Exo Journal — Rifle Hunting

If considering hunting with a muzzleloader, the variety of different muzzleloaders, bullets, scopes, powders, and other accessories probably looks overwhelming at first glance. Where do you even begin? What gear is essential for hunting with a muzzleloader? What’s legal to use in this state, but illegal to hunt with in another state? I wrote this article to give you some specific recommendations on the gear you’ll need to get started hunting with a muzzleloader.

Muzzleloaders offer some very real advantages to hunters that really make them worth considering. In this article, I’ll go over some of the advantages of hunting with a muzzleloader and why you should consider going afield with one.

if you’re looking for a new rifle for hunting mule deer, these five cartridges provide a combination of good accuracy, a relatively flat trajectory, good resistance to wind drift, and hard-hitting performance at extended range — which is what mule deer hunters need...

We released the "Building a Backcountry Rifle" series through the Hunt Backcountry Podcast and covered the topics of rifle selection, caliber/cartridge selection, projectile selection, scope selection, and even shooting tips. Here is the rifle I built, based on what I learned in that series.