In this episode, the hosts reflect on their achievements over the past year and lay out their ambitious plans for the future of the show and their personal hunting goals.

2025 Year in Review

The team looks back at a successful year marked by consistency and growth:

• Production Milestones: The show successfully maintained its weekly schedule, releasing 50-ish episodes in 2025.
• Audience Growth: The podcast saw a significant increase in downloads and overall reach.
• Matches: the hosts shot at many shooting competitions
• Hunting Success: The hosts celebrated a productive hunting season

Goals for 2026

The hosts outline several key objectives for the upcoming year:

• Expanded Content: Plans are in motion to increase video content production and improve the quality of their YouTube presence.
• New Hunting Frontiers: The team aims to explore new hunting territories and pursue different species, including a planned moose hunt.
• Community Engagement: A major focus for 2026 is to increase interaction with the audience through more live streams and listener-driven segments.
• Personal Development: Individual goals include refining long-range shooting skills and improving physical fitness for backcountry excursions.

The Vision Ahead

The episode concludes with a commitment to providing high-quality, authentic content for the Canadian firearms and hunting community, emphasizing the importance of setting clear, actionable goals.

Adriel’s 2025 targets:

• 50-ish podcasts
  • Actual 45-47?
• 500 students PAL/RPAL
  • Actual: 331 (plus a bunch I helped at)
• 10-ish Mapleseeds
  • Actual: 8
• 6-ish 3 gun matches
  • Actual: 5
• 20 YT videos
  • Actual: 56
• 10 articles if that
  • Actual: 45 (about 5 in draft)
• Vote in a federal election (DISAPPOINTED!)

Adriel’s 2026 targets:

• 45ish podcasts 
• 400 students PAL/RPAL
  • Strat: more PAL than RPAL, remote communities, trying to find a more local spot to teach
• 8-ish Mapleseeds
• 4-ish 3 gun matches (4 majors): including 1 in the US, BOA, Rimfire Madness, MP3G
• 50 YT videos
• 40 articles
• Mentor more new hunters (some AHEIA, some on my own)

Kyle’s 2025 goals:

• 6 majors
• Dry fire once per week
• Earn a spot on team USA for shotgun to go to world’s
• Make Class A with Pistol and PCC
• Do much better with content creation like at Shot Show

Kyle’s 2026 goals:

• Assemble a bunch of AR’s for Canadians
• Be the exclusive arms supplier for temporary Americans (Canadians)
• 6 majors
• Break through the 60% of division plateau
• Better with the content creation
  • 6 videos (1 for each major)
  • 4 gear reviews
  • Post 50 posts to Instagram

Dustin’s goals for 2025:

• 30 podcasts
• Make 4-6 videos for the ccfr
• Launch one of my YT projects (probably gonna be the political one)
• Distribute double the amount of flyers for the ccfr election push
• Shoot 5 – 3 gun matches
• Explore getting my PAL/RPAL instructor Certification
• Make sure at least 5 of our new MPs know my name after the election
• Shoot my AR15… in the bush legally? Stay tuned!
• Buy a Sig 320 FLUX legion
• Start an ammo business, move to america, freedom!

Dustin’s Goals for 2026:

• 40 Podcasts
• Do some work on shorter Slamfire video content
• Shame my MP 
• Shoot more 3 gun matches then last year
• Actually launch the first video that youtube project –  just start doing it dummy
• Make progress on my PAL instructor cert
• Set up business firearms storage at home
• Watch the Cons win this next election
• Shoot my AR!… legally
• Get a GSP for myself
• Make progress on the ammo business
• Hang with 3 slamfire hosts in person

Tony’s 2025 Goals:

• Vote in the federal election
• Shoot a deer in the face
• Shoot a PCC maybe?
• Buy a pistol
• Buy an AR15

Tony’s 2026 Goals:

• More Hunting – More Species?
• Pheasants
• Explore “Standard” Optics – 1911 Shooting
  • Not Break the NP29
• Little More 3Gun – Mighty Peace?
• Vote in an Election if Applicable
• SHOT SHOW!!
  • Feel a TRP
  • Touch the Sabre 11 PSA

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