experiences like 13 years.

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So, yeah, ever since then, uh, that's what I've been doing. I've been pushing around a car and going to calls and um and all sorts of stuff. Uh, the job's very hard. It can, it can uh get to you sometimes, but, um, you know you just gotta get to you sometimes, but, um, you know you just gotta you have to keep the mindset of why you're out there, right? So, uh, fast forward a little bit. Um, I was in the meantime here.

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In my whole law enforcement career I've been absolutely obsessed with hunting and it's morphed into, like, uh, uh, from a rifle hunter to an archery hunter. So now I'm uh, almost strictly hunting, archery hunting. Um, minus little caveat in there If I don't get a deer during archery season, I will definitely uh rifle hunt, and I love to hunt antelope with a bow, but I also love doing it with with a rifle. So that's pretty good. We'll get into that here, uh, just a little bit later. But so back in. Oh God, I had to have been 2016.

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Um, I became a field training officer for, uh, for the police department. I needed, uh, I needed, I needed to change. I needed something more. Um, I believed I was very knowledgeable about the job. I was very good, very safe and I love to teach. I very much love to teach. So I became became a field training officer. I did that for a while and then I became a taser instructor, a CEW Conducted Electrical Weapon instructor. So that's what I do now as well.

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And then in 2017, I felt like that I needed some more. I felt like I was very tactically inclined. I worked very well in a team, I was very proficient with my weapons, I was very knowledgeable, I knew how to talk to people, I knew how to deescalate, I knew how to do all these things and I was very motivated for work, and so I thought that the SWAT team would be a very good idea. And so, in 2017, I applied for the SWAT team and tested. They have a it's a physical test and then you got your shooting evaluation, you have an interview and then you have a scenario based stuff and they do this all back to back. So it's kind of very uh fast pace. You don't really have a whole lot of time to think about anything. So, um, anyways, uh, there was uh god I don't know eight or nine applicants, um, and I was number two out of the three that they took.

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So fast forward a little bit there, and I uh, you know, with my long-range shooting experience, I've obviously gained a lot of knowledge over the you know 10 or 12 years, 15 years or, yeah, 10 or 12 years that I had been doing it at that time I'd been reloading that whole time. I was able to figure out how to effectively reload ammunition to make super accurate, consistent ammunition. I was shooting long range. I obviously had upgraded my rifle and all sorts of stuff. I had a better understanding of ballistics, how to get my dope lined up with what was actually happening to my projectile while it was flying through space and time. I was able to do all these things. I figured out the absolute best way to you know the fundamentals of marksmanship, how those applied, how to apply those subconsciously to the point where you're not thinking about doing these things um, doing it off of um, you know positional shooting and all sorts of stuff and um, so I felt like that uh, due to my experience there, I'd be a really good sniper.

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So went to my Lieutenant, um and I I you know the SWAT commander at the time and I said, hey, I want to go to sniper school. And uh, sure Shit, just a couple months later I was in a sniper basic and um, that was really good. I excelled during sniper basic. It was a very good experience, very much enjoyed it. Um, I I loved the professional side of precision shooting and I felt like I would uh excel at it and do great. Uh little did I know that? Uh, it would, that it would pretty much overtake my entire life. I mean not just the professional side of sniping and stuff like that, but also through, you know, the hobby side, my personal side, and you know this was just another way to to be able to to do the thing that I absolutely love, both at work and at home, and it was great. I I very much enjoy it.

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So, uh, you know, um year two in um of uh being a sniper, um, I did very well. We'd go on live operations and, uh, they would take a senior sniper and put him with me. I got to learn the ropes. That way did it dozens upon dozens, upon dozens of times, to the point where now I am the sniper team leader for the SWAT team and it's been great. I've changed up a little bit with the sniper program, done some stuff there. I still currently am um a police sniper with the department that I'm at and, um, it's been great. Um, it's a very challenging work being a team leader, um, for the sniper unit. I don't get to train a whole lot, since I'm actually facilitating the training and uh, but that's okay because I train on my off time all the time, um, more so than I don't. I actually don't know anybody else that on the team that really shoots more than I do. Um, so I get my own training on my own personal time and, um, yeah, it's been, it's been fantastic. I absolutely love it. So let's dive a little bit down deeper now on, um, what I've been doing lately.

