Elevate the Hunt

How Firearms Shaped Hunting


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Logan Metesh is a historian with a focus on firearms history and development. He runs High Caliber History LLC.  With more than a decade of experience working for the Smithsonian Institution, the National Park Service, and the NRA Museums, his ability to present history and research in an engaging manner has made him a sought after consultant, writer, and museum professional. The ease with which he can recall obscure historical facts and figures makes him very good at Jeopardy!, but exceptionally bad at geometry.

𝐓𝐨𝐩𝐢𝐜𝐬 𝐃𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐮𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐝: 

  • What it takes to be a firearms historian
  • Rise of hunting with firearms in 1600’s
  • Matchlock to wheellock to flintlock to percussion
  • Mountain man rifle maintenance 
  • Lewis and Clark’s airgun
  • Advances in technology and its impact on western wildlife
  • Distance and Limitations: self-imposed vs. technology 

Chasing Rabbits

  • High Caliber History
  • The Outlaw Gunner by Harry Walsh

You can find more about Everett Headley, your host, at my website or Instagram

Intro Music: Jason Shaw- Back to the Woods
Outro Music:  Bumy Goldson- Keep Walking

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Elevate the HuntBy Everett Headley