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The Hunt Backcountry Podcast

469 | Why Smaller Calibers May Be Better For Big Game Hunting (Part 1) — The Experience Project

The Hunt Backcountry Podcast

by Exo Mtn Gear

Sports, Health & Fitness, Sports:wilderness, Wilderness

4.92.9K Ratings

🗓️ 19 June 2024

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Summary

This podcast will challenge decades of "common knowledge" about what type of rifle and bullet should be used for big game hunting. In fact, if you can't have an open mind about things you "know" to be true, you probably shouldn't listen to this. We don't say that to be dramatic, but because being willing to accept information that challenges widely-held assumptions is critical to processing this information... When you listen to this conversation you will hear that killing big game animals quickly, cleanly, and consistently doesn't typically require a big caliber and a tough bullet. And why the bigger, heavy-hitting rifles are mostly counter-productive. MORE INFO: https://the-experience-project.com/small-calibers-for-big-game-hunting-part-1/ Subscribe via Email: https://exomtngear.com/newsletter Questions / Feedback for The Experience Project: experience@exomtngear.com Questions / Feedback for the podcast in general: podcast@exomtngear.com

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Hunt Back Country Podcast. This is episode number 469 and it is part of the

0:22.1

experience project.

0:24.0

Today's episode is going to be controversial.

0:28.0

It is going to take an open mind

0:31.0

and really some critical thinking and being willing to question some

0:37.1

assumptions that you probably have or certainly have heard.

0:43.0

We will get more into our guest and who he is

0:47.1

and why we're having this conversation with him

0:49.7

as part of the podcast introduction. But needless to say this idea that much of what we know or think we know or have

0:59.2

thought about rifles, cartridges, calibers, and bullets may be wrong or at least should be

1:10.1

questioned or considered. We're not doing this podcast to be contrary. be

1:15.0

controversial or to have an agenda other than to look at real data, to look at real data, to look at real performance, to judge the performance of rifles and cartridges and bullets based

1:31.4

off of higher numbers than you and I as hunters will actually ever see in our

1:36.8

personal experience.

1:39.1

And so it's going to be a very interesting conversation that I personally am going to listen back to and would

1:46.0

encourage you to even consider listening to multiple times. This is part one of the

1:52.2

conversation and we will follow up in the next episode with the rest of this conversation in part two.

1:59.0

But needless to say, there is a lot of information here over the course of two episodes and three hours and a pretty fascinating look at the performance of bullets, how animals die,

2:16.6

in certain things that hunters often believe

2:20.1

that may not be true.

2:22.4

So again, I hope you can go into this one with an open mind and just

2:26.1

look at the information presented and consider it. No one is saying that you need to change

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