Ryan Lampers 2022 Hunting Gear List

[Music] what's up guys um so today I'm gonna do a quick gear dump slash review of some of the equipment I'm going into 2022 season so got a lot of gear up here some of this is going to be late season gear we're also going to have everything for the early season stuff which is coming up um first thing I feel like any Gear review should start with the backpack um so we'll start there this has been my bag of choice for quite a few years now uh this is a stone Glacier it's the 7900 and uh sounds like a lot of cubic inches for a bag I know a lot of guys will run like a 5900 or whatever but let me explain why I use such a large capacity bag number one we try to carve out 10-day trips oftentimes 10 12 day trips on as many hunts as we can do and so when you do a 10 to 12 day you end up with a lot of food and food takes up space and so having this 7 900 with a roll top allows you to go up and uh and it's easily all contained in this bag so all our gear as well as raft at times can get into this bag with ease not having to really force my gear into the bag I think they knocked it out of the park with this one just design wise one thing I love the side the back zip for all my water storage the uh whatever you call it horseshoe beaver tail you know you open up this on both sides this flap folds all the way down you can see everything in your pack uh how it's loaded in there you can get to everything on the bottom as well as the middle and the top real easy no spotter pocket on the right side but there is one on the left side so I'll run my spotter here if I'm archery hunting early season I'm running my bow to the back and naturally my tripod is going to be on my right side if I'm rifle hunting my rifle is going to be on my right side to counterweight my spotter on this side I'll run my spotter straight to the back so there's just a lot of good features I love how this uh fits me it sticks to my back really really well long straps for putting your racks onto it in the end also the lid I'm a big fan of um you know obviously it's like a catch-all for some of your gear light uh water purification TP stuff like that but also say those early season archery hunts you know I use this thing a lot when I end up dumping my bag and going for a glassed up buck I just sling this thing over my shoulder I'll put a few snacks in there usually some chapstick I'm stuck on a hot hill you know some water and it's just really easy to throw back here forget about it you know everything is this is like built for a early season bow hunt you can get enough stuff in here to kind of get you through the day if you're away from your pack for a long period of time but oftentimes those stocks end up for hours uh chasing or waiting on a buck so that's one feature I like about the stone Glacier pack um all right we'll just dive into the clothing there's kind of a lot to go over with clothing I'll try to be brief nothing special about this hat I picked this up on a New Zealand hunt this is like a it gets alpaca just a light super lightweight I just like Merino or wool hats so there's always one of those in I usually wear it when I'm sleeping or just glassing up on a knob uh so we've got some boxer briefs these are the Chinooks from Stone Glacier these things have been great I'm going to go through some socks you'll hear a lot of stone Glacier here my kid is a lot of stone Glacier when it comes to clothing I'm a big fan I like that kind of that high-end technical lightweight gear they got these socks out this last year these are the Rams there's a blend of wool Merino in there which is great very comfortable very durable I've been using these things a ton and I haven't put any holes in or anything yet so I'll be wearing these probably most of the season and then come late season I found these along I know it's been a handful of years these are a like a winter boot sock that all use in November late November these are an Ellsworth as the company I really like these socks they're a heavyweight sock I don't have to wear liners with them if I don't want to they pull way up on your calf for a little extra heat and so that's my go-to for late season comes to socks base layers Stone has this Chinook Merino base layer hooded of course everything is better with a hood on it in my opinion um and I kind of live in these things throughout the hunting season this is kind of a go-to it's just a staple most the layering that I do has a Merino base a hooded mid layer and then a puffy gear on my outer layer and then a rain jacket it's four layers there now I've also got sometimes I will bring a second base layer this shirt is from Duckworth a local company in Bose Bozeman I've been running this thing for years it's super super lightweight I'll hike in this thing at times again it's hooded I don't know it's just kind of like Superstition at this point this shirt has been with me on a crud ton of hunts so I usually carry it um my mid layer is going to be the Helio hoodie from Stone I wear this a lot on hunts let's go into some pants lightweight pants these are the de Havilland lights these things I live in they got the full side zip here they're not full it comes down right below the knee but really allows for a lot of ventilation these pants are great very comfortable use these in the light for the hot season of August and going into September and then come late season rifle season the de havillands these are a much heavier pants same side zip for ventilation you'll definitely find me in these things a lot in October as well as November puffy gear early season I'm still packing a puff puffy jacket this is the Grumman from Stone Glacier um as far as like weight goes it's hard to beat so like 11 ounces 12 ounces something like that it's insanely light very warm to weight ratio on this jacket and this is kind of always in my bag early season even in August it gets you get some cold nights at times even in places like Nevada you know this thing ends up on in the evening