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Ryan Avery

Ryan Avery is the founder of the Rokslide backcountry hunting forum and co-host of the Shoot2Hunt podcast with Jake Mushaney.

Sep 14, 2026

3:30
So what's been your favorite application? Is it just hunting or is it shooting like in comps or like just shooting for practice? Like what's the best part about it?
3:43
The best part about it is to me is it makes every facet of shooting better.
3:47
So it doesn't matter if you're hunting, you know, and you shoot and the game animal doesn't know exactly what happened.
3:52
It saved me from a divorce, bear hunting with my wife.
3:56
Because my wife, I'm half deaf already from the military and shooting guns all my life.
4:01
And my wife wants to keep her hearing.
4:03
So we, you know, I shot big magnums back in the day.

21 MINS LATER

24:53
What's the current state of affairs with buying suppressors? Because I think it's in a weird spot.
58:06
... and then, uh, some additional new products that are somewhat related but not related, but also very cool.
58:14
Yeah.
58:14
So on the shoot then side, we're kinda driver.
58:16
We have a Rock Stock.
58:17
We just came out with the Rock Stock Light.
58:19
It's a very ergonomic, uh, s- it's really how a field stock should be designed to shoot.
58:23
Um, I don't know if you guys are familiar, but we can get some in your guys' hands.

8 MINS LATER

66:13
Naturally.
27:59
Why am I, why am I spending my life basically getting this content together for hunters to consume?
28:09
On the RockSlide thing, it's actually went through two phases, in my opinion, and I was talking to my wife about this the other day, because there's a lot of things that I don't care about, but there's a few things that, you know, it's a sword you'll die on.
28:22
And, um, when I got...
28:26
I worked a little bit in the industry for a couple other companies before I started RockSlide, with, is me and Aaron Snyder and David Long.
28:33
And the reason it came about was going back and forth with Aaron and David was there were companies out there that whoever was sponsoring the review won the review.
28:45
So you had a, you had a sp- you had a article with Zeiss at the time.
28:50
It may have been Swarovski, but it could've been Leica and a Leupold.

46 MINS LATER

74:56
Sure.
69:52
the, uh,
69:53
action screws, all, all of it matters properly, putting it up, lock tightening stuff.
69:57
Doesn't shoot, you know, stuff.
69:59
Don't shoot tight, tight.
70:00
It shoots loose.
70:01
So putting paint pen or lock 10 and all that system.
70:03
But to get to the crux of it is once you have that, and we do have a drop test for a reason, you go back to, I found many a podcast on shoot done.

20 MINS LATER

90:12
Yeah, how should you?

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