This episode of Sportsman of Colorado covers two strong Colorado stories in one show. First, Scott Whatley sits down with the team at LT Arms in Littleton to talk about custom rifles, rare consignment firearms, gunsmithing, optics, suppressors, trust vs. individual ownership, and the kinds of unusual pieces that walk through their doors. They also preview the 2026 Mile High Hunt & Fish Expo, which runs March 20–22 at the National Western Center in Denver, where LT Arms will be exhibiting and listeners can use promo code SOCR2026 for 10% off general admission.
In the second half, the show spotlights
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Welcome to Sportsman of Colorado, Colorado’s premier outdoor radio show heard every Saturday afternoon on KLZ 560 with insights on hunting, fishing, archery, guns, and ammo from Colorado’s top outfitters featuring the industry’s leading experts on how to enhance your experience in the great outdoors. Now, here’s your host, Scott Whatley.
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Welcome to Sportsman of Colorado. Thank you so much for joining us today. Well, we were off schedule last week. Totally my fault. Normally, LT Arms is with us the first Saturday of every month. But, hey, the short month messed us all up. But, hey, they are back with us today. And glad to stop over here. 8130 Schaefer Parkway. Brandon Anderson joined us. Brandon, good to see you. Good to see you, Scott. Also, Evan Lee. How are you, Scott? How are you, man? Good. Oh, all right. Time change. Yep. Which way did you guys like? Do you like it?
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I like the extension of daylight in the evening. Me too, man. That first morning waking up after you change it. I just wish they’d leave it alone.
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I love the daylight longer. Myself too. Man, I wish they’d just leave it alone and quit messing with it.
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Seems like it’s unnecessary in this day and age. I can understand it 60, 70 years ago. Yeah. Absolutely.
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Well, hey, great to see you guys. We’ll start off with our Mile High Hunting Fish Expo. That is coming up March 20th through the 22nd. It is going to be at the brand-new event center. So at the National Western Event Center, brand-new building. They just finished that up here at the end of last year. And we are looking forward to our new home there. We have been out at the Gaylord the last couple of years. If this is your first time to hear about it, we were at the Gaylord last year. the last couple of years, so we just want to make sure nobody heads out that direction. So we’ll be at the National Western Event Center March 20th through the 22nd. Now, you can get tickets at milehighhuntexpo.com. If you put in the promo code SOCR2026, that will save you 10% off your general admission ticket. Now, the reason why I designate general admission ticket real quick, we’re having some evening events there. We’ve got a banquet. We’ve got a casino night thing. We’ve got some things going on that are separate ticketed events. Those are not included in that 10% discount, just your general admission ticket. and so it will save you a few bucks off of a ticket and uh all the scheduling and all the different things are at milehighhuntexpo.com as well but once again that promo code for your tickets is socr2026 and i bring that up not only will we be there but also lt arms will be there yeah that’s gonna be cool yeah you guys know what you’re gonna be bringing down we’ll have all the custom rifles to show off elo rifle to show off and uh
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Probably some prize giveaways, maybe some things like that, like we’re known for doing.
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Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, for sure. You know, it’s got to be cool in the gun store. You never know what’s going to walk in the door, so to speak, okay, meaning customer-wise and gun-wise, you know. But what are just, you know, cool stuff that you guys get from time to time and maybe just over the last few weeks or month? I mean, what’s been cool that sometimes people bring in?
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We’ve had some neat guns coming. You know, it seems like – As some of this boomer generation is getting a little older, a lot of guys have got some pretty significant collections they’ve put together, and they’re looking at liquidating now. We had an interesting pair of rifles come in from a fellow the other day. His grandfather had taken a 1903 Springfield National Match and .30-06, and a matching Model 1922 and .22 long rifle, and had them custom stocked to fit himself and used them for competing back in the day. And They’ve got a Zeiss scope from the 1920s with a detachable mount that goes and re-zeros between the two rifles. And he decided he needed to move those on, so we’ve got those in. And also in the target rifle realm, we’ve got a really interesting Winchester Model 52C bench-rest target rifle from 1956 in. and it’s a that’s a significant i mean the model 52 dominated bench rest 22 competition for most of the 20th century arguably the finest 22 rifle ever made you rarely see them in the wild when you do their big money but yeah one just one just walked in here said yeah put it up for sale so we get some interesting consignments it’s a lot of fun A lot of fun. And we also get the ephemera that comes with it. A fella inherited some grandpa guns recently and was going through mom’s stuff when he was there picking them up and found a footlocker full of World War II bring-back stuff. And he brought it all in to show it to us. It was… Wow. It was history in your hands. It was a neat experience. That’s cool.
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It was very cool. Yeah. I mean, everything from those high-end collector items to this morning, we had a guy call in and say he had a Japanese World War II mortar he needed demilled or decommissioned, and we didn’t know whether he met… the artillery shell or the tube. Luckily he got here and it was just the tube. So we didn’t have to disarm any vintage ordnance. But yeah, all different kinds of interesting things walk through the door every day. It’s kind of cool.
