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Essential Backcountry Gear with Brady Miller from GOHUNT
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In this episode of the Tricer Podcast, host Drew Miles talks with Brady Miller from GOHUNT about all things Western hunting and backcountry gear. From drawing tags and memorable hunts to essential equipment like trekking poles, SteriPens, bino harnesses, tarps, quilts, and tent stakes, and much more. Drew and Brady share honest reviews, personal stories, and practical tips from their own adventures. Packed with gear insights, hunting milestones, and plenty of laughs, this conversation offers inspiration for hunters looking to elevate their backcountry experiences.
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Transcript
Introduction: The Tricer Podcast and Its Purpose
00:00:01
Speaker
You are listening to the Tricer podcast, where we talk all things hunting, gear, and the great outdoors. Before we begin, let's start things out right and put God first. Lord Jesus, I thank you for Tricer, and I ask that you can use this podcast as a way to bring joy to all of our listeners.
00:00:17
Speaker
We lay Tricer and this podcast at your feet. Amen.
Guest Spotlight: Brady Miller from GoHunt
00:00:22
Speaker
All right. Boom, dude. I have the coolest job in the world. Like when I was coming up, like learning how to big game hunt, I remember listening to a Randy Newberg podcast about this like scrawny kid. He just went deeper than everybody else.
00:00:38
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and killed mule deer. I think there a Colorado hunt, but might've been his first podcast. And that guy was Brady Miller. And like, dude, now I had the privilege of like being friends with this guy. I'm doing a podcast with
GoHunt's Impact on Hunting Experiences
00:00:48
Speaker
him. Brady, like you are like one of my hunting idols, dude. And just look at you on the pod, dude.
00:00:54
Speaker
Hope I can live up to it then on this podcast with you. Cause yeah, I always enjoy talking you. I always enjoy diving into your brain and having you just like spill out all those like crazy little ideas you got in your head.
00:01:08
Speaker
I've got a few for dude. going to send you a prototype here next week that is freaking dope that I can't talk about until the spring, but you'll get an early release of it. You've seen some pictures. Oh. I can say the name, Tricer SP, but you guys have to guess what that means.
00:01:20
Speaker
Everyone's listening. I was going to go to that GPT right now and just see what the old internet can figure out. Yeah. yeah yeah It's probably already on there. Scary enough. It's probably already in my head. um But dude, yeah, Brady Miller from GoHunt on the pod today.
00:01:36
Speaker
um If you guys don't have GoHunt, I assume everyone does. If you don't, go use code TRICER over GoHunt. You'll say 25% off on a membership. I get nothing from that other than i told Porter, the owner of GoHunt, like, dude, I need a code because...
00:01:50
Speaker
Go hunt changed my life. Like honestly, it wasn't for go hunt. I wouldn't have tricer because i got go hunt in 2016. I think I was one of your like first 2000 members or something crazy Porter was telling me. And through that, I was able to draw all these tags and start hunting all over the West.
00:02:04
Speaker
And without that, I would never have started tricer. Yeah. It like opens the door that seriously does. And like, i always say like, mean, I was fortunate enough to live in Montana, you know, for so many years. And like I had hunting opportunities all over the place.
00:02:18
Speaker
If I had go hunt then, I would have been hunting so many better spots in Montana when I lived there. Like I just kept hunting the same old stuff every every year, hunting with my buddies. And sure, it was fun, but like trying to learn new things and then try to realize like, hey, there's other states I can go hunting and have just as good of a hunt as I do in Montana. Or when I lived in the Midwest, I could have like done this stuff earlier. Like there's so many cool opportunities out there. And I think that's this like...
00:02:43
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the coolest part about it is just
Personal Hunting Stories and Memories
00:02:46
Speaker
chasing dreams and adventures and like giving a recipe and a playbook to like, here's how you can go do it. And it's all right there. And it saves you all this time. And as we all know, we're running out of time all the time. Cause there's just so many things we've been doing now with our lives and everyone just gets busier and busier. So that time savings is such a big thing too, but then just hidden opportunities.
00:03:06
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Yeah, man. And it's like, Before GoHunt, I really got into big game hunting. I've had a hunting license forever since like probably 1999. I didn't start big game hunting because never had anyone to teach me until 2014. I finally wanted to pig hunt, and then it just ruined my life, and I figured it out on my own. Just watching whatever Brady Miller videos and Randy Newberg videos and whatever. you know is pre-U. This is probably more like Rinella, Jay Scott, you know – Newberg and then Newberg start talking about was I went on a javelina house and friends is like my second like first out of state big game hunt and they start talking about go hunt on Newberg's podcast that I became a member and really up until like 2015 like it really was kind of I don't want to say it was a rich man's sport to out of state but like you need to be to pay someone like epic or hunting fool or and I'm not knocking these guys you guys are awesome dudes right
00:03:59
Speaker
and like, or, or even like Cabela's to like do your tag applications for you and figure it out and do all this stuff for you. And if, even if you didn't, it was just such a process of Excel spreadsheets or notebooks or going to like your dad's friend's spot in Colorado.
00:04:14
Speaker
Right. Like, cause like, how am I going to pick out of the 700 units or but but i don't hundreds of units in Colorado? How am I going to pick the unit to go to and know and figure it out? Right. Like, but go on kind of came in.
00:04:25
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And simplified it and made it where like the average dude could spend 150 bucks and configure how to hunt the West. And now I apply in eight states. I hunt all over, you know, the U.S. I went to Alaska this year because I go out like I'm just like I do all these things and you can simply do it on.
00:04:42
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I don't do the app. I do on my computer still. um But um you could do it right there and knock it out. Yeah, you can do it now. um Like I said, the mobile app has everything, all the research tools, the web has all the research tools, just like saving, like again, saving the time. And then also, like I said, back in the day, and all the other people to always talk about is, oh, it's like, it takes a lot of points to hunt the West. Like you need like 10 to 15 points and you gotta have two decades worth of investment out there. Everyone was just talking about the premium stuff. No one was talking about the stuff in the middle or the lower tier.
00:05:16
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yeah all That's where all the good stuff actually lies is the easy opportunity hunts. Once you can hunt more often, they don't even have to be over the counter. They could be like one to two point units, but if you can hunt that one to two point unit every other year, you're going to learn way more than these people and be able to hunt more efficiently and shoot bigger animals or just have a fuller freezer.
00:05:36
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if you're constantly learning the same unit all the time and checking that out. And if you don't like that unit, just bounce to a different one and then start learning that one rather than these guys who wait 10 years to go on their first like elk hunt. Like, why would you wait 10 years to go elk hunting when you can go elk hunting every single year or go mule deer hunting every single year if you want to? Like there's options out there. Yeah, they might not be the best options, but you're still hunting.
00:05:58
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i I'd rather play in the game than sit on the bench. I never liked sitting on the bench when I was in school playing basketball. So what I do is just work tough so I can actually be in the game. Cast wide net. So here's a no joke. This is a real Drew Miles story so you can understand how fresh I am at hunting big game.
00:06:14
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um I had never i' never seen an elk in the wild. I've seen elk in Arizona. is 2017. So I found a unit that and twenty seventeen so i found a unit that in Arizona, I had one point.
00:06:26
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So I just started, sorry, it must've been 2016, I applied for 2017. I had one point for elk. And um I applied for this unit and it was one of their, like they call them like the low opportunity units or whatever. and sure enough, I draw this point ah tag with one point, dude. One point I draw an elk unit. I'm going elk hunting, dude. Like I'm going, I have never seen a cow elk in the, on public land in my life. I've always seen him at like Grand Canyon.
00:06:49
Speaker
And like, I'm out there. I hunted, dude. It was a seven day hunt. In a law opportunity unit, I hunted for six straight days. the last night, dude, I set up. I mean, I moved a around using ah mapping software, figured out some private public, private, like doing everything I could, doing all the research.
00:07:05
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The last night, dude, I will never forget the crashing sound of a bull elk coming from behind me. And dude, jump. I set up a blind cause i could not, it just bad unit jumps this fence and I shoot this bull and I, I've never cried.
00:07:19
Speaker
i cried. Like I've lost it. I lost my stuff, dude. Like on the ground, could not believe it happened last night and go hunt, ruin my life. Like from that point on, I've been like, I killed a one point.
00:07:32
Speaker
The next year my father-in-law drew a bull tag with one point and we killed a bull. That hunt changed his life. He went from 330 pounds and now 220 pounds. And people heard the story on him before, but him drawing the tag and me telling him I wouldn't bring him on the hunt unless he lost weight.
00:07:46
Speaker
Right. And that
The Birth of Tricer Tripod: Inspiration from Hunting
00:07:47
Speaker
hunt, but we drew with one point, dude. I'm like full. So on that hunt, And he drew at one point, I designed the first tricer tripod. I know the rock I was sitting on when I did it.
00:07:58
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And full circle, my father has that tag again this year at 77 years old, and we're going to go kill a bull in that unit again. Yeah. so That's like the prototypical best story of like, You're out there doing an adventure, changes your life.
00:08:11
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Someone else in your family draws the same thing. They use that hunt to change their life and better their life, better their future of their life. It's like, yeah, things were whatever reason, but like they knew had to get, you know, change things a little bit.
00:08:24
Speaker
And they do that and they have a great time. And now you have memories, you're sharing memories. It's like that is living life. Everything else in life that other people do is like, yeah, whatever. But this is how you live life, like going out there, having an adventure, sharing it, and then having tools to figure out other opportunities and go back out there and share and create more memories. That's what hunting is all about.
00:08:44
Speaker
Like that's everything. Full freezer, memories, stuff on the wall, like all that stuff collectively. And like that's living. 100% that's living. And if you want to change your life, go to GoHunt.com and use code TRICER and save 25% on a membership.
