Speaker 1: As a guide and hunter, I've spent thousands of days
Speaker 1: in the field. This show is about translating my hard
Speaker 1: won experiences into tips and tactics they'll get you closer
Speaker 1: to your ultimate goal success in the field. I'm Remy Warren.
Speaker 1: This is Cutting the Distance. Welcome back to Cutting the
Speaker 1: Distance podcast. Everyone. This week is going to be all
Speaker 1: about gear. So far throughout this season, I've just kind
Speaker 1: of been taking some notes and I'm gonna be sharing
Speaker 1: my gear musings, favorite stuff, things I like, things I don't,
Speaker 1: and the ways that I put certain pieces of gear
Speaker 1: to use. Really, gears a pretty integral part of what
Speaker 1: Western hunters love to talk about, love to think about,
Speaker 1: and a good part of preparing and having a successful
Speaker 1: hunt because the more comfortable you are having the right
Speaker 1: things allows you to be out there, hunt hard it
Speaker 1: or hunt longer. So we're gonna be covering all things
Speaker 1: gear this week, but before we do that, I want
Speaker 1: to share a few gear mantras that I live by
Speaker 1: and coincidentally talk about pretty much consistently with the people
Speaker 1: I hunt with. So who knows, maybe a few of
Speaker 1: these sayings you might be talking with your buddies about
Speaker 1: on your next time. If you were to ever go
Speaker 1: on a hunt with me, one thing you'd figure out
Speaker 1: pretty quick is I've got quite a few little mantras
Speaker 1: or best practices that I live by, and a lot
Speaker 1: of them are actually around gear. Some of them are
Speaker 1: just basic hunting things that I like to repeat. One
Speaker 1: of them is go the best way, not the easy way.
Speaker 1: I'm sure you've heard that on this podcast. That's something
Speaker 1: that every time I'm playing a stock, every time I'm
Speaker 1: hiking up the mountain, I just think, go the best way,
Speaker 1: not the easy way. But the things that I kind
Speaker 1: of think about also revolve around gear, the way that
Speaker 1: I use gear, and essentially how to not lose gear.
Speaker 1: So I wrote down some of my I could say,
Speaker 1: my top seven favorite ones that I pretty much say
Speaker 1: all the time. Nothing no particular like rhyme to him
Speaker 1: or anything, but um, I don't know. I find it
Speaker 1: like when friends and I are going out, it's it's
Speaker 1: like something that something will happen and one of these
Speaker 1: mantras will come up, like Remy says, do this, uh
Speaker 1: so number one. And there's always kind of a little
Speaker 1: bit of a story behind some of these. But number one,
Speaker 1: never put your gear on the ground. I remember the
Speaker 1: first time I created this mantra was pretty much the
Speaker 1: last time I lost anything. Nothing worse than being in
Speaker 1: the back country and having something that you need. Uh. Well,
Speaker 1: I've I've actually probably done more than one. One item.
Speaker 1: Uh one that really stood out. I had a GPS unit.
Speaker 1: It was like pretty new. I think this is probably
Speaker 1: why I didn't use GPS unit for very long time.
Speaker 1: Because I had a GPS unit and I was eating lunch.
Speaker 1: I was looking at things on it. It's like cool,
Speaker 1: just trying to figure it out. It's kind of before
Speaker 1: actually you could. So you had to have a paper
Speaker 1: map and a GPS together because it just gave you,
Speaker 1: like your location. Then I would find where I was
Speaker 1: and be like, okay, I'm here, and uh you know
Speaker 1: that's old school, but now I just now I just
Speaker 1: have everything on my phone. Um So I was doing
Speaker 1: that and then I had the map out, I had
Speaker 1: the GPS, was eating lunch, doing a lot of things,
Speaker 1: folded up the map, put in my pocket, walked away.
Speaker 1: GPS unit left on the ground. I ended up going
Speaker 1: back and finding it, but it was like a four
Speaker 1: mile hike back to where I was sitting, and it
Speaker 1: just was frustrating. And then another thing that I've done,
Speaker 1: and this one really bit me in the butts. Like
Speaker 1: I always have a lighter, and I was making stop
Speaker 1: for lunch one day, making some I don't even know,
Speaker 1: probably just like a noodle pack, you know, cooking up,
Speaker 1: set the lighter on the rock right next to you.
Speaker 1: My stove, cleaned up, left the lighter. That night it
Speaker 1: was like raining, wet, freezing. I'm like, I'm gonna make
Speaker 1: a fire. Yep, think again. Your lighter is drenched in
Speaker 1: some random mountainside that you will never find again, and
Speaker 1: that really sucks. I generally always have a second lighter.
Speaker 1: That particular time I didn't, so I just shivered all night.
Speaker 1: Uh luckily I stayed. I stayed warm enough through my
Speaker 1: rain gear on and other things. But it's caused me
Speaker 1: to say, never put your gear on the ground. I
Speaker 1: see a lot of just as a guide and getting
Speaker 1: to hunt with a lot of different people, even just
Speaker 1: like guys that I hunt with when I'm filming or whatever.
Speaker 1: I always call it, like the I like to it's
Speaker 1: the funny thing that I do where I just take
Speaker 1: a picture of when we stop. So by never putting
Speaker 1: gear on the ground. What I mean is like, if
Speaker 1: I have something and I use it, I put it
Speaker 1: back in my pocket. If I'm saying taking something off,
Speaker 1: say I'm taking my just something as simple as taking
Speaker 1: my jacket off. Putting a jacket on or off, right,
Speaker 1: you gotta take your bonus off. I don't set my
Speaker 1: binoculars on the ground. I put them in my pack
Speaker 1: and then I swapped my jacket, and then I grabbed
Speaker 1: the bonus at the pack. That way, if I forget
Speaker 1: something happens like oh, somebody spotted something, or there's an
Speaker 1: elk over there, or gotta go, you don't end up
Speaker 1: leaving things, uh from where you're at because you're gonna
Speaker 1: grab your pack. I mean, obviously you can put your
Speaker 1: pack on the ground, but if I keep everything like
Speaker 1: on my pack or in my pack or lashed to something,
Speaker 1: I generally don't forget it. Knock on wood here the sound.
Speaker 1: I've had pretty good luck not losing stuff by following
Speaker 1: that mantra number two. Oh I I didn't even I was.