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Yeah, absolutely. And one thing we’ve talked about this, but Sometimes you walk in gun shops and you look around and it’s all kind of the same. There’s not a lot of variety. A lot of variety here, I think. Where we record this today, we’re kind of in your military room. I don’t know what you guys call this, but you’ve got a bunch of cool guns in here. Yeah, the library. You’ve got a good selection and stuff. Do you guys kind of all work together to keep that…
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like that you know were you just really looking for the yeah we do because we uh you know the we our focus is in hunting but at the same time when we get all of the you know we do a lot of A lot of used things and estate sales and things like that. And so we get a lot of people some pretty eclectic collections with some really cool stuff. A lot of vintage Milsurp stuff. A lot of vintage hunting rifles. We get some of the tactical stuff, not as much as other shops. We still have a good amount of that on hand. We do our custom AR builds. Between our custom guns, which cover the whole gamut of tactical to hunting to, like you said, the room we’re sitting in where it’s all of our… It’s a library of… A chronological order of battle rifles that have been used since, you know, the American Revolution on down to recent times. But some, you know, some German machine guns, some American machine guns. What is that one there on the stand? It’s a MG42. So that was the buzzsaw, as they called it. Wow. That was the… The Americans who stormed Normandy hated that gun. Terrifying sound. 1,200 rounds per minute. We have the American .30 cal heavy machine gun over there, the 1919. It’s about half the speed of that thing. You’re kidding.
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Yeah, probably you look back at the soldiers of that day to see what we have now for our military. Oh, my. Oh, yeah. World of difference. Again, LT Arms, 8130 Schaefer Parkway. If you haven’t been over, come on over. They’ve got a great, great showroom here, beautiful store, nicely laid out where you can see everything good. They’ve got their own gunsmithing department. We’ll go ahead and bring that up next. I’m trying to think of what you don’t do in the gunsmithing department. It’s not much.
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Chrome plating we send out. Nickel plating we send out. We send out all choke tube and shotgun stuff to Briley’s. They’re the masters. We don’t do any parkerizing because of the EPA stuff. But other than that, we pretty much do it all. From restoring the 19th century shotgun to building you a modern custom rifle, we can do it all. They do really… The traditional 19th century metal treatments such as real color case hardening with bone meal charcoal, carbona bluing with hot oil, and then deuniter bluing on small parts and things like that. Zoe, talented woodworkers we’ve got back there, she’s doing some really neat stock work and restoration work for for uh some some pretty beater stocks to come in she brings them back to their former glory and the customers just beside themselves with the results she’s getting they do they do most everything back there we got four full timers and we keep them busy right i’ll ask you earlier before we start recording what are some of the main things that people i’m sure you get the people just come in hey clean it up for me you know cleaning oils which i think that that’s a good thing to do uh
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But what are just some of the unusual things, and I shouldn’t say unusual, just what are the different types of things you see? You mentioned re-barreling. Let’s talk about that a minute and why people would want to do that and what’s involved in that and the advantage of doing that.
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Shot-out barrels from guys that compete, that’s one. Somebody wanting to change a rifle, brought in a Mark V Deluxe Weatherby. It’s chambered in .340. Those things kick like nobody’s business, right? It’s a tough cartridge. Great cartridge, but he’s done shooting it, and so he wanted to change it to a .257 Weatherby. And he contacted Weatherby and decided to have us do it instead, and so it’s a really fun project. So it requires getting the source in the barrel, of course, the right twist rate and everything, the right kind of metal, because we need to blue this, so we’ve got to get it to that high-polished Weatherby glossy look as well. And then, of course, we have to ream it. That 25-caliber barrel out to .257 Weatherby. Check head spacing. Make sure the go-no-go gauge is working and everything. Get it ready for going back to the bench.
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We’ve never really spent time on a few terms we say, but, you know, the scientist over there. Double phase electrostatic distribution of cyclone rotator heads. No, twist rate. Twist rate. Let’s explain what that is.
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Twist rate is it describes how many revolutions the projectile makes down the barrel of the gun. Rifling is what imparts twist to the barrel. projectile to give it accuracy in flight. The twist rate is when we express it as like say 1 in 12. That’s one revolution in 12 inches of barrel. 1 in 8 is some of the newer faster ones. There’s ones that are 1 in 3 for some of these newer cartridges. That’s spinning that projectile like half a million RPM. So twist rates also becoming more common nomenclature for people now is because we’re getting into these longer bullets. To stabilize that bullet, we’ve got to go with a different twist rate than people are used to for a cartridge they’ve been loading for for a while. So sometimes they’ll need to re-barrel so that they can shoot those fancy new bullets they want to try on their reloading projects.
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I mean, how many rounds would it take to blow out a barrel? I mean…
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Well, you can ask anybody back there and get a different opinion from me.
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Yeah. Yeah.
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You really can. Some of these, like Craig’s got a couple of customers that are competition guys that shoot things like the six dasher. And after about 700 rounds, they want a new barrel.
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Really?
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Yeah. But they’re, you know, it’s a very precise competition rifle. Some barrels, I think you’d be hard-pressed to shoot one out after 4,000 or 5,000 rounds. Brandon’s got a .220 Swift that’s been well taken care of, and it’s got over 4,000 rounds down the pipe, and it is still shooting little tiny groups.
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oh yeah right out of the case you 300 boom dead center yeah and it’s got documented yeah 4 000 rounds down the pipe but yeah kept clean never shot hot and it’s still shooting great then common opinion on that cartridge i mean 220 swift if you asked anybody that what would they usually say you get about 2 000 out of it something like that yeah yeah if you clean them and don’t get them too hot you can get a lot more life out of them yeah and modern steel is so much better too
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A lot of those older cartridges got a bad reputation because barrel steel wasn’t near what we have today. Barrel steel is hard.
