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Live Fire Media Show 029 – Halloween Alien Shoot

14 Jan 2026

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Chapter 1: What is discussed at the start of this section?

0.031 - 21.512 Unknown

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22.133 - 48.904 Dave Kowalka

Welcome to the Live Fire Media Show, episode number 29. It's a show, or a podcast. Just two guys hanging out, talking trash, guns, gear, movies, and more. Your hosts tonight are the always entertaining and sometimes fud Hunter Elliott of rangehot.com. Woo! I was waiting for that. I'm Quokka47, a.k.a. Dave from High Point, or as Hunter refers to me, Iron Man, and not the Marvel one.

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50.165 - 59.704 Dave Kowalka

We're also joined this evening by my son, Mason, for at least a few. So, kick back and Yeah, here we go. What's up, buddy?

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60.825 - 62.167 Hunter Elliott

Happy Halloween, my friend.

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62.227 - 66.053 Dave Kowalka

Right? I mean, we're pretty much on it. Today's Wednesday. It'll be here Friday.

66.574 - 75.327 Hunter Elliott

Well, we won't have another podcast until then, right? Yeah, it'll be after. So next week, which will be in November already, which is scary enough. Right.

75.467 - 82.739 Dave Kowalka

So you're running out. This is my Halloween motif. Describe it. Where are you sitting at now? It's a little bit different.

83.139 - 83.98 Hunter Elliott

I'm in my dungeon.

84.02 - 87.084 Dave Kowalka

Where's your dungeon?

Chapter 2: What Halloween-themed shooting event do they talk about?

452.947 - 476.517 Dave Kowalka

Dive in the rest of it. So in the second stage, I had a good bit of movement built through it, and I had a full forge bag just full of shotgun shells. I literally just said, it's the MacGuffin. You got to carry the MacGuffin with you everywhere you go. What's the purpose of it? I don't know. You're trying to escape the station with some of the shit you need, so you just got to carry the bag.

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476.817 - 493.425 Dave Kowalka

So I had you start back a little bit. You had to run up to a certain point. You could drop the bag and shoot, but when you moved, you had to have it. And I put three or four working Joes kind of going from a tight 90 to your left all the way out to, I don't know, your one o'clock, but you had to kind of lean around a wall.

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493.405 - 515.306 Dave Kowalka

After that, you could holster it up, grab your rifle, and Xenos were in that same position. You could shoot Xenos. And then you had to grab the bag and move with the bag and run around the corridors. The rest of it was Xenomorphs that you had to blast through. And dude, you would shoot these things in from a meter or a yard to further shots. Once you ran through, it was probably 20. Yeah.

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515.326 - 520.01 Unknown

20, maybe a few less.

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520.03 - 540.847 Dave Kowalka

Yeah. So 20 yards-ish was like the longest shit. But For non-experienced shooters, 20 yards at a clay pigeon size. That's rough. That's kind of rough. I mean, you did all right. He had some good mag changes. He looked professional. He knew what he was doing. He moved really well. He got some good stills with his finger. Nice and straight on the trigger. What did you run?

540.867 - 542.769 Dave Kowalka

What were your guns you ran? What were your handguns?

542.789 - 545.793 Unknown

I ran an XDM 9mm.

546.714 - 549.317 Hunter Elliott

And then I ran a... That's your granddaddy's gun, right?

550.859 - 556.774 Unknown

Yeah. And then I ran a... High point AR pistol.

Chapter 3: How did they modify their shooting targets for the event?

706.178 - 710.325 Dave Kowalka

I keep my shot shell stuff in it. He keeps stealing it, so he's got 20 gauge in there.

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710.345 - 712.248 Mason

I only stole it once.

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712.268 - 734.331 Dave Kowalka

Oh, just once? Yeah. Oh, okay. I guess he didn't use it this weekend. Did you run a play carrier this weekend? No. Okay, I couldn't remember if you did. No, I ran the carriers. Well, I ran that bandolier. Or my invert bandolier. Yeah, no. Okay. I was trying to get him to run his Halloween costume, too. I made him a Helldiver outfit.

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734.411 - 735.495 Unknown

I 3D printed.

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735.515 - 757.075 Dave Kowalka

Well, it would have been bulky. That's the thing, man. You run around like this shooting, it's easy. As soon as you put armor on, it makes it kind of a pain. Exactly. It makes it harder. When you got armor on, it's a whole other thing. You're like, wait a minute. My usual feel is this. Now this feels awkward as all get out. Yeah, it's kind of a pain. That's kind of the point.

761.058 - 766.704 Dave Kowalka

You shot with Hunter with armor on much? Say that again, please. Have you shot with armor on much?

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No.

767.405 - 774.972 Hunter Elliott

Uh, I shot a lot in the Marine Corps with a flak jacket and, uh, but fortunately we had an A2 without a collapse from a buttstock. So that made it way worse.

775.192 - 775.813 Dave Kowalka

Right. Right.

Chapter 4: What firearms are discussed for bear defense?

884.605 - 885.025 Hunter Elliott

How about this?

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885.686 - 889.109 Dave Kowalka

I want it both ways. I want what you do for fun and what you do for training.

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889.61 - 902.541 Hunter Elliott

Be competitive. If I wanted to be competitive, which, you know, I would probably, I got a CZ P zero one tactical. That'd be solid. That it got a threaded barrel and is full of Cajun gun works parts.

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903.022 - 903.882 Dave Kowalka

Yeah. That's good stuff.

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904.283 - 925.329 Hunter Elliott

Now that, that, that pistol is, It's... Oh, my God. When I run it, I feel like I'm cheating, truthfully. Which you would think I would do better. Probably that, and then for a carbine, I would run a little 7.5-inch Barnes Precision machine.

