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Canada's largest firearms training provider. CFSC/CRFSC courses, CORE hunter education, and Club membership with ATT and insurance. Training since 1994. Book online.

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The combined CFSC and CRFSC course is how you qualify for a PAL in BC. Two days or three evenings, all exams, $270 total. Taught since 1994.

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Silvercore Club | Canada's Largest Gun Club for ATT

The Silvercore Club keeps you sharp and has your back long after your course ends. Membership includes $5 million in third-party liability insurance through Lloyd's of London, coverage that follows you to ranges, clubs, and hunting grounds across Canada and the United States. The Club is an RCMP-approved club for restricted Authorization to Transport (ATT). Members get free access to Silvercore's full online course library and exclusive pricing from our partner brands, plus The Outpost, our private members-only podcast. Founded by the team behind Canada's largest firearms safety training company, the Club serves members across Canada and internationally. $59 CAD per year. Cancel anytime.

The Silvercore Club keeps you sharp and has your back long after your course ends.
Membership includes $5 million in third-party liability insurance through Lloyd's of London, coverage that follows you to ranges, clubs, and hunting grounds across Canada and the United States. The Club is an RCMP-approved club for restricted Authorization to Transport (ATT). Members get free access to Silvercore's full online course library and exclusive pricing from our partner brands, plus The Outpost, our private members-only podcast.
Founded by the team behind Canada's largest firearms safety training company, the Club serves members across Canada and internationally.
$59 CAD per year. Cancel anytime.

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Retired Delta Force Sergeant Major Kyle Lamb returns to discuss his cancer diagnosis, faith, and his new book The Next Mission, co-written with his wife.

The Next Mission: Kyle Lamb on Cancer, Faith, and the Poems He's Never Published

Kyle Lamb on Cancer, Faith, and Unpublished Poems

A Navy diver became a mountain warfare expert. John Barklow breaks down his rewarming drill and the mindset that keeps you alive when things go wrong.

John Barklow: They Needed a Mountain Warfare Expert. They Picked a Diver

John Barklow on Cold Weather Survival and Mindset

Wildlife artist Casey Braam gives his paintings away to strangers who track him down in the wild. He and Travis talk spring bear hunting and seeing the world clearly.

Why This Wildlife Artist Hides His Paintings in the Wilderness | Casey Braam

Why This Wildlife Artist Hides His Paintings in the Wild

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Blair Hagen has spent 30 years fighting Canada's firearms laws, and now, days after the National Firearms Association lost its president Rick Igercich, he is the one holding it together. In this episode of the Silvercore Podcast, Travis Bader sits down with Hagen, executive vice president and now acting president of the NFA, for a clear-eyed look at where Canada's gun fight actually stands in 2026: the assault-style firearm confiscation, the Order in Council (OIC) bans, the handgun freeze, and the amnesty that keeps getting extended because almost no one is complying. Hagen survived two armed robberies behind the counter of a Vancouver gun store, then was refused a permit to protect himself. He explains why firearms in Canada get banned for how they look rather than what they do, why a serious gun charge is the first thing a prosecutor drops, why the numbers behind the confiscation do not add up, and the one thing every gun owner can actually do that works. What we get into: Why "assault-style firearm" is a political marketing term, not a legal one The "comply or become a criminal" trap inside the current buyback Estates, the handgun freeze, and how a widow loses a collection's value The NFA Save Firearms program and storing prohibited firearms legally Whether you can still buy and transfer a handgun in Canada, and where an Authorization to Carry fits in Whether you have owned firearms your whole life or have never touched one, this is a conversation about property, rights, and who decides what is yours.

 Find the NFA: https://nfa.ca NFA on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/national_firearms_association/ NFA on Facebook: https://facebook.com/NFACANADA NFA on X: https://x.com/CanadasNFA

Canada Is Banning Guns for How They Look | Blair Hagen, NFA

Silvercore Podcast 188 - Canada Is Banning Guns for How They Look | Blair Hagen, NFA

Jeff Evely served 20 years in the Canadian Armed Forces, with deployments to Afghanistan and Iraq. He came home, retired to his hometown in Cape Breton, and within months found himself arrested at a war memorial he was trying to guard, then later fined nearly $29,000 for walking in the woods during a Nova Scotia fire ban.
He fought back. And he won.
In this conversation, Travis sits down with Jeff to unpack the $29,000 ticket, the court win against the Nova Scotia government, the trucker convoy and Rolling Thunder arrests, and what it actually takes for one person to push back against institutions that have stopped listening. They also get into the Fourth Turning, stoicism, Carl Sagan and skepticism, the limits of the courts, why politics is downstream from culture, and the deepest personal cost Jeff has paid for standing on principle.
A conversation about courage, consequences, and what it costs to hold the line.

The Price of Speaking Up: Fined $29,000 for Walking in the Woods | Jeff Evely

Silvercore Podcast 187 - The Price of Speaking Up: Fined $29,000 for Walking in the Woods | Jeff Evely

The Pentagon Just Released 162 UFO Files. A Canadian Forces Insider Read Every One.


Last Friday, the Pentagon released 162 declassified UFO files through a brand-new portal called PURSUE. The first formal federal release in 80 years. Some are calling it disclosure. Some are calling it a nothing burger. Rocky Swanson has spent his life inside the kind of system that handles this material. Joined the Royal Canadian Army Cadets at twelve. Served a full career in the Canadian Armed Forces, including a NORAD posting. Came home and became deputy fire chief in the town he grew up in. He was approached by the federal government to advise on a Canadian UAP initiative alongside sitting members of parliament. He was a guest co-host on a podcast that interviewed Lue Elizondo, the former Pentagon official who put UFOs on the front page of the New York Times in 2017. He got close enough to see the seams. In this episode Travis and Rocky walk through the Pentagon release, the actual evidence in the new tranche, why three pilots are not the same thing as three radar tracks, why Skinwalker Ranch matters more than people think, what really happened inside AATIP, who Bob Lazar actually is, and why the most interesting UAP case Rocky has ever encountered did not come from the Pentagon at all. It came from an F-18 pilot over the Canadian Arctic. Rocky believes in the possibility of life out there. He does not believe the people on stage right now are the ones who have found it. If you came to this conversation looking for someone who will tell you what to believe, you are in the wrong place. If you came looking for someone who will tell you how to think about this honestly, settle in.

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