Rimfire Nation: Recent Episodes
Rick
Covering the Canadian Rimfire Precision Series of events. We'll be talking about the different matches, getting started and tips on getting better. We'll cover some gear and common questions people have about our events.
Join us as a relatively new competitor shares his shooting journey from shooting on a friends farm with his 10/22 a couple of years ago to his invitation to the 2026 NRL22 National Championship in Alabama. Mike is just one of the amazing people I meet in this sport.
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Join us as our good friend Josh joins us to chat about life and shooting. We cover a wide range of topics including BCPRL, CAPRA and getting mentally squared away for shooting.
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We chat with our frequent cohost Travis from Bossgear to find out what's new at Bossgear. Bossgear has been working hard to keep delivering the best bags around. Find out what else he's been working on bringing to us shooters.
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Join us as we sit down with Asmir from Tesro on the state for the rimfire nation. Find out what is going on and why!
Join us as we sit down with Jason Travers who is a relatively new shooter who chose to start and stay in the Production Division. He chats with us about his start and thoughts on how we worked his way up to to competing at the National level. Great guy and a pleasure to hang out with.
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Join us as we sit down with Matt to discuss how he approached the year leading up to his podium finishes at Worlds and PRS Rimfire Nationals in 2025.
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This week we sit down with Ashley and Kenny from Desert Precision Gunworks to chat about their process of making more accurate CZ457 barreled actions, their new, well thought out, Genesis action and answer questions about rimfire builds. Matt Hui and Travis round out the discussion panel. If you are interested in rimfire accuracy and barreled actions this is an episode you should not miss.
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Sit down with us as we chat with the Junior Team Canada members to learn about their Rimfire World Championship experience and getting started. A great group of shooters who committed a ton of time and effort into representing Canada at the recent World Championship. Thanks for being such great ambassadors.
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Join us as we sit down with Matt Colsch, founder and president of the Northeast Iowa 22lr Marksmen Club to chat about rimfire in his region and hosting PRS Midwest finals.
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Join in to hear about the World Championship Team Canada Ladies Team and their journey to the world stage! Our Ladies Team - Estelle Boon, Lisa Hertay, Dory Lee and Jessica Tischler Finished 3rd Ladies Team in the world! An amazing accomplishment by some amazing team of women. Listen in to their story and the road they've travelled so far.
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Join us as we sit down with Pascal to chat about rimfire matches, being an MD and father of a youth competitor going to the Rimfire World Championship this year.
Join us as we sit down with Ryan Steacy from IBI to catch up on all things rimfire in his life. On top off being busy keeping us all fed with amazing barrels, he's also keeping the flow of the new Deuce 2.0 actions going and shot the NRL22 Championships.
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Join us as we sit down with Carlee Krtolica from Apex and CAPRA to hear the latest product developments and the activities underway to help Team Canada at the Rimfire World Championships in Great Britain this August.
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Join us as we sit down with Lyle and Rik from the Island to talk about their signature rimfire event. Summer Sizzler takes place in Courtney each year and is an amazing weekend of rimfire fun.
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This week we sit down with Yanick and Etienne on their PRS journey and their thoughts on improvement and helping others improve. Its a great discussion on helping new shooters grow.
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Join us as we sit down with our good friend Josh to chat about BCPRL and the shooting life!
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Travis and I sit down with David to dive deep into the science and strategy behind bag fill. We've come a long way from rice, peas and sand. There are better options. Tune in to learn about the hidden world of bag fill.
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Join us as we sit down with Angela and Eric from Gray Fox Strategic to chat about their company and products. We see a lot of their products at our events and now we get to peek behind the curtain.
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Join us as we sit down with Asmir from Tesro and Travis from BOSSGEAR to chat about new cool stuff coming, plans for the 2025 season and the ammo situation.
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Join us as we continue our conversation about upcoming items in rimfire and chat about the CRPS Rimfire Precision Paper matches and the King of .22 Miles in October.
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Join us as we sit down with Asmir and talk about the CRPS 2024 season and chat about all things new in events and gear for 2025.
Join us as we sit down with Travis of Bossgear.ca to see what's new and catch up on life. Travis started up a shooting accessory business to help shooters find more affordable/quality products. He's built a great business and reputation for solid gear that helps you make more hits. He's constantly looking for ways to improve and add more products to his list of offerings. Tune in as we sit down and chat about what he's been working on.