00:09:00
Speaker
And just so you guys know, full disclosure, I still pay for my membership every year and i get nothing from that code. I'm just doing because it will, like, if you want to go hunt the West, if you you cannot do it without go hunt, especially the state and age, because it used to be like, you got to go hunt unit one, unit nine, Arizona, right? You got to go hunt unit 23 for 27 bulls.
00:09:20
Speaker
Well, those units now are impossible. So you cannot do without go hunt. Like, I don't know how you can hunt without go hunt. Go get a membership. You go try to 25%. It will, it will change your life.
Building a Hunting Career with GoHunt
00:09:30
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Not only that, they sell all the best gear. They sell Tricer.
00:09:33
Speaker
And this is not meant to be a Gohunt commercial, but seriously, like I use Gohunt ah almost daily. Brady said it does save you time. It doesn't save you time because you spend so much time on it tweaking out in the spring. Like my spring is just like me until midnight, just like looking at the most obscure units, trying to figure out how to draw a tag, dude. I'm always playing all the angles and trying to figure things out.
00:09:54
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um But I draw tags every single year. Actually this year I had to turn some tags back that I had drawn because I had too many tags with my kids drawing tags in other States. I had too many tags as well. I turned back.
00:10:06
Speaker
several mule deer tags. I wish I could go on them, but because of what I got this year, I'm like, I got to focus all my eggs on and one certain tag in a special hunt. And it's like, yeah, you can, you can draw too many, which is great.
00:10:17
Speaker
Which is awesome. Dude, I tell people all the time, what do you draw too much? Turn them back? Just turn them back. Like if you figure out, like I just, I apply, I cast a giant net. I mean, I apply all over the West now and it just, you might as well do it. And with go out, you could do it.
00:10:31
Speaker
And like Brady said, man, the only thing like, I could care less about buying things and and cars and houses and stuff. Dude, those memories. I just spent a week in Alaska with ah Eric Chesser and Ben Denimani and Brad Hunt.
00:10:46
Speaker
It was miserable. I would go back right now. Oh, my gosh. I want to go back. Like, it's like you can't – like I went to Alaska, dude. like I flew in on an airplane, got dropped off in the worst summer storm of the year, and I hunted deer. We killed six deer.
00:11:01
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The last day, I shot a buck at 625 with out the pilots coming in. and like Dude, like those are the kind of memories you can make with GoHunt. it No joke. like You've got to get a GoHunt membership. and This is not a GoHunt commercial. just saying... like Yeah, does it is a Gohunt commercial. Screw it. Like, go get a Gohunt membership, dude.
00:11:17
Speaker
It's the best thing ever in my hunting career. it wasn't for Gohunt, I wouldn't have a Tricer. And not only that, there's an awesome partner, Tricer.
The Role of Gear in Hunting Success
00:11:24
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And they are my first, i always say they're my first and favorite because when no one else believed in me, Cody Nellis or Brady Miller did and they let me start selling my stuff in there and rocket ship ever since, dude.
00:11:35
Speaker
Yeah, i think I think the coolest thing I remember from back in the day when obviously we were talking and Cody and Cody and I talk all the time. I actually just talked to him earlier. He helped out a customer just like basically dropped what he was doing to get ah get something two day shipped to a customer who has an elk or an antelope in a little bit. Like that's Cody.
00:11:51
Speaker
that's cody and i And then like even when we were talking back in the day, we were talking about you know some of the heads and tripods and all that stuff and like taking feedback and taking knowledge. And like that was cool that you're willing to listen to random dudes like Cody, like myself, other people in the office about like what we can do, how to blow this thing up. and like And it's cool to see where you are at like right now Yeah, it's fun.
00:12:16
Speaker
Like i was on your website the other week and like, was like, oh, wow. Like, look at the product SKUs they got now. It's weird what it was to now. It's like, wow. From like a panhead like 40 SKUs. I couldn't believe when they telling me my SKUs. I'm like, ah I just keep creating. I have like eight more products coming out by the spring.
00:12:32
Speaker
yeah i have some cool stuff coming. ah so it's just, it's just, I just love creating gear, man. I love getting to work with guys like you and getting to do this stuff and to create gear that,
00:12:43
Speaker
helps the Western hunter be more successful. The same thing go hunt does is all tries are trying to do. And when I told Brady was, I feel like we could go on this podcast, talk about, you know, go hunt and draw odds on stuff. I've done that. And we could go and talk about me. I've done that.
00:12:57
Speaker
I'm like, you know what I want to talk about is like, Some of the gear that I'm loving this year that I've been using, I spend so much time in a tent and so much time in the field. And so do you.
00:13:08
Speaker
And we really have unique jobs where we get to have like the coolest jobs in the world. We get to do a lot spend a lot of time in a tent ye and we really get to put this stuff to good use and figure out what we like and don't like. So i was like, Brady, let's do a podcast and let's talk about some of the stuff we're loving.
00:13:24
Speaker
yeah What do you think? Yeah, that's that's a phenomenal idea, especially right now. And like, sure, there's, you know, antelope hunts are starting, there's some mule deer hunts starting, but like, you know, elk hunts are coming up here in September, the big time. And then October, you got mule deer stuff going on again. So like, yeah, right now is still a perfect time to test and research gear and and just keep learning.
00:13:43
Speaker
Like i always say, like every time I talk about gear, people are always like, oh, well, that one item might be really expensive. was like, yeah, I'm not saying you have to buy this exact item, but just think outside the box. level But think about gear that like a hole in your kit.
00:13:55
Speaker
Like how can you enhance something in your gear list? And I think everyone should do it every year. You don't have to like go out there and spend a ton of money right now, but slowly invest, figure out what things you want to improve on and then just improve on it and then reassess every single year. Like that's why every year I do gear list articles. Like I think gear list,
00:14:13
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are the most important thing. Like I've shared all my like, you know, Excel sheets that are customized. they can add all your gear in there. you can calculate your gear cost. You can figure out what like your optic section weighs, what your sleeping system weighs, and then slowly figure out how to manipulate that while saving money or spending money. If you got some money to spend, it's like, and then once you get back from a hunt, well, even on mountain hunts, like I will go and I don't think people utilize the notes section enough on their phone.
00:14:36
Speaker
Like i have an attitude. I took notes like crazy in Alaska. Things to remember next year. Yeah. I have one, like no joke, I'm gonna pull it up right now. I guess it's like gear is so important. So I have a notes thing and I have, it's called October Gearless Needs.
00:14:51
Speaker
And every time I've been randomly thinking about something, whether I'm running in the morning, all this like boy voice put it in there, or I'm on a antelope hunt last week. I'm like, okay, I need to remember this, this, and this for my deer hunt coming up. And I started generating lists or I'm on a hunt and I'm like, I never used that piece of gear that's in my kit. I'm going to write it down and we're going to get rid of that. Cause why am I carrying a paperweight for no reason?
00:15:14
Speaker
on a mountain hunt. So it's like all these little things like are gonna pay off of like just trying to calculate things. Think outside the box, create a list, analyze that list and figure out what you need, what you don't need, maybe what you can sell and upgrade it if you want to, or trade something with your buddies. Like there's so much cool things out there nowadays when it comes to gear.
00:15:34
Speaker
Like I said, you don't have to spend a ton of money. But sometimes, you know, buying the best and crying just once might be the way to go on certain things and other things you can just slowly work your way up. they Slowly get there, dude.
00:15:45
Speaker
um There's certain things you kind of have to spend money on, like pads and stuff. Like you don't want my cheap pad and stuff. But yeah one thing, don't know if you're the same way. I kind of tend to always try and bring like... one new piece of gear. Like not, I'm not a big, like, you're not going to see me be like, just change my backpack, change everything in one trip. Like that would drive me. I couldn't do it. Like I'm my kit pretty much stays the same year round. And I'm like, things change out. Like the shelter might change. Right. But things like are pretty much the same. Even like my layering system is pretty much the same year round on, ah honestly, and most my hunts.
00:16:14
Speaker
So this, I'm going to give you like, I made a bunch of big failures in Alaska. We like, says like I'll never sleep on a floor of this tent again in Alaska. We slept in, Four inches of water. Like it was not like trusting. am not gritty. I put it this way. i like, I am not gritty enough to hang out with Brad Hunt. Like I'm just, I'm sorry.
00:16:30
Speaker
i will never not bring a floor shelter to Alaska again. I'll have a teepee to sleep in. have a teepee to hang out in. If the rain is so bad, like i need a teepee, like a big one with a stove to dry your stuff.
00:16:41
Speaker
But I will never sleep in a teepee again in Alaska. Cause it's just like, We literally were in a four inch puddle the whole time. It was gnarly. and um So, but one thing, so we'll go into Alaska. i We you start talking gear now.
00:16:57
Speaker
we'll kind We'll trade back up. We'll trade barbs and kind of go with it and see where we go with this thing, our gear. We, I made it, we made a call up to Lampers. and Lampers, what is the one piece of gear that we have to have going to Alaska? And he said, micro spikes.
00:17:09
Speaker
yep And I had never heard that. Like I had seen them use them, but I was like, ah how bad can it be? So we all bought what's called that what they call the best one, just K-H-T-O-O-L-A, K-H-T-O-O-L-A micro spikes.
00:17:24
Speaker
And the first day it didn't rain. It rained a little bit, but it was wet. And I went out with Eric and none of us were wearing a micro spikes. Dude, I fell down so much. At one point I fell down, I slipped off a rock and my big 600 millimeter lens punched me in the face and gave me a fat lip because it was just everything in Alaska is slippery. I'd never understood it.
00:17:45
Speaker
So finally I'm like, I put my micro spikes on. And it like, it was like going in like you know how they talk about like four wheel drive with trekking poles, micro spikes, like these micro spikes on wet rocks will keep you stable.
