SHOW NOTES

Why reload:

• Pick your bullet
• Tune your accuracy
• Create premium ammo for budget-ammo cost

Getting started:

• Instruction sections in reloading manuals
• ABC's of assembling a cartridge
• The Three "B's" of accuracy
• Choosing cartridge cases
• Prepping cases for accuracy
• Choosing a gunpowder
• Working up a propellant charge
• Choosing a projectile (toughness, aerodynamics, accuracy)
• Tuning seating depth for accuracy

Reasonable accuracy expectations

• Rifle quality
• Shooter skill
• Handload quality

Testing handloads for reliable chambering prior to hunting

Wrap: A question for listeners... check it out, and let me know!

Lapua cartridge cases

Nosler brass

Federal Gold Medal Match primers

Alliant gunpowders

Hodgdon gunpowders

SHOW NOTES

• Host introduction: Evan Siembida of Siembida Custom Knives

• Hunting knife design evolution and performance characteristics

• Handle materials and practical advantages

• How size, blade shape, and edge geometry affects use

• Bushcraft and fire starting

• "Spa Treatment" knife restoration service

• Micarta handle material: linen, canvas, paper, and boutique burlap

• Sharpen-ability and edge-holding characteristics of stainless steel vs. non-stainless

• Specific types of steel optimum for knives

• Carbides and the microscopic edge

• Different degrees of "stainlessness," i.e. rust resistance

SHARPENING

• Sharpening correctly—and using a Strop

• Recommended sharpening stones

• The drawbacks of "V" type pull-through sharpeners

• Choosing and using the right blade for backcountry hunting

RESOURCES

• Siembida Custom Knives Instagram

• [email protected]

• Gator sharpening stones

• EZE-LAP pocket diamond stone

• EZE-LAP diamond shop stone

• Leather strops for sale

SHOW NOTES

• Follow-up on episode No. 40's discussion on worst elk wounders

• Characteristics that make ideal elk cartridges

AUTHORITY

1. Bullet weight
2. Frontal diameter
3. Bullet construction
4. Velocity

REACH

1. Velocity
2. Aerodynamic bullet

• List of great elk cartridges

• LIst of great elk bullets

RESOURCES:

Web link to stock pack detailed in episode No. 40: SPEC-OPS BRAND Accu-Pack

SHOW NOTES

Making The Shot intro: After all your planning, prep, and hard hunting, everything comes down to one moment where you've got to succeed or fail in taking your quarry.

• Two real-life scenarios with heartbreaking consequences, and how they could have been avoided

• Correcting the mistakes before they occur: Pre-hunt shooting prep and in-the-moment decision-making

• Pre-hunt shooting prep: 5 practice steps to success

• In-the-moment decision-making: This one is harder. You can't practice, you can only conceptualize.

1. Moving animals
2. Shooting in desperation
3. Fleeting opportunities at whopper bucks, bulls & rams

BONUS MATERIAL

• 6.5 PRC: Is it an elk cartridge? Exit holes, blood trails, the "knock-down power" myth, and slowing big-bodied, tough bulls down.

SHOW NOTES

Backcountry Gear Challenge: fit 10 days worth of gear into 55 pounds

Top-of-the-list item: Tag/Hunting license!

• Sleep systems: Sleeping bag, pad, & tent

• Backpacks: Types and recommendations

• Raingear: Jackets & pants, pack covers, drybags for camera & electronics

• Clothing & footwear: From skin to shell. Underwear, base layer, pants, shirts, the annoyance of layering, puffy coats & pants, neck gaiters and warm hats, appropriate boots, Crocs and manliness, crampons, and more.

• Cooking systems: backpacking stoves, fire starters, water filters, water containers, and the critical Life Straw

• Optics: Rangefinding binoculars, Badlands bino harnesses, spotting scopes,

• Communication: inReach Mini, Midland handheld radios, lithium batteries, solar chargers, battery reservoirs, smartphone headphones, headlamps, and compasses.

