An Ultimate Alaska Rifle

Jan 14, 2022

SHOW NOTES

Main topic: Planning and building the ultimate all-purpose rifle for hunting Alaska

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Q&A: 

• Starter .22s for left-handed kids
• Aoudad hunting (heat, humidity, and big rams)
• Utah's bonus point-creep dilemma
• Best .270 bullets for elk

Ultimate Alaska Rifle

• CRITERIA
  • Capable of cleanly killing anything you want to hunt
  • Capable of reaching way out
  • Capable of not just killing a grizzly, but stopping a charging bear
  • Absolute reliability
  • Familiar, intuitive function

Ultimate Scope for the Ultimate Alaska Rifle

• CRITERIA
  • Wide magnification range, starting low (2x)
  • Superb quality to handle heavy recoil and adverse weather
  • Good dial-up turret with zero stop and zero lock
  • Ideally, parallax adjustment

Ultimate Gunsmith to build the Ultimate Alaska Rifle

• Expert with chosen action
• Legendary for building reliable, accurate rifles
• Great human with a character as big as Alaska
  • Lex Webernick of Rifle's Inc. 

The Final Build & Accessories

• Rifle—you'll have to listen to get details! 
• Bipod: Spartan Precision Javelin Pro Hunt
• Sling: Red Kettle M19

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