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John Martello

USPSA Carry Optics & Limited Optics Grand Master competitive shooter, known as "The Silent Assassin," guest on the Pew Time podcast.

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PODCASTS

Sep 22, 2026

242: Interview w/ National Top 20 Lim Ops competitor John Martello

Sep 22 · 1h 12m

Tony SallisHOST

25:21

Did you have any stages at nationals that kind of just you're fucked up on?

John MartelloGUEST

25:28

The first one.

John MartelloGUEST

25:31

Walk me through it.

John MartelloGUEST

25:32

What'd you do? We started, it was the big center bay that they have at Cardinal with the rotating targets.

John MartelloGUEST

25:42

So it was a start anywhere, audible start, but the targets don't turn until you hit the button.

John MartelloGUEST

25:49

So everyone's starting in the center.

John MartelloGUEST

25:54

You hit the button, the targets start facing away from you.

11 MINS LATER

Tony SallisHOST

36:52

It doesn't matter if it's what they, you, you do think a lot of people are not confident or do you think they're overconfident?

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Pew Time 242 – Interview w/ National Top 20 Lim Ops competitor John Martello

Sep 22 · 1h 12m

8:50

how do you know you're doing it right? So how do you do that?

John MartelloGUEST

8:53

So, going back to the practice, like designated target.

John MartelloGUEST

9:00

And it's not, practice shouldn't be easy.

John MartelloGUEST

9:04

So I'll set it up at like 15, 20 yards.

John MartelloGUEST

9:09

And like the designated target is a mini popper.

John MartelloGUEST

9:11

So it'll be like mini popper, tucks, mini popper, double stack, mini popper, open, back to the popper.

John MartelloGUEST

9:22

And you can, what I've been doing is I'll shoot that and then like, I'm calling the shots.

32 MINS LATER

41:40

Well, that's a good one.