Matthew “Matt” Meckley — U.S. Army Infantry Veteran, Sniper, Protective-Security Professional, Law-Enforcement Officer & Primary & Secondary Precision-Shooting Contributor
Current Professional Affiliation — Spokane County Sheriff’s Office:
https://www.spokanecounty.gov/
Primary & Secondary:
https://primaryandsecondary.com/
Short Professional Bio
Matthew “Matt” Meckley is a U.S. Army infantry veteran, Army-trained sniper, former sniper team leader, combat veteran of Iraq, former protective-security professional and designated defensive marksman in Afghanistan, law-enforcement officer, Washington National Guard sniper, international sniper-competition participant, and recurring Primary & Secondary technical contributor.
Official military and law-enforcement records document a career extending across more than two decades of professional weapons use.
Meckley entered the United States Army in 2005 and served on active duty until 2012, completing two tours in Iraq.
Public military records independently place him in Iraq in 2011 as Sgt. Matthew Meckley, an infantry scout with Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1st Battalion, 63rd Armor Regiment.
During that deployment, Meckley helped train Iraqi soldiers in the development of a genuine scout/sniper capability rather than simply issuing scoped rifles to designated personnel.
The distinction was important.
The training emphasized that sniper capability is not defined by possessing a sniper rifle.
It is defined by a combination of:
- observation,
- reconnaissance,
- concealment,
- target discrimination,
- positional skill,
- precision marksmanship,
- and trained judgment.
Meckley’s own professional biography states that he graduated from U.S. Army Sniper School in September 2010 and left active service as a Sergeant and Sniper Team Leader.
After active-duty Army service, Meckley moved into overseas protective-security work.
His professional biography states that in 2013 he deployed to Kabul, Afghanistan, with Academi LLC as a:
- Protective Service Specialist,
- and Designated Defensive Marksman.
He subsequently spent approximately five years supporting a U.S. government client on protective-detail operations in Kabul.
This extended his precision-rifle and professional firearms experience from conventional military service into the protective-security environment.
By 2019, Meckley had transitioned into civilian law enforcement with the Kittitas County Sheriff’s Office in Washington.
Official Kittitas County records identify him as a Deputy Sheriff, and by the end of his service there he was assigned to the agency’s Pro-Active Policing Unit.
In May 2025, the Spokane County Sheriff’s Office officially announced Meckley’s hiring as a lateral deputy.
Its biography confirms:
- Army service from 2005–2012,
- two Iraq tours,
- Kittitas County Sheriff’s Office service beginning in 2019,
- and his prior assignment to proactive policing.
At the same time, Meckley continued military sniper work through the Washington National Guard.
Official U.S. Army reporting from 2023 identifies him as:
Sgt. Matt Meckley
of:
Headquarters & Headquarters Company, 3rd Battalion, 161st Infantry Regiment, 81st Stryker Brigade Combat Team, Washington National Guard.
He was serving as a sniper and training with the Army’s newer MK22 precision rifle system, which was replacing the M2010 within his organization.
That continuity is significant.
More than a decade after his first documented sniper work in Iraq, Meckley was still functioning in a professional sniper role.
He also competed internationally.
In 2021, Meckley represented the Washington National Guard at the European Best Sniper Team Competition at Hohenfels, Germany, where 27 teams from 14 countries competed.
Meckley emphasized an important principle from those events:
competition provides an objective method of comparing capability with peer organizations and identifying how future training should change.
That philosophy aligns closely with his contribution to Primary & Secondary.
Meckley has appeared repeatedly on P&S discussions involving:
- terminal ballistics,
- precision shooting,
- modern rifle systems,
- firearms development,
- professional equipment,
- and open technical discussion.
His participation in P&S ModCast 125 — Terminal Ballistics placed him on a panel with:
- Dr. Gary K. Roberts,
- Chuck Pressburg,
- Chuck Haggard,
- Bill Blowers,
- J.L. Bourne,
- and others.
He later participated in:
P&S ModCast 134 — Hudson
with:
- Steve Fisher,
- Cy Hudson,
- and Jack Lewis.
P&S 143 — Hodge & Knight’s Are Imaginary
with:
- Jordan Bowles,
- Jon Canipe,
- and Chuck Pressburg.
P&S ModCast 150 — Open Mic June 2018
with:
- Jordan Bowles,
- Steve Fisher,
- Ash Hess,
- Rick Labistre,
- Jack Lewis,
- Adam Pini,
- Tim Shaffer,
- David Simerly,
- and Buck Thomas.
