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Vortex Nation Podcast

Ep. 268 | The Best Cartridge for Whitetails?

Vortex Nation Podcast

Vortex Nation Podcast

Optics, Sports, Vortex Nation Podcast, Long Range, Rifle, Scope, Gun, Vortex, Binoculars, Riflescope, Shooting, Vortex Nation, Hunting, Wilderness, Vortex Optics

4.91.5K Ratings

🗓️ 9 January 2023

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Perhaps no other topic kicks the cartridge hornets nest harder than crowning the best cartridge for whitetails. The title of this podcast alone has enough click bait to draw hunters like deer to a January corn pile. Tune in as the Vortex Nation Podcast’s usual suspects tackle this impossible question. What’s your go-to cartridge for America’s most popular big game animal?

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Vorotex Nation podcast brought to you by lovers of hunting, shooting, public

0:09.0

lands, the Second Amendment, and good food.

0:18.0

Alright, what is up everybody?

0:20.0

We are gathered here today, and by we, myself and Mr. Ryan Muckin-Hern, who sits across

0:26.2

me, to answer a question, to make a decision, and if you make a choice, Ryan, if you

0:35.6

know anything about me in 200-some odd episodes of the podcast here, incisive, hate-making

0:43.0

decisions, and also have a million caveats to each decision that I possibly make and

0:50.0

then flip-flop at the end of it anyway.

0:53.2

The question at hand, what is the best white-tail cartridge?

0:59.9

The best white-tail cartridge.

1:01.1

So Ryan, we got to look at this in a silo of white-tail hunting, I would say, in its

1:08.7

across the spectrum of white-tail hunting, which it varies, you know, from region to region,

1:14.6

but I'd say also primarily thinking of, I guess, you know, from a distance perspective,

1:22.3

the common distances in which you will encounter or have to take a shot at a white-tail.

1:30.0

Now, I'm already thinking of exceptions to the rule.

1:33.1

There are things like cows deer?

1:35.3

Yes.

1:36.3

There are western white-tails, the decoders, things like this, mm-hmm.

1:42.3

Where, you know, at first glance, you're like, no, I don't need them, you know, a quotation

1:46.0

mark, long-range cartridge, right?

1:49.2

But maybe you do?

1:50.2

It's possible.

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