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Absolutely. I mean, the machinery it takes to do all this is expensive.
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It is, yeah. Machinery is expensive and tools are expensive as well. You know, the reamers themselves, having those, we’ve got some that were custom made. We’ve got the ones that we use more commonly and then the other ones that are unusual and only do it once or twice a year. We rent from 4D reamers up in Casper, Wyoming and We get a nice report with them when they come to show that they’ve been sharpened and maintain the same spec and everything that they need to be for the job to be done correctly.
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Once again, it’s LT Arms, 8130 Schaefer Parkway. Get by and see them when you come in. Let them know you’re here on Sportsman of Colorado. As I mentioned, if you’re just getting in the car, turn on the radio. They will be at the Mile High Hunt and Fish Expo March 20th through the 22nd. We will be there as well. I think we’re going to be close to about 250 vendors there, and it is going to be a fantastic show. Again, you can get tickets at milehighhuntexpo.com. Put in the promo code SOCR2026. That’ll save you 10% off of your tickets. We’re going to take a quick break. When we come back, more with LT Arms right after this.
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Welcome back to Sportsman of Colorado. If you’re joining us, we are with LT Arms, 8130 Schaefer Parkway. Brandon Anderson is with us, and Evan Lee. Talking about the gunsmithing things, and this is something where it drives me crazy and probably drives you guys crazy. I’ll get friends that will call, you know, like two weeks before a season starts. And they’re like, man, do you know someplace I can take my gun and do it? And I’m like, dude, you’ve known this all summer and spring and everything. Get it over there now, and they can spend more time with you and talking through things. We want to encourage that, right? I mean, hey, we’re just about to be putting in for our tags here, so none of us know what we’re going to be doing yet for sure. But, hey, you may have some hunts planned, and maybe you’ve got a new rifle or whatever. Hey, get it over here. Let them take a look at it. See if everything’s dialed in, right? Yeah.
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yeah don’t don’t wait till the end of the year and do it right before season get it done now and get it to the range and make sure it’s doing what you need it to do and we can address those things in a in a uh a non-rushed manner right right oh yeah so what do you got going in optics now we’re selling as far as optics
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Oh, I mean, we carry a few different brands. We’ve been selling a lot of Trijicon recently. We’re also a dealer for GPO. SIG Sauer optics this year have gotten very, very popular. They’re really affordable, and they have nice glass in them. Most of our custom builds with AR-15s we do the SIG Tango MSR, like 1-6 power, 1-4 powers. Yeah, SIG has gotten really popular. And they’re not really, I mean, they’re not a company that’s known for their optics. Usually when you think of SIG, you think of, you know, handguns. Fortunately, recently it’s 320. Right, right, right, right. This is the one that comes to mind quickest. But, yeah, their optics have gotten really nice. Actually, we had the SIG rep come in, and they have a pair of self-stabilizing binoculars. That is pretty impressive. You focus it on the side of a hill, hit the stabilization button, and the shake that you normally experience with binoculars when you’re trying to focus in on something at distance completely goes away and they stay stable. But, yeah, a lot of SIG recently. It’s crazy. I mean, we always sell tons of Leupold for hunting rifles, of course. But, yeah, SIG has gotten very popular with optics. And I know it’s something they’re trying to push. Right, right. Yeah. Now, you’ve got something coming up pretty cool. You guys are doing a bison hunt, right? Yeah, we’re leaving on this Sunday. What is it, the 14th? Okay.
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So tomorrow as this airs.
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It will be tomorrow as this airs, yeah.
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I bet you wish it was tomorrow.
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Yeah, yeah. Yeah, we’re headed out to Elmdale, Kansas to Clovercliff Bison Ranch. And, yeah, we’re going to grab a couple of them. We built a nice double, 45-70 double rifle for the owners out there. And we’re doing a little trade for bison meat. That’ll work. We have to go track them down. But beyond that, yeah, it’s going to be pretty exciting. We’ve gone out there the last three or four years and usually do a custom rifle build and trade for meat. So, yeah, we’ll be spending Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday out there in Kansas.
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Those are – they’re big – If you haven’t been around a bison up close, son, they’re a big animal.
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Yeah. People think a cow is big, and then you get up next to a bison, and, yeah, it makes a cow look small.
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He’s got a particularly ornery rogue bull out there right now that needs dispatching. Oh, really? Yeah, he’s causing some problems. He keeps them pretty wild out there. Last year, I got to shoot last year, and we’re… I had to track those things through a frozen river bottom in a sideways snowstorm for 30, 40 minutes. Yeah, it’s impressive. And then you get up close to them, and, yeah, they’ll come for you. Yeah, yeah. They sure will, but, yeah. But it’s nice. To offset the cost, of course, we do a meat share among all the staff and everything, so everybody gets a freezer load of bison out of it. And then, of course, Keith Cross Street at Hunter T’s Taxidermy takes care of all the process, and we do rugs, and we’ve got – You’ve seen the mounts here in the shop and the gyros and the skulls and the bison rugs and things. So everything gets used.
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And a meat share with your favorite radio host. Absolutely. Buffalo is so good. It is. Wonderful stuff. It is so, so good.
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In fact, we’re installing a – We’re installing a walk-in next week over there so we can do some proper hanging and aging.