And most significantly for his professional specialization:
P&S ModCast 153 — Precision Basics
with:
- John Brady,
- Alex Hartman,
- Rick Labistre,
- and Tarrol Walker.
The pattern is clear.
Meckley’s place within the P&S network was built around professional end-user experience, especially:
- military precision shooting,
- sniper employment,
- terminal-ballistics context,
- precision-rifle fundamentals,
- modern rifle systems,
- and practical equipment evaluation.
A concise description of his contribution is:
Matt Meckley brings sustained professional sniper, infantry, overseas protective-security, law-enforcement, and competitive marksmanship experience into the firearms-information ecosystem, helping connect precision-rifle theory with the realities of military reconnaissance, target discrimination, equipment transition, peer comparison, and measurable performance.
Key Areas of Expertise & Notable Contributions
- Matthew Meckley
- Matt Meckley
- U.S. Army
- Army infantry
- Army sniper
- U.S. Army Sniper School
- sniper team leader
- infantry scout
- Iraq veteran
- Operation Iraqi Freedom
- Operation New Dawn
- scout/sniper capability
- Iraqi Army training
- sniper instruction
- precision marksmanship
- reconnaissance
- observation
- concealment
- target discrimination
- long-range shooting
- sniper/spotter team
- professional precision rifle
- M2010
- MK22
- Barrett MRAD family
- military sniper modernization
- European Best Sniper Team Competition
- international sniper competition
- peer benchmarking
- performance measurement
- training feedback
- Washington National Guard
- 3rd Battalion, 161st Infantry Regiment
- 81st Stryker Brigade Combat Team
- protective security
- Academi
- Kabul
- Afghanistan
- designated defensive marksman
- protective-detail support
- law enforcement
- Kittitas County Sheriff’s Office
- proactive policing
- Spokane County Sheriff’s Office
- Deputy Sheriff
- terminal ballistics
- precision-rifle fundamentals
- firearms systems
- equipment evaluation
- Primary & Secondary
- P&S ModCast
- Precision Basics
- Terminal Ballistics
- Hodge Defense
- Knight’s Armament
- Hudson H9
- professional firearms network
Long-Form Professional Profile
Infantry Foundation
Matt Meckley’s firearms experience began in the United States Army infantry.
He entered active service in 2005.
The infantry provides a fundamentally different relationship with firearms than recreational shooting.
The rifle is not primarily sporting equipment.
It is part of a larger battlefield capability.
An infantryman must understand:
- weapon employment,
- movement,
- communication,
- observation,
- target identification,
- team integration,
- sustainment,
- and mission requirements.
Marksmanship is important.
But marksmanship exists inside tactics.
That distinction would remain relevant throughout Meckley’s later sniper career.
Iraq
Meckley completed two deployments to Iraq during his active-duty service.
His publicly stated deployment periods include:
- 2008–2009,
- and 2010–2011.
Official Department of Defense reporting independently places him in Iraq during the latter deployment.
In 2011 he was identified as:
Sgt. Matthew Meckley
an infantry scout with:
HHC, 1st Battalion, 63rd Armor Regiment.
Developing Iraqi Scout-Sniper Capability
During that deployment, Meckley participated in a particularly interesting training mission.
U.S. soldiers were helping the Iraqi Army establish a legitimate scout/sniper capability.
The challenge was conceptual as much as technical.
The Iraqi force had historically tended to define a “sniper” as:
the person issued a sniper rifle.
The U.S. trainers were attempting to establish a different model.
A sniper is a person possessing a skill set.
That distinction is profound.
Equipment Does Not Create Capability
A scoped rifle does not create a sniper.
Capability requires:
trained shooter
observation
fieldcraft
range estimation
ballistic knowledge
target discrimination
concealment
reconnaissance
judgment.
This lesson extends far beyond sniper work.
Equipment can enable capability.
It cannot substitute for it.
Progressive Training
Official reporting describes Meckley and the other instructors gradually moving Iraqi students farther from their targets as their skill increased.
Students also had to identify and discriminate specific targets rather than simply firing at whichever object was visible.
This develops two different capabilities:
Can you hit?
and
Can you identify what should be hit?
The second question is often more important.
Precision Is Not Enough
Precision rifle training can become overly focused on external ballistics and group size.
