Standing on the ramp of a C-130 in the dead of night, at 5,000 feet, in thick clouds over the Indian Ocean 12 miles east of the Horn of Africa, Terry Houin and his five teammates, all part of a secretive intelligence unit within ...
Apr 17, 2022
Dec 30, 2021
Enter the Grizz: Grizzly Forge’s Lucas O’Hara on Business and Life
After seven and a half years in the US Army, including a tour as a sniper with the 3rd Infantry Division and a post in the color guard at Arlington National Cemetery, Lucas O’Hara, now of Grizzly Forge, transitioned out of the military into what he ...
Dec 30, 2021
Physics & Firearms: Ryan McMillan’s Improbable Path
Ryan McMillan was born into a firearms dynasty. His grandfather, Gale, started McMillan Fiberglass Stocks — the preeminent stock builder for the benchrest, long-range, and special operations communities for decades. Yet simply taking over a family ...
Dec 28, 2021
Apache Pilot Turned Kryptek Founder on Evolving Air Attack Tactics in the Global War on Terror
There’s a painting on the wall at Lockheed Martin that shows two AH-64D Apache Longbow attack helicopters high above the broken landscape of Tal Afar in northern Iraq. From the gunships scream the defense contractor’s laser-guided AGM-114 Hellfire ...
Nov 05, 2021
Perfecting the Pour Over: Coffee + Water. Easy, Right? Well …
Raul Rodas is a world barista champion, a four-time Guatemala national champion, a buyer and quality consultant for some of the world’s largest coffee companies, and a business owner and roaster with his beloved Guatemala City shop, Paradigma Coffee ...
Jun 25, 2021
11 Questions & A Cup of Coffee: Brazilian Mixed Martial Artist Royce Gracie
Royce Gracie is The GOAT. Sure, Anderson Silva, Jon Jones, and Georges St-Pierre may be factored into that discussion — among other Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Hall of Famers — but Gracie did several things the others did not. Gracie ...
Jun 23, 2021
How a Marine, a Texan, and Spanish Investors Shook Up the Gun Industry
In the last 10 years, rifles have gotten more accurate. Production rifles and factory rifles, hunting rifles and precision rifles, civilian rifles and military rifles, big bores and rimfires, expensive guns and cheap ones — a .30-06 any of the big ...
Jan 15, 2021
Evan Hafer Appointed to Congressional Sportsmen’s Foundation Board of Directors
The Congressional Sportsmen’s Foundation (CSF) has announced the appointment of Evan Hafer, founder and chief executive officer of Black Rifle Coffee Company, to its board of directors. The CSF works directly with Congress, governors, and state ...
Dec 07, 2020
Weeping of the Gods: A Lost Interview with a Kamikaze Pilot
They picked up the young man at the train station in Sasebo. They had been looking for him or one of his kind for days. There were men with guns standing by, but he was cooperative. His former general had been in on it, anyway. They brought him to ...
Nov 19, 2020
Gunfights & Coffee: Why Black Rifle Coffee Tastes So Good
Gunfighting made Evan Hafer a coffeehead. The future Black Rifle Coffee Company founder and CEO had separated from the US Army Special Forces as a noncommissioned officer with multiple tours in Iraq and Afghanistan. He had ...
Nov 02, 2020
Meet Jamey Caldwell: The Infamous Operator in ‘Italian Job’ Hostage Rescue Video Turned Pro Fisherman
There aren’t many professional bass fishermen who chased Usama bin Laden through the mountains of Tora Bora. In fact, there’s just one: Jamey Caldwell, retired Army Special Missions Unit operator and Black Rifle Coffee Company-sponsored bass ...
Oct 29, 2020
Meet River Guide, Ranger Veteran & Ready Gunner Founder Neal Currey
Neal Currey likes to say adventure is in his blood. The Utah native, former Army Ranger with the 2nd Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment, and founder of Ready Gunner — one of the coolest full-service gun shops in the country — was born into a ...
Oct 09, 2020
How One Louisville Coffee Shop Is Riding Out the ’Rona
Rachel Radwanski just wanted a normal summer weekend. Three months into coronavirus lockdown, the events manager at Safai Coffee Shop in Louisville, Kentucky, invited friends over for a “socially distant” garden party at her apartment in historic Old ...
Aug 27, 2020
Cupping Coffee in Guatemala with Black Rifle Coffee Company
The Coffee Crew from BRCC is back with the second installment of their hunt for Lava Panther — September’s upcoming ECS power coffee. This latest CAF Life video shows some killer behind the scenes footage of what it takes to find, grade, and buy the ...
Aug 07, 2020
Arrow Therapy: The First Veteran Adaptive Athlete Shoot
The idea was simple: Give a wounded veteran a bow, and you give them a new mission. And like so many good ideas, it was born in the mountains. Total Archery Challenge, or TAC, is without question the toughest 3D archery series in the country with ...
