Holy moly, there are a lot of irate folks in this world, my friends.

Thankfully, most of them aren't irate at me.

I'll tell you what, I have never seen such a blow up in my inbox.

As I experienced after publishing our most recent episode why small calibers are not good for big game.

I couldn't believe how many listeners and viewers rode in and said,

thank you for stepping up and addressing this, which is kind of weird. I mean, usually people are,

you know, only too anxious to debate and argue caliber selection, bullet choice, what

cartridges pushes those, push those bullets the best, and so forth. It's one of the time-honored favorite pursuits of sportsmen, right?

Well, there's something about this discussion and the way that it was presented by the guest on

that podcast that's owned and hosted by the chaps over there at Exo Mountain Gear.

Again, they build my favorite backpacks.

One of the two favorite backpacks I regularly use in the backcountry.

Great guys.

I know them both.

In fact, Mark there at XL reached out, and we're planning tentatively to record an episode

together in the future.

I do really like their backpack making operation and their products, and I look forward to

swapping viewpoints with them.

However, before you ask, I have absolutely no interest in interviewing the guest that they

had on their podcast, nicknamed form, that's

promoting this practice of shooting big game with small cartridges, and I'll share why later.

For starters, though, I want to just mention that, you know, this topic and attempting to respond fully to all the claims

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