May 6, 2023 • 42 mins
Chase Glenn is the Director of Business Development for SilencerCo and has been with the company for two years. He oversees all of SilencerCo’s strategic relationships, brand representation, and development of new Licensing and OEM opportunities.
Prior to SilencerCo, Chase spent 15 years in the healthcare industry overseeing program expansion, strategic planning, referral relations, and executive-level mergers and acquisitions. He also oversaw the creation of one of the first nationally recognized and accredited private healthcare facilities to accept VA benefits for Veterans suffering from mental health and substance abuse diagnoses.
The SilencerCo Brand. Since our birth in 2008, our dedication to authenticity and innovation has never wavered. Today, we continue to focus on exceptional customer service and industry-leading products; products that are crafted by people with the utmost dedication to our industry. We are hunters, shooters, and gun enthusiasts, just like you. Our mission is to bring you products that will enhance your shooting experience. SilencerCo manufactures suppressors for hunting, home defense, long range and tactical uses.
Prior to SilencerCo, Chase spent 15 years in the healthcare industry overseeing program expansion, strategic planning, referral relations, and executive-level mergers and acquisitions. He also oversaw the creation of one of the first nationally recognized and accredited private healthcare facilities to accept VA benefits for Veterans suffering from mental health and substance abuse diagnoses.
The SilencerCo Brand. Since our birth in 2008, our dedication to authenticity and innovation has never wavered. Today, we continue to focus on exceptional customer service and industry-leading products; products that are crafted by people with the utmost dedication to our industry. We are hunters, shooters, and gun enthusiasts, just like you. Our mission is to bring you products that will enhance your shooting experience. SilencerCo manufactures suppressors for hunting, home defense, long range and tactical uses.
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Tradition, conservation, family, theoutdoors. It matters to you, it
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Here's Joe Bitar. Good morning,Welcome back to Hunting Matters on KPRC nine
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Our guest today, he's Chase Glenn. Chase is the director of business development
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for a company called Silence or Co. Now, if you're out there and
you're a shooting enthusiast or a huntingenthusiast, you'd have to be living under
a rock not to hear about silencersor suppressors. And Chase's Chase has been
with the company for for a fewyears now, and we're going to bring
him on the show and learn allabout his experience there and everything we need
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to learn about Silence or cod.So Chase, thanks so much for joining
us, Thank you for having andJoe excited to be on. So where
are we talking to you? Fromtoday. Where are you at? So
I'm based out of Lafiete, Louisiana. The company's out of West Valley City
in Utah. I get the pleasureof getting to work remote. But I'm
a resident of Louisiana and been downhere about a decade. Oh really,
what brought you to Louisiana? AndI only ask because I grew up there.
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Sure, yeah, Well, Ikind of have an interest in history
and getting into the firearms industry becauseI'm fairly need to science or co is
my first foray. You know,I'm not a guy that's that's been involved
in a lot of different firearms companies. Moved down to Louisiana to join a
healthcare facility, particularly kind of impatienthealth for mental health and substance abuse,
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and so did that for fifteen years. And I had a wonderful career doing
that. And after fifteen years,just you know, saw needed a break,
just to be really transparent and honestabout it. You know, it
can be pretty taxing, can bekind of pretty chronic situations, you know.
And uh and in the end,we were in particular, you know,
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working with the veteran population, withthe mental health and substance abuse and
they would live with us, youknow, sixty to ninety days and so
um. You know, had agreat career and a lot of fun and
still have a lot of contacts anda lot of spend a lot of time,
you know, talking to people inthat industry. But you know,
after fifteen years, I kind ofneeded a break. I've done, I've
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done a lot, and did thaton a national basis, even though I
was based out Louisiana, and tooka little break. And a friend of
mine said, Hey, this opportunityfor a company called sidzer Co came up
and I kind of laugh about itbecause they already owned about a dozen of
their products now, you know,and you know, was a was a
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firearms enthusiast um not necessarily a collector, but you know, every time that
I would buy a new custom boatgun to go hunting with, I would
put a new suppressor on it anduh, and so I was already in
on the product and familiar with that. But it's been a it's been a
wonderful opportunity over the least three years, and learning a lot about the farms
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industry, suppressors, some of thescience behind them, things like that man,
I'm on the same page as ironicthat we're talking today because I grew
up in Louisiana. You live inLouisiana. You were involved in healthcare.
I was. I was actually stillmaintain it. But I was a registered
nurse for years and dealt with thecardiac care at the at the hospital facility.
So I know, it's healthcare.It can wear on you after a
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few years. It absolutely can't.So I applaud you. I applaud you
for not only being involved with thatand dealing with veterans, but also recognizing,
Hey, you know, I usedto hear nurses all the time complain
about um long hours in late nights. I might change your career. It
sounds like that's exactly what you did, moved into something you love well.
And I kind of always joked aboutthat with other people in the industry.
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I said, you know, it'sat some point you just gotta know when
the right time is to get outrather than kind of burning out and making
mistakes. And it's not an industrythat you particularly want to make mistakes whenever
you're dealing with people's lives, andso it's, uh, you know,
I was, I was grateful tohave the opportunity and have the type of
clear uh you know, in thesuccess in it where I could step out
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gracefully and you know, wasn't forcedby any means to stay into it on
a financial basis or whatever the casemight be. And sure, and you
know, in addition to that,my phone stops ringing about six o'clock at
night now, and that is anamazing opportunity. You know, it's that
whole twenty four hours a day,seven days a week is truly true in
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healthcare. Sure, absolutely absolutely well, you can't live in Louisiana without being
around good food. So I'm goingto ask you a question that my my
co host who's playing Hookie today wouldnormally ask you if we were to come
to town, where would you takeus to eat? So I would take
you to a little cafe called CafeJosephreeda. And they've got a flame,
an open top grill, nice withflame, the chargrilled oysters and probably one
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of the best sea food pastas inthe state of Louisiana. Small town,
you know, five four thousand andfive thousand people, Oh yeah, but
just right outside of Lafayetta. Andthat if you ever come to Louisiana.
I tell people if they're coming through, they get offended when they don't call
me. Well, I'm calling youbecause I had still have family that my
wife's family still lives in Mobile,Alabama. So we hit I ten and
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when we come down for LSU gamesall the time. So well, we'll
be through there. I was actuallygoing to try to come over for the
boot and Festival over in scott thisyear. We just didn't make it.
They that's a really good one.We just have Festival International. Yes,
last weekend, that was an amazingone. There's no good food and festivals.
There's no lack of opportunities to getout and eat good and party in
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Louisiana. You know, they giveyou something every weekend. So yeah,
absolutely. Well, before we gointo the break here in a couple of
minutes, UM, tell us alittle bit about Silence or Code. Tell
us about the company. I thinkit's been around since two thousand and eight
and kind of in a nutshell,what do you guys do? What do
you make sure? So I've beenaround since two thousand and eight. We're
celebrating fifteen years this year, whichwe're really proud of we're somewhat of the
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last of the old guard of oppressivemanufacturers. UM still have the original founder
and CEO. Uh, you know, haven't gone through necessarily an acquisition or
anything like that. But um,you know, the factory itself, we're
completely vertical. It's about eighty thousandsquare feet full of machines, everything from
you know what you know as faras metal finishing, uh, the analyzing
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the paint, and what I liketo tell people is everything from you know,
it starts out as bar stock andleaves in a box. We do
everything under one root, and andthat's really rare in the in the farms
industry in general. You know,there's a lot of OEM partnerships and things
like that. But we make aboutninety eight percent of everything that we that
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we use, and we source Americansteels for the stainless and some of the
products that we use. And thecompany in general. UM, you know,
we're a suppressor manufacturer and silencer suppressorand and that's what we do.
We enjoy providing those opportunities. We'lltalk about it a little bit further,
you know of why, but youknow, providing those opportunities for customers to
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have the pleasure issuing suppressed. Holdthat thought. Gonna take a quick break
here on Honeymotters KPRC nine fifty.We wanted you to shoot my life.
I had no doubt in my mind. Time living and when the man.
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Welcome back to Honeymatters on KPRC ninefifty. This is your host Joe Betar,
and we're joined today by Chase Glenn, who's the director of business development
with a company called Silencer Code.Check out their website at Silencercode dot com.
That's s I L E n cO. I'm sorry, I'll start
that again SI L E n crco dot com. Chase, thanks once
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again for joining us. Thank you. Joan so uh. We were talking
a little bit about the company ofthe company and kind of your facilities and
that sort of thing. Now,silencers and suppressors I think are becoming you
do you? I mean, youwork for Silencer Code, so you call
it. You prefer to call themsilencers because I get corrected all the time.
