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for those canines and their handlers who are always striving to be the best at what they

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Those who are always grinding.

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Those who are always pushing the limits.

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I'm your host, Bryce Matthews.

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And I'm your co-host, Stephen Basham.

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Welcome, welcome, welcome guys to another episode of the Semper Doggen podcast.

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I am your host Bryce Matthews and we are joined by the ever ugly Stephen Basham.

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How are you brother?

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Ever beautiful.

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You know, this should be a video version so that I appreciate the beauty of what the silver

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and gray just brings.

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Oh yeah, you're rocking it alright.

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Guys tonight we are going to sit down and this episode is going to be for the new competition

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hunter.

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It is going to be for the old competition hunter.

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It is going to be for anybody who is interested in an equipment upgrade or swap.

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This episode tonight, Basham and I are going to go through everything that we are using

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on a nightly basis.

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Where you can get it, the pros and cons of each thing, kind of like a little product

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review just kind of of what we are using.

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So we just got back from Automoaks and while we were there we were not able to sit down

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and record with anybody.

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It was the busiest week of my life.

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What about you Basham?

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I did not have a free second.

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Man if you read my post on Facebook, I didn't know that Basham's handyman service was going

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to be employed at Automoaks because man I got up there and from day one everything was

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going wrong with everybody's camper and had electrical issues.

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Jeffrey's camper kept popping the 30 amp breakers which it is a 50 amp trailer anyways but his

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most trailers are 50 amp but his was really like every few minutes was popping a breaker.

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So I ended up going to the store and getting enough stuff material to make him his own

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outlet for his camper and then everybody else because it was hot.

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They were popping and then his slide outs wouldn't work so I had to troubleshoot and

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find out why his slide outs weren't working and then Mark and Tiff's door wouldn't shut

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so I was over there working on that.

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Man it turned into like a handyman service.

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Yeah between working on campers, getting the wedding dialed in where it needed to be, you

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and I trying to get things ready for the hunts and then trying to help everybody get stuff

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ready for the show.

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Then the storm.

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Yeah then that storm came through.

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The storm.

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There was a devastating storm that came through guys.

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If you didn't see any of my pictures, they were probably just on Snapchat but there was

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a storm that came through and it literally looked like a mini tornado came through Richmond,

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Indiana.

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The tents just absolutely wadded up like your pop up tents.

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They were wadded up.

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They were thrown on top of campers and on top of trailers.

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It was just, it came through and wreaked havoc.

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Yeah, Basman Eye, we caught a dog running loose through the grounds there that had broke

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loose from its tie out during the storm and heading towards the road.

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to do was kind of walk through the grounds, just chat with people, spend time, fellowship,

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have some camaraderie.

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We looked at some of the new gear that's out, looked at some of the old stuff that we've

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been using for a long time, the tried and true, and we kind of thought it would just

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be a nice time to sit down here and talk about what we're using on a nightly basis.

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So that's what we're going to do tonight, Basham.

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Is there anything else that you want to cover tonight?

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You can just kind of start off, because I know you've kind of changed it up on me a

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little bit.

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There for the longest time you had the vest that you had special ordered and special made

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and I've noticed, actually I was going to hit you up on that.

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I noticed here lately you've deviated from the vest and now you've went to the little

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belt.

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And actually I think you noticed that, well, you didn't notice because I stayed in the

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truck, but I've kind of done the same thing.

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I saw it one night when we went pleasure hunting.

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I saw that you had on.

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So yeah, a little military belt.

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It's got, you know, it's got a first aid, it's got my other pouch and then it's got

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a pouch for my Garmin and a pouch for my thermal.

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Well, we're going to get there.

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So let's, let's start from the bottom.

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Let's break this down and do it in a format of, let's talk about the product and one thing

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that you like and one thing that you would change because I can think of something that

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I would change with just about everything that I have.

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If it were a perfect world.

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All right.

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Let's start with the boots.

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What are you rocking?

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Right now and I, I was I won't mean actually I wanted to get the names of them, but on

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the inside, on the inside of it, it's worn off.

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So I can't really tell you, I know they're lacrosse, but I don't know exactly which lacrosse

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they are.

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Cause I can't remember.

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I've actually believe it or not, which, you know, I mean, I hunt pretty hard.

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So my problem has always been with the boots to be honest with you.

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So I'm a big dry shot fan.

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I love the dry shots just because I like the bulkness of them.

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A lot of people don't like them because they're heavy.

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The kind of the same with the Quattros, but the dry shots I like because man, they've

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got some grip on the bottom.

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If you've ever looked at the tread on the bottom of the dry shot, I mean, it's like

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full wheel drive.

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So it gives you, it gives you a good grip.

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Problem really doesn't really stem much with the boot.

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Like I don't really, a lot of people have problems with the boot splitting and stuff

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like that.

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Mine's more with the, with the chaps, usually within five to six months, four months, sometimes

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pretty starting to tear apart from the, from the boot.

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And I just half the time I just ended up pitching the boot instead of, I should go get it fixed,

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but just pisses me off and I ended up going to get new boots.

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But right now I'm rocking lacrosse is like I said, I'm not sure which ones they are.

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They're the lightweight ones.

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So they don't have insulation on the inside of them.

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And then obviously I cannot, I know you're the same way.

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I cannot wear boots anymore without my booties.

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Those are the, those are the Bama socks he's talking about.

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So I am wearing the Bikina step light pro boots.

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Those are the boots that I prefer because they are super lightweight.

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It's almost like having a tennis shoe on the other thing.

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And I'm going to give you guys a little more detail on this boot cause I'm a big fan of

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it.

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So the Bikina is one of the only boots on the market that is a one piece molded design.

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There is no sole glued onto the shell of a boot.

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It's all molded at the same time.

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So you, when Bashton talked earlier, you know, a lot of guys have issues with souls and boots

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splitting and doesn't happen with the Bikina because there's nothing on the bottom to come

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off with.

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There's nothing that's mated together.

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So the, the Bikina boot, like he talked about the tread on his lacrosse is these are the

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same way.

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They have absolute meat hooks on the bottom of them.

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They are very, very sturdy.

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They have good deep traction and you can really get some traction going up a muddy bank.

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So big fan of the Bikina boot and I'm rocking the Yoder nylon Bushmaster chap.

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And I will say that, you know, me, I always have everything of mine customized.

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Like everything I do is custom and I do it for a reason because I'll, I'll use what's

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on the market and then I'll pick it apart and I'll, I will tailor make it to however

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I like it.

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So me being a shorter fella, five foot nine in stature with these little bitty legs, what

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I have found here in Indiana is that trying to cross the amount of fences that we have,

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I was ripping the insides of the chaps out on the standard, um, the standard chaps to

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have like the wicked chaps, um, maybe the five star chaps, you know, whatever, there's

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some of the thinner materials.

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So, so I called Yoder and I had them put the Bushmaster chap, which is the thickest chap

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that they make right below snake chap, um, on my boots.

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So just to help with that issue, they don't get caught on the fences as much whenever

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I'm crossing limbs and logs, they just don't rip as bad.

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So I'm just trying to help myself get a little bit longer life out of those chaps.

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Um, it is a little bit hotter, but I'm willing to sacrifice that, you know, um, if I can

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get a longer life out of a pair of chaps, cause they're about $185 for a boot and chap

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combo.

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So if I can get a little bit, that's any of them now.

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So the one I'm, I'll be honest, probably my favorite ones and help me.

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I know dry.

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I don't know if dry shot does it or not.

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Um, who makes the half boot?

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So dry shot, uh, does make a half boot that kind of goes up to the side, like the up to

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your calf.

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Those.

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So I wore those for about five or six months.

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I got them from Jake Reineger and I absolutely loved those as far as like slipping them on,

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slipping them off.

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You know, I didn't have to worry because you know, me, I hunting shorts a lot.

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And so I'll, I'll know knee socks, you know, so that way it's not rubbing on my calves,

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but with those, uh, half boots, I could just wear a regular boot socks and it was really

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nice.

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I liked those.

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So the, my one complaint with the bikinis is that, like you said, what you're rocking

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through the crosses, they are not insulated.

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So in the winter time, God, my feet freeze.

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Um, and that is worth wearing a Bama sock on the inside of it.

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Guys, if you haven't, if you haven't looked into the Bama socks, check those out.

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If you guys have like feet that sweat real bad, like myself, those Bama socks are great.

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They're moisture wicking socks.

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So what they do is they draw the moisture away from your actual sock.

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And when you get done hunting, it's like voodoo magic.

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You'll pull your foot out of this boot and that Bama sock will be absolutely soaked in

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your regular cotton sock or whatever your wool sock, whatever you want to wear is dry.

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So it keeps your feet dry.

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Um, and then in the winter time, best part of in the winter time, it does offer a little

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bit of warmth there too.

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What's the best part of the Bama socks?