at times so that is always in my pack late season generally what I'll do if it's minus temps you know it's kind of a trip by trip basis whether I bring an extra puffy gear or puffy jacket this is a vest from Stone it's a Grumman vest so very lightweight and if you have the vest on and the other Grumman I don't know that there you have the ability to get cold in any condition here in Montana we get a lot of days in November that are minus temps I usually somewhere in November we start hitting very very cold weather so I keep that just in case we're going to run into those type scenarios where you got big cold fronts coming through um so you'll see in this little kit sack I've also got the puffy pants from Stone Glacier I crawl into these things a lot um late season you know I don't pack these in the early season at all they're just not necessary this is more of a winter you know late October going into November tight piece of gear glass in usually these go on if we're on a windy ridge glassing up bucks you know these things are great also where I'll use these and my Grumman jacket is just sleeping if we get minus temperatures I always pack a 15 degree bag uh this is in fact this is the stone Glacier 15 degree chill coot and I don't use anything uh in the zero temperature range at all because I'm always packing my puffy pants anyway so I'll just throw these on sleep with these inside the bag with the jacket and I don't know what the rating with that on that would be but never get cold so there's really no need to have a have a lower temp bag than a 15 degree in my opinion so um I've got the bag in this little seat of summit dry bag compression sack this is the small and it fits it in there very easily I could compress this much further if I wanted to but um super impressed with these Stone Glacier bags I've been using it for a few years and uh just love it I love how roomy it is um it's a ton of space you're not cramped in it whatsoever plenty of room to kind of roll around if you're someone that does that when you're sleeping um plenty long I'm six foot and I'm not packed in there at all my feet aren't pressed against the bottom of the bag at all so it's just been a solid bag for me um like I said 15 degrees is about as low as I get and that kind of goes with me on every hunt so you'll see in some of these kits systems that I have on the table I've got them in these little kit sacks I love these things these are actually they're my own kit sacks that I sell but they're just a four-way stretch material so I can cram you'll notice I have those puffy pants in there you know it's water resistant stretchy it's got a zip on there and I use these things a lot they're way tougher than a lot of the kit sacks out there you know I used to use a lot more of these rip stop type materials but I end up putting holes in them so I've gone to this four-way stretch and that's just been what I use it's great and that's kind of why I built them but uh so that's kind of well we'll just keep on with the Sleep System um ground cloth ground tarp so what I have here is this is from seek outside I've been using this for a long time very lightweight it's real similar to Tyvek folds down compacts really easy nothing in the way of pine needles or you know volcanic rock or anything that's got a sharp edge that's going to bust your air mattress can get through this you know I can lay this down on almost anything and I'm not going to feel you know anything poked through so it's been years that I've gone away from just like a ground tarp where those pine needles yell and end up feeling them if you kind of put your hand across it before you lay your pad out so this thing seek outside sells these things you can see use this a lot had a mouse chew through this one one time when I was sleeping I don't know how he didn't chew into my air mattress but he didn't so air mattress so we've used a lot of air mattresses over the years and I am really really happy with this Neo air it's a Therm-a-Rest Neo air x-light I think it's 15 ounces folds packs down really well you know it's got the uh you know the good valve on here so you can just pop it release the air really fast and uh get to packing it up super quick in the mornings when you're trying to Jet out of your Camp so far it's handled you know a lot of trips and done really well um I would say this is kind of a happy medium between like say an x-therm or some of the really Uber light ones out there I just wanted something that's got a little bit more beef to it at 15 ounces that's about perfect as far as what I'm looking for as far as weight goes it's also got a pretty high r value I think this r value is like four something 4.2 something like that so it stays nice and warm now let's stay on with the clothes so rain gear I'm running the stone Glacier M5 system this is the jacket I run this on every hunt I have this with me I do not always carry the pants some hunts if I know we're just going to be in some nasty weather you know I got an Alaska trip this this coming September I'll definitely have the pants with me on that one but for most times I'm just going to run or bring the rain jacket and then I've got Gators to kind of cover my legs and if I have to and this it's just got a wanky storm coming through in September or whatever I'll just tarp up get underneath that um and stay dry the other thing I'm going to be bringing up to my a lot on my Alaska moose hunt is this is kind of a new piece from Stone I've used this on a lot of the spring bear hunts I did this year just testing it out it's definitely heavier than the Grumman jacket but this is going to do better in those real wet humid you know climates like Alaska this is what they call the Circ and uh it's got synthetic in it versus the down that the grum and puff puffy jackets have so I've been real impressed with this thing so far I've only had it a couple few months now but this spring bear season was ridiculously wet and I had this thing on a lot and it worked really