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Really? Yes, sir. Awesome, man. Cool. You guys think of it all, man. One-stop shop. Kill it, mount it, process it. And get Kyle cooking. Get it all cooking. Pretty soon, y’all are going to be in the grill business. It’ll be smoker business. It’ll be good. Let’s talk about some gun stuff on August 1st, right? Yeah. There’s been some laws that are supposedly going to go into effect. I don’t know if that’s really going to happen. It’s just going to be a mess, I think, because as reached just a couple weeks ago, I haven’t checked the last couple of weeks, but I don’t think anybody really knows what’s going to be going on there with CPW overseeing this. Yeah. So I don’t say – are they – Are they designing the curriculum, supposedly, and they’re going to be assigning people to do the training? Are they doing the training? I mean, what have you heard?
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Well, we said it on the media, and I don’t think they know what they’re doing. I agree. They were kind of unclear on the concept as well, and we had to remind them, like, you guys, wait, what? I mean, it was a rather uncomfortable conversation because they are clearly not staffed or ready to do this kind of thing, it appears. Yeah. I wonder how it’s all going to shake out. I really do.
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And really, I mean, if you think about it, they shouldn’t be doing that. I mean, they should be taking care of our wildlife. I mean, we’ve got enough going on with that. Yeah, 100%.
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They should be enforcing wildlife regulations and catching poachers and making sure people aren’t doing the wrong things out there and people are staying safe and all the things CPWs should be doing, managing through science as opposed to having to do the bidding of these crazy lawmakers. Yeah.
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Yeah, I don’t see how that falls under their watch. No, I don’t either.
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It doesn’t seem like it applies to what they do.
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And again, some things aren’t black and white, but from what you understand, and you guys can chip in on this with your knowledge, as of August 1st, what are they wanting to happen?
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As far as when I say they… What was it if you have… So if you’ve taken Hunter Safety and you have your Hunter Safety card, it’s an eight-hour class, I think is what they’re saying. If you haven’t taken Hunter Safety, it turns into a 12-hour class. Correct. I think that’s what I understood. We spoke to the Department of Revenue when they stopped by for their annual inspection that they do now. And according to them, CPW is supposed to teach this class. And then when we talked to CPW… No, no, no. You guys are supposed to teach this class. I was like, hmm, okay. We got a lot of deferring information and a lot of fingers. We’re going to have to circle back around to that and get back to you. Yeah, what’s your plan B? We don’t have a plan B. We’re going to stick with plan A. And as Parker, our gunsmith, said, their plan B is to plan A harder. Yeah. Wow. We’ll see.
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Yeah, it’s really up in the air at this point. I don’t know what to expect or what. It’s very, a lot of moving pieces to it.
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And that’s really on ARs, right?
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What’s the terminology? Gas operated.
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Gas operated. Detachable mag. Detachable mag, yeah. And we’ve had a lot of people coming in asking that question. It’s mainly the… You can argue that any gun is gas-operated because the recoil happens after the round’s fired. I’ve done a lot of research and read the bill about 50 times. And so if you’re familiar with the way a lot of European handguns work, like a Walther PPK, it has a fixed barrel. And on the bottom of the slide, there’s like a rod that basically exits a piston, and there’s some portholes in the bottom of the barrel. And it creates negative pressure when you fire the round, and once the round exits the barrel, it cycles the action. And so those are the kind of handguns, so like a Walther PPK would fall under it, a Desert Eagle, things like that that actually have some kind of lockup in fixed barrel and operate off the gas being cycled through, an actual gas system that’s built into the barrel. Glocks and Canucks and Sig Sowers, everything like that, is not going to fall under the bill, it looks like. And the governor’s office even said last week, like, this doesn’t apply to Glocks. This is just gas-operated pistols. So, I mean, you can still buy 1911s, things like that. It’s really just an attack on AR-15s, if you look at it, because, you know, there’s AR pistols, and so the gas-operated pistol, and then a few things, like, just get categorized under gas-operated by default just because of the design. It’s like a Walther PPK, and .32 ACP is not the most deadly thing in the world.
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You don’t see those chosen by gangbangers too often. No, they don’t even…
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Yeah. Again, Brandon Anderson is with us. Evan Lee, we are coming to you from LT Arms, 8130 Schaefer Parkway. What are your hours? We are 10 to 6 Tuesday through Friday and 10 to 4 on Saturday. Okay. All right. Get by and see them if you haven’t been by. As I said earlier, man, great showroom, great staff, super knowledgeable. They’ll be able to help you out with all of your needs. And I said this a few weeks ago when we were on, but, man, please support our local gun stores. Okay. And I just say that as a blanket statement because, I mean, you know, I understand finding a gun, man, it may be hard to find. You’ve got to buy that online, transfer that in. But, I’m sure you guys see a lot of common guns that you can get or that are sitting on your shelf that people transfer in.
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You’re like, you know, you could have saved yourself some money there, guys. You bought it from us.
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And then if there’s a problem, you know, guess who they’re going to come to to try to get to help you, you know. So just public service announcement. Support local gun stores, okay. And, again, LT Arms is a great store, so I hope you’ll get by and see them. suppressors uh those are still coming back pretty good i kind of thought after january it would be um you know man just huge onslaught maybe months and months and months again but it seems like those are still coming back fairly good yeah they’re getting them through in about you know two three weeks we’re seeing i mean the longest we’ve seen is maybe a month and a half but
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For the most part, they’re getting them through in a few weeks, and they’ve been pretty good about getting them done quickly. I can’t imagine how many they’re getting every day. They’ve been really good about processing those fast and getting the paperwork done.