Operational sniper work requires more.
The sniper must often:
- find,
- observe,
- classify,
- communicate,
- and wait
before ever firing.
The shot is only one part of the mission.
Army Sniper School
Meckley’s own professional biography states that he graduated from U.S. Army Sniper School in September 2010.
He subsequently served as a Sniper Team Leader before leaving active service as a Sergeant.
His official 2011 role as an infantry scout involved in sniper-capability development is consistent with this timeline.
Sniper Team
A sniper is not ordinarily operating as an isolated individual.
The team matters.
A typical sniper/spotter relationship distributes tasks.
One person may focus more heavily on:
- firing solution,
- position,
- weapon manipulation,
- and shot execution.
The other may focus on:
- observation,
- corrections,
- environmental information,
- target identification,
- and communication.
The precise division changes.
The important concept is:
precision shooting is collaborative.
Afghanistan
After leaving active Army service, Meckley transitioned into overseas security contracting.
His public professional biography states that in 2013 he deployed to Kabul, Afghanistan, with Academi LLC.
His roles included:
- Protective Service Specialist,
- and Designated Defensive Marksman.
Protective Security
Protective security differs substantially from conventional infantry work.
The mission is not simply to defeat an enemy force.
The central requirement is:
protect the principal and complete the movement.
This changes priorities.
The professional must consider:
- route,
- crowd,
- traffic,
- terrain,
- communications,
- alternate plans,
- medical contingencies,
- and evacuation.
Firearms exist within that larger mission.
Designated Defensive Marksman
Meckley’s designated-marksman role connected precision-rifle capability with protective operations.
This requires understanding where precision capability fits within a team whose principal mission is protection rather than offensive maneuver.
Again, shooting ability is only useful when integrated correctly.
Government Protective Support
Meckley states that he continued supporting a U.S. government client in Kabul through approximately 2018.
This created an unusually long period of overseas professional-security experience.
His career therefore included:
conventional military
followed by
government-related protective operations.
That gives him two different operational frames for evaluating weapons and tactics.
Law Enforcement
After leaving overseas work, Meckley transitioned into civilian policing.
Official records establish that he joined the Kittitas County Sheriff’s Office in 2019.
He served there through 2025.
Kittitas County
Kittitas County public records identify Meckley as a Deputy Sheriff.
Public incident reporting also documents normal patrol and proactive police work.
This matters because it added another operational environment to his background.
Military, protective-security and domestic law-enforcement missions differ substantially.
Different Mission, Different Rules
A soldier operates under military mission requirements.
A protective-security professional prioritizes the protected principal.
A deputy sheriff operates under:
- constitutional constraints,
- criminal law,
- agency policy,
- public accountability,
- and domestic use-of-force standards.
The same firearm may appear in all three environments.
Its employment context is completely different.
Pro-Active Policing Unit
By the end of his Kittitas County service, Meckley was assigned to the agency’s Pro-Active Policing Unit.
The Spokane County Sheriff’s Office specifically noted this assignment when announcing his lateral hire.
This represents another professional progression:
military reconnaissance and precision work
↓
protective security
↓
general law enforcement
↓
proactive policing.
Spokane County Sheriff’s Office
In May 2025, Meckley joined the Spokane County Sheriff’s Office as a lateral Deputy Sheriff.
The agency’s official announcement provides one of the clearest verified summaries of his professional background.
It confirms:
- Army service beginning after high school in 2005,
- honorable service through 2012,
- two Iraq deployments,
- Kittitas County service beginning in 2019,
- and his transfer to Spokane County.
This is his strongest publicly verified current professional affiliation.
Continued Military Service
Meckley’s active-duty Army service ended in 2012.
His military sniper career did not.
He later served with the Washington National Guard.
Official Army reporting identifies him in 2023 with:
3rd Battalion, 161st Infantry Regiment
of the:
81st Stryker Brigade Combat Team.
3-161 Infantry
The 3rd Battalion, 161st Infantry Regiment is a Washington Army National Guard infantry formation.
Meckley’s continued affiliation with an infantry sniper element demonstrates sustained maintenance of his precision-rifle specialty.
European Best Sniper Team Competition
In 2021, Meckley traveled to Germany as part of a Washington National Guard sniper team participating in the European Best Sniper Team Competition.
The event brought together:
27 teams from 14 countries.
The competition was not simply long-range rifle shooting.
