Well, there's favorite deer cartridges and there's best deer cartridges and sometimes I think the two of them are even the same.

Folks, today we're going to just talk about great deer cartridges and I want to talk about them in two ways.

White-tailed deer cartridges and mule deer cartridges and then maybe kind of a subcategory's all deer, whether it's a cooos

deer or a sick of black tail, great big northern white town Saskatchewan or a cross-canion

mule deer type scenario in Idaho or Montana or Wyoming.

And we'll have a little bit of fun with this.

I'm on the road right now with Colton Heward and Scott Ergus, the digital editor for

Peterson's Hunting Magazine.

Colton, as most you guys know, has been often on the podcast for a lot of years now.

And as the managing editor for Peterson's hunting magazine

thanks for being willing to break up the monotony of a long drive and talk about cartridges

Colton yeah you bet you pick the most boring part of the drive so good time yeah well I do

I try give us a little something to do and scott's in the back

seat we don't have a microphone for him but he is a fellow 280 actually fan and if he clearly has

something to say it can't contain himself any longer he has instructions to hit me on the back of

the head with his hat and i'm going to hand the microphone back. So, uh, welcome this y'all's got. He waves. So, you know,

one of the old sayings is, of course, the best deer cartridge you could have is the one in

your hands when you see a big deer, right? They say the same thing about coyotes or whatnot as well, but let's take this from a more

technical approach, Colton, and just say if you were shopping for a deer rifle today,

and let's start with mule deer, because that's your thing.

You are a mule deer man to the core.

What would you look for on a

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