There are a lot of rifles that can be said to be ideal for Alaska. Good examples would be the co-pilot, where a company called Dumb, I think is Wild West guns out of Alaska and Las Vegas. We'll take a Marlon

lever action, turn it into a takedown short package, and it's a powerful either 4570 or what their own

proprietary cartridge that I think is called the 457 Alaskan or something like

that and it it goes into a little tiny case that's small enough to fit behind the seat of a supercub or other tiny bushplane, right?

It's always there when you need it and it's powerful enough to, let's say, persuade

a large brown bear from eating the tire of your airplane. Another ultimate Alaskan rifle could be an ultra light mountain rifle that's

ideal for sheep hunting with a lot of reach and accuracy at a very minimum in weight, right? Or a mountain goat rifle. So this

episode I wanted to tell you about a rifle that I conceived several years ago and

over the course of the time between then and now I've

with the help of a good gunsmith that we've created this rifle.

Now mine is a versatile rifle.

It doesn't fit the mold of either of those previous examples.

It's light enough to pack, but it's not a mountain rifle, and it is powerful enough to clobber big critters.

And of critical importance, it's 100% reliable, and that is a big big deal in Alaska's backcountry. So we're going to

dissect these characteristics. We're going to talk about what's light enough, what's

powerful enough, how much accuracy do you need in Alaska and how important actually is reliability?

And how do you get it? Now I'm going to tell you in detail about the rifle that I believe fits the bill perfectly

And of course always remember this is just the Alaska rifle design according to Von Benedict. I'm not the be-all end-all and these

sort of matters but I have hunted that state quite a bit and I've been a student of rifle

design, cartridge design, and projectile design for most of my life.

So I applied all of that experience and those hard-earned opinions in creating this rifle.

If you can't tell them, I'm kind of excited about it, and I look forward to telling you the details.

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