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 ELR world. Tune in. Learn some shit. Continue improving. 

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Just Another Tuesday to Exercise your Brain

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. Its all in there! The year-long preparation. Tyler brings Fred from Bison Tactical, his partner, on the call to discuss memorable moments, gear, and his prep leading into the challenge. Definitely an episode that will keep you entertained and questioning if you should enter the gauntlet next year!

Inside look at the 2021 Sniper Adventure Challenge by Competition Dynamics

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 us. 

Hard Lessons Dont Come Cheap

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, and finally, what to do when you get it wrong. It gets deep and it gets real. Tyler&apos;s dislike on the reliance of wind meters and snagging wind calls from other shooters really shows during this episode as he believes it shouldn&apos;t require technology or a phone a friend option to correct for wind. As always, no fluff, straight real talk that may hurt some feelings. 

The Wind Call Episode & Building Block Training Plans

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!

Little bit of Wind, Little bit of what can I do better...

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 mental game. 

Mental Preparation and Exercise

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 everything in between. 

You want to do what with your zero?!

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 coming together and they have an interesting story to tell. 

Interview of the Team 2020 Max Ordinate members

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 method upon which you can spend 10 min per day improving yourself to shoot more effectively. 

Happy 2021, Quick Chat about Performance Based Training

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 getting into the meat of the discussion about what the Guardian is, from the outside what people perceive the Guardian match should be, and How Tyler turned it all upside down and said "Eff it! Im doing it my way." Compete or get out right? Jeremy, Adam, and Gary weigh in with their thoughts and what they would change, didn't like, and other complaints or kudos. If you've never shot a Guardian match or been part of a match directed by Tyler, it's a must attend.  

Don't PRS my Guardian • The ebbs and flows of being a Match Director

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!

Method to the Madness • Direction and Focus for your Personal Training Program

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 tolerances, machines challenges, development, being humbled and having to check egos for the betterment of the cause. If you've ever been interested in the Behind The Scenes of how manufacturers design and develop products you will not want to miss this episode!

Developing a Bolt Action w/ Falkor Defense

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. Are you surrounding yourself with those greater than you? Its contagious! The two also discuss "Sons of the Flag" not-for-profit organization dedicating their time and money to helping veterans and first responder burn victims. Interested in learning more or helping out? visit sonsoftheflag.org

SPECIAL EPISODE! the Champion Mindset w/ Branch Warren

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 determine "The Best in the West". Talks zero shift at match check in and finally a simple solution to High Angle distance corrections. 

The Best in the West & What is the Rule of 15...

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. 

Deep Dive into Ballistic Calculations w/ Joe Baker

Sub MOA is a podcast product of Max Ordinate Academy, focusing on precision rifletraining, methods, hard lessons learned, and tactical precision rifle competitionpreparation with after-action reviews. Rei Hoang and Tyler Hughes give you a "Both sides of the Aisle" perspective when itcomes to amateur / professional and female / male thought processes with a lot ofpassionate, no-holds-barred content. This duo has no problems discussing a widerange of topics whether it be a failed stage, training methods, lessons learned, or callingeach other out for mistakes made. Join and subscribe to get the best information on training tips, new products, andapproaches. About the show hosts:Rei Hoang is a female precision rifle shooter with 4 years of shooting experience and 2years of experience competing. Rei first got into learning precision rifle skills in 2015when she took her first class with Max Ordinate Academy. Currently, Rei seeks to breakinto the Top 10 on the national level competition scene. Tyler Hughes is a male precision rifle shooter who served 10 years in the US Marines.In 2013, Tyler left the Marines as a Scout Sniper and started Max Ordinate Academyseeking to provide the highest level of precision rifle training in the nation to both civilianshooter and Law Enforcement snipers. Last year, Tyler competed primarily in nationallevel Precision Rifle Series matches with an average overall placement of 4th place. For2019, Tyler seeks to get back to the basic fundamentals to further improve his skill setand take home a national match win.