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**Backcountry Hunting Podcast**

Backcountry Hunting Podcast focuses on inspiring and teaching about deep-country hunting, with emphasis on DIY techniques, gear, prep and how-to. Lifelong wilderness hunter Joseph von Benedikt shares stories and tips for success.

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Top Backcountry Navigation Tools May 12, 2020

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Late November, extreme cold, a foot and a half of snow, and pitch dark in Montana's Bitterroot is a bad time to be lost...
Observation, experience, and a sense of direction
Paper topographical maps and compass
GPS and backcountry communication devices
Smartphones and map programs
Strengths and weaknesses of each system

For the ultimate in backcountry navigating ability, combine cutting-edge tech with traditional know-how.

Advanced Mule Deer Tactics with Robby Denning May 01, 2020

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Guest: Robby Denning, mule deer hunting savant

Book: Hunting Big Mule Deer: How to take the biggest buck of your life

• Why mule deer hunting is so compelling that Denning abandoned all other game in order to focus on mule deer

• Ultimate Challenge: DIY, public-land mule deer

• The behavioral differences between old mule deer bucks--and all the other mule deer

• Mule deer management and the future of the hunting the species

• Common mistakes to avoid

• Tracking: A critical art and science for hunting mule deer

• Denning's rifle, cartridge, and bullet preferences

• wescout4u.com scouting service

Camo: What, How, & When Apr 25, 2020

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Intro: The Hunter's Cloak of Invisibility

When—if ever—is camo NOT appropriate?
When camo is a critical asset
- Color-capable game
- When hunter discretion is important
- Blending with habitat and terrain
- Contrast, color & patterns
Camo brands and brand loyalty
- Mixing & matching
- Type of clothing (for example cold-weather vs. technical)
- Clothing quality
- Suitability of patterns
Personal favorites and go-to clothing
- Camo
- Non-camo

The Backcountry Hunting Podcast is moving! More elbow room, more game, less hunter pressure, OTC tags, and generous seasons. Listen to learn where.

RESOURCES

Browning Hells Canyon Speed

Sitka Subalpine

Timney Triggers

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Bullets & Meat Damage Apr 17, 2020

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What type of bullets allow you to "eat right up to the hole?"

Listeners questions and comments

MEAT DAMAGE: TWO SOURCES

Extreme impact velocity
- Hydraulic shock
- High-velocity cartridges
- Light-for-caliber bullets, pushed extremely fast
- Extreme-BC bullets, pushed fast
- Animal matter's effect on bullets
- Low-velocity impact dynamics
Extreme-expansion bullets
- What stresses a bullet during impact
- Fragmenting on impact increases shock transfer
- "Soft" bullets rupture and fragment. Maximum meat damage results
- Tough, controlled-expansion bullets hold together and penetrate. Less meat damage results
Bullet placement for minimal meat damage
- The behind-the-shoulder shot
- The on-the-shoulder shot
- Species-dependent preferences
How to field-dress and process around bloodshot meat
Is bullet-related meat damage ok?
- When it results in a faster, more humane kill
- When the bullet that causes it makes you a more capable hunter

ENJOY! (AND PLEASE SUBSCRIBE!)

.338 Debate: The Big-Bore Backcountry Cartridge Shootout Apr 11, 2020

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Why the .338?
- As listener @Alaskanexile1 said, "If I'm carrying my .338, I never have the 'wrong' rifle."
- Inherently superior ballistic coefficient to the 8mm's, .35's, and .375's.
- Excellent sectional density (a measure of penetrating ability)
- Heavy but controllable recoil
- A lot more terminal performance than the .30 calibers
- The significance of the .338's frontal diameter
- How does it compare to the .375's for big bears?

SPECIFIC .338 CARTRIDGES

.338-06
.338 Win. Mag.
33 Nosler
.340 Weatherby
.338 Rem. Ultra Mag
.338 Lapua
.338-378 Weatherby

Which one's right for you?

RESOURCES

Winchester Rifles

RIfle's Inc. (custom gunsmith)

Backcountry Book List Apr 03, 2020

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Books: How to cultivate the patience necessary to weather those numbing periods of inactivity between explosions of hunting action.