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Artist, what for you, what is the first thing to go in a boot?

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The sole, the insole.

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Mine is the mind's the heel.

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If I don't, before Bama socks came along, I would go through boots like crazy because

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the back that in socks.

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I used to have to double up on socks because I would wear the heel out of my sock.

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I mean, I would get blisters on the, on the heel of my, my foot because if I wore one

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sock because by the time the heel of the boot wore out, it was wearing my sock out.

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And then all of a sudden come the Bama sock.

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And now I mean my bash and boom, I get a new pair and there I go.

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Instead of wearing a pair of boots out or a pair of socks out, you know, I've got those

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Bama socks.

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Um, so yeah, that's my only complaint is I wish I could find an insulated version of

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that boot that I could order for the winter.

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And I might look into that.

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They might make it.

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I just haven't, haven't come across them yet, but I might have those custom made.

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Have you tried the dry shod?

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I have, I have tried the dry shot.

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I don't like them.

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They're so heavy.

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The dry shod, the quattros, they're all heavy.

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And when you're walking through mud and snow, I mean, you might as well have a 10 pound

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dumbbell strapped to your foot in my, and we know how you are with Charlotte horses.

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Oh yeah.

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I get cramps like absolutely crazy.

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I got a cramp earlier today, literally walking down a sidewalk.

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Why?

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Why does that happen to me?

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I don't know.

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Right in my calf.

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It was awful.

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So yeah, I try to keep stuff lightweight.

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Okay.

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So let's move on up.

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Moving on up.

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And I think this is probably where we both go to the belt now.

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As you alluded to earlier, when I first started hunting, I struggled to find a place to put

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everything.

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I wanted things in a convenient location.

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I wanted things easily accessible.

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I wanted things secure where they weren't going to fall off.

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So what I did is I actually got this from Shane Maxey.

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You guys who have been around for a while, and especially in the red bone breed, you

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know, Shane, I worked with Shane over at General Motors for several years.

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He was a, he was the pipe fitter on one of my press lines and I was talking to him about

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this.

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I'm like, dude, I can't figure this out.

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And he said, Hey, he said, check into this vest.

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He said, you can buy the vest on Amazon.

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It's got Molly attachment and Molly comes from the military.

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It's an acronym M O L L E.

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I forget exactly what the acronym stands for, but basically it has a series of straps and

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loops that you can weave together and put, put things where you want them and they stay

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secure.

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So you buy the vest and then you buy your specific pouches.

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And so I made my own vest.

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I had my phone on the front of my chest.

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I had my phone, my handheld receiver from my dog that I was running at the time, two

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big pockets, which held my leads, my scorecards, pencils, squalors, I had a water bottle pouch,

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a thermal pouch.

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I had a carabiner clipped onto me with like a little safety light, a sport dog safety

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beacon.

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I had all kinds of stuff.

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I had all this stuff on my, on the front of my vest and that's what I wore.

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And I wore that for years and it, the biggest problem was it was heavy and it was hot in

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the summertime.

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So in the last two years I have migrated, no last year, the last year I have migrated

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to wear in the competition belt.

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The belt that I wear is, it's a froggy bottom belt, you know, made by our title sponsor,

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Froggy Bottom Outdoors.

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Yoder nylon makes these with our name on them.

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And it is a, it's a one and a half inch thick nylon belt, which I just put around my waist.

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It doesn't go through your butt loops.

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On that belt, I have a, on the left side, I keep a big versatile catch all pouch.

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In that pouch, I keep two Kuhn squalors.

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I always have two.

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I'll get into which squalors I'm using.

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Two Kuhn squalors, scorecard, pen, toilet paper, an allergy, like an inhaler type deal.

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I think that's all I have in there.

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Then on the, still on the left side, I've got two water bottle pouches.

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I keep one for myself, one for the dog.

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Then on the right side of that belt, I've got my thermal pouch, my Garmin pouch.

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I run a monocular, a Vortex monocular.

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I can get into that in just a minute.

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And then, yeah, that's it.

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That's all I keep on that belt.

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So my lead goes across my shoulders.

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So everything that I need that was on that vest is now in a belt form.

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And it reminds me of a police duty belt.

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I like it because it is not hot in the summertime.

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It lets my upper half of my body breathe.

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Everything stays where it needs to.

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I run that belt very tight.

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Everything stays on the left.

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It needs to be on the left.

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What's on the right is on the right.

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I can bend over with no issues with that vest.

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It was very hard to bend over and get under things.

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When I sit in my truck, everything's on the sides.

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It's worked out very well.

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And I can wear it in the wintertime too, even if I'm wearing a big coat.

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So that vest, if you had to wear a big coat, the vest was very bulky to get over the coat

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and it was cumbersome.

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And it was uncomfortable, honestly.

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The belt, you can wear whatever you need to.

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So big fan of that belt.

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Are you wearing about the same style?

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Yes and no.

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So I wore the typical coon hunting vest that everybody sells.

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The mesh with a few pockets here and there.

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And then for Christmas, the kids got me the Molly belt.

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And so I switched everything to the Molly belt because it allowed me to carry more stuff.

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So kind of the same thing as you.

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On the right side, I've got a kind of a catch all pouch.

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So in that catch all pouch, I've got a couple extra Garmin batteries, handheld batteries

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that I put in there.

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I've got my map cards.

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We've got a few pins that I keep in there and a smaller antenna for the Garmin.

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Oh, and I do keep a long range antenna in my catch all pouch.

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Forgot about that one.

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Yep.

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So I've also got in that same pouch, I have a Gerber.

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Just a regular Gerber with knife and all that other stuff, multi-tool.

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So my pouch, the way it's set up is it's got a big pouch.

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On the very front of it, it's got a little pouch.

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And on the ends, it's got two little bitty pouches on the ends.

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In the back end, I've got my toilet paper.

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In the main pouch, I carry a bang bang in the main pouch, my self-defense weapon.

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I keep that.

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What else do I keep?

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I keep bullets, 22 bullets.

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Always keep a little bit in there.

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That way, if I do grab my gun to go shoot one out or something like that, I don't have

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to be looking for them.

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I know that if I ever run out in my clip or if I get out there, you know how it is.

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You get out there and your clip's empty.

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I've got a few in my pouch.

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So I carry two coon squalers on my carabiner around my neck, but I also carry two extra

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ones inside my pouch, which we'll get into which ones we're using.

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Moving on back, I've got my first aid kit.

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I've got a quick clot.

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I've got compression bandages.

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I've got Benadryl.

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I've got Tylenol.

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I also went and got a collapsible bowl.

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I got that back there.

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And then I've also got alcohol spray.

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And I'll get into why I use alcohol spray in a minute.

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Moving on over, I've got a water bottle carrier right next to it.

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I've got another water bottle carrier that I use as my thermal holder.

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And then right next to that is my cell phone holder.

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And on the outside of the cell phone holder, it's got another Velcro strap.

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And that's where my Garmin sets.

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Yeah, it's your I mean, you're packing quite a stuff, quite a bit of stuff onto that belt.

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Sounds like yours is a little more in depth than mine.

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Yeah, but you really don't notice it.

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Like once you snap it on, it's not like I know it sounds like to the sounds like, wow,

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man, he's carrying so much stuff.

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Oh, and then the big pouch, I have an extra lead because you know how that goes.

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You just never it's just an old actually it's a University of Kentucky Wildcat just roll

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up lead that I just shoved down in that big pouch.

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It's just you know this, we're always out there.

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Nine times out of 10, you know, especially for me, like I'm down in the bottoms and you

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hunted down in Yankee town with me before.

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How hard would it be to trip and fall and one of those nubs go right through, you know,

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right through your rib cage.

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I mean, just anything.

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I mean, you know how bad it is down there in the bottoms.

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And so you're out there at three o'clock in the morning all by yourself.

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And I try to have a little bit of everything, you know, from like I said, my Gerber to my

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gun to you know, just anything that I might need.

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I've even got a roll of fish in line in there because you just you just never know.

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Yeah.

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So let's let's kind of dive into some of the specifics on the belt.

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So we are on the belt as far as the tracking system.

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We are both rocking the Garmin tracking systems.

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Yes, I have.

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I have a Garmin 300.

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I what are you running?

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It depends on what I'm doing.

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So just me personally, I feel that the Garmin that the Alpha 100 pick up better, have better

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luck with the Alpha 100, the old 100, then I have the 200 or the 300.

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Now that's when I'm competition hunting.

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When I am training, I cannot stand an Alpha 100.

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It is horrible.

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And I've described this many a time.

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So I'll just give a quick synopsis on why that is.

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So on the two and three hundred, you've got a dog in there six hundred yards and say he's

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running a road and you're like, I'm going to bump him off that road on the two or three

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hundred.

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You go to bump him and you realize that you're controlling a different color.

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So you need to scroll through the dogs to get the right color so you can bump him.