00:17:58
Speaker
Going down hills, keep you stable. I still fell a lot on this time I mean, there's nothing around Alaska falling. Cause it's everything grabs you, dude. I'm telling you, I couldn't get Chester to put them on. We all bought the same ones. We all had the control spike micro spikes.
00:18:09
Speaker
And I'm like, he's like, no, i don't get in my backpack. At one point, Eric is like on his back, like a turtle sliding down this hill, like spinning, like dude. And I'm like, put your, at one point he fell into a ditch. um And I'm like, dude, you got, I'm telling you these are awesome.
00:18:23
Speaker
He put one on the next day. he never took them off again. Like he would go to the bathroom and put them get them out of the tent. Like he was, I was joking. I'm like, Eric, your micro spikes haven't come off you this whole week. Micro spikes in Alaska and even on some other hunts local, like in lower 48 game changers.
00:18:40
Speaker
Barons are money for micro spikes, even crossing, like you said, like slippery rocks, like you can cross streams and these things and help like grip on some of the rocks and stuff like that. Any of that steep vegetation.
00:18:51
Speaker
Like it's like, it really excels on like any sort of grassy, steep slope. Like that's where you're gonna slide. You're always gonna step on something and it's gonna like, what's gonna come down where you don't know there's a lock, like a stick or a log underneath it And it's like, sure, they add a little bit of weight.
00:19:07
Speaker
Like that is definitely the one downside, but it's all upside from there. Would you would rather slip and fall on your rifle? No, that's gonna be really bad. So like, Is adding, you know, a pound of micro spikes going to like weigh down? Sure. But it's going worth it.
00:19:25
Speaker
Yeah. yeah Which when Eric fell, fell on his rifle. When we shot his deer, it was hit on shot three because he was shooting like 18 inches left. He fell on his rifle. and said And we think that was it. We haven't shot. i don't he shot it since, but like it was just, it was, he was way off. and it was like, I think as he fell on his rifle and dudes like these things slip right over my kind of tracks.
00:19:46
Speaker
And they sit on the whole time. I honestly bought the size they recommend it and I'm going to buy one size smaller and get these as my father in law. um Because mine, the ones I've already made from like size 11 to 14. And I think I need to buy the ones that go from like 10 to 11 because like I, they they kind of sound like ah spurs. i mean, I was using a 3030, but i kind of sound like ch shiing when I walked around.
00:20:05
Speaker
And like having it, we had do lot still hunting because literally could not see for five days, which is how it was up there in the rain. So I, so one thing I can say is like, if you're a size 11, go one set, get the size large, not the size XL.
00:20:18
Speaker
But dude, those things. I'm probably going to put my farm in him in Arizona this year. like Just make him warm all the time, like even in the desert hunts, because he's 77 years old and he falls a lot.
00:20:31
Speaker
And these things, like even walking on loose gravel for a 77-year-old dude is going to be a game changer for him. and How many times have been out there on like a late season deer or elk hunt in the snow? You got to cross something that's all hard and packed and you slip or whatever.
00:20:45
Speaker
And yeah, they just, they work. Like I said, you just got to get over, you know, trying to save some weight, but sometimes just kind of add pieces of your gear that are heavy, but they serve a very good purpose. And this is a very good purpose.
00:20:57
Speaker
Oh, dude. Like, I would, I imagine, like, we could have had some injuries on this hunt without these things. Even with them, I fell down a lot. Because, like, in Alaska, like, if you haven't been there, like... You step on the ground, all of sudden, four inches of ground just slides away. Everything is mud and spongy and just wet. You step onto log and your feet slip out from underneath you. Even with the micro spikes, the log will disappear under your feet. We still felt lot.
00:21:25
Speaker
But do without them, I could definitely see myself like tearing a knee, like spreading an ankle. like It was gnarly. Oh, yeah. Gotta have those microspikes and that steep trend. Like said, Alaska, spring bear hunts, late season hunts, so many use cases for them.
00:21:39
Speaker
Even, like I said, crossing streams, you can put them on your Crocs. Really? Oh, yeah. You can definitely put them on your Crocs if you got like wading boots on. or mean like waders on. And then like, if you don't have wading boots with you, you can just put them over your crocs to give for yourself some extra traction. Like that's good yeah there's a lot of different ways to make them work.
00:21:56
Speaker
And like, I highly recommend those things. And it's one of those things that like, you don't think about that you need for a hunt. I've
Advanced Gear for Extreme Hunting Environments
00:22:04
Speaker
used them, it's like tracking poles. How many of us like back in the day used to like, oh, make fun of tracking poles because they look dorky.
00:22:09
Speaker
Sure, look hideous. And like, oh, it looks like you're like a little sissy, but like, yeah, four wheel drive. And now you have four wheel drive and got extra set of four wheel drive down below with the micro spikes. Win-win.
00:22:19
Speaker
Yep. Yep. I had a pack of deer out my last year. I forgot my trekking poles the camp and I had to pack it out like three miles in that terrain. And I was like, oh, this sucks. Like you just, it's without trekking poles. It's just different.
00:22:33
Speaker
All right, dude, there's my first one. What do you got? What you got for gear to your loving? I am going to stay on that same sort of level there. And, uh, like, so I went to New Zealand this year.
00:22:44
Speaker
Mm-hmm. And one of the biggest things I've always added up and I'm going to talk about this product. Of course, I'll tell how expensive it is. It's expensive. It's a $370 basically like souped up trekking pole, but it has all sorts of other be benefits. It's that a mountain gear, the stick yeah one.
00:23:01
Speaker
So it's basically ah trekking pole with a you know little spike at the end. It's adjustable. So carbon fiber, super well made due to New Zealand makes them actually met him at shot show.
00:23:11
Speaker
Yeah, Matt. yep Yep. I really like this guy. I really like this company. i highly recommend them. Yeah, super good dude. And i so I saw this product forever and was like, dude, I really want this for like late season mule deer hunts.
00:23:23
Speaker
But it's expensive. Like $375 for a stick. It's like, that's a lot of money. But I was like going to New Zealand, really wanted to change things up again. i saw like, you know, it has an ice pick on the end, has a little tool in the back where i can dig stuff out and like I can shoot off it if I needed to, because that's picked anything.
00:23:41
Speaker
You could just add a little adapter to make it for Arca Swiss. I was like, this was built for that extreme environments. And like, so obviously I went and used it in New Zealand. Phenomenal, saved my ass all the time of like for some places I went that I was like, wow, like this is sketch.
00:23:56
Speaker
Like we are very, very, very close to like, I'm just like grabbing under roots and stuff. Like I'm hoping these roots hold because it's like a long way down and I'm literally it could fall like, you know, 80 feet on the rocks and boulders, like super sketchy.
00:24:09
Speaker
And then like, yeah, just having that and i'm I'm going on a mountain goat hunt and, uh, October. So it's going to be October and mountain goat country is going to be very dangerous and a very cool. I love that sort of dangerous aspect of adventure hunts.
00:24:23
Speaker
So I'm going to be utilizing it then. it's like, yeah, I'm going to get it now. And that can use it on late season, yield their hunts and just have that like extra peace of mind. Cause sure. A trekking pole is great, but this also has, you know, the ability to, you know, dig it in the snow, whatever, dig out a bed. If I need to, you know, find this place, flat spot to camp,
00:24:41
Speaker
Like there's a lot of different use cases for it. And you can also flip over the ice pick thing and put like a little saw on it. So it's like a multipurpose tool. If I'm going on a late season hunt and I need to use a shelter with a stove.
00:24:53
Speaker
And so like, I was, I think he's building a shovel for it as well, right? Yep. Yep. me that He's, I saw he was ah working that for on that for a while, a little backcountry shovel, which would also be great for yeah cleaning out snow when you're putting So yeah, so MTN gear out of New Zealand. I'm a big fan of Matt. I've been talking to Matt for about four or five years now. We've done a few little things together.
00:25:14
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ah He makes a bunch of cool stuff. He actually makes some really sweet bipods too. Like ah not gonna lie, he makes some really light but lightweight bipods. He does make some Arca rails. I know he's been working like a chassis now, I think a gun stock and some other stuff. And um he's building the stuff out of his shed like in New Zealand, which is awesome, which I love. Like literally they got a shack in the backyard and he's making some stuff that's really unique.
00:25:35
Speaker
And that pickaxe, I know Schneider's running it as well. A few other guys are running it. um They love it. So I'm all about i I was actually looking at those this week from Matt. I was actually looking at like, I should get one of these pickaxes.
00:25:46
Speaker
I don't have anything hardcore enough. Maybe if we go to Australia, I'll need one. I to figure out the terrain like up there. So I guess it's a piece that's like, yeah. But, you know, buy the best and cry just once, but it's like, I just, I've always thought I had a use case for it. And after keep going on more and more crazy adventures and like places, that I'm going to get a lot of use out of it. And it's very versatile.
00:26:06
Speaker
And it's also that, you know, safety factor too, like be able to like stab it in the ground if I'm doing something and yeah, gotta be cautious of like around your gear too. it's not something I'm going to like, oh yeah, be, you know,
00:26:17
Speaker
had my rain gear on and all of a sudden the pick slides against my rain gear and I put a big gash in it. So you obviously got to be thoughtful about how you carry it around. But like, was yeah, that's a perfect environment. And this year is going great for it. And then continuing on my other, you know, crazy mule that hunts I do, I'm definitely going to get a lot of use out of it.
00:26:34
Speaker
What I like it for, too, is like setting up a teepee, setting up a tent, like digging out rocks, digging that kind of stuff. you can use it for There's multi-uses for it, so you can use it for digging and doing stuff. So MTN Gear, go check those guys out. Make some awesome stuff. What was my – let give you another one. Okay.