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And the $200 tax stamp has gone away. It’s gone, yeah. So when people come in, I did get this question of the day, can they do everything they need to do here, or is there some things that they’re going to have to do outside to get their suppressor ordered?
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No, we’re a silencer shop dealer, and so we have a kiosk in the store where you can do your fingerprints and do your photo, go through and create an account. We’ll sit down and create an e-forms account with the ATF for you, so that way everything is all done. You can… Set up your accounts, order that day. When the suppressor comes in, we add it to our inventory and get the certification process started. I mean, we’ll certify over the phone with you. You can come to the store. So we try to make it a one-stop shop for that, too, so you can come in, register for everything, order it through us, and then get everything done.
SPEAKER 04 :
What do you see with people doing it as individual or doing it as a trust? And what do you recommend? And maybe we can talk about the benefits of both.
SPEAKER 03 :
More and more we’re seeing people doing trust. You can still get a lot of people registering as individuals, but, I mean, the trust, we always try to push people in that direction because Silencer Shop charges $25 to file the paperwork for the trust for you, and you can add as many people as you want to that. If you want to pass it on to your kids, you can pass it on to your kids if you know… your brother wants to go shoot with you you can add him to your trust and it makes it so you’re not the only person that can even be in a room with it you know so it kind of kind of opens it up and makes it so that i mean if you have a collection of them and you know you pass away and you wanted to leave them to your kids they you don’t have that option so yeah but the trust is a way better better we see a lot of people putting their entire gun collections in trust now too now do those
SPEAKER 04 :
Do any of those family members have to be with you here at the store to do fingerprints, or do they have to do any kind of… You have to add them to your trust, and you get e-forms.
SPEAKER 03 :
The ATF sends you an amendment form, and you can add people to your trust, and you can add as many people as you want to. They have to go through a similar process to you, kind of like a little background check, but… I don’t believe that they have to add fingerprints in there like we do. I don’t think so. Yeah. Okay.
SPEAKER 04 :
I mean, I don’t think that either. I was just going to make sure.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, because I don’t think so. Yeah, just the primary on the truss does, but yeah, I don’t think so. Yeah.
SPEAKER 04 :
Anything else cool you got in lately that I want to mention? I mean, you got some good stock here. I mean, people just need to come in and see. I mean, I was just walking through the room, you know, before we started recording. I mean, you got some nice shotguns here. You got some, you know, some great rifles. Of course, you got your custom builds that you can do for people. And if you’ve ever been thinking about doing a custom build, I just challenge you and invite you. to come over to LT Arms, 8130 Schaefer Parkway, and let them just walk you through what they’re doing, what they’re building. And I think you’ll find this to be, if you’ve been looking at that and seeing the dollar figure and that kind of scared you away, I think you’ll be pleasantly surprised at the quality you can get and at a pretty nice number, right? Yeah, absolutely.
SPEAKER 03 :
I mean, I think that’s very fair to say. Oh, yeah, we can get, yeah, we can build you something custom. I mean, the entry level to something custom is around the, Maybe even a little bit cheaper than the cost of a lot of high-end factory builds. So we can start the whole process. I mean, you can start at around $3,000 to get something nice. I mean, some guys like to go crazy, and it’s way more than $3,000. Yeah, we can. I mean, it’s a nice starting point to get a nice custom rifle built, and you can pick whatever caliber you want, whatever stock you want, and whatever color. We can flute the barrel. We can pretty much whatever you can imagine we can do. Yeah. All right. Cool.
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SPEAKER 04 :
Welcome back to the show. Thank you so much for being with us. Well, it has been a while since we have had this organization in with us, but we’ve always enjoyed the relationship with them and we’re going to be trying to do some more things with them to help them. It is Freedom Service Dogs. You can check out the website, freedomservicedogs.org. And I’m telling you, just a great organization, have helped many, many people. And to learn more about that, we’ve got Chris Nelson with us today. So, Chris, thanks for being with us today. How are you?
SPEAKER 13 :
Thanks for having me, Scott. I’m well.
SPEAKER 04 :
Now, what is your actual title?
SPEAKER 13 :
I’m the president and CEO.
SPEAKER 04 :
President and CEO. All right. So, man, it’s great to have you. Tell us a little bit about you and your background and what made you get involved with Freedom Service Dogs.
SPEAKER 13 :
Sure. I’ve been a nonprofit guy from the beginning. So I was in college and started working for outdoor wilderness schools, Outward Bound, Knowles. Those are both nonprofits. So just trying to help people sort of connect to wilderness, get outside and change their lives through those kinds of experiences. And that progressed. I was working with young people in that environment. So that progressed into working with young people in residential settings. So I built a long career helping young people uh, mostly in the foster care system, but youth that were system connected. And, um, over time I sort of burnt out and was looking for something that was still true to my passion. And, um, both of my grandfathers and my father are veterans from world war two in the Vietnam era. And a lot of my buddies served. And so, uh, this is a give back opportunity for me to help support our veterans who gave so much for our country. And so, uh, dogs.
SPEAKER 04 :
You can’t go wrong with dogs. Um, now the, uh, Let’s talk about the different breeds of dogs. Let’s give folks a little bit of pull the curtain back, so to speak, and show them inside. What type of breeds work best?
