Browning's New 6.8 Western & .280 Ackley

Backcountry Hunting Podcast

Joseph von Benedikt

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

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🗓️ 15 January 2021

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Meet the 6.8 Western: Browning's new high-performance, high-efficiency .270 magnum.

This is the cartridge that host JvB used for a solo, drop-camp Alaska caribou hunt during September 2020.
1:7.5 rifling twist rate
Engineered for efficiency and consistency
True short-action magnum cartridge
Optimized for heavy, high-BC bullets (165- & 175-grain factory loads from Browning & Winchester)

ALSO: Browning adds the .280 Ackley Improved cartridge to the X-Bolt rifle line.

1:8 rifling twist rate
Throated for long, high-BC bullets

Gear spotlight: Browning's new "Recoil Hawg" muzzle brake.

Scouting & Navigating segment: Shed hunting & reading the winter range. Sponsored by www.browning.com

Backcountry Bounty segment: Supplementing your Western big game hunt with dove shoots. Sponsored by www.siembidacustomknives.com

Backcountry Apprentice: Field-stripping and problem-solving your rifle in the backcountry. Sponsored by www.timneytriggers.com

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0:00.0	Folks I have been champing at the bit to record the information and share with you the details and information in this episode.
0:11.0	I've had to wait because a lot of it was embargoed.
0:15.0	Welcome to the backcountry hunting podcast today folks.
0:17.6	Thanks for tuning in.
0:18.6	I'm Joseph von Benedict and I'm going to tell you about Browning's new cartridge that I used on my solo drop-camp
0:27.0	caribou hunt in Alaska last fall, as well as some other really exciting news. You all know me, the 2-80acly improved is probably my
0:37.2	all-time favorite all-purpose Western big game hunting cartridge and Browning has just announced that it's adding it
0:45.2	across a broad spectrum of the X-bolt line. Fantastic news. I had a chance to
0:50.3	interview Aaron Cummins, rifle product manager Browning over the
0:54.8	X-Bolts and got a lot of information on it and they did it right. I'll tell you
1:00.4	all about that too, but first I want to just share with you a couple of
1:04.7	follow-up messages generated by recent episodes. Let's start with one on kids and teaching them to hunt. This is really some good
1:17.3	information. Jason Closner sent me this message. He's the vice president and the product development manager at Lipsies, which is pretty cool.
1:28.0	He's also a long-time podcast listener and we've corresponded in the past. I really enjoy Jason. Anyway, here's his email that he sent me after listening to the recent episode on getting kids into hunting. He wrote, hey great episode on getting kids into hunting. I have three boys myself, ages
1:45.6	16, 12, and 8. And while it can be challenging at times, the reward of spending time in the
1:52.2	field with them can't be beat. I wanted to share a couple
1:55.5	things that have worked for me. First, I let them all know at an early age that no matter what is going
2:02.2	on, if they want to see the guns, knives,
2:05.0	binos, whatever just let me know and I will drop what I'm doing so we can check
2:09.9	them out. I always make sure to put a smile on and in an enthusiastic way open up the gun room.
2:17.0	A couple of things were accomplished. First, they knew that they didn't have to sneak around to handle anything they shouldn't,
2:24.0	because all they had to do was ask Dad, and they would get an instant positive response.
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