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And so all you've got to do is scroll on the right hand side and the maps don't move on

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the 100.

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Say I'm on dog a, but I need to be shocking dog B. Well, I've got to go and I've got to

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switch to dog B. Well, when I switch to dog B, it automatically takes the map back to

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where I'm at.

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So then I've got to scroll on the maps back over to make sure that he hasn't jumped off

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of the road.

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And it's just it's just harder when you're running, which, you know, I run multiple dogs.

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So when I'm trying to run multiple dogs and train on multiple dogs, the 100 just doesn't

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just doesn't cut it for me.

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However, the 100 for me picks up better.

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So that's what I use in the competition.

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Got you.

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OK, so we're both running Garmin tracking systems.

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I'm just going to go around my belt here.

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So start with the tracking systems, the Garmin next behind that is the thermal.

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I am running the AGM Taipan 15 384.

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We're running the same thing.

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I've got a 25 and love it.

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Absolutely love it.

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The Taipan 15 to me and me and you have been avid on all of these different thermals, all

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of these different thermals, the 25.

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I absolutely love.

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I think it's the best one out there.

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The 15 works just as good.

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It's not quite got the picture.

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I think the 25 is a hair better.

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But the convenience of the 15 really won me over.

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It's so easy, comes on quicker.

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It's just simpler.

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So that's what I carry.

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Yeah.

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It's something that I would pick apart on the 15.

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I do.

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I do love it and I don't need the great picture quality.

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I just need to see a ball of heat.

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I don't care to count whiskers and all that good stuff.

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I just need to see heat.

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So the 15 for me is the best bang for the buck.

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What I would pick apart on it is I've been using it for about two years now and the battery

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life on it is starting to suffer.

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You know, I used to get two almost three weeks out of a charge and now if I'm getting three

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or four nights, it's that's good.

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So I'm having to charge it a lot more frequently and I'll notice like the weather conditions

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play a big factor in it.

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If it gets real cold and I leave my belt out in my truck overnight, the next day it's zapped.

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So you know, two years into it, the battery is not holding up like I would wish that it

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would.

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Yeah.

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And the second part about those is there's really no way to get a new battery for it.

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So right.

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Because it is an enclosed unit.

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So yes, going back around the belt, I'm running a monocular and I don't know of a lot of people

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you're giving me a crazy look there.

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I don't know of a lot of people that run these.

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The reason for this and maybe I'm giving away a speed speed, what do they call it?

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Speed secret in racing, you know, something you don't tell a lot of people, but I'm here

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to help anybody any way that I can.

472
00:28:31,160 --> 00:28:41,080
So the reason I run this monocular is in PKC professional kill club, you are allowed to

473
00:28:41,080 --> 00:28:44,800
use your phone to score a tree.

474
00:28:44,800 --> 00:28:51,400
You are allowed to take a picture up in a den, take a video and score off of that.

475
00:28:51,400 --> 00:28:53,520
That is perfectly legal.

476
00:28:53,520 --> 00:28:57,240
So you're talking about a, a, a borescope.

477
00:28:57,240 --> 00:29:00,840
Nope, nope, nope.

478
00:29:00,840 --> 00:29:06,020
This is a monocular that just as just like, just like a, a binocular, you know, like a

479
00:29:06,020 --> 00:29:07,020
set of binoculars.

480
00:29:07,020 --> 00:29:09,120
This is a single monocular.

481
00:29:09,120 --> 00:29:15,680
It's called the vortex solo and I'm running the eight by 36 power made by vortex.

482
00:29:15,680 --> 00:29:19,980
And the reason that I do this is even in a tree and I had this conversation with Shane

483
00:29:19,980 --> 00:29:21,640
Patton before I went out and spent the money.

484
00:29:21,640 --> 00:29:23,560
They're about 170 bucks.

485
00:29:23,560 --> 00:29:27,800
I talked to Shane Patton, director of PKC before I did this.

486
00:29:27,800 --> 00:29:33,360
And you, if you have a coon in a tree and people are like, no, that's not a coon.

487
00:29:33,360 --> 00:29:34,360
That's not a coon.

488
00:29:34,360 --> 00:29:37,880
You're allowed to take your phone and zoom in and take a picture.

489
00:29:37,880 --> 00:29:38,880
Right?

490
00:29:38,880 --> 00:29:42,720
You can do that with this monocular.

491
00:29:42,720 --> 00:29:47,800
You can amplify and get a clearer picture on your phone.

492
00:29:47,800 --> 00:29:54,000
You basically take a picture through the monocular and you can take a crystal clear picture at

493
00:29:54,000 --> 00:29:59,040
the top of a tree and you can easily see that that is a coon.

494
00:29:59,040 --> 00:30:03,760
The other thing that I like is, you know, if I go out to the woods and the, the thermal

495
00:30:03,760 --> 00:30:08,120
is dead because it's happened a couple of times, got there and thermals dead and like,

496
00:30:08,120 --> 00:30:10,160
I just, I don't know.

497
00:30:10,160 --> 00:30:11,880
It's thick up in the leaves.

498
00:30:11,880 --> 00:30:12,880
I think it's a coon.

499
00:30:12,880 --> 00:30:13,880
It's not looking at me.

500
00:30:13,880 --> 00:30:14,960
I don't, I think it's cool.

501
00:30:14,960 --> 00:30:15,960
I don't know.

502
00:30:15,960 --> 00:30:17,920
You whip that little monocular out.

503
00:30:17,920 --> 00:30:19,080
It literally fits in the palm of your hand.

504
00:30:19,080 --> 00:30:20,440
It doesn't weigh anything.

505
00:30:20,440 --> 00:30:25,440
You can look up in that tree and you can tell right away whether it's a coon, very crystal

506
00:30:25,440 --> 00:30:28,680
clear vortex has lifetime warranty on all of their optics.

507
00:30:28,680 --> 00:30:32,760
So big fan of vortex company, um, like what they have.

508
00:30:32,760 --> 00:30:36,640
So that is why I'm running that vortex for a couple, for a couple of different reasons.

509
00:30:36,640 --> 00:30:40,400
Like I said, I, a lot of people don't wear, don't use them, but, um, I put some thought

510
00:30:40,400 --> 00:30:42,240
into that before I spent the money on that.

511
00:30:42,240 --> 00:30:43,680
I got one for you.

512
00:30:43,680 --> 00:30:48,320
So, uh, he's running a monocular.

513
00:30:48,320 --> 00:30:52,520
What I run is a bore scope.

514
00:30:52,520 --> 00:30:55,040
It's got a 36 inch whip on it.

515
00:30:55,040 --> 00:30:56,920
It is made by Klein.

516
00:30:56,920 --> 00:31:00,040
Um, so electrical tools.

517
00:31:00,040 --> 00:31:01,040
Yup.

518
00:31:01,040 --> 00:31:06,040
So what we use it for in electrical field is just shoving it down a pipe, you know,

519
00:31:06,040 --> 00:31:09,760
to see where an obstruction or something like that is.

520
00:31:09,760 --> 00:31:16,080
So what I use it for is, is you have an app on your phone and once you Bluetooth to it,

521
00:31:16,080 --> 00:31:17,940
the picture it's got a light.

522
00:31:17,940 --> 00:31:21,080
Now what I did was, is the light wasn't bright enough.

523
00:31:21,080 --> 00:31:28,340
So I went and bought a little pencil led light that is just phenomenal.

524
00:31:28,340 --> 00:31:38,320
I think it's like 1200 lumens or 1500 lumens and I taped it to the end and it's got 36

525
00:31:38,320 --> 00:31:39,760
inch whip on it.

526
00:31:39,760 --> 00:31:43,080
And so I can shove it up in dens or whatever.

527
00:31:43,080 --> 00:31:46,840
And if, if I can find that picture on that phone, guess what?

528
00:31:46,840 --> 00:31:48,680
Plus it up.

529
00:31:48,680 --> 00:31:49,680
What's it up?

530
00:31:49,680 --> 00:31:50,680
Yup.

531
00:31:50,680 --> 00:31:53,640
So you guys, guys, you don't get your registries confused here.

532
00:31:53,640 --> 00:31:58,160
You are allowed to use that in PKC and I believe pro sports only.

533
00:31:58,160 --> 00:31:59,160
Yes.

534
00:31:59,160 --> 00:32:00,160
PKC and pro sport.

535
00:32:00,160 --> 00:32:01,160
Yes.

536
00:32:01,160 --> 00:32:02,160
Yup.

537
00:32:02,160 --> 00:32:07,280
The United Kennel club, UKC, you are not allowed to use digital scoring devices or mirrors,

538
00:32:07,280 --> 00:32:10,400
anything that must be seen with the naked eye.

539
00:32:10,400 --> 00:32:11,640
Yes.

540
00:32:11,640 --> 00:32:16,000
So depending on which register you're hunting depends on what tools you can use.

