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Backcountry Hunting Podcast

Handloading Hunting Ammo

Backcountry Hunting Podcast

Joseph von Benedikt

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

4.91.1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 October 2019

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

SHOW NOTES

Why reload:

  • Pick your bullet
  • Tune your accuracy
  • Create premium ammo for budget-ammo cost

Getting started:

  • Instruction sections in reloading manuals
  • ABC's of assembling a cartridge
  • The Three "B's" of accuracy
  • Choosing cartridge cases
  • Prepping cases for accuracy
  • Choosing a gunpowder
  • Working up a propellant charge
  • Choosing a projectile (toughness, aerodynamics, accuracy)
  • Tuning seating depth for accuracy

Reasonable accuracy expectations

  • Rifle quality
  • Shooter skill
  • Handload quality

Testing handloads for reliable chambering prior to hunting

Wrap: A question for listeners... check it out, and let me know!

Lapua cartridge cases

Nosler brass

Federal Gold Medal Match primers

Alliant gunpowders

Hodgdon gunpowders

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey folks, thanks for tuning in today. I'm Joseph on Benedict and this is the

0:05.2

backcountry hunting podcast and today we're going to address a topic that's been

0:10.1

requested several times over the past few months and that is

0:14.3

reloading ammunition for backcountry hunting. First though I want to read a couple of

0:20.7

listeners comments. Let's start with one that was posted, man I'm just

0:25.3

tickled about this, on iTunes in the review section. This was by must-listen podcast for by a chap that signed this review,

0:36.0

Heath in Idaho.

0:38.0

And the title was a must listen podcast for everyone. He writes, I just stumbled on this

0:44.9

podcast and gave it a try starting with the episode on gear. So many podcasts do

0:50.9

episodes on gear and they all say the same things, but this podcast dropped several

0:55.7

extremely useful pieces of info. After liking that episode I went back and listened to more, each episode leaving me more and more

1:04.6

impressed. The episode on elk cartridges should be a requirement for every elk

1:10.3

hunter. I'm now halfway through listening to every episode and can't rave

1:14.8

about this product enough. Fantastic job of being what a podcast should be.

1:20.8

Man, thanks a ton. That means a whole lot to me to hear that from you. I

1:27.7

appreciate you taking the time to get on iTunes and leave that review. That helps

1:32.3

me out. Let's go to another listener who did

1:35.7

post a question on the Backcountry Hunting Podcast Instagram page. His username is Bridge Ninja. I like it. And he writes,

1:47.0

I Joseph, I appreciate the podcast and voluminous information you convey in a concise manner. Thank you. I just

1:57.4

listened to ideal out cartridges. I was a little thrown off by it. I thought in previous podcast you had highly recommended

2:05.5

Hornity ELDX bullets. Now I'm going to step out of his comments for just a second here and comment on that. Yes, absolutely I do. I was fortunate enough

2:17.1

to be in on the early testing stages of that

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