Kyle Hestand

About Kyle Hestand

Kyle Hestand is an intern at the Cody Firearms Museum from Louisville Kentucky where he is finishing his BA in History at the University of Louisville. At the CFM he will be answering records inquires, planning tours and performing research. His interests include not sneezing on the firearms, American and Russian history, and spoiling his dog.

Early Ammunition Development

July 20, 2017 by Kyle Hestand

Ammunition is the most important element required for advances in firearms development. Many of the leaps in firearms development were attempted and failed pending advances in ammunition technology. This post […]

Thankfully many of the surviving technical documents are still in legible condition. This drawing was clean enough for me to easily identify the prototype that it was for.

Deep Diving into the Archives for Research

June 21, 2017 by Kyle Hestand

My research on William Mason’s toggle link prototypes into expanded into a small research project working with our archived material. That first project started from seeing one of the prototypes […]

William Mason’s Experimental Toggle Link Firearms

June 14, 2017 by Kyle Hestand

The late 19th and early 20th century saw a broad push by arms manufacturers to build self-loading firearms. In this blog post I will be highlighting several of the Winchester […]

Right Turn at Albuquerque

June 2, 2017 by Kyle Hestand

Hello everyone! My name is Kyle Hestand and I am one of two summer interns at the Cody Firearms Museum (CFM). I am a senior majoring in history at the […]