541
00:32:16,000 --> 00:32:17,640
And these are all tools of the trade.

542
00:32:17,640 --> 00:32:23,320
And if you guys want to get deep into it, I mean, there are other tools out there that

543
00:32:23,320 --> 00:32:28,020
people have used and tried and I, everybody's tried everything under the sun.

544
00:32:28,020 --> 00:32:30,920
This is just stuff that is easy to carry on you.

545
00:32:30,920 --> 00:32:31,920
Yup.

546
00:32:31,920 --> 00:32:32,920
Okay.

547
00:32:32,920 --> 00:32:38,720
So let's go into, into my main pouch here.

548
00:32:38,720 --> 00:32:39,720
Squalers that I'm running.

549
00:32:39,720 --> 00:32:40,720
That's where I keep them.

550
00:32:40,720 --> 00:32:47,920
I am running a Phoenix squalor by tier one custom calls.

551
00:32:47,920 --> 00:32:55,160
I was on a cast with Tyler Compton at autumn Oaks last year and heard him squalor Coon

552
00:32:55,160 --> 00:32:56,680
around in a tree with that Phoenix.

553
00:32:56,680 --> 00:32:58,320
Very, very impressed.

554
00:32:58,320 --> 00:33:01,040
So I picked up one of those.

555
00:33:01,040 --> 00:33:02,720
I also, I actually picked up a couple.

556
00:33:02,720 --> 00:33:05,720
I keep a, I keep some squalors in my truck too.

557
00:33:05,720 --> 00:33:06,720
I don't know.

558
00:33:06,720 --> 00:33:09,360
I like to hoard stuff.

559
00:33:09,360 --> 00:33:14,240
So I've got a Phoenix and a pinnacle both in the glove box, my truck, big fan of their

560
00:33:14,240 --> 00:33:15,240
squalls.

561
00:33:15,240 --> 00:33:18,600
The other one that I'm running in my pouch right now is one that I just found at autumn

562
00:33:18,600 --> 00:33:20,320
Oaks.

563
00:33:20,320 --> 00:33:22,800
Yes.

564
00:33:22,800 --> 00:33:26,440
If I forget the name of it, I want to say it's a G.

565
00:33:26,440 --> 00:33:27,960
T. squall possibly.

566
00:33:27,960 --> 00:33:35,200
I'll take a picture of that and put it on my social media because I like, I did not

567
00:33:35,200 --> 00:33:37,000
end up going out there and getting one.

568
00:33:37,000 --> 00:33:38,000
Yes.

569
00:33:38,000 --> 00:33:41,200
So, so the way autumn Oaks is set up is that you guys have like this, these vendor barns

570
00:33:41,200 --> 00:33:44,120
where all these people are set up and they're all selling stuff and nine times out of 10,

571
00:33:44,120 --> 00:33:45,760
they've all got the same stuff.

572
00:33:45,760 --> 00:33:49,680
And I was driving around on the golf cart out in the middle of a grass parking lot and

573
00:33:49,680 --> 00:33:54,400
there was an old boy set up on the tailgate of his truck with a little 10 by 10 pop up

574
00:33:54,400 --> 00:33:59,600
in a table and he had some squalls for sale that he had made.

575
00:33:59,600 --> 00:34:03,200
And I stopped and talked to him and was just kind of, you know, shooting, shooting the

576
00:34:03,200 --> 00:34:06,320
crap with him and got to not to know him a little bit better.

577
00:34:06,320 --> 00:34:08,040
And I was like, well, I said, let me hear one of these squalls.

578
00:34:08,040 --> 00:34:09,040
And he blew into this thing.

579
00:34:09,040 --> 00:34:12,200
I was like, Whoa, like that sounds really nice.

580
00:34:12,200 --> 00:34:14,280
And he was like, yeah, I appreciate that.

581
00:34:14,280 --> 00:34:15,480
You know, and I was like, well, how much that cost?

582
00:34:15,480 --> 00:34:18,560
And he said $35.

583
00:34:18,560 --> 00:34:22,960
And if you guys know the price of squallers right now, they're ranging anywhere from 50

584
00:34:22,960 --> 00:34:23,960
to a hundred bucks.

585
00:34:23,960 --> 00:34:26,680
I mean, you name it, you can pay, you can pay more than that.

586
00:34:26,680 --> 00:34:28,600
You can pay a couple hundred if you want.

587
00:34:28,600 --> 00:34:34,940
So the way this squall sounded for 35 bucks, handmade by a guy, every one of them was unique.

588
00:34:34,940 --> 00:34:35,940
Everyone of them is different.

589
00:34:35,940 --> 00:34:37,600
He turns them all in a lathe.

590
00:34:37,600 --> 00:34:40,040
I bought the, he had wood versions and acrylic.

591
00:34:40,040 --> 00:34:41,520
I ended up buying an acrylic version.

592
00:34:41,520 --> 00:34:44,680
I like those a little bit better than those wood, the wood calls these days.

593
00:34:44,680 --> 00:34:48,880
So yeah, I just thought it was nice, you know, to support the small guy out in the middle

594
00:34:48,880 --> 00:34:49,880
of the field.

595
00:34:49,880 --> 00:34:51,360
I believe it's a GT.

596
00:34:51,360 --> 00:34:53,120
I will check and see if it's even stamped on the car.

597
00:34:53,120 --> 00:34:56,360
I don't even know if he has his, his logo stamped on the call.

598
00:34:56,360 --> 00:34:57,360
But I was a big fan.

599
00:34:57,360 --> 00:35:00,040
So I went back and I showed it to you, you know, blew it and let you blow it.

600
00:35:00,040 --> 00:35:01,320
And you're like, man, that sounds pretty nice.

601
00:35:01,320 --> 00:35:02,920
So I wish you would have bought one.

602
00:35:02,920 --> 00:35:07,200
Yeah, it sounded pretty, I know I should have didn't get around to it.

603
00:35:07,200 --> 00:35:17,400
So I am running the competition lanyard that has the pinnacle and the Phoenix with the

604
00:35:17,400 --> 00:35:18,440
stopwatch.

605
00:35:18,440 --> 00:35:20,680
So that's from tier one, correct?

606
00:35:20,680 --> 00:35:25,600
Oh yeah, from tier one custom calls in my pouch though.

607
00:35:25,600 --> 00:35:31,840
I do have a JC call, um, Kuhn's squalor and an eye opener.

608
00:35:31,840 --> 00:35:34,800
So I just, I kind of, I kind of rock them all.

609
00:35:34,800 --> 00:35:43,840
Yeah, I've, uh, I've, I've not had, I've not had great success with the eye opener.

610
00:35:43,840 --> 00:35:49,640
I seem to have more success with a, with a call that has a deeper pitch to it.

611
00:35:49,640 --> 00:35:54,120
I opener is very high pitched and I don't know if it's the way that I use it in which

612
00:35:54,120 --> 00:35:58,720
I haven't had good success, but I seem to find more Kuhn's with calls that have a deeper

613
00:35:58,720 --> 00:36:04,080
throaty or a growl to them, if that makes sense.

614
00:36:04,080 --> 00:36:06,480
And see that's where I'm the opposite.

615
00:36:06,480 --> 00:36:15,480
So and I had it there for a little bit, um, because I've got two competition, uh, lanyards,

616
00:36:15,480 --> 00:36:17,360
uh, the exact same.

617
00:36:17,360 --> 00:36:21,840
And on my old one, I don't particularly like the Phoenix.

618
00:36:21,840 --> 00:36:23,880
I like the Pinnacle.

619
00:36:23,880 --> 00:36:33,960
So I switched, I switched the, um, Phoenix out with on my old one, I switched it out

620
00:36:33,960 --> 00:36:39,260
with the JC call and with my new one, I switched it out with the eye opener.

621
00:36:39,260 --> 00:36:45,280
So I have, I have the right now, I need to switch it out on this brand new ones.

622
00:36:45,280 --> 00:36:51,080
I've got three, but the one that I was just running before this weekend, it's got the

623
00:36:51,080 --> 00:36:53,200
Pinnacle and the eye opener on it.

624
00:36:53,200 --> 00:36:54,200
Gotcha.

625
00:36:54,200 --> 00:36:56,840
So yeah, I mean the squalls, they're a big deal.

626
00:36:56,840 --> 00:36:58,760
You know, you can find the Kuhn's with your thermals.

627
00:36:58,760 --> 00:37:01,400
That's fine and dandy, but if you don't get that thing to look at you, it's hard to get

628
00:37:01,400 --> 00:37:02,460
them scored sometimes.

629
00:37:02,460 --> 00:37:07,760
So what squall you're running is very, very important and they're just like duck calls.

630
00:37:07,760 --> 00:37:09,040
They're just like anything else.

631
00:37:09,040 --> 00:37:11,040
Everybody has their own preference on what they like.

632
00:37:11,040 --> 00:37:12,040
They're a dime a dozen.