Participants were evaluated across a broader sniper skill set involving:
- fieldcraft,
- reconnaissance,
- physical performance,
- shooting,
- and adaptation under pressure.
Competition as Training Diagnostic
Meckley’s comments about the event are especially valuable.
He emphasized that competition allows teams to:
- compare themselves with peers,
- learn new skill sets,
- and shape future training.
This is a sophisticated way to view competition.
The purpose is not merely:
win.
It is:
measure.
Benchmarking
Military units can become internally calibrated.
If everyone trains inside the same organization, the unit may not know how its performance compares with others.
Competition introduces external reference points.
That creates:
unit performance
versus
peer performance.
The difference reveals training opportunities.
Objective Feedback
This concept maps directly onto modern performance-based firearms training.
The process is:
perform
↓
measure
↓
compare
↓
identify deficiency
↓
train
↓
perform again.
That is a feedback loop.
MK22 Transition
Official Army reporting from November 2023 documents Meckley training with the newer MK22 sniper rifle system.
He explained that his organization had recently received the MK22 to replace the M2010.
This is important from an institutional-knowledge perspective.
Meckley has experience spanning multiple generations of modern Army sniper systems.
Equipment Transition
Changing a rifle is not merely issuing new hardware.
The sniper must learn:
- new controls,
- ballistic characteristics,
- optic configuration,
- ammunition,
- zeroing,
- maintenance,
- recoil behavior,
- and system limitations.
A new rifle creates a training requirement.
Familiarization Before Competition
Meckley emphasized that repeated training with the MK22 was necessary before competing with it.
This reflects an important principle:
ownership is not proficiency.
Being issued new equipment does not mean the user has integrated it.
Capability develops through repeated use.
Precision Basics
This makes Meckley’s appearance on:
P&S ModCast 153 — Precision Basics
particularly representative of his professional background.
The panel included:
- John Brady,
- Alex Hartman,
- Rick Labistre,
- Matt Meckley,
- Tarrol Walker.
The discussion addressed foundational precision-shooting concepts.
Precision Shooting Is a System
Precision shooting is frequently reduced to:
rifle + scope + ammunition.
In reality, the system includes:
rifle
optic
mount
ammunition
data
environment
position
shooter
spotter
target.
Every component matters.
Basics Before Complexity
The word Basics is important.
Advanced precision shooting depends upon strong fundamentals.
These include:
- stable position,
- sight alignment,
- consistent rifle interface,
- trigger control,
- recoil management,
- follow-through,
- wind observation,
- and accurate data.
Technology can help.
It cannot eliminate the fundamentals.
Terminal Ballistics
Meckley also participated in the P&S terminal-ballistics discussion originally released in 2016 and later republished as:
P&S ModCast 125 — Terminal Ballistics.
The panel included:
- Dr. Gary K. Roberts,
- Chuck Pressburg,
- Chuck Haggard,
- Bill Blowers,
- J.L. Bourne,
- Matt Meckley,
- and others.
This placed Meckley inside one of the strongest technical panels in the early P&S archive.
Ballistics in Context
His presence is useful because sniper and designated-marksman work requires understanding that external and terminal ballistics are related but different.
External ballistics asks:
How does the projectile reach the target?
Terminal ballistics asks:
What happens when it arrives?
The professional rifleman must understand both.
Range Is Not Terminal Effect
A projectile may remain capable of reaching a distant target.
That does not mean terminal behavior remains identical at every distance.
Velocity changes.
Projectile behavior can change.
Precision work therefore requires understanding more than trajectory.
Hodge & Knight’s
Meckley also appeared on:
P&S 143 — Hodge & Knight’s Are Imaginary
with:
- Jordan Bowles,
- Jon Canipe,
- Chuck Pressburg,
- and Matt Landfair.
The humorous title hides a serious subject:
high-end professional rifle systems and the culture surrounding them.
Equipment Reputation
Companies such as:
- Knight’s Armament,
- and Hodge Defense
develop strong reputations among professional and enthusiast users.
That can create mythology.
The useful evaluator must separate:
brand reputation
from
observable performance.
Experienced User Perspective
Meckley’s career makes him a particularly useful participant in that discussion.
He has used precision and general-purpose rifles in:
- military,
- protective,
- competition,
- and training environments.
That allows equipment to be judged against requirements rather than internet prestige.