SPEAKER 13 :
Yeah, sure. So we primarily are using Labrador Retrievers. So for the first, you know, 32 years of the organization, we had a program where we were taking rescue dogs from shelters and training them to be service dogs. And as you can imagine, a lot of those partnerships weren’t successful. It was really hard to take a dog that had a lot of trauma and anxiety from a shelter environment and turning into a really good service dog. And our Our standards are really high for these service dogs. And so in 2019, we started a breeding program, and we breed not exclusively, but mostly Labrador Retrievers. So we see yellows, and we see blacks and browns. And then recently, in the past couple few years, we started adding Golden Retrievers. That’s what I have.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 13 :
Golden’s are pretty great. And so the difference between the two, right? Labs are pretty smart and they’re, uh, they work really hard for food and they like to work. And so we can train them using positive reinforcement, giving them treats every time they do something. Right. And they’re really loyal. And then Goldens, samesies, except not as hungry all the time, but really, really like the companionship. And so, you know, we’re doing dogs for veterans with PTS, first responders with PTS, folks with mobility challenges, and young people with autism spectrum disorder. So our autism assist program is really about a dog that is there to sort of break when somebody gets overstimulated, break that pattern. And so Goldens work really well in therapeutic environments, right? They want to be pet. They want to be touched. And so we’re looking at these sort of crossbreedings in terms of dogs that will work as a service dog in the traditional sense, but also dogs that will do therapeutic work. We have dogs that we’re placing in schools with our first responders, school resource officers, a really cool partnership with Douglas County Sheriff’s Office and our first dog there. Guster with Brian at Crest Hills Middle School is just a wild success and so we’re looking at behavioral characteristics in these dogs for our breeding program to ensure that they like want to work really hard for the person but then also want to be around people and so that way And we’ve got the whole spectrum of dog characteristics and behavior that they can be super loyal, work really hard, do the tasks, but also want the love depending on the need of the person.
SPEAKER 04 :
All right. It’s amazing how sensitive dogs can be to different things. My wife just had a couple of surgeries at the beginning of the year. And our goat, she just senses when something’s wrong. She can just tell when she gets up a little slow or sits down and just not feeling it. Come right over to her. I mean, it’s crazy. And that’s without any real professional training. So then when you put on the training side of it, I mean, these dogs are smart animals, first of all.
SPEAKER 13 :
Yeah, people do a lot of like, how do you make that work? Because our partnerships are really strong. All of our clients are talking about this dog has changed their life in some very meaningful way. And people say, how do you match the dog to the person? How do you know that the dog is going to end up being a good partner to that person in terms of being a serviced animal? there is a part of it that’s just magic because dogs bring that to the table where you get to know the dog. There’s something about it. Maybe you can’t put your finger on it, but it can tell when you’re stressed. It can tell when you’re, you can’t train that into a dog. You can train tasks, but dogs know when you’re having a hard time. They know when you’re sad, if you’re scared. And so when working with people, people with PTS, the dog knows when you’re feeling stressed in the grocery store and it’ll come close and let you know it’s there. And That is the part of this that is just the magic of working with dogs. Wow. Yeah, it’s cool.
SPEAKER 04 :
Again, if you’re just joining us, Chris Nelson is with us. He’s the president and CEO of Freedom Service Dogs. Once again, you can check out their website at freedomservicedogs.org. All right, training. So you, what, 10 weeks or so, 12 weeks, you start getting into some training?
SPEAKER 13 :
From the get. I mean, right when these dogs were born. So we have a breeding schedule. department, we’re working through genetics and also behavior, behavioral characteristics to make breeding decisions. The dogs are born on site and right from the jump, they’re learning socialization skills. They’re being exposed to, we’ve got a cat that lives in the nursery, for example. So they’re being exposed to all kinds of novel things from the day they’re born, being reinforced in the behaviors that we want to see out of dogs. And so that starts day one, hour one. Um, and so they’re with us while they’re being vaccinated, getting some of that socialization, making sure they’re medically well looking at, uh, behavioral stuff. So seeing that they, um, can socialize without being hyper reactive, without freaking out, for example, when they see something new. Um, and then they’ve got all kinds of different paths they take in their training. Some dogs go at about that eight to nine week, uh, point. go to prison. So we were working with incarcerated folks that are part of a professional training program where the dogs were actually in prison, uh, with somebody who’s incarcerated, getting training, uh, from that eight or nine weeks, anywhere from that point, it’s, you know, six weeks of training up to a full year with one of our programs. Wow. Yeah, and then they go to a puppy raiser. So they’re with a volunteer out in the community. We always need more that are reinforcing that training. Obviously, we provide a lot of support living with that dog, teaching that dog how to be a dog, and also some of the fundamentals. So then we come back on site, you know, 12 to 14 months old. We’ve got a team of professional trainers that then are working on all of the cues, opening doors, getting the fridge, coming in between your legs. There are a million different tasks these dogs can do. And so the dogs are being trained in all the foundations of being a service dog. And then once they’re matched with their client, they’re custom trained. So that can be anything that client needs. We’re working on making sure that dog can provide it.