633
00:37:12,040 --> 00:37:15,600
I do want to put a challenge out here to the listeners though, and this is where I need

634
00:37:15,600 --> 00:37:17,480
some help.

635
00:37:17,480 --> 00:37:24,640
One call which I have looked for and looked for and looked for and have not found is a,

636
00:37:24,640 --> 00:37:30,160
it's a squaller that Dan Canerium showed me at red bone days.

637
00:37:30,160 --> 00:37:34,140
Dan came over and sat down at the, at the froggy bottom outdoors booth where I was working

638
00:37:34,140 --> 00:37:38,640
and he was, uh, he bought a vest off of us and he was swapping things over and I said,

639
00:37:38,640 --> 00:37:40,200
Hey, let me see that squaller you got over there.

640
00:37:40,200 --> 00:37:42,320
It was something I'd never seen before.

641
00:37:42,320 --> 00:37:52,160
It was a black 3d printed, a plastic squaller, and it almost had a, um, it had sphere at

642
00:37:52,160 --> 00:37:56,640
the end where your mouth, where you blow into, it was a sphere.

643
00:37:56,640 --> 00:38:05,800
And then on the body where you hold onto it, it was, um, spiraled almost.

644
00:38:05,800 --> 00:38:17,480
It was, but it was, it was done on a 3d printer and the reason that I liked that was the lightweight,

645
00:38:17,480 --> 00:38:18,480
the lightweight of it.

646
00:38:18,480 --> 00:38:24,600
It felt like a feather in your hand and it had a great unique sound the way that it was

647
00:38:24,600 --> 00:38:25,600
made.

648
00:38:25,600 --> 00:38:29,680
I don't know if anybody has seen those 3d printed squalls that I'm talking about, um,

649
00:38:29,680 --> 00:38:32,760
or knows anything similar, let me know.

650
00:38:32,760 --> 00:38:37,880
Um, I want to know where to get that because I will purchase one.

651
00:38:37,880 --> 00:38:44,480
So that's where I'm at on the squalor's and let's go to the next piece and this one's

652
00:38:44,480 --> 00:38:49,400
probably the most important for Bryce Matthews.

653
00:38:49,400 --> 00:38:50,400
What's that?

654
00:38:50,400 --> 00:38:51,400
The dog lead.

655
00:38:51,400 --> 00:38:53,040
Oh, the dog lead.

656
00:38:53,040 --> 00:38:56,120
Um, tell me what, tell me what you're doing.

657
00:38:56,120 --> 00:38:58,040
Go first.

658
00:38:58,040 --> 00:39:01,400
So I'm just, I have to use a cable lead.

659
00:39:01,400 --> 00:39:10,560
I have to, um, I prefer the little, the little leather leads, the little round ones.

660
00:39:10,560 --> 00:39:17,280
Um, that's what I prefer, but I just, I have too many dogs that eat through them.

661
00:39:17,280 --> 00:39:25,540
So you know, I have switched to the all cable lead, the all cable leads though.

662
00:39:25,540 --> 00:39:31,400
They hurt my hands a hundred percent when a dog is pulling, they hurt, they hurt my

663
00:39:31,400 --> 00:39:32,400
hands.

664
00:39:32,400 --> 00:39:33,400
Don't like them.

665
00:39:33,400 --> 00:39:35,160
Why you smack them upside the head with the name freaking snaps.

666
00:39:35,160 --> 00:39:36,160
So they just stopped pulling.

667
00:39:36,160 --> 00:39:38,600
No, no, no, don't like them.

668
00:39:38,600 --> 00:39:40,200
Not a fan, not a fan.

669
00:39:40,200 --> 00:39:41,200
Yeah.

670
00:39:41,200 --> 00:39:42,200
That's what I use.

671
00:39:42,200 --> 00:39:47,680
Well, the ones I use are the ones with the, uh, it's a cable with the little, um, uh,

672
00:39:47,680 --> 00:39:51,680
no, the plastic, the silicone stuff around it.

673
00:39:51,680 --> 00:39:52,680
That's what I use.

674
00:39:52,680 --> 00:39:53,680
Yeah.

675
00:39:53,680 --> 00:39:58,720
So plastic and guys, we can get into a three hour debate on dog eats.

676
00:39:58,720 --> 00:39:59,920
I agree.

677
00:39:59,920 --> 00:40:03,160
That plastic rubs on a tree, gets caught on a fence, whatever.

678
00:40:03,160 --> 00:40:08,040
And then it rips and then you're, it's just a mess.

679
00:40:08,040 --> 00:40:09,040
We all know.

680
00:40:09,040 --> 00:40:10,480
Let's, let's hear about it.

681
00:40:10,480 --> 00:40:12,440
You want to hear about my prize possession?

682
00:40:12,440 --> 00:40:13,440
Here we go guys.

683
00:40:13,440 --> 00:40:14,760
Good Lord guys.

684
00:40:14,760 --> 00:40:17,720
Let me tell you a little story.

685
00:40:17,720 --> 00:40:20,080
Once upon a time when I first started coon hunting.

686
00:40:20,080 --> 00:40:21,080
Okay.

687
00:40:21,080 --> 00:40:23,320
I won't go that dramatic.

688
00:40:23,320 --> 00:40:31,400
I do have, you might as well because I mean, anybody that knows if we need to get Nikki

689
00:40:31,400 --> 00:40:37,760
on here, the amount of times this man has left his lead had to have it mailed back to

690
00:40:37,760 --> 00:40:44,360
him that only had one drive, had to drive an hour back to the woods to find his lead.

691
00:40:44,360 --> 00:40:47,280
Like it's never ending with this guy.

692
00:40:47,280 --> 00:40:53,420
We were up at autumn Oaks and this guy was going rampant.

693
00:40:53,420 --> 00:40:58,720
We were supposed to leave the clubhouse Thursday night at seven 30.

694
00:40:58,720 --> 00:41:01,520
This guy is running around like a chicken with his head cut off.

695
00:41:01,520 --> 00:41:06,840
I can't find my lead asking everybody from Andy.

696
00:41:06,840 --> 00:41:10,120
You guys had my lead whenever we took wedding pictures.

697
00:41:10,120 --> 00:41:12,080
Where's my dog lead?

698
00:41:12,080 --> 00:41:17,600
And he was, he was about to have a conniption cause he cannot find his prize possession.

699
00:41:17,600 --> 00:41:18,600
Yeah.

700
00:41:18,600 --> 00:41:22,720
So, so this lead that I have and that we're talking about, this is a very special lead

701
00:41:22,720 --> 00:41:23,720
to me.

702
00:41:23,720 --> 00:41:26,520
Um, when I first started coon hunting, I tried all these other leads.

703
00:41:26,520 --> 00:41:31,800
I tried the betas and the cables and the leather and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

704
00:41:31,800 --> 00:41:33,560
And I just, I hated them.

705
00:41:33,560 --> 00:41:34,560
I didn't like them.

706
00:41:34,560 --> 00:41:37,000
I could pick apart all of them.

707
00:41:37,000 --> 00:41:46,480
There was a gal down in North Carolina who put a post out saying that she was going to

708
00:41:46,480 --> 00:41:54,800
be making, um, these paracord braided leads and Jordan Crump is her name.

709
00:41:54,800 --> 00:42:01,780
Jordan made these leads, um, very thick, very sturdy.

710
00:42:01,780 --> 00:42:06,840
They are paracord on one end and they are chain on the bottom.

711
00:42:06,840 --> 00:42:10,480
So I reached out to her and had her, had her make me one.

712
00:42:10,480 --> 00:42:13,040
It was a very reasonable price.

713
00:42:13,040 --> 00:42:14,480
She shipped it to me.

714
00:42:14,480 --> 00:42:19,920
And the moment that I felt that lead in my hand, I knew that was it.

715
00:42:19,920 --> 00:42:21,880
That was the end of it for me.

716
00:42:21,880 --> 00:42:23,840
It was a match made in heaven.

717
00:42:23,840 --> 00:42:25,800
It fit my palms.

718
00:42:25,800 --> 00:42:29,300
I was able to caress the paracord.

719
00:42:29,300 --> 00:42:30,300
It felt great.

720
00:42:30,300 --> 00:42:36,040
Are we talking about a dog lead?

721
00:42:36,040 --> 00:42:42,080
So this lead guys has been from that day, and this is not an exaggeration, from the

722
00:42:42,080 --> 00:42:45,640
day that I got that lead, I have not used another lead.

723
00:42:45,640 --> 00:42:49,120
I have not snapped another lead on a dog.

724
00:42:49,120 --> 00:42:54,980
This lead is going with me for going on, I want to say eight, seven or eight years now

725
00:42:54,980 --> 00:42:57,000
that I've used this lead.

726
00:42:57,000 --> 00:43:00,480
And um, it's great.

