Talking Lead Podcast

In this episode of the Nordic Components Talking Lead Podcast: Back from Blade Show 2016, Lefty has a guest host, #1 Leadhead himself Chuck!  Lefty and Chuck fill you in on how Blade Show went this weekend and all the cool people and products they saw.  More interviews from our trip to the Big 3 East Event, Mac Steil with Hill & Mac Gunworks tell us about their brand new rifle, the HMG Sturmgewehr...

Welcome back to the Nordic Components Talking Lead Podcast!  After a week off recovering from the NRA Annual Meeting and Memorial Day Weekend we are back with the guys and gals from the VSO Gun Channel, Specter, Mr. Tactical Bacon & VSO Mud Girl.  We discuss some trials and tribulations we experienced during the NRAAM but over all it was a great event.  Awesome contacts were made for upcoming epis...

Have a great Memorial Weekend Leadheads.  Enjoy this fun interview we did with a company that has been supporting our Military men & women for 161 years, COLT Manufacturing Company!  Keep your loved ones close...and your firearms closer!

This week's episode of the Nordic Components' Talking Lead Podcast  before we head out for the NRA Annual Meeting in Louisville we are on location at the Royal Range in Nashville Tennessee.  Bonnie and Bob join us to talk about this amazing Gun Store, Range and Training Complex all in one.  They've taken an old movie theater and turned it into Pew-Pew heaven!  The Spectre from the VSO Gun Channel...

In this episode of the Nordic Components Talking Lead Podcast the 2A Gun Guys and Gear dudes, Sean & Brian join Lefthand.  Find out why Maryland Legislators make the Talking Lead Jackwagon Train.  Brian & Sean bring us a new Fact to Fight the Myth.  We continue our Big 3 East interviews with the gang from Frontier Tactical.  Nate & Scott tell us how their product the, "WARLOCK",  can get 60 differ...

In this episode of the Nordic Components' Talking Lead PodcastLefthand continues the 150th episode celebration with the guys fromAklys Defense, Joe Meaux, Charles Watson & Zach Hall. Jackwagons get thrown on the Talking Lead Jackwagon Trainleft and right.  Carry, don't carry, at Church?  Youdecide.  Myths about suppressors get busted.  Kevin TacDaddy sits down with Lefthand during Talking Lead's r...

On this episode of the Nordic Components' Talking Lead Podcast we reach a milestone...150 podcasts! To help us celebrate Sergeant Major Lance Nutt with Sheep Dog Impact Assistance Organization joins Lefthand & Pepper as they talk about the recent 4th Annual Sheep Dog IA Charity Ball they attended that raised an amazing $35K plus.  Big thanks to Nordic Components and Apex Tactical for donating auct...

In this episode of the Nordic Components' Talking Lead Podcast Lefthand is joined by Andrew of Kalashnikov USA to introduce this week's continuing coverage of the Big 3 East Media Event in Daytona.  Andrew and Lefthand have fresh meat for the Gunny's Talking Lead Jackwagon Train.  Devil Dog Concepts introduces us to their AR-15 side charging handle conversion kit, it will change your life!  Max &...

In this episode of the Nordic Components' Talking Lead Podcast our continued coverage during our visit to the Big 3 East Media Event starts off with a meeting of the minds between CJ Johnson, Andre Dall'au (co-founders of the Big 3 East Media Event), & Mikey Hartman of CAA/Hartman Optics to announce the first ever Wounded Veteran Exchange Program between USA & Israel. Outstanding! Ben "Mookie" Tho...

In this week's episode of the Nordic Components Talking Lead Podcast we travel to Daytona for the BIG 3 East Media Event.  Lefthand is joined by CJ Johnson, Co-founder of the event, and Ancel Robinson a.k.a Shwell to get the history behind the event.  The Cobalt Kinetics trivia prize package is still on the line for some lucky LEADHEAD.  Stay tuned for more in depth coverage of the BIG 3 East Medi...

On this week's episode of the Nordic Component's Talking Lead Podcast Lefthand is joined by Chad Enos of Kel-Tec. Chad tells us about the new version of the RDB, the RDB-C, designed for the hunter using the high accuracy 6.5 Grendel round.  Find out how some 2nd amendment supporters can be our own worst enemies during this weeks Talking Lead Jackwagon Train.  The guys get political!? Whaaat?  Not ...

Lefthand is joined by Jeremy Lamph of Cobalt Kinetics this week. Check them out on the cover of Talking Lead's favorite magazine "RECOIL" this month!  Jeremy and Lefty discuss the finer points of what sets Cobalt Kinetics' rifles apart from others.  With over 7 patented features, including their adjustable buffer system, auto mag drop, ambi bolt release, and their distinct aesthetics, Cobalt Kinet...

In this week's Nordic Components' Talking Lead Podcast we revisit our 2016 SHOT Show interview with Lieutenant Colonel (Retired) Mikey Hartman and Andrew Brenemen of Kalashnikov USA, Hartman Optics & CAA Tactical.  Mikey introduces the new state-of-the-art MH1 Reflex Sight from Hartman Optics & Andrew gets us caught up on K-USA's line of AKs...a 9mm AK? Whaaat!?  The winner of the High Threat Conc...

Big news dropping in this episode of Talking Lead.  Casey & Zach with Nordic Components join Lefthand to make two really big announcements. We are very proud to announce Nordic Components as Talking Lead's Main Show Sponsor! ... and we've been waiting for months to make this B-I-G announcement ... Nordic Components will be releasing their own line of complete AR rifles beginning this week in 5.56,...

Give a big Leadhead Welcome to Talking Lead's newest sponsors, Cobalt Kinetics! This week Lefthand is joined by Ian Strimbeck of High Threat Concealment.  HTC is a veteran-owned small business specializing in the development of low profile tactical gear for close protection and/or low visibility operations in both permissive and non-permissive environments.  As we learn more about HTC we also get...

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...

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 integr...

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 nationa...

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 Ma...

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. An...

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 Munit...

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 v...

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 u...

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...

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 & Jar...