Ep. 316: A SEAL’s Approach to Mindset, Stress, and Shooting with Guardian Precision

East Meets West Hunt

English - September 05, 2023 08:30 - 1 hour - ★★★★★ - 661 ratings
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Beau Martonik is joined by Anthony “Twan” Dickman, former Navy SEAL, Kurt Martonik, Gunsmith, and Drew Carroll of Seek One. They recently completed the Guardian Precision long-range shooting course in Alabama. They sat down to talk about the takeaways from the course, how Twan’s SEAL team background has helped him in challenging situations, how consistency leads to accuracy, how to deal with high-stress situations, and much more.

Topics:

00:00:00 - Start

00:11:00 - Hunting Hawaii

00:16:24 - Twans introduction, sniper school, and SEAL team

00:30:12 - Sealed Delivery Vehicles (SDVs)

00:32:21 - What prompted Twan to take the military route that he did

00:35:36 - BUD/S

00:39:55 - Having the task-completion mindset on tough hunting trips

00:43:30 - Shooting basics, learning skills, and muscle memory

01:00:55 - Consistency leads to accuracy

01:03:06 - High-stress situations

01:20:40 - Using a sequence of events to concentrate in stressful shooting situations

01:23:10 - Call of Duty

01:24:40 - Ammunition stashing

01:26:39 - Aliens

01:27:37 - Dry firing

Note** timestamps might be off by roughly 4 minutes on the audio version due to ad length changes.

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Topics:

00:00:00 - Start
00:11:00 - Hunting Hawaii
00:16:24 - Twans introduction, sniper school, and SEAL team
00:30:12 - Sealed Delivery Vehicles (SDVs)
00:32:21 - What prompted Twan to take the military route that he did
00:35:36 - BUD/S
00:39:55 - Having the task-completion mindset on tough hunting trips
00:43:30 - Shooting basics, learning skills, and muscle memory
01:00:55 - Consistency leads to accuracy
01:03:06 - High-stress situations
01:20:40 - Using a sequence of events to concentrate in stressful shooting situations
01:23:10 - Call of Duty
01:24:40 - Ammunition stashing
01:26:39 - Aliens
01:27:37 - Dry firing

Note** timestamps might be off by roughly 4 minutes on the audio version due to ad length changes.

Resources:

GoWild:

Beau Martonik (East Meets West Hunt)

Instagram:

Facebook:

East Meets West Outdoors