Sometimes you can hear somebody joking about a cartridge being so big you could shoot something in the foot and kill it.

I've got a story. I dated a young lady long ago, past century, in fact, I was a young man, well really a late teenager,

but this young lady was a pretty serious hunter and that alone made her kind of

interesting. Her dad gave her a 243 with which to hunt elk and you probably

think you know where this is going but you don't. She took a shot at a young bull across a canyon as I

recall the story and it's been a long time it was somewhere around 400 yards

well she shot poorly if I may say so and hit that bull in the hoof

shattered his foot he dropped fell off the side of the mountain, broke his neck, and she had her bull.

So even a 243 can sometimes kill an animal by a shooting it in the foot.

Our primary topic today is exploring the differences between how traditional leadcore bullets

and modern monomettle bullets kill.

And pro tip here, it's not typically by shooting them in the foot. I'm Joseph

Van Benedict and this is the backcountry hunting podcast.

Before we dig into that topic, let's go to our upfront section

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Now this question was submitted by a listener we'll call Jed via

Patreon.com slash backcountry and Jed wrote hey Joseph couple of questions

for you.

First of all, I really enjoy your podcast.

Thank you for all the great expert guests and technical topics you discuss about firearms,

bullets, triggers, etc. Well, thank you, Jed. Thanks for listening.

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