No, it's a suppressor. I'mnot the guy to ask at that.
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You know, it's the original patent, you know says one thing.
People say, well does it soundwith the gun? It suppresses the gun.
I may be informal and called it. Can you know, I want
people to have them. I don'tnecessarily debate about you know what we necessarily
need to call them. You know, I'm I'm the guy, whether it's
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our company or a suppressor. Ingeneral, I want to show up at
the range or show up on ahunt and have everything suppressed so that I
can communicate and all the added benefitsof owning a suppressor, you know,
and have that experience. Not thatyou're not going to use hearing protection sometimes,
you know, over a kind ofprolonged exposure and stuff like that,
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but you know, the the abilityto be able to hunt or shoot at
the range, especially if it's gota ten roof, you know, or
you're inside, uh and not haveto wear hearing protection, and you know
it being hearing to say and communicatewith the people is what's most important to
men, right And you know,for people who have not shot with suppressors
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or silencers, um, you know, it's still a mystery to them.
They still you know, so like, oh, well I don't know,
man, you know, Um,that's that's different. That's new, are
you finding. I'm personally from youknow, from my people that I hunt
with and in the environment that Irun in, I'm finding more and more
people are like, well, nowit's becoming almost well, why don't you
use the suppressor versus oh? Yeah, you know back then, you know,
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five years even five years ago,it was like, oh, well,
yeah, I heard these suppressors,you could use it for hunting,
and I you know, it's justa hassle to do the paperwork and blah
blah blah. Kind of what's beenthe shift in the market and the and
the the viewpoint of not only shootingenthusiasts, but now you know, now
hunters even more so around the useof cans, if you will. Well,
Silencer has always done a really goodjob around the prs and the stigma
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of suppressors because they do have anegative connotation. I mean when in nineteen
thirty four or whatever the tax stampwas created, Uh, it was it
was gangsters and outlaws, right anduh, and so it some of that
held on throughout the years where Ithink in the last you know, five
years in particular, what we're seeingin the past three years is is we
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start to look at, you know, the lessening of hearing damage. Um,
the lessening hearing damage for those ordogs or whatever it may be around
those recool mitigation, better follow upshots. You know, my my my
passion is really kind of around thekids. You know, my my daughter
shoots a custom six five PRC atleast ten pounds. It's a you know,
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carbon fiber stock, carbon fiber barrel, titanium action and it has a
suppressor on it. And she's tenyears old now shoots consistently at seven hundred
yards in the wind. And shecould only do that because we're running a
suppressor, right. It's the recoolmitigation that happens on them. Um.
You know, you see guys inTexas a lot, and you know they're
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definitely spreading, but kind of boxblinds. You put a on the end
of the rifle and we've got itout the window, you know, it
shooting on a lane or summer royal, you know in Texas, it'll ride
a windows on it. And sogetting that kind of sound away from us,
uh, you know, from ahunting aspect, to follow up shots
for uh, even kind of abatementsituations, whether it be coyotes or pigs
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or or whatever the case may be. UM and in other countries. Ironically
enough, you know you can't youcan't carry a butter knife, but you
can get a suppressor at the hardwarestore with you know, no fees,
no added fees or anything like that. It just don't get it. I
don't get it. It's offensive ifyou don't use them. You know,
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there are plenty of places in England, you know, the private facilities in
England, like you have to shootsuppressed. There is no other option,
and so um, you know what, I love for it to be that
way, of course, you know, just for my own kind of personal
enjoyment. But I understand that thereare kind of these you know, pauses
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for people to say, well,I don't want to do a two hundred
dollars tax fam or I don't wantto have to wait. You know.
The hardest upsell on something like asuppressor is you're going to pay for it,
You're gonna pay for the tax stamp, and then you're not really going
to get to have access to itfor eight or nine months. Right now
still still light or nine months stilllight or nine months they tried to get
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down to ninety days. They're stillworking on it. The alcohol, tobacco,
fire arms and explosives. You know, they came out and said,
you know, our goals for theend of twenty twenty three, yes,
ninety days. I don't know ifthey're necessarily going to hit that, but
you know, they're working on waysto make it a little a little more
attainable. From the time aspect,well, let's let's be realistic here.
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It's the federal government, and nothinghappens quickly there. There's no flexibility.
So I'd love to see it downto four months, you know, that'd
be awesome, it would. Andhonestly, if it was down to four
months, I don't know if there'sa manufacturer alive that could keep up with
the production. And I think aboutalready we're already saying, you know,
it's it's been a great few years. More and more people are getting into
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shooting suppressed, and you know,I think I always try to look at
what's the glass half four and forme, you know, in nineteen thirty
four, whenever they passed the originallegislation around it, they made the tax
step two hundred and you were unableto change They're not unable to change that
amount, well two hundred dollars innineteen thirty four is a lot more than
it is today. Sure, butthank god they put that in there,
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because we'd be well over forty fivehundred and five thousand, you know with
the cost price in knicks and everythingtoday. So sure, So it's you
know, for us silence of Coein particular in that we make it.
It's a product that has a lifetimewarranty pretty much no matter what. That's
pretty unique for the farms industry.We consider it a legacy product. This
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is something that you're going to buyand you know, if you're going to
put it into an individual basis ora trust and you're gonna pay that extra
two hundred dollars, we understand that. So we're going to take care of
you. And we still warranty stufffrom fifteen years ago where you know,
there might have been a mishap,and you know, more often than not
it's it's kind of nothing that getsthe user, but it's user error.
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You know, maybe they put iton the wrong caliber, or they don't
tighten it up or whatever the casemay be, No problem, just reach
out to us. We'll do alittle it's called an RMA. We'll do
an RMA. You ship it tous, well, ship it back.
Typically it takes less than forty eighthours to fix and takes longer to shift
to us when it you know,does to actually fix it, and we
take care of you and going downthe road and keep enjoining you know,
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the property that you owe. Youknow, that seems a little counterintuitive to
the business model. I mean,it sounds like you guys are all about
customer satisfaction and you're talking about legacyproducts. But do you find and obviously
your products last a long time,do you find that you have more return
customers or you have more new customers. At this point, it's still an
interesting mix. Like if you workan event, it's based on a dealer,
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about fifty percent of the sales aregoing to be new customers and then
the other fifty are going to bethey already own a suppressor. It may
not necessarily be silence or code.Although we have, you know, a
pretty interesting customer base that you know, challenges themselves to own all of our
product or you know, wants toown you know, the legacy products or
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kind of the more. You know, sometimes we'll do kind of one off
for bespoke, kind of loaded runkind of stuff, and they're jumping up
and down for that. So we'revery blessed with our customer base. They
understand that we're going to take careof them no matter what. They understand
that they're going to get a topquality product that, you know, from
a machining and a material standpoint,is superior in a lot of ways.
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A lot of the materials that weuse are not your traditional stainless steel,
right. Well, we'll get intosome of the alloys and things like that
that come out of the aerospace industryand are very hard to machine. They're
very hard on equipment, but weunderstand from the longevity standpoint that they're going
to hold up better. Yeah.Absolutely, So we're going to do a
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deep dive here in the next coupleof segments on a lot of the products
and that sort of thing. Youtouched a little bit on alloys. I
want to talk about that a littlebit further as well. And I think
you guys have some exciting new stuffthat's coming out. I don't know how
much you can divulge today. Iknow you've got to kind of keep that
under wraps until you actually do alaunch, but kind of want to pick
your brain a little bit about thatand then also your hunting experience as well.
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So folks, Chase Glenn the directorof business development with Silencer Code.
Check out the website at silencercode dotcom. That's sil E n c r
CEO dot com. You could,You're gonna be get lost. You We're
gonna be on the are for hoursbecause I did. And we'll be right
back on the other side with HuntingMatters KPRC nine fifty. You dud,
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don't go back, and I loveyou, you duty and sweet down you
swim weekend. You got to thehead upon you your duty, sweet in
your back, get it off andgot Welcome back to Honey Matters on KPRC.
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This is Joe Bitar and I'm joinedtoday our guest, Chase Glenn.
