Backcountry Hunting Podcast

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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.

Latest Episodes:

Monometal vs. Lead-core Hunting Bullets Jul 26, 2019

Show notes

SHOW NOTES:

• Are monometal bullets as good a traditional lead-core bullets?

• Rights & Freedoms, Laws & Regulations

• Top manufacturers of non-toxic monometal bullets

• Monometal vs. Lead-core bullets: THE DIFFERENCES

1. Behavior in the bore

2. Behavior in flight

3. Behavior on impact

4. Trauma & terminal performance

5. Exit wounds & blood trails

6. Non-ideal shot angles

7. Bullet failures & anomalies

8. How to pick a monometal bullet

• Accuracy, Design, & Weight

• Factory ammo and various loads

RESOURCES

Black Hills Ammunition

Maintenance & First Aid for Hunting Optics Jul 19, 2019

Show notes

SHOW NOTES

• The backcountry is hard on optics

• All brands and types of optic can and occasionally will fail

• User-induced failures

• Properly mounting riflescopes for ultimate toughness

• How scopes get knocked off, and how to re-zero them

• Protecting lenses against grit, grime, water, and ice

• Sideways impacts to scopes, and related weaknesses

• When you fall on your scope

• Something you need in the backcountry: Enough ammo to re-zero a scope

• Iron sights can save a hunt

• Fogged lenses, and how to avoid them

• Snow clogs and snap shots

• Scope covers, and how to pick one

• When binoculars go south

• Cleaning lenses without causing damage

• BONUS MATERIAL: Ammunition corrosion and reliability issues

Buffalo & Kudu in Africa's Backcountry Jul 12, 2019

Show notes

SHOW NOTES:

• Backcountry in Africa

• On the menu: Cape buffalo, hippo, and plains game--particularly big kudu bulls

• Prep and packing

• Shooting practice for success in Africa's bush country

• Buffalo charge stopped at 4 yards

• Big kudu bulls

• Stalking a monster hippo through other aggressive hippos, past Cape buffalo, and amongst crocodiles

• New and veteran hunters: What we'd do different next time

• Staying flexible and rolling with logistical challenges

• Advice from a PH: How to avoid most common mistakes made by American hunters

• Filming your hunt: How to plan for great results

RESOURCES

Kowas Hunting Safaris

Reinhardt Bronner Productions (pro cameraman & film producer)

Facebook: Kowas Hunting Safaris

Instagram: Kowas Hunting Safaris

Instagram: Turnbull Restoration

Instagram: Reinhardt Bronner Productions

Backcountry Rifle Maintenance, Part 1 Jul 05, 2019

Show notes

SHOW NOTES

• Your rifle or bow is the one tool you can't be successful without--so prep it properly for backcountry work, and know how to perform emergency fixes.

• Barrel break-in

• Action tuning

• Stabilizing sighting systems and accuracy

• Gun oil in your barrel: Best friend and worst enemy

• Non-oil moisture barriers for barrels and actions

• Barrel blockages and catastrophic failures

• Compact kits and improvised tools to remove barrel blockages

• Hunting through the worst weather mother nature can throw at you

RESOURCES

Sharp Shoot'r solvent

Hoppe's Bore Snakes

Otis compact cleaning kits

Fix-It Stix

Mule Deer Hunting Tips & Techniques with Colton Heward Jun 29, 2019

Show notes

SHOW NOTES

• Mule deer addiction & the wonderful wives that deal with it

• What makes mule deer different?

• Critical hunting methods & tools

• Field scoring: The flash glance

• Field scoring: when time is on your side

• Realistic public-land, DIY expectations

• Colton's favorite mule deer cartridge

• Top tricks for success

RESOURCES

Instagram handle: @muleycrazy89

AlpenFuel: Nutrition for Top Backcountry Hunting Performance Jun 22, 2019

Show notes

SHOW NOTES

• AlpenFuel founder talks inspiration

• Planning for various types of terrain and conditions

• Energy supplements

• Charting your body's needs over the hunts' duration

• Performance food

• Recovery food

• Indigestion, and how to avoid it

• Minimalist stoves and dehydrated meals

• COFFEE! Convenience meets great taste

• Overpacking, and how to avoid it

RESOURCES

Best Backpacking Food of 2019 blog article

Mountain Tough Fitness calculator/program/app

AlpenFuel website

FBomb (fat bomb) foods

Peak Refuel freeze-dried meals

Greenbelly meals

Dark Timber Coffee Company

Tioga Rise Coffee

Heather's Choice

PROMO CODE: Use BACKCOUNTRY for 10% off at AlpenFuel!

Hunting Montana bears with Adam Weatherby Jun 14, 2019

Show notes

SHOW NOTES:

• Black bear hunt in northwest Montana's deep backcountry

• Special guest: Adam Weatherby

• Special gear: Prototype Weatherby rifle & cartridge

This hunt turned out to be aggressive, eventful, adventurous, and a fantastic success in every possible way. We covered 32 miles in four days, climbed over 8,000 vertical feet, stalked past a sow grizzly and her cub, and proved Weatherby's new yet-to-be-announced rifle and cartridge against particularly challenging conditions.

www.weatherby.com

Limitless Outdoorz youtube channel

Hunting With Match Bullets Jun 08, 2019

Show notes

SHOW NOTES

• Introduction: Pros and cons of hunting with match bullets

• Listener's questions: Tok Air Service, DIY drop-camp moose hunt costs, .257 WBY cartridge for deer, vintage controlled-feed rifles for backcountry work, hunting as PTSD therapy, downsides of carbon fiber barrels, and more.

• History of hunting with match bullets

• Data on Sierra MatchKings and humane killing ability

• Berger's VLD: King of match-grade hunting bullets. Upset process, fragmentation and overpenetration potential, handloading tips and tricks, personal experience, Classic Hunter and Elite Hunter bullets, and a few horror stories.

• Hornady's ELD Match: Trendy but not company-advised. Good for hunting or not?

RESOURCES

Berger hunting bullets

Hornady ELD Match bullets

Sierra bullets

Barnes bullets

Nosler bullets

Federal EDGE TLR bullets

Best Mountain Hunting Rifle Review: Part 1 Jun 05, 2019

Show notes

SHOW NOTES:

• O'Conner and mountain rifles