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So, the past couple of years I have been, I just I felt like I needed an edge. I felt like that I needed more training, I needed an edge, I needed to kind of surround myself with like-minded people that absolutely loved precision shooting, absolutely loved precision shooting. And so, um, I started doing some research and, um, I found out that there was a competition series here locally that encompasses several States. It's like Montana, wyoming, south Dakota, um, idaho, colorado, like all these States. Right, it's a, it's, it's like a. It's a fairly big series with hundreds of hundreds of shooters in it, and I, uh, I was like, fuck man, like that's a, that's a really good idea. This would really give me an edge and I'd learn a lot and all sorts of stuff.

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So, um, talked to my wife and I was like, hey, I'm going to dive down into this a little bit, but the only rifle that I had was my .308 rifle that I used for work. And I started doing some research and I figured out that a lot of these shooters are shooting, like, you know, race gun style stuff. So they're shooting like six Creedmores, 22 GTs, six, you know, 22 Creedmores, six BRs, six BRAs, like all these small caliber rifles. Well then I found out that there's a tactical class that, uh, I can compete in. That's like 308s and 223s. Obviously, there's a disadvantage, a little bit of a disadvantage, shooting a 308 and a 223. So they shoot in their own class, which I was like, oh, that's great. Um, yeah, that's not what I

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did. I, uh, I still shot an open. I felt like, uh, still do good, I shouldn't have done that, but anyway, so go to my first competition. And, man, I had such an ego. I was like, man, I'm a police sniper, I'm going to be able to knock this stuff out of the park, but this is a whole different ballgame. Man, I did not understand what I was getting myself

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into. So my very first competition competition was in three forks, montana. The wind was like 35 fricking miles an hour and I had never like really shot in the wind. And then the reticle that I was using on my my scope it's a night force attacker and it's an MOA, which was my first problem. And, um, there's no Christmas tree, so I can't really do holdovers or anything I can, but I'm kind of shooting in the middle of nowhere and all sorts of stuff. And um, yeah, so in the reticles, just, uh, I think it's got I can't even remember what the reticles called on it and I've, uh, I've kind of transitioned into the like the vortex gen three um scopes, but anyways, um, I ended up like like the Vortex Gen 3 scopes, but anyways, I ended up like god, it was out of 70 shooters and I ended up like right at mid-pack it was like 30, 31st or 32nd or something like that and the, the group that I was shooting

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with. We call them squads. So you get squads and they start on, like, if I'm squad one, I start on stage one, and, um, the squad that I was shooting with was fricking awesome man, they, uh, they were very, very good about, um, you know, showing me the ropes how to run the tablet for scoring, how to call uh, how to be the RO for that stage and how to call impacts, how to be a spotter, um, how to shoot in the wind and they were making wind calls for me, since I was a new shooter and man, it was just great. And I will tell you this if you were interested in getting into uh, long range shooting and you want a really, really fast learning curve, find somebody to instruct you and then go to some competitions and I guarantee you that first year of you doing this, you are going to learn just as much as I have over the past 18 years of trying to figure this shit out on my own. So, apps like I, if you're not, if you're not going to do that, and at least go to one or two competitions just just to just to learn not to compete, but just to learn man, you're doing yourself a disservice by doing that. I highly, highly, highly recommend that and I tell that to all of my students, because it is the absolute cheapest way to train. It's the cheapest way to learn because you're paying anywhere between 50 and 80 bucks to go shoot 10 stages or so and you're surrounded by, and then just make sure you squad up with a class shooters Um, I don't know how other classes work where you guys are at, but for us it's like a, b and