00:26:49
Speaker
Alright, so the next piece of gear that I'm using, which I know is like not like revolutionary for anybody out there, because they've been doing it forever, is ah the SteriPen. So I picked up a SteriPen.
00:27:01
Speaker
i went on, like being from like San Diego and hunting like Arizona, New Mexico, Southern Utah, like hot places. We literally pack water in most of the time. We'll bring in three or four gallons of four season have water in some of our spots.
00:27:15
Speaker
And we wouldn't even think about steripending some of the mosquito infested swamp cow piss water we have out here, you know? But I went to Montana's here and bear hunting with Cody rich and dude, they all ran steripends and it was epic. Like when there's water around it I can carry this one now gene,
00:27:33
Speaker
I just SteriPen it. And like, you know, I use the same system and ended up buying one. I used it in Colorado goat scouting this year. I used it in Alaska just when I was out in the hills. And I also used it in the Sierras, wherever there's water bountiful. Like it's such a simple process to do.
00:27:49
Speaker
and It is such an easy thing. Did did you ah do the one with the batteries or like the rechargeable like USB-C or USB micro or whatever it is? So I got the Ketodyne SteriPen Ultra Portable. like the green one that you can charge.
00:28:02
Speaker
It still is. I will bitch about this. It still is micro USB, not USB-C, which is ridiculous. Like that that is the one thing I keep looking up all the time. And when you started mentioning this, I was pulling up like, wonder if they finally make a USB-C one because I have the ultralight UV one.
00:28:17
Speaker
And I absolutely hate the micro USB cord because that's the only thing in my whole entire kit that takes a micro USB because everything else has transitioned over to USB-C. So I have to carry extra weight on a cord just to have this work.
00:28:30
Speaker
But I love the SteriPen so much that I'm willing to keep doing it. And I don't want to carry batteries in anything I have. And so like, come on. Yeah. yeah I love that it's rechargeable.
00:28:41
Speaker
um I don't understand how they're making things that aren't you the micro USB still. I don't know anybody else who's doing that. I was really shocked. I actually went and bought one. new on purpose thinking, it'll be USB-C and it was micro USB. And I was like, that was my one bummer on it.
00:28:58
Speaker
But I can say if you charge it, as long as you're not doing everybody else's waters, it'll last you a week. Like it lasts you a long time. If you're doing a couple of guys things, you might have to charge after for like four or five days, but like it'll last you a week of hunting on your own. It should.
00:29:12
Speaker
I was always the biggest skeptic of these. ah When i worked for United States Geological Survey, when I do all these fisheries work, a couple of my buddies had some stereo pens and i'm like, why am I gonna stick a lightsaber in my water and trust that this is actually gonna like purify or whatever, sterilize my water.
00:29:32
Speaker
And time and time went on. I think I didn't adopt over to it until maybe 2017.
00:29:39
Speaker
I finally tried it for myself and I'm like, yeah, this is pretty awesome. This is way better than pumps. Cause like I've had so many pumps go bad. have to like back flush the filter, tear them up. I got Giardia based on a old MSR hyperflow like water filter because i had a you know friend of the time who clogged up the filter and then I went and used it and got Giardia. That's the worst thing ever. And this is, this it's just an easy button.
00:30:02
Speaker
singing Wait 90 seconds, wherever it is. boom You got water. no taste No bad taste. Anything like boom. Only thing I could say is you like, you kind of get used, like, I'm just a dirty person in the field. Like, you just know, like, you're just sleeping in dirt. Like, as long as you don't mind the floaties, it's fine. So, I have a free one for everyone out there. I want someone to make me a Now screen.
00:30:24
Speaker
It's a Now gene lid with, like, a paint screen inside of it, so I can, like, filter my water through it, so that all the floaties get in there. Like, literally, like, I don't really mind. don't want to call it Now screen, too. It's a good name, right? So, grant make me a Go Hunt Now screen. I've given, like, five people this idea. No one's going do it, so...
00:30:37
Speaker
Make me a Nalgene screen. It's just a Nalgene lid that has like a paint screen inside of it. So I can, you know, fill it up and knock it all the crap in there. Um, but like, as long as you're fine with like drinking a little bit of brown water or whatever color the water is, like it tastes fine.
00:30:50
Speaker
And just get a little bit of iron, you know what I mean? Like people will pay for that. People pay. Have you seen the kombucha my wife drinks? Like it looks like they should filter some gross stuff, you know? So as long as you're fine with a little bit of floaties in there, uh, this dairy pen is my new go-to for especially high
Exploring Shelter Options for Hunters
00:31:05
Speaker
mountain stuff. We're in a lot of water.
00:31:06
Speaker
Mm-hmm. Yeah, like I said, it's just easy. And then, like, the only thing I would say is, too, like, i always try to keep it – I don't want it to freeze, per se. And, like, I'm sure it be okay, but I always try to, like – if it's going to be really cold, I'll shove it inside my sleeping bag. And that way I just sleep next to it so it stays warm the whole time. But, like, yeah, it's so easy to just keep it in your waist belt, pop it out, filter some water. I have had a couple times where the little snowflake comes up and you have to warm it up. But what I did on that was I actually just – You could throw it like in the morning. I just like threw a little jet boiled coffee water in the thing, got warmed up real quick and it was fine. so
00:31:44
Speaker
Yep. So that's that's me, SteriPen. What do you got? I have been on a buy-no-harness testing spree lately. Really? Yeah.
00:31:54
Speaker
And um it's only like a personal project of mine because I – like i There's so many good bino harnesses out there. Yep. And 10. Yep. And people keep asking me about bino harnesses all the time. And i'm like, well, I've just used the same one forever and ever and ever.
00:32:10
Speaker
And so last year I kind of, you know, tested one this year. I've already, I've already used, I think four bino harnesses this year, four different brands. And it's just basically developed out of like, I kind of want more opinions when people ask me questions like, Hey, what would work this situation? What would this situation?
00:32:26
Speaker
And so I kind of, some testing on bino harnesses just for, for fun. And it's actually been really nice to test the bino harness. like, wow, there actually is some other options out there. I mean, it's really hard to beat a marsupial. Very hard.
00:32:37
Speaker
Like that is probably the gold standard, what everyone is trying to live up to. And i love those guys and they're phenomenal and I've used them forever, but i was just like, I wanted to try something else for a little bit, you know, and just see what happens. So like I've actually been using, the Kefaru bino harness. Really?
00:32:57
Speaker
Yeah. And, uh, Never thought about it before. And, and like again I, again, always have to put this preference out there. No one's paying me to go to try things out. I'm just trying them out. This is a new one. The Kefaro Bindhars is relatively new.
00:33:09
Speaker
Relatively new. Yeah. Yeah. And so it's like, it doesn't have magnets on it, which I kind of do like the magnet system, but how easy it it works. But like, just like the whole layout and like they're, uh, they have this like Mesa harness system. So it's a little bit wider, like shoulder strap area. it kind of comes down to like a bigger area between your, between your shoulder blades.
00:33:29
Speaker
Like just that feature alone. I'm like, wow, like I almost want a Frankenstein a vinyl harness now. And I'm sure marsupial would not appreciate if I like, you know, took a Kefaru harness and put it on the marsupial, but like, that's a pretty good system that like the Mesa harness on the Kefaru.
00:33:46
Speaker
And yeah, I'm just to test it out, figure out certain things and like figure how to like, you know, layout and what Molly accessories do I want to use? And just like, okay, what side pouch accessories? Is there a better system? It's like nice to be not magnetic versus magnetic.
00:34:01
Speaker
I've just been, you know, enjoying it. And I use another one that I actually got from Cam when i was in New Zealand, Twin Needle. they're They're a New Zealand based company that like a bunch of cool custom sewing. They do of stuff for like their, you know, like I think,
00:34:16
Speaker
law enforcement and that sort of stuff over there. But the only downside with that vinyl harness is it's like zippered on the side. So it's like little zippers and does have a magnet tab. So you kind have to pull it down and kind of got to zip them up every time.
00:34:27
Speaker
It's kind like one of the first gen like Sitka vinyl harness, I think had some zippers on it way, way back in the day. But that pack system vinyl harness has so many different MOLLE accessories you could put on there.
00:34:39
Speaker
really And so like, I'm trying to figure out, okay, what's a good bino harness system for like a normal mule deer hunt, like a high country mule deer hunt. It's probably gonna be a marsupial. What's a good bino harness for maybe like a desert running gun you're in your truck, on your ATV or whatever it's right now. i'm like, oh, my Caparo is actually really nice. because it's a little bit smaller and yes, there's some smaller marsupials.
00:35:01
Speaker
And then I'm thinking, okay, well, what about for my, you know, mountain goat hunt in October? Like I want some more survival things on there. Like, that's what I'm trying to figure out then is like, You want to buy all things on your harness. On your harness. Why? I want to hear about this. so i the but i ah Jim was just on an hour ago on this pod.
00:35:16
Speaker
So like, I want to hear like why, because I am the most minimalist vinyl harness guy in the world. I want nothing on my harness. So I want to hear about this. Why? Same. I guess why I love this. I was using the stone glacier one a lot last year. They're sent in harness and it's like very minimal.
00:35:30
Speaker
But like the more stuff I'm trying to, I'm not trying to go overkill. Like I don't want one of those giant vinyl harnesses with like everything on it, but it's like, okay, I go into a hunt, I drop my backpack.
00:35:41
Speaker
All right, now I'm separated from my safety gear. yeah I want to have some things in my bino harness. Like obviously now I'm starting to carry my ah backup headlamp in there all the time. Like there's been so many times that I've gone on a stock with just my bino harness, my rifle and a you know big rainstorm hits or something weird happens where, you know, you might get stuck out there for a little bit while longer and now you have to use your cell phone and have it get back.
