“I got to go with them to Florida on an iguana hunt, which was incredible.  It was probably one of the most fun hunting experience I’ve ever had. It’s hunting in the canals in Fort Lauderdale with air rifles. We were with Python Cowboy and then a bunch of folks with Brownells. And it’s like high energy. A lot going on. The dogs are jumping in the water to go get the iguanas that you shot because you do have to retrieve them. It’s not just getting rid of them. But iguanas are an invasive species and I think they reproduce something like over a million a year and they’re ruining, obviously, vegetation in Florida and messing up bird wildlife and infrastructure because they burrow underneath roads and other stuff.” — Rachel Stroud, aka RapidFire Rachel

In Episode 334 of District of Conservation, Gabriella speaks with her friend and firearms industry creator Rachel Stroud. Known as RapidFire Rachel on social media, Rachel and Gabriella connected in October 2021 at Brownell’s Ladies Hunt at North Branch Outing Club in Michigan. Rachel discusses her journey in the firearms industry, her take on gun bunnies, raising a Bernese Mountain Dog puppy, why her posts have positively attracted followers, being a hunter, iguana management, 1923 portraying African big game hunting, and much more. Tune in!

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