Picking a Muzzleloader for Backcountry Hunting

Backcountry Hunting Podcast

Joseph von Benedikt

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

4.9 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2019

⏱️ 96 minutes

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Summary

SHOW NOTES:

• From Tradition to Technology: Picking a muzzleloader for backcountry hunting

• Exploding boundaries

• From the beginning: Traditional muzzleloaders, common inline muzzleloaders, and uncommonly accurate long-range muzzleloaders

• Traditional muzzleloaders: Why to hunt with them, and how to get the best out of them. What they shoot (blackpowder and patched round balls), caliber restrictions, barrel length, sight-in and effective range determination.

• World record flintlock elk: a first-hand account of the hunt

• Common inline muzzleloaders: Why to hunt with them, and how to get the best out of them. Hunting history. What they shoot (blackpowder substitutes and saboted or belted conical bullets), configurations, and how to work up a great load. Determining maximum lethal range. Cleaning and maintaining.

• Long-range precision muzzleloaders: a burgeoning trend. Why to hunt with them, and how they are different. What they shoot (Blackhorn 209 blackpowder substitute, Parker bullets), how to set up a rifle, pick a long-range-capable scope, and maximize effectiveness with Remington's M700 Ultimate Muzzleloader. Ethics of shooting long: wind, time of flight, terminal performance, and more. How to determine maximum effective fully-lethal range.

• First-hand account of a big New Mexico bull elk taken at 407 yards.

• Attacking the ethical question: What's right, what's conditionally right, and how to deal with hunters that do things we oppose. Recognizing and accepting personal choices, and learning from other hunters.

• An old man, an alpine buck, and a clean, one-shot 631-yard kill.

• Questions, comments, & opinions: Please share on Instagram on the @backcountryhuntingpodcast profile--but be clean and respectful.

RESOURCES:

Fine custom traditional longrifles: Tennessee Valley Manufacturing

Inline muzzleloaders by Traditions

Inline muzzleloaders by Thompson Center

Inline muzzleloaders by CVA

Long-range Remington 700 Ultimate Muzzleloader

Long-range Gunwerks Muzzleloader

Goex Blackpowder

Blackhorn 209 blackpowder substitute

Parker long-range muzzleloader bullets

Transcript

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0:00.0	Imagine you've been watching a big alpine mule deer for most of the summer, a giant buck.
0:08.0	And it's opening morning. The night before you hiked in, you spiked camped on a ridge, watched the buck feed till dark.
0:17.2	As dawn breaks, you roll out of your sleeping bag and find the buck with your binoculars. He's 631 yards away from you and you're hunting with a muzzle odor.
0:28.0	And then you see that all around him, there are other hunters converging on him and within a few minutes he's
0:39.9	potentially going to be blown out of the country.
0:43.0	Now you're a slightly older guy.
0:47.0	You're not as mobile as you once were.
0:49.0	You have a muzzleloader that's been optimized for shooting as far as possible with a muzzle loader
0:56.3	and you know that you can hit a vital sized steel plate every shot at 600 yards. But this is up in the high mountain country.
1:06.4	There are unusual winds. Your shot would be at an angle, altitude, and temperature, and so forth are all adding atmospheric challenges.
1:18.0	What do you do?
1:19.8	This is a situation that happened to a fellow that an acquaintance of mine knows very well.
1:26.0	And I want to wrap back and tell the rest of this story toward the end of this podcast.
1:31.8	I'm Joseph von Benedict, and this is the backcountry hunting podcast and today I want to talk
1:36.3	about muzzle orders for backcountry hunting this is due to a couple of
1:41.5	requests that I've had from listeners that are interested in using
1:44.8	muzzleovers in the backcountry and across a wide spectrum of types.
1:50.6	So we're going to explore this from, as I like to think of it, from tradition to technology.
1:57.0	Basically, the continued expansion of ethical killing ability.
2:02.0	So we're exploring boundaries here. I want to talk about
2:07.5	everything from Flintlocks through the generations of inlines and right up to the the super capable
2:17.6	maximum range muzzle orders on the market today and throw in a little bit of an ethical discussion in there as well, but primarily I'm going to focus on the types, basically on the hardware, and let you make the decision about what's going to fit your hunting style and
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