Occasionally when you hear an old timer talking about a cartridge in its performance on game, he'll say,

you can eat right up to the hole.

Now that's pretty rare in today's era of high-powered high-velocity cartridges.

We tend to see more puffed-up bubbly feeling trauma beneath the hide and often pure bloodshot devastation below.

Welcome to the show today folks. I'm Joseph Fong Benedict and this is the

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

Primarily, damage from bullets and impact velocity. Now, meat is also sometimes lost from exposure to too much heat and

contamination in the backcountry. We'll cover that and how to prevent it in a future

episode. Now first I want to just share several interesting questions

and comments from listeners starting with one by a chapter goes by at Josh

underscore Boyd underscore m. T presumably for mountain on

Instagram and this is a just a follow-up on the last episode we did on 338

38 caliber cartridges he says I just finished the episodes on 338 and enjoy it immensely. I greatly

appreciate that you recognize that Northwest Montana and North Idaho hunters

have some unique needs and the 338 caliber is a great

fit.

Years ago, an old-timer idol of mine who was a specialist in tracking elk and heavy timber, educated me on the virtues of these

and the 375 for up close and extreme angle shots on big Bulls. I hope folks who are naive on the uses of

these cartridges listen to this episode and get a chance to try them out firsthand.

Thanks for the great podcast and providing get a chance to try them out first hand.

Thanks for the great podcast and providing useful information to the hunting space.

I said thanks and so forth, we correspond a little bit and then he added a question he said I'd love to hear your thoughts on cartridges and rifles for

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