0:00.0	Imagine you're on day nine of a 10-day backcountry elkunt.
0:06.0	It's late afternoon and you've just left camp and you're hiking up a ridge top to glass a big basin for elk.
0:15.0	Unexpectedly, across a canyon in a small pocket metal,
0:19.8	a massive bull appears.
0:22.4	You've got a good clean shot opportunity, but it's long.
0:26.0	Four hundred and sixty yards and you're packing a 308. Do you take the shot? Now recently I've had a lot of questions about the
0:38.8	308 suitability for backcountry hunting. This is coming from listeners and I think it's for two
0:44.4	reasons. One is that I just don't address it much and listeners ask why. I'll have guys
0:51.2	from Europe and Australia and across the US that contact me and say,
0:57.0	hey man I've had really good luck with my 308 and they describe the type of
1:02.3	hunting that they do and it's typically fairly close stuff.
1:07.6	And they ask then, usually, why, you know, I don't address it much and whether or not there are some how shall I put it
1:16.0	inherent issues with the cartridge is a backcountry choice right the other reason
1:22.3	probably really that I don't address it much is because candidly I don't consider it optimal and I'm going to talk about why we're going to do a brief comparison to the 30 a6 and dive deep into the world of ballistics and terminal performance bullet choices and so forth for the 308 and then wrap up with how to get the best out of one
1:45.5	if that's what you have and what you want to use.
1:50.1	So welcome to the show today.
1:51.6	I'm Joseph von Benedict and this is the backcountry hunting podcast.
1:56.3	Okay, why do I not consider it the 308 optimal for hunting in the backcountry? The short answer is that it's not really
2:08.2	adequate for long shots. Some of you may be shrugging that off and saying, well, I never take long shots. Now some of you may be shrugging that off and saying, well, I never take long shots,
2:15.2	don't want to take long shots anyway. Fair enough. That's a valid answer.
2:20.5	But I always consider this, the backcountry often offers long opportunities.
2:30.0	In really deep, wild country, opportunities are pretty rare.
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