Top Elk Bullets (and a 3rd Edition Northern Shrike!)
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Show Notes
SHOW NOTES
Intro: Great Elk Bullets: characteristics, types, makes, models, and more.
ALERT: with this episode, the 3rd Limited Edition Northern Shrike backcountry hunting knife goes live.
Q&A: .30-30 for bear, re-barreling to 6.8 Western, and more.
Characteristics of a great elk bullet:
- Expansion design
- Weight retention and penetration
- Accuracy
- Ballistic coefficient
Shot angles and the challenge of cleanly killing a big, old bull
- Big, big bone
- Dense, heavy muscle
- Close impacts and far
- Quartering angles
Calibers and Cartridges
- "Wallop"
- Stepping up to kill cleanly with small cartridges
- 6.5's and .270's for elk
Bullet makes and models
- Barnes
- Federal
- Hornady
- Nosler
- Swift
Final thoughts: Closing the deal at the moment of truth
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