00:36:03
Speaker
So like, okay, get an accessory pouch. and sure I can get that from other companies, but like, keep that sort of thing, keep extra fire starter, keep one of those little, ah not just a lighter, but those little like feral rod things where you like strike it, you know, like start a fire if I need to.
00:36:16
Speaker
um Being able to carry, you know, I'm starting to carry like a little vinyl visor to put over my SIGs to like block the block the light a little bit. And then just like other, like maybe some, you know, first aid type things in there too. Just like random things that probably wouldn't do that, like if I did get separated from my backpack,
00:36:34
Speaker
I can still potentially thrive and survive out there at night in some extreme conditions. So that's why like I'm more leaning to something like kind of crazy for my mountain goat hunt.
00:36:45
Speaker
I mean, obviously it's mountain goat hunt. I've done one before. I've shot one with my bow and this could be a little bit different in October. so I'm just like trying to think of different ways. Okay. Worst case scenario. what could happen and what items could I add in there to then help me out on a hunt without being crazy. Cause that's thing I don't want. I don't want to have basically backpack on my back and a backpack on my front, you know?
00:37:10
Speaker
So james here's the thing with bino horses. I was just telling Jim, is there a certain piece of gear that you just use more than ever? Like, like, like your tripod, you're going to use 95% of your hunt, right? You need so much. Your backpack is so important to me.
00:37:23
Speaker
Your bino harness is probably, I was just telling Jim, your most worn piece of gear. And like my, and I own 10 different bino harnesses. I am a bino harness nut. And, I do probably go marsupial 90% the time. The other one that I really like is the Everly Stock Bridal Harness. <unk> very one you haven't tried I love that one only because there's a little bit bigger pocket on the front, which I told Jim. And Jim says he's working on some stuff coming out Gen 2 next year.
00:37:49
Speaker
um Very comfortable because I want comfort. like There's a few that I've worn that are big name harnesses that just rub me wrong with my backpack. Or like you said, like the like when you talk about the back of that,
00:38:00
Speaker
uh on the kefaro like that i that resonates because you're like this thing's on your lats it's on your you know what mean all day long like i've had there's one that they came out that has like a don't want to call this brand out they kind of like um almost like a mesh on it and it rubs my neck i get raw spots on my neck from this harness and i'm like how is this thing how did no one catch this right it's it's on you all day long so but like i am the like i am the most minimalist bino harness guy in the world like i carry el ranges because i don't want to carry ah a rangefinder right and like I carry my harness literally is wind checker
00:38:34
Speaker
eye drops, vising eye drops on one side because I gloss desert all the time and that's a game changer. But, but eye drops in your pack, dude. This, I'm telling you, just a little small little bottle of eye drops, throw it in your gear. Your glass in desert this year, you're gonna like, oh my gosh, Drew, it's like jumping into a cold pool.
00:38:46
Speaker
It's a good one. I'm writing that down right now. Eye drops. Just for like New Mexico, South Utah. Eye drops. Eye drops, dude. Small one. And then, uh, I carry chapstick in the front and maybe like three bullets, two bullets, right? Cause like sometimes,
00:39:01
Speaker
Whatever. Sometimes things go wrong. you're starting to look when you When I reach in the bino harness, I know things have gone wrong. Like at this point, I'm just trying to put a bolt into this animal because things have gone wrong. But I always have a couple in the front.
00:39:12
Speaker
um But I don't like having things on there. Like I was even telling Jim, like I want to see someone build a bino harness that has the gun holder built into the back of it because i hate even having on like, I hate the gun here. Don't like that at all.
00:39:24
Speaker
yeah I don't either. I want one, like you said, but gun right behind it. Easy fits accessories, makes it for strap thing come down that could fit there. Yeah. So they're working on stuff like that there as well. So they are working stuff there as well at marsupial, but the Kefaru one's intriguing. Cause I really like Kefaru and going to talk about them next on some gear that I've been running from them.
00:39:45
Speaker
so we're gonna do a Kefaru commercial. I might tried that by harness. I'll to call up, uh, Call those guys up and see they get me a harness. So, um, the cool part with the harness to the Kefaro is like, obviously I've used the back pocket of the marsupial and this definitely does have a back pocket on the Kefaro, but it has a front pocket that once you fold the top lid down, there's like a little area there where you can like shove your phone.
00:40:06
Speaker
really Really handy. Like I'm digiscoping and all sudden to phone away, but I don't want to shove it behind because sometimes it's hard to get like the phone behind. and it's hard to get pulled back out. So once I have the harness open, I just like shove it in between the little flap in the main po pouch and it works really slick.
00:40:22
Speaker
on a few hikes this year, I know people don't want to hear this, but I've put on a book while I was hiking out and I've shoved my phone into that little pouch on the back of the marsupial and listen to a book. Cause like I had to do some dog or like 14 mile days a few times this year. And I was just like, I'm putting a book on and I'm just going to freaking go chat. I was, I wasn't doing by hours. I was doing, but I'm going to a chapter before I stop. but Like I just go. um so yeah, I do like, I use that thing on the back as well.
00:40:47
Speaker
So another piece of gear from Kefaru again, awesome dudes up there. Love that brand. um I will say that a Triceratops would kick the crap out of a Rhino.
00:40:57
Speaker
Just throwing that out there right now. So they do have a cool logo, but I'm telling you mine would beat them up. Anyways, ah the Kefaru Super Tarp. um it has i've spent more days in that this year than any other shelter and i absolutely love and and i and i am a tent dork like i've got teepees from everyone i've got tents from kuyu and hilleberg and all these people that's super top i think it weighs like 18 ounces it all fits into one pouch it's super small But when you put it up, it is giant. It's bigger than any two man tent you can ever imagine. It's like 12 foot deep, I believe, ah and like five foot wide. And if you set it up right, like once you learn how to do it, it's almost like four foot tall at the highest peak.
00:41:43
Speaker
And i never I have the annex for the five. You can actually turn it into a hot tent as well. But it's just a phenomenal piece of gear, especially for spike camping, because you can break it down and turn it into a tarp as well. So I love multi-use gear, right? Like I don't want to carry a, most of us are carrying a, um you know, sill nylon tarp or something and a tent or, you know, an extra piece of gear. And that could fire a super tarp. You can multipurpose it and you can fit, you can sleep two dudes in it, no problem.
00:42:12
Speaker
But definitely for me, can get all my gear in there and me and be super dry. And I've been in some storms this year in that tent. Yeah, a tarp is one of those things too where no matter what hunt you're going on, it's nice to have a tarp.
00:42:25
Speaker
Always. Always. Like I love being able to say like, all right, it's nasty, it's storming. I love weather. obviously want to be able to glass still and be able to hunt. So it's like I need enough weather to
Importance of Gear Organization and Protection
00:42:38
Speaker
basically keep hunters away. Because when you get to a nasty storm, what's the best thing you want to do is like, oh, I want to go back to my tent because I got a teepee, I got the stove.
00:42:46
Speaker
It's going be warm in there, hang out a little bit. But then like once that storm breaks, now you got to hike back to your hunting area. I would rather stay up on the mountain in my glassing spot. and Yeah, I'm going to be cold. I'm going to be sitting there shivering for a while.
00:42:59
Speaker
But like a tarp can literally make or break your hunt. Because once that storm lifts up, I'm already in position to hopefully glass up something that's going to come up. And I want to able to shoot that animal. Or if I need to bivy out one night, tarp is going to help me all.
00:43:12
Speaker
ah This is a game changer. Three different trips this year. If I'd have a tarp, I'd be in trouble. I would have been intro it wouldn mean not aren't even soaked at least. And three different trips where I've just sat under a tarp for multiple days on those trips.
00:43:27
Speaker
And a tarp's fun. You gotta you like take your trekking poles, build a shelter, pitch them you can pitch them every different way. Super tarp you can use in multiple different ways as well, which is nice.
00:43:37
Speaker
And dude, the best though is tarp with fire during rain. Dude, you get a tarp and get little fire going right there. Oh, dude. Also, a little ramen.
00:43:48
Speaker
Like, i dude, oh, it's a game changer. for Collecting water. I've used a tarp before and I can go down and get raindrops going. You you stick your water bottle over there. And a tarp was actually on my list, too. So it's grab great you brought it up.
00:44:00
Speaker
ah I like Dyneema on a tarp. I to be a little stiffer and everything. So like our GoHunt Dyneema tarp, I've been rocking that the last two years and, you know, help design and develop it a little bit and figure out what we want as attachment points on there.
00:44:14
Speaker
But no matter what one you get, just like pull it out and utilize it. Don't go back to camp. And the funny thing is I was going to, I'm obviously joking when I say this, but it seems like a lot of times when it's storming out and I'm like, should we keep hiking in our rain jacket? Oh, let's just stop and pull the tarp.
00:44:28
Speaker
You pull the tarp. it stops raining. A hundred percent. It's, it's always like you just have to dig around in your backpack. You start to get set up and it stops raining. I'm like, I don't know what that tarp is doing, but it's making the weather change right now by just taking time to pull it out.
00:44:41
Speaker
I'm curious. So like, I'm talking about the super tarp as isn more of a shelter, even more than a tarp. Yeah. As a shelter, just as lightweight, easy, it's big piece of Tyvek under it. And you use as a tarp. I'm curious on the, I want to hear about the Gohunt Ganema, like what size you went with. Did you go with just a square?