Hudson H9
His appearance on P&S ModCast 134 — Hudson also demonstrates that his P&S participation was not restricted exclusively to precision rifles.
He joined:
- Cy Hudson,
- Steve Fisher,
- and Jack Lewis
for discussion of the Hudson H9 pistol.
Again, P&S placed:
manufacturer
and
experienced users
in the same conversation.
Open Mic
Meckley’s participation in the 2018 Open Mic format further demonstrates his position inside the larger network.
He appeared alongside professionals including:
- Jordan Bowles,
- Steve Fisher,
- Ash Hess,
- Rick Labistre,
- Jack Lewis,
- Tim Shaffer,
- and David Simerly.
These episodes were less structured.
Their value came from cross-pollination.
Networked Knowledge
A sniper may know precision rifles deeply.
A firearms designer understands mechanisms.
A competitive shooter understands performance measurement.
A manufacturer understands production.
A police officer understands domestic application.
An instructor understands knowledge transfer.
When those people interact, knowledge moves between disciplines.
That is one of Primary & Secondary’s central functions.
Meckley as Cross-Domain Practitioner
Meckley is particularly valuable because he occupies several domains himself.
His professional progression includes:
infantryman
↓
sniper
↓
sniper team leader
↓
Iraqi-force trainer
↓
protective-security professional
↓
designated marksman
↓
law-enforcement officer
↓
National Guard sniper
↓
international competitor
↓
P&S technical panelist.
Each role provides a different frame of reference.
Frame of Reference
This matters when giving firearms advice.
The answer to:
“What is the best rifle?”
depends upon:
for what?
The infantryman’s answer may differ from the protective-security professional’s.
The police officer’s answer may differ from the military sniper’s.
The competitor’s answer may differ from all of them.
Experience across multiple environments helps prevent one context from being mistaken for universal truth.
Competition and Institutional Learning
One of Meckley’s strongest recurring themes is that competition can improve institutional training.
His 2021 and 2023 Army comments support this directly.
Competition exposes teams to:
- unfamiliar peers,
- different techniques,
- different equipment,
- external standards,
- and measurable results.
This accelerates learning.
Competition Is Not Combat
The distinction remains important.
A sniper competition does not recreate war.
But it does not need to.
Its value lies in isolating and stressing measurable component skills.
The correct model is:
competition ≠ combat
but
competition can reveal weaknesses relevant to combat capability.
New Equipment as a Learning Problem
Meckley’s comments surrounding the MK22 illustrate the same mindset.
A new weapon should not be judged only by specification.
It must be integrated through:
- training,
- use,
- comparison,
- and feedback.
The rifle is new.
The learning process remains old.
Professional Assessment
Matt Meckley’s importance within the extended Primary & Secondary network comes from continuity of professional precision-rifle experience across several very different operational environments.
His career began in Army infantry.
He progressed into sniper work.
He helped train Iraqi personnel to understand that sniper capability is a trained skill set rather than simply ownership of specialized equipment.
He left active Army service as a Sergeant and, according to his professional biography, a sniper team leader.
He then moved into protective-security work in Afghanistan, including designated defensive-marksman responsibilities.
After years overseas, he transitioned into civilian law enforcement.
He served with the Kittitas County Sheriff’s Office from 2019 to 2025 and now serves with the Spokane County Sheriff’s Office.
Meanwhile, his military precision-rifle work continued through the Washington National Guard.
He participated in multinational sniper competition.
He trained on the Army’s transition from the M2010 to the MK22.
And he repeatedly emphasized using competition to compare capability against peers and improve training.
The progression provides unusually strong longitudinal perspective.
Meckley has seen precision-rifle work across:
- war,
- partner-force training,
- protective operations,
- military competition,
- law enforcement,
- and equipment modernization.
That breadth matters because precision shooting can easily become disconnected from context.
The rifle can dominate the discussion.
The optic can dominate the discussion.
Ballistic calculators can dominate the discussion.
But professional sniper capability exists within a larger system:
observation
↓
reconnaissance
↓
target identification
↓
position
↓
communication
↓
ballistic solution
↓
shot execution
↓
observation of effect
↓
team decision.
Meckley’s documented work training Iraqi forces illustrates this clearly.
The U.S. trainers were not simply teaching soldiers to shoot scoped rifles.
They were attempting to build a genuine reconnaissance and sniper capability.
That distinction is central to understanding his professional contribution.
His later competition experience adds another useful layer.