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C. I was an unclassified shooter and I made sure to squad up with a class shooters and man, like I've never met one person in in this shooting industry, the long range precision shooting industry that wasn't an amazing individual, that was a wealth of knowledge. Even if they're a C class shooter, they're going to have a wealth of knowledge. So you're going to learn, like um, how to uh positional shooting. You're going to learn, um, how to set your dope right, Like these guys are great, they're gonna, they're going to be fighting to help you because we want this sport to grow, and, yeah, they're going to go out of their

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way. So, anyways, uh, man, and that's where I found my edge in law enforcement, uh, policing, um, as far as um, getting that little bit of extra edge where I felt like I was highly, highly, highly proficient with, with, uh, with my rifle, um, in the unfortunate event that I had to use it, and so, and after my very first competition I became 110% hooked. I came straight home, even though I didn't do that great, I was mid-pack. I came straight home and I told my wife I'm like, yep, this is what I want to do. And you know, the rest is pretty much history. Now I've done all sorts of competitions around all sorts of states and got myself one of these race guns. You know, these guys are shooting six Creedmoors and six GTs. I'm like race guns. You know these guys are shooting six Creedmores and six GTs. I'm like heck, you know that's what I'm going to do. So I went and built a uh, a six Creedmore and got a masterpiece arms chassis for it, got a custom barrel. I got a uh, vortex Razor HD Gen three. Um, you know that all sounds really expensive and you know we're going to have future episodes on how to um, how to actually get into this sport in the most the cheapest way, like a, like a budget long range competition slash hunting rifle. And if I were to do it all over again, that's where I would start. I wouldn't start completely from the um the point that I did, even though I already had rifles for hunting and I had a professional rifle set up for work. I didn't need a rifle that was going to fit the bill for all of those. So I built a gun specifically for competition and it's been

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great. I shoot a 6 Creedmoor, I reload my own ammo and the only thing that I got to say about the 6 Creedmoor is that it's a barrel burner. Guys, I wouldn't go down the 6 Creedmoor route unless you got money to spend on barrels. I'm already, um, I'm on my second barrel that I put on. Um God, I made that last one my last barrel. Oh my God, I uh. So typically, um, those barrels will last anywhere between 1800 and 22 and 2,200 rounds. I put over 3,000 rounds on that, my last barrel, and it was not good. So I definitely recommend a caliber that you could shoot anywhere between 2,500 and like 5,000 rounds, and that's going to last you a while, depending on how much you shoot. To last you a while, depending on how much you

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shoot. So if I were to do it all over again, I would. I would shoot either like a six GT, six BR, the six arc advanced rifle cartridge. That's actually probably the route that I'm going to be going to here soon. Once I'm done with this one, I have one more six Creedmoor barrel lined out that's sitting in my closet, ready to get spun up Once I'm done with my current barrel and then that barrel. That's where I'm going to go. So, anyways, we'll dive into all that stuff later. I have another point to cover

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here. So once I started getting into the competition world for centerfire shooting, started getting into the competition world for centerfire shooting, um, you know, I started noticing that, uh, man, components are like the, the price of components are going up quite a bit and it was costing quite a bit of money out of pocket for sure to shoot as much as I wanted to. And I slowed down on competitions a little bit. Um, instead of doing, like you know, two a month or whatever, I went down to one a month just to save on money, travel components, all that sort of stuff, burning out my barrel and I was like man, I want to shoot more. And the problem with the 6 Creedmoor is, you know you go to the range and you want to shoot 60, 70 rounds to practice every weekend and you know that's a decent portion of your barrel life right there and I'm like, god damn, I'm going to have to be like fucking, have like four or five fucking barrels on hold all the time, or at least getting them spun up and sent to

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me. And so I met this awesome individual. His name is Shane Scott. He's the president of uh, the pro series, which is the precision rimfire outlaws here in Montana, and the pro series is is big. It's actually bigger than the WPR, the uh, the WPR is the series that I was shooting in. I forgot to mention it's the Western precision rifle and um, so if you guys in the area check it out, for sure it's

