Max Ordinate Academy
MAX ORDINATE • The Precision Rifle Podcast
This is a product of Max Ordinate Academy, focusing on precision rifle training, methods, hard lessons learned, and tactical precision rifle competition preparation with after-action reviews, military and law enforcement employment, TTP & SOP's. Your hosts, Tyler Hughes and Jeph Savaglio gives you a professional and instructive perspective when it comes to professional / amateur thought processes with a lot of passionate, no-holds-barred content. This pod has no problems discussing a wide range of topics whether it be a failed stage, training methods, lessons learned, or calling each other out...
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Feb 8, 2026
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Episodes
I want to clean my rifle... But I don't want to hurt it 25.01.2022 49:58
Send us Fan Mail Tyler digs a little deeper on rifle cleaning & maintenance. For years, during our precision rifle training classes, students has asked about different methods of cleaning. Can I do this, can I do that. What carbon cleaner. What copper cleaner. Is one cotton patch better than the other. The answers are not that complicated. What are you attempting to achieve with your cleaning...
SHOT SHOW Recap and the rise of the Precision Rifle 24.01.2022 47:19
Send us Fan Mail After a week spent at SHOT SHOW, Tyler discusses new rifles and chassis systems being released as the Precision Rifle market becomes the new hot thing. New Products, Revamped Products, and everything in between. To cap the episode, Tyler discusses the NRL Hunter match this past week in Arizona. Many lessons were learned over the weekend regarding this newer style of competition an...
It's All About The Money... And where you spend it! 12.01.2022 6:50
Send us Fan Mail Happy Hump Day! Early morning chat with Tyler regarding money in the Precision Rifle world and how you spend it. Are you doing whats best for you? or trying to buy your way to the top? You will fail. Support the show Become a VIP Subscriber at http://www.patreon.com/maxordinate1 for video content, instructional videos, presentations, classes, charts, cheat sheets, and more!
Happy NEW YEAR! Now get training! 11.01.2022 52:42
Send us Fan Mail We're back! After a brief hiatus we're back in the studio recording. To kick off the new year right, we figured why not give a brief update on what we've up to, plans we have for the new year as well as todays lesson... Setting up your Rifle, LENGTH OF PULL and why its so dang important. You want to rise to the top, be a better sniper, better competitor, better mark...
Inside look at the 2021 Sniper Adventure Challenge by Competition Dynamics 09.09.2021 2:03:37
Send us Fan Mail During this episode, Tyler Hughes recaps the 2021 48 hr Sniper Adventure challenge and what it took to survive. The event start thursday September 2nd at 7pm and ended Saturday September 4th at 7pm. What happened during is whats so intriguing. 53 hours no sleep. Land Navigation. Shooting. Hiking over 54 miles. Finding your own source of water. Locking picking. escape and evasion....
Hard Lessons Dont Come Cheap 09.06.2021 1:30:21
Send us Fan Mail This episode, Tyler brings the team on to talk training, goals, lessons learned from steel safari, their mental processes, wind struggles, and more! Russ, Nick, & Vinessa share their stories, goals, and struggles. By looking back we can move forward. The idea is to learn from the mistakes, no matter how painful. Through failure we shall learn the lessons success cannot teach u...
The Wind Call Episode & Building Block Training Plans 19.04.2021 44:15
Send us Fan Mail On this cool sunday evening Tyler lets it all out regarding plans for the new range facility, a small tidbit on a building block approach to improving your personal training plan, and finally the wind call episode yall have all been asking and waiting for ever so patiently. From the beginning to establishing a baseline, reading the wind, how to simplify your process for correcting...
Little bit of Wind, Little bit of what can I do better... 21.03.2021 55:24
Send us Fan Mail After Day 1 of the Sharpshooter Showdown PRS match in Avenal, CA, Tyler, Russ, and Vinessa talk about some mental mistakes that occured, how to mitigate them in the future as well as wind call methods, establishing your baseline, and more! Short but sweet podcast that should help you improve your game and marksmanship. Enjoy! Support the show Become a VIP Subscriber at http://www...
Mental Preparation and Exercise 09.02.2021 22:47
Send us Fan Mail How well have you trained your short term memory? Are you exercising your mental game when away from the range? Are you able to process how you will conduct a stage down to the smallest detail? This episode discusses how to reach the next level of performance by increasing your mental effectiveness. Want to be the best? Want to get better? Be better than average? Time to work that...
You want to do what with your zero?! 04.02.2021 1:13:06
Send us Fan Mail Tyler and Jeremy are back at it discussing some interesting talk floating around the precision rifle community right now regarding impact disparity from prone to positional. Its one of those moments that takes you a second to process before you blurt out "WTF?" The duo also takes an indepth look at chassis systems and traditional stocks, the positives, negatives, and eve...
Interview of the Team 2020 Max Ordinate members 01.02.2021 1:47:57
Send us Fan Mail This episode is an interview style episode recapping and reviewing how the year 2020 went down, their successes and failures of the two members of Team MaxOrdinate. One brand new shooter and one 2 year experienced shooter too an entire year and dedicated themselves to training and competing. Weekend after weekend was spent with Tyler learning and honing their craft. Things are com...
Happy 2021, Quick Chat about Performance Based Training 30.01.2021 23:49
Send us Fan Mail Tyler running solo for this short episode discusses lifestyle fitness training versus performance based fitness training. Lifestyle fitness is no 30 day challenge. You live it. You eat right. You have a routine. Performanced Based fitness requires a desired effect and endstate. It is done to improve ones performance for a particular event or scenario. Tyler discusses this and some...