00:44:57
Speaker
Yeah, it's more like a rectangle. so i like see I like that. I don't like some of these weird star-shaped stuff. Chester had a star-shaped one. i'm like how do I even pitch this? I know. It gets too complicated. The thing I want when I take an actual tarp, and yeah don we should distinguish like the super tarp does multiple things. This is just like a tarp or camping for Bivy. but like You want to make sure when you go out there, you have all your guidelines attached right away.
00:45:22
Speaker
The worst thing ever is you buy a brand new tarp and you have the guy lines and they're in there and they're not tied in a knot. So they're not looped in the thing. So what is it doing now? It's raining out, downpouring. Dude. buddy might not have his rain gear. 100%. have everything tied already.
00:45:35
Speaker
Have all the loops you need. If you want to customize it and change the line locks or whatever it is, do that ahead of time. You do line locks or you tie like the Boy Scout knocks? I just had the Boy Scout knocks on four corners.
00:45:46
Speaker
I love line locks. Do you? It's because in the heat of the moment when my hands are cold, Like, I want to know, like, all got to do is pull it down. It's going to tighten. Yeah. I've been thinking about it, switching myself over. Cause I have, I, but I tie like, if you know what a boy scout knot is? Like you make a loop and you circle back three or four times and come back through.
00:46:02
Speaker
and yeah it's ah it's a basic attention knot that you'll always slide on you. But, ah i have been thinking about buying a bunch of line locks because I make most of my own stuff and I use, I don't use ah paracord. I use like the, the smaller paracord, super expensive. i don't know what this is made out of gold.
00:46:17
Speaker
Yeah. But whatever that micro paracord is, I use that for my, for my guidelines. Yep. I've gotten a lot of my stuff over the years, like even way back in the day from like Z-Packs. Yeah. Z-Packs. Yeah. Yeah.
00:46:28
Speaker
Z-Packs makes a ton of cool stuff. They have all sorts of different guidelines, all sorts of diameters. The only thing you get to be careful of when you use line locks is to make sure the cordage that you have, if you're going to take something out customize it, that it fits in there. It's not too thin. That's just going slip.
00:46:41
Speaker
It's not too thick that you can't go in there. you have to make sure you're doing the right thing. That's why testing your gear ahead is going be really good. But then also on the triangle line locks or using like the flat one with the two holes.
00:46:51
Speaker
Try and try. I like the triangle line triangle where you snap it out, pull it down. Yeah. Those are sweet. Yep. And like the other ones work too, but the triangle ones work really well and I'll change out all my tents to try to utilize that too. Like a, you know, a teepee and that sort of thing. Like I like that because then I can hook it on a, a, you know, a tent stake really easy. And it's just basically foolproof and that i can customize the length really easy. I don't have to have a lot of like,
00:47:15
Speaker
tying random knots everywhere. Yeah. for I want everyone who's listening this to understand, like, what you' hearing me and Brady talk about right now is like, yes, we're buying gear and then we're modifying gear. We're modifying. We've done it enough to where you kind of realize it and you got to make some changes. And like, you could go buy, I mean, i do I go buy like custom clips for my backpack sometimes, like different kind of clips. I do a lot of, you know,
00:47:36
Speaker
just different things to work like the line lock thing. is an awesome thing. Have you tried the Z packs? This is gear podcast. I, this isn't on my list, but ah Brad hunt had the Z packs carbon fiber tent stakes.
00:47:48
Speaker
Hmm. I haven't tried. I have not tried those. i had a tent stake. That's probably similar to that back in the day. it was made by rudder. Likura super freaking awesome name for a company. You don't even know what stands for, but rudder Likura, they made a, it was basically a carbon fiber arrow with like a tip at the end and they had a flat top,
00:48:05
Speaker
Like, like you can make that two seconds, carbon fiber, all those, all the arrows you break and go to tack. I'm so funny. You're saying this and make them into 10 stakes. Dude, we were having this weird. So this is us. Like on, we've, i had two hundreds. We talked about this. Cause like, I hate, like, I hate buying a thousand dollar shelter and getting the crappiest 10 stakes with it. Like why kids will make, why kids will make a good 10 stake?
00:48:26
Speaker
If you're buying a tent right now, I don't care what company it is. Take those stakes and throw them away. That's they give you. Go. You always have to buy aftermarket stakes. Those like, uh, what they called the MSR groundhog steaks junk?
00:48:39
Speaker
I'm sorry. Like they just, and if they're like, they're red color, they always have the top on it. And you hammer the top breaks off. The top breaks off. And you get cut. And you get cut when you step on it. There's no other backup method when that top breaks, like stop, stop using those.
00:48:54
Speaker
So what is your steak? Are you like a J hook titanium? I used to be like the little shepherd hook thing, like super lightweight. Those are hard. Cause they just don't grab good enough. Yep. So I've moved over and i now Go Hunt creates the ones that I've always wanted. It's basically a thicker aluminum stake.
00:49:11
Speaker
And so I like stakes that are a little bit thicker because that diameter then is adding more surface area to the ground. So it's enabling the ground to grip your stake. That makes sense. Like the shepherd hook ones will go in really easy, but they also pull out really easy. Really easy.
00:49:23
Speaker
You have a six inch stake or an eight inch stake with a little bit more diameter to it. It really grips the ground. and uh then the loop just goes right over it and then it works a lot better like i'd rather have longer stakes and like these are still like yeah less than an ounce each like there's not talking about adding a lot of weight so like yeah a titanium shepherd hook is going to work for maybe early season hunts but like you start getting up in the alpine you start going on a late season how we have to push it in snow where it's going to be windy like or sand in south southern desert like i hunt it's really hard to shepherd hook
00:49:54
Speaker
Yeah. And like not a lot of places have big rocks. Like I'll always put rocks over top of everything. Like, you might not have rocks in there. So get a stake that has a little bit more surface area, at least six inches long, sometimes eight inches long.
00:50:07
Speaker
And, uh, I think that's going to be better for majority people. I run that same sort of stake set up for my tarp as I do with like a, you know, four person teepee. I'll have to check out those steaks that go on steaks. Yeah. I like the eight incher.
00:50:20
Speaker
I do. I can say that they make a steak at MSR. That's like a spiral, like a 10 inch. Really, really good steak as well. I have a few of like four of those in my pack. Cause like when I'm going somewhere, like those steaks are really nice. because I wish somebody would make like a smaller version of that one.
00:50:36
Speaker
So this is, again, I'll throw out there. I already threw out the now screen. I want someone to make a tent steak company and you can name your steaks, the ribeye, the porterhouse. And all you do is make good tent steaks. Cause I swear, like we went on a hunt this year and I don't want to talk about it. I feel bad.
00:50:52
Speaker
We're using a, ah we're using a prototype bitch and tent. And at least we broke every 10 stake. I'm like, you're kidding me. This tent is freaking a thousand bucks. We couldn't spring for an extra $3 for some good 10 stakes. Yeah. So good 10 stakes are like, if you buy a tent that are like Bray said, throw em away. Cause you're going so fresh reading it out there. Um, beating it with a rock, whatever you're doing and breaking the ends off of it. And so yeah, 10 stakes are huge.
00:51:14
Speaker
What size is your type? You're not type of, um, your carb, um, Cuban, Cuban fiber, Tarp? Tarp, yeah. 8x10. 8x10 is a good size. It's a really good size. I think 8x10 is a really good size. I like 10x12. 8x10 is kind of a really good size.
00:51:31
Speaker
You can get away with it, um make it work. ah My favorite tent setup is just two trekkers in the front, wrap around it, and then put a, and then stick the bottom down to the back.
00:51:42
Speaker
And if I can find a little bit of a ledge where can sit down below it, then that's even more money. Yep. 8x10 is like really good for like two people with obviously two backpacks Yeah. If you have more people in that, you might need a little bigger one or have to kind of set up how you want it. But like I said, the 8x10s with all the different guideline attachments and stuff, like you can like, you know, fold one side down to prevent the wind if the wind's coming from the side.
00:52:05
Speaker
Like it's just a universal tarp. It just works really, really well. And I just... Yeah, i want like bigger ones are gonna be great too, but this is like that weight savings and functionality and yeah, 8x10. I think we probably should come out some more sizes down in the future because there is theres use cases for a little bit bigger tarp, especially if you get like three dudes.
00:52:24
Speaker
Yeah. By 12. 10 by 12 is a really good size for me. and Like it kind of fits like everyone in there. You don't to worry about having more than one tarp, but a eight by 10 for two dudes all day long. I can make that happen. I have one that's outside as well. I have few different, I'm a big tarp guy. There's tarp in my pack all the time, especially out West. Like you're going to get rained on. If you're out there for 10 days, like you're going to get rained on at some point, you just just count on it.
00:52:46
Speaker
I do like what you say, whatever you go it's like when you rain gear on and then all of a sudden you're just sweating balls and the sun comes out. Here's like, what the heck? But when I was in Alaska last week, Two weeks ago it rained from like day. We saw the Sunday one. It's all the Sun the last day. That was it It just rained saw I've never seen rain like that word never saw and tarps were lifesavers.
00:53:06
Speaker
Yeah, it was literally lifesavers We had two tarps set up on top of the hill glass and we might every hour get a glimpse of some open sky to look at and then back under the tarp It's just super hanging out your buddies in the rain All right, so yeah I did totally I did tarp unit tarp. So you're up I think The next one's going to go something that everyone needs that's relatively cheap.
00:53:31
Speaker
It's going to make your life a lot easier. And there's tons of gear bags out there. Absolutely tons. There's also different materials, still nylon, nylon, you know, Dyneema, whatever may be.
00:53:43
Speaker
I'm going down this rabbit hole now so I want to hear this. I'm excited. So quite a few years ago, we were testing out our gear bags. I was like, well, I love Tyvek. always have a Tyvek ground sheet. And I was like, why don't we the Tyvek ground sheet material that we have, the leftovers, and we make gear bags out of it.
