Thread: Backcountry Hunting Podcast - interview with Kiwi Nathan Foster

Originally Posted by John Duxbury

I cant stand his website. His cartridge descriptions are a mass of contradictions, and his so-called experiments on cattle beasts or whatever he says he tested all those bullets on, are never mentioned, never referred to or analysed and no examples given. I have come to believe that probably didn't happen. He might shot a dead one with something one afternoon. Yet the credibility of the whole website was based on those experiment he supposedly did. There is no evidence that anything was done.

His description of how different bullet perform are often circumlocutions, I suspect written that way to stop people being able to contradict him and say hes wrong. So he will often write that a bullet is really good, except that its not great. Or he will write that a bullet is very ho-hum, but is an excellent killer. Except for when it demonstrates delayed killing. (Whatever that is.)

He has hard opinions presented on everything, such as, how well a .257 Roberts goes on shooting elk, when its plain he has never even fired a .257 Roberts, and never at an elk, or we would never had heard the end of it. I can't imagine any real expert rating cartridges effectiveness by how much the target animal weighs, and everything he describes demonstrates "delayed killing" or some such phrase related to some distance; yet not a word in the whole website about shot placement.

Frankly, anyone who has difficulty killing deer of any kind with a .243 is not an expert of anything. And anyone who recommends SST bullets in every caliber is entirely suspect.

I have spoken.

Well said
Everything on Nathan's site is straight copy and paste from wiki.
There's way more knowledgeable people here you just have to figure out the bunjis from the real deals.

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