Speaker 1: I got distracted, But I've been taking recently. Uh. People
Speaker 1: that don't follow that mantra I always laugh at because
Speaker 1: inevitably will will leave like a lunch, but oh crap,
Speaker 1: I forgot this. So I've been taking pictures of where
Speaker 1: people sit and then drawing, like I like to think
Speaker 1: of it. It's like you know those I was weird,
Speaker 1: but you know those like um murder scene TV show
Speaker 1: artist sketch where it's like here's the body and then
Speaker 1: all the ships spread out all over. I've been like
Speaker 1: guys that I've been hunting up, taking pictures of all
Speaker 1: their stuff on the ground and then using the draw
Speaker 1: tool on my phone to like sketch out a body
Speaker 1: of like this is what it looks like when a
Speaker 1: lot of people stop. They just have a yard sale
Speaker 1: things everywhere. Uh, It's it's kind of just a fun
Speaker 1: thing to do my friends. But yeah, Number two, take
Speaker 1: a pocket water. Okay, maybe you got to go on
Speaker 1: an archery stock is mostly archery season and you end
Speaker 1: up having to drop your pack and sneak in. One
Speaker 1: thing that I always say is take a pocket water,
Speaker 1: like one I'll always have like a small water bottle
Speaker 1: that when I leave that pack, I throw it in
Speaker 1: my pocket. Especially. I think it just just comes from
Speaker 1: growing up in the deserts of Nevada and ending up
Speaker 1: in like high altitude hiking and you're just thirsty, and
Speaker 1: you know your packs sitting back there and you don't
Speaker 1: have a water with you. So taking a pocket water
Speaker 1: always solid when you when you drop your pack. Number
Speaker 1: three kind of goes along the lines of taking a
Speaker 1: pocket water. But I always have a flashlight, a lighter,
Speaker 1: and a knife on me, So I like pants with
Speaker 1: pockets or jackets with pockets. Generally keeping in my pants,
Speaker 1: I've got a knife, I've got a pocket knife. I've
Speaker 1: got a flashlight because you never know, like if you
Speaker 1: do drop your back and you're like, don't put anything
Speaker 1: on the ground, Well, your pack is one thing. Sometimes
Speaker 1: you gotta drop. Um, So if you drop your pack,
Speaker 1: you've got a flashlight to be able to find it
Speaker 1: that night. And then I always have a lighter in
Speaker 1: my pocket one. I use it as wind detection and
Speaker 1: to um, you know, if something happens that you need
Speaker 1: to make a fire or whatever, you've got some kind
Speaker 1: of fire starter on you. So generally, when when I
Speaker 1: head out in the morning, I always ask like if
Speaker 1: we're going, I got like, hey, you got a flashlight
Speaker 1: on you, a lighter, and then I yep, yep, good, okay, cool,
Speaker 1: We're good. We can pretty much go anywhere and do
Speaker 1: anything if we need to at this point. Number four,
Speaker 1: This one is a big one for bow hunters. Release
Speaker 1: is always on your wrist or always on your bow.
Speaker 1: I've talked about that on this podcast before. Maybe that
Speaker 1: was a gear tip before, but I always say it
Speaker 1: because the one time you need your release, it's gonna
Speaker 1: be not handy. If you do that, you go to
Speaker 1: the bathroom, that risk release. I use an index releases
Speaker 1: like a wrist strap, so, um, it goes on my bow.
Speaker 1: Like if I got to go to the bathroom and
Speaker 1: take my release off, it's on my bow. I re
Speaker 1: emphasized this one because I was letting somebody borrow my
Speaker 1: bow and I'm like watching the release like a hawk
Speaker 1: because I've had the same release. I think I've only
Speaker 1: ever owned two releases and they've been the same one.
Speaker 1: UM one I just kind of got like a new
Speaker 1: reversion of it, and that was about twenty years ago.
Speaker 1: So it's like, I don't It's not like I'm not
Speaker 1: even think saying it's like a lucky release. It's just
Speaker 1: like once again knocking with that. I haven't lost it,
Speaker 1: And it's because I it's always on my boat or
Speaker 1: always on my wrist. Now you're like, well, I use
Speaker 1: a different style release that cannot go on my wrist.
Speaker 1: Then always put it in the same place. And I
Speaker 1: would say probably a pants pocket or wherever you put it.
Speaker 1: It's like either on your in your hand or in
Speaker 1: the same place. Just always do the same thing. Maybe
Speaker 1: you've got it in your bino thing or whatever, but
Speaker 1: just do the same thing. Like create a system so
Speaker 1: you know where it is at all times and it's
Speaker 1: always with your bow. I would say, always leave it
Speaker 1: with your bow, like clipped on the boat or you know,
Speaker 1: in this same pocket. You don't want to be looking
Speaker 1: for it. You don't want to be like where is
Speaker 1: it if you change jackets or whatever. You don't want
Speaker 1: to be in your pack or what have you. So
Speaker 1: that's one really important thing when it comes to bow hunting,
Speaker 1: probably the most important thing when it comes to bow hunting.
Speaker 1: If you use or a release or anything. And I
Speaker 1: when I'm shooting my trad bow, whether it's a long
Speaker 1: bow recurve, doesn't matter. I use a glove. The glove
Speaker 1: is just like the release. It's either on my bow
Speaker 1: or on my hand. Number five, protect the puffy at
Speaker 1: all costs. I've been recently hunting in a lot of
Speaker 1: wet places. I love my puffy insulation layer, but when
Speaker 1: they get wet, they suck. So protect the puffy at
Speaker 1: all costs. I've got a special And when I talk
Speaker 1: about gear, I'll go through what bag I used, But
Speaker 1: I've got a special like waterproof bag. If it looks
Speaker 1: like rains coming whatever, I gotta go through some brushy
Speaker 1: stuff and I don't want to rip my puffy up.
Speaker 1: I protect my puffy. And part of the reason I
Speaker 1: like to protect that puffy so much is because it
Speaker 1: ends up being my pillow at night. So I always
Speaker 1: pret the puffy. And if you get yourself, like way
Speaker 1: back somewhere, you're unprepared night out, you've got your puff,
Speaker 1: like you've got that insulation layer. You know, it's it's
Speaker 1: a lot easier or even just like not even unprepared,
Speaker 1: but you're just like I'm gonna go up to the
Speaker 1: top of this mountain and I'm just gonna stay on
Speaker 1: the ground. I'm I'm going light and fast like that
Speaker 1: puffy is a life saver. So I always protect the
Speaker 1: puffy at all costs. When my buddies and I are
Speaker 1: guys that I'm hunting with were like out and we
Speaker 1: see like a rain cloud coming. I'm like, we'll protect
Speaker 1: the puffy at all costs. And it's just kind of
Speaker 1: a fun a fun game to play because I generally
Speaker 1: do protect the puffy. Uh. If I see some rain coming,
Speaker 1: I'm wearing the puffer cold morning, throw that rain gear on.
Speaker 1: Or I'll take the puffy off, put it in my
Speaker 1: waterproof bag in my pack, and then use something else.
Speaker 1: But at least I've always got something dry and warm
Speaker 1: to put on at some other point. Number six, start cold.
Speaker 1: Never start the day with all your gear on. I
Speaker 1: know it might be cold in the morning, but if
Speaker 1: you're gonna be doing any kind of hiking, start old.
