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Intro: (Cartridge) Trouble in Paradise

Main topic: How cartridge shape affects reliable performance

Cartridge types:

• Standard action: (example, .30-06)
• Short action: (example, .308)
• Standard magnum: (example, .300 Win Mag)
• Short magnum: (example, .300 Short Mag)
• Long magnum: (example, .300 PRC)

Advantages & disadvantages of each type

• Efficiency
• Magazine capacity
• Suppressor compatibility
• Most importantly: Feeding & Reliability

Cartridges & Rifles noteworthy for maximum performance with minimum trouble.

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Intro: A simple solution to compensating for wind

Q&A:

• DIY Black Bear success
• .300 WSM vs. .300 Win Mag

WIND: The joker in the long-range deck

Gunwerks instructor Brian Poor's wind-compensating technique

• Simple
• Easy without a ballistic calculator
• Effective in field conditions

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Intro: .308 and 6.5 Creedmoor: Loved, hated, revered or despised... These two own their respective realms.

Q&A:

• Lightweight scopes
• Brush-busting 6.5 Creedmoor bullets
• Powerbelt ELR bullets for elk?

Main Topic:

.308 strengths & weaknesses

1. 1. It's NOT just a shorter .30-06!
   2. Efficiency
   3. Mild recoil
   4. Long barrel life
   5. Inherently accurate
   6. Nearly inadequate propellant capacity
   7. Inefficient with heavy, high-BC bullets
   8. Low penetrating capability
   9. Low wind-bucking capability
   10. Lack of on-impact "wallop" especially at long range

6.5 Creedmoor strengths & weaknesses

1. Wonderfully accurate
2. Super easy to shoot well
3. Very mild recoil
4. Excellent barrel life
5. Great hot-barrel accuracy
6. Easy to handload well
7. Good wind-bucking ability
8. Excellent for deer-size game
9. Lack of impact authority
10. Installs false sense of confidence
11. Lots of documented "shot but lost" bull elk
12. Outfitters not allowing it's use on elk

.308 Win. vs. 6.5 Creedmoor: Which is better for backcountry Hunting?

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Intro: Something Different

This episode is derived from a fascinating series of correspondence with a backcountry-hunting Kiwi in New Zealand, whom we'll call James.

James addresses:

• Conservation-driven harvest and take
• Local attitude toward sustainability and respect of resources
• Hunting methods and the "hard yards" earned when hunting New Zealand's Southern Alps the right way
• Suitable rifles, cartridges, & bullets
• Bonus: Life in the Bush, and 600 possums

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Topic: AllTerra Arms and its unprecedented, unbeatable performance guarantee:

• 0.5-MOA accuracy with factory ammo
• 0.25-MOA accuracy with AllTerra's custom ammo
• Absolute 100-percent reliability in all field conditions
• 90-day money-back satisfaction guarantee
• All this in ultralight precision hunting rifles

Sitting down with the owner, president, and marketing "emperor," we dig into the concept, genesis, and creation of the AllTerra performance creed, and unpack—in detail—how the company's extraordinary rifles are able to meet such an incredible guarantee.

• In-house manufacturing for ultimate quality control
• Action innovations and patents
• Barrel choice and creation
• Stock design and manufacturing processes
• Action-to-stock bedding
• Reliability-enhancing bolt geometry
• Firing pin and bolt assembly enhancements
• Metal and stock finishes
• Accuracy and handload tuning
• Scope mounting hardware
• Ergonomics and shootability
• Shooter satisfaction guarantee
• Turnaround time
• Prices

Backcountry Bounty: Siembida Custom Knives on Instagram, EZE-LAP diamond pocket stones and bench stones

Making The Shot: Brought to you by Timney Triggers, get 15% off with code BACKCOUNTRY

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Topic: Glassing gear, challenges, and strategies

Up Front: Enter Timney's 75th-anniversary trigger giveaway here!