Chase is the director of business developmentwith a Silencer Co. Check out the
website at silencerco dot com. That'ss I L E n c arco dot
com. Chase, once again,thanks for joining us, Thank you for
having me. Hey, listen,before the break, you were talking about
a little bit about aerospace and alloys. Tell me about that. So we
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use products like cobalt six and inganeland not to get too far into the
weeds. But you know these arethese are alloy medals. And I'm not
the scientist or engineer R and Don the team. We've got brilliant,
brilliant minds to take care of that. But you know, I have said
in and up to and been apart of a lot of the testing to
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start to understand that those are medalsthat are a little bit ironic in that
whenever they get hot, they getharder, and as a result of getting
harder, um they don't get brittle. And so whenever we look at things
like the blast baffle, which isthe very first baffle and the suppressor it's
going to take the most pressure andthe most heat, will use things like
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probalt and things like email for thatblast baffle in particular, and then we
may transition into a stainless steel towardsthe end the suppressor, depending on what
the use is going to be forit, how hard use it's actually going
to be. And as a resultof that, you know what will happen
over time with the baffle as itwill erode, right, and an erosion
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in the metal means that it eventuallywears away or the erosion process that happens
on those two particular alloys is farless significant. And you know, we
typically will if we have a suppressorcoming back in. It's not necessarily an
erosion standpoint. It more often thannot has to do with a mounting situation.
Maybe they can get a little bitloose or something like that and the
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bullet clipped the baffle and we'll justkind of take a little notch out of
it, right, And so ourwarranty process and the way that we handle
those, you know, free tothe customer is you know, they basically
get a brand new core into thesnice and so with the with the exception
of the exterior which is really justpainting tubing or you know, if it's
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well, they we chop it offand weld the new stack on it.
You're basically getting a brand new productfrom the internals, which is what really
matters. Nice Now the spressors youguys make for hunting rifles. M I'm
just generalizing here. What's what we'retalking about as far as the way it
added to a firearm. So theoriginal kind of our first kind of jump
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into the hunting world was a productcalled the Omega three hundred. It's been
around since fourteen fifteen sixteen something likethat. I don't know exactly when we
came out with it, but whatwas unique about it was that it was
a thirty calcuppressor that was very goodfor hunting. It had some modularity.
We could change up the size inthe endcap, you know, to specify
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it to a caliber from thirty calinddown. It came with an anchor brake
on it, which helped with alot of recoil mitigation. A lot of
this stuff had never been done before. And it was also full auto rated
for five five six, so Icould take it and put it on a
hunting rifle, but I could alsotake it and put it on an r
platform or you know, something thatshoots kind of fast and hard and not
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have to worry about doing aity damageto it. Prior to that, there
were some kind of lighter options fromfrom other manufacturers, but if you were
going to put them on something thatyou're going to shoot really hard, or
like a full auto kind of ratingmultiple magazines, you know, the durability
of that was kind of been questioned. So that was our first one,
and then pretty soon after that,actually we came out with a product called
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the Harvester. Now there's been anew rendition of that called the Harvester you
go. I'll talk about it ina second. But the Harvester was the
first lightweight. So in the Omegathree hundred we went from you know,
we were about thirteen ounces, right, which was far less weight than what
we was out there in that time, and then with the Harvester EVO,
we went to about eleven ounces,so you know, we're talking in ounces
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whenever it comes to that. Now, in reality, that on the end
of a bolt gun, even alightweight bolt gun is not really noticeable,
you know, like it like it'snot it's not out there like a big
you know, counterweight, you know, tipping your rifle forward and things like
that. At least it shouldn't be. And I use a lot along barrel
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you know, twenty four or twentysixth barrel stuff. So so the Harvester
was really the first of its kind. And then we created a product called
the Hybrid forty six. The Hybridforty six was a four sixty bour so
all of your big bore stuff toinclude you know, some of the the
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Afkan rounds that you'll see. Itwas. It would handle the pressures of
like thirty three seventy eight or threeseventy five or four sixteen, you know,
if it happened to be a singlebarrel gun. Uh. And so
that was that was really the firstand kind of the big bore kind of
piece. So so what we've doneclassically with products is, you know,
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have products that were kind of leadingthe charge, especially within the hunting piece.
And a lot of that has todo with kind of our founder.
Uh. You know, he wasa hunter. He is a hunter himself
and was passionate about that. Helives out in Utah. He's running up
and down the mountains and he's like, Okay, I need something lighter and
it's more efficient, you know,to be able to get this done than
what's currently on the market. Andso, you know, the company in
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total now we've got about nineteen differentsuppressors and we can get really specific on
you know, whether it's hard useor kind of a military type use,
or we want to get lightweight.Um. But one of the products that
we brought to light in UM Iguess it was two thousand nineteen was the
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we started adding modularity in. Sowe've got two modular right rated suppressors.
So the thirty six M and theforty six M and the thirty six M
has a three sixty bore, Sonot only can I shoot nine millimeter through
it and thirty eight special and someof the pistol calibers, it's also ready
for three thirty eight lapuah, soit can take a water pressure. It
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can take that three that thirty threeseventy eight, you know, those those
kind of high pressure calibers. Butit's modular, so I can take it
from a total of about six andthree quarter inches and I can shorten it
up down to about a little lessthan five inches. And so to me
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for the hunting aspect, it's it'skind of an underrated can because it's what
I use more often than not,especially all my longer barrel stuff, because
I can I can have a fiveinch suppressor, which is tiny, and
I can be hearing safe. Youknow, it's not gonna be There's no
such thing really as movie quiet,unless we're shooting subs out of the twenty
two. Sure, you know likethat. I love that term movie quiet.
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Yeah, you know, it's like, well, how quiet is it?
And it's like, well, there'snot a lot more that goes into
it. It's not they as afranchise. They've been really good to us.
A lot of our products been inthere stuff, But you know,
it's not John Wick Quiet and soit's uh. And then and then more
recently released the Hybrid forty six,which is basically it's big brother. So
it's a four sixty four. It'llshorten down to about six and a quarter
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inches overall linked on, it's goingto be about seven and a half and
eight you know, ragging there,depending on kind of how we mounted.
And so, you know, forus, it's it's it's about providing different
tools. But if if the listenerslistening and they don't own a suppressor,
my advice that they're going to getfrom me, whether they meet me in
person or you know, we're atan event or something like that is at
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a very minimum, for your firstsuppressor, by a thirty coun suppressor.
Okay, and you're gonna do thatbecause for for US rounds, for US
calibers, um, you know,whether it be two forty three, two
seventy, I'm thinking of you knowa lot of stuff thirty out six,
A lot of stuff I grew upwith, right I can experience all of
those if they're in a threaded optionversus what you'll hear guys say a lot
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m guys in gals is that,well, all I have right now,
all that's threaded is an a ourplatform and that sheet's five five six,
So I want a five five sixsuppressor. And not to be too crash
about it, but if I'm ifI'm working a dealer event and helping a
dealer out, or you know we'reat the you know, Houston Safari Club
and you know, helping your membershipout, I won't sell it to them.
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I won't do it. It's thewrong thing to do, you know.
It's it's it's limiting them to onelittle bitty tiny bullet that's kind of
hard to suppress anyway, and theydon't get to experience all of that.
So ironically enough, that all beingsaid, the Omega three hundred, one
of our oldest products, is stillone of our number one sellers. And
then we're seeing a lot of peopleget into the thirty six M because they
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like that they can kind of jumpup a little bit in some calibers,
maybe even runner on some nine millimeterstuff or kind of home protection. But
they can shorten it up and runit in those hunting capabilities. And then
lastly, what you alluded to beforethe break, We've got some products coming
out this summer that I'm really excitedfor. If anything, I would say
they are as specialized to hunters aswhat we've ever done, even though you
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know a lot of our products havekind of followed in that regard. We've
been able to figure out how tokind of use some different metals and be
able to make it more durable thanwhat they've been in the past, And
just really excited about that process andwhat that's going to be. I can't
go too deep into it, andbecause we're still doing some development stuff and
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stuff like that, but hopefully,you know, sometimes late summer you're going
to see some releases from us,and that are going to be right at
the alley, especially for hopefully theguys listening, guys and gals listening,
you know, to be able toput on and kind of lightweight options and
things like that, so people aren'tsigning up for newsletters and that sort of
thing. They just need to checkback on your website at silencercode dot com.
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Probably mid to late summer for thosenew announcements. They can or they
can they can also we do havea newsletter that goes out or you know,
create a profile on there. That'sa great way to do it.
All right, hold that thought.I want to talk about hunting a little
bit in our last segment Honeymotters KPRCnine fifty. Yet job Well, come
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back to Honeymatters on KPRC nine fifty. This is your host Joe Bitar,
and we rejoined once again today byChase Glenn. Chase is the director of
business development with Silencer Code. Checkout their website at silencercode dot com.
