Single Shot Rifles for Backcountry Hunting
Backcountry Hunting Podcast
Joseph von Benedikt
4.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 31 July 2021
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Intro: If you appreciate the classics, shouldn't you consider a single-shot rifle?
Up-front Q&A:
- Cartridges for a mixed-game hunt in Canada
- Pants (and gall medication) for aoudad hunting
Topic: Single-Shot Rifles for Backcountry Hunting
- Pros & Cons
- Skills and Limitations
- Best models to consider
- Ruger No. 1
- T/C Encore
- Winchester Model 1885 High Wall
- Sharps Model 1874
- Dakota Model 10
- Best cartridges for single-shots and backcountry use
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| 0:00.0 | Imagine you're standing with your rifle rested on a beautiful set of three-legged standing |
| 0:09.4 | height shooting sticks and a couple hundred yards downrange way out in the backcountry there's a giant |
| 0:17.9 | Buffalo bull a bison standing broadside what rifle do you want to have in your hands? Now throughout |
| 0:28.2 | history some of the classiest hunters of all time have carried single-shot rifles and that's what we're here to talk about today is |
| 0:37.0 | Single shot rifles and their suitability for use in the backcountry |
| 0:43.0 | First though let's go to a question and answer section. |
| 0:47.0 | We're going to take a couple of questions from Instagram |
| 0:50.0 | and answer them here just randomly and candid randomly. This segment today we're going to bring you from Browning. |
| 0:57.8 | In the production rifle world Browning really is the tip of the spear. The company has focused more on backcountry suitable and |
| 1:08.1 | extended range precision hunting rifles than any other rifle company I'm aware of. |
| 1:16.1 | Check them out. Check out that ex-bolt line on Browning.com. |
| 1:21.0 | Okay, this first question on Instagram comes from a listener we'll just call Greg. |
| 1:28.0 | And Greg writes, hello Joseph, I enjoy listening to your podcast and especially enjoyed your caribou trip last fall. |
| 1:36.0 | I'm going to Northern BC in September for a 10-day hunt. The main goal is Moose, but the |
| 1:42.1 | outfitter said we can add on either a caribou or a goat with high likelihood of success on two animals. |
| 1:50.0 | My question is, which gun? I had thought about my 338 wind mag with Barnes 210 grain |
| 1:57.2 | T.S.X. Boattail bullets for Moose. But now I'm wondering if I should take a different gun for more versatility. |
| 2:05.0 | And of course now ammunition is a big consideration. |
| 2:09.0 | I've considered my bragara 308 with 180 grain Barnes TTSX or a 6.5 PRC with Hornity |
| 2:17.4 | 143 grain ELDX or a 7 mmrim mag with 140 grain barns, T.S.X. Botel Bullets. |
| 2:28.0 | I'd love your feedback and I'm looking forward to this trip as post postpond from last year. So I responded and just said, |
| 2:35.5 | hi Greg man, that sounds like a great hunt. I'd absolutely add mountain goat and if you can swing at a caribou too. |
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