Top Backcountry Rifles, Part 4: Walnut & Blued Steel

Mar 6, 2020

SHOW NOTES

Walnut & Blued Steel rifles: Can they provide top performance in the backcountry? 

Follow-up on episode 61 and wound treatment: Quick-Clot Gauze better than Quick-Clot powder

• Ruger's M77 Hawkeye African: A top backcountry hunting rifle

1. Ultimate, classic configuration
2. Lipsey's Special
3. Stock configuration
4. Iron sights
5. Controlled-feed Mauser-type action
6. Cool cartridges (6.5x55, .275 Rigby, .300 Win. Mag.)

• Working the rifle into fighting condition

1. Accuracy testing
2. Honing and polishing the action
3. Trigger work and glass bedding
4. Working up a Hornady 129-grain InterBond handload
5. A half-MOA walnut & blued steel backcountry rifle
6. Hunting with the Ruger M77 Hawkeye African

• Backcountry Scouting & Navigating: Glass from a tripod

• Leupold's new best-in-class mountain-hunting scopes

1. Best-anywhere dial-up CDZ-ZL turrets
2. Ultra light weight
3. Superb glass
4. Useful magnifications: 13-oz. 3.5-10x 40mm and 15.6-oz. 4.5-14x 40mm 

• Backcountry Apprentice: Be better hydrated to be a better hunter—carry a LifeStraw

Teaser: Federal's new Terminal Ascent bullets

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