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Backcountry Hunting Podcast

Gunwerks Nexus: Most versatile rifle made in America?

Backcountry Hunting Podcast

Joseph von Benedikt

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

4.91.1K Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2022

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

By popular demand, here's a deep dive into the new Nexus rifle by Gunwerks. It's a switch-barrel design with an aluminum action, a built-in ARCA rail under the forend, a fast-moving 3-lug bolt, and a superb carbon fiber stock that really minimizes felt recoil.

Features of the Nexus are unpacked and detailed, and practical, tested, field performance to 1,400 yards is discussed. Cartridge options (initially 6.5 PRC and .300 PRC) and barrel lengths (20" and 24") are explored.

Real-world use in the field? Naturally! Audrey von Benedikt (age 14) hammered a 5.5-foot cinnamon-colored black bear boar from 301 yards, and we discuss that story, along with accuracy and reliability testing.

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0:00.0

Switch Barrel technology is coming to America.

0:05.0

Man, I had no plans to do this episode this week,

0:10.0

but by sheer popular demand, judging by the quantity of questions I've received about Gunnworks

0:18.9

new Nexus model rifle, I've shifted gears, postponed the episode that I had planned for this week, and decided to do a fairly brief but deep dive into this new rifle and I got to confess it surprised me that there's this much

0:37.4

interest in it because well it's an expensive rifle, right?

0:42.8

It's going to be the least expensive of Gunworks lineup

0:46.8

at this point, which is pretty cool,

0:50.1

but it's still a lot more money than your traditional deer or even Elkhonda wanted to spend on a hunting rifle.

0:58.5

And I can only attribute this interest in, you know, this expensive high performance versatile rifle to, well, a greater understanding

1:09.0

of hunting rifle

1:14.0

really this rifle is less than even a very base model

1:19.0

decent quality for Willer you know atv

1:22.0

right and while an ATV is a lot of fun and it can get you a lot of

1:27.6

places, it really is just another step in your hunting journey, your rifle is the deal closer. This is what

1:36.8

launches that bullet at the moment of truth. So I don't think there's any

1:41.6

single more important or critical piece of gear that a hunter can have.

1:47.7

Sure, your binocular is extremely important.

1:50.4

Your boots are excessively important because if they fell you you're done right

1:54.4

until you can get a new pair and heal your feet up but I digress your rifle is

1:59.6

important and modern hunters are interested in the pinnacle of performance and now broadening into

2:07.2

versatility. Now why have I applied the word versatile to the gun works nexus a couple times already.

2:15.0

Well, it's a switch barrel system that any end user that can handle an Allen

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