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Join us as we sit down with the NRL22 Canada team as they announce the 2024 National NRL22 Canada team and the added goodies for the 2025 season.
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Join us as we sit down with the NRL22 Canada crew to chat about the series and their plans for 2024/25.
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Join us as we chat with Asmir from Tesro.ca on the state of the ammo situation, Tesro rifle builds, optics and other new items they saw at Shot Show.
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Join us as we sit down with Josh to talk about shooting, BCPRL and MDT! Enjoy the technical issues that causes Rick to go dark for a little bit and Josh takes questions from the audience!
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Join us as we sit down with Chris and Jim about training and participating in the toughest shooting competition in the world, the Mammoth Sniper Challenge.
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Join us this week as Will and Kevin Chou talk about their shooting, rifle building and tuner/brake manufacturing business. They've built their reputation on creating well engineered and beautifully machined equipment for shooters.
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Nelson Drolet founder and CEO of NDR Shooting Supplies enlightens us on starting up an aftermarket magazine business while being a fulltime CF18 fighter pilot!
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We get a chance to pick the brains of a shooting couple that have accomplished so much in a very short amount of time. Join us as we sit down with Michael and Estelle to learn about their start in competitive PRS (rimfire/centerfire) shooting and the lessons they learned along the way. It's an interesting discussion with lots of good points on the importance of keeping notes and incremental improvements.
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This week Yanick joins us to share some news about the Team Canada World Center fire and Rimfire team selection process. He covers the ongoing work and strategy underway to help put the best team each year. This year is the World Centerfire Championship is being held in Colorado. Tune in to hear the shooter qualification process and how they're preparing for a strong team Canada.
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So excited to have the opportunity to sit down with Keith and Linda to chat about their shooting history, their books and their philosophy in shooting. They are truly Canadian shooting legends who have done so much to help shooters improve.
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Join us as we sit down with Alex Richards from Affordable Optics and Rifles to get his first time competitor impressions. Tune in to hear his expectations vs reality observations.
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We've been hearing so much about the capabilities of modern air rifles so we decided to go to the source (no pun intended). Travis Cuppy , owner of Airgun Source Canada, shares with us the details behind the latest generation of precision air rifles and what makes them so interesting.
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Join us as we sit down with MD Travis and owner of Bossgear.ca to talk about shooting bags. What do you really need? How do you choose one and when/how do you use it?
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Join us as we sit down with Vanja from Apex to chat about all the new additions to the Apex lineup for 2023. It's a pretty impressive lineup with hints of even more products in the pipeline.
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Join us as we sit down with Asmir from Tesro.ca as we discuss what's new. We also do the Tesro.ca ORPS year end big prize draws from the ORPS 2022 season.
We also chat with Mike Hynek on the .22 Hunter Series.
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Join us as we chat about getting started in precision rimfire shooting, we discuss rifles, optics, skills across the low, medium and high range options.
We have a couple of guests who recently started shooting rimfire prs to discuss their journey and highlight their decision criteria when choosing gear.
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Join us as we sit down with Yanick Leblanc to discuss the newly established International Precision Rifle Federation and the upcoming international rimfire competition in Italy. We also chat about his online precision shooting courses and discuss tuners.
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Join the crew as we sit down with Ryan Steacy, Technical Director for International Barrels Inc. and Ultimatum Precision to see what they've been up to and what they are working on.
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After a long summer break, we are back!
Join us as we sit down with Asmir from Tesro.ca to catch up on the season and the state of the industry from his perspective.
This week we sit down to review the recent CRPS Match at Avonmore and we then talk with Asmir from Tesro.ca about the issues that impact/impair our vision when shooting. Some really good discussion on optics ensues.
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This week we sit down with Graham Young from Canada's Gun Store to chat about the series and their support for the shooting sports! We also chat about the recent X/22 match at Stittsville Ranges.
Join the gang as we sit down with Graham Young from Canada's Gun Store, title sponsors for the X/22 Challenge Series and competitors Tony N. and Hashem H. to chat about X/22 and what makes it different.
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Join us as we chat about all the new events added to the 2022 season and catch up on the new gear coming up.
