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...