Chase, once again, thanks somuch for joining us today. Yes,
sir, we talked a little bitabout We talked a lot about stuff.
So I was kind of pruising throughthe website and I saw the Silencer Code
Learning center and just listen to youtalk about the different the different suppressors you
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guys offer and things like that.I've got a million other questions that we
don't have time to answer, buthow are you guys positioned with I saw
you had a learning center and youtalk about customer service earlier, So somebody
just wants to learn about getting intothis and you know, get questions answered
by you guys, how do theydo that? And what's the learning center
all about? So the learning centeris really an opportunity to just start to
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kind of dive into not only someof the kind of the basic questions,
but also the technical questions of whatwe you know, what we do,
how we make it work, andso, you know, another great auction
is I think we've got a prettyphenomenal YouTube channel. We also do lives
every week and if you if you'reon Instagram, we do a question kind
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of Wednesday and the guys from CustomerServices are on there. So, you
know, I would encourage anyone ifthey ever have a question about suppressors,
you know, call call the facility, you know, call the one eight
hundred number, check it out andask to speak to customer service. Those
guys are in there. They're allvery knowledgeable on what they do. But
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for us, you know, tokind of just put the umbrella around it.
We want people to be more educatedabout suppressors and what it means to
be suppressor ownership because we want morepeople to shoot suppressed and that's that's not
the sales pitch. That is weenjoy it. We understand the benefits of
it, and we want to wewant other people to have the benefits of
it as well. Good. Yeah, because I know there's a lot of
people who are just getting into thishunting suppressed and that sort of thing.
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You know, a couple of yearsago, I went to Namibia and every
rifle they had in camp was suppressed. I mean it was. It's not
you don't see that in US huntingcamps all the time. A lot of
people bring their firearms in, butthis place had firearms. You know,
people were bringing their own, butthere wasn't a single firearm that they owned
that was not suppressed. And uh, it was. It was encouraging to
see. And I want to talka little bit about the benefits of hunting
suppressed. You mentioned at a littlebit earlier, which I think a lot
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of people forget about, and becausethey always say, well, hunting suppressed
is saving your hearing, but theyforget about the other benefits like recoal mitigation.
Tell us a little bit about thoseother benefits. So on recoil mitigation,
we'll typically see somewhere between twenty tothirty recoil reduction, especially on the
higher pressure stuff, right, andobviously a six six five creed More versus
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at thirty three seven. The eightare going to be completely different, right
as far as kind of the pressureis going through them. But you know,
on something, I was shooting threeseventy five h and eighth the other
day, and I was shooting itunsuppressed versus shooting suppressed, and just significant
recal reduction. But also the boomthat comes out in the end of the
barrel. So you know that thatshock wave that comes off, and especially
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if you've got a buzzle break,yes, it's going to kind of go
around you. But if you've gota guy, you know, if you're
in their baby and you've got yourpH there and he's you know, he's
on the set of sticks with theglass like you're gonna blow his hat off.
You know, some of these breaksand so you know you're you're saving
them as well. And so youknow, and like I said earlier in
the episode, you know, theopportunity that kids have, um you know,
my experience as a kid hunting UHis completely different than what my daughters
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is based off of being able toshoot suppressed and being um less fearful,
you know, and you know,having better follow up and better turt to
pool and all the other kind ofstuff because we're not worried about the live
boom or the big kid's going tocome off of it. Yeah, and
something you brought up up and wewere kind of planning to this conversation,
you brought up something I think alot of people never think about, and
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that's the dogs. The dogs thatare hunting with you. So funny story
about that. We and the salesteam and I got together and we did
a kind of duck tour because we'vebeen hearing about the Oklahoma Flyway and the
Panhandle Flyways as far as ducks go, and so we did that and we
did that entire trip suppressed with longbarrel shotguns and and the guides were blown
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away because the dogs are sitting there. The dogs aren't jumping around. You
know, there's no cotton in thedeers because we make the salvo which is
a shotgun suppressive and so it's uh, you know. And then as far
as just the other dogs that arearound for different hunting situations, whether it
be kind of the abatement side orwhatever the case may be, you know,
horseback things like that. Yeah,we don't think about those kind of
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you know situations as much. Butyou know, for a guy that's out
hunting and wants to be able tocover some ground or something like that,
being horseback, it's a way tobe and you may have to shoot off
their back everyone, so while rightright, yeah, I just it's something
until you brought up something I neverreally gave much thought to, you know,
hunting on horseback, hunting with dogs, and and that's and just you
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know, young kids. I mean, my kids are all grown now,
but when you have young kids ruining, it just makes the experience so much
more enjoyable for them where there's notthere's not that shock factor, whether they're
standing beside mighty fires, you know, shooting, or whether they're doing it
themselves. And that's a that's ayou know this, it's just the benefits
just keep on building up of huntingsuppressed and it's it's uh, it's it's
it's exciting to me to learn moreabout it. Yes, sir, and
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you guys, and you guys don'tjust do hunting. I mean you do
hunting, you do stuff for homedefense. You just stuff for long range
and also tactical correct, Yes,sir, we've got everything from kind of
your hard use belt headerted suppressors topistol suppressors, home defense. It's got
the shotgun line as well. Andthen the company started with a twenty two
suppressor in a garage. That's that'swhere it started in West Ally And And
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so we've got a three different twentytwo suppressors that will do all and up
to you know, twenty two Woodenmag and seventeen MR. And some of
them think as well, very cool. And you know, more more people
are hunting with air guns now,so do you guys do suppressors for air
guns? We don't yet, okay, you know, and I can't say
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there's necessarily anything in the in theworks for that. Sure, I know
that you know, ar switchback suppressoron a twenty two, which obviously they're
hunting with air guns in places whereyou know, rifle calibers aren't allowed.
But frankly it's as quite as thatair can be. You know, it's
it's it's a very impressive little product. Yeah, that's cool. Um,
we've got we've got a few moreminutes here left to wrap up. Have
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you hunted all your life? Oris this something new? Some people come
to it late in life. Ihalf hundred all my whole life, but
not in the traditional sense, meaningthat I wait a minute, can say
can we say this on there?We can we get you know, I
grew up in Rule, Oklahoma anduh and you know, hunting and flannel
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and blue jeans and freezing to death. My first rifle was Grandpa's thirty thirty.
My second rifle was a surplus Britishthree or three, um. And
then I saved up enough money tobuy a browning able to forty three,
right, and and so like Ididn't I didn't grow up in a family
where like hunting was necessarily a priority, but it was something that we did,
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if that makes sense. Like itwas it was, you know,
we we ate it, we processedand meet ourselves. We enjoyed it.
And then as I got into myteenage years and you know, got my
own rifle and started kind of havingmobility and stuff like that, still kind
of rule settings, um. Andthen you know, my career in healthcare
kind of took me all over thecountry and I got to go to some
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really cool places. And so Igot to you know, hunt Elk and
the whole rainforest out on the Washingtoncoast and uh, you know, good
a lot of stuff in Colorado andand got to start to experience some of
that. And then now, uh, because of you know what I get
to do and and you know,the opportunities hunting as a priority for my
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family and myself, and uh,I probably spend more time guiding my kids
now than I do actually hunting myself, but I frankly I enjoy that for
a little bit more. But um, you know it's uh, I've gotten
to get on some really cool animalsand then you know, our goal,
you know, on down the roadis to start working towards Africa and and
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you know, working towards some ofthat stuff, and so um, from
a from an SEI standpoint, youknow, I'm a little late to the
game, you know, but there'sstill a lot of time. Uh,
And I've built such great relationships withthe members you know and people, uh
that you know, the opportunities arekind of boundless. I just got to
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get all my ducks in a rowand start playing for it. Yeah.
Yeah, you got a lot ofhunting ahead of you to to date.
What was your what was your favoritehunt? Which what was your most memorable
hunt? It just happened this lastyear. So, um, my daughter's
on her fourth year and and they'veall been coles, you know, uh,
just kind of getting already and anduh, she got on a really
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nice ten point that ironically was aneighth and ins difference between his right and
his left side and just as perfectas little ten point as you can get.
And watching her still, you know, get to shakes afterwards in the
adrenaline and doing that, um,is probably the most pleasurable side did.