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great. So I met Shane and um he mentioned uh, getting into um the rim fire shooting and I'm like, ah, man, that's, I don't know, that's kind of dumb. And I'm like I'm not really into the the 22 stuff. And um, then I ended up meeting um one of my, one of the other buddies of his, that does the pro series stuff, and his name is Trevor and Trevor Cunningham, and he got a hold of me and was really pushing the .22 stuff too. And this was about a god, almost two years ago now. And so Trevor kept texting me hey, you need to come out to a comp. You can use my rifle. You need to come out to a comp, you know all this sort of stuff, and I'm like, ah fuck. So I finally went and I'm like this is dumb, like I'm not gonna, I'm probably not gonna do good because I don't know how to fucking shoot a .22 that well, and all sorts of stuff and all

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this shit. Fucking. Long story short I won my first, was it two or three competitions I got first place. It wasn't out of a whole lot of shooters, it was like I don't know, probably between 20, man, probably like around 20 shooters, and it absolutely fucking hooked me. It was awesome and the ammo's cheap. The rifles are the exact same as centerfire competition rifles, you know, and it's just cheaper to shoot, it's cheaper to train and every time I go out and shoot my 22, I'm still getting reps on barricades. I'm still getting reps on you know sight picture. I'm still getting reps on the fundamentals of marksmanship. I still get to use my Kestrel and figure out my dope and do all my things. But I'm not going to burn out this fucking barrel, because you can't really burn out a 22 barrel. There's no heat involved and that's what. That's what destroys center fire barrels is heat. And so I absolutely got hooked on it, man and I pretty much solely did 22 competitions for like almost the past year now and, yeah,

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it's been great. I went, I actually qualified for nationals the 2023, 2024 nationals and it's from the 22, the 22X series. I can't go. Unfortunately, this is my very first year of actually competing in the 22X series and I qualified, got the email said that I got the invite, because they only invite people with a certain score or higher to this and I can't go. I'm going on vacation. So we've had the vacation planned for too long and, um, I didn't want to piss off the wife and all sorts of stuff and I've already been gone a lot lately for for competitions and stuff. So I was like, ah, that's, it's not that big of a deal, so, um, but anyways, yeah, it's been,

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it's been fun. Uh, you don't need to wear ear pro. Well, you don't need to sit there and pick up all your brass. It's just, it's just fun. You know you could bring your kids along. They, they don't need to wear your pro. Um, you know they could shoot your rifle and this is a good way to get, uh, get them into the sport as well. And, uh, you know that's what I've kind of done. My rifle come, or my rifle, my, uh. My kid comes with me to a lot of competitions. I show her how to spot impacts. She gets to shoot a little bit, she gets to run around, see everybody. It's just great. I very much, very

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much enjoy it. And then on top of that, the courses for set or for a rimfire are a lot smaller. So instead of, you know, walking a mile down range or to get from like stage one to stage eight on a centerfire course, or not a mile, maybe like half a mile or whatever you know, you're walking two or 300 yards. Everything is really close. So I mean, there's just a lot of pros to it. You know, the only con that I could really think of with rimfire shooting is you're just not getting the same recoil management skills. And then, other than that, you're just not shooting targets super far away. But wind still applies, like big time, applies to .22 shooting and everything else applies. 22 shooting, um, and everything else applies. So if you have a centerfire competition rifle or a centerfire hobbyist rifle and then you have a 22 rifle, you could practice and do the exact same stuff. Your

