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Backcountry Hunting Podcast

Hunting Forest Ghosts Across Transylvania, Spain, Macedonia, & Serbia

Backcountry Hunting Podcast

Joseph von Benedikt

Sports, Wilderness

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2026

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

This episode follows host Joseph von Benedikt on a wild roebuck hunt across ancient terraces in Spain, to remote mountains in Transylvania, to deep forests of Serbia, and into the spectacular alpine mountains of Macedonia. We talk cartridges (we used seven different rifles chambered in seven different cartridges) and bullets (used Berger VLD Hunting, Sierra Tipped GameKing, Federal Fusion, Sellior & Bellot, and Hornady SSTs and unpack other aspects ranging from travel, to safety, to wildlife management abroad. 

Some very interesting trends emerged, particularly with the .308. This was an incredible experience and super fun to record and re-live... ENJOY! 

 

 

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Europe is different, folks.

0:02.0

There are so many differences about hunting Europe that, you know, it's both intimidating and enthralling.

0:09.7

I've got a good friend here, Landon Michaels, who is a podcast host himself in a past life and a good friend, very accomplished backcountry hunter, and now our logistics manager at our

0:23.3

global hunting adventures recommended outfitter agency. Landon and I are going to talk about

0:28.7

Europe. The cartridges I used, what worked and some weird stuff I saw, and what you'll tend to see

0:36.0

as far as loner rifles, which is kind of a big deal over there.

0:39.9

So Landon, man, thank you for coming on helping me with this.

0:42.3

Thanks for having me.

0:43.4

Always happy to be here.

0:44.8

And I'm excited to learn as much as help others learn, I think, here.

0:50.7

Yeah, awesome.

0:52.0

And what we're going to do, just because landon has that background as a podcast host

0:57.0

himself for those unfamiliar he uh headed up the long range pursuit podcast for a lot of years

1:03.3

i'm going to just take off my hat metaphorically and hand it over to landin because he's interested

1:09.0

in learning about europe, has never hunted

1:11.0

Europe and is going to ask me questions, and we'll try and fill in some of those gaps that

1:17.0

maybe some of you have in your knowledge base and satisfy the curiosity, if you will.

1:25.0

The first thing I want to throw out there just as a little teaser to make y'all wait and listen through to the end,

1:30.8

I saw some weird stuff using the 308 cartridge, and I used it on fully half the game I shot.

1:37.9

So with that, Landon, it's all you, buddy.

1:41.4

Yeah, I got to live a little bit vicariously through it while you were on that trip,

1:46.3

seeing some photos sent over every once in a while.

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