00:53:59
Speaker
So we have a Tyvek, like literally Tyvek that you'd wrap around your house, like Tyvek gear bags that go on. they They're like white. And actually love the white because it's really easy to see. has a reflective thing on it. And we make other materials for the gear bags too.
00:54:11
Speaker
But just like the Tyvek material is lighter than everything else. And it doesn't rip. And it doesn't rip. that's see that Because the Sil Nylon ones, I poke holes in all my crap. Yeah, like eventually if you wear it out enough and drag it across stuff, sure, you might like start ripping it a little bit, but it's durable.
00:54:27
Speaker
It works for my tail kit. It works like we just finally, i I wanted a whole different size range and this is gonna sound crazy. Like, so we have previous to this, the smallest Tyvek when we has our small size that weighs 0.52 ounces.
00:54:41
Speaker
yeah And it's like 2.2 liters is what the size is. So it's a pretty decent size. You can use the kill kit, but like I want one just a little bit smaller because I want just like my optics, little ah you know little like puffer thing, lens pan, that sort of stuff. And I can use it as my kill kit too. So now I can downsize my kill kit bag that used to be the small size or extra small size weighs 0.49 ounces. Now we're saving a little bit of ounces here and not having a bunch of extra material. And there's just like...
00:55:09
Speaker
it fit really well you can drop them in random random little areas of your backpack they're white i like the white ones too i actually love when tyvek starts getting dirty because i love my gear looking beat up and like it's just me i like having things for a long time and showing wear and tear showing scratches showing scars on it also quiets up quite a bit which is nice it does quite up a lot more you beat it up yeah so like i love those tyvek go hunt gear bags they're like i said assortment of sizes but like my favorites are the small and the extra small because like i just want to put random stuff in there kill fits big optic optic accessories i call so has like my charge cords my lens pen lens wipes and there's a million different use cases for it but like i love those tyvek bags i'm very passionate about them because there's just they just work
00:55:57
Speaker
might some of those up because uh, I've, I was never, I was always like a big top lid guy I still have one, but dude, my top was getting way too heavy. Like it's too much stuff. So I started, I had, ended up running a, a seek outside seek sent me one of their, um, we did some trading where the ultralight through pack, like three packs, I'm not a honey pack, it's like, you know, it weighs like two pounds.
00:56:16
Speaker
And did like probably 15 days now this year and I had to run backs. Um, And now I'm like really into bags right now. I'm trying to figure this out. Like I saw like mar suitit my buddies, my buddy, it's more super ones. Like those are cool.
00:56:27
Speaker
And I've got some stuff from mountain ops. I got a couple other ones from like sea to summit. Like I'm kind of like some Everly stock ones. I'm kind of in this like weird gear bag thing right now. I'm trying to like, I used to be an anti, I think it was like, I just freaking drank the XO Kool-Aid of like, don't use any pack to shove everything. And now I'm like, no, it's screw that. I want to run stuff sacks and stuff. I used to never run stuff sacks.
00:56:48
Speaker
I would just shove everything in there. But now i'm like, I'm really liking the organization of like having stuff in bags and pulling it out and having it like in ah in a place. Yeah. Cause it makes the yard sale a lot less when you have things in bags. Like I'm, I used to be the guy who had everything in bags.
00:57:02
Speaker
Then I had nothing in bags. And now I'm still kind of nothing in bags for the most part, except for these random little things I love it for. And I don't like when I, if I don't have a bag in my top lid, like one these other gear bags, end up being the top lids, like everyone calls it like the junk drawer of back. Oh, dude, the worst. It starts weighing so much. It starts weighing so much. you shove some stuff in there. You open it up. Your backpack falls over when the zipper's open. All your shit falls all over the place. Everywhere.
00:57:26
Speaker
And so like trying to like keep keep some things organized, but keep the weight down a little bit with these gear bags. And I think then it just, you know, adds to that just being organized and being well, more prepared for everything.
00:57:39
Speaker
Then I feel like, Hey, where's my, you know, a kill kit? Well, it's white and I know it's labeled and I just pull it out right away and boom, there it is. It's like the extra small one. I literally just got it last week finally.
00:57:49
Speaker
So I took it on the antelope hunt just got back from and, you know, tried to beat it up a little bit over there, but I just love like, Who thought we'd have like like a Tyvek gear bag, like another use for Tyvek besides for a ground sheet. So it's like kind of like doing something different with it and make an ultra light and durable at the same time. And no one's doing that. And Tyvek is so freaking durable, dude. It's so durable. I did.
00:58:11
Speaker
The only pad I've ever popped was being on a still nylon tarp rather than a Tyvek tarp. but And I had a pad pop of me in a new air pop of me in Utah last year because I freaking was on still nylon and Tyvek just does it has a way of being stronger right didn't when I say like i just imagine like please throw intense takes in those things and like you're not ripping holes in it think it's just yeah that's that's a sweet piece of gear that kind of feeds over into my bag situation so like my kit this year.
Choosing Quilts Over Sleeping Bags
00:58:37
Speaker
I'm talking about my sleeping bag that I've been running now. and i don't rent My like comforter or my quilt, I'm sorry. I don't run sleeping bags. Everyone who listens to my podcast knows I am a quilt guy through and through. I've been a quilt guy for 10 years and I only ran in light and equipment up until this year.
00:58:53
Speaker
I got 30 degree stone glacier quilt. And I have fallen in love with this quilt. I've used it so much and I see myself carrying it.
00:59:05
Speaker
mean, I don't see a hunt that I'm going go on. I'm going to Utah next month and that's going to be warm enough can run 30 degree. i got to look at the weather. um I'm really loving that quilt. It just fits my body good. I'm six foot tall. I'm taller guy. like to have my quilt over my head in my sleep.
00:59:22
Speaker
That Stone Glacier quilt, it's super light. It's not super hot. One thing I'd say is like running my I have a 10 degree line equipment. I've got a 50 degree. I've got all kinds of them. But the 10 degree line equipment little bit warm on some of these hunts.
00:59:36
Speaker
And it's just I really like that Stone Glacier quilt, man. Yeah, I have the same quilt and I've been using a lot on my summer scouting. And it's like where I'm hunting is pretty hot. So there's a lot of nights I don't even use it, but it's like,
00:59:50
Speaker
It is great when I, like last year i had a muzzleloader tag in the high country. So I was using the stone glacier quilt all the time. It's like, it doesn't weigh anything, super warm, super versatile. Packs up super small.
01:00:01
Speaker
So small. Yeah. Like I've kind of, i used to be like you like all quilts all the time. Like I want to save as much weight, which is really good. i had a lightened equipment, had a few other brands over the years. And then I kind of moved away from it because I do like having like a hood.
01:00:17
Speaker
like having a mummy hood. Most of the time I ended up wearing, just wearing my beanies and my my hoods and my clothes at night. i don't know what it is. I've just got like, like having something over my, my ears, I guess when I'm like in the back country.
01:00:28
Speaker
So kind of miss that on a quilt, but like you can't deny though, like that, that piece of gear is going to cut some ounces off your. A hundred percent guts ounces. And you can, you can like, I'm a roller, right? So I roll my sleep.
01:00:40
Speaker
Like, well, we can go into pads a little bit too. Cause we can talk about that. But, um, yeah, in a sleeping bag, I feel like I start twisting up sometimes. and i get twist in ah In a quilt, I can roll around. I'll go stomach, I'll go side, go stomach, I'll go side.
01:00:53
Speaker
I don't get twisted up in it. and I like that. and I like when it's warmer. I can just throw a leg out the side of it and put the leg back in if i need have to worry about zipping it up. um don't have to worry about zippers binding, which zippers are the ass.
01:01:06
Speaker
and I know everyone has been like super down with this like piece one right now. and they're all under this this and and i'm like thinking about i might try it, but um' I look at I'm like, I'm not knocking peaks. They make it off sleeping bag, but it's like, dude, it's a pound heavier than my quilts. Like a quilt is like, it's an area where like, cause I'll talk about my sleeping pad right now.
01:01:22
Speaker
I used to, I run the X-Therm a lot. ah ah like on co of them an x theom I've run the same X-Therm for 10 years now. I have not popped it once. It probably looks like a Petri dish inside. Cause I blow it up my mouth. Now I have a pump.
01:01:35
Speaker
That's other thing throw that on my gear list. I love the pump now, but, um,
01:01:41
Speaker
I run now, i run a quilt to a super light anywhere from like 16 to 22 ounces. I run the Therm-a-Rest, I even know what it's called, but it's like almost two foot wide by like 84 inches square, like four inch thick pad. And it's a heavy, it's a, it's, I think it's like a 16 or 18 ounce pad. So it's heavier.
01:01:58
Speaker
Heavier. Yeah. But my sleeping bag is a pound lighter. So I just, i you do that weird gear math. where you're like certain things. And I love having that big square rectangular pad.
01:02:08
Speaker
It's so nice. It's like sleeping on ah mattress. I love it. Yeah. You're kind of like figuring out, okay, what can I give and take? Like obviously quilts a bit lighter so I can have a little bit better sleeping pad.
01:02:20
Speaker
And yeah, it's just like, yeah, like i said, trying to pay play that math in your head about pros, cons and lists of things. but it's like, yeah, that's a great thing to test out and figure it out too. Cause like I've gone, all over the board on on sleeping
Challenges and Solutions for Sleeping Pads
01:02:31
Speaker
pads. Like i've had the, you know, I don't think they make it anymore, but I had the Therm-a-Rest Uberlite.
01:02:37
Speaker
The thing just pops. Yeah, the baffles would always explode on me. so like all of a sudden, it would literally be like a giant pillow. it would It would, no joke, get to like a foot and a half thick because all the baffles would blow up. So the thing just gets a lot bigger.