Speaker 1: I just like I rarely hike with the jacket or
Speaker 1: too much stuff. I don't. I actually don't even wear
Speaker 1: thermal pants very often. Um I do carry some puffer
Speaker 1: pants on like backcountry hunts and stuff. Sometimes I'll take
Speaker 1: like some thermals. It's gonna be cold, but man, I'm
Speaker 1: moving a lot um so, and if I get cold,
Speaker 1: I'll throw on an extra outer layer. You always want
Speaker 1: to start cold. The last thing you want to do
Speaker 1: is like be bundled up, start climbing up the mountain
Speaker 1: and sweating in all your stuff. It's the worst. Then
Speaker 1: you're gonna be cold all day. So start cold. Your
Speaker 1: body will warm itself up when you're hiking, and then
Speaker 1: regulate with your beanie or whatever. And number seven our last,
Speaker 1: our last mantra, use your rain gear. If you're carrying
Speaker 1: rain gear, use it. I know it's one thing that's
Speaker 1: in your bag. I put my rain gear in my
Speaker 1: pack in the easiest place to get to because I
Speaker 1: don't know. I've hunted a lot of places where it's wet.
Speaker 1: You might be out there for if you're out there
Speaker 1: for ten days, right, ten day, twelve day backpack, hunt,
Speaker 1: three day backpack, it doesn't matter. And it looks like, hey,
Speaker 1: some rains are coming. And then it's like most people
Speaker 1: are like, well, I'll put my ring gear on once
Speaker 1: I'm wet. No, like, think ahead, put your rain gear on.
Speaker 1: Use it um when it's in your pack. I know
Speaker 1: it's a pain in the butt to take out. And
Speaker 1: I've und know so many guys it's like, oh, but
Speaker 1: on a backcountry hunt, man, if you if you've got
Speaker 1: the gear to keep you dry, stay dry, because it's
Speaker 1: really hard to dry out a lot of time, especially
Speaker 1: in the alpine where there's nothing to burn and whatever.
Speaker 1: So I just use your rain gear, keep it in
Speaker 1: somewhere that's handy, and use the stuff and use it
Speaker 1: when you need it. A lot of times what I'll
Speaker 1: do to um just as like an added gear tip thing.
Speaker 1: Like many times, if it's wet in the morning or whatever,
Speaker 1: I just I'll just throw just rain gear on and
Speaker 1: then like maybe if it's cold, just para thermals underneath.
Speaker 1: Sometimes I go just rain gear, and then when it
Speaker 1: dries out in the day, then I swapped and throw
Speaker 1: the pants on. I don't really like rocking the rain.
Speaker 1: You're over pants, unless it's just for a short period
Speaker 1: of time. If I know I'm gonna be like hiking
Speaker 1: through a bunch of wet stuff, I just rain gear.
Speaker 1: It's a lot cooler, and then I don't rain on
Speaker 1: the inside like by sweating. So those are some gear
Speaker 1: mantras to live by some things. And we will get
Speaker 1: into some other gear thoughts right now. So I actually
Speaker 1: get a lot of questions about gear stuff. Um, So
Speaker 1: I've just been kind of taking notes of like ones
Speaker 1: that come up a lot and then just so that
Speaker 1: way I can answer those all in one gear laden podcast.
Speaker 1: And then also just some notes of things while I'm
Speaker 1: out that I just think about and I'm like, oh man,
Speaker 1: this is a cool piece of gear or something that
Speaker 1: I just tried, or things that I'm kind of testing
Speaker 1: or unsure about, and then things that I'm like, that
Speaker 1: was a terrible idea what to bring that, So just
Speaker 1: kind of like a kind of an overall overarching gear rundown,
Speaker 1: some random stuff, some pretty common stuff. So I thought
Speaker 1: it'd be kind of fun to just go through this list.
Speaker 1: Anytime we do do gear stuff, I always like to say,
Speaker 1: you know, I am sponsored by quite a few different
Speaker 1: gear companies, so some of the you know, some of
Speaker 1: the variety within the category might be like, well, you know,
Speaker 1: I don't I haven't tried everything, but within the companies
Speaker 1: that they do work for or work with, I get
Speaker 1: to test a lot of cool stuff, so I get
Speaker 1: like a of the product, different products within that category
Speaker 1: get a try. But I always like to just you know,
Speaker 1: say that up front. Also the things that I do
Speaker 1: mentioned in the gear list is has absolutely nothing to
Speaker 1: do with um, you know, the partnership or anything like
Speaker 1: that it's just those are the things that I'm using.
Speaker 1: So what I'm talking about, um, but I like to
Speaker 1: keep the gear things pretty much. These are the things
Speaker 1: that I use, and this is why I'm using him
Speaker 1: what I like about them. But I always like to
Speaker 1: disclose that too. So let's get into it, and I'm
Speaker 1: gonna go first with probably number one questions is like
Speaker 1: always involves what I'm hunting with bow, rifle, doesn't matter, shotgun, whatever,
Speaker 1: it's always those questions are like probably the highest asked questions.
Speaker 1: So we're gonna start out with, UM, I'm just gonna
Speaker 1: go through run like a rundown of my setup for
Speaker 1: bows rifles, and then we'll get into some other gear
Speaker 1: as well. So bow this year, I've been shooting the
Speaker 1: Matthews V three. Uh, absolutely love it previously, and I
Speaker 1: know a lot of people were asking, like I used
Speaker 1: to shoot Prime a lot. Well last year my buddy
Speaker 1: had a new V three that he was kind of
Speaker 1: testing out and I gotta shoot it, and I was like, dude,
Speaker 1: this thing is awesome. What I really liked about it
Speaker 1: just how quiet it was, and then you know, super accurate,
Speaker 1: super hunable, but just such a like a good system.
Speaker 1: Everything's kind of integrated in a lot of killer features.
Speaker 1: So I shoot the V three seventy pounds UMM, shooting
Speaker 1: Day six eras with it to seventy five aluminum inserts
Speaker 1: and callers, so it's an additional fifty grains up front.
Speaker 1: This year I switched to the two blade UM been
Speaker 1: shooting kind of the EVO. So I've just been doing
Speaker 1: the whole day six UH set up, just testing it out.
Speaker 1: I have. I have been testing out a few other
Speaker 1: broadheads to UM. Not a big fan of mechanicals, but
Speaker 1: I threw a couple of mechanicals downrange. UM. I still
Speaker 1: I think I just decided I'm a fixed blade kind
Speaker 1: of guy, and you know, hey, and there's a lot
Speaker 1: of places I hunt you can't even use mechanicals, So
Speaker 1: I go with that. UM because I like the fixed weight.
Speaker 1: I started using four fletches and I like that. UM.
Speaker 1: I've been having really good success great broadhead tuning, especially
Speaker 1: at that Matthews has held the tune really well. So
Speaker 1: UM that's what I run on that UM. So I
Speaker 1: I still I still run the spot Hog fast Eddy
Speaker 1: x L. I like it. It's a single pin slider
Speaker 1: with kind of like two indicators, Um that one's got
Speaker 1: the rail. I like that because I just travel a lot,
Speaker 1: so I can pop the site off easy and then
Speaker 1: pop it back on easy just with the turn of
Speaker 1: a knob. Um. You know, I don't know, I might.