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The other thing that I get todo a lot, now that's a lot
of fun, is based on somerelationships I have in Texas. They'll call
me in January. It's kind ofthe MLB wraps up and and I've gotten
I've gotten fairly proficient at you know, the long range piece and uh,
and I enjoyed a lot. Ienjoyed kind of some of those longer pops
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so speak. And so I'll goover there and help them with their coals
and then you know, do themeat donation from that stuff for the charitable
organization. So those are those aretwo things, you know, especially in
the past year that I just write, I have a lot of gratitude to
get to experience awesome, folks,you've been listening to Chase Glenn, the
director of business development with Silencer Code. Check out the website silencercode dot com.
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Chase, thank you so much andwe will see you guys next week.
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we hunt, we give, dotorg and check out all that information.
Our guest today, he's Chase Glenn. Chase is the director of business development
(02:38):
for a company called Silence or Co. Now, if you're out there and
you're a shooting enthusiast or a huntingenthusiast, you'd have to be living under
a rock not to hear about silencersor suppressors. And Chase's Chase has been
with the company for for a fewyears now, and we're going to bring
him on the show and learn allabout his experience there and everything we need
(02:59):
to learn about Silence or cod.So Chase, thanks so much for joining
us, Thank you for having andJoe excited to be on. So where
are we talking to you? Fromtoday. Where are you at? So
I'm based out of Lafiete, Louisiana. The company's out of West Valley City
in Utah. I get the pleasureof getting to work remote. But I'm
a resident of Louisiana and been downhere about a decade. Oh really,
what brought you to Louisiana? AndI only ask because I grew up there.
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Sure, yeah, Well, Ikind of have an interest in history
and getting into the firearms industry becauseI'm fairly need to science or co is
my first foray. You know,I'm not a guy that's that's been involved
in a lot of different firearms companies. Moved down to Louisiana to join a
healthcare facility, particularly kind of impatienthealth for mental health and substance abuse,
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and so did that for fifteen years. And I had a wonderful career doing
that. And after fifteen years,just you know, saw needed a break,
just to be really transparent and honestabout it. You know, it
can be pretty taxing, can bekind of pretty chronic situations, you know.
And uh and in the end,we were in particular, you know,
(04:06):
working with the veteran population, withthe mental health and substance abuse and
they would live with us, youknow, sixty to ninety days and so
um. You know, had agreat career and a lot of fun and
still have a lot of contacts anda lot of spend a lot of time,
you know, talking to people inthat industry. But you know,
after fifteen years, I kind ofneeded a break. I've done, I've
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done a lot, and did thaton a national basis, even though I
was based out Louisiana, and tooka little break. And a friend of
mine said, Hey, this opportunityfor a company called sidzer Co came up
and I kind of laugh about itbecause they already owned about a dozen of
their products now, you know,and you know, was a was a
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firearms enthusiast um not necessarily a collector, but you know, every time that
I would buy a new custom boatgun to go hunting with, I would
put a new suppressor on it anduh, and so I was already in
on the product and familiar with that. But it's been a it's been a
wonderful opportunity over the least three years, and learning a lot about the farms
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industry, suppressors, some of thescience behind them, things like that man,
I'm on the same page as ironicthat we're talking today because I grew
up in Louisiana. You live inLouisiana. You were involved in healthcare.
I was. I was actually stillmaintain it. But I was a registered
nurse for years and dealt with thecardiac care at the at the hospital facility.
So I know, it's healthcare.It can wear on you after a
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few years. It absolutely can't.So I applaud you. I applaud you
for not only being involved with thatand dealing with veterans, but also recognizing,
Hey, you know, I usedto hear nurses all the time complain
about um long hours in late nights. I might change your career. It
sounds like that's exactly what you did, moved into something you love well.
And I kind of always joked aboutthat with other people in the industry.
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I said, you know, it'sat some point you just gotta know when
the right time is to get outrather than kind of burning out and making
mistakes. And it's not an industrythat you particularly want to make mistakes whenever
you're dealing with people's lives, andso it's, uh, you know,
I was, I was grateful tohave the opportunity and have the type of
clear uh you know, in thesuccess in it where I could step out
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gracefully and you know, wasn't forcedby any means to stay into it on
a financial basis or whatever the casemight be. And sure, and you
know, in addition to that,my phone stops ringing about six o'clock at
night now, and that is anamazing opportunity. You know, it's that
whole twenty four hours a day,seven days a week is truly true in
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healthcare. Sure, absolutely absolutely well, you can't live in Louisiana without being
around good food. So I'm goingto ask you a question that my my
co host who's playing Hookie today wouldnormally ask you if we were to come
to town, where would you takeus to eat? So I would take
you to a little cafe called CafeJosephreeda. And they've got a flame,
an open top grill, nice withflame, the chargrilled oysters and probably one
(06:59):
of the best sea food pastas inthe state of Louisiana. Small town,
you know, five four thousand andfive thousand people, Oh yeah, but
just right outside of Lafayetta. Andthat if you ever come to Louisiana.
I tell people if they're coming through, they get offended when they don't call
me. Well, I'm calling youbecause I had still have family that my
wife's family still lives in Mobile,Alabama. So we hit I ten and
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when we come down for LSU gamesall the time. So well, we'll
be through there. I was actuallygoing to try to come over for the
boot and Festival over in scott thisyear. We just didn't make it.
They that's a really good one.We just have Festival International. Yes,
last weekend, that was an amazingone. There's no good food and festivals.
There's no lack of opportunities to getout and eat good and party in
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Louisiana. You know, they giveyou something every weekend. So yeah,
absolutely. Well, before we gointo the break here in a couple of
minutes, UM, tell us alittle bit about Silence or Code. Tell
us about the company. I thinkit's been around since two thousand and eight
and kind of in a nutshell,what do you guys do? What do
you make sure? So I've beenaround since two thousand and eight. We're
celebrating fifteen years this year, whichwe're really proud of we're somewhat of the
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last of the old guard of oppressivemanufacturers. UM still have the original founder
and CEO. Uh, you know, haven't gone through necessarily an acquisition or
anything like that. But um,you know, the factory itself, we're
completely vertical. It's about eighty thousandsquare feet full of machines, everything from
you know what you know as faras metal finishing, uh, the analyzing
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the paint, and what I liketo tell people is everything from you know,
it starts out as bar stock andleaves in a box. We do
everything under one root, and andthat's really rare in the in the farms
industry in general. You know,there's a lot of OEM partnerships and things
like that. But we make aboutninety eight percent of everything that we that
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we use, and we source Americansteels for the stainless and some of the
products that we use. And thecompany in general. UM, you know,
we're a suppressor manufacturer and silencer suppressorand and that's what we do.
We enjoy providing those opportunities. We'lltalk about it a little bit further,
you know of why, but youknow, providing those opportunities for customers to
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have the pleasure issuing suppressed. Holdthat thought. Gonna take a quick break
here on Honeymotters KPRC nine fifty.We wanted you to shoot my life.
I had no doubt in my mind. Time living and when the man.
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Welcome back to Honeymatters on KPRC ninefifty. This is your host Joe Betar,
and we're joined today by Chase Glenn, who's the director of business development
with a company called Silencer Code.Check out their website at Silencercode dot com.
That's s I L E n cO. I'm sorry, I'll start
that again SI L E n crco dot com. Chase, thanks once
(10:39):
again for joining us. Thank you. Joan so uh. We were talking
a little bit about the company ofthe company and kind of your facilities and
that sort of thing. Now,silencers and suppressors I think are becoming you
do you? I mean, youwork for Silencer Code, so you call
it. You prefer to call themsilencers because I get corrected all the time.
No, it's a suppressor. I'mnot the guy to ask at that.
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You know, it's the original patent, you know says one thing.
People say, well does it soundwith the gun? It suppresses the gun.
I may be informal and called it. Can you know, I want
people to have them. I don'tnecessarily debate about you know what we necessarily
need to call them. You know, I'm I'm the guy, whether it's
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our company or a suppressor. Ingeneral, I want to show up at
the range or show up on ahunt and have everything suppressed so that I
can communicate and all the added benefitsof owning a suppressor, you know,
and have that experience. Not thatyou're not going to use hearing protection sometimes,
you know, over a kind ofprolonged exposure and stuff like that,
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but you know, the the abilityto be able to hunt or shoot at
the range, especially if it's gota ten roof, you know, or
you're inside, uh and not haveto wear hearing protection, and you know
it being hearing to say and communicatewith the people is what's most important to
men, right And you know,for people who have not shot with suppressors
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or silencers, um, you know, it's still a mystery to them.