727
00:43:00,480 --> 00:43:06,280
It is to the point where the brass snap on the end is literally getting ready to wear

728
00:43:06,280 --> 00:43:12,400
and have, it's getting ready to break where the brass has rubbed on the D ring of a collar.

729
00:43:12,400 --> 00:43:13,520
It's getting ready to break.

730
00:43:13,520 --> 00:43:18,240
So at Autumn Oaks, I actually bought a new brass snap and I bought a new S hook and I'm

731
00:43:18,240 --> 00:43:21,980
going to have to, I'm going to have to doctor it because I'm getting ready.

732
00:43:21,980 --> 00:43:22,980
It's getting ready to break.

733
00:43:22,980 --> 00:43:25,480
Um, so I'm going to put a new brass snap on it.

734
00:43:25,480 --> 00:43:29,440
I'm going to put a new S hook on it and my lead will be back to normal, back good as

735
00:43:29,440 --> 00:43:30,440
ever.

736
00:43:30,440 --> 00:43:34,200
Um, yes, Basham was not lying whenever he said that I had to have that lead mailed to

737
00:43:34,200 --> 00:43:35,200
me.

738
00:43:35,200 --> 00:43:36,400
Both of these events were because of Basham.

739
00:43:36,400 --> 00:43:40,920
I'll have you guys know the first one was down in Kentucky, um, or Tennessee at the

740
00:43:40,920 --> 00:43:44,000
PKC world qualifier.

741
00:43:44,000 --> 00:43:47,000
I had to run into the user restroom real quick after a hunt.

742
00:43:47,000 --> 00:43:48,000
Basham was in a hurry.

743
00:43:48,000 --> 00:43:51,920
I said, Hey, grab my dog out of this guy's box.

744
00:43:51,920 --> 00:43:54,240
Most people grab a dog out of a box with a lead.

745
00:43:54,240 --> 00:43:59,920
Basham just grabbed the dog and he left my lead sitting in the bed of this guy's truck.

746
00:43:59,920 --> 00:44:01,320
So he was nice enough.

747
00:44:01,320 --> 00:44:04,040
I reached out to him on Facebook and he got my lead out of the bed of his truck and he

748
00:44:04,040 --> 00:44:06,040
mailed it to me from Tennessee.

749
00:44:06,040 --> 00:44:10,360
I figured as special as this lead was Bryce would not just leave it laying in the back

750
00:44:10,360 --> 00:44:11,360
of the truck.

751
00:44:11,360 --> 00:44:15,480
We had an emergency situation which called for no time for me to mess around.

752
00:44:15,480 --> 00:44:17,760
You had to get the dog in the lead.

753
00:44:17,760 --> 00:44:23,760
Um, the second time Basham and I were pleasure hunting, uh, down in the bottoms, we went

754
00:44:23,760 --> 00:44:29,280
to take a picture, um, with the dogs and some of the coon that we'd harvested that night.

755
00:44:29,280 --> 00:44:32,400
Basham throws my lead off to the side so that's not interrupting the picture.

756
00:44:32,400 --> 00:44:37,680
I don't think it was me that threw through the dog lead because I'm not, I'm not a big,

757
00:44:37,680 --> 00:44:42,320
uh, if y'all haven't noticed, we've got a bougie one in the group and it ain't me.

758
00:44:42,320 --> 00:44:45,260
So the pitchers and everything has to be perfect.

759
00:44:45,260 --> 00:44:47,160
His hair has to be perfect.

760
00:44:47,160 --> 00:44:52,120
He's got to have his blow dryer and you know, his hair straightener and all that, uh, his

761
00:44:52,120 --> 00:44:53,120
boot dryer.

762
00:44:53,120 --> 00:44:55,400
You guys ought to see his freaking setup.

763
00:44:55,400 --> 00:45:01,400
I mean, ask Nikki, this guy packs and it's like, look, watching a 14 year old girl pack.

764
00:45:01,400 --> 00:45:05,600
I mean, it's, it's ridiculous, but, uh, I still don't think I'm the one that threw the

765
00:45:05,600 --> 00:45:08,160
dog lead off, but I will, it's your story.

766
00:45:08,160 --> 00:45:09,840
I will let you tell it how you want.

767
00:45:09,840 --> 00:45:10,840
Thank you.

768
00:45:10,840 --> 00:45:11,840
I appreciate that.

769
00:45:11,840 --> 00:45:12,840
So Basham threw my lead off.

770
00:45:12,840 --> 00:45:15,440
We, we take this picture.

771
00:45:15,440 --> 00:45:21,200
We put the dogs up, we drive all the way back to where my truck was at, which was an hour

772
00:45:21,200 --> 00:45:22,200
from this place.

773
00:45:22,200 --> 00:45:23,920
It is two in the morning.

774
00:45:23,920 --> 00:45:26,840
I go to move my dog from Basham's box to my box.

775
00:45:26,840 --> 00:45:28,040
I'm like, Hey, where's my lead?

776
00:45:28,040 --> 00:45:30,680
And he's like, uh, probably in the grass.

777
00:45:30,680 --> 00:45:34,280
We took a picture and I said, well, you know what that means, right?

778
00:45:34,280 --> 00:45:37,120
And he was like, don't tell me what I think you're getting ready to say.

779
00:45:37,120 --> 00:45:38,120
I'm like, Oh yeah.

780
00:45:38,120 --> 00:45:39,640
I said, get back in the truck.

781
00:45:39,640 --> 00:45:42,360
I said, we're driving, you know, even pulled up into the gas.

782
00:45:42,360 --> 00:45:43,360
Yeah.

783
00:45:43,360 --> 00:45:44,600
Quentin, my buddy Quentin glow, he pulled up.

784
00:45:44,600 --> 00:45:46,900
He'd had a big night out at the casino with his wife.

785
00:45:46,900 --> 00:45:51,080
They were having a little date night and Quentin knows all about how I am and how particular

786
00:45:51,080 --> 00:45:53,200
I am and Quentin just kind of laughed and he goes, yep.

787
00:45:53,200 --> 00:45:54,500
See you guys later.

788
00:45:54,500 --> 00:45:58,140
So at two in the morning, Basham and I made the one hour truck back to the woods.

789
00:45:58,140 --> 00:46:02,920
We backtracked to where we were at, took where we took the picture, found my lead and got

790
00:46:02,920 --> 00:46:05,000
back, drove another hour back to my truck.

791
00:46:05,000 --> 00:46:06,720
So we got back about four o'clock that morning.

792
00:46:06,720 --> 00:46:07,720
Thanks to this lead.

793
00:46:07,720 --> 00:46:09,800
What about the two people down there in moon seats?

794
00:46:09,800 --> 00:46:12,800
Oh yeah.

795
00:46:12,800 --> 00:46:15,960
Guys we're down here in the middle of nowhere.

796
00:46:15,960 --> 00:46:18,520
The absolute, there's not a house of nowhere.

797
00:46:18,520 --> 00:46:20,200
There's not a house within 20 minutes.

798
00:46:20,200 --> 00:46:23,720
I mean, there's just not, it's, it's in a flood plain.

799
00:46:23,720 --> 00:46:24,720
It always floods.

800
00:46:24,720 --> 00:46:25,720
There's not a house.

801
00:46:25,720 --> 00:46:33,640
Also then like 15, 20, but yet we stumbled across two people on a golf cart in moon suits.

802
00:46:33,640 --> 00:46:34,640
Literally.

803
00:46:34,640 --> 00:46:35,640
It was freezing cold that night.

804
00:46:35,640 --> 00:46:38,400
And we say moon suits, like they were both wearing like same.

805
00:46:38,400 --> 00:46:40,600
They looked like the Michelin man.

806
00:46:40,600 --> 00:46:42,160
The good year tire Michelin man.

807
00:46:42,160 --> 00:46:43,160
What is it?

808
00:46:43,160 --> 00:46:46,400
The good, you know, they were silver, like they were shining man and they were shiny.

809
00:46:46,400 --> 00:46:49,760
They're like marshmallow suits and they're riding around in this golf cart.

810
00:46:49,760 --> 00:46:51,520
And I'm like, how are they not getting stuck?

811
00:46:51,520 --> 00:46:57,320
Like where they're at and they're just cruising and they, they pull up on us and we're like,

812
00:46:57,320 --> 00:46:58,480
what is this light?

813
00:46:58,480 --> 00:47:00,720
Like there should be nobody down here and here.

814
00:47:00,720 --> 00:47:04,000
These two people are like, oh, we're just out looking at the sky.

815
00:47:04,000 --> 00:47:05,000
Like, okay.

816
00:47:05,000 --> 00:47:06,000
Yeah.

817
00:47:06,000 --> 00:47:07,000
Okay.

818
00:47:07,000 --> 00:47:08,000
All right.

819
00:47:08,000 --> 00:47:09,000
Whatever.

