Top Backcountry Rifles, Part 4: Walnut & Blued Steel
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Show Notes
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
- Ultimate, classic configuration
- Lipsey's Special
- Stock configuration
- Iron sights
- Controlled-feed Mauser-type action
- Cool cartridges (6.5x55, .275 Rigby, .300 Win. Mag.)
• Working the rifle into fighting condition
- Accuracy testing
- Honing and polishing the action
- Trigger work and glass bedding
- Working up a Hornady 129-grain InterBond handload
- A half-MOA walnut & blued steel backcountry rifle
- Hunting with the Ruger M77 Hawkeye African
• Backcountry Scouting & Navigating: Glass from a tripod
• Leupold's new best-in-class mountain-hunting scopes
- Best-anywhere dial-up CDZ-ZL turrets
- Ultra light weight
- Superb glass
- 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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