Having a substantial blade on your belt as a backup while in grizz country is still very important. When it comes to carrying a long spear? If you were traveling by horseback, I can totally see how it could be justified! It would be particularly great for defending both your horse AND you!

Great story teller. Great interview.

5.56 Nato is just .223 Rem +p.

Ron could you make a video that would guide novices on the steps to go on a Safari………

So much knowledge between these two.

I have a Rem 700 Sendero in the. 264 Win Mag.....I love that cal. it's super accurate, and it's a conversation piece too. Some old things shouldn't die off.

When I first moved to Alaska I bought a used 458 Win Mag Ruger M77. Shortly after I bought a 9.3x62mm Husky model 640. The 458 Win Mag is a protection rifle. The 9.3 is a hunting rifle that can also protect me up close. To each their own of course. I'd rather have too much gun than not enough.

Assuming that a couple hundred less FPS is a bad thing might be a mistake. There is a line of thinking that staying in mid-range velocity, say 2600, 2700fps might be one of the magical ingredients that made old-timers like the 6.5 Swede and 7x57 such consistent performers, seemingly well beyond their theoretical performance on paper. Maybe something to do with dwell time, who knows. The 243 is a well proven, effective round, extremely popular with good reason. However, if...IF...the Grendel is equally effective on game, one cannot escape the fact that the 6.5 is doing it more efficiently (less powder), in a smallerer platform, with a shorter barrel, and in a milder fashion. Having said all that, the Grendel falls short of the Swede and the x57 when it comes to SD. One simply can't load the heavy-for-caliber projectiles, while fitting an AR or mini-mauser, that seemingly gave the old girls their stellar penetration. That may negate some of the magic of those rounds. Regardless, i love the performance the Grendel so mildly gives out of a svelte little bolt gun or standard AR.

Xbolt loves Hornady Precision Hunter 162 eldx

YOU SHOT A GIRAFF??? SHAME ON YOU!

@RonSpomerOutdoors Hey Ron, Really enjoy your podcasts, always entertaining and excellent content. I've been hunting for around 48 years and shooting rifles and relaoding for better of 35 years and something just made me check the numbers again. And, I have long realized that cartridges have various accepted names that don't exactly match their true dimmensions, but in one area, there seems to be a complete shift from reality...the 6.5mm-7mm class. If you look at conversion tables (Standard to Metric), all the cartridges we have for years called "7mm" or any of them chambered in .284 bullets, are actually 7.2mm. It made me check a few more. Why is it that the 6.8mm's or the .277 caliber bullets in reality the true 7mm bullets, at 7.03mm not 6.8mm? And the rabbit hole has more! The .264 caliber bullets of what we call the 6.5 class of bullets are really 6.7mm, and the .257 caliber bullets are the true 6.5mm's. When you get down to the .243 caliber bullets they are widely accepted as 6mm (6.1mm) and on the other end, the .30 caliber is truly 7.62mm.

The re wilding of SA started in the 70's when the National Party Goverment introduce a law that made the land owner became the game owner providing certain fence regulations for exactly the resons you stated improving rural eccomomy nothing to do with Apartheid

Your delusional if you actually think a fence keeps out a poacher, like a lock will deter a thief. As for "keeping game in", well, some of it perhaps, an African antelope can clear a fence just like a whitetail or a pronghorn can. Or an Elk. How high do you make a fence anyway? Game ranches, fences, cameras and a lot of other things represent modern hunting in a big part of the world particularly the affordable parts. How many hunters go to South Africa vs. Tanzania? How much plains game is taken vs. the traditional old time Big 4 (now) safari? And shooting giraffes, well that's an argument for you to have on your next podcast. I can hear the responses to this already, typical anti hunter sentiments etc. Well, they'd be wrong, Alaskan, 50 years, trophy hunting. We are fortunate where i live because for the foreseeable future traditional hunting will last but we have hunter over crowding in many areas now. Trophy hunting needs to be re- thunk everywhere if we expect any semblance of it to last to pass on. Giving the meat to poor Africans is a lame argument too, they were killing game long before rifles and Stewart Granger ever showed up. In the old days, the golden era PHs were a vital part of game management in Africa but that was in colonial times, the countries were not in the economic and political messes they are today. What was one of the first things Kenya did after their independence, duh, kick out the hunters. Do they have a wildlife dilemma today? Duh. How much money has America given them to these past 60 odd years? And how much for protecting wildlife? Trophy elephant weren't followed by armed guards 24/7 in Ruark's day and rhino didn't have their horns lopped off to protect them. I'd like to hear a more down to earth discussion about these things since you've been there enough to offer first hand views. Ask yourself; what would Jack O'Connor and Herb Klein say on your podcast?

You were in my backyard and I never knew it...we truly spoiled here, however with our weak currency now, us local hunters has less opportunities lately because $$ talk loader

280rem or 3006

THANKS, RON! YOU ARE THE BEST!

