Predator Cartridges & Bullets
Backcountry Hunting Podcast
Joseph von Benedikt
4.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 31 December 2021
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
SHOW NOTES
Main Topic: Predator Cartridges & Bullets
"Up Front" Q&A section:
- Undergunned for Aoudad
- "Recoil" is Right
Characteristics of a great coyote cartridge:
- Fast & Flat
- Accurate
- Tiny grenade-like terminal performance
- If fur collecting, minimal bullet hole damage
- If competition calling, coyote-walloping authority
Spectrum of suitable cartridges:
- What is too big? (deer cartridges?)
- What is too small? (.22 LR for coyotes?)
- Ideal rounds from .17 Rem. and .204 Ruger to .243 Win. and 6mm Creedmoor
- Top pick for a fur-collecting cartridge
- Favorite predator-thumping cartridge
- .22 Creedmoor: Unique, with potential
- Most practical all-around predator cartridge
- Favorite predator cartridge
Best bullets for predators:
- Polymer-tipped, boat-tailed designs
- Nosler's Ballistic Tip: Most proven
- Sierra Tipped MatchKing: Great for reaching out
- FMJs & controlled-expansion bullets need not apply.
Winter clothing vs. heated blinds
Bipods, tripods, & shooting sticks
Ranging & shooting
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| 0:00.0 | I'm not a great predator hunter, but man if you're like me it's real hard to resist an opportunity to coyote or fox or what not while you're out hunting deer or elk in the like. Many times I have been, you know, real focused on |
| 0:16.6 | glassing a good area and had a coyote drop by and, oh gosh, it's so hard to resist a good opportunity and usually I end up |
| 0:26.6 | taking it sometimes if I'm after a really good animal or the you know the |
| 0:32.4 | morning or evening just feels perfect and I really think |
| 0:36.0 | good things are going to happen with deer or else I'll hold off but it's hard. |
| 0:41.9 | So wintertime it's hard. So wintertime. It's an ideal time of the year to go predator hunting and I don't just mean |
| 0:50.4 | Front country stuff where you sit along fence roads and drive gravel roads and |
| 0:55.6 | glass for couch or whatnot but you can actually get out of your truck do a bunch of |
| 1:01.0 | hiking have a lot of exercise and do a bunch of hiking, have a lot of exercise, and do a lot of walking predator hunting |
| 1:07.4 | and get a lot of good off-season hunt tuning by doing so. Now this episode was inspired by a question from a |
| 1:20.1 | listener and he wrote in and just asked about Varment Rifles and Cartridges. |
| 1:25.6 | He said, well I'll just read his message. He says, hey Jels if I'm a big fan of the |
| 1:29.8 | podcast, really appreciate the episode on DIY customizing Tika Rifles and I've been |
| 1:37.3 | playing around with that for a bit I just put together a 240 weather bee for trying to call wolves as well as a |
| 1:45.0 | 220 swift actly improved with a fast twist for the heavy pills for longer-range |
| 1:50.9 | coyotes this winter. I will say that I know they aren't the best |
| 1:55.1 | choice when looking at efficient case design, but I like to be different. And those |
| 1:59.8 | have always peaked my interest and I've always had a soft spot for the 220. Just |
| 2:05.1 | curious if you'd be interested in doing a podcast on the pros and cons of the |
| 2:09.3 | various Varment cartridges from 17 Hornet up to the 22 Creedmoor with |
| 2:14.7 | coyote season upon us. I know it's almost backwards to the philosophy you have |
| 2:20.3 | on having lots of authority but when you consider a lot of people are trying to save |
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