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Ways to "consume" books, and the pros & cons of each:

Traditional paper
Tablets
Audiobooks

Types of books:

How-to resources
Factual and fictional
Pure knowledge, & pure entertainment

No. 1: Bear Hunting in Alaska, by Tony Russ

No. 2: Sheep Hunting in Alaska, by Tony Russ

No. 3: Haunted Mesa, by Louis L'Amour

No. 4: Alaska Yukon Trophies Won And Lost, by G.O. Young

No. 5: Death in the Long Grass, by Peter Hathaway Capstick

No. 6: The Last Stand of Fox Company, by Bob Drury & Tom Clavin

No. 7: Man-Eaters of Kumaon, by Jim Corbett (Oxford Omnibus)

No. 8: The Shooting of Dan McGrew & Other Poems, by Robert Service

No. 9: Where the Lion Feeds, by Wilbur Smith

No. 10: Horn of the Hunter, by Robert Ruark

COMING UP: .338-caliber cartridges, ranging from the .338-06 to the magnum powerhouses.

Enjoy!

ARs for Hunting & Defense Mar 27, 2020

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Intro: The longest shot on a coyote

AR-type rifles: Do they serve adequately for backcountry hunting?
Semiautos and accuracy: The AR's advantage
Current social and economic conditions and skyrocketing sales
Personal Protection crossover

AR's FOR BACKCOUNTRY HUNTING

Pros & Cons
Receiver sizes
Applicable, capable cartridges (and how to choose)
Keeping it light
Making it accurate
Choosing an optic
Choosing ammo
Setting up for maximum effectiveness
Working it out (KNOW YOUR RIFLE!)

WRAP: Trust in the Lord, but Keep Your Powder Dry!

Black Hills Ammunition

SIG TANGO6T scope

Leupold VX-5HD 1-5x scope

Keep Calm & Carry On Mar 20, 2020

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A short message on courage, humanity, and optimism.

Backcountry Cartridge Shootout: 280 Ackley vs. 7mm Rem Mag Mar 13, 2020

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Intro: Western hunting and shooting situations vary widely. Consider these scenarios... (listen)

It behooves hunters to have a rifle and cartridge suitable for any task. These cartridges are two of the best for all-around work on the broad spectrum of Western big game.

.280 Ackley Improved vs. 7mm Remington Magnum

HISTORY

7mm Rem Mag
.280 Ackley Improved

WHY IS THE 7MM/.284 CALIBER SO SIGNIFICANT?

Best in class ballistics at acceptable recoil levels
Just inside the cusp of what is really capable for almost all North American big game, including elk, moose, and the biggest black bears
- Adequate projectile weight
- Adequate frontal diameter
- Outstanding aerodynamics
Popular 7mm's range from 7mm-08 to 28 Nosler

PROS & CONS of the .280 Ackley vs. the "Seven-Mag"

7MM REMINGTON MAGNUM

Advantages
Disadvantages

.280 ACKLEY IMPROVED

Advantages
Disadvantages

Segment: MAKING THE SHOT, brought to you by Browning

SO, WHICH CARTRIDGE IS BETTER?

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Top Backcountry Rifles, Part 4: Walnut & Blued Steel Mar 06, 2020

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Walnut & Blued Steel rifles: Can they provide top performance in the backcountry?

Follow-up on episode 61 and wound treatment: Quick-Clot Gauze better than Quick-Clot powder

• Ruger's M77 Hawkeye African: A top backcountry hunting rifle

Ultimate, classic configuration
Lipsey's Special
Stock configuration
Iron sights
Controlled-feed Mauser-type action
Cool cartridges (6.5x55, .275 Rigby, .300 Win. Mag.)

• Working the rifle into fighting condition

Accuracy testing
Honing and polishing the action
Trigger work and glass bedding
Working up a Hornady 129-grain InterBond handload
A half-MOA walnut & blued steel backcountry rifle
Hunting with the Ruger M77 Hawkeye African

• Backcountry Scouting & Navigating: Glass from a tripod

• Leupold's new best-in-class mountain-hunting scopes

Best-anywhere dial-up CDZ-ZL turrets
Ultra light weight
Superb glass
Useful magnifications: 13-oz. 3.5-10x 40mm and 15.6-oz. 4.5-14x 40mm

• Backcountry Apprentice: Be better hydrated to be a better hunter—carry a LifeStraw

Teaser: Federal's new Terminal Ascent bullets

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