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kids could shoot it. The ammo's cheaper, um, yeah, you still get to use your Kestrel or whatever ballistic program that you're using to figure out your dope, and yeah, so like a high quality box of 22 ammunition for 50 rounds is like 15 bucks. Like right around there you can get cheaper ammo that works just like pretty damn well as well for like 10 bucks. So when I'm buying ammunition online I'm buying like a thousand or so rounds at a time, and when I go shoot at the range I'm shooting, god, like 200 rounds. You can't do that on a centerfire barrel. You're gonna burn the shit out of that thing. So you know, and that only might be like three or four hours, you know, of 200 fucking rounds, of you know zeroing dope or dope verification, and then you're doing stages over and over and over and over again. You know, and it's great. So, uh, 22 shooting is awesome guys, uh, but uh, yeah, no, the center fire is is, uh what lies close in my heart for sure, uh, but I definitely take advantage of the 22 stuff. So, um, you know, other than that, uh, I got a wife and a little girl, um, yeah, so that pretty much covers uh, my own. Um, I guess how I take uh, what makes what makes Zach Wallace and uh, yeah, wallace and uh, yeah. So, anyways guys, hope you guys have a awesome, um, memorial day weekend. Um, that's coming up here shortly. And, uh, thanks for listening to the podcast. Next episode is going to be coming up here very shortly. Thank you guys for listening. Uh, please get on. Precision X productionscom. Check out the content, check out. Oh shit, I forgot to talk about that. Yeah, so here in. Oh god, it

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had to have been. About six months ago I decided to start Precision X Productions and that is a business that's just focused on precision rifle courses. You know, I thought about dabbling into the pistol stuff due to my experience and then the M4 stuff, but I just I do too much of that stuff to where. It's just not. It's not really fun to me anymore. I still like to teach it. Like, if somebody wants to learn that stuff or really requests that, you know they want me to teach them, I percent I will. I've thought about doing concealed carry courses and all sorts of stuff, but, um, I know there'd probably be a like a little bit more money in

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in that, for sure. But I'm not in this for the money. I'm in this to teach because I just want people to. I want people to love what I love, and I want them to. I want to show them why I love it and um, so, and that to me is um, precision long range shooting, because there is nothing more satisfying than putting a bullet through time and space and making it hit exactly where you want it to hit. So, anyways, I do precision rifle courses, um, I do like big classes, um, where we'll come, we'll cover, like introduction

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to precision rifle stuff. Um, I do positional course stuff, um, yeah, so, and then I also do individual sessions so you can give me a call, or, uh, you don't need to give me a call, you can go online there check out the availability and um, you can select the date and the time that works well for you, typically on a weekend, cause I, I, I still work, I'm still a working man, so, and usually everybody's

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off on the weekend. So it kind of, um kind of works out, but, um, you pick a whatever date and time that you want and uh, yeah, we both show up and we do a one-on-one session and um, I figured out what your kind of knowledge base is at the very beginning, what you want from this instruction and coaching, and, uh, we man, we just shoot and have a great time and smoke and joke and shoot bullets. And you walk away from, let's just say, you're a brand new shooter, brand new rifle, never shot long range. You, you walk away from, let's just say, you're a brand new shooter, brand new rifle, never shot long range. You walk away from that course being able to um effectively, uh, take apart your rifle, put it back together effectively zero, with 12 rounds or less, obtaining uh, ballistic data, environmental data, um and um, uh, long range verification. You learn how to do that. And then you learn how to shoot in the wind and that's just like a basic introduction. But you walk away understanding and knowing how to confidently shoot up to a thousand yards consistently, knowing what your bullet's doing, knowing what your Kestrel's doing, knowing how to shoot in the wind. I teach you how to use gun number. I won't dive into that now, um, uh, but gun number basically allows you to shoot in the wind um, accurately without using your Kestrel, uh, just knowing the wind speed, pretty much. So super, super, super good information, really good for hunters and competition shooters. So,

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anyways, check that out. All right, I'm out of here. Thank you guys, very much for listening. Get on the website, check it out and yeah, the next episode is going to be posted here very shortly. I'm going to try to blast like I don't know two or three out there at a time for you guys to listen to. And, yeah, hopefully you guys enjoyed episode one. Very much appreciate it and I'm out.