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Backcountry Hunting Podcast

Backcountry Hunting Podcast

By: Joseph von Benedikt
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The Backcountry Hunting Podcast's intent is to inspire, educate, and entertain. Join us for hunting how-to, technical gear and hardware reviews, and some serious backcountry savvy imparted by Westerners that live and breathe hunting in wild, remote places.Joseph von Benedikt 2019
Episodes
  • 7mm SAW Cartridge: An Improved 7mm-08?
    Jun 26 2026

    This episode takes a close look at the 7mm SAW — a wildcat that just might be the ultimate efficient short-action 7mm. Designed by Clayton Smith, owner of West Texas Ordnance, it's sort of an improved 7mm-08 with a better shoulder angle, faster rifling twist, and greater head height. It just might be the cartridge that the 7mm-08 always wanted to be. ENJOY!

    FRIENDS, PLEASE SUPPORT THE PODCAST!

    Join the Backcountry Hunting Podcast tribe and get access to all our bonus material on www.patreon.com/backcountry Recent brief Patreon-only audio topics include "6.5 Backcountry" (6.5 Creedmoor +P), ponderings on ".30-06 High-BC Bullet performance," a first look at a new heavy-for-caliber 270-grain Solid .35 Whelen load, a "6.8 Western Survival Forecast" and "Gear List for Hunting." Check 'em out!

    Email us questions here: backcountryhuntingpodcast@gmail.com

    VISIT OUR SPONSORS HERE:

    https://javelinbipod.com

    www.swiftbullets.com

    www.timneytriggers.com

    www.browning.com

    www.leupold.com

    www.siembidacustomknives.com

    www.onxmaps.com

    www.silencercentral.com

    https://www.portersfirearms.com/

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    1 hr and 5 mins
  • Is it Good or Bad to be a Long Range Deer Sniper? With Ron Spomer
    Jun 19 2026

    Detractors of modern long-range hunting methods call such hunters "deer snipers." But is long-range shooting at game bad? Or good? We're joined by Ron Spomer in this episode, and we hash out the various facets—virtuous and evil alike—of shooting long on big game. Plus, of course, we regularly get off track and swap great hunting stories and tales of our favorite rifles. ENJOY!

    FRIENDS, PLEASE SUPPORT THE PODCAST!

    Join the Backcountry Hunting Podcast tribe and get access to all our bonus material on www.patreon.com/backcountry Recent brief Patreon-only audio topics include "6.5 Backcountry" (6.5 Creedmoor +P), ponderings on ".30-06 High-BC Bullet performance," a first look at a new heavy-for-caliber 270-grain Solid .35 Whelen load, a "6.8 Western Survival Forecast" and "Gear List for Hunting." Check 'em out!

    Email us questions here: backcountryhuntingpodcast@gmail.com

    VISIT OUR SPONSORS HERE:

    https://javelinbipod.com

    www.swiftbullets.com

    www.timneytriggers.com

    www.browning.com

    www.leupold.com

    www.siembidacustomknives.com

    www.onxmaps.com

    www.silencercentral.com

    https://www.portersfirearms.com/

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    59 mins
  • Hunting Forest Ghosts Across Transylvania, Spain, Macedonia, & Serbia
    Jun 12 2026

    This episode follows host Joseph von Benedikt on a wild roebuck hunt across ancient terraces in Spain, to remote mountains in Transylvania, to deep forests of Serbia, and into the spectacular alpine mountains of Macedonia. We talk cartridges (we used seven different rifles chambered in seven different cartridges) and bullets (used Berger VLD Hunting, Sierra Tipped GameKing, Federal Fusion, Sellior & Bellot, and Hornady SSTs and unpack other aspects ranging from travel, to safety, to wildlife management abroad.

    Some very interesting trends emerged, particularly with the .308. This was an incredible experience and super fun to record and re-live... ENJOY!

    FRIENDS, PLEASE SUPPORT THE PODCAST!

    Join the Backcountry Hunting Podcast tribe and get access to all our bonus material on www.patreon.com/backcountry Recent brief Patreon-only audio topics include "6.5 Backcountry" (6.5 Creedmoor +P), ponderings on ".30-06 High-BC Bullet performance," a first look at a new heavy-for-caliber 270-grain Solid .35 Whelen load, a "6.8 Western Survival Forecast" and "Gear List for Hunting." Check 'em out!

    Email us questions here: backcountryhuntingpodcast@gmail.com

    VISIT OUR SPONSORS HERE:

    https://javelinbipod.com

    www.swiftbullets.com

    www.timneytriggers.com

    www.browning.com

    www.leupold.com

    www.siembidacustomknives.com

    www.onxmaps.com

    www.silencercentral.com

    https://www.portersfirearms.com/

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    1 hr and 15 mins
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