820
00:47:09,000 --> 00:47:10,000
Carry on.

821
00:47:10,000 --> 00:47:12,480
So yeah, that was an interesting night.

822
00:47:12,480 --> 00:47:13,480
Okay.

823
00:47:13,480 --> 00:47:16,800
Enough about my precious lead, which I'm getting ready to have the doctor up.

824
00:47:16,800 --> 00:47:19,880
I will, I'm excited to get that back in working order.

825
00:47:19,880 --> 00:47:24,040
Cause I'm afraid at any point in time, like if spot where the ink on it at a tree snap

826
00:47:24,040 --> 00:47:27,840
gone broke, and then there's a, there's just a rule violation or something dumb.

827
00:47:27,840 --> 00:47:29,360
So getting ready to fix that.

828
00:47:29,360 --> 00:47:36,960
So moving on up to the last thing, the light, your, your Coon light.

829
00:47:36,960 --> 00:47:40,840
This is where me and you differ.

830
00:47:40,840 --> 00:47:44,680
I do not have a favorite.

831
00:47:44,680 --> 00:47:46,880
I can't find one.

832
00:47:46,880 --> 00:47:48,880
I just can't.

833
00:47:48,880 --> 00:47:51,960
I've been through them all.

834
00:47:51,960 --> 00:47:54,840
My favorite light of all time.

835
00:47:54,840 --> 00:47:59,160
And I believe it was either bright eyes or superior that made it was the all American

836
00:47:59,160 --> 00:48:00,960
that Ashley Gunthree.

837
00:48:00,960 --> 00:48:03,720
That was a, that was a superior light.

838
00:48:03,720 --> 00:48:05,200
Yeah.

839
00:48:05,200 --> 00:48:06,440
It has held up the law.

840
00:48:06,440 --> 00:48:09,200
My problem is holding up.

841
00:48:09,200 --> 00:48:11,400
They just don't.

842
00:48:11,400 --> 00:48:18,040
I go, I go eight, eight, nine, 10 months and they just, they don't hold up.

843
00:48:18,040 --> 00:48:25,520
Like they, if I'm not charging it every like on a double, double cast, you know, by the

844
00:48:25,520 --> 00:48:28,800
time I get to that second round, it's already starting to go dim.

845
00:48:28,800 --> 00:48:32,840
And I just, I have not found a light yet that I like.

846
00:48:32,840 --> 00:48:33,840
Okay.

847
00:48:33,840 --> 00:48:37,520
So I have, and this is where I said I customize everything.

848
00:48:37,520 --> 00:48:38,540
This is another instance.

849
00:48:38,540 --> 00:48:39,960
So I was in the same boat.

850
00:48:39,960 --> 00:48:41,000
I went through all these lights.

851
00:48:41,000 --> 00:48:42,520
I didn't like the way they felt.

852
00:48:42,520 --> 00:48:43,920
Didn't like the weight.

853
00:48:43,920 --> 00:48:46,240
Didn't like the switch set up.

854
00:48:46,240 --> 00:48:49,680
I can pick apart something in a heartbeat.

855
00:48:49,680 --> 00:48:54,520
Had the bright eyes, had the superior, had a, had a hellcat.

856
00:48:54,520 --> 00:48:58,560
I had the, I had an all American hated the all American, which is funny.

857
00:48:58,560 --> 00:48:59,560
You and I are different.

858
00:48:59,560 --> 00:49:00,560
You love it.

859
00:49:00,560 --> 00:49:01,560
I hate it.

860
00:49:01,560 --> 00:49:02,720
See, I love.

861
00:49:02,720 --> 00:49:05,280
So had had them all had had the old belt light.

862
00:49:05,280 --> 00:49:07,840
You know, that was the first light that I ever hunted with was an old belt light.

863
00:49:07,840 --> 00:49:08,840
Oh yeah.

864
00:49:08,840 --> 00:49:09,840
I mean, obviously.

865
00:49:09,840 --> 00:49:10,840
But, but where I've landed.

866
00:49:10,840 --> 00:49:16,760
My favorite belt light, to be honest with you was the sunburst Eagle two plus two.

867
00:49:16,760 --> 00:49:20,760
When it looked like you were a suicide bomber with a little bitty battery, he's all the

868
00:49:20,760 --> 00:49:22,080
way around your waist.

869
00:49:22,080 --> 00:49:23,080
Yeah.

870
00:49:23,080 --> 00:49:30,840
So, so where I landed was on sunspot and I got ahold of a sun spotlight, tried one out

871
00:49:30,840 --> 00:49:35,920
mainly because the switch is on the head and not on the back of the battery pack.

872
00:49:35,920 --> 00:49:40,120
In the winter time, I liked to wear a hoodie a lot and I was tired having to reach in my

873
00:49:40,120 --> 00:49:42,680
hoodie, turn my light on, turn it off, blah, blah, blah.

874
00:49:42,680 --> 00:49:43,680
Very picky.

875
00:49:43,680 --> 00:49:44,680
That's yes.

876
00:49:44,680 --> 00:49:45,680
I know I'm bougie.

877
00:49:45,680 --> 00:49:46,680
I understand that.

878
00:49:46,680 --> 00:49:47,760
So found the sun spotlight.

879
00:49:47,760 --> 00:49:50,840
I liked the color of the main beam.

880
00:49:50,840 --> 00:49:55,800
There my biggest issue with the all American is that it is a very bright white led.

881
00:49:55,800 --> 00:50:00,160
I cannot see with that bright white to me and my eyes.

882
00:50:00,160 --> 00:50:02,680
It reflects off the leaves.

883
00:50:02,680 --> 00:50:03,680
Can't see.

884
00:50:03,680 --> 00:50:06,680
I need a yellow natural main beam.

885
00:50:06,680 --> 00:50:10,640
And to me, the sun spotlight has the most natural main beam on the market.

886
00:50:10,640 --> 00:50:16,320
So went through one of those, used it for a long time and still, even though I liked

887
00:50:16,320 --> 00:50:19,400
the light and it was my favorite light, I was, I picked it apart.

888
00:50:19,400 --> 00:50:21,680
What I have done now is I have customized a light.

889
00:50:21,680 --> 00:50:24,120
I got ahold of Michael Rosenman, owner of sunspot.

890
00:50:24,120 --> 00:50:25,840
And I said, Hey, Michael, I said, I like your product.

891
00:50:25,840 --> 00:50:28,120
I like everything about it, but a couple of things I want to switch.

892
00:50:28,120 --> 00:50:29,120
Can you do it?

893
00:50:29,120 --> 00:50:31,080
And he said, absolutely.

894
00:50:31,080 --> 00:50:33,280
So I am running a custom light from sunspot.

895
00:50:33,280 --> 00:50:36,660
It only has four clicks, which is my biggest gripe with all the other clicks.

896
00:50:36,660 --> 00:50:38,640
They have like 10.

897
00:50:38,640 --> 00:50:41,680
My light one click forward is a high walk.

898
00:50:41,680 --> 00:50:44,200
The next click forward, high beam.

899
00:50:44,200 --> 00:50:46,120
One click back is high red.

900
00:50:46,120 --> 00:50:48,160
Next click back is high amber.

901
00:50:48,160 --> 00:50:49,160
That's it.

902
00:50:49,160 --> 00:50:50,840
That's all I've got on that light.

903
00:50:50,840 --> 00:50:55,600
Four clicks, four settings with a laser.

904
00:50:55,600 --> 00:50:57,520
I don't need that low light stuff.

905
00:50:57,520 --> 00:50:58,680
I'm not a fan of it.

906
00:50:58,680 --> 00:51:01,160
If I need to damn a lot a little bit, I'll put my hand over it.

907
00:51:01,160 --> 00:51:05,160
Like I don't need two clicks of red, two clicks of amber, two clicks of walk, three clicks

908
00:51:05,160 --> 00:51:06,240
of spot.

909
00:51:06,240 --> 00:51:07,440
I don't need all that.

910
00:51:07,440 --> 00:51:09,960
It's just more times that the button has to turn.

911
00:51:09,960 --> 00:51:12,080
It wears out the rheostat.

912
00:51:12,080 --> 00:51:13,080
Where's that?

913
00:51:13,080 --> 00:51:14,080
It's just, I don't need it.

914
00:51:14,080 --> 00:51:15,740
I'm a simple man when it comes to that.

915
00:51:15,740 --> 00:51:18,160
So that is what I'm running a custom sunspot light.

916
00:51:18,160 --> 00:51:21,780
That is the one of the only lights on the market that has a lifetime warranty on it.

917
00:51:21,780 --> 00:51:25,480
Anything that goes wrong with it, you pay the $10 shipping to get it down to Arkansas.

918
00:51:25,480 --> 00:51:28,240
They fix it and they pay the shipping back to you.

919
00:51:28,240 --> 00:51:32,320
So for 10 bucks lifetime warranty, I'll take it.