SPEAKER 04 :
You know, I mentioned to you before we came on air that we’ve had a few of the vets in with their dogs. And I just remember one talking about how, and again, ptsd different things you know coming into their their apartment or home and and this dog would go and reach up turn on lights yeah and it would actually go through the the house a little bit before you know the vet would walk in their own home yep you know and just and to use a police term whatever swat term they clear the house that’s right i mean yeah and that puts the vet at ease
SPEAKER 13 :
That’s right. I mean, it’s not just that. So one of the great rewards of doing this work, I work with amazing people and we’ve got a really large group of stakeholders. I get to meet amazing people, is to get to know our clients and build relationships with them. And so I hear stories all the time of what these dogs do. There’s a gentleman who came to, we’ll talk a little bit about our clay shoots. Yeah, yeah, we’re getting to that. We got to do some of that. A gentleman who came to a clay shoot in Texas. We’ve got three right now, one in Denver, one in Houston, and then one in Midland, Texas. And one of our clients came to a shoot and there’s a group on the ground there, a committee in Midland, Texas that helps put on the shoot. They do a really good job of honoring our veterans. And so Thomas and Valor came, and Thomas was given a gift of a sporting clays shotgun. And it was nicely cerakoted and just beautiful. It had an American flag on it. It was a gorgeous gun. And he said, you know, I don’t know what I’m going to do with this. And it was a gift. And I was like, you can do whatever you want with it, man. Because of his service dog, and this is only five months after he got it, he had gone out of the house and gone to the range and shot that gun for the first time in decades. is now going to concerts. And so these experiences of whether it’s a dog doing something like clearing the house for somebody because that’s a need or helping them get out in public, it’s the gift that keeps me going in terms of this work. Right.
SPEAKER 04 :
How cool is that?
SPEAKER 13 :
It’s really cool.
SPEAKER 04 :
All right, we’re going to tell you about a great event, the 13th Annual Faces of Freedom Sporting Clays Tournament here in Denver. Our friends out at Colorado Clays, we’ve talked about them a number of times. And this is going to be a great, great event. Circle the date now, June 26th. And now here’s what you can do. You can go to freedomservicedogs.org. And you can go slash FACES slash Denver. You can also simply go to the website. I was doing that this morning. It said getinvolved.com. And then clicked on events there and found the Faces of Freedom clay shoot that way as well. So tell us all about this. This is really cool. I’ve heard so many things about it. It’s never worked out in my schedule until now, but I think I’m going to be able to do it this year.
SPEAKER 13 :
Yeah, we’ll get you there this year, Scott. So it’s June 26th up in Brighton at Colorado Clays. They’re great. We’ve been doing it there every year. It’s our 13th. It has, as I mentioned, moved out. Also, we have additional shoots in Houston and Midland, Texas. June 26th, come out and shoot. There are a lot of sponsorship opportunities. All of the proceeds go to support our veterans programming. And so it’s a huge lift for all of us and certainly love the participation. Get to hear from a veteran, be with like-minded folks. There’s lots of dogs around. There’s a really cool program. Folks talk about their experience with their service dogs. And we couldn’t do without our sponsors. So lots of opportunities to sponsor that as well if your company wants to. And you can find out more information on our website, as Scott said. Want to give a shout out to Liberty Energy and Bison Oil and Gas for being our presenting sponsors this year. As I said, there are multiple tiers of sponsorship opportunities. Most of them include teams of people that can shoot. And there’s all sort of skill level at this thing. You’ve got people who are shooting in the 30s who just want to support our veterans and people who are quite competitive. I think last year we saw 99, which is pretty good at a clay shoot. Certainly more competitive out in Midland, Texas, where it’s part of the daily life. And so we just want to grow that event here in Colorado. Right.
SPEAKER 04 :
So a lot of sponsorship. I’m just going to give you a couple of them here. A team registration and four for a team. Now, if you don’t have four, you got two, you got three, you got one. Come on out. They’ll pair you up with somebody. But if you got a team, that’s $850. And we’re going to tell you about some of the things going on for the rest of the day there at lunch and all. But you got a team registration only at $850. You can do a company registration only for $1,000, and that’s a company recognition on LinkedIn, social media posts, company logo appearance on the course. They’ve got a door prize sponsor for $1,500. That’s the ability to purchase a team of four at a discounted rate, and then the company name listed on the website. Company recognition on LinkedIn, social media posts, and logo appearance at door prizes available. And then a gun board sponsor, $1,500. Station sponsored, each one of the different stations where they throw the clays, those are $2,500. So all the way up to about $15,000 or $10,000, I guess, because I guess you’re done with your presenting sponsors, correct?
SPEAKER 13 :
Yeah, those are capped.
SPEAKER 04 :
Okay. So you got your platinum level sponsor, which is $10,000. And look, I know a lot of people at the end of the year do a lot of donations. Here’s something you can do at the beginning of the year. This is a platinum level sponsor for $10,000. And you know what? If you’ve got some people from your company that can come out, great. Now, this is an entry for 12, three teams. So that’s a $3,000 value. But you say, hey, I’ve only got two teams. I want to sponsor somebody else that may need some help. That would be a great thing to do. You got your logo appearance on all the collateral material, the website and electronic communication, the company recognition on LinkedIn, social media posts as well, logo appearance at registration table and inside reception site, and the opportunity to provide branded company pins to be paired with all the scorecards for all the participants. So a lot of value there just for some good branding. But you know what? For the cause to help support Freedom Service Dogs. And, man, sometimes I wish you could just reach back on and just share some stories, a different one. But, I mean, I’m sure in your tenure here, there are a lot of stories where this was, I mean, when I say game changer, we say that a lot, but life-changing.