01:02:50
Speaker
and then you're trying to sleep on that and you're like, yeah, no, gonna have to change it up a little bit. And I've even gone some that are like all skeletonized back in the day from climate. I have some of those climate ones, dude, and miserable. i have one of those, i have a short one. That's like, it's like only from my head to like my butt.
01:03:05
Speaker
Yeah. I still have it. And it's like, this is not working. I still right now though, being like a dude, I'm six foot five. I don't buy long sleeping pads. I just buy the regulars. Really?
01:03:16
Speaker
To try to save a little bit of weight. And i kind i'm I'm a side sleeper. So I kind of like, I kind of like curl up a little bit and then I always have you know, a tie back ground sheet.
01:03:27
Speaker
So sleeping bag at the end is not like sticking in the dirt, but like, yeah, I probably should have a long. I'm just like, I can save a little bit of weight so I can carry some more optics and carry a heavy rifle. Yeah, the sleeping pad thing has been a game changer. I just spend so much time sleeping out there that it's just like I really like it I mean, behind that one like the big Neo Air and then my X-Therm, right? so those are ones I'm going to run on all my hunts.
01:03:49
Speaker
i I am a big Thermoresc on my pads. Just throw it out there. Like, I don't know. I think Big Nags make some good ones too. But like, I've had some pads that I've bought and that just pop.
01:04:00
Speaker
Like i've I've tried the cheaper pads. Like for me, like Therm-a-Rest is like tried and true. The last thing you want to do is be sleeping on rocks. And I always have patches now too. i mean, I can fix it. But like I had one, i was, is when I was first on the backpack and like I was on a, i don't want to say the name, whatever. might've already mentioned it.
01:04:18
Speaker
And it, it popped on me and I was head to sleep on rocks for like three days and you're just miserable. It's cold. It's just, you can't like, it's just, a pad is just something you don't want to chintz on and they'll last you for those thermo rest ones will last you forever man i really do yeah i still got a ton at my house i have like two of them that kind of rotate between and yeah i'm just trying to baby them a little bit now it's like last a bit longer but i'm surprised that you're a short that's probably why you have to run because i run like an uber long um quilt so i can put it over my head but being you probably can't even get over your head still
01:04:48
Speaker
No, i mean I max out all the sleep bag legs, whether whether it's peaks or stone glacier, I'm at like the max threshold for it. So it's like, yeah, I mean, i'm I'm kind of fortunate, I guess I do sleep on my side and I can then use whatever kind of bag or pad I want. But it's like, yeah, it's me being crazy. And they're like,
01:05:05
Speaker
I can also sleep. I could probably like close my eyes right now and fall asleep in this chair. I actually get a decent amount of sleep. Like I sleep fast, quick. um when i'm When I'm sleeping too, I'm out hard. I don't hear any noises or anything. So I'm fortunate all that area.
01:05:19
Speaker
So me being crazy, it's just like, yeah, I'll just save a little, save a little thing. Backcountry sleeping to me is not supposed to, it's not supposed to be like a five-star hotel. It's supposed to be, I like to suffer a little bit when I'm out there, but still get a quality sleep.
01:05:32
Speaker
Yeah, I feel like I have to have, I want quality sleep, but especially when you're doing some of these hunts where it's like, gets dark at 930, it's light at 5am. I feel like I want to get like a good night's. I pop two, uh, Tylenol PMs and then go to sleep, get a little ibuprofen or, uh, Advil PM, whatever the ibuprofen one is.
01:05:51
Speaker
So, um, what's your
Innovations in Tripods: Tricer JC and Micro-Panning
01:05:54
Speaker
next gear? You got any more gear? I'm gonna give you some props here on some of your stuff. So we're gonna make- Oh, dude, we're gonna do some Tricer stuff? Oh, sweet. your ad So correct me if I'm wrong. Last year you came out with the JC tripod, right?
01:06:11
Speaker
Yes. Okay. And then when did you come out with the treasure 360? Was that shortly after that? Spring. Okay. So I just did a video. i don't when it's going to go live, but you'll see it eventually. And it was like, you know, I just did the video because I like the products.
01:06:25
Speaker
And so i was out in animal hunting and I wanted to talk about micro adjust panning like that has changed my life that's why that's why i love the jc because everything's built into it yeah like literally i can be on my btx my 115 not have to have my eyes touching the optic and take that micro and just like adjust everything over and slowly pan left and right and be super smooth there's been so many occasions where i'm digiscoping And I got an animal moving across and I'm trying to film, we're doing hunt films.
01:06:55
Speaker
And like, I just like slightly move it. It's like, like cinematic. And like, yeah, fluid, fluid head, like they all work great. You know, like I have the BP head on there too, so I could totally do it there, but like being able to micro move and like grid out an area and just like,
01:07:12
Speaker
That literally, if people have not used that yet, it is the glassing, like revolution of our, the last, like, don't know, my entire life of hunting. i That's awesome.
01:07:24
Speaker
it Since the tripod, since the tripod, it it is, I say all time, once you do it, like when I, when I finally got it done, i remember looking for coosier and finding so many deer that first day and calling Cody Nelson saying, Cody,
01:07:39
Speaker
I'm gonna change costing forever yeah with this micro panning. And it's no joke. And yeah, I'm hanging out with you and you designed it, but I'm like talking about it. Like I literally, will take that everywhere I go because like I want either the 360 on one of your other ones or just the JC. And I have right now all the weight in the legs and in the and the center column because I want a stable setup. I'm not really going that far yeah or summer scouting and it's climbing up to a big ridge really quickly and glassing in the wind. But like having micro panning and all that stuff is like, poof.
01:08:12
Speaker
I find no joke more animals because of it. And then when you're digiscoping too, if I'm setting it up and you're doing the dreaded like, oh, moves over this way. It moves up down. I'm just like, oh, yeah, just move it over.
01:08:23
Speaker
I'm out of rifle range. Like it's so sick. It's the coolest thing. I do love that I created a term to micro panning. That was, it wasn't even a term two years ago. Now it's like a thing.
01:08:34
Speaker
Like, it's like, just made that up. Micro panning. It works, dude. It works. Yeah. I'm i'm glad you you like that. I think anyone who glasses and gets behind that, especially with large optics and you can really, cause like the problem is like when you're glassing,
01:08:49
Speaker
like for coos deer and you're looking a mile away, eighth inch is ah hundred yards sometimes. Right. So like if with a micro pan, you can go so slow and really it just, it forces you to slow down, which I like about it. And it forces you like, no matter what, when you use a pan head, you just start going fast.
01:09:07
Speaker
Yeah. And everyone will say like, well, I can make it really smooth. And yeah, you can when you're moving things around, but it's like, you want to slow it down even more. That's how you figure out details of the lens. That's how you see your twitch and antler, whatever it may be.
01:09:21
Speaker
You're going to allow yourself your eyes to to pick up things. Yeah. Especially that midday, midday, you get behind a BTX and you're looking like it's like 2 p.m. and You're looking through bushes and you just like Mike is going so, so looking into them, finding them. And because you're like me, you're just a psychopath. Like you're just like, oh, why would I go back to the town where I can sit here in the hot sun and cook with GoHunt hoodie?
01:09:43
Speaker
yeah There's a piece of gear should throw out there too, man. That GoHunt sun hoodie, love that thing. Oh yeah, the the approach and the approach light. So those are the, the poly ones, dude. I've been rocking those things on every hunt this year. I'm I'll put it over my hat and do my shade because I know you care that I do use that for the shade. and Love those go hunt hoodies,
The Value of GoHunt Membership
01:10:01
Speaker
man. I bet those have been on like every hunt I've been on Africa to Alaska. but last Yeah. It's like things that make you more comfortable and make you be able to glass longer.
01:10:10
Speaker
And like, what you got any more stuff to tell me how great I am about or is that that it just a micro panning? Oh, more gear? more gear Is that it? You're good? Dude, I got so many cool stuff. Oh, dude.
01:10:21
Speaker
that was ah That was a fun pod, dude. um I appreciate you, Brady. i appreciate GoHunt so much, dude. You guys have... Really gave me the leg up to do what I've done and you give me the support and you believe in me and that will offer me loyalty to you guys. I tell people all the time, like my, I have it you know, I have employees now and they're talking, they're meeting you guys today and like, Oh, what know about? them I'm going to, they're my person favorite.
01:10:45
Speaker
I mean, they're, they're go hot. They're the dudes, you guys, are the guys doing it. If you don't have a GoHunt membership, dude, go to GoHunt.com, use code TRICER, save 25%, get a membership. Even if you don't save 25%, it is worth it. you can't You can't buy all this gear and not use it, right? You buy all this gear, it does you no good.
01:11:02
Speaker
yeah to go The best piece of gear I have is my GoHunt membership. I'm telling you right now, I'm not saying that as a joke, is the best piece of gear I have personally is a GoHunt membership because i go hunting all over the West because I go hunt every single year.
01:11:17
Speaker
Yeah. it's just like I said, too, micro panic changed my life. Micro panic. So da we each other's lives because we ran this like thing called life and super sweet jobs.
01:11:28
Speaker
We've got acquainted with each other and micro panic changed my life. Insider took up more tags. Yeah, it's crazy. Let's go, dude. Let's do it again, bro. I'm excited to see you. Hey, and just throwing this out there, me and Brady might be going somewhere next year.
01:11:43
Speaker
Really cool. Can't say where it is, but it might happen. I'm excited. Yeah, I'm excited too. Later,
Conclusion: Connect with Tricer
01:11:50
Speaker
dude. I appreciate it Thank you for listening to the Tricer podcast.
01:11:54
Speaker
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01:12:07
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