Talking 30-06 Reloading and Backpack Sambar Hunting

welcome back folks and tonight I thought I've just run through quickly some of the shorts of the going through my mind leading up to this year's saying the backpack hunting trips in terms of reloading and projectiles lecture so I've got a few different projectiles lined up here in the 3006 caliber so 308 bullet which is great because you've got quite a diverse range of bullet types and bullet weights so in the reloading currently I've got a 130 grain t6 Barnes boattail bullet this one here I've got a hundred and fifty grain t6 Barnes bullet this one here I've got 168 grain tucked to your six bands bullet I've got a 168 grain hollow-point boattail by Sierra that's this bullet 180 grain Nosler a cube on predictor which is the sport I've got a hundred and eighty grain Sierra spitzer folktale which is that bullet I've got the same way 180 grains Sierra spitzer but it's a flat base bullet some rifles prefer flat base bullets over both tails and so far I've actually found that my rifle shoots the flat bases better than the buck tails and that's not just think is up my 2500 sucks is the same in New Zealand I've got a 200 grain Sierra Spitzer in a boat tail 180 grain interlocked round nosed and 220 grain round nosed sierra bullet so those are the projectiles that i've got to choose from in the current reloading cut and i'm going to choose two bullets for this next upcoming backpack hunt which is going to be up high around sort of late May June where I'm hoping that the deer are going to be up higher so I'm gonna select the 168 grain bars to tu6 and I'm also going to go the 200 grain CERs but sir those two bolts are going to be what I take to the range and do some target practice with them maybe make a choice of one over the other but I'll get both prepared leading them to this backpack come and look you're probably wondering why I would choose those two projectiles well because the hunting is going to be largely in an open sort of open range it's not bush hunting it's not up close some of the shots will be off opposite faces out to a couple hundred meters sometimes a few hundred meters I want to go a lighter faster flatter shooting projectile so the 168 grains will probably be the go to I've not used the top tier six bullets on Sam before but from what I read here they perform very well they're hard to know so that's probably going to be the selection that I go with for the for a kill shot the reason why I'm not going to go with my trusty round nose projectiles the 220 great Sierra round noses is that the terrain isn't really suited to it I'm not going to be typically Bush stalking for those sambar I want to be getting set up to do a shot on put opposite face where I've got a bit more time that I find so great about reloading as it's very therapeutic know like we are in the way starting the hunting process really early thinking about the hub preparing for the hub and a very different way to how you may conventionally prepare for a hub which is to go down to the range shook your box and mo on do some training maybe walk around with your pack on several times or four months or weeks leading into a backpack camp you know reloading you're actually thinking about your projectile selection fine-tuning your recipe so that you've got the most accurate load that you can that gives you the most confidence because at the end of the day while I totally agree that preparation for the hunt in terms of looking at maps and being foot and leaving no stone unturned and having no excuse that's no good to you whatsoever even if you are really foot if you're huntin bullets don't perform or your M know there's an accurate so you know to put them all that effort to go all that way to Peck and as far as you have to being get a chance at the animal was a lifetime or maybe just the meat animal to have it all come undone because you hadn't put in the time to either get to know your rifle and your load reload and find that right recipe select the right projectile the your particular animal you know for instance I would never use a light fast flying bullet that you'd use for varmint a long sand that I mean it's just an extreme example right but just it's an obvious one you've got a plan reloading I find it extremely therapeutic because the process has started so yes any of you that reload I'm sure you understand this feeling of feeling like you're really Vista than ever strong vested interest and you're hunting plans when you have spent so long reading up on different reloads testing them out at the range having young shoot well on paper recording all those details on a diary going out into the field testing it on game animals whether it's the game animal that you're planning to go on the backpack hunt or other ones just to get confidence that the projectiles perform as they're intended all these things form part of that planning process that lead up to a hunt often say that the lead up to a hundred plan you know build up there's like 90 percent of the hunt and which on once you're on the hunt it's just game time it's just time to perform and put into practice all those things that you've been practicing thinking about planning about researching all and to play and hope that pays off

Channel: MountainMan Hunting Films

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Keywords: Backpack Hunting, Sambar Hunting, Victoria Alpine National Park, Reloading, 30-06, 30-06 Springfield, Sako 75 Hunter, Barnes TTSX, Sierra Gameking, Barnes 168g TTSX, Sierra 200g Gameking Spitzer Boat Tail, Norma Brass, Carl Zeiss Scope, Planning, 90/10 rule

Id: VzUbGSZJyHc

Length: 7min 26sec (446 seconds)

Published: Thu Feb 14 2019