Speaker 1: I keep thinking about trying different sites or something, but
Speaker 1: I just I don't know, not broken, don't fix a
Speaker 1: kind of deal. This year with that V three, I
Speaker 1: decided to just use um kind of the accessories that
Speaker 1: are kind of integrated into the bow, So just using
Speaker 1: the q A D rest kind of mounts to the riser.
Speaker 1: It's a cable driven I've been using like limb driven
Speaker 1: dropways for a long time, so a little bit different.
Speaker 1: And by using that whole setup, like one of my
Speaker 1: main things, I just one of something really quiet, especially
Speaker 1: with the heavy arrow that I'm shooting. It's eleven point
Speaker 1: nine grains prants. I think it's total what is it now,
Speaker 1: um nineties something like that. All in so with that
Speaker 1: heavy arrow, it's like, dude, it's like if you could
Speaker 1: put a suppressor on the boat. It's just so nice.
Speaker 1: And then rifle. Let's move to rifle because that's like
Speaker 1: the another question. A lot of questions about Caliber's that
Speaker 1: kind of thing. I have talked about it before. I'm
Speaker 1: a three WSM man, like that's just my go to caliber. Um.
Speaker 1: I like soccer rifles for a lot of reasons. I've
Speaker 1: been using the fin Light to Now. My favorite rifle
Speaker 1: now is the Carbon Light. It's just like a perfect
Speaker 1: mountain rifle. But they don't make it in three hundred
Speaker 1: short bag. If somebody from SOCCO is listening, make that
Speaker 1: gun in three short. Um. But I really like that
Speaker 1: rifle because it's super light. And so I got in
Speaker 1: six five creed More. I hate to say it out loud,
Speaker 1: like it's like what I mean, it's just maybe because
Speaker 1: I'm like a three guy, and then you're like, the
Speaker 1: buzz around six fives is just I think, kind of
Speaker 1: unwarranted in many ways. But yet I own them, so
Speaker 1: you know, I just gotta embrace it, you know, I
Speaker 1: shouldn't be ashamed. Um, nothing wrong with the six cream
Speaker 1: More and I like it. I like the six five
Speaker 1: because I've got the shorter barrel on that Carbon Light,
Speaker 1: and I've got the shorter barrel because I love to
Speaker 1: run a suppressor. I've got a so calm uh surefire,
Speaker 1: so calm t I titanium, and then it's essentially like uh,
Speaker 1: index to a break. So if it's I'm taking that,
Speaker 1: like I took a rifle to Canada, and you can't
Speaker 1: have a suppressor, but you can have a muzzle brake,
Speaker 1: and so it's got like the muzzle brake is on
Speaker 1: my rifles. So I've got multiple rifles with the same
Speaker 1: muzzle brake, and then I just swap that suppressor between
Speaker 1: the rifles when I'm going to use it, and it
Speaker 1: does change the point of impact. So if I'm going
Speaker 1: suppressor list, then I need to adjust the scope. But
Speaker 1: outside of that, I mean it's nice. And they're like,
Speaker 1: why do you use a suppressor? It's because it's like
Speaker 1: having a muzzle break that doesn't blow your ear drums out.
Speaker 1: I feel like it's they aren't that hard, you know.
Speaker 1: You just got to jump through a few hoops, get
Speaker 1: the tax stamp and do all the things, set up
Speaker 1: a trust and whatever. But um, and there's so many
Speaker 1: companies out there now that it makes it easy to do.
Speaker 1: I just went to my local like supporting good shop,
Speaker 1: Mark four and Strike got it set up through them
Speaker 1: pretty solid. So UM, I don't know. I just love
Speaker 1: shooting suppressed rifles. I mean, you know, having a lot
Speaker 1: of experience in New Zealand, they're just like you can
Speaker 1: pretty much buy a suppressor to gas station. I actually
Speaker 1: think I might have got my I think I got
Speaker 1: there on my seven mill. I got like a that
Speaker 1: a magnum can or whatever, and um to just like
Speaker 1: having that where you don't blow your ear drums out
Speaker 1: is really nice. And then rifle scope I got with
Speaker 1: the Vortex Razor LHT. Still think that's probably be the
Speaker 1: best for what I like to do. I like to
Speaker 1: be able to, you know, adjust the scope for the situation,
Speaker 1: kind of a little bit more tactical, so light hunter tactical,
Speaker 1: but really good quality optic, I don't I just love
Speaker 1: that scope. And then AMMO shooting Federal terminal ascent through
Speaker 1: it through the short two under grain and through the
Speaker 1: six grain that stuffs performed really well for me. I
Speaker 1: really like it. Really hard to find right now, it
Speaker 1: is what it is, all amos hard to find, really
Speaker 1: good ammos harder to find. But I think that'll all
Speaker 1: change pretty soon. Um yeah, now let's just dive into
Speaker 1: a few. Oh and then you know what I might
Speaker 1: as well, because I got about ten thousand questions on
Speaker 1: just trad bows? Two people asking what um traditional bow?
Speaker 1: I use, I've got three different bows. Uh. I've got
Speaker 1: a stalker stick bow that I had made. Um that bow.
Speaker 1: I love that boat. It's like a freaking piece of art. Um.
Speaker 1: A buddy just gave me this bush in long curve.
Speaker 1: That thing's got some pop to it. I just took
Speaker 1: that on its first time recently. And then I've got
Speaker 1: just like an old not I mean I've had it
Speaker 1: for a while. It's a Montana bear longbow. And and
Speaker 1: then I also have just a plain like stick bow
Speaker 1: made out of a self bow that I hunt within
Speaker 1: a napped and narrow for it. I'm did you give
Speaker 1: a hunt with that here this week? So I like
Speaker 1: all kinds of I like hunting with everything. I mean,
Speaker 1: I've even got like a one thing I'm looking forward
Speaker 1: to this. You're just a traditional muzzle or hunt like
Speaker 1: an old um percussion cap actual traditional muzzle loader. Um,
Speaker 1: I'm like, man, if you're gonna have with a muzzletor
Speaker 1: go old school with him, that's just my opinion. But
Speaker 1: and then with my tried but was just I shoot
Speaker 1: with a glove. I don't really I mean, it's just
Speaker 1: everybody's got their preferences. I like to feel the string.
Speaker 1: And then I also used the Day six and Eva
Speaker 1: Evo broadheads on those as well. With feather fletching. One
Speaker 1: piece of gear I made some notes on because like,
Speaker 1: I feel like it's just this piece of gear that
Speaker 1: it's in the background of my pack all the time.
Speaker 1: And yet I realized that you've used them for years,
Speaker 1: and like, man, I've used them for a lot of things.
