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Backcountry Hunting Podcast

Oct 25, 2019

SHOW NOTES

• Work Sharp Tools: the Genesis

• Edge technology and what makes "sharp"

• Most common sharpening mistakes, and how to correct them

• Edge angle: What's best for a hunting knife? And how do you control it? 

• Under the microscope: What creates sharpness

• Different knife steels, and how to address...


Oct 18, 2019

SHOW NOTES

Why reload:

  • Pick your bullet
  • Tune your accuracy
  • Create premium ammo for budget-ammo cost

Getting started: 

  • Instruction sections in reloading manuals
  • ABC's of assembling a cartridge
  • The Three "B's" of accuracy
  • Choosing cartridge cases
  • Prepping cases for accuracy
  • Choosing a gunpowder
  • Working up a propellant...


Oct 11, 2019

SHOW NOTES

  • Host introduction: Evan Siembida of Siembida Custom Knives 
  • Hunting knife design evolution and performance characteristics 
  • Handle materials and practical advantages 
  • How size, blade shape, and edge geometry affects use 
  • Bushcraft and fire starting 
  • “Spa Treatment” knife restoration...


Oct 6, 2019

SHOW NOTES

• Follow-up on episode No. 40's discussion on worst elk wounders

• Characteristics that make ideal elk cartridges

AUTHORITY

  1. Bullet weight
  2. Frontal diameter
  3. Bullet construction
  4. Velocity

REACH

  1. Velocity
  2. Aerodynamic bullet

• List of great elk cartridges

• LIst of great elk bullets

RESOURCES: 

Web link...