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We sit down with Asmir from Tesro to chat about the new products they carry and what we can expect regarding ammo supply for 2022. Always a great time catching up with Asmir. Tesro was one of our first sponsors when we started up in 2017. Thanks Asmir!
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Join the gang as we sit down and chat about the coming year and the new Rimfire Nation Discovery Days and the Rimfire Competition Academy. We also check out the new rimfire precision rifles from Savage Arms.
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This week we sit down with Ryan Kristy on the new Long Range Steel Slayers League he started up. It sounds like a great series of events. Tune in to find out more!
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We have an interesting discussion with CRPS competitor Bryson Dodwell on the different ways to measure your shooting performance/improvements during practice. Join us to hear about paper vs steel practice targets and see how he uses a hybrid metric to track his progress.
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Join the crew as we get together to chat about the past year and talk about plans for 2022.
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NRS/CRPS/ORPS competitor Grant Sparling joins the podcast to talk about shooting the PRS Rimfire Regional and Finale matches in the US. We chat about the differences and similarities. Tune in to hear his perspective and experience.
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Join Rick and John as we ramble on about everything and nothing. We talk about plans for the winter and CRPS additions for 2022.
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Join the crew as we sit down with the CRPS 2021 2-Day Eastern Championship Match Director (and competitor) Chris Tischler and Match winner Brett Sharpe.
We chat about our favourite stages, our not so favourite stages and stage strategies.
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Join the crew as we sit down with Vanja from Apex Optics to discuss how you start an optics company and build a line of precision optics with quality, features at a reasonable price.
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Join the crew as we catch on the CRPS 2021 Western Championships and all the latest news!
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We get together to talk about the recent Extreme Sniper Series Match held at the Twisted Rooster Ranch. Many thanks to Curt Rouse for hosting this event at his amazing venue and to Jens Girke for his tireless RO work before during and after the event!
Go Big Tactical is the proud title sponsor of the CRPS Sniper Series Match.
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Join us as we catch up on all the fall events and life on the road!
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The gang gets together to catch up on the recent NRS Finale and other CRPS news. Join us as we chew the fat and chat about the rimfire life.
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One of our latest sponsors, Sean Marginet, from Marginet Metalworks joins us to talk precision shooting accessories, his experience working at PGW and what drives his company.
Join us as we dive into the Marginet Metalworks offerings (now available at Tesro.ca)
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This week Rick is on the road and clearly misses talking to people. John gives us an update on the Ultimatum Precision Deuce with the IBI 1:12 twist (spoiler alert - this combo shoots!). He also gives us an update on the Genesis by March Scopes. Join us as we hang out and catch up.
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This week we sit down with Asmir from Tesro to hear about his experience with Olympic/Paralympic shooting disciplines and how he and you can get started.
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This week we sit down with first-time Match Director Travis Mitchell to get his take on setting up and running his first CRPS (Awesome match by the way).
Join us to hear lessons learned and how all almost died from heatstroke.
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This week the Matt, Rick and John (joins later) get together to catch and talk about all things rimfire. Don't miss the episode where John trash talks everything and Matt starts sliding down the centerfire rabbit hole...definitely worth a listen.
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This week Ben Klick from Sierra 64 joins us to talk about building marksmanship fundamentals and the importance of the mental game. Ben has been a lifelong student of the rifle and has studied with some of the best instructors around the world. He has also put these skills to the test in his past military career. Join us as we dive into the art of the rifle. This is an episode not to be missed.
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This week we jump into the world of center fire PRS and chat with some of the competitors to hear about the match and how it differs from the rimfire PRS matches. MD Ryan Mclean also joins us to provide some insight into the match and the center fire PRS world.
The meandering conversation also delves into the current PRS calibres and end up convincing Kevin G. to get back into the center fire game.
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Join the crew as we chat about their prep and results for the most recent NRS match at Magnetawan. Great catching up and hearing what worked and what didn't.
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This week the gang gets together and catches up on all the stuff we've been up to. Join us to hear what's been going on!
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This week we sit down with Northern Rimfire Series Director Adam Kook to catch up the series and discuss their upcoming match in Ontario. Tune in to get a sneak peak into the course of fire and hear about what's they've been up to.
More information about the Northern Rimfire Series can be found at northernrimfireseries.ca
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This week Asmir from Tesro.ca joins the gang to talk about all the industry and all the cool products he's bringing in. Join us to hear our conversation.