926.39 - 928.393 Dave Kowalka

I kind of had a feeling you were going to say that.

928.673 - 945.233 Hunter Elliott

And then for a shotgun, to be competitive, I would probably run... either an 1100 in 20-gauge or a 1300 speed pump Winchester in 12.

946.815 - 950.5 Dave Kowalka

I didn't expect you to say 1100 at all. I thought you'd go all pump.

951.101 - 985.808 Hunter Elliott

Well, that 1100, man, a 20-gauge 1100 is, I mean, it's such a flat shooter. No, I get that. It would be, I think, competitive. Now, if I was just having fun, if you call me up and you're like, we're going to shoot this match and all we're doing is we're having fun. Yeah. Then, truthfully, man, I would run probably my Dan Wesson Specialist 45 Auto. Yeah. Marlin Trapper in 45-70. Nice.

Chapter 5: What are the best guns for bear defense?

3815.56 - 3816.182 Dave Kowalka

That's very cool.

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3816.905 - 3820.958 Hunter Elliott

Don't beat your fucking nice gun. Here's what you do, Dave.

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3821.38 - 3826.356 Dave Kowalka

Dude, the reality is if I was really going to bear country, I'd probably just buy something new for that as an excuse to buy something new.

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3827.753 - 3844.271 Hunter Elliott

And if I was posed that question, Hunter, you're going to go in fucking bear country. And my first question would be, what bear country? Black bear? Brown bear? Fucking polar bear? You know, what are we talking about?

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Chapter 6: How do revolvers compare to semi-automatics in reliability?

3844.331 - 3855.303 Hunter Elliott

You know, I'm going to carry my pocket knife. No, I'm kidding. Black bear will fuck you up. But a brown bear or a fucking Kodiak. Kodiak, yeah.

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Chapter 7: What are the key takeaways from the recent live fire class?

3855.323 - 3874.627 Hunter Elliott

You know, they will fucking... When they're done eating you, they get on your phone, and they find out where your relatives live, and they go to their fucking house, and they're going to eat six to eight of your relatives. I'm going to tell you this. My bias is going to show, and my thud is going to hang out, and I'm okay with that.

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3875.929 - 3888.262 Hunter Elliott

I would probably run a Colt Kodiak with a four and a quarter inch barrel in .44 Magnum. And I was stoked that motherfucker with the hottest shit I could find.

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3889.425 - 3912.052 Dave Kowalka

Yeah. I appreciate the feeling you're going to say that one, you know, because I honestly don't care. Like it's revolvers still. Revolvers don't immediately equal FUD, in my opinion. They really don't. And they shouldn't. It falls into your mentality of what you think revolver like going on. Revolvers never jam. Bullshit. I've had plenty of fucking revolvers jam.

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3912.553 - 3928.705 Hunter Elliott

Here's the thing I tell people. If you're semi-automatic, it has a fucking malfunction or misfeed. Worst case scenario, strip the mag out, rack, rack, rack, new mag, and get on with it. You could clear that malfunction with your dick beaters.

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3928.725 - 3930.708 Dave Kowalka

Yeah. You can do it, and you can do it fast, too.

3931.268 - 3941.682 Hunter Elliott

If you're a revolver, now, it is less likely to malfunction. True. However, when it does, you're getting the tool bag out.

3941.702 - 3943.965 Dave Kowalka

It's called New York reload. You're fucked. Yeah.

3943.985 - 3953.93 Hunter Elliott

Yeah. Any kind of immediate action, remedial action on a revolver misfit, best thing you can do is just drop that motherfucker where you stand and go to something else. Yep.

3954.932 - 3961.278 Dave Kowalka

Yep. So like you said, there's me fuds here. Listen, we'll have enough of an audience, but they'll go, right. Bullshit revolvers never fail.

Chapter 8: Which horror movies are recommended for Halloween?

3961.339 - 3965.102 Dave Kowalka

The fuck they don't. I've had plenty failing me from multiple brands too.

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3965.202 - 3998.206 Hunter Elliott

So the only manufacturer that I know of for 100% fact that could build a revolver that never fails regardless would be is if Jesus Christ himself got an 07 and started manufacturing revolvers. And he said, this revolver never fell. Shall not fail, yeah. Shall not fail. Right. Shall not fail. I would believe that. And I'm not being blasphemous. I'm being honest because I know Jesus is perfect.

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3998.226 - 4000.068 Hunter Elliott

But if it's made by a human being.

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4000.088 - 4002.612 Dave Kowalka

And that dipshittery people won't let shit die. Yeah.

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4003.313 - 4031.098 Hunter Elliott

Well, it's the same premises. And we did a little shotgun defensive class not too long ago. We had some new guys there. And I was the assistant instructor. Okay. So we had a primary instructor who was teaching the class. My role was to help people that were struggling and keep an eye on everybody to make sure everybody was being safe. Right. And that sort of thing.

4031.118 - 4039.569 Hunter Elliott

So if one person was really struggling, they would pull them out of the lineup. They're like, Hunter, work with him for a few minutes. So we didn't slow the class down.

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Right.

4041.222 - 4072.482 Hunter Elliott

It was a three-hour live fire class, but it had an hour classroom time. It was pretty basic. Semi-automatic versus auto-loader. Dumb shit. Semi-automatic, auto-loader, same-same versus pump. We would go over... you really, when it comes to a self-defense shotgun, you've got two options. You've got an auto loader, some automatic auto loader, which is fine or a pump. Yeah.

4072.502 - 4092.96 Hunter Elliott

Anything other than that break action, fucking bold action. No, just a lever action shotgun. I wouldn't, but then, but here comes the, uh, The regurgitating the shit that won't die. Well, you know, you don't have to aim a shotgun.

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