Episodios

  • RSWC Pit Stop Bryan Eastridge

    RSWC Pit Stop Bryan Eastridge
    Jun 30 2025

    Riding Shotgun With Charlie
    Pit Stop
    Bryan Eastridge
    American Fighting Revolver

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    14 m
  • RSWC Pit Stop Philip Van Cleave

    RSWC Pit Stop Philip Van Cleave
    Jun 27 2025

    Riding Shotgun With Charlie
    Pit Stop
    Philip Van Cleave
    Virginia Citizens Defense League

    We recorded this at NRA Annual Meeting in Atlanta, GA, in April 2025.

    VCDL Website
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    15 m
  • RSWC #232 Mekkos Beech

    RSWC #232 Mekkos Beech
    Jun 24 2025
    Riding Shotgun With Charlie #232 Mekkos Beech Memphis Beech, Instructor & YouTuber I met Mekkos in a YouTube mastermind group hosted by Will Workman (RSWC #185). His YouTube channel is called Memphis Beech. So I asked the obvious question: are you in Memphis? I was scheduling a short southern tour and reached out to Mekkos. I was very lucky to have Mekkos on the show. He’s a great guy, very knowledgeable, and a good tour guide! I’m glad we were able to connect and become friends. We met up at Top Gun in Memphis and headed down towards Beale Street and ended the show in Arkansas. Mekkos grew up in a military family, including his mother, with relatives in the Marines, Army, and Navy. He joined the Marines but he didn’t grow up shooting but started his training in the military. He was a helicopter electrician and when he got out there weren’t a lot of jobs in aviation. So he found a career in IT doing cyber security for most of the time. He got into competitive shooting, mostly IDPA. He started as an RSO at Top Gun and offers classes there. The classes he offers are just the continuing training that people need. He teaches IDPA classes, but he’s also got classes like Mastering the Pistol and Beyond the Permit. He also has private one on one coaching sessions. He’s got quite the credentials, too, being certified by Massad Ayoob Group, Tom Givens’ Rangemaster, Active Self Protection, Last Resort Firearms Training, as well as the NRA, USCCA, and NAAGA. You can see he’s a smart man. We spent some time talking about Tennessee. It is a permitless carry state but there are still lots of restrictions. They have what they call an “enhanced permit” which allows a permit holder to carry in more places than someone without one. I think he’s got a great take on “Constitutional carry” saying “the state establishes the Second Amendment as their carry permit.” Therefore the state cannot control where you can and cannot go while you’re carrying. His definition of permitless carry is as long as you can legally buy a gun and carry it, but there are rules and addendums you have to follow. The issue for permitless carry states is that you, as the citizen, still have to know what their laws are about where you can carry and even use force. This is why it is good to take some additional training. After studying defensive gun uses, he discovered that many of the skills used in the DGUs are not skills that people are getting at the permitting courses. Again, it is why those who carry should seek out additional training, take more classes, and read books about self defense. This is why when a state goes to permitless carry, training increases. When the government says you have to take a course and that’s all you need to know, that is often where people stop taking training. When he started his YouTube channel, it was to focus on the competition side of things. He was going to show viewers how to go through various stages and help with their competitive shooting issues. But there was a holster review that took off and got tens of thousands of views. Some of the other topics include working with students who have a fear of firearms. Sometimes, the instructor doesn’t know the student had a situation where they were affected by someone else using a firearm or if a woman is a DV survivor. I bring up a course I’d like to make and he helps guide me through what it should have. One of the reasons I wanted to start a show is to expand my circle of friends. My circle went to Will Workman, which led to his mastermind, which led to Mekkos. I’m honored he was able to make time to do the show, that we became friends, and that he shared his wisdom with us. Favorite quotes: “In Constitutional Carry, the state establishes the Second Amendment as their carry permit.” “It takes a little bit of emotional intelligence to keep people on track to remember the information from the first six hours.” “I have a huge passion for shooting. I have a huge passion for the pistol sports. I want to share that passion with others.” “I think of IDPA as a game. I think of USPSA as a sport.” Memphis Beech https://www.memphisbeech.com/ YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@MemphisBeech Facebook https://www.facebook.com/memphis.beech.coaching Instagram https://www.instagram.com/mbeech901/ EDC: Every Day Conversations Podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/edc-every-day-conversations-hosted-by-memphis-beech/id1667064527 Second Amendment Foundation https://secure.anedot.com/saf/donate?sc=RidingShotgun Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms https://www.ccrkba.org/ Please support the Riding Shotgun With Charlie sponsors and supporters. Self Defense Radio Network http://sdrn.us/ Buy a Powertac Flashlight, use RSWC as the discount code and save 15% www.powertac.com/RSWC SABRE Red Pepper Spray https://lddy.no/...
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    51 m
  • RSWC Pit Stop Mike Ox

    RSWC Pit Stop Mike Ox
    Jun 13 2025

    Riding Shotgun WIth Charlie
    Pit Stop
    Mike Ox

    Red Dot Mastery Book https://www.amazon.com/Red-Dot-Mastery-astigmatism-both-eyes-open-ebook/dp/B0CQWKSQ86