This week the gang gets together to talk about fundamentals and what we work on during practice. Tune in to get some insight into our practice and things we work on.
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This week we get together to discuss shooting past 500 yards/meters with rimfire rifles. We also discuss the CRPS King of .22 miles event planned for 2021. Join us as we discuss all the bits and pieces you need to reach out past 500 yards with your rimfire rifle.
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This week we get together to discuss the current state of the rimfire precision game. We discuss the current options across all price points and the new products entering the market.
This one is a long one. Join us as we hang out and talk gear.
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The crew gets together to chat about their practice habits and training. Join us as we chat about how we train and just hang out.
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MDT CEO Maarten Van Ruitenburg joins us from his cross-continent trip to chat about all the precision shooting gear and discuss the various chassis, magazines, mounts and accessories that MDT delivers. Check out www.mdttac.com for more information.
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This week the crew gets together and talks about rimfire, gear and a whole bunch of other topics not alway rimfire related.
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This week the Matthew and Kevin walk us through the various points of setting up your optics for competition. We discuss all the different aspects of optics and cover the key points you need to consider.
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More information about the Canadian Rimfire Precision Series and our long range rimfire competitions can be found at rimfireprecision.ca.
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This week the crew gets together to try and get you setup with a simple ballistic chart using JBMBallistics.com and then we do a deep dive into ballistics, curves and why we all switched to Strelok Pro. John Gingrich puts on his ballistician hat and walks us through the different curves and where his analysis has taken him. Spoiler alert - its more complicated that you think. lol.
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This week the gang is joined by Benjamin Pinel, a new competitor, to discuss and breakdown the typical props we shoot from and how we approach building a solid shooting position.
Tune in to hear how we approach barricades and hear about the new knife that Rick bought from Tesro.ca this week.
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This week we sit down with IBI Technical Director, Ryan Steacy from International Barrels Inc. about their story, his story, their barrels and all the work they've been doing to make more hits at 300m with .22lr. Tune in to hear about the new hotness in rimfire barrels.
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This week we chat with Kevin about the new Sniper Series format and what it's all about. Tune in to hear about the format and the gear options. Thomas chats about the March ORPS COF and the recent event at Stittsville Ranges. Kevin G. multitasks and 3D prints spaghetti.
Thanks to Tesro.ca for the generous support of the Rimfire Nation Podcast.
This week we discuss the recent Palmerston match organized by John G. and all the fun we had. A great match and a great day. We also sit down with some of the Vortex Canada team to chat about optics. What are the options, how do you choose and what do you need to know? We also hear about the new 2021 products and some of the features that make them special. Many thanks to Reg, Peter and Darryl from Vortex Canada for taking the time and to Vortex Canada for their incredible support of our series.
This podcast is proudly brought to you by Asmir and Miriam from Tesro.ca. Check out the new products recently listed on their store, including the new CZ 457 competition models - https://www.tesro.ca/just-arrived.html.
This week the panel is joined by Yanick Sab Leblanc, experienced PRS and CRPS shooter to discuss the way we get ready for a match and the things we think about before during and after a stage. Tune it to hear how we "do it"!
Thanks again to Asmir and Miriam at Tesro.ca for the generous support of the Rimfire Nation Podcast and our events across Canada.
Join the panel as we chat with Asmir from Tesro.ca to hear how it all started and what he's been up to. We do a quick debrief on the CRPS Season Opener match at Warren Field and how it lived up to the "Frozen Finger Match" name.
Thanks to Tesro.ca for sponsoring our podcast. Find out more about CRPS on our website at rimfireprecision.ca
This week the panel tackles one of the most asked about topics - how to choose your ammo, rimfire ballistics and gathering DOPE for competition.
Tune in to hear how the different CRPS staff members approach this critical topic.
Thanks again to Tesro.ca for their support of this podcast.
We chat about the gear and the knowledge you need to get started in rimfire precision shooting. We discuss the differences between the short-range Outlaw Rimfire Precision Series and the long-range Canadian Rimfire Precision Series. Tune in to hear how CRPS staff approach the game.
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Our inaugural episode. We cover the different events that we run and try to breakdown how they are the same and how they differ.
Our events are listed on our website at www.rimfireprecision.ca.
Many thanks to Asmir and Miriam at tesro.ca for their support!