really well for for those trips so again I'm going to take that with me up to Alaska where we can pretty much expect a lot of rain let's talk about some Gators real quick so I've been using these uh these are the Peaks Gators Storm Castle Gators these things are bomb proof in my opinion we've put a lot of hours a lot of trips a lot of days on the mountain in these things they use a dyneema thread for everything stitched so you're not having stitching Come Undone anything like that there's a lot of cool features to this my opinion it's probably the best Gator on the market as far as this durability and keeping the water out of your boots off your legs getting to your socks and then getting your feet wet so across a lot of rivers and creeks with these Gators on and um they've held up like a champ so let's talk about gloves so one piece of gear I don't have on this table is my liners I kind of have like you know a five finger glove I left them on the mountain on my last spring bear trip they are the or so the Outdoor Research I think they call it like a versa liner glove love those gloves they've got just kind of like a base layer you know glove to them pretty lightweight then they've got this little zipper on there and actually it's got a just kind of a waterproof shell that packs in there and it just kind of sits on the back of your hand here so if you're dealing with you know hiking through a bunch of rainy type conditions you put the shell over top the gloves and you're good to go I use those gloves just for like you know hiking and taking the edge off in the mornings and then if it gets very cold parked on a ridge somewhere or a glass and knob I've um last year I I went to these kind of puffy mitts these are an or again Outdoor Research mitt that I have absolutely in love with these things are great definitely not as durable as a leather mitt which I've used for years but I was looking for a lightweight option um on hunts where I'm not going to be you know busting through brush doing a lot of firewood for the stove and this fits the bill for that these things are super lightweight they pack down really well and they've just been money for sitting on glass and knobs keeping the hands warm then you know I've also got the mitts that I've been using forever these things I think these are WinCo got them at Murdoch's in Bozeman it's just like a oh just a little kind of feed store and you know these things don't have the fingers in there so they're just an open mitt these things are great for late season you can throw a hand warmer in there you know if you need to and then um you know these things just don't die when you're breaking brush busting up branches limbs cutting wood on a lot of the late season hunts we end up running the stove and I'll pack these instead of something like that just because they're way tougher they're going to last and when you're breaking a bunch of you know brush and sawing through logs and things like that these are going to be much better so those will stay in my kit for those late season hunts um man let's get through this med kit real fast Med kit is something that keeps getting bigger and bigger I keep up updating it with new pieces that I feel like you know one of these times I'm gonna I'm gonna actually use what's in this med kit I used to be really really pathetic with what I had in it I just don't want to carry the weight but I feel like with age I'm realizing one of these times something's going to happen I'm probably going to use this thing number one I got this lightweight tourniquet in there never know when you're going to need one to kind of slow the bleeding it's something that's I'm going to always carry from here on out I've taken quite a few Backcountry Medical classes at this point and you know the ease and use of a tourniquet is unquestionable it's just you should have one um triangle bandage it's for doing a little splint uh it's real easy lightweight I've got some uh some of this wrap that you can use um you know obviously I'm going to have tape and stuff like that if this isn't enough but I got some that just kind of wraps on top of itself in case I get a cut or something like that I want to keep the bandage on it uh I got a bunch of just bandages of different sorts some leuko tape in here um just sterile pads things like that I got some a couple different things of antibiotic ointment just to kind of keep the infection out if I'm on a long trip I want to put some of that on a cut that I get or whatever I got some Acetaminophen got some Benadryl got some aspirin I got a lot of Benadryl just because um supposedly I'm allergic to bees I guess haven't been stung in a while but Benadryl might save my life and then I also carry an EpiPen I think it's probably smart for everybody to carry some Epi epinephrine um just because maybe it's not you but maybe it's your partner that has some type of reaction to like a bee sting or a you know they get stung a bunch or whatever and they have something crop up so I always carry that a couple of tabs of Pepto-Bismol are in that kit I got some chapstick uh I've got some Imodium AD in case bad stuff happens more gauze and then got some giardia medication um just because uh I've dealt with that before on a hunt last year in fact and so I'm going to carry some Giardia tabs just so I don't wreck a hunt with all that goes into having giardia it's not fun so I figured I would nip it in the bud with some medication if I start to feel those symptoms come on again um oh I also carry in that Med kit a couple of just towelettes these are just little um bug wipes Deep Woods whatever just unscented insect repellent keep those in there just a couple of them in case usually bugs aren't that bad and I can deal with them but I've also had times where I was really really wishing I had something to keep them off but the unscented stuff is what I'm using um toothbrush just the little packables you find these at you know any little Travel section in most stores a small tube