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🗓️ 2 February 2024
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What makes a capable rifle/cartridge/bullet setup for close-range hunting? This episode takes a deep dive into the best of the type, including lever-actions, pump-actions, bolt-actions, semiautos, and even single shots, along with ideal cartridges and top-performing bullet types.
We address whether brush-busting bullets are actually a thing, and the visible on-impact effect of blunt-nose bullets up close versus pointed bullets.
From shot angles to blood trails to fast follow-up shots, this episode has it all... ENJOY!
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0:00.0 | I was |
0:04.0 | wrong, |
0:05.0 | wrong, the dry aspen leads underfoot were noisy to walk in, |
0:08.0 | and the elk bugle that I'd sidetracked to check out |
0:11.0 | had been squeaky and immature sounding. My gut told me that I should |
0:16.3 | be pressing on up the ridge in pursuit of the harem of cows with a gnarly sounding bull tending |
0:22.2 | them. My gut was wrong. The bull that flushed from nearly beneath my |
0:28.1 | feet where he'd laid down and held tight in a tangle of boulders was the biggest I'd ever put crosshairs on. |
0:36.2 | With a single best shot of my life, I broke both of his shoulders on the run from about |
0:42.0 | 70 yards as he flickered off through the trees. |
0:45.5 | Now this was a DIY public land hunt and the bull that fell on that quiet mountain |
0:50.5 | side was a monster, non-typ. |
0:54.0 | Not the numbers matter all that much, |
0:56.8 | but he later stretched the tape to 402 inches, |
1:01.2 | as scored by an official Boone and crockett scorer. |
1:05.0 | Now although we Western hunters put a lot of emphasis on being able to shoot |
1:09.4 | lethally out past 400 yards and rightly so the fact is that a lot of our shots are inside |
1:16.8 | a hundred yards more importantly a lot of shots across the nation and around the |
1:22.1 | world are predictably close because the train |
1:24.8 | being hunted in isn't open enough to take long shots. So today we're going to talk |
1:30.1 | about cartridges, bullets, and rifles, ideal for authoritatively dropping big game up close. |
1:38.4 | But first, let's go to our upfront Q&A section, and this time it's brought to you by Porter's Pond, who we usually create a |
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