HUNTING IN THE WEST: GUNS, PREY, AND CALIBERS 🦬

Описание: Welcome to the channel! Today we put aside the gunslinger duels to talk about the most important activity on the frontier: hunting. In the Wild West, knowing how to shoot wasn't a matter of honor, it was about eating or making money.

In this video, we analyze the two types of hunting that defined the era and the weapons used in each:

Commercial Hunting (Business): From the beaver pelt rush of the "Mountain Men" with their muzzleloading Hawken rifles, to the massive buffalo hunts with powerful Sharps and Rolling Blocks in heavy calibers (.50-90, .45-70).

Subsistence Hunting (Food): What did a settler hunt for dinner? We will see the importance of small game (rabbits, turkeys, deer) and why shotguns and small calibers (.32-20, .44-40) were the true everyday tools on the farms.

We review the evolution of calibers and how technology changed the way people hunted in just 30 years.

What weapon would you have chosen to survive in the mountains? Let me know in the comments!

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