Shooting Big Game with .22 ARC and .22 Creedmoor
Backcountry Hunting Podcast
Joseph von Benedikt
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🗓️ 25 October 2024
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Are hotrod .22 centerfire cartridges adequate for hunting big game? In this episode Seth Swerczek from Hornady joins us to discuss the small-caliber for big-game trend. Recently returned from a safari in the Eastern Cape of South Africa, Seth details what worked—and what didn't—while using the .22 ARC and .22 Creedmoor on African game ranging from warthogs to kudu. The results may surprise you.
We also take a deep dive into the usefulness of hotrod .22 centerfires for use on North American big game, and discuss what and where practical limitations lie.
Seth talks through the bullets most useful for hunting with such cartridges, and details the differences between the .22 Creedmoor and the .22 ARC to help hunters make an informed choice.
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| 0:00.0 | Imagine you are in Africa with the Kudu or Gemsbach or gosh, Apollo, whatever of your dreams on a hillside in front of you, |
| 0:10.6 | three or four hundred yards away and in your hands is a 22 caliber center |
| 0:15.3 | fire what do you do do you head back to headquarters for a bigger gun do you take that |
| 0:20.8 | shot when the angle is just right? What do you do? I've got a man on the horn today. This is Seth Swersick of Hornity, good friend of mine, and one of our most popular guests here on the podcast and of course he hosts the Hornity |
| 0:35.2 | podcast so he's a man of astute capability with words. |
| 0:40.9 | Seth, thanks for coming back on the show today with me and being willing to discuss this kind of touchy subject of hunting big game with hot rod 22 center fires. |
| 0:51.0 | Yes, thanks Joseph for having me back. |
| 0:53.3 | I enjoy coming on your show and I appreciate the kind words and happy to broach this subject. |
| 1:00.0 | You know, it's something I feel like there's a lot of dogma and a lot of myth that kind of |
| 1:05.6 | surrounds hunting with 22 caliber center fires and luckily for us we live in the |
| 1:12.1 | era that we live in now that might be unlucky for some other |
| 1:14.8 | reasons, but specific to this purpose, we live in an awesome time for projectile capability. |
| 1:22.1 | We have a better role than we've ever had. |
| 1:24.3 | And as we get into the discussion about using |
| 1:27.2 | 22 caliber center fires on big game, |
| 1:30.3 | I think what we're really gonna come back to |
| 1:32.0 | is that the performance of the projectile, |
| 1:34.0 | not the cartridge, is really doing the work here. |
| 1:37.0 | And I had high expectations of some of these cartridges, |
| 1:41.0 | and then using them now on several hunts. |
| 1:45.0 | I, my expectations have been exceeded. |
| 1:47.6 | I've been really, really impressed and happy to share my results in my experience |
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