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←Back to GTTV Info | Tom Gresham Tom Gresham is the host of "Tom Gresham's Gun Talk," a nationally-syndicated radio talk show about guns, the shooting sports, and personal protection. Tom hosts Personal Defense TV, a weekly series on the Outdoor Channel. He has edited several national magazines, including American Hunter (for the NRA), Alaska Magazine, Rifle and Handloader magazines. He's written a number of books, including "Weatherby: The Man, The Gun, The Legend." Tom is the son of legendary outdoor and gun writer, Grits Gresham. He loves to shoot almost any gun, especially his .257 Roberts, and he uses his Beechcraft Bonanza as the ultimate hunting vehicle to get to the good places around the country. Tom is the creator of Gun Talk TV. |
 | Clint Smith Clint Smith, President and Director of Thunder Ranch®, is a Marine Corps veteran of two infantry and Combined Action Platoon tours in Vietnam. His experience includes seven years as a police officer during which he served as head of the Firearms Training Division as well as being a S.W.A.T. member and precision rifleman. He left law enforcement to serve as Operations Officer for the American Pistol Institute where he was Dean of instruction and was instrumental in range and curriculum development for A.P.I. In 1983, Clint founded International Training Consultants, Inc., an active mobile training program which is nationally recognized for innovative programs in Urban Rifle, Shotgun, Precision Rifle, and various handgun formats. In 1986, he served as Director of Training for Heckler & Koch, Inc., where he developed and taught progressive courses in fully automatic weapons as well as conventional weapons systems. Clint is a contributor to American Handgunner, American Cop, GUNS and SWAT magazines and has published articles in many other national and international publications. |
 | Ray Oeltjen Ray Oeltjen is an Endowment Member of the National Rifle Association, Life Member of the Amateur Trapshooting Association, a member of Safari Club International, Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation, and Ducks Unlimited. In 2002 Shooting Industry's Academy of Excellence named Oeltjen as one of the three most influential people in the shooting sports industry. Oeltjen achieved Amateur Trapshooting Association distinction as a first team All-American in 1984 and 1987. Ray has hunted extensively throughout the United States, Canada, South America and Africa. Ray has conducted dozens of youth and adult shooting seminars across the United Stares and continues to be active in competitive shooting sports. |
 | Nick Sisley Nick Sisley is a writer, phototographer and pilot. Sisley has been a full time writer since 1969. He has hunted and shot over most of the world and has written exclusively about shotguns and shotgun shooting since 1993. Sisley has been to South America to shoot nearing 50 times. He is a Certified National Skeet Shooting Association Instructor and has taken lessons from over a score of professional shotgun instructors. |
 | Bryan Bilinski Bryan E. Bilinski, 51, has turned his life long passion for fine shotguns and the world of wingshooting into his career. Graduating from Ball State University in 1979 with a BS in Natural Resouces, Bilinski began working in the gun departments of better quality dealers right out of college and never looked back. In 1980 he began working for Orvis Houston and there he designed and managed the first sporting clays course in the country. Because of this effort and dedication to the sport, Bilinski is credited with being the Father of Sporting Clays in America. In 1975, Bilinski founded his own wingshooting business, FIELDSPORT, based in Traverse City, MI. The store has been successfully run for over 12 years and has earned a reputation of being one of the finest, premium grade gun dealers in the U.S. Specializing in better quality sxs & o/u shotguns, the store has become a well known premium grade, destination gun store. Bilinski also stays booked April thru November, conducting custom gun fittings, wingshooting lessons and schools. Bilinski is known around the world as one of the preminent experts in our field and industry today. |
