Killing Grizzly Bear with the 6.5 Creedmoor
Backcountry Hunting Podcast
Joseph von Benedikt
4.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 30 June 2023
⏱️ 89 minutes
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Summary
Is America's trendiest, most controversial cartridge adequate for hunting America's most dangerous game? Most would say no. Tyler Freel, an Alaskan wild man who's taken many grizzlies with recurve bows, blackpowder rifles, and even stone arrowheads, recently killed a big griz with a 6.5 Creedmoor.
This episode details his story.
Freel, an accomplished backcountry hunter and Outdoor Life field editor, tells why he shot the bear with a 6.5 Creedmoor, goes into the specific rifle, ammo, and shot conditions, and shares his views on why it worked. He also outlines grizzly hunting situations in which he'd NOT want to be equipped with a 6.5 Creedmoor.
This is a practical look at what can be done with the cartridge, free of any hype, paranoia, or verbal lather. To Freel, the 6.5 Creedmoor is just a cartridge that pushes a 140-grain bullet at 2,700 fps, not the "6.5 Needmoor," not the "6.5 Wasting Disease," and not history's greatest gift to hunters.
In fact, Freel has the audacity to compare the 6.5 Creedmoor to the legendary .30-06. This was a fun one, folks. ENJOY!
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| 0:00.0 | Grizzly bears are almost without question the most dangerous wild animal on the North American |
| 0:07.6 | continent. |
| 0:09.3 | Most folks choose to carry a big hammer when they hunt them. |
| 0:13.3 | My friend Tyler Freel out of Alaska, |
| 0:16.1 | outdoor rider, podcaster, and in many ways an inspiration to me |
| 0:21.0 | recently shot a big grizzly bear with a 6.5 |
| 0:24.8 | Creedmoor and this isn't necessarily out of character for Tyler he shot bears |
| 0:30.2 | with traditional bows for years he shot one with a patched round ball out of a 50 caliber muzzle loader and he's even shot a grizzly with a stone arrowhead and I really hope to get those stories from him here. I'm delighted to welcome my good |
| 0:45.4 | pal Tyler Frill back to the show. Thanks for joining me. No, thanks for having me. It's been a little while |
| 0:51.1 | since we chatted and caught up. |
| 0:54.0 | Yeah for sure and man you've had a just a banner spring of bear hunting so far and |
| 0:59.6 | I really look forward to hearing those stories from you and I'm sure our listeners will love them as well. |
| 1:06.0 | We can kind of dive right in here in just a minute, but I want to just throw this out there. |
| 1:12.0 | Long-time listeners know me, right right I'm a little bit of a Robert Roark mentality |
| 1:16.4 | Use enough again. I like big cartridges and I don't necessarily believe they're always necessary. I just like them |
| 1:24.9 | But for the purposes of this discussion man, Tyler has shot at least 10 times as many bears as I have and a lot of |
| 1:30.8 | the big bears. I've never shot anything but black bears, right? So we're just going to listen to you, |
| 1:35.8 | Tyler, and learn from you and be entertained, I'm sure, because I know you had some tongue in cheek intentions with this whole |
| 1:44.3 | experience so go for it my friend why don't you start us off with talking us |
| 1:49.9 | through well first introduce yourself to our listeners tell us what you're doing now full time for outdoor life, |
| 1:55.5 | a little bit about your podcast, the Tunder Talk podcast, and then what motivated you to choose a 6.5 grade more to hunt with this year? |
| 2:05.5 | Yeah, well I'm like you mentioned I'm Tyler Freel and I'm a |
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