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Backcountry Hunting Podcast

.300 Win Mag vs. .300 PRC: Which is best?

Backcountry Hunting Podcast

Joseph von Benedikt

Backcountry, Rifle, Deer, Podcast, Elk, Mountain, Sports, Hunt, Wilderness, Cartridge, Hunting

4.91.1K Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2020

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

SHOW NOTES

• Scenario: You've got hunts ranging from coues deer to mountain grizzly and moose—and have to use just one rifle. What cartridge do you pick?

• What trends show most folks pick

• SHOT Show trends and hot cartridges

• Comparison between the legendary .300 Win Mag and the trendy new .300 PRC

• Candid discussion about podcast survivability

• .300 Win Mag: America's all-around champ's Pros & Cons

.300 PRC: Touted as the best fast .30 ever designed, Pros & Cons

CONCLUSION: Which is best?

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Here's a scenario for you.

0:02.0

Imagine that next week you have a late season Cowell-Kunt,

0:06.0

and then you're off to Arizona for a public land Coosdear hunt.

0:10.0

Spring Bear on Vancouver Island, where they routinely shoot monster black bears, is next.

0:17.0

In this coming September, you have a Moose, Caribou, and Mountain Grizzly combination hunt, before heading home for a family deer hunt.

0:27.0

Sounds like one heck of a season, right?

0:29.8

But here's the kicker.

0:31.2

You have to do all of this with just one rifle. What cartridge do you choose?

0:39.0

Now many folks would pick a 30 caliber magnum and for good reason. 30 calibers offer enough bullet weight and enough

0:48.9

frontal diameter for pretty much any game that walks the North American continent with a couple of

0:55.5

caveats although a lot of people use 30 caliber magnums for the bigger bears

1:01.6

coastal brown bears and so forth, I maintain that that's not an optimal choice, but a lot of people do it.

1:10.5

However, from Moose down, it's really hard to beat. While there are a ton of great 30 caliber

1:19.0

magnum options the top trending fast 30s today seem to be the legendary historic 300 Winchester

1:28.9

Magnum definitely the most proven of all of the 30 caliber magnums and the almost brand new 300 PRC.

1:40.3

Now this latter cartridge has surprised me quite a bit.

1:43.6

It was designed by a Hornity not too long ago.

1:47.4

I used prototype ammunition and a couple of early rifles made by GA precision and chambered for the 300 PRC

1:57.1

well before it was ever announced. I went to Africa with a few friends,

2:01.2

one of them was Neil Emory my good friend at Hornity and we shot a

2:06.1

selection of game with a 300 PRC and prototype factory loads it worked worked really well. This was in summer of 2018. Now the

2:18.7

predecessors of the 300 PRC are the 6.5 PRC. By the way PRC stands for precision rifle cartridge and of course in an

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