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Cartridges for Africa: Top 3 In 5 Nov 14, 2023

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What cartridge should you take on an African plains game safari? Spotlighted here are three outstanding, versatile cartridges, recommended by our guest Jacques Strauss, my favorite African PH.

This is the sixth of a new podcast element: fast-paced, fact-filled five-minute episodes showcasing three top backcountry hunting tools, tricks or techniques.

We're filming these brief episodes and posting them on Patreon, so if you'd like to put eyes on the products and methods showcased, please sign up at www.patreon.com/backcountry for a membership!

Also soon to come: Boots, packs, knives, elk calls, multitools, tents, bear guns, movies, and more! These "Top 3 In 5" minute episodes will drop as frequently as we have time during this busy hunting season, and by Christmas will be a weekly Tuesday-morning addition to the podcast's regular schedule.

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Planning a Safari: Logistics, Preparation, and Crucial Skills Nov 10, 2023

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Recorded live and raw in the field, this episode takes us to Africa. In addition to lots of great hunting stories, we address safari research, logistics, planning, and prep with the help of my long-time hunting partner and world traveler Austin Brown.

Plus, Namibian Professional Hunter Jacques Strauss of Kowas Hunting Safaris talks us through pre-hunt practice and skills crucial to success in the African bush.

My kids Audrey (age 15) and William (age 13, our very own Backcountry Apprentice) get to experience the Dark Continent and hunt plains game for the first time. Plus my hunting pardner Austin Brown and I hunt leopard and for an elusive giant kudu bull.

This is an account of the first half of our safari... including a once-in-many-lifetimes close daylight encounter with a big male leopard.

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Best 6.5mm Cartridge Of Them All Nov 03, 2023

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Glassing Gear & Methods: Top 3 in 5 Oct 31, 2023

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How do we overcome our human (read "weak") eyesight? With good optics! Spotlighted here are the three primary glassing tools every backcountry hunter should have, along with tips and tricks on how to pick the right one and how to use it.

This is the fifth of a new podcast element: fast-paced, fact-filled five-minute episodes showcasing three top backcountry hunting tools, tricks or techniques.

We're filming these brief episodes and posting them on Patreon, so if you'd like to put eyes on the products and methods showcased, please sign up at www.patreon.com/backcountry for a membership!

ENJOY!

Characteristics Every Hunting Rifle Should Possess Oct 27, 2023

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Your hunting rifle can be a truckbox tool, or a refined instrument. Either way, you should trust it completely, and it should provide characteristics that help you—the soft tissue behind the system—close the deal at the moment of truth.

This episode discusses essential features of a great hunting rifle:

Accuracy
Reliablity
Ergonomics
Action type, feel, & function
Trigger
Scope features
Backup sighting systems

Life is too short to hunt with ugly rifles, folks! (Or innaccurate, unreliable, awkward rifles...) This discussion was inspired by several failures and near-failures in the field, and we tell those stories to support our points.

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Best Compact Ranging Binoculars: Top 3 In 5 Minutes Oct 24, 2023

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Interested in a sleek, lightweight rangefinding binocular? Spotlighted here are the only three available. Thankfully, they're all great. Each provides excellent optical quality, a powerful, reliable laser ranging engine, and cutting-edge technology.

This is the fourth of a new podcast element: fast-paced, fact-filled five-minute episodes showcasing three top backcountry hunting tools, tricks or techniques.

We're filming these brief episodes and posting them on Patreon, so if you'd like to put eyes on the products and methods showcased, please sign up at www.patreon.com/backcountry for a membership!

ENJOY!

Spartan Oct 20, 2023

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After a wildly successful evening of hunting mule deer with Audrey and Sophie von Benedikt, we sit down with friend Rob Gearing, who is a certain contender for Most Interesting Man in the World.

We talk through the girls' hunt, detail the cutting-edge family of shooting support systems at Spartan Precision Equipment, and get Rob's perspective on how mountain climbing and some near-death survival adventures influence his design ethos.

The second half of the podcast our conversation gets pithy and very real, as we discuss the primal drive to hunt and eat wild meat and the psychological and health benefits of doing so. We even discuss the need to maintain our heritage and hunting rights and manage to avoid getting political!

This was a tremendous discussion, folks. ENJOY!

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After The Kill: Photography, Field Processing, & Packing Meat Oct 13, 2023

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Success! You've just shot a buck or bull. But should the fun really stop there? Not really. You'll shift gears, sure, but the process of getting great photos in the field, then field processing and breaking down your animal and packing it out can be very rewarding.

This episode, we take an in-depth look at three steps:

PHOTOGRAPHY

Positioning your animal
Using the light
Positioning the hunter
Setting up the camera
Framing the photo
LOOKING and SEEING what's in the viewfinder
Snapping the shot

Field Dressing & the Gutless Method

Traditional gutting: Pros, Cons, & How-to
Gutless Method: skinning, quartering, & lifting off backstraps
Removing bones

Packing Out

Cooling meat
Meat sacks & flies
Loading your backpack
Working without injury
Aging meat on ice

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