I purchased a 300 wsm recently. :) I love this rifle caliber better

The faster a bullet goes, the quicker it slows down. Impact velocity is key. The .460 is just too fast. However you can load heavy for caliber bullets no problem. 550 grain . Even 600. It's just too fast for dangerous game distances.

What gun/round stops a big charging bear at point-blank with one or max 2 rounds? From the story, I understand that 9 mil is absolutely not going to save your life in the above scenario.

You’re honesty is refreshing. Many hunters in the media space, show and talk about only the good and omit the struggles.

Great show Ron. Kama asked why didnt you go wih Ron? 🤣 i told her i didnt know i could go 🤣

Living in Alaska, Air Horns Work,... Had Several Close Face Offs, Air Horn Made Them Run

I bought one of these when they first came out, the 221 Fireball in the Bolt action XP- 100 was chambered in that cartridge round and loved the round. You could buy a brass insert to shoot any 22 rimfire cartridge. I have searched for an insert to shoot the 22 Magnums . Smith and Wesson bought the company and never made the gun.

Kei River, traditional bushbuck area.

Did the bears shoot back like the buffalo's at point-blank range... all you here are pathetic...

What about the 7.5fk psd

Is there a need for all of these new cartridges or is it just a sales scam . The oil stuff has worked for 100 or more years and is very accurate .

If I wanted to start reloading, which kit should I buy that won’t break the bank?

Good stuff.

Western auto was the Automotive and hardware Walmart of its time!

I don't think I could have gone back to fishing after an experience like that until after I would have had a change of underwear.

I have a Remington 870 Tactical Pump. I saw a You Tube video by a Cop and he told me something really important. I used to keep the shotgun fully loaded with 6 rounds of #00 Buckshot….not anymore. The compression from that spring will “Deform” your shot shell and it will not load. So, I unloaded my shotgun and damn, it was true, all of those rounds had mushroomed near the opening, not much, but enough to keep the round from being chambered…SO..only keep maybe 2 rounds but keep a side saddle with.6 more at the ready!

Great advice on flinching.

Never vote for Democrats. They are making more and more difficult for state citizens to purchase firearms. ☹️

16:20 I also heard that airhorns are fairly effective over mace.

Oh man......back fart.

I hate to inform you but the 7mm and 8mm question was answered many years ago with the 7x57mm and 8x57mm😊

Ron, I’ve been watching and reading your work for years. I’m sorry but as responsible hunters we have been proponents of range and power expectations well within the capabilities of the “vintage” (non creed/non prc and not bc biased) cartridges. As always in the hands of competent, practiced and skillful shooters shots out to 400m are well within their capabilities and are acceptable. In my position at the largest otc firearm vendor I am constantly amazed at the lack of skill, interest in improving and pre conceived ideas about the cartridges that keep being flogged upon shooters No new shooter needs to have their first statement at the counter to be “my kid needs a 1000 yd deer rifle, let me see that creedmore I see on KZfaq “ then turn and hand the rifle to the child shorter than the rifle, who is unable to hold it up!! My neighbors, and other acquaintances have stopped allowing hunting for many reasons. It’s too bad that a common lament is over the shot but not recovered game animals that seem to be more common

I am left handed and have always shot rifles right handed

Don’t tell anyone… and maybe no one will ever acknowledge this.. but do you know how much Oryx (Gemsbok) and Kudu (Koedoe) get shot with .243??!!

You became an actual predator

Nice and calm, just the way I like my youtubes

long rang shooting is long rang shooting but its not hunting...this will never change...this generation cant even tell you the difference between men and women never mind hunting ..look up the word hunting for fun

Please do a review on the 38-55 Winchester!

The accelerator 30-06 was used by my brother in T.N. he shot a 38 lbs.groundhog at about 350 yards, he loved it, but it was banned because it was not able to get Marks on the bullet, but every 10 shots it had to be cleaned because of the flowing. ECK USMC

Well I've already commented on this video but now I'm going to comment about the bird shot. So I have a CZ Sharp tail 20 gauge with 26-in barrels and a traeger selector single trigger so I can switch from right or left which one shoots first. And I have a modified choke in one barrel and a full choke and the other because I mainly hunt rabbits with this gun and same thing with birds. You might have one that jumps up at your feet. I want to jumps up at 5 yd or 10 yd or 30 yd

We call them blow-istic tips but they’re deadly.

I bet the bear spray Survey is mainly bluff charges. Not a determined bear charge.

Step 1: Find the powder Hornady is short on Step 2: Build an 18-20” 7PRC tjay mimics 24” 7 Rem Mag

My Ruger no.1 has a 28 inch barrel in .257 Wby. 4 inches longer of barrel compared to my Weatherby Vanguard should give me a pretty good boost in velocity from a cartridge that already zips and have a Ruger no.1 that is chambered in a somewhat rare to Ruger makes it a desirable rifle for some collectors.