When it comes to putting together the ultimate backcountry hunting rig, I'm talking from your toes out, right?

There are several critical pieces to the puzzle and one of those is a capable rifle scope.

Now obviously if you don't have good boots you can't get into the country that you want to hunt.

If you don't have an accurate rifle, you can't make

shots that are difficult and challenging and yet very critical to accomplish because you may have worked for 10 days to get that opportunity.

But no matter how good your boots and how accurate your rifle,

if you don't have a rifle scope that will help you connect that

projectile from the chamber of your rifle all the way down range into the vitals of your query. It's all for nothing, right?

Welcome to the show today folks. Thanks for tuning in. I'm Joseph von Benedict and this is the

backcountry hunting podcast. Today we're going to talk about really

prime scopes for backcountry hunting. And a broad spectrum of them all the way from kind of

open country stuff where more weight is

acceptable that's an acceptable trade-off for increased precision at extended

distances all the way down to some light compact scopes that are really good

for work where there just aren't very many long shots but you may be climbing aggressively

or threading your way through really heavy timber on a regular basis.

On the show I've often said that there are currently only three or four scopes that I think are really prime for backcountry hunting

That put together all the different pieces of the puzzle.

We're just talking about the features necessary

to make a scope really, really capable

no matter what it faces, what challenge it's called upon to overcome.

So let's talk about a few of those features.

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