Speaker 1: With the Seed of Summit dry bags, Um, they've got
Speaker 1: different ones. I like this, there's this lightweight dry bag
Speaker 1: that I used, so like we've got this green lightweight
Speaker 1: one and it's easy to kind of organize things in
Speaker 1: my pack with them. Um, the green one I use
Speaker 1: in the lid of my stone glacier. And then I've
Speaker 1: got you know, I've got like camera stuff or if
Speaker 1: I need some waterproofed in there, or if I need
Speaker 1: some real waterproof, that one's good. And then they've got
Speaker 1: this ultracill dry sack, which it's kind of it's like
Speaker 1: it's pretty much waterproof water like you know, especially if
Speaker 1: it's used in your pack. And that's the one that
Speaker 1: I used to protect my puffy and then I also
Speaker 1: use it as a pillow, and like, so I actually
Speaker 1: just throw my puffy jacket in there, or if I'm
Speaker 1: on like a trip where I've got puffer pants or whatever,
Speaker 1: I couldn't even throw like a something in it, some
Speaker 1: kind of jacket, and then roll it up and use
Speaker 1: it as a pillow. I mean sleeping in the back country,
Speaker 1: getting good sleep and not just getting like a neck
Speaker 1: cramp all the time. It's huge. And I've thought, like
Speaker 1: many years I never took a pillow because I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: that's weak. You know, you're like if I if I
Speaker 1: but to get a good night's sleep, sometimes you need
Speaker 1: your head in a good position. I'm excited. And so
Speaker 1: I started carrying one of these like pillow like backpacking
Speaker 1: pillows that you blow up. And I hate them, like
Speaker 1: I just don't, like I've never had. They just aren't comfortable.
Speaker 1: They slip around. I just I don't know, like they
Speaker 1: just don't have that right level of comfort. I like
Speaker 1: a thin pillow. I'm just that's just how I roll,
Speaker 1: like a thin, hard pillow, like a rock type pillow.
Speaker 1: But I found that just like putting my jacket in
Speaker 1: that dry bag is the absolute perfect like, I get
Speaker 1: such good sleep with it because it kind of conforms
Speaker 1: to your head a little bit better than like an
Speaker 1: inflatable one, and you could just use it for air
Speaker 1: roll it, roll the top and whatever, but I just
Speaker 1: think it's better stuff in a jacket in it or
Speaker 1: something like that. Stuff a down jacket or another jacket
Speaker 1: or some extra clothes. And then I also use those
Speaker 1: dry bags for my spare clothes in my pack, so
Speaker 1: if things get wet or whatever, it keeps it dry,
Speaker 1: and I use it down sleeping bag. Um, but I
Speaker 1: use that kind of waterproof. I've got a like a
Speaker 1: larger one, I can't remember what is it, like a
Speaker 1: two leader one or something like that, that I stuffed
Speaker 1: my sleeping bag into you as well. They've actually got
Speaker 1: dry bag stuff sacks too. I haven't dabbled in that,
Speaker 1: but um, because I kind of like having my sleeping
Speaker 1: bag in a stuff sack it's not waterproof, and then
Speaker 1: putting it in the waterproof bag. It seems excessive, But
Speaker 1: if I need it to breathe or air out, like
Speaker 1: it got wet of some kind, that it does, and
Speaker 1: it's not just in a stuff sack that's like waterproof.
Speaker 1: So and then if they need it into waterproof sack,
Speaker 1: then I can. I will say, you know, I do
Speaker 1: like down. Um, there's companies everybody's got like waterproof down.
Speaker 1: I put that. I'm doing air quotes. I think the
Speaker 1: idea of there's no such thing as waterproof down. It's
Speaker 1: just like when it gets wet, it's not as good, like, yeah,
Speaker 1: you won't die in it, it would be cold, but
Speaker 1: waterproof down it just doesn't exist. It's sold that way,
Speaker 1: but it's just not like actually waterproof. So um, keep
Speaker 1: that in mind, and I use a dry That's why
Speaker 1: I put it in a dry back because I just
Speaker 1: don't want to get it wet. Protect the puffy at
Speaker 1: all costs, protect a sleeping bag at all costs. You'll
Speaker 1: be solid. Next category a ton of questions on optics.
Speaker 1: I found. Man, the more and more hunts I do,
Speaker 1: I end up pretty much always using like the smallest
Speaker 1: spotting scope. Um, there are certain hunts where I definitely
Speaker 1: absolutely need that big spotter. Uh. I'm not gonna lie,
Speaker 1: but I find that just like the one that I
Speaker 1: take on my backpacking hunts is the Vortex Razor eleven
Speaker 1: by thirty eleven to thirty three by fifty. It's small,
Speaker 1: it's light, and like, it does pretty good. And I
Speaker 1: do most of my main glassing with my binos on
Speaker 1: a tripod. Um. I still use the outdoors and tripod adapter.
Speaker 1: And then I just started using the the Vortex Carbon.
Speaker 1: I think it's a carbon ridge tripod. Uh, it's a
Speaker 1: pretty solid tripod for the size, lightweight. They've got this
Speaker 1: small one. I think the ridge is a small one.
Speaker 1: And then and then I've got that small spotter and
Speaker 1: it's like, man, I've got the If I need to
Speaker 1: zoom in look at something, I've got that little spotter.
Speaker 1: But the most, the majority of my spotting is is
Speaker 1: with my binoculars. There are certain hunts though, that are
Speaker 1: more optics intensive. I've talked about it on glassing podcasts.
Speaker 1: You can go back and and see my thoughts on that.
Speaker 1: But I just find like that particular spotting scope is
Speaker 1: my go to now. I just I don't know, I
Speaker 1: always have in my pack. Um. I like it. It's
Speaker 1: just I don't know. I don't know what I would
Speaker 1: change about it. But do you like it? I don't
Speaker 1: think of anything, all right? Uh, oh okay, here's here's
Speaker 1: a little some notes that I had because you know
Speaker 1: sometimes like oh, you got all your own gear, and
Speaker 1: then you've got your certain gear, and then you go
Speaker 1: hunt with someone else and they've got their certain gear. Um.
Speaker 1: On my BC trip Kent, the guy that I was
Speaker 1: hunting with had a couple of things that I was like,
Speaker 1: really I and I'm like, okay, uh. The first one
Speaker 1: a sill tarpe, so it's essentially that that waterproof. I
Speaker 1: think his was a Sitka one. I don't know if
Speaker 1: they make anymore. Stone Glacier. Someone tell me Stone Glacier
Speaker 1: hasn't one. I gotta look into that, because I'm sure
Speaker 1: it'd be super light if they had one. It's like
Speaker 1: just having a tarp super I used to always carry
Speaker 1: a tarp, but they're so heavy I kind of start
Speaker 1: taking it out of my pack. Um, unless it was
Speaker 1: like I'm Bavy sack hunting, and then I used the
Speaker 1: tarp as an additional rain thing. But having like almost
Speaker 1: like a pack cover for your body, UM, I do
Speaker 1: like running a pack. I mean, definitely have a pack cover,
Speaker 1: especially if you're in wet places. You can tell a
Speaker 1: lot of the stuff I've talked about has to do
Speaker 1: with hunting in wet places. It just seems like this
Speaker 1: year is extremely wet places or just an extremely wet
Speaker 1: year for some reason, or every time I was out
Speaker 1: as wet. So having stuff to just kind of keep
Speaker 1: stuff dry. But that's still tarp is great because you
Speaker 1: can you see a storm coming, like in the mountains,
Speaker 1: a lot of rain and stuff. Yeah, you might get
Speaker 1: it for days, but it's like blows through real hard.
