The Ultimate Elk Rifle
Backcountry Hunting Podcast
Joseph von Benedikt
4.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 9 April 2021
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
SHOW NOTES
Listener's request: Dream Big, and Create The Ultimate Elk Rifle
Pre-show: Another listener's favorite book list: Recommended reading for all backcountry hunters.
Picking apart the characteristics of an ultimate elk rifle
- Authoritative
- Accurate
- Reliable
- Corrosion resistant metal
- Tough, rigid, stable stock
- A scope good for close up to far shots
- Ideal scope mounts
- Fine-tuning details
Specific hardware to build with:
- Action
- Bottom metal
- Trigger
- Barrel
- Stock
- Scope
- Scope mounts
- Bipod
Cartridge considerations:
- Caliber
- Bullet types
- Smooth-feeding attributes
Tuning and practicing
- Barrel break-in
- Load selection and testing
- Zero distance
- Custom turrets
- Trajectory validation
- Serious practice
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| 0:00.0 | When it comes to choosing the ultimate Elkhunning rifle, man there are so many different |
| 0:08.0 | directions you can take and I'm the last guy to say that my idea of the ultimate elk rifle is the best. |
| 0:18.0 | Right? There are a lot of different concepts and most of them worked pretty well. |
| 0:22.0 | However, I had a couple of listeners questions |
| 0:25.9 | recently that kind of prompted me to address this topic and share with you what I would conceive of as the ultimate elk rifle. |
| 0:37.0 | Welcome to the show today folks. I'm Joseph von Benedict and this is the backcountry hunting podcast. |
| 0:42.8 | And today we're going to start by going through one of these |
| 0:46.6 | listeners questions and addressing his pretty specific equipment related inquiries, right? |
| 0:55.0 | And then I will go into what I conceive of. |
| 0:59.0 | That's perfect for Elk. |
| 1:00.0 | But first, I want to share with you a message from a different listener on a different |
| 1:06.4 | topic that was kind of cool. This throws back to episode 67. This is from Mark and he writes, |
| 1:14.4 | I just listen to your podcast on books to read. |
| 1:17.4 | Loved the list. |
| 1:18.9 | It's so great to see someone who enjoys the classic authors. |
| 1:23.6 | I realize that you had a short time to talk about them each, but here are a few others that you |
| 1:27.6 | might enjoy. |
| 1:29.6 | All of the Russell Annabel books. To be honest, they're my all-time favorites. Another great book |
| 1:36.7 | is Shadows on the Kail Cook by Jim Reardon in Sydney Huntington. Then there's big game shooting in Alaska by Captain C.R. E. Radcliffe. |
| 1:49.0 | Also, some bears kill Alaska Bear Tales and more Alaska Bear Tales by Larry Canuut. |
| 1:57.0 | Now to step out of Mark's message here for a moment I've read those three and yes indeed they are great entertaining |
| 2:05.7 | books typically true-to-life stories of bear tax and killer bears. So good stuff there. Mark continues the Stephen Bly |
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