Top 3 In 5 Classic Elk Cartridges

Backcountry Hunting Podcast

Joseph von Benedikt

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

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🗓️ 11 October 2023

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

This is the third of a new podcast element: fast-paced, fact-filled five-minute episodes showcasing three top backcountry hunting tools, tricks or techniques. We're calling them the "Top 3 In 5" bonus episodes.

Spotlighted here are three of our all-time favorite classic elk cartridges. They all provide adequate bullet weight, muzzle velocity, and frontal diameter and are proven, authoritative killers on even big-bodied, mature bulls.

We're filming these brief episodes and posting them on Patreon, so if you'd like to put eyes on the products and methods showcased, please sign up at www.patreon.com/backcountry for a membership!

Also soon to come: Boots, packs, knives, elk cartridges, elk calls, multitools, tents, bear guns, movies, and more! These "Top 3 In 5" minute episodes will drop as frequently as we have time during this busy hunting season, and by Christmas will be a weekly Tuesday-morning addition to the podcast's regular schedule.

ENJOY!

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0:00.0	If you're a classic rifle and cartridge guy, what would you pick to hung up with for the rest of your life?
0:08.0	Welcome to the Backcountry Hunting Podcasts Top 3 in 5.
0:12.0	Our rapid-fire 5 minute episode today is on three of my favorite
0:16.0	classic elkunning cartridges. All three are authoritative cartridges with a proven history
0:22.0	on elk. In fact, all Western big game, all have
0:25.2	adequate reach. There's some variation, but all three will kill an elk out to 400 yards, and
0:30.8	sometimes a bit more. Assuming, of course, good bullet choice. All three
0:35.3	cartridges possess adequate bullet weight, frontal diameter, and muzzle
0:39.8	velocity, and all are available loaded with quite aerodynamic projectiles.
0:45.0	So now that we've established our criteria, let's take a look,
0:49.0	starting with one of my personal all-time favorite Western hunting cartridges, the 280 Ackley improved.
0:55.0	Now this cartridge was developed in the late 1950s by cartridge design legend PO Ackley,
1:02.0	and after 50 years of success, it was legitimized in 2008 by Nausler.
1:08.0	Typically shoots 139 to 180 grain bullets and it will shoot a
1:14.1	175 grain bullet you know that heavy for caliber
1:17.8	range that's so good for elk
1:20.2	at about 2,800 feet per second when hand-loaded correctly.
1:24.0	Musil energy with that load is about 3,050 foot pounds.
1:29.0	It shoots like a magnum, but it holds four or five cartridges down in your magazine, rather than just three on a typical magnum because they have fatter cases, right?
1:40.0	At any given time, about 12 to 15 different factory loads are available on the market,
1:46.2	and of course this cartridge is optimal for hand loading.
1:49.4	Generates about 25 foot pounds of recoil energy in an 8 pound rifle.
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