Eps 397: Fans' Hunting stories, Caliber , Rifle & Scope questions, Wildcat cartridges and more.

[@idahoron]

I love that Betsy has a microphone. You both crack me up.

[@spacecat7247]

Always enjoy your content and think it's cool that your wife is now being a part of it!

[@weloveangel509]

Thank you Ron for making these videos you have helped me more than anyone.

[@RonSpomerOutdoors-Podcast]

I'm plezssed that I've been of some help.

[@kevinfidler8074]

You should interview Scott from Kentucky Ballistics sometime, and try and go out to his range and shoot some of his rifles. All the big bore one's I've heard you mention he has them, and more.

[@CanukWbyFan]

Absolutely right!

[@edwardabrams4972]

I would love that too🙌 having collected rifles 60+ years and a hunter too I am always interested in others life experiences with different rifles to see who they compare to others over the years and sometimes just sometimes it leads to my next rifle that I really never gave a second thought about! Thanks Ron for all you and the wife do and it is giving all our up and coming hunters wisdom needed to navigate in this hatred gun world without seeing the whole picture👏

[@mickeydoodle6014]

We have been asking him for years… 😑

[@edwardabrams4972]

I would buy one of those knife it’s but my best friend is a self made knife maker and his knives are one of the most gorgeous knives you will ever see🙌 he is also a custom stock maker and loves to reload for cheap for his friends👏 there’s a reason he’s my best friend🥰 After 60+ years of hunting, reloading and collecting great rifles from the 50’s 60’s and 70’s and more rifles then anyone deserves, it’s a blessing just to be alive and to share your passion with family and friends!

[@galenhisler396]

My wife and I love having Betsy in your videos, I don't like false numbers on ammo boxes, but saying that I always sight in my rifle to the ammo I going to hunt with no surprise that way. Same here like watching videos on guns and hunting but I still like having rifle and hunting magazine especially in the fall 🤠

[@glockparaastra]

I recently bought a Tikka T3x Lite Black Polyfade in 7RM. Semi bull barrel. Fluted stainless steel and is already threaded. You can't go wrong!

[@rafaelcalderon6028]

Hi Ron, my name is Rafael from Florida. Love the content from both channels and have learned a ton on the short time I've watched this far. I'm 38 years of age and became interested in hunting a couple of years back. Here in Florida, it's mostly pigs and whitetail dear for medium game, so my first hunt will be one of those two animals. I've been shooting rifles for nearly two decades, and I'm a fair shot, and now I'm in the beginning phases of scope mounting my Lee Enflied and Mosin Nagant for hunting. I'm pretty comfortable and confident in taking a shot under 300 yards with the right setup. So far, I've got 1-6× LPVO on my Enfield, and I'm thinking a 3-9× for it or for the Mosin. In any case, I think these will be the setups I go with. Next, I will be finding the right loads to use. I feel I'm on the right course, though it will take me some time. I'm wondering if you have any experience or wisdom hunting with Milsurps that you may impart with me. Thank you, Rafael.

[@miked.8209]

As a native Idahoan that has hunted bears over baits for many years I can say this... Anyone that thinks hunting bears over a bait is an advantage or unfair has never hunted bears over a bait! We're still restricted to normal hunting hours of 30 minutes before sunrise to 30 after sunset. With that said, I've had bears show up to my baits within 12 hours of setting it. And, most bears will come in after dark and stay there until just before sunrise. Your chances of getting a bear over a bait isn't any better than spot and stalk which I've been more successful at than baiting. Baiting is a labor of love. Hunting for food, stocking the bait, checking cameras, and sitting around in hopes of seeing some action. I'll still continue to bait even tho I've been far more successful on my spot and stalk hunts.

[@45-70Guy]

Baiting is a lot of work for sure, it does allow us to choose our bears effectively as well if we know there’s a male around or a bigger one. Good hunting out there

[@sunbeamcostrength]

I owned a 460 Wby and a 378 Wby, both Mark V models. I agree that the 460 was not bad for recoil, although my rifle had a factory muzzle brake. It had a "shove" type recoil. The 378 however, was flat not fun. My rifle was a lighter weight, presumably to make it easier to carry. The recoil was a sharp punch, and shooting 3 rounds for a group was....not pleasant.

[@Der-Oberst]

Oh, nice knife!