Speaker 1: And then you know, so if you're setting up glassing
Speaker 1: or over this valley and you can just set up
Speaker 1: the super lightweight tarp, just keep the rain off you
Speaker 1: and keep your optics dry and just continue to glass
Speaker 1: and get out of the water and cook up whatever.
Speaker 1: Especially in a bad country hunt pretty solid. So that's
Speaker 1: something I think I'm gonna add to my kit and
Speaker 1: just look around for a good one. And then another
Speaker 1: thing he had that I thought was awesome was this
Speaker 1: a little ah battery of very small battery operated sleeping
Speaker 1: pad pump. You know, like is that necessary? And like yeah,
Speaker 1: because every the worst part about the day when you
Speaker 1: get back and it's like I generally carry all my stuff,
Speaker 1: like I'm constantly moving camp, constantly going, and I've got
Speaker 1: everything on my back. A big wax style hunt. That's
Speaker 1: my style hunting. And every night i gotta pump up
Speaker 1: the sleeping pad and I've got the Thermorest Neo Air
Speaker 1: which is a really lightweight I think it's the nearer pro.
Speaker 1: I don't know, it's the lightest weight one whatever they
Speaker 1: call it. You blow that thing up. By the end
Speaker 1: of the day, you're like, you get lightheaded and you're
Speaker 1: in your tent. You're like next Crooks because it's raining
Speaker 1: out and you're trying to get the thing blown. It
Speaker 1: up full and you gotta do it every night. Man,
Speaker 1: having that little pump to just get it most of
Speaker 1: the way and it's super lightweight. I just ordered one
Speaker 1: some stokes for that to come in. Okay, I've got
Speaker 1: this cooking section notes here and the top notes that
Speaker 1: Peak Refuel is the best. Uh. Man. I used to
Speaker 1: be the Mountain House a guy. I've talked about them before. Um,
Speaker 1: the Peak meals are just knocking it out of the
Speaker 1: park right now. I don't know if there's anything better currently. Um,
Speaker 1: there's some really good stuff in New Zealand, but I
Speaker 1: mean in the States as far as it goes, like,
Speaker 1: Mountain House was the king, and now Peak just like
Speaker 1: pushed them down the mountain. I think I feel like, um,
Speaker 1: just so much better. Man taste better, you feel better.
Speaker 1: So that's uh, that's my thoughts on dehydrated meals or sorry,
Speaker 1: freeze dried meals. Um. And I think it's just because
Speaker 1: like there's just better like the meat and the Peak
Speaker 1: one like taste, like they really put care into the meat.
Speaker 1: That's what I like about them. There are still some
Speaker 1: Mountain House ones. I really like, some certain flavors that
Speaker 1: I'll always take, so haven't completely written them off. But
Speaker 1: Peaks just got some better stuff now and they use
Speaker 1: less water and the rehydrate better. But one thing, my
Speaker 1: my solid tip right here. Whenever I'm making my Mountain
Speaker 1: House Peak meal dehydrated meal, it doesn't matter freeze drave meal.
Speaker 1: When I poured the hot water in the bag, first
Speaker 1: thing I do, I make sure the zips really done
Speaker 1: really well, and then I stick it in my shirt
Speaker 1: and sit there and let it just be a body
Speaker 1: warmer and it prevents me from trying to eat it
Speaker 1: before it's then being cooked, and it's like the most
Speaker 1: enjoyable part of the day. It's like, all right, dinner time,
Speaker 1: I've got my nice hot meal inside my jacket, warming
Speaker 1: me up before I eat. It's like it's money. I
Speaker 1: love it. This is just a fun piece of gear
Speaker 1: and actually probably a pretty sweet if I was doing
Speaker 1: like Christmas special right now, would probably be at the
Speaker 1: top of the recommendation list because I've been using the
Speaker 1: crap out of it. Uh, it's a brio outpost. It's
Speaker 1: like a it's like over the fire cooking thing, and
Speaker 1: so it's a it's a great and then it's adjustable
Speaker 1: on a pole. But you you pound this thing into
Speaker 1: the ground, you build your fire, and then you can cook.
Speaker 1: But you can it's so versatile of like moving it
Speaker 1: up and down so you can have a rage you're going.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's always better to cook on coals, but
Speaker 1: sometimes like okay, so I can have the fire gun,
Speaker 1: I can start cooking. It's really good for like, you know,
Speaker 1: base camp, whatever. I've taken it pretty much everywhere. It's
Speaker 1: just I keep it in my truck and I like
Speaker 1: it because I like cooking over the fire. And then
Speaker 1: they've got like a um a backyard version. Actually kind
Speaker 1: of first saw it. I was like saw one of
Speaker 1: those guys that was social media, same place you see everything, dude,
Speaker 1: that I was following cooking on it, and I had
Speaker 1: like the sear plate and I was like, I really
Speaker 1: like hot seared, you know, especially with a wild game, Like,
Speaker 1: oh that's money and uh and I love cooking over
Speaker 1: wood fire too, So I'm like, dude, I've been doing
Speaker 1: like outside of our hunting camps and lodges using a
Speaker 1: backyard style. I couldn't use it too much during the
Speaker 1: summer because all the fire warnings where I'm at, but
Speaker 1: um man, I've just been like, especially fall, just like
Speaker 1: searing steaks and cooking stuff over that pretty solid. But
Speaker 1: the outpost thing just for like base camp, cooking over
Speaker 1: the fire, I know, it's like it's so much better
Speaker 1: than bringing like a barbecue grill or whatever, just like
Speaker 1: having to have the fuel and all the rigmeroll, just
Speaker 1: build my standard camp fire They'm probably gonna build at
Speaker 1: night anyways in base camp and then everything isn't like
Speaker 1: waiting for the certain coals and burning it. It's like
Speaker 1: I can actually cook things perfect. I don't know, I've
Speaker 1: I've been really enjoying that. Another probably one of the
Speaker 1: I don't even know if people even know about it,
Speaker 1: but uh, Gerber Knife Gerber Company makes this pretty sweet.
Speaker 1: Um they call it the complete It's like a spoon.
Speaker 1: I've every pot, like every gear thing I've talked, I
Speaker 1: talked about spoons. I don't know why I've got an
Speaker 1: obsession with backcountry spoons because I'm like, it's one of
Speaker 1: those things it just makes things moren't comfortable. But um,
Speaker 1: this thing's got like the spoon, the sport and then
Speaker 1: like the spatula, and then you can put them together
Speaker 1: and make something to grab stuff with, like tongs. I mean,
Speaker 1: I've burnt my fingers a billion times, but it makes
Speaker 1: it so much easy. It's light weight. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I'm just like, I just started carrying it with me
Speaker 1: and I'll be in like a camp with people and
Speaker 1: that's like the first thing You're like, oh crap, what's this?
