Ep. 396 | The Quarter-Bore Revival

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🗓️ 9 June 2025

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

Quarter-bores like the 25-06 have spent their lives in the shadows of more popular cartridges. Cult followings of folks in the know have kept them alive — barely. Was not reaching their full potential the reason they never got to sit at the cool kid’s table? Could spinning higher weight, higher BC bullets faster breathe new life into old classics — and birth new cartridges like the 25 Creedmoor? Are 25’s the new sweet spot? Will they finally go to prom? Matt Pederson from Pederson Precision stops by to put a twist on several cartridges that might just be getting their due.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Vortex Nation podcast, brought to you by lovers of hunting, shooting, public lands, the Second Amendment, and good food.
0:17.8	What is up, everybody? Mark on the mic, Mr. Ryan Muckin-Hern across from me and also across for me today.
0:23.4	Repeat guest. Matt, you're becoming a regular around here. We have Mr. Matt Peterson from Peterson,
0:29.0	precision, local gun builder, and apparently local celebrity because...
0:33.6	No, no. Oh, no.
0:35.6	No, no.
0:36.8	Here's the deal. You were in the door for all of 11 seconds?
0:40.5	Oh, yeah.
0:41.5	14, perhaps.
0:42.8	I was having to fight all the other employees that you're building guns for and doing projects and, you know, hash and stuff out and talking things through.
0:51.2	I'm like, I hope we can get to podcasts.
0:53.5	I saw at least one smattering of parts dropped in your lap.
1:01.2	He's like, do you want these now or do you want me to hold?
1:03.2	I'm like, end of the day.
1:05.4	So I told you about the milk route.
1:07.8	Like maybe you just get like one of those fancy little cube trucks, and then it's just
1:12.0	like, we have a drop box, and we put a note, and then you return a rifle and complete.
1:16.0	I think it's a great idea.
1:17.8	Yeah.
1:18.1	Also a great idea to tell the listeners what we're going to talk about today, and it is
1:23.7	the quarter bore revival, and I'm just going to be up front. This podcast comes with a little
1:30.9	twist. God, I like it. I saw it coming. Isn't it awesome? I do this. I do this with like four
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