[@MaxwellMeade]

Ooh yey i can tell others my story now! So i actually just had my first successful hunt a week or two ago, i was hunting with my uncle who is the closest thing i know to a master hunter on my family's farm. Now he convinced me to sit in his homemade tree stand ( that's not a good idea normally.) but after a few hours and passing a few spikes we got snuck up on by one of he larger deer we saw that day. Still just a smaller five point. But we both decided that for my first it would be a decent one. Now , I'm shooting a deer thats walking up hill into a goldenrod field about forty yards away. And i don't consider myself a very good shot. But it seems I am very lucky as before the smoke cleared from the 35 Remington I was using that deer was rearing up and practically flipped backward and started flopping, when me and my uncle butchered we found the shot hit both lungs, two livers,( yes, my first deer had two livers... I'm not sure what the statistics of that are.) and finally that bullet destroyed the spinal cord. Even luckier is that none of the edible meat ( livers were not the best looking and the backstraps were completely untouched.) so as of now I'll say I've discovered beginner's luck.

[@JohnSmith-f6o]

I've had my 460 Weatherby 37 years. I agree with Betsy, the 460 kicks hard and you can't talk yourself out of feeling it. But it won't kill you either. The story of shooting catalogs reminds me of myself when I got my 460. I stacked up all kinds of material to see how much it could shoot through. I wanted to keep the 1st bullet fired, so made a wood box that I could stack 28 inches of oak boards in thinking it would surely stop the bullet. Well, that was a Hornady 500 grain steel jacketed solid and it zipped through 28" of oak like it was nothing. Once you get tired of all the penetration tests, a 460 Weatherby is much more enjoyable to use with 300 or 350 grain bullets. I've killed a number of deer with those loads. They are still ridiculous overkill but at least it lets you get some use out of the rifle.

[@Helfirearms]

Ammoseek is a great way to find oddball ammo

[@dennislesh2374]

Years ago I had a Weatherby catalog and they had a picture of a 100 lb. woman who shot the 460 Weatherby.

[@mr.mr.3301]

Hard wood leaves are hard to mask when trying to stalk.

[@The_Cowboy_Hunter_Podcast]

I think there’s something about chassis rifles that gets them on par with every other sport rely used product. Too much love and too much hate for something that has its positives and negatives. There’s also the story that not every chassis is created equal, I’ll start with your concern over weight and yes some are heavy with the ideal thought a heavier rifle kicks less allowing you to more comfortably set behind the rifle and a more comfortable shoot often shoots better, but there are some chassis setups out there that were designed around being even lighter than a wood stocked rifle for mobility during multi stage shoots. Next adjustability and “custom is king” stands out because a rifle fit to the shooter will be both more enjoyable to shoot but often less tiresome to carry even with a bit more weight. There’s or course a ton of smaller features but they are action and chassis dependent and harder to assess like Addis free float or better bedding surface, grip angle or style swappability, full hand guard vs the standard friend grip, then a chassis also generally has a lot of space to add all the goodies a guy might need for slings, bipods or qd tripod mounts, lights lasers and extra optics, weights, and sometimes even extra mag clips.

[@travischapin886]

Mr. Spomer. You are getting like me, grey in the beard and I'm almost 54 now. LOL!!

[@liammccreary6867]

Please do a vid about bigfoot. Would love to hear your opinions and possibly stories from other viewers.

[@RonSpomerOutdoors-Podcast]

Would be a short video, Liam. We humans get every earthly creature on video, often extensively and in fine detail, including deep sea critters down so deep there isn't any natural light. Millions of homeowners and hunters record the world 24/7 with home security and trail cameras -- and they never capture bigfoot. The creature sounds intriguing and exciting, but given the crowded world in which we live, thered is no way such a huge bipedal animal could exist in without having left solid evidence. Think about it. We have body parts from mastadons that died out 10,000 years ago. We have dinosaur bones and footprints. We capture video of snow leopards in the remote Himalayan mountains -- yet we can't get a modern, high quality image or video of a bigfoot. We can't find hair, hide, flesh, or bones that can be genetically tested and retested. Finally, I don't believe such as animal (as reported) could find enough food to survive in places where it supposedly does (high, snowy mountain ranges where even plant eaters like elk must migrate out of to survive in winter.) No other omnivorous, ape/human-like animals live naturally outside of tropical or sub tropical climates. So, unless there is some alternative universe/dimension we or bigfoot are sometimes passing in and out of, there is no bigfoot outside of many people's imaginations.