A small specialist community can become isolated.
External competition provides benchmarking.
Meckley explicitly described sniper competitions as a way to compare his team’s capability with peer organizations and use that information to shape future training.
This is exactly the kind of epistemic discipline that makes professional competition valuable:
belief about capability
↓
objective test
↓
external comparison
↓
identified deficiency
↓
training change.
His P&S appearances align closely with that career.
He was included in discussions about:
- terminal ballistics,
- precision basics,
- modern rifle systems,
- high-end rifle manufacturers,
- handgun development,
- and broader professional firearms issues.
He was not present simply as an enthusiast.
He brought a professional frame built through repeated use of firearms in environments where:
- equipment,
- training,
- information,
- and judgment
have consequences.
The strongest conceptual summary is:
Matt Meckley is a U.S. Army infantry veteran and Army-trained sniper, former sniper team leader and Iraqi-force trainer, former Afghanistan protective-security professional and designated defensive marksman, Washington law-enforcement officer, Washington National Guard sniper, international sniper competitor, and Primary & Secondary contributor whose principal value lies in connecting precision-rifle fundamentals, reconnaissance, terminal-ballistics context, equipment modernization, objective performance measurement, and real-world professional weapons employment.
Selected Sources & References
Spokane County Sheriff’s Office — New Lateral Deputies, May 2025
Current official biography confirming Matthew Meckley’s Army service from 2005–2012, two Iraq deployments, Kittitas County Sheriff’s Office service since 2019, Pro-Active Policing Unit assignment and lateral transfer to Spokane County Sheriff’s Office.
https://www.spokanecounty.gov/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=5587
U.S. Army — Aiming For Perfection: Washington National Guard Sniper Team Preps for Marksmanship Competition
Official 2023 Army reporting identifies Sgt. Matt Meckley as a Washington National Guard sniper with HHC, 3rd Battalion, 161st Infantry Regiment, 81st Stryker Brigade Combat Team. Documents his MK22 training and his view of competition as a mechanism for measuring capability against peers.
DVIDS — Dragon Battalion Soldiers Aim to Develop Scout Sniper Capability in Iraqi Army
Official Department of Defense reporting from 2011 identifies Sgt. Matthew Meckley as an infantry scout with HHC, 1st Battalion, 63rd Armor Regiment in Iraq and documents his role in training Iraqi forces in precision fire and scout/sniper capability.
Stars and Stripes — Soldiers From 14 Countries Compete in Army Sniper Competition in Germany
Independent reporting from the 2021 European Best Sniper Team Competition identifies Matthew Meckley with 3rd Battalion, 161st Infantry Regiment, Washington National Guard, and records his emphasis on using competition experience to shape future sniper training.
ExpertVoice — Matthew Meckley Professional Biography
First-person professional biography documenting active Army infantry service beginning in 2005, Iraq deployments, Army Sniper School graduation in September 2010, sniper team-leader service, Academi protective-security work and designated defensive-marksman duties in Kabul.
Kittitas County Sheriff’s Office — Public Record / Press Release
Official county record documenting Deputy Matt Meckley’s service with Kittitas County Sheriff’s Office.
https://www.co.kittitas.wa.us/press/default.aspx?prID=11977
Primary & Secondary — P&S ModCast 153: Precision Basics
Meckley participates with John Brady, Alex Hartman, Rick Labistre and Tarrol Walker in discussion of foundational precision-shooting concepts.
Primary & Secondary / Podcast Archive — P&S ModCast 125: Terminal Ballistics
Meckley participates alongside Dr. Gary K. Roberts, Chuck Pressburg, Chuck Haggard, Bill Blowers, J.L. Bourne and others in the early P&S terminal-ballistics discussion.
Primary & Secondary — P&S 143: Hodge & Knight’s Are Imaginary
Meckley participates with Jordan Bowles, Jon Canipe and Chuck Pressburg in discussion involving high-end professional rifle systems and related firearms topics.
Primary & Secondary — P&S ModCast 134: Hudson
Meckley participates with Steve Fisher, Cy Hudson and Jack Lewis in discussion of the Hudson H9 pistol and its development.
Primary & Secondary — P&S ModCast 150: Open Mic June 2018
Documents Meckley’s broader participation in the P&S technical network alongside Jordan Bowles, Steve Fisher, Ash Hess, Rick Labistre, Jack Lewis and others.
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