SPEAKER 13 :
Yeah, you know, we say every day a game changer, too, because these dogs do big and small, right? So if you think about somebody who’s got maybe a spinal cord injury and going to the grocery store can actually be risky for them. Imagine, right, that you’re using a wheelchair full time and you’re getting your wallet out to pay and your card falls on the floor. It can be risky just to pick it up. And so that can be a barrier for people going out, just going to the grocery store. Now, our dogs consistently, when trained well and placed to service dogs, can pick up that card for you or your keys or your phone, making that outing something that’s possible. And so we might look at that as a very small thing, going to the grocery store. For somebody else, that is legitimately life changing. And so these dogs are everyday game changers. And I appreciate that language. We use it as well. Again, I just can’t say how filling it is for my soul to have this purpose in life to watch people’s lives be changed by these dogs.
SPEAKER 04 :
Right. Last couple of minutes, but what are some needs you have? How can people help? Money, I’ll say it for you. Money helps. It costs a lot of money. And I don’t know what. I mean, I’m sure you have an average cost of birth to giving the dog to a vet. That’s a pretty big investment.
SPEAKER 13 :
It’s expensive, right? I mean, it’s food, um, it’s veterinary costs. It’s the lodging for the dogs. We’ve got a pretty big facility and then a lot of staff to take care of the dogs and make sure they get to the finish line, everything from their general wellbeing to, uh, this advanced and custom training that we’re providing. Um, so it costs a lot to get a dog to the finish line and, and to give them to a person. And, um, certainly money, a big part of what we need as a nonprofit, um, volunteer opportunities are a petite we talked about this pathway for a puppy from birth before they come into training and a big big part of that is a puppy raiser and so you can have a wonderful foundationally trained dog puppy come into your home go through adolescence with you and then watch them on their path and participate in their path to become an everyday game changer for these people that they’re serving so um and that takes a special person i’m just gonna be honest yeah
SPEAKER 04 :
That would be really hard for me because I love dogs. And so you fall in love with that puppy. But when you realize the mission that you’re doing to help someone, hey, sign their name on a dotted line, so to speak, to help give us the freedoms that we have today, that might put us all in a different frame of mind.
SPEAKER 13 :
Yeah, it’s no joke that these people are giving a lot of their time and energy and our appreciation for them is almost indescribable because it is a huge commitment. But the outcome of that is very rewarding for them as well. And so we’ve got puppy raisers that will do it multiple times. They do fall in love with the dog. And, you know, how can you not? But then you get to see, I equate it to, I’m raising children, right? I’ve got a, an 11 year old and a 14 year old. And my job as a parent is to get them to become independent adults. Right. And I’ll miss them when they go off to college or whatever their path is, but that’s what we’re setting them up for. And this is the same thing, but a little bit more encapsulated, right? It’s done within the period of a year. Do you get to see this dog from a puppy become this ultimate best friend to somebody in need? And there’s nothing, I don’t think more magical than that. And so, yes, hard, and it is a lot, but the rewards are pretty big. Right.
SPEAKER 04 :
What about supplies? Anything people can bring?
SPEAKER 13 :
yeah i mean if you go to our website we’ve got a wish list um you know everything from treats cheerios uh certainly i’m going to say it again money is a non-profit um you know that’s that’s our revenue for our business and um our dogs are free of charge to all of our clients and so it’s important that we maintain that and don’t that we don’t have our clients incur any charges and so on our website you can find a myriad of ways to get involved there are folks that come in and spend the day helping the dogs in the kennels with, with playtime, with being fed, with just getting some love, um, and, uh, and everything in between dropping off a box of Cheerios, which we use to reinforce the behavior for the dogs. They’re low calorie, uh, not giving a plug specifically to Cheerios, but it is what we use and the dogs like it, um, all the way up to raising a puppy. I mean, there are just a ton of ways to get involved and, Our stakeholder group, our volunteers, our donors, our partners, our community partners, our sponsors is a really huge community. And so it’s a real blessing just to be a part of that. And so people don’t get just to drop off some Cheerios or participate in raising a puppy. They also become something bigger than themselves. And I think these days, more than ever, that purpose and belonging is really important to all of us. Yeah, absolutely.
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, Chris, we appreciate your time, sir.
SPEAKER 13 :
Yeah, man.
SPEAKER 04 :
We’ll do this again.
SPEAKER 13 :
Appreciate being here.
SPEAKER 04 :
Folks, circle the date, June 26th. It is the 13th annual Faces of Freedom Sporting Clays Tournament out at our friends once again at Colorado Clays. Check out the website, freedomservicedogs.org, and you can get all the information there. Just to give you an idea of the schedule that day, the check-in is at 7.45 a.m. About an hour later, they’ll do the safety briefing. The shotgun start, no pun intended, will be 9 a.m., And then they’ll have their prizes, awards, lunch, and auction at 1215. But it will be a fantastic day. And unless something unforeseen comes up, I’m going to mark it in my calendar now. We’ll be there. So, again, we’ll do this again, Chris, but we appreciate it so much.
SPEAKER 13 :
Amen. And we’ll see you on the 26th.
SPEAKER 04 :
All right. Sounds good. FreedomServiceDogs.org. Quick reminder now, if you miss our live show on Saturdays 1 to 2, catch us twice on Sundays. That’s 8 to 9 a.m. and, once again, 7 to 8 p.m. on Sunday evening, and we thank you for being with us. Hope you have a great rest of your day and a great rest of your weekend.
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