• Camera: Smart phone vs. compact lightweight DSLR, plus Phone Skope

• Tripod favorites: Outdoorsman Medium and Spartan Precision Sentinel

• Rifle, Ammo, & Accessories: sling, Galco ammo carrier, Spartan bipod, Otis cleaning cable, electrical tape (yellow!), ballistic chart, wind checker, and handgun if applicable

• Knives & Accessories: Leatherman Tool, fixed-blade hunting knife by Browning, Arno Bernard, or Siembida Custom Knives; Outdoor Edge or Havalon, compact EZE-Lapp diamond stone, Outdoor Edge folding saw, Gransfors Bruks Hunter's Axe, Kuiu or Caribou Gear game bags, contractor-grade garbage bags

• Health & Hygiene: compact deodorant, hand soap, toothbrush & paste, floss, Airborne tablets, Zip Fizz, MTN OPS, Ibuprophen, Mucinex D, NyQuil, Blister kit, sunscreen, chapstick, vaseline, sunglasses, wipes, bug spray, bug net, knee braces, TETRA ear pro, notebook

• Food: Mountain House and other freeze-dried brands, snacks, gum, hard candy, energy supplements, Montreal Stake Seasoning, coffee or tea

RESOURCES:

Mountain Hardwear sleeping bags

Stone Glacier sleeping bags

Kuiu sleeping bags

Wiebad Mini Tac Pad (pillow)

Thermarest sleeping pads

Klymit sleeping pads

Big Agnes sleeping pads

ExPed sleeping mats

Big Agnes tents

Mountain Hardwear tents

Spartan Precision Carbonlite Tent

Kifaru tents

Barney's Sports Chalet "freighter pack"

Sitka Mountain Hauler 6200 pack

Mystery Ranch packs

Sitka Gear Stormfront raingear

Kuiu rain gear

https://kryptek.com/catalog/category/rain-gear/

Grundens rain gear

Helly Hanson rain gear

JetBoil backpacking stoves

Katadyn water filters

LifeStraw portable water filters

Swarovski EL Range

Leica Geovid rangefinding binos

Zeiss Victory RF rangefinding binos

Badlands bino cases

Swarovski ATS 65 spotting scope

Leupold 12-40 x 60mm Gold Ring spotting scope

Garmin inReach Mini

Midland handheld radios

Leica V-Lux camera

Phone Skope

Outdoorsman's Medium Tripod

Outdoorsman's Tripod Pan Head

Spartan Precision Sentinel Tripod

Spartan Precision Javelin Bipod

Galco Gunleather "Stalker" ammo carrier

Otis cleaning kits with flexible cable

Leatherman tools

Arno Bernard Dagga Boy drop point knife

Siembida Custom Knives Instagram page

Outdoor Edge Razorlite exchangeable blade knife

Havalon exchangeable blade knife

Outdoor Edge folding saw

Gransfors Bruks Hunter's Axe

Kuiu game bags

Caribou Gear game bags

Mountain OPS energy suppliments

TETRA hearing enhancement/protection

Rite in the Rain notebooks

Mountain House freeze-dried meals

SHOW NOTES:

• Intro: Remington's M700, episode recording, guest Carlos Martinez,

• Listener questions & comments

• Remington's Custom Shop (also covers Marlin & Dakota)

• Why the Model 700 has such accuracy potential

• How the Custom Shop maximizes performance

• How you can order any configuration you want

• Dakota Arms: The ultimate in controlled-feed rifles

• Marlin Custom-Shop lever-actions: Best value on the market

RESOURCES:

Remington Custom Shop

Dakota Arms

Marlin Custom Shop

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SHOW NOTES:

• Hearing protection: Loss-incurring damage never heals. Protecting hearing is paramount.

