There are certain unique and cool characteristics in a hunter's relationship with his or her rifle, bullet, and game.

The rifle system, gun, optic, cartridge, are the launching pad.

Super important, yes, but just the launching pad.

That entire launching pad system is activated by one small metal lever. The

trigger, once launch to it, the projectile once launched is the single connecting element

between the rifleman and his query. Once launched all

control is gone. The flight path is what it is.

Angle, wind, altitude, and temperature now operate on the bullet, so it must be launched

correctly from the get-go.

Oliver R rifleman's shooting experience and wisdom must be applied before that final

ounce of pressure is applied to that trigger.

And finally on impact the projectile must expand, mushroom, if you will, adequately to kill cleanly and humanely,

yet maintain enough weight to drive as deeply as your query requires, whether it's a little

prong horn antelope or a gigantic bull moose. Welcome to the show today.

Folks, I'm Joseph on Benedict, and this is the backcountry hunting podcast.

Now I've got my partner and pal William here with me for the full duration of this episode.

William, he's my son, he's age 10 and he's been hosting the

backcountry apprentice segment sponsored by Timney Triggers for more than a year and

judging by listener feedback, his segment is the most popular one on the

podcast. So today we're going to talk about two cool things. The first is this year is Timney Trigger's 75th anniversary.

To celebrate we're going to give away a Timney Trigger, any Timney Trigger you pick. During the month of April you can go to a

special online landing page that Timney created specifically for us and sign up for the giveaway. That landing page is easy it's just

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