Adam Riser and Adam Maxwell
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Practical shooting talk, hot from the range.
On The Perf follows Adam and Adam through practical shooting with match reports, gear arguments, classifier gripes, and long-range side quests. It is technical enough for competitors, but loose enough to feel like a bench-side conversation after the scores are posted.
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On The Perf is a practical shooting podcast with the rhythm of two competitors talking before the brass has cooled. It is fast. Adam and Adam move from sponsor copy to field report to complaint to technical correction without sanding the edges off. The show spends real time on 3-gun, USPSA, PCSL-adjacent match culture, long-range rifle work, classifiers, shotgun choices, and the peculiar drama of earning or missing Nationals slots. It also makes room for bad backs, road trips, Texas terrain, heat, caffeine, ripped shorts, and whatever running joke has survived into the next episode. That mix is the point. The technical talk is not presented as a tidy classroom lesson; it arrives through stories about stages, gear that almost worked, match directors who keep making things harder, and shooters trying to prepare while the season catches them half-ready. Recent episodes have dug into Texas three-gun, Superstition Mountain Mystery, 6 ARC experimentation, USPSA slot allocation, NRL Hunter curiosity, and open-division shotgun pace. The hosts care about details. They talk about red dots, pistol distance, positional rifle work, overlays, primer issues, reloads, match terrain, and why more rounds in a shotgun do not remove the need to execute well. They also tease each other constantly. A serious point may arrive wrapped in a joke about a “Gary of the day,” a fantasy-league score, or a match-director threat to add harder fixed-time rifle stages. The show assumes some fluency. Acronyms fly, divisions matter, and the listener is expected to keep up or learn by exposure. That makes it a stronger fit for active competitors than for casual sports fans. It is not polished broadcast sports commentary. It is club-level culture at speed, filtered through people who care enough to argue about process, scoring, gear, and preparation. When it works best, the conversation turns small match observations into practical insight. Why did that pistol position feel easy? Why does open shotgun need aggression? Why does shooting the same classifiers over and over stop helping anyone? On The Perf answers those questions in the same messy, useful way they probably came up at the range. It is blunt, familiar, and performance-minded. The result is a show for shooters who like their match talk technical, funny, and a little over-caffeinated.
Made for: Built for practical shooting competitors who already speak in stages, divisions, classifiers, optics, reloads, and match travel. It especially suits listeners who want peer-level conversation rather than beginner instruction.
What sets it apart: The show turns deeply specific shooter problems into running conversation, so gear minutiae and match politics feel like live range banter instead of formal analysis. Its recurring jokes and callouts give the technical talk a lived-in club culture.
Adam Maxwell and Adam Riser talk about gear, techniques, tactics for 3 Gun, USPSA, PCSL and other action shooting sports.
Based on 4 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Adam Maxwell and Adam Reiser make competitive shooting's tactics, equipment choices and organizational debates legible through candid post-match analysis.
On The Perf turns Adam Maxwell and Adam Reiser's match experiences into an animated working conversation about competitive shooting. They move easily from equipment failures and training gaps to stage planning, positional long-range shots and the different demands of pistol,…
Adam and Adam make match-day mistakes feel like the debrief you actually wanted.
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Texas Three Gun talk shaped by a back injury, Texas travel, and natural-terrain long-range stages.
This episode centers on a Texas Three Gun championship check-in with two very different situations at play: one speaker is dealing with a back injury, while the other sounds sleep-deprived and heavily caffeinated in Texas.
A range-day chat that folds 900-yard steel and 6-Arc caution into the joke.
The Perf keeps the hour grounded in motion, shifting from a local three-gun match Kirby put on the ground to a North Springs range day with Adam Reiser working 140-grain ELDMs out near 900 yards and waiting on the delayed clang of steel at 800.
A sweaty range-side check-in that turns spring prep into a useful match-season wake-up call.
On the Perf treats a range-side heat check as a spring primer, with Adam Reiser calling from the Superstition Mountain Mystery three-gun match while the forecast pushes 108 degrees and the van stands in as a makeshift sound booth.
A match-day check-in turns into a plainspoken argument over how Nationals slots are earned.
The episode turns a Wednesday match check-in into a Nationals-slot argument, and it keeps the focus on the same practical tensions that keep coming up in USPSA.
Fast talk for faster, smarter stages.
Precision rifle talk from the firing line.
Practical shooting, performance, and gun culture.
Precision rifle talk from bench to range.
On The Perf #83 examines suppressors through rimfire maintenance, rifle gas behavior, attachment systems, and sound quality.
Wednesday starts crooked.
Adam and Adam open with sponsor shout-outs and a quick check-in.
Adam Reiser is on location for the Superstition Mountain Mystery three-gun match.
The show opens on a Wednesday match report.
This episode discusses practical shooting tips for NRL matches, focusing on gear safety and clothing choices to avoid mishaps during competitions.