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Backcountry Hunting Podcast

Best Bonded Bullets in the World

Backcountry Hunting Podcast

Joseph von Benedikt

Backcountry, Rifle, Deer, Podcast, Elk, Mountain, Sports, Hunt, Wilderness, Cartridge, Hunting

4.91.1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2025

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

If you had to pick just one type of lead-core bullet to hunt with for the rest of your days, for all big game species around the world, what would it be? Folks, in this episode we talk through what we consider the best bonded-core bullets made. Whether you're after big alpine-country mule deer, grizzly bear in Alaska, or kudu or cape buffalo in Africa, this line of bullets will serve you reliably, accurately, and with absolutely lethal terminal performance. 

What's the bullet? You'll have to listen to find out! ENJOY! 

 

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Imagine its last light in one of Idaho's top units for mule deer, and you've got your crosshairs on a great buck.

0:09.5

He's standing on the far side of a high sage-filled basin in the mountains.

0:14.3

He's wide and deep forked and has good mass and a couple of cheaters.

0:19.6

Your rifles rested on a Spartan bipod up front, and you've

0:22.9

got your vinyl carrier wedged beneath your bus dock. It's a long shot. But you're rock steady,

0:29.4

and you know that your 6.5 weatherby RPM rifle is capable because you've center-punched steel

0:36.0

targets out further than this,

0:38.5

using the same 130-grain swift saracco two bullets that are in your rifle now.

0:44.6

Imagine this, too.

0:46.4

You've just turned 10 years old, and this is your first ever big game hunt.

0:51.9

You got really lucky and drew a very special tag your dad put you in for,

0:56.4

and all the excitement and planning and practice and hard work have led to this. Your crosshairs

1:02.6

are on the kind of buck that most kids just dream about. It's time. Your father whispers,

1:10.0

whenever you're ready, pal.

1:12.2

You slowly squeeze the trigger.

1:14.2

As the rifle comes out of recoil, your dad whispers, solid hit.

1:18.8

The buck runs about 40 yards, staggers, and goes down.

1:23.9

Now, folks, this story really happened.

1:25.9

My son, Henry, was the lucky hunter.

1:28.1

And although he's my youngest, he's now already taken the biggest buck out of all my kids.

1:33.6

And he did it using a Swift bullet back before Swift sponsored our program.

1:39.5

So, friends, as you may have guessed, our topic today is Swift Bullets.

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