Speaker 1: This thing is awesome? Uh, pretty ingenious little thing. I
Speaker 1: don't know why I have a note here that says shovel.
Speaker 1: Maybe I just really like shovels. Oh. Another another piece
Speaker 1: of kit I've talked about before, but a metal cup.
Speaker 1: I always carry a metal cup in my bag, so
Speaker 1: it's like I like having my own cup. I like
Speaker 1: it being metal because then I can cook in it.
Speaker 1: If I need to, I can throw it in the fire,
Speaker 1: boiled water, melt snow. Um, I can use like a
Speaker 1: I've got a MSR like if I just want to
Speaker 1: go lightweight MSR pocket rocket, It's like a super small
Speaker 1: stove and then I can throw that metal cup on
Speaker 1: there instead of carrying anything. Recently, Uh, friends, I think
Speaker 1: I've got mind's just like I don't know G S
Speaker 1: I or something like that. It's pretty heavy. It's big. Um.
Speaker 1: Friend of mine, two friends of mine both showed up
Speaker 1: this year with these titan neum ones and they're so
Speaker 1: freaking light. So that's on my need to order a
Speaker 1: SAP list and I'll start carrying a titanium cup in
Speaker 1: the near future. Some things I ran into this year
Speaker 1: was out with a friend. I borrowed a truck, so
Speaker 1: I didn't have all my recovery stuff I do. Two
Speaker 1: times I haven't having my recovery stuff and needed it.
Speaker 1: Like I've talked about in the truck episode, how you
Speaker 1: would have to go back and find that one. But
Speaker 1: just like all the gear you need for your vehicle.
Speaker 1: But I would say, if you just gotta pick a
Speaker 1: couple of things, absolutely need tire plugs and a pump.
Speaker 1: I did have tire plugs with me, but I was
Speaker 1: borrowing someone else's vehicle forgot to switch my truck box over,
Speaker 1: didn't have a pump. We're able to plug the tire
Speaker 1: and thankfully make it out easier than like, essentially saved
Speaker 1: a day a day plus of hunting by just having
Speaker 1: the right thing. Had we had a pump, it would
Speaker 1: have been like a lot less uh stress, thinking are
Speaker 1: we going to get out? But having those those things
Speaker 1: pretty clutch. Trekking pole. I got a note on trekking poles.
Speaker 1: I get a lot of questions about wrecking polls on
Speaker 1: mountain hunts. They're great, especially I take them rifle season
Speaker 1: because I use them for a lot of things. You know,
Speaker 1: you can use it to prop up your tarp or whatever. Um.
Speaker 1: I've got one tenth that they're actually integral to. But
Speaker 1: I use them for a shooting rest. Instead of shooting
Speaker 1: sticks the treking poles, I just loop them over, across them,
Speaker 1: shoot from them. Maybe I've said this before, but there's
Speaker 1: bears repeating, don't get trekking poles where the bottom portion
Speaker 1: is carbon fiber their garbage. That's just my opinion, but
Speaker 1: only because i've went endo down the mountain off a pair.
Speaker 1: When the carbon fiber gets chipped and then you put
Speaker 1: pressure on it, carbon fiber doesn't bend. It just snaps.
Speaker 1: And when you've got a hundred and fifty pounds of
Speaker 1: sheep on your back, you're going through the shale and
Speaker 1: you chip the bottom of it and then it snaps.
Speaker 1: You go head first down the mountain in a very
Speaker 1: dangerous situation. So I had I was like, oh, these
Speaker 1: are light, these are nice, and then I just threw
Speaker 1: them in the trash and went back to my aluminium
Speaker 1: treking poles. Someone's been telling me there's something that's got
Speaker 1: like the bottoms of aluminum or whatever, and then the
Speaker 1: top is carbon fiber. That would probably be all right,
Speaker 1: but I just have like a bad carbon fiber treking
Speaker 1: pool taste in my mouth. A couple more and then
Speaker 1: let's just um kind of going through this list here,
Speaker 1: solar charger, other garbage, and don't buy cheap ones when
Speaker 1: it comes to like charging stuff in the back country.
Speaker 1: I tried. I got like a you know, one of
Speaker 1: those phone power bank things as solar charger on it,
Speaker 1: went on Amazon and found the cheap one doesn't work
Speaker 1: worth a ship UM. So when it comes to like
Speaker 1: charger stuff, just get the better ones. I've decided there's
Speaker 1: a brand anchor A and K E R. I think
Speaker 1: I got that one this year. Those ones lasted really well.
Speaker 1: I still have some old dark energy ones. UM I
Speaker 1: picked up like a sports show a couple maybe four
Speaker 1: or five years ago. It still works pretty solid. So
Speaker 1: I don't know what new stuff they've got. Mine is
Speaker 1: pretty old, but UM works pretty good. And then for
Speaker 1: base camp, this one thing I've picked up I liked.
Speaker 1: It was from actually comes from from you won't even expect.
Speaker 1: It's truck gear from like line X spraying bedliners, and
Speaker 1: they make like this portable charger. It's big, it's heavy.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you do want to hike around
Speaker 1: with it, but for flying camps, horse and camps like
Speaker 1: it holds a lot of juice and then you can
Speaker 1: actually jump your truck off of it. I might have
Speaker 1: even talked about it before, but UM use that on
Speaker 1: a recent like hunting filming kind of thing. A couple
Speaker 1: of new pieces of gear that verdicts still out. Somebody
Speaker 1: gave me this UM. When it comes to water filtration,
Speaker 1: I've been using the Sterry pen a lot. And then
Speaker 1: someone gave me this water bottle and I hate water
Speaker 1: bottle water filters, right, it's just like the kind where
Speaker 1: you fill it up and squeeze it into your mouth.
Speaker 1: I just think it doesn't work. I mean not that
Speaker 1: it doesn't filter it, but it's just there's like you know,
Speaker 1: you might want to pour water. I don't know, it
Speaker 1: just doesn't. It's not the best, not the best system.
Speaker 1: It's kind of a pain in the butt and it's
Speaker 1: like very works for one person if you're hunting with
Speaker 1: other people and you need to filter a lot of water.
Speaker 1: Just not the best system. I say that, And then
Speaker 1: somebody gave me this geo press. They call it a
Speaker 1: verdicts still out on it, but you just like fill
Speaker 1: it up and then push it down and I'm like,
Speaker 1: man it it does like almost a leader at a time.
