MAX ORDINATE • The Precision Rifle Podcast
This is a product of Max Ordinate Academy, focusing on precision rifle training, methods, hard lessons learned, and tactical precision rifle competition preparation with after-action reviews, military and law enforcement employment, TTP & SOP's. Your hosts, Tyler Hughes and Jeph Savaglio gives you a professional and instructive perspective when it comes to professional / amateur thought processes with a lot of passionate, no-holds-barred content. This pod has no problems discussing a wide range of topics whether it be a failed stage, training methods, lessons learned, or calling each other out for mistakes made, or insane social media posts that need debunked or called out. Join and subscribe to get the best information on training tips, new products, and approaches.
About the show hosts: Tyler Hughes is a male precision rifle shooter who served 10 years in the US Marines. In 2013, Tyler left the Marines as a Scout Sniper and started Max Ordinate Academy seeking to provide the highest level of precision rifle training in the nation to both civilian shooter and Law Enforcement snipers. Tyler also serves as the lead Urban Sniper Course instructor for the USMC. He competes primarily on a national level in Precision Rifle Series, National Rifle League, and Competition Dynamics matches consistently placing Top 5 or better. Tyler has pulled in multiple 1st place wins and continues to chase perfection.
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 66 minutes
- Episodes
- 164
- Years Active
- 2019 - 2025
It's All About The Money... And where you spend it!
Happy Hump Day! Early morning chat with Tyler regarding money in the Precision Rifle world and how you spend it. Are you doing whats best for you? or trying to buy your way to the top? …
Happy NEW YEAR! Now get training!
We're back! After a brief hiatus we're back in the studio recording. To kick off the new year right, we figured why not give a brief update on what we've up to, plans we have for the ne…
Inside look at the 2021 Sniper Adventure Challenge by Competition Dynamics
During this episode, Tyler Hughes recaps the 2021 48 hr Sniper Adventure challenge and what it took to survive. The event start thursday September 2nd at 7pm and ended Saturday Septembe…
Hard Lessons Dont Come Cheap
This episode, Tyler brings the team on to talk training, goals, lessons learned from steel safari, their mental processes, wind struggles, and more! Russ, Nick, & Vinessa share their st…
The Wind Call Episode & Building Block Training Plans
On this cool sunday evening Tyler lets it all out regarding plans for the new range facility, a small tidbit on a building block approach to improving your personal training plan, and f…
Little bit of Wind, Little bit of what can I do better...
After Day 1 of the Sharpshooter Showdown PRS match in Avenal, CA, Tyler, Russ, and Vinessa talk about some mental mistakes that occured, how to mitigate them in the future as well as wi…
Mental Preparation and Exercise
How well have you trained your short term memory? Are you exercising your mental game when away from the range? Are you able to process how you will conduct a stage down to the smallest…
You want to do what with your zero?!
Tyler and Jeremy are back at it discussing some interesting talk floating around the precision rifle community right now regarding impact disparity from prone to positional. Its one of …
Interview of the Team 2020 Max Ordinate members
This episode is an interview style episode recapping and reviewing how the year 2020 went down, their successes and failures of the two members of Team MaxOrdinate. One brand new shoote…
Happy 2021, Quick Chat about Performance Based Training
Tyler running solo for this short episode discusses lifestyle fitness training versus performance based fitness training. Lifestyle fitness is no 30 day challenge. You live it. You eat …
Don't PRS my Guardian • The ebbs and flows of being a Match Director
This epic episode brings together Tyler & Jeremy along with guests Adam Pini of KG Made Suppressors and Gary Larson of Guardian Long Range discussing this past weekends Guardian Long Ra…
Method to the Madness • Direction and Focus for your Personal Training Program
Tyler and Jeremy are back! This Can-Not-Afford-to-Miss Episode discussing your personal training program, what to focus on, types of measurables and why they are important! The duo turn…
Just Another Tuesday to Exercise your Brain
Tyler returns from a long weekend in New Mexico to chat with Rei aka @9_dolls about their experience this year at the Competition Dynamics Team Safari. Great teamwork, but faulty weapon…
Developing a Bolt Action w/ Falkor Defense
Tyler brings on a new guest, Jason Sonju, owner of Falkor Defense to talk about fearlessly busting into the bolt action world with a goal of being the best. The conversation starts with…
SPECIAL EPISODE! the Champion Mindset w/ Branch Warren
Tyler sits down with Branch Warren, owner of Wicked Cutz Jerky, retired Champion bodybuilder, and avid hunting & firearms advocate to discuss what it takes to be a champion. The dedicat…
The Best in the West & What is the Rule of 15...
The boys are back at it talking all things precision rifle. Jeremy discusses his trip to Georgia and some much needed topics about Precision Gas Gun competition. Tyler drops a bomb rega…
Deep Dive into Ballistic Calculations w/ Joe Baker
All about Joe, software, smart people, ballistics, calculators, user features, & more! We compare common 3DOF ballistic solvers to the Hornady 4DOF system and the results are shocking,…
What do you do with your non-dominant hand? A technique for those pesky supported rifle positions
On this week's episode, competitions, Gas Guns, and Techniques for a more stable supported position rule the interwaves. Tyler and Jeremy kick it off talking about the particulars of Je…
Inside the Sniper Adventure Challenge: Are you MAN or WOMAN enough?
Tyler and Vinessa recap the Competition Dynamics Sniper Adventure Challenge as both competitor and spectator for this grueling 36 hour competition while driving back from Wyoming. Every…
On The Road Again...
Tyler tries to avoid being pulled over, being hit by semi trucks and/or falling asleep as he makes his way to the CD: Sniper Adventure Challenge in WY.
The SNIPER ADVENTURE CHALLENGE is …