There's an old saying, Beware of the One Rifle Man or the One Gun Hunter.

Meaning, of course, that that guy is likely to be very, very accomplished with his chosen hunting tool.

However, on today's scene, we have a lot of different options and man, heaven forbid, I'm ever limited to hunting with just one

rifle because I get a tremendous amount of satisfaction in researching and selecting and setting up and tuning just the right tool for the job at hand.

Now I've got a tremendous amount of really positive feedback off of the recent episodes, both the last

one on Suppressor Ownership Made Easy with Silence or Central, and the two previous to that on budget rifles suitable

for backcountry hunting and nicer kind of high-end premium production grade rifles that are really suitable kind of optimal

for backcountry hunting. However, I had several listeners point out that I

neglected certain brands and well they're right now I didn't mean to do that on

purpose but what I neglected really to do was leave a to be continued note at the end of that episode on high-end premium rifles.

So today we're going to go over four additional very good choices in that upper level premium hunting rifle,

you know, non-custom but still a very nice premium precision type hunting rifle that's ideal for

backcountry hunting use. We're going to go over rifles from Weatherby, from Nausler, from Seekins Precision, and from

Springfield Armory.

But first, here's something that all of our listeners that are into backcountry hunting knives or knives in general have been eagerly waiting for.

I've just got off the phone with Evan Simbaita.

Knife maker extraordinary in all genres.

He builds some superb bushcrafting knives and so forth.

Those of you familiar with the knife that we co-designed in a past episode that

didn't get one of those limited edition knives, kind of that co-designed, really cool backcountry hunting blade

that we named the Northern Shrike. Well, here's the second edition.

Without further ado, to discuss the differences, any changes between the first and second edition,

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