Don't PRS my Guardian • The ebbs and flows of being a Match Director 04.11.2020 1:38:12
Send us Fan Mail This epic episode brings together Tyler & Jeremy along with guests Adam Pini of KG Made Suppressors and Gary Larson of Guardian Long Range discussing this past weekends Guardian Long Range match in Cowtown, AZ with Tyler & Rei as the Match Directors. The conversation quickly starts off with a bashing of Tyler for having one wrong target distance and how he lost $100 before...
Method to the Madness • Direction and Focus for your Personal Training Program 23.10.2020 1:35:11
Send us Fan Mail Tyler and Jeremy are back! This Can-Not-Afford-to-Miss Episode discussing your personal training program, what to focus on, types of measurables and why they are important! The duo turns it up with different practices you can use to enhance your training, focus your time, and determine your priorities. This episode contains a few areas of lost connection but not much. No editing!...
Just Another Tuesday to Exercise your Brain 21.10.2020 1:55:19
Send us Fan Mail Tyler returns from a long weekend in New Mexico to chat with Rei aka @9_dolls about their experience this year at the Competition Dynamics Team Safari. Great teamwork, but faulty weapons led to this team to fall in the rankings but not in spirit. The duo give an excellent after action regarding the competition before brushing up on what Rei has been up to over the summer in the EL...
Developing a Bolt Action w/ Falkor Defense 01.10.2020 1:34:26
Send us Fan Mail Tyler brings on a new guest, Jason Sonju, owner of Falkor Defense to talk about fearlessly busting into the bolt action world with a goal of being the best. The conversation starts with some history of how Falkor came to be before rolling into the trials and lessons learned along the way of developing a short action rifle that will hang with the best of them. Everything from toler...
SPECIAL EPISODE! the Champion Mindset w/ Branch Warren 25.09.2020 56:29
Send us Fan Mail Tyler sits down with Branch Warren, owner of Wicked Cutz Jerky, retired Champion bodybuilder, and avid hunting & firearms advocate to discuss what it takes to be a champion. The dedication, discipline, mindset required to day in and day out push it to the edge. The way you train but also who you surround yourself with dictates your ceiling. Branch is a testament to this theory...
The Best in the West & What is the Rule of 15... 24.09.2020 1:43:39
Send us Fan Mail The boys are back at it talking all things precision rifle. Jeremy discusses his trip to Georgia and some much needed topics about Precision Gas Gun competition. Tyler drops a bomb regarding a new competition format he is working to implement in the west coast for 2021 with division, skill classes, time changes, for ultimately the best all around regional competition format to det...
Deep Dive into Ballistic Calculations w/ Joe Baker 22.09.2020 2:25:14
Send us Fan Mail All about Joe, software, smart people, ballistics, calculators, user features, & more! We compare common 3DOF ballistic solvers to the Hornady 4DOF system and the results are shocking, who knew?! Discussing acronyms, elements of trajectory, truing your rifle, and answering questions from our listeners. Support the show Become a VIP Subscriber at http://www.patreon.com/maxor...
What do you do with your non-dominant hand? A technique for those pesky supported rifle positions 10.09.2020 1:32:55
Send us Fan Mail On this week's episode, competitions, Gas Guns, and Techniques for a more stable supported position rule the interwaves. Tyler and Jeremy kick it off talking about the particulars of Jeremy's Gas Gun setup before jumping into details about the upcoming Guardian Match that Tyler will be the Match Director for. Finally, to end the session, the dudes talk about what to do w...
Inside the Sniper Adventure Challenge: Are you MAN or WOMAN enough? 08.09.2020 1:33:59
Send us Fan Mail Tyler and Vinessa recap the Competition Dynamics Sniper Adventure Challenge as both competitor and spectator for this grueling 36 hour competition while driving back from Wyoming. Everything from struggles, highs, lows, what challenges are like, and more! Please excuse some of the audio quality from the Max Ordinate Truck Audio system. Support the show Become a VIP Subscriber at ...
On The Road Again... 05.09.2020 1:41:12
Send us Fan Mail Tyler tries to avoid being pulled over, being hit by semi trucks and/or falling asleep as he makes his way to the CD: Sniper Adventure Challenge in WY. The SNIPER ADVENTURE CHALLENGE is dedicated to the memory of DARRIN FINK, our good friend and fellow shooter. Support the show Become a VIP Subscriber at http://www.patreon.com/maxordinate1 for video content, instructional videos...
You Fail, You Learn.... You Win, Did you Still Learn? (Edited Episode) 16.07.2020 1:26:17
Send us Fan Mail Tyler dives into Jeremy's recent match performance and how he achieved his best match finish of his career, what did he learn, where can he improve. This episode is a great example of how to analyse your shooting or competition performance to get the most improvement. The original episode contained content regarding a cheating issue from a competition last year in the NRL. So...
Tyler H & Jeremy T - Just A Little Bit Of Everything 07.07.2020 1:54:06
Send us Fan Mail Tyler was able to link back up with Jeremy Tye for an episode that covers just about everything. Kicking it off with a discussion about Utah DVPRC match, before jumping over to How should Precision Rifle Clubs be run, and of course gripes, bitches, complaints, and GEAR! Good conversation, the duo leaves nothing back and keeps it real. Good ole times are back! Support the show Beco...
Oh Tyler! Where art thou? Epic session with Leupold Optics Nic K & MOA Shooter Vinnesa P 04.07.2020 1:54:21
Send us Fan Mail Tyler getting back into the podcast saddle takes us through the past 30 days and what has been going on. The episode also brings in Nic Kytlica of Leupold Optics and Vinnessa P of Max Ordinate Shooting Team. The trio talks everything from competition fails, optics, Falkor Defense new 7EVEN Action, poops, exercise, and more! Surely and episode not to miss. Support the show Become...
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