They still you know, so like, oh, well I don't know,
man, you know, Um,that's that's different. That's new, are
you finding. I'm personally from youknow, from my people that I hunt
with and in the environment that Irun in, I'm finding more and more
people are like, well, nowit's becoming almost well, why don't you
use the suppressor versus oh? Yeah, you know back then, you know,
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five years even five years ago,it was like, oh, well,
yeah, I heard these suppressors,you could use it for hunting,
and I you know, it's justa hassle to do the paperwork and blah
blah blah. Kind of what's beenthe shift in the market and the and
the the viewpoint of not only shootingenthusiasts, but now you know, now
hunters even more so around the useof cans, if you will. Well,
Silencer has always done a really goodjob around the prs and the stigma
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of suppressors because they do have anegative connotation. I mean when in nineteen
thirty four or whatever the tax stampwas created, Uh, it was it
was gangsters and outlaws, right anduh, and so it some of that
held on throughout the years where Ithink in the last you know, five
years in particular, what we're seeingin the past three years is is we
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start to look at, you know, the lessening of hearing damage. Um,
the lessening hearing damage for those ordogs or whatever it may be around
those recool mitigation, better follow upshots. You know, my my my
passion is really kind of around thekids. You know, my my daughter
shoots a custom six five PRC atleast ten pounds. It's a you know,
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carbon fiber stock, carbon fiber barrel, titanium action and it has a
suppressor on it. And she's tenyears old now shoots consistently at seven hundred
yards in the wind. And shecould only do that because we're running a
suppressor, right. It's the recoolmitigation that happens on them. Um.
You know, you see guys inTexas a lot, and you know they're
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definitely spreading, but kind of boxblinds. You put a on the end
of the rifle and we've got itout the window, you know, it
shooting on a lane or summer royal, you know in Texas, it'll ride
a windows on it. And sogetting that kind of sound away from us,
uh, you know, from ahunting aspect, to follow up shots
for uh, even kind of abatementsituations, whether it be coyotes or pigs
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or or whatever the case may be. UM and in other countries. Ironically
enough, you know you can't youcan't carry a butter knife, but you
can get a suppressor at the hardwarestore with you know, no fees,
no added fees or anything like that. It just don't get it. I
don't get it. It's offensive ifyou don't use them. You know,
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there are plenty of places in England, you know, the private facilities in
England, like you have to shootsuppressed. There is no other option,
and so um, you know what, I love for it to be that
way, of course, you know, just for my own kind of personal
enjoyment. But I understand that thereare kind of these you know, pauses
(15:01):
for people to say, well,I don't want to do a two hundred
dollars tax fam or I don't wantto have to wait. You know.
The hardest upsell on something like asuppressor is you're going to pay for it,
You're gonna pay for the tax stamp, and then you're not really going
to get to have access to itfor eight or nine months. Right now
still still light or nine months stilllight or nine months they tried to get
(15:22):
down to ninety days. They're stillworking on it. The alcohol, tobacco,
fire arms and explosives. You know, they came out and said,
you know, our goals for theend of twenty twenty three, yes,
ninety days. I don't know ifthey're necessarily going to hit that, but
you know, they're working on waysto make it a little a little more
attainable. From the time aspect,well, let's let's be realistic here.
(15:43):
It's the federal government, and nothinghappens quickly there. There's no flexibility.
So I'd love to see it downto four months, you know, that'd
be awesome, it would. Andhonestly, if it was down to four
months, I don't know if there'sa manufacturer alive that could keep up with
the production. And I think aboutalready we're already saying, you know,
it's it's been a great few years. More and more people are getting into
(16:04):
shooting suppressed, and you know,I think I always try to look at
what's the glass half four and forme, you know, in nineteen thirty
four, whenever they passed the originallegislation around it, they made the tax
step two hundred and you were unableto change They're not unable to change that
amount, well two hundred dollars innineteen thirty four is a lot more than
it is today. Sure, butthank god they put that in there,
(16:26):
because we'd be well over forty fivehundred and five thousand, you know with
the cost price in knicks and everythingtoday. So sure, So it's you
know, for us silence of Coein particular in that we make it.
It's a product that has a lifetimewarranty pretty much no matter what. That's
pretty unique for the farms industry.We consider it a legacy product. This
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two hundred dollars, we understand that. So we're going to take care of
you. And we still warranty stufffrom fifteen years ago where you know,
there might have been a mishap,and you know, more often than not
it's it's kind of nothing that getsthe user, but it's user error.
(17:11):
You know, maybe they put iton the wrong caliber, or they don't
tighten it up or whatever the casemay be, No problem, just reach
out to us. We'll do alittle it's called an RMA. We'll do
an RMA. You ship it tous, well, ship it back.
Typically it takes less than forty eighthours to fix and takes longer to shift
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take care of you and going downthe road and keep enjoining you know,
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the property that you owe. Youknow, that seems a little counterintuitive to
the business model. I mean,it sounds like you guys are all about
customer satisfaction and you're talking about legacyproducts. But do you find and obviously
your products last a long time,do you find that you have more return
customers or you have more new customers. At this point, it's still an
interesting mix. Like if you workan event, it's based on a dealer,
(17:56):
about fifty percent of the sales aregoing to be new customers and then
the other fifty are going to bethey already own a suppressor. It may
not necessarily be silence or code.Although we have, you know, a
pretty interesting customer base that you know, challenges themselves to own all of our
product or you know, wants toown you know, the legacy products or
(18:19):
kind of the more. You know, sometimes we'll do kind of one off
for bespoke, kind of loaded runkind of stuff, and they're jumping up
and down for that. So we'revery blessed with our customer base. They
understand that we're going to take careof them no matter what. They understand
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A lot of the materials that weuse are not your traditional stainless steel,
right. Well, we'll get intosome of the alloys and things like that
that come out of the aerospace industryand are very hard to machine. They're
very hard on equipment, but weunderstand from the longevity standpoint that they're going
to hold up better. Yeah.Absolutely, So we're going to do a
(19:07):
deep dive here in the next coupleof segments on a lot of the products
and that sort of thing. Youtouched a little bit on alloys. I
want to talk about that a littlebit further as well. And I think
you guys have some exciting new stuffthat's coming out. I don't know how
much you can divulge today. Iknow you've got to kind of keep that
under wraps until you actually do alaunch, but kind of want to pick
your brain a little bit about thatand then also your hunting experience as well.
(19:27):
So folks, Chase Glenn the directorof business development with Silencer Code.
Check out the website at silencercode dotcom. That's sil E n c r
CEO dot com. You could,You're gonna be get lost. You We're
gonna be on the are for hoursbecause I did. And we'll be right
back on the other side with HuntingMatters KPRC nine fifty. You dud,
(20:23):
don't go back, and I loveyou, you duty and sweet down you
swim weekend. You got to thehead upon you your duty, sweet in
your back, get it off andgot Welcome back to Honey Matters on KPRC.
(20:59):
This is Joe Bitar and I'm joinedtoday our guest, Chase Glenn.
Chase is the director of business developmentwith a Silencer Co. Check out the
website at silencerco dot com. That'ss I L E n c arco dot
com. Chase, once again,thanks for joining us, Thank you for
having me. Hey, listen,before the break, you were talking about
a little bit about aerospace and alloys. Tell me about that. So we
(21:21):
use products like cobalt six and inganeland not to get too far into the
weeds. But you know these arethese are alloy medals. And I'm not
the scientist or engineer R and Don the team. We've got brilliant,
brilliant minds to take care of that. But you know, I have said
in and up to and been apart of a lot of the testing to
(21:41):
start to understand that those are medalsthat are a little bit ironic in that
whenever they get hot, they getharder, and as a result of getting
harder, um they don't get brittle. And so whenever we look at things
like the blast baffle, which isthe very first baffle and the suppressor it's
going to take the most pressure andthe most heat, will use things like
(22:03):
probalt and things like email for thatblast baffle in particular, and then we
may transition into a stainless steel towardsthe end the suppressor, depending on what
the use is going to be forit, how hard use it's actually going
to be. And as a resultof that, you know what will happen
over time with the baffle as itwill erode, right, and an erosion
(22:25):
in the metal means that it eventuallywears away or the erosion process that happens
on those two particular alloys is farless significant. And you know, we
typically will if we have a suppressorcoming back in. It's not necessarily an
erosion standpoint. It more often thannot has to do with a mounting situation.
Maybe they can get a little bitloose or something like that and the
(22:48):
bullet clipped the baffle and we'll justkind of take a little notch out of
it, right, And so ourwarranty process and the way that we handle
those, you know, free tothe customer is you know, they basically
get a brand new core into thesnice and so with the with the exception
of the exterior which is really justpainting tubing or you know, if it's
(23:11):
well, they we chop it offand weld the new stack on it.
