USE ENOUGH GUN, with Kiwi Terminal Ballistics Specialist Nathan Foster
Backcountry Hunting Podcast
Joseph von Benedikt
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🗓️ 28 February 2025
⏱️ 89 minutes
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Summary
What does "Use Enough Gun" mean? Especially when hunting elk, moose, and bison or tough game such as Tahr or feral cattle in New Zealand and Sambar Stag in Australia?
A phrase originally quoined by legendary author and hunter Robert Ruark, "Use Enough Gun" means what it says. This episode, we're joined by terminal ballistics specialist Nathan Foster, who has dedicated his life to the study of how bullets kill and what cartridges and bullets are most effective for various tasks. We examine the "small-bore for big-game" trend, and Foster explains where it began and why it's so misleading, and addresses the grim reality behind using inadequate caliber and bullet weight.
Foster's company Terminal Ballistics Research specializes in hunting applications and the cartridges and bullets best suited, but has often been tasked with performing the forensics and analysis that lead to informed decisions by special military and law enforcement branches in multiple nations. You might say he knows his stuff, and has the decades worth of research and data readily available to back up the wisdom he imparts.
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| 0:00.0 | The 306 is a good example. |
| 0:01.6 | I just couldn't think of a more versatile catch, which is so much you can do with it. |
| 0:06.2 | There's so much you can do with it. |
| 0:11.0 | Every now and then, a trend starts, and sometimes it drives the future. |
| 0:18.8 | Other times it flames out because it was or is proven over time to be |
| 0:25.3 | ineffective or inaccurate or in some cases, downright, uncapable, if I can use that term here. |
| 0:35.5 | And folks, you probably have an idea of what I'm getting at here. |
| 0:39.3 | And that's this trend that we've covered in a couple of past episodes on using small caliber |
| 0:45.0 | cartridges, specifically loaded with target type bullets for use on big game. |
| 0:51.3 | Well, we're talking bigger than deer here, right? |
| 0:53.6 | So, folks, I have got a gentleman on the |
| 0:57.7 | line here from New Zealand. This is Nathan Foster, and he's got a lot more scientific and physics-based |
| 1:08.0 | information. Intel, if I can use that term, to share with us that I think |
| 1:14.1 | will shed some significant light on this trend. Nathan, thank you for taking time out of your |
| 1:20.4 | day to join us here on the show. |
| 1:22.7 | You're most welcome, Joseph. |
| 1:24.4 | I'm glad and I hope I can be of assistance to you. |
| 1:28.0 | Yeah, well, we're all just trying to learn in this together and progress. |
| 1:33.3 | And I think from what I've heard from the people that have told me about you, you've done some pretty exhaustive research. |
| 1:41.1 | And you have a company, if I'm not not mistaken that studies forensics and ballistics and |
| 1:45.7 | terminal performance if you wouldn't mind take just a few minutes and tell our listeners a little bit |
| 1:51.4 | about yourself and your background yeah well uh this started way back when i was very young uh always |
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