• The dangerous game conundrum (gotta be able to hear) and TETRA Hunt's superb solution

• TETRA's tuned-frequency hearing enhancement/protection, and dedicated profiles for elk, turkey, geese, waterfowl, and the new Dangerous Game profile

• How the ear gathers sound

• How we pinpoint direction

• How TETRA not only maintains directional hearing, it enhances it

• Cost: Can you afford NOT to protect your ears?

• Hearing loss as an indicator of potential early onset Dementia and Alzheimers

• Why hearing loss accelerates Dementia and Alzheimers, and how to reverse it

RESOURCES:

TETRA Hunt

Test your hearing here

SHOW NOTES:

• New Zealand: The Shangri La of modern backcountry hunting

• Bag limits? What bag limits?

• Gnarly, steep, challenging, beautiful country

• What island to hunt, and how to find and access a good spot

• Game types, habitat, and taxonomy, and how to hunt them

• Logistics of traveling to New Zealand and accessing the backcountry

• Importing a hunting rifle and ammo to New Zealand

• Critical gear & planning time

• Recommended rifles, optics, and ammo

• Do it now: Laws will never be better, and you'll never be younger

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SHOW NOTES:

• From Tradition to Technology: Picking a muzzleloader for backcountry hunting

• Exploding boundaries

• From the beginning: Traditional muzzleloaders, common inline muzzleloaders, and uncommonly accurate long-range muzzleloaders

• Traditional muzzleloaders: Why to hunt with them, and how to get the best out of them. What they shoot (blackpowder and patched round balls), caliber restrictions, barrel length, sight-in and effective range determination.

• World record flintlock elk: a first-hand account of the hunt

• Common inline muzzleloaders: Why to hunt with them, and how to get the best out of them. Hunting history. What they shoot (blackpowder substitutes and saboted or belted conical bullets), configurations, and how to work up a great load. Determining maximum lethal range. Cleaning and maintaining.

• Long-range precision muzzleloaders: a burgeoning trend. Why to hunt with them, and how they are different. What they shoot (Blackhorn 209 blackpowder substitute, Parker bullets), how to set up a rifle, pick a long-range-capable scope, and maximize effectiveness with Remington's M700 Ultimate Muzzleloader. Ethics of shooting long: wind, time of flight, terminal performance, and more. How to determine maximum effective fully-lethal range.

• First-hand account of a big New Mexico bull elk taken at 407 yards.

• Attacking the ethical question: What's right, what's conditionally right, and how to deal with hunters that do things we oppose. Recognizing and accepting personal choices, and learning from other hunters.

• An old man, an alpine buck, and a clean, one-shot 631-yard kill.

• Questions, comments, & opinions: Please share on Instagram on the @backcountryhuntingpodcast profile--but be clean and respectful.

RESOURCES:

Fine custom traditional longrifles: Tennessee Valley Manufacturing

Inline muzzleloaders by Traditions

Inline muzzleloaders by Thompson Center

Inline muzzleloaders by CVA

Long-range Remington 700 Ultimate Muzzleloader

Long-range Gunwerks Muzzleloader

Goex Blackpowder

Blackhorn 209 blackpowder substitute

Parker long-range muzzleloader bullets

SHOW NOTES

• Prep, planning, and gear

• Tyce Erickson: master dog trainer and high-country big-game hunting genius

• Hot off the BBQ: Shiras moose, elk, musk ox, black bear, deer, and more

• September bulls: Tactics for finding, calling, and stalking rutting elk

• Holding it together under pressure: Stories of jubilance and heartbreak on monster bulls

• Alpine mule deer: Locating, patterning, stalking, and arrowing big early-season bucks

• After the shot: What to expect in the high country

• Erickson's favorite broadhead

• BONUS MATERIAL: Best dog breed for everything from packing and hunting big game to upland and waterfowl hunting

RESOURCES

Utah Bird Dog Training

Utah Pointing Labs

Field Bred Golden Retrievers

Follow Tyce on Instagram: @lichenoutdoors, @utahbirddogtraining