    Facebook https://www.facebook.com/DryFireOx/

    Dry Fire Training Cards https://www.instagram.com/dryfiretrainingcards/?hl=en

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    13 m
  • RSWC Pit Stop Jacob Paulson

    RSWC Pit Stop Jacob Paulson
    Jun 11 2025

    RSWC
    Pit Stop
    Jacob Paulson
    Concealed Carry

    Concealed Carry https://www.concealedcarry.com/

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    18 m
  • RSWC 230 Ryan Muller

    RSWC 230 Ryan Muller
    Jun 10 2025
    Riding Shotgun With Charlie #231 Ryan Muller Competitive Shooter I’ve had a few chances to meet Ryan Muller. He’s the husband of Dianna Muller from Women for Gun Rights. He’s a great shooter on his own. When I got to NRA AM in Atlanta, Di called me and said I needed to do a show with Ryan since I had a car and we were both there. I picked him up at the aquarium and we drove around the ATL. When a friend set them up, they really hit it off. She took him to a competition and he did really well. They’ve had the chance to travel the world as a couple and individually doing competitions. Ryan grew up shooting pellet guns and moved into a Ruger 10/22 when he turned 13. He said living in a rural area, he got to shoot just about everything a boy would want to shoot. He was athletic and played sports, but never went to a range until Di took him to one. On his first match, she made him shoot first. They rotated the line up and he would go last the next time. This worked to his advantage as the first stage was stationary and used pistols. He was hooked after that. WIthin a few years, he was on the pro series for 3-Gun Nation. They spent the next 10 years as full time competitive shooters. While out there shooting, he’s done well. But he would pick up what others would tell him and apply those techniques and tips. It gave him the opportunity to shoot with some of the big name competitive shooters like Jerry Miculek, Bruce Piatt, and Tony Holmes. The wonderful thing about being around these shooters is they are willing to help you. They’ve got 40 years of experience doing it and figuring out why they do particular things while shooting. T\\hey’ll tell you what their plans are, what they saw while shooting a stage, and how they can improve. Ryan emphasises that as a sponsored and competitive shooter, you’ve got to build relationships with companies before you can ask them to get behind you. A lot of what companies are looking for is not that you’re winning, but that you’re out there doing social media, being approachable by others, and helping them sell products. Yes, it’s good when you win, but it’s better if you’re helping the company by getting their items into other people’s hands. A few years ago, Ryan had a motorcycle accident in his own driveway. He landed and really messed up his back. He was in the hospital for a month. When he was out, he couldn’t get around without a wheelchair, working his way to a walker and crutches. With the strong relationship he’s built with companies, they wanted to see that he was recovering well and doing better. He has been able to get back to some competitions despite the injury. At one event, he was above 66 other competitors but not close to the top. He also talks about W.O.F.T, West Orlando Firearm Training, sometimes called Where Our Family Trains. They offer training like no other place with scenario training for everyone, including Miculek. I do ask if it's “fair" that a competitive shooter carries. Ryan replies saying that the bad guy is the one who determines when things happen, our reaction times are going to be the same as a regular person. But with their training, everything else is going to be quicker and smoother. Which is why we all need more training and more practice. We talked about how the people and companies in the firearm community really want to see each other succeed and do well. From getting tips from Miculek to keeping sponsor deals after an injury, it’s really a testament to the kinds of people we have in our industry.. Favorite quotes: “Its just shooting out the back of a truck, it’s what I grew up doing.” “I got to learn and pick up on 30, 40 years of experience that I didn’t have to spend the time and ammo to get.” “We are going to give everybody that is our competition the best chance we can to give them to succeed. And I don’t think you see that in other sports.” “You’re going to point shoot in one of those situations.” Facebook https://www.facebook.com/3Gunryanmuller/ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/rmuller_3gnr Women for Gun Rights https://www.womenforgunrights.org/ Second Amendment Foundation https://secure.anedot.com/saf/donate?sc=RidingShotgun Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms https://www.ccrkba.org/ Please support the Riding Shotgun With Charlie sponsors and supporters. Self Defense Radio Network http://sdrn.us/ Buy a Powertac Flashlight, use RSWC as the discount code and save 15% www.powertac.com/RSWC SABRE Red Pepper Spray https://lddy.no/1iq1n
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    54 m
  • RSWC Pit Stop Lisa Paris

    RSWC Pit Stop Lisa Paris
    Jun 9 2025

    RSWC
    Pit Stop
    Lisa Paris
    Instructors Dash

    Instructor Dash website https://instructorsdash.com/

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    YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@UCstWeQEEl0XC1HLfCD60OmQ

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    15 m
  • RSWC Pit Stop Brandon Maddox

    RSWC Pit Stop Brandon Maddox
    Jun 6 2025

    Riding Shotgun With Charlie
    Pit Stop
    Brandon Maddox

    I was able to get some time with Brandon Maddox from ⁨@SilencerCentral⁩ at ⁨@NRA⁩ Annual Meeting's Voices of the Second Amendment.

    Check it out!

    Silencer Central Website
    https://www.silencercentral.com/

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    18 m