Speaker 1: It's super fast. And that's the problem I've had with
Speaker 1: other water filters pump styles, like they're so slow. Um,
Speaker 1: So I don't know, I just haven't used it enough
Speaker 1: and like enough like when it gets real cold or
Speaker 1: what to see how it works. Like in the warm
Speaker 1: early season it's pretty light, so I don't know, just
Speaker 1: kind of something to look out for in the future.
Speaker 1: Maybe maybe it's like that's your style of water filter. Um,
Speaker 1: I don't know enough about it to like give it
Speaker 1: like a solid recommendation, and I haven't used it enough,
Speaker 1: but I just like something that I've trying somebody gave
Speaker 1: me and like cool, give it a try. Another thing
Speaker 1: that just this is kind of like I'm going into
Speaker 1: this random gear thing like end it. But um, a
Speaker 1: friend of mine just was using this last light headlamp.
Speaker 1: It's like a flashlight. It's got like this you look
Speaker 1: like cyclops for X Men with it, but it's like
Speaker 1: so bright and it covers such an array. It's really nice. Downside, Uh,
Speaker 1: it's chargeable and the batteries ran out, but I used
Speaker 1: I had a charger for it, so um there was
Speaker 1: some good and bad. Haven't used it enough to like
Speaker 1: fully be like this is the one, and I don't
Speaker 1: think I would ever get rid of maybe a headlamp
Speaker 1: that takes batteries. But for what the lightage that it
Speaker 1: put out and the one week that I used it,
Speaker 1: I thought it was pretty cool. And then probably it
Speaker 1: will finish on the other thing that just gets asked
Speaker 1: about more than anything would be like boots, foot type, gators,
Speaker 1: all that kind of stuff. So I'll just give you
Speaker 1: my last is final rundown, you know one. I've definitely
Speaker 1: put them through the paces Snai's bear tooth insulation. That's
Speaker 1: my go to boot. The reason is um, I think
Speaker 1: it's it's stiff enough to be like a solid mountain boot,
Speaker 1: but doesn't have the break in time. Like literally, I've
Speaker 1: put them on, gone hiking more couple miles, never had
Speaker 1: any problems because they do have a soft enough soul,
Speaker 1: and that soft enough soul is like just the it's
Speaker 1: like just right. You know the bears that go in
Speaker 1: the cabins, like this beds too firm, this bed is
Speaker 1: too soft, Like those boots are just right, like they're
Speaker 1: stiff enough but soft enough it can be quiet enough.
Speaker 1: I just really like them. Um. I use the superfeed
Speaker 1: in souls. Like when I get a new pair of boots,
Speaker 1: I just always go with the superfeed in souls. I
Speaker 1: don't even know I think you're supposed to match them
Speaker 1: to your foot. I've just always used the green ones
Speaker 1: because when I started using them, that's all they had.
Speaker 1: And I've never switched um. But that's just and then gators.
Speaker 1: I mean, I thought for for a long time outdoor
Speaker 1: research gators are kind of like the gold standard, and
Speaker 1: now I just started. I just got a pair of
Speaker 1: the Stone Glacier ones, and I like them much better
Speaker 1: than the o R ones. They've got a dynamic cord,
Speaker 1: uh the bottom portion that gets a little flappy, like
Speaker 1: I just had to take a little bit of time,
Speaker 1: not not the setup, but just the spare part the bottom.
Speaker 1: I just kind of I fixed that up so it
Speaker 1: was like it's kind of taped it down. But um,
Speaker 1: as far as like the working of it, nothing wrong
Speaker 1: with it. The thing I like about them they're a
Speaker 1: little bit more durable, and they've got the skinnier calf
Speaker 1: thing going, which the er gators sucked because you know,
Speaker 1: if you're like I mean, if you've got really big calves,
Speaker 1: they're great, but if you got the size that matches
Speaker 1: your boot, if you got a little bigger boot, Um,
Speaker 1: the top was always just loosey goosey and would slide down,
Speaker 1: whereas like the stone Glacier ones fit like so nice
Speaker 1: and they're super comfortable and extremely rugged. So I think
Speaker 1: there's a new gold standard in in gator. And then
Speaker 1: oh this year. I just tried a new pair of socks.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure he's interested, but um, I've been pretty
Speaker 1: happy with them. I like a little bit. I like
Speaker 1: like a thick sock that's not where you don't slide
Speaker 1: around in it, like where it's like dense. The thickness
Speaker 1: is density. Um darn tough socks. I don't know. I
Speaker 1: just picked them up the store. They've apparently got a
Speaker 1: lifetime warranty. I'm like, that kind of got me stoked
Speaker 1: to try to wear them, wear them out. Like, we'll
Speaker 1: see about that lifetime. Huh. Let's see if I can
Speaker 1: get them through a season. Huh, We'll see. But um,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I've been super comfortable so and I
Speaker 1: don't I don't do multiple pairs of socks. Some people
Speaker 1: do a liner and whatever. I just do like like
Speaker 1: a denser sock and just roll with it. So far,
Speaker 1: so far, so good. Well that concludes our gear segment.
Speaker 1: I mean, I get so many questions. I just had
Speaker 1: to I had to ramble on about gear because the
Speaker 1: amount of inquiries about pretty much every topic that I covered.
Speaker 1: I just want to make sure I hit him in
Speaker 1: at least one podcast. Take the time It's been a
Speaker 1: little while since I've done a gear gear dump kind
Speaker 1: of podcast, just talking about the things that I use.
Speaker 1: People see him want to know what it is, and
Speaker 1: and you know, I like talking about gear because it's
Speaker 1: stuff that I use pretty much every day, whether it's
Speaker 1: guiding or whatever. It's like I I put it through
Speaker 1: the paces. So it's always worth, you know, talking about
Speaker 1: the things that I like and don't And a lot
Speaker 1: of gear stuff too, is just personal preference. But you'll
Speaker 1: find some things in there. I think that maybe you
Speaker 1: didn't even think about. Like every year I'm finding new
Speaker 1: things and I'm like, maybe I'll add this to my
Speaker 1: kit that's like a pretty sweet thing. Or I'll hunt
Speaker 1: with guys or whatever and see stuff I do the
Speaker 1: same thing with when it comes to camera equipment and
Speaker 1: all that kind of stuff. So I think hopefully it's
Speaker 1: beneficial to you maybe if you add some gear questions
Speaker 1: or whatever, maybe some ideas in there, things that you'll
Speaker 1: do and remember, at all costs, protect the puffy. Next week,
Speaker 1: we're gonna be doing a Q and A, so make
Speaker 1: sure to send in whatever questions you got. You got
Speaker 1: to get your questions, cinnamon, you got elk hunting questions, Cinnamon,
Speaker 1: you just shot your best elk ever. Send it in.
Speaker 1: You can reach out to me at Remy Warren Instagram.
Speaker 1: That's the best place. If you don't have Instagram, UM
Speaker 1: find someone that does. Send a message, send your question
Speaker 1: and we'll go from there until next week. Guys. Yes,
Speaker 1: once again, it's where it bears repeating. Protect the Puffy
Speaker 1: at all costs fund and the fund and