Glendive Montana Gets Locked and Loaded!

02/17/24 • 53 min

This week on the Montana Outdoor Podcast your host Downrigger Dale talks to Andy Mansoor, CEO of Brixtel Defense along with two other key executives of the Company Jimmy Slaughter and James McCoy. Those gentlemen represent Brixtel Defense an ammunition company that is spending 125 million dollars to build an ammunition manufacturing plant in Glendive Montana! You may recall if you listened a few weeks back to the Montana Outdoor Podcast when Rigger talked to Governor Greg Gianforte about Montana’s outdoor economy, he brought up Brixtel Defense and talked about them setting up a plant in Glendive. So, Downrigger decided to investigate that and boy did he find out a ton of exciting information! Make sure you listen to this podcast! When you do you will learn things like, which state is home to the highest number, per capita, of innovative firearms and ammunitions businesses in the United States. Spoiler Alert: That state is nicked named The Big Sky Country! What is even more amazing is how many people Brixtel Defense is planning on hiring when they get the new plant up to full capacity. You will also learn why this Virginia based company choose Glendive Montana as the place they wanted to expend their business in such a major way. Another thing the boys from Brixtel told Rigger about was the type of ammunition they will be manufacturing in Glendive. There is much more than that waiting for you to learn when you listen. It truly is amazing! In fact, some of you might just want to go to work for Brixtel and yes when you listen to the podcast you will find out what jobs they are looking to fill and how you can apply! In addition to all that you will learn that Brixtel Defenses’ expansion will have a positive affect on other businesses all across Montana as well!
If you would like to learn more about Brixtel Defense, you can click here to head to their website. If you would like to email them your resume, click here. If would like to get their contact info for their headquarters in Virginia or for the new branch office in Glendive just click here. As always Downrigger Dale would love to hear from you with your thoughts about this episode or with your ideas for future podcasts. Click here to email him!

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This week on the Montana Outdoor Podcast your host Downrigger Dale talks to Cory Medlinger of Superior Hardwoods of Montana to find out about one of the most unique wood products companies in the world! If you are a fan of the podcast or the Montana Outdoor Radio Show you have no doubt heard Cory talk about Superior Hardwoods of Montana a company that his dad started back in 1977. Now you will learn the whole story of how this incredible company started and how it has evolved into providing folks all over the United States and beyond with the most unique wood flooring, beams, siding and more that are beyond your imagination. Cory and his dad, John Medlinger, both have an eye for wood like no one else and we are not talking about just plain old wood. When you listen to the podcast you will hear about exotic woods, like Italian Olive Wood, or Redwood that was once a flume from an old mining operation and even wood that had once been at the bottom of the ocean before Superior Hardwoods turned it into beams that are more like art than something that holds up a ceiling. As Downrigger put it after he was done talking to Cory, “Superior Hardwoods of Montana is so unique that it almost seems like the company was the brainchild of Paul Bunyan and Willie Wonka!”. Yes, this podcast is for sure a “must listen” especially if you are thinking about remodeling, building, or wanting to create something incredible out of wood. Oh, and they are hiring right now too. So, if you love working with wood. Listen and learn how you can join the team at Superior Hardwoods of Montana!
If you would like to learn more about Superior Hardwoods of Montana, just click here. If you would like to see some photos of some of the things that have been created from the unique woods they sell, click here. If you would like to contact them, click here. If you would like to send Cory and email, click here. You are of course welcome to call them at (406) 235-7452 or just stop in and see them at 5120 Highway 93 South in Missoula, Montana and let them guide you through the woods! Of course, your host Downrigger Dale would love to hear what you thought of this podcast or hear your ideas for topics for future podcasts, click here to send him an email!

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Do You Have Questions About the Upcoming Hunting License Application Deadlines or the Changes to Hunters Ed Requirements or Other Things? This Episode has the Answers!

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Yeah, it is almost the start of a new license year for the Montana Outdoors. In less than a week it will be time to get a new fishing license and conservation license and then just like that the clock starts to ticking! Yeah, the deadline season is about to begin. The time of the year when you have start thinking about applying for special permits and licenses. It’s that time when parents must start planning on when their kids that have not taken hunter education will get enrolled to take it. What age can take the online test? Did you hear there was a change in requirements? Which State Park where you going to make sure you had reservations for? Did you hear that the reservation process had changed? RELAX!! Good old Downrigger has got you! This week on the Montana Outdoor Podcast Downrigger Dale talks to Greg Lemon, Head of the Communication and Education Division of the Montana Fish Wildlife and Parks and Emily Cooper the License Bureau Chief of the FWP! Downrigger hit them with a TON of questions about everything from when are all the deadlines for applying for all your permits and special licenses, to what all the changes are in Hunters Education, to how to understand how the bonus points system works and list goes on and on. Greg and Emily completely loaded this podcast with EXTREMELY valuable information. In fact, make sure you download the podcast or at least for sure save this link as you will likely want to listen to it several times. Once you are done listening to the podcast you just might be the most organized and ready for fishing, hunting and more than you ever have been before! In fact, you will learn about a real cool new feature for buying all your licenses online. Here is a big hint: it allows grab any or all the things you bought last year again this year in a few clicks! It is very cool!
If you want to get more information about all the things you need to know about the new license year, click here for a great article that, will give you tips, reminders, deadlines and lots of links to most all the info you are going to need. Read it carefully and you will have everything from the number to the FWP Licensing Call Center, which is (406) 444-2950, to links to the Online Licensing System and much more! For more information on Montana hunting licenses and permits, click here. If you would like to email a question or comment to the Licensing Division of the FWP, click here. For great information about Hunter Education, click here. For info about Bowhunter Education, click here. To email a question to the Communication and Education Division, click here.