Backcountry Hunting Podcast

Mar 28, 2025

This episode digs deep into a comparison between the 6.8 Western and the 7mm PRC, focusing on three fundamental performance metrics: 

• Which is the best designed cartridge?
• Which cartridge best lives up to its hype? 
• Which cartridge is the most successful? 

We've used both cartridges, we love both, we own and will...

Mar 21, 2025

Hunting Africa's Cape Buffalo—known by hunters as "Black Death"—is one of the last great adventures readily available to hunters. Buffalo being legitimate dangerous game, it's crucial to have good gear, well sorted out, and to be prepared mentally and physically. 

This episode, we sit down with Mark Haldane of...

Mar 14, 2025

What's your favorite predator and varmint cartridge? Do you use one for both? Or specialize with a favorite predator rifle and a different one for varmints? 

In this episode, I sit down with two professional guides to discuss great predator and varminting cartridges. We talk through the differences between the two, and...

Mar 7, 2025

Ever wanted a great trigger in your lever-action rifle? This episode we're joined by Chris Ellis, who has hunted from the mountains of West Virginia to the plains of South Africa with a lever-action rifle. Chris is a trigger man, and we talk through the crucial advantage that a crisp, reasonably light trigger...