Find Your Azimuth.

Stephen Kutch spent eight years in the United States Marine Corps as an infantryman (0311), including combat deployments to Afghanistan. His time on the ground gave him a clear view of what training does under real pressure: it either holds up or it doesn't.

Later in his career, Stephen served as a squad leader in a Fleet Antiterrorism Security Team (FAST) platoon, an element built to deploy quickly and protect critical assets worldwide. As a squad leader he was responsible for the readiness of his Marines, which meant planning and running training, building drills, and making sure every rep on the range had a purpose. He served as a Range Safety Officer and instructor, running live-fire ranges and coaching shooters across skill levels. That work showed him how much good instruction depends on structure, safety discipline, and honest measurement of performance.

After leaving the Marine Corps, Stephen spent three years in Kabul on a Protective Security Detail (PSD), moving and protecting personnel in one of the most demanding security environments in the world. In protective work, standards are not optional. Consistency, accountability, and sustained proficiency are the job.

Back home in Central Texas, Stephen built a second career as a licensed real estate agent and founded his own brand. That experience taught him the business side most instructors are never trained for: marketing yourself, generating and following up on leads, building client relationships, and running systems so the work doesn't live in your head or on scraps of paper. He saw how many skilled instructors struggle not with teaching, but with filling classes, tracking students, and running their business efficiently.

Azimuth Shooting brings both worlds together. It gives shooters a structured way to train and track progress, and it gives instructors the tools to run classes, document student performance, and present a more professional business, so they can spend less time on their phones and more time teaching.

An azimuth is a fixed bearing. You pick it, you hold it, and you get where you're going. That's the standard Stephen trains by, and the one Azimuth Shooting is built around.

Jason Blue served in the Marine Corps in the early 1990s as a Field Radio Communications Operator. His training included land navigation, which is where he first learned to navigate by azimuth, and it remains one of his favorite skills from the Corps. He earned multiple expert qualifications with both rifle and pistol, and the Corps' esprit de corps is something he has carried with him ever since.

Shooting has stayed a steady part of his life, backed by years of range time, extensive formal training, and experience as a Range Safety Officer. Over those years, he noticed a pattern. A day at the range often felt like a waste of time and ammunition unless someone was there to catch mistakes and suggest corrections. Without that, improvement was hard to measure. Shooting at the range with friends is a blast, literally, but routine training was missing something.

Outside the range, Jason's career has been in management, first in retail and then in multifamily housing, where he has worked since 2012 and risen to regional management. Leading teams across multiple locations taught him that results come from clear standards, consistent systems, and numbers that show whether something is working. That mindset shapes his role at Azimuth, where he builds drill lists and content, runs the business backend, and helps shape marketing strategy.

When his friend and fellow Marine Stephen brought him the idea for Azimuth, they realized they had long been thinking the same thing. Whether it's your fitness, your finances, or your marksmanship, you can't improve what you don't measure. How can you improve your health if you don't know your nutrition, your macros, or your calorie intake? You can't improve your shooting if you don't know your data.

Track every shot and every metric, and you'll get more improvement out of less ammo. That's the standard Jason trains by.