920
00:51:32,320 --> 00:51:35,720
Now I'll tell you one that I, I'm going to be honest with you.

921
00:51:35,720 --> 00:51:40,000
I am looking, I'm probably going to try it.

922
00:51:40,000 --> 00:51:42,040
And that is the K light.

923
00:51:42,040 --> 00:51:43,040
And I'm going to tell you why.

924
00:51:43,040 --> 00:51:45,080
Oh, I've seen a bunch of posts about that yesterday.

925
00:51:45,080 --> 00:51:46,080
No, no, no, no.

926
00:51:46,080 --> 00:51:47,520
Has nothing to do with the brightness.

927
00:51:47,520 --> 00:51:48,880
Has nothing to do with the brightness.

928
00:51:48,880 --> 00:51:51,440
You know what I like?

929
00:51:51,440 --> 00:51:56,280
The battery pack tells you where the battery level is.

930
00:51:56,280 --> 00:51:57,280
It does.

931
00:51:57,280 --> 00:51:58,280
Yeah.

932
00:51:58,280 --> 00:51:59,280
Yep.

933
00:51:59,280 --> 00:52:04,360
Um, how many times have you been out with your light and you're like, all of a sudden

934
00:52:04,360 --> 00:52:09,200
just boom, you're like crap.

935
00:52:09,200 --> 00:52:10,200
What the heck happened?

936
00:52:10,200 --> 00:52:12,480
I didn't even know my light was going down.

937
00:52:12,480 --> 00:52:16,760
You know, with the 5,100 head back in the day, it shows my age.

938
00:52:16,760 --> 00:52:22,680
You could see it dim down and it dim all the way down to it was dead.

939
00:52:22,680 --> 00:52:25,080
These led lights, they don't give you no warning.

940
00:52:25,080 --> 00:52:26,080
Nope.

941
00:52:26,080 --> 00:52:27,080
It's over.

942
00:52:27,080 --> 00:52:31,360
They actually, there is, um, and I saw this at autumn Oaks last year.

943
00:52:31,360 --> 00:52:34,400
I didn't see it this year, but I didn't look for it this year either.

944
00:52:34,400 --> 00:52:35,400
There is an adapter.

945
00:52:35,400 --> 00:52:38,920
The yes, you can plug into the charging port and it will tell you the percentage.

946
00:52:38,920 --> 00:52:42,360
Um, so, but yes, the K light has a button on the back.

947
00:52:42,360 --> 00:52:43,360
I think it's a button.

948
00:52:43,360 --> 00:52:48,040
You just press it and it tells you like one through four, like how many bars you have.

949
00:52:48,040 --> 00:52:49,040
Yep.

950
00:52:49,040 --> 00:52:50,040
Yep.

951
00:52:50,040 --> 00:52:51,040
So yeah, I do like that.

952
00:52:51,040 --> 00:52:52,040
Big only gripe.

953
00:52:52,040 --> 00:52:56,880
Here's my only gripe with every K light I've ever seen before.

954
00:52:56,880 --> 00:53:02,880
The bright spot is so freaking small.

955
00:53:02,880 --> 00:53:03,880
Very narrow.

956
00:53:03,880 --> 00:53:08,640
And I, it's very small that I just, I never could get past it.

957
00:53:08,640 --> 00:53:09,640
Yep.

958
00:53:09,640 --> 00:53:10,640
That was my one gripe.

959
00:53:10,640 --> 00:53:11,640
Yeah.

960
00:53:11,640 --> 00:53:15,000
Well, I've seen a bunch of posts lately, um, yesterday specifically where people were talking

961
00:53:15,000 --> 00:53:17,480
all about that K light that they come out with at autumn Oaks.

962
00:53:17,480 --> 00:53:18,480
The new one.

963
00:53:18,480 --> 00:53:19,480
Yeah.

964
00:53:19,480 --> 00:53:20,480
The new one.

965
00:53:20,480 --> 00:53:21,480
Yep.

966
00:53:21,480 --> 00:53:22,480
So, all right.

967
00:53:22,480 --> 00:53:23,480
Well, that covers it head to toe, I think.

968
00:53:23,480 --> 00:53:24,480
Yeah.

969
00:53:24,480 --> 00:53:28,800
So, I think that's, portion guys, we could, we could go in deeper and talk about this

970
00:53:28,800 --> 00:53:31,560
and that and the other and other stuff that we've tried.

971
00:53:31,560 --> 00:53:36,160
But, uh, you know, we're already hitting, hitting our mark on our, on our podcast here.

972
00:53:36,160 --> 00:53:40,720
And we appreciate everybody that tunes in and listens to us.

973
00:53:40,720 --> 00:53:45,800
Week in and week out and continues to support us, uh, in what we're doing.

974
00:53:45,800 --> 00:53:47,500
It's nothing fancy.

975
00:53:47,500 --> 00:53:49,720
It's nothing, nothing groundbreaking.

976
00:53:49,720 --> 00:53:54,400
It's just two guys being friends, having a good time, just continuing to enjoy the ride.

977
00:53:54,400 --> 00:53:58,320
I appreciate everything you do, Bryce, uh, for all of this.

978
00:53:58,320 --> 00:54:02,360
He, guys, he is, he's the man that kind of makes this thing go.

979
00:54:02,360 --> 00:54:07,560
I just sit here and talk and, uh, he's the one that still edits it and does all of that.

980
00:54:07,560 --> 00:54:09,760
Um, and, uh, appreciate what you do, buddy.

981
00:54:09,760 --> 00:54:10,760
Yeah, man.

982
00:54:10,760 --> 00:54:13,120
Anytime, you know, we can, we can definitely make a part two out of this.

983
00:54:13,120 --> 00:54:18,800
I mean, we can go all the way into, uh, dog boxes and the trucks and the foilers and the

984
00:54:18,800 --> 00:54:22,640
side by sides and everything else that it takes to make this sport go around and make

985
00:54:22,640 --> 00:54:23,960
your life a little bit easier.

986
00:54:23,960 --> 00:54:28,400
So, um, guys, like I said, I just thought that this was a very fitting, fitting deal.

987
00:54:28,400 --> 00:54:32,600
Um, seeing as how automobiles just got wrapped up and just looking around at all the vendors,

988
00:54:32,600 --> 00:54:35,120
what they were selling, some of the different things, what people were buying, what was

989
00:54:35,120 --> 00:54:36,600
hot, what wasn't hot.

990
00:54:36,600 --> 00:54:38,640
Um, this is what works for me and Basham.

991
00:54:38,640 --> 00:54:40,040
This is what works for us.

992
00:54:40,040 --> 00:54:41,920
If it can help somebody else, great.

993
00:54:41,920 --> 00:54:42,920
That's what we're here to do.

994
00:54:42,920 --> 00:54:45,520
Uh, especially somebody who's new getting into it and they're just like, man, what all

995
00:54:45,520 --> 00:54:46,800
do I absolutely need?

996
00:54:46,800 --> 00:54:50,760
So that, that was, that I have described are my bare necessities.

997
00:54:50,760 --> 00:54:52,960
That is what I have to have when I go to the woods.

998
00:54:52,960 --> 00:54:56,200
Um, anything else, I guess, is a bonus or a plus.

999
00:54:56,200 --> 00:54:57,800
So it's there.

1000
00:54:57,800 --> 00:55:05,000
Well, I've got a competition hunt to get to, so, uh, we will go on ahead and sign off guys.

1001
00:55:05,000 --> 00:55:08,800
And uh, Bryce, so next time they go, absolutely buddy.

1002
00:55:08,800 --> 00:55:09,800
Good luck tonight, guys.

1003
00:55:09,800 --> 00:55:10,800
Thanks again for listening.

1004
00:55:10,800 --> 00:55:13,080
Thanks to our sponsors, Froggy Bottom Outdoors, Never Satisfied Off-Road.

1005
00:55:13,080 --> 00:55:14,960
We appreciate them and everything they do for us.

1006
00:55:14,960 --> 00:55:18,000
Uh, if you guys have a chance, head on over to their websites, give them a light, give

1007
00:55:18,000 --> 00:55:19,000
them a follow.

1008
00:55:19,000 --> 00:55:20,800
Um, you know, support those who support you.

1009
00:55:20,800 --> 00:55:22,360
So Basham, good luck tonight.

1010
00:55:22,360 --> 00:55:26,520
Uh, I'm going to get this thing wrapped up here and get it out to the listeners and we'll,

1011
00:55:26,520 --> 00:55:28,680
uh, we'll catch on dog on Tuesday, next Tuesday.

1012
00:55:28,680 --> 00:55:29,800
Yes, sir.

1013
00:55:29,800 --> 00:55:32,520
We'll listen to it on tomorrow morning.

1014
00:55:32,520 --> 00:55:33,520
All right.

1015
00:55:33,520 --> 00:55:40,120
See you guys later.

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