[@liammccreary6867]

@@RonSpomerOutdoors-Podcast Hey thanks for the reply! Ill take this as good luck on my hunt tomorrow! I 100% agree with you on bigfoot not being real and for all the same reasons you've listed. However, I do think the stories of bigfoot and similar American cryptids are an important part of American outdoors traditions. 19th century loggers would essentially prank/haze greenhorns by coming up with crazy, fantastical creatures to explain new sights and sounds deep in the wilderness. This eventually evolved into a handful of recognizable creatures like the jackalope, fur bearing trout, the snipe, and of course bigfoot. The important part with these stories is that they're meant to draw people outdoors to explore and discover. They might not be real but they sure are fun

[@RonSpomerOutdoors]

@@liammccreary6867Excellent perspective. The snipe however, is real. Love to hunt them.

[@Deer_Slayer5937]

Here’s a thought, what if you made a .36-300 cartridge. A 360 buckhammer bullet put on a 300 win mag case and straightened it. Could a straight wall magnum work?

[@TheGunNerd]

I don't see why a magnum length straight wall wouldn't work but idk what niche it would fill

[@Deer_Slayer5937]

@ me neither it was just a thought 🤷‍♂️

[@Deer_Slayer5937]

@@TheGunNerdI mean technically you can use it for close range bear hunting

[@elblee231]

Love your podcasts. I've always sighted my rifles using MPBR, about 2 to 2.5 inches high at 100yds, but lately, using Leupold scpoes with CDS turrets, I will zero dead on at 100yds. When I'm hunting, I set the dial to the yardage where the bullet would cross line of sight based on the MPBR technique of sighting in the scope. For example, with my 257 Weatherby, I'll set about 230 yards on the turret.That way I have adjusted my scope as if it were 2.5 inches high at 100yds, and I'm ready for any shot within MPBR. If I have the time or want to try a longer shot, I can pull out my rangefinder and dial the turret to the exact range. Seems to me be the best of both worlds, MPBR and turret dialing. What are your thoughts?

[@josephpeterson7109]

Having been kicked by a mule (a few times) and having shot a 460 Weatherby (also a few times) rest assured, the mule is far, far worse.

[@RonSpomerOutdoors-Podcast]

Thank you for sharing this! I get tired of the "kicks like a mule" metaphor.

[@BrianJohnson-bb2vi]

Dear Ron, Old Fudd just doesn't work as a descriptor when I think of you, American Bad A== Hunter is a better fit to my mind. Love the show and Betsey rocks big time. Your Fan in Weippe, Brian. .

[@dprez100]

Ron does your hat come with a drawstring? I have worn I filson outback in shelter clothe for 25 years and each of my dogs have been buried with the hat I wore in their first year. They no longer make them. Looking for a new hat

[@RonSpomerOutdoors-Podcast]

amzn.to/3Zpk3wE here is a link or you can go to our website under gear and find it there. Thanks!

[@Der-Oberst]

30-378 Weatherby Magnum??? Ever?? It’s real.

[@MichaelLucas-c6u]

Come back to haunt ya when you go hunting again

[@MichaelLucas-c6u]

Wildlife is very interesting there savageness in there search for food there skill in order to survive. There power the preys screaming blind fear ferocious killers for food and like loving parents awesome I watch whenever I can. They shun people like the plague

[@bobbygreen2291]

Ron old friend ,,,when I want to see just exactly how well a rifle shoots groups I will only use one type of target ,,,,buy you a big pack of cheap paper plates ,,,turn one up side down on the kitchen table ,,,then make a circle around a dime in the center of the plate and color it in to fill the blank ,,,I would tell you that if you do this one time ,,,you will shoot the best groups that you ever shot.

[@mikerobinson6606]

It is absolutely false advertising. Don't make excuses for Hornady. They purposely changed the powder, they could just as easily change the advertised velocity on the box. Who else gets away with that?

[@jaydunbar7538]

Your assuming they knew they wouldn't be able to get the powder again, for all they knew at the time maybe it was going to be a lot or two. Its easy to say with hindsight you would have made a different choice, but no matter how many times people make the claim history says your probably not as special as you think and would have did the same.

[@mikerobinson6606]

@jaydunbar7538 that's mighty presumptuous of you.

[@BryanShull-lt8gz]

Hey Ron why don't you just print your own targets. For years I have recycled paper by printing targets on the backs of single sided copies. I'm sure you have a printer.

[@jwscheuerman]

Hi, could you please respond to my emails? I ordered a signed book weeks ago, and I was charged for it but it was never shipped. I've emailed you 4 times with no reaponse.