.25 Weatherby RPM and .25 Creedmoor Exposed, with Colton Heward
Backcountry Hunting Podcast
Joseph von Benedikt
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🗓️ 20 February 2026
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Trying to decide between Hornady's new .25 Creedmoor and Weatherby's new .25 RPM cartridge? Or are you unconvinced that they are any better than your reliable old .25-06 or .257 Weatherby Magnum? We're here to help! Or rather, we've got professional help... We're joined this episode by Colton Heward; professional big game guide and Managing Editor of Peterson's Hunting. He's a quarter-bore savant from way back, and has already hunted New Zealand and Old Mexico with these new .25-caliber hot-rods.
We talk through the various characteristics and strengths of each, and Colton supports his opinions with awesome stories about hunting Himalyan Tahr in giant mountains, Red Stags in hell-holes, and Coues Deer in vast deserts... ENJOY!
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| 0:00.0 | Folks, I think it's the year of the quarter bore. This is something that I think a lot of people are saying, and I've just brought a man on board here. You all know, Colton Stewart. He's hunted with the 25 Creedmoor and the 25 RPM. And I don't know anybody else yet that's done that with both. So we're going to get his perspective on those |
| 0:22.9 | two new cartridges. We've talked more about the 25 Creedmoor in the past than the 25 RPM, |
| 0:28.5 | so we might focus a little more on that one. But man, Colton, it's good to have you back on the show. |
| 0:32.5 | Yeah, always happy to be here. |
| 0:34.2 | In case you're wondering about this awesome background, this is not my place. This is Colton's office. Big Mountain Grizzly you took in Alaska a few years back. Right. Yep. And if I'm not mistaken, he went Boone and Crocket Bear. He was a Boone and Crocket Bear. Yep. I don't remember 25 and change on his school. |
| 0:54.7 | He's a big bear. |
| 0:55.8 | Big bear for an interior gris. |
| 0:57.5 | That's really good bear. |
| 0:59.0 | And just because we have so many gearheads on the show, what did you shoot him with? |
| 1:03.0 | 338 Ultramag. |
| 1:04.8 | Out of boy. |
| 1:05.6 | Yeah. |
| 1:06.4 | That's a good cartridge. |
| 1:07.5 | It is. |
| 1:08.1 | It is. |
| 1:10.1 | Oh, we got... Gris. We've. It is. Oh, we got... |
| 1:11.2 | Gris. |
| 1:12.0 | Speaking of Gris. |
| 1:14.7 | Got your dog visiting. |
| 1:16.1 | Yep. |
| 1:16.9 | And this mountain line, that was taken with a bow, and wasn't that a record book, Cat as well? |
| 1:21.8 | It was. |
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