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Intro: Opportunities in wide-open backcountry are often hard-earned. Set your rifle up to maximize your success.

Q&A Section

Characteristics of an ultimate open-country hunting rifle:

• Must be accurate
• Must be easy for the hunter to shoot well
• Must be chambered for an authoritative cartridge
• Must be set up properly

Final thoughts: You Can't Buy Skill. You've got to earn it the hard way.

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Intro: If you appreciate the classics, shouldn't you consider a single-shot rifle?

Up-front Q&A:

• Cartridges for a mixed-game hunt in Canada
• Pants (and gall medication) for aoudad hunting

Topic: Single-Shot Rifles for Backcountry Hunting

• Pros & Cons
• Skills and Limitations
• Best models to consider
  • Ruger No. 1
  • T/C Encore
  • Winchester Model 1885 High Wall
  • Sharps Model 1874
  • Dakota Model 10
• Best cartridges for single-shots and backcountry use

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Intro: Pack animals can make or break a backcountry hunt

Guest: Tyce Ericson, owner of Utah Bird Dog Training and long-time backcountry hunter and Llama packer.

Advantages of Llamas:

• Calm, don't spook easily like horses and mules
• Stronger than pack goats
• Easy for beginners to handle and pack
• Sure footed
• Can forage on nearly anything
• Rarely drink, being from the camelid family
• Easy to haul

Getting started with Llamas

• Appropriate breeds
• Cost of trained adults vs. young Llamas
• Training to lead and pack
• Tack and gear for Llama packing
• Sources for Llamas and pack gear
• Llama rentals

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Hunting scenario: What barrel length will you pick?

Short barrels in the Backcountry: How much performance do you give up?

Pros and Cons of hunting the Backcountry with a suppressor.

Best deer and elk cartridges for use in short barrels with suppressors.

Calculating velocity expansion windows.

Wind drift and the effect of reduced velocity.

A useful short-barrel average for popular, proven cartridges.

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Topic: How to make one-day hunts successful

• Q&A section:
  • 7mm-08 & 7x57 as the light rifle in a two-gun combo
  • Switch-barrel rifle compared to a two-gun approach
  • Sitka Blacktail seasons and hunt duration

• THE ALL-DAY, ONE-DAY HUNT
  • Go early and go focused
  • Be adaptable
  • Eat well
  • Stay hydrated
  • Hunt smart
  • Have realistic goals
  • Nap during mid-day
  • Stay until full dark
  • Be careful on your way out
  • Have a meat-packing plan

• THE 24-HOUR OVERNIGHT HUNT
  • Similar hunting techniques
  • Both easier and harder
  • Carry your camp
  • Go in slow
  • Don't sleep in!
  • Stay late
  • Stay awake on the drive home
  • Don't be an ogre

Practice makes perfect. Backcountry Banzai is a one-day effort, but go every time you can spare a day. Success will benefit, and your satisfaction will be off the charts.

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Topic: Two Rifles To Rule The Backcountry

A one-gun hunter is to be respected, but a two-gun battery makes any hunter more versatile and capable.

Q&A: Bear bullets for the .350 Rem. Mag.

Picking a two-rifle battery:

• Keeping both rifles the same model and configuration
• Tuning triggers and picking scopes
• Cartridges: The BIG Question
  • One light-recoiling, efficient, accurate deer cartridge
  • One powerful, accurate heavy-hitter without limitations
• Picking the ultimate choices from the plethora available
• Tuning bullets and velocities to be similar
• Training with the light rifle
• Favorite deer bullets and tough bullets for bigger game

WRAP: A well-conceived two-gun battery is arguably the best possible way to become as effective as you can be in the field.

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Topic: Compact Rifles for Beginners and Small-Framed Hunters

Up-front Q&A:

• Barrel cleaning procedures and products
• Re-chambering a burned-out barrel
• Youth rifle cartridges

BROWNING'S X-BOLT MICRO COMPOSITE

Compact, ergonomic, accurate, and reliable, this outstanding small rifle is not just a beginner's tool—it's a quality hunting rifle that will last a lifetime.

• Action specs and function
• Stock type and configuration
• Barrel type, length, and configuration
• Trigger type and adjustment
• Smooth-functioning bolt
• Cartridge choices for kids and western big game
• Setting up for maximum capablity
• Picking the right optic

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Topic: Hunting bullet failures and anomalies

Up Front Q&A section:

• How can I find ammo for this fall's hunts?
• FFP scope reticles vs. SFP reticles
• Travel gun cases vs. truck gun cases

DISCLAIMER: The following bullet "failures" are anomalies, and are in no way condemnation of the bullet types discussed.

Barnes TSX: Texas whitetail, Colorado elk, and rogue beef

Berger VLD: Mule deer, elk, and more mule deer

Hornady: Elk and Axis deer

Nosler: Ballistic tip on coyote

Remington CLUB: Oryx in Africa

Browning BXC: Too far on Texas Aoudad

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Topic: Question & Answer session prompted by listeners responding to the "Ultimate Deer Rifle" and "Backcountry Rifle Accessories" episodes.

• Bullets for deer and elk
• Ballistic trajectories and close shots
• Barrels custom builds
• .30-06 Ackley Improved
• Custom Riflemakers
• Lightweight suppressors
• Barnes TSX vs. Sierra GameKing for elk
• 6.5 WBY RPM vs. 6.5 PRC
• Scope covers and flip caps
• Budget rifle cases worth having
• Cartridge/ammo holders
• Oiled bores and POI shifts

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Topic: Accessorizing the ultimate backcountry hunting rifle

Pre-show: Q&A on suitable factory production rifles

1. Browning's X-Bolt Pro
2. Kimber's 84L Montana
3. Nosler's 48 Mountain Carbon

Digging in:

• Riflescopes
• Bases & rings
• Slings
• Cartridge carriers
• Stock packs (cheek rests)
• Compact cleaning kits

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