You're basically getting a brand new productfrom the internals, which is what really
matters. Nice Now the spressors youguys make for hunting rifles. M I'm
just generalizing here. What's what we'retalking about as far as the way it
added to a firearm. So theoriginal kind of our first kind of jump
(23:34):
into the hunting world was a productcalled the Omega three hundred. It's been
around since fourteen fifteen sixteen something likethat. I don't know exactly when we
came out with it, but whatwas unique about it was that it was
a thirty calcuppressor that was very goodfor hunting. It had some modularity.
We could change up the size inthe endcap, you know, to specify
(23:55):
it to a caliber from thirty calinddown. It came with an anchor brake
on it, which helped with alot of recoil mitigation. A lot of
this stuff had never been done before. And it was also full auto rated
for five five six, so Icould take it and put it on a
hunting rifle, but I could alsotake it and put it on an r
platform or you know, something thatshoots kind of fast and hard and not
(24:17):
have to worry about doing aity damageto it. Prior to that, there
were some kind of lighter options fromfrom other manufacturers, but if you were
going to put them on something thatyou're going to shoot really hard, or
like a full auto kind of ratingmultiple magazines, you know, the durability
of that was kind of been questioned. So that was our first one,
and then pretty soon after that,actually we came out with a product called
(24:41):
the Harvester. Now there's been anew rendition of that called the Harvester you
go. I'll talk about it ina second. But the Harvester was the
first lightweight. So in the Omegathree hundred we went from you know,
we were about thirteen ounces, right, which was far less weight than what
we was out there in that time, and then with the Harvester EVO,
we went to about eleven ounces,so you know, we're talking in ounces
(25:06):
whenever it comes to that. Now, in reality, that on the end
of a bolt gun, even alightweight bolt gun is not really noticeable,
you know, like it like it'snot it's not out there like a big
you know, counterweight, you know, tipping your rifle forward and things like
that. At least it shouldn't be. And I use a lot along barrel
(25:26):
you know, twenty four or twentysixth barrel stuff. So so the Harvester
was really the first of its kind. And then we created a product called
the Hybrid forty six. The Hybridforty six was a four sixty bour so
all of your big bore stuff toinclude you know, some of the the
(25:48):
Afkan rounds that you'll see. Itwas. It would handle the pressures of
like thirty three seventy eight or threeseventy five or four sixteen, you know,
if it happened to be a singlebarrel gun. Uh. And so
that was that was really the firstand kind of the big bore kind of
piece. So so what we've doneclassically with products is, you know,
(26:11):
have products that were kind of leadingthe charge, especially within the hunting piece.
And a lot of that has todo with kind of our founder.
Uh. You know, he wasa hunter. He is a hunter himself
and was passionate about that. Helives out in Utah. He's running up
and down the mountains and he's like, Okay, I need something lighter and
it's more efficient, you know,to be able to get this done than
what's currently on the market. Andso, you know, the company in
(26:33):
total now we've got about nineteen differentsuppressors and we can get really specific on
you know, whether it's hard useor kind of a military type use,
or we want to get lightweight.Um. But one of the products that
we brought to light in UM Iguess it was two thousand nineteen was the
(26:55):
we started adding modularity in. Sowe've got two modular right rated suppressors.
So the thirty six M and theforty six M and the thirty six M
has a three sixty bore, Sonot only can I shoot nine millimeter through
it and thirty eight special and someof the pistol calibers, it's also ready
for three thirty eight lapuah, soit can take a water pressure. It
(27:15):
can take that three that thirty threeseventy eight, you know, those those
kind of high pressure calibers. Butit's modular, so I can take it
from a total of about six andthree quarter inches and I can shorten it
up down to about a little lessthan five inches. And so to me
(27:36):
for the hunting aspect, it's it'skind of an underrated can because it's what
I use more often than not,especially all my longer barrel stuff, because
I can I can have a fiveinch suppressor, which is tiny, and
I can be hearing safe. Youknow, it's not gonna be There's no
such thing really as movie quiet,unless we're shooting subs out of the twenty
two. Sure, you know likethat. I love that term movie quiet.
(27:59):
Yeah, you know, it's like, well, how quiet is it?
And it's like, well, there'snot a lot more that goes into
it. It's not they as afranchise. They've been really good to us.
A lot of our products been inthere stuff, But you know,
it's not John Wick Quiet and soit's uh. And then and then more
recently released the Hybrid forty six,which is basically it's big brother. So
it's a four sixty four. It'llshorten down to about six and a quarter
(28:26):
inches overall linked on, it's goingto be about seven and a half and
eight you know, ragging there,depending on kind of how we mounted.
And so, you know, forus, it's it's it's about providing different
tools. But if if the listenerslistening and they don't own a suppressor,
my advice that they're going to getfrom me, whether they meet me in
person or you know, we're atan event or something like that is at
(28:48):
a very minimum, for your firstsuppressor, by a thirty coun suppressor.
Okay, and you're gonna do thatbecause for for US rounds, for US
calibers, um, you know,whether it be two forty three, two
seventy, I'm thinking of you knowa lot of stuff thirty out six,
A lot of stuff I grew upwith, right I can experience all of
those if they're in a threaded optionversus what you'll hear guys say a lot
(29:14):
m guys in gals is that,well, all I have right now,
all that's threaded is an a ourplatform and that sheet's five five six,
So I want a five five sixsuppressor. And not to be too crash
about it, but if I'm ifI'm working a dealer event and helping a
dealer out, or you know we'reat the you know, Houston Safari Club
and you know, helping your membershipout, I won't sell it to them.
(29:38):
I won't do it. It's thewrong thing to do, you know.
It's it's it's limiting them to onelittle bitty tiny bullet that's kind of
hard to suppress anyway, and theydon't get to experience all of that.
So ironically enough, that all beingsaid, the Omega three hundred, one
of our oldest products, is stillone of our number one sellers. And
then we're seeing a lot of peopleget into the thirty six M because they
(30:02):
like that they can kind of jumpup a little bit in some calibers,
maybe even runner on some nine millimeterstuff or kind of home protection. But
they can shorten it up and runit in those hunting capabilities. And then
lastly, what you alluded to beforethe break, We've got some products coming
out this summer that I'm really excitedfor. If anything, I would say
they are as specialized to hunters aswhat we've ever done, even though you
(30:26):
know a lot of our products havekind of followed in that regard. We've
been able to figure out how tokind of use some different metals and be
able to make it more durable thanwhat they've been in the past, And
just really excited about that process andwhat that's going to be. I can't
go too deep into it, andbecause we're still doing some development stuff and
(30:48):
stuff like that, but hopefully,you know, sometimes late summer you're going
to see some releases from us,and that are going to be right at
the alley, especially for hopefully theguys listening, guys and gals listening,
you know, to be able toput on and kind of lightweight options and
things like that, so people aren'tsigning up for newsletters and that sort of
thing. They just need to checkback on your website at silencercode dot com.
(31:10):
Probably mid to late summer for thosenew announcements. They can or they
can they can also we do havea newsletter that goes out or you know,
create a profile on there. That'sa great way to do it.
All right, hold that thought.I want to talk about hunting a little
bit in our last segment Honeymotters KPRCnine fifty. Yet job Well, come
(32:20):
back to Honeymatters on KPRC nine fifty. This is your host Joe Bitar,
and we rejoined once again today byChase Glenn. Chase is the director of
business development with Silencer Code. Checkout their website at silencercode dot com.
Chase, once again, thanks somuch for joining us today. Yes,
sir, we talked a little bitabout We talked a lot about stuff.
So I was kind of pruising throughthe website and I saw the Silencer Code
Learning center and just listen to youtalk about the different the different suppressors you
(32:45):
guys offer and things like that.I've got a million other questions that we
don't have time to answer, buthow are you guys positioned with I saw
you had a learning center and youtalk about customer service earlier, So somebody
just wants to learn about getting intothis and you know, get questions answered
by you guys, how do theydo that? And what's the learning center
all about? So the learning centeris really an opportunity to just start to
(33:07):
kind of dive into not only someof the kind of the basic questions,
but also the technical questions of whatwe you know, what we do,
how we make it work, andso, you know, another great auction
is I think we've got a prettyphenomenal YouTube channel. We also do lives
every week and if you if you'reon Instagram, we do a question kind
(33:29):
of Wednesday and the guys from CustomerServices are on there. So, you
know, I would encourage anyone ifthey ever have a question about suppressors,
you know, call call the facility, you know, call the one eight
hundred number, check it out andask to speak to customer service. Those
guys are in there. They're allvery knowledgeable on what they do. But
(33:51):
for us, you know, tokind of just put the umbrella around it.
