Ep. 130 - John Scoutten Shooting USA

On this episode, Seth is joined by John Scoutten from Shooting USA. Originally hosted by John’s father, Jim Scoutten, John is maintaining the family tradition as a host, producer, and competitive shooter, for America’s most watched firearms show; Shooting USA. John works to share his expertise and passion for firearms with the audience, while paving the way to welcome new shooters to competition. We hope you enjoy the dive into this iconic TV show!

[@darrellh1840]

John Scoutten…a legend! Jim Scoutten the next legend! I’ve watched you both for a long time. Long live Shooting USA! RIP John Scoutten…. Thanks Seth for this podcast…

[@MikeStJohn-du5ue]

Excellent, I was aware of Jim's passing and I was lucky enough to watch his tribute piiece when it arire. It is also great to know why the show changed to a 30 min from 1 hour.

[@j.bernard6944]

Yes, exactly!

[@JosephBliss]

“That sounds like a great way to grow up!” I know I haven’t grown up, but I’m 40 and riding 3 wheelers into the desert to shoot cans with a 22 still sounds like a dang good time. 😂

[@mikesmith4334]

I've been reloading since the 70s shot competition for years Shot 10s of thousands of rounds 95% has been Hornady The best all around from 17 - 300 mag, shooting comp id weight all of the bullets Hornady was within + - 1/10 grain!

[@anubis3134]

Off topic. But, are you guy's gonna do zombie ammo again? Was cool. Keep up the good work, cheers from aus.

[@onebadjack1313]

+1 for the Zombie ammo

[@scottearnst8152]

I miss the yellow tips as well!

[@paulscountry456]

​@@scottearnst8152I miss nickle cases they now skimp and think nobody notices.They blamed it on Covid years ago and said it was temporary.

[@hamspud35]

Yes, you and your great podcast/ You Tube videos are greatly appreciated When I order something from Hornady mothership, I ask if they could charge me $20 for a beer fund for you all. They say they don’t know how to do that😕

[@hornady]

Thanks for that!

[@rotasaustralis]

Yeah, poor Seth will never win any beauty contest but, he does the Hornady podcasts very well.😁

[@bugman687]

Value your honest opinion.When we buy a new gun are we going on a so called list question mark

[@michaelwilson9986]

22 rimfire n 3006

[@michaelmeyers1827]

I bought my son 6 mm arc in a howa barreled action sent it to him then he had the problem of putting. A stock on it

[@ronlowney4700]

🤷‍♂️ I Am Wondering Why You Don't Use MORE and SMALLER PRESSURE RELIEF GROOVES - THAT ARE CUT GOING FORWARD, CUT AT AN ANGLE - in Your COPPER BULLETS? It Seems To Me That THIS CHANGE Would Make The BULLETS MORE AERODYNAMIC? 👨‍🏫

[@MrCclimeGo]

I had this thought a long time ago myself. But when I realized the projectile is as (well stated) literally being engraved by the rifling; preexisting additional longitudinal grooves will be of extreme detriment to the ballistic performance. On a mass production scale; no one could account for the infinite variability of rifling from one barrel to the next. You would likely end up with a mess of squiggly lines in the jacket, gyroscopic stabilization would be nonexistent, as the bullet moved through the velocity curve the sonic booms (pressure waves) would most certainly cause the projectile to tumble uncontrollably. You might benefit from the concept, if you made custom bullets with your barrels specific rifling imprinted on the jacket, but you would have to engage each round, perfectly with said rifling and I still don't have confidence that subtle differences between powder charge, would result in a consistent position throughout the length of the barrel. Just my thoughts, but it became very obvious when I drew it on cad.

[@onebadjack1313]

It seems to work for Hammer bullets. They trademarked the radiused ends of their grooves. They actually speed up and use non typical powders because of it. I haven't used them but it's very interesting.

[@ronlowney4700]

👍 😁 You Gave Me More to Think About, So Thank You For Your Comment! I Still Never Heard Back From Horneday in My Last Idea - To Use Ball Powder "Geo-Packing" (Using Multiple Size Powder Balls and Fill The Pore Space Between the Larger Balls With Smaller Ones). This Would Get More Powder Into The Case and Ensure a More Complete Burn Rate and Faster Velocities - Provided That The Chemistry of Each Sized Ball Was Balanced Right? Additionally, If "Materiali Science" Was Better Utilized With Better Barrel Coatings - Barrels Would Last Longer , People Would Shoot More, and Horneday Would Make More Money! New Coatings - Like Graphene, Which is 200 Times Harder Than Steel - Will Allow The Barrel to Last Longer! 👨‍🔬 I Have Lots of Other "Ideas" Too! 😂

[@ronlowney4700]

🤷‍♂️ I Haven't Used Hammer Bullets Either - Mostly Because I Don't Like Using Fragmenting Bullets on Anything But Antelope (To Take Out Their Large Lungs)! However, They Reportedly Shoot Very Accurately in Some Rifles! 😯

[@MrCclimeGo]

@@onebadjack1313 Radial, yes. And the CX bullets have them. Jayden discusses it in the DVRT podcast. Maybe I misunderstood the OPs question? What I read seems like a question about grooving that runs the longitudinal or perhaps as a longitudinal spiral. Basically the same as pre-made rifling.