GEAR: Buying quality optics:

• Where does "good" start, pricewise?
• Should you stretch your wallet?
• Eye strain and quality glass
• Where to spend: rifle or bino?
• A good $$$ bino starting point
• A good $$$ spotting scope starting point

THE COMPLETE COMPLIMENT OF OPTICS

• Versatile binocular
• 8x vs. 10x vs. 12x
• Capable spotting scope
• High-magnification optional bino
• Useful and versatile tripods

HOW-TO: Putting your optics to work in the field

• Adjusting fit and diopter
• To grid or not to grid
• Know your species
  • habitat
  • bedding areas
  • feeding areas
  • travel routes
• Glass with the sun
• Glass supported
• Prioritize high-potential areas
• Learn the country
• When to carry a spotting scope
• When to carry a high-magnification binocular

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Final thought: Get the good stuff and go to work!

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Hot, dusty, and glorious, early-season elk is upon us!

Up Front: Q&A, brought to you by Siembida Custom Knives

• Muzzle Brakes
• Tikka vs. Browning
• Do-all cartridges
• Practice tips & tricks

FINDING EARLY SEASON ELK

• E-scouting
• Water and dark timber on north-facing slopes
• Boots on the ground
• Sign new and old (rubs, wallows)
• Moving bulls and the transitional phase
• Listening for bugles (when bugles are rare)

HUNTING EARLY SEASON ELK

• Be aggressive early and late in the day
• Be patient through the quiet, hot hours
• "Don'ts" of early season elk hunting
• Best mouth calls
• Finding big, old bulls
• Bulls that come silently

FIELD CARE & PACKING

• Breaking down and cooling meat
• Packing against the clock
• Aging on ice (refer to episode 46)

Final thoughts.

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Scenario: A last-day opportunity on a shockingly big bull elk. With moments left of legal shooting light and every possible challenge aligned against you, can you hold it together and kill the bull?

Guest: Duane "Buck" Buckner. A veteran of vast and extreme experience, Buck has spent decades studying the human psyche and its response to dramatic stress—as well as how to function effectively through it.

• What happens inside your brain (at the moment of truth)
  • Hormone dump
  • Pre-programmed fight or flight responses
  • Auditory exclusion
  • Focused processing
  • Tunnel vision
  • Motor skills

• How to overcome the crippling effects
  • Pre-event recognition of what happens mentally
  • Observation and awareness
  • Breathing
  • Training

• Dangerous Game: Worse than combat?
  • Parallels between combat and tracking wounded dangerous game
  • Simplifying equipment to maximize success
  • Red dots and recticles

WRAP: Understanding the wires that come loose inside your brain when you get buck fever helps you keep it together at the moment of truth.

Duane "Buck" Buckner on Instagram

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Intro: Great Elk Bullets: characteristics, types, makes, models, and more.

ALERT: with this episode, the 3rd Limited Edition Northern Shrike backcountry hunting knife goes live.

Q&A: .30-30 for bear, re-barreling to 6.8 Western, and more.

Characteristics of a great elk bullet:

• Expansion design
• Weight retention and penetration
• Accuracy
• Ballistic coefficient

Shot angles and the challenge of cleanly killing a big, old bull

• Big, big bone
• Dense, heavy muscle
• Close impacts and far
• Quartering angles

Calibers and Cartridges

• "Wallop"
• Stepping up to kill cleanly with small cartridges
• 6.5's and .270's for elk

Bullet makes and models

• Barnes
• Federal
• Hornady
• Nosler
• Swift

Final thoughts: Closing the deal at the moment of truth

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Recorded in the field

Real-time updates and candid conversations throughout the hunt

Disappointment, challenges, renewed focus, and success on a great buck that will make the Longhunter Society record book!

Analysis of what worked (and initially didn't)

Lessons learned and rewards earned

BONUS SEGMENT: Is a 3rd Edition Northern Shrike backcountry hunting knife in the works?

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