Hosts

Adriel Michaud

Hailing from Edmonton, Alberta, Adriel has been hunting all his life. He primarily hunts coyotes, whitetail deer, grouse, and gophers (Richardson’s ground squirrels) and started getting into action shooting in 2015.

Adriel has written for the Hunting Gear Guy website since 2012, made firearms and hunting videos on YouTube since 2014, and joined Slam Fire on Episode 125 in 2015.

Adriel is a shoot boss for Project Mapleseed in Alberta, shoots and RO’s 3 gun matches, and loves reviewing new gun and hunting gadgets.

Kelly Lynn

Kelly Lynn

Another one of our hosts! Kelly started out as a new shooter not too long ago but has gone on to do some really great things in a noticeably short period of time. After being the first Canadian lady to qualify at Appleseed, she, along with a few other Canadians, went through the Appleseed Instructor Program, taught in the United States and then made the decision to bring it to Canada as Mapleseed. Through Mapleseed, she’s travelled all across the country several times over, instructing thousands of people in the basics of marksmanship and helped to spread the Mapleseed mission across Canada. She’s currently winning in a competition between her and Adriel on who can improve the most shooters through Mapleseed. (Everything’s a competition)

Kelly is an officer (VP of Women’s Programs) for the CCFR, organizes and promotes ladies days for the CCFR, and coordinates their annual fundraiser – CCFR Gunnie Girl Calendar. Kelly is also one of the CCFR RSO course instructors.

She is an avid skeet enthusiast, running an over/under 28 gauge and shooting a round most weeks.

Kelly got her black badge done in 2021 and is starting to compete in IPSC as well.

Two years ago, Kelly made the decision to get her hunting licence. Last year she was successful in waterfowling and is hopeful that she will be successful with filling her antlered deer tag this year.

On Slam Fire, Kelly brings the female perspective in, helps promote the show, writes the show descriptions, hosts “ladies-only” episodes, and helps keep the guys in-line.

• Kelly on Instagram
• Kelly is an instructor with Project Mapleseed
• Kelly’s contact through the CCFR kelly.wheaton@firearmrights.ca

Mo Talarico

Born and raised in Ontario, now resides in Quebec. Didn’t grow up with firearms and only found a love for them later in life. Now they consume most of his free time. He is also passionate about protecting our rights to own and use them.

Continues to work on improving his shooting skills and competing in IPSC. Also learning more about the firearms world and trying new shooting sports.

Looks forward to being more involved in growing firearms ownership and sports in Canada. Also being part of the Slamfire team.

Kyle Warner

Kyle grew up deer hunting in western Alberta. He had always been around firearms but didn’t get into sport shooting till 2014 when he shot his first 3 gun match. After that he was hooked and dove head first into the world of competition. He was introduced to the sponsorship side of things when he was asked to join a 3-gun team in 2015, whom he shot with till 2017 when the team broke up and he went on to shoot as a solo sponsored shooter. Not only shooting matches, over the years Kyle has put on and match directed numerous 3-gun matches at his home range. After building his own shotgun for 3-gun, he started Lunatic Tactical-modifying/building shotguns for action shooting and is currently expanding his offerings.

Kyle still shoots 3-gun, traveling around Western Canada and into the US for matches. In recent years, he got into IPSC competitions, shooting both Pistol and Shotgun, and is ramping up the IPSC matches he shoots. Kyle also shoots a little bit of sporting clays. Basically, Kyle loves everything to do with the shooting sports and his insatiable appetite for competition has him checking out and trying new sports.

Aside from shooting competitions, Kyle is an avid hunter. He typically hunts Moose, Elk, and Deer in both, Archery and rifle seasons. He is also very active at his home range, Wapiti Shooters Club in Grande Prairie Alberta. Having served as Pistol Co-Director, 3-Gun Director, and Vice-President – He is currently on the executive as Past-Vice President.

Socials
@kyle_3gun (insta)
@kyle warner (FB)
@lunatictactical (insta)
@Lunatic Tactical (FB)

Past Hosts

Trevor

Trevor has been surrounded by firearms his whole life. Growing up in a gun friendly home, he learned to shoot and hunt from his father at a very early age. His university years cause some down time in his firearms activities, but once settled after school, Trevor updated his PAL to included both non-restricted and restricted acquisitions.

Although he intended to start shooting IPSC back in 2004, he was side tracked by archery until January of 2011 when he bought his first handgun. Since that time, Trevor has become an active member of two local gun clubs and has been shooting IPSC matches all over NB since the summer of 2011.

These days, Trevor is getting back into RC but he still shoots IPSC matches.

Matthew McLatchy

Growing up in both Ontario and New Brunswick, Matthew has experienced both the urban and rural aspects of gun ownership in Canada. Now residing in North-Western New Brunswick, he enjoys hunting in the thousands of square kilometers that the mostly uninhabited area offers. Pursuing mostly small game, he can most often be found tramping through woods during hunting season in search of Ruffed Grouse with his trusty Mossberg 500. Outside of hunting season, the range is where you’ll most likely find him, shooting home-made steel gongs with his .22s.

These days, Matthew is mostly in the air or at the airport. You can see more of what he’s up to on his YouTube channel. Matthew on YouTube

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