We want people to be more educatedabout suppressors and what it means to
be suppressor ownership because we want morepeople to shoot suppressed and that's that's not
the sales pitch. That is weenjoy it. We understand the benefits of
it, and we want to wewant other people to have the benefits of
it as well. Good. Yeah, because I know there's a lot of
people who are just getting into thishunting suppressed and that sort of thing.
(34:14):
You know, a couple of yearsago, I went to Namibia and every
rifle they had in camp was suppressed. I mean it was. It's not
you don't see that in US huntingcamps all the time. A lot of
people bring their firearms in, butthis place had firearms. You know,
people were bringing their own, butthere wasn't a single firearm that they owned
that was not suppressed. And uh, it was. It was encouraging to
see. And I want to talka little bit about the benefits of hunting
suppressed. You mentioned at a littlebit earlier, which I think a lot
(34:37):
of people forget about, and becausethey always say, well, hunting suppressed
is saving your hearing, but theyforget about the other benefits like recoal mitigation.
Tell us a little bit about thoseother benefits. So on recoil mitigation,
we'll typically see somewhere between twenty tothirty recoil reduction, especially on the
higher pressure stuff, right, andobviously a six six five creed More versus
(34:59):
at thirty three seven. The eightare going to be completely different, right
as far as kind of the pressureis going through them. But you know,
on something, I was shooting threeseventy five h and eighth the other
day, and I was shooting itunsuppressed versus shooting suppressed, and just significant
recal reduction. But also the boomthat comes out in the end of the
barrel. So you know that thatshock wave that comes off, and especially
(35:20):
if you've got a buzzle break,yes, it's going to kind of go
around you. But if you've gota guy, you know, if you're
in their baby and you've got yourpH there and he's you know, he's
on the set of sticks with theglass like you're gonna blow his hat off.
You know, some of these breaksand so you know you're you're saving
them as well. And so youknow, and like I said earlier in
the episode, you know, theopportunity that kids have, um you know,
my experience as a kid hunting UHis completely different than what my daughters
(35:45):
is based off of being able toshoot suppressed and being um less fearful,
you know, and you know,having better follow up and better turt to
pool and all the other kind ofstuff because we're not worried about the live
boom or the big kid's going tocome off of it. Yeah, and
something you brought up up and wewere kind of planning to this conversation,
you brought up something I think alot of people never think about, and
(36:05):
that's the dogs. The dogs thatare hunting with you. So funny story
about that. We and the salesteam and I got together and we did
a kind of duck tour because we'vebeen hearing about the Oklahoma Flyway and the
Panhandle Flyways as far as ducks go, and so we did that and we
did that entire trip suppressed with longbarrel shotguns and and the guides were blown
(36:29):
away because the dogs are sitting there. The dogs aren't jumping around. You
know, there's no cotton in thedeers because we make the salvo which is
a shotgun suppressive and so it's uh, you know. And then as far
as just the other dogs that arearound for different hunting situations, whether it
be kind of the abatement side orwhatever the case may be, you know,
horseback things like that. Yeah,we don't think about those kind of
(36:52):
you know situations as much. Butyou know, for a guy that's out
hunting and wants to be able tocover some ground or something like that,
being horseback, it's a way tobe and you may have to shoot off
their back everyone, so while rightright, yeah, I just it's something
until you brought up something I neverreally gave much thought to, you know,
hunting on horseback, hunting with dogs, and and that's and just you
(37:14):
know, young kids. I mean, my kids are all grown now,
but when you have young kids ruining, it just makes the experience so much
more enjoyable for them where there's notthere's not that shock factor, whether they're
standing beside mighty fires, you know, shooting, or whether they're doing it
themselves. And that's a that's ayou know this, it's just the benefits
just keep on building up of huntingsuppressed and it's it's uh, it's it's
it's exciting to me to learn moreabout it. Yes, sir, and
(37:37):
you guys, and you guys don'tjust do hunting. I mean you do
hunting, you do stuff for homedefense. You just stuff for long range
and also tactical correct, Yes,sir, we've got everything from kind of
your hard use belt headerted suppressors topistol suppressors, home defense. It's got
the shotgun line as well. Andthen the company started with a twenty two
suppressor in a garage. That's that'swhere it started in West Ally And And
(38:00):
so we've got a three different twentytwo suppressors that will do all and up
to you know, twenty two Woodenmag and seventeen MR. And some of
them think as well, very cool. And you know, more more people
are hunting with air guns now,so do you guys do suppressors for air
guns? We don't yet, okay, you know, and I can't say
(38:20):
there's necessarily anything in the in theworks for that. Sure, I know
that you know, ar switchback suppressoron a twenty two, which obviously they're
hunting with air guns in places whereyou know, rifle calibers aren't allowed.
But frankly it's as quite as thatair can be. You know, it's
it's it's a very impressive little product. Yeah, that's cool. Um,
we've got we've got a few moreminutes here left to wrap up. Have
(38:44):
you hunted all your life? Oris this something new? Some people come
to it late in life. Ihalf hundred all my whole life, but
not in the traditional sense, meaningthat I wait a minute, can say
can we say this on there?We can we get you know, I
grew up in Rule, Oklahoma anduh and you know, hunting and flannel
(39:05):
and blue jeans and freezing to death. My first rifle was Grandpa's thirty thirty.
My second rifle was a surplus Britishthree or three, um. And
then I saved up enough money tobuy a browning able to forty three,
right, and and so like Ididn't I didn't grow up in a family
where like hunting was necessarily a priority, but it was something that we did,
(39:28):
if that makes sense. Like itwas it was, you know,
we we ate it, we processedand meet ourselves. We enjoyed it.
And then as I got into myteenage years and you know, got my
own rifle and started kind of havingmobility and stuff like that, still kind
of rule settings, um. Andthen you know, my career in healthcare
kind of took me all over thecountry and I got to go to some
(39:49):
really cool places. And so Igot to you know, hunt Elk and
the whole rainforest out on the Washingtoncoast and uh, you know, good
a lot of stuff in Colorado andand got to start to experience some of
that. And then now, uh, because of you know what I get
to do and and you know,the opportunities hunting as a priority for my
(40:09):
family and myself, and uh,I probably spend more time guiding my kids
now than I do actually hunting myself, but I frankly I enjoy that for
a little bit more. But um, you know it's uh, I've gotten
to get on some really cool animalsand then you know, our goal,
you know, on down the roadis to start working towards Africa and and
(40:30):
you know, working towards some ofthat stuff, and so um, from
a from an SEI standpoint, youknow, I'm a little late to the
game, you know, but there'sstill a lot of time. Uh,
And I've built such great relationships withthe members you know and people, uh
that you know, the opportunities arekind of boundless. I just got to
(40:50):
get all my ducks in a rowand start playing for it. Yeah.
Yeah, you got a lot ofhunting ahead of you to to date.
What was your what was your favoritehunt? Which what was your most memorable
hunt? It just happened this lastyear. So, um, my daughter's
on her fourth year and and they'veall been coles, you know, uh,
just kind of getting already and anduh, she got on a really
(41:15):
nice ten point that ironically was aneighth and ins difference between his right and
his left side and just as perfectas little ten point as you can get.
And watching her still, you know, get to shakes afterwards in the
adrenaline and doing that, um,is probably the most pleasurable side did.
(41:37):
The other thing that I get todo a lot, now that's a lot
of fun, is based on somerelationships I have in Texas. They'll call
me in January. It's kind ofthe MLB wraps up and and I've gotten
I've gotten fairly proficient at you know, the long range piece and uh,
and I enjoyed a lot. Ienjoyed kind of some of those longer pops
(41:58):
so speak. And so I'll goover there and help them with their coals
and then you know, do themeat donation from that stuff for the charitable
organization. So those are those aretwo things, you know, especially in
the past year that I just write, I have a lot of gratitude to
get to experience awesome, folks,you've been listening to Chase Glenn, the
director of business development with Silencer Code. Check out the website silencercode dot com.
(42:20):
Chase, thank you so much andwe will see you guys next week.
Honeymatters KPRC nine fifty. Yeah,you're feeling alone every few You got
to keep all smiling, just keepall smiling. Yeah, yeah, you're about going
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