toothpaste a little toothbrush right there um this is always in my kit no matter what hunt I'm on just because predators are fun to play with and call in it's just a little distressed call had this thing since I was little it's a Primos distressed call called in a lot of things with this Predators Bears coyotes so that's always there [Music] um let's talk about water what I'm using as far as storage goes got these Hydra packs these things have been phenomenal still haven't put a hole in these Hydro packs this is a four liter this is a three liter they fit inside the pockets of a stone very well even the four liter in the back pocket even just crammed full so I love the size of these sleeves from a Hydra pack and somehow some way they've made this material where they just don't die like the just don't get pinholes like I thought you probably would these things just last so depending on the trip you know maybe early season archery mule deer Nevada something like that you know I'm a pack one of these and two or three of these three liters if there's no water that I know of up on the top of the Ridge and then other times maybe I'll just bring the four liter and that'll be enough to get me through and then as far as purification goes um gone to the stairy pen this thing I've kind of seen all the evolutions of steri pens from the original Green version I can't remember what they called it wasn't very good it broke um I've gone and there was in the classic I think and this is a lighter weight version the ultralight UV and uh it's super compact it's rechargeable so you don't have to pack extra batteries which is great and um super easy to use and for guys that bring pumps or filters squeeze filters I'm always able to drink water way faster than they are this thing you know 90 seconds of just stirring it up I've got you know water that I can drink and it's not uh not going to get me you know Giardia or crypto or anything like that definitely a skeptic when these things first came out whether they would work or not but I've used these for so many years and I like I mentioned I got giardi last year not because of a fail on the steri pen it was a fail on my part because I stepped on my stairy PIN I was day eight on a mule deer hunt I stepped on it I crushed it it wouldn't work I was too stubborn to ask my one of my buddies for to borrow theirs and I just risked it um just drink straight water mid-mountain it wasn't at the top and it was the same water I'd been drinking all week but I risked it and uh sure enough 14 days later I ended up with Giardia as I was going into another hunt so that's more of a testament to how well those things work versus how well they don't they just flat work for years and years and years I've used it and haven't had any kind of parasites from from water at all except 14 days later after the day I stepped on mine and broke it so um went ahead and got a new one of the tips I'd say on these steri pins though which I've noticed on these newer ones my last one didn't do it this one does on those cold cold mornings um oftentimes they're too cold and they don't quite work so I just throw them in pocket for like a minute or two warms it up and then you're good to go and um you can purify your water fire kit pretty simple my fire kit I do have some repair tape in there just some gear Aid Tenacious Tape some KT tape things like that some tent repair tape that I can fix an issue if I have one got a big lighter I've also got a plasma lighter which is pretty slick you know windy conditions things like that for whatever reason the Bick isn't working this thing works always it's rechargeable so you know even if you run out of fuel in your Bic for some reason I'm always going to have a power bank I can recharge this thing really fast I also carry a little thing of waterproof matches haven't used those things but I carry them it's fire as far as uh fire starter now I've got all this I think it's called Blackbeard it's like a rope I've just cut little pieces off of it um great fire starter really good fire starter but um if I'm starting fires in cold weather I got wind uh real damp humid conditions and I really want to get that thing going I go with the goods and use this s bit so the S bit is um just money it works really well gives you a long burn time so if you've got wood that's maybe less than dry and it needs to literally dry out the real fine stuff to get that fire going I'd recommend this trioxane is another really good one very comparable to this but this stuff is way more affordable and cheap and easy to find so I just run the s-bit tablets and those things work great um I used to just do cotton balls and Vaseline and they work under ideal conditions but they don't work when you're really needing to get a fire going quickly and you've got a Tinder that's not quite dry you just don't get that burn time that you do with the um compressed s-bit tablets so that's my fire kit power so we use a lot of power these days you'll notice a lot of this thing including including my headlight steri pin my communication device my phone it's all just power driven so having a good amount of power is pretty crucial been using these Poseidons from dark energy they're 10 000 milliamps I don't know I think they say four or five charges on a cell phone I definitely don't get that I'm getting like two and a half maybe to get good charges on my phone but you know as far as charging everything else these things are great the thing I like about this is I've had not had them break they haven't died on me and I can't crush them these things are like I think you could run over this in a car and you'd still be okay um so I've gone to this I pack one I used to pack like two or three on the really extended ones even four at times if we were burning through a lot of power now I pack one and I use this one of my favorite pieces of gear as of late was this little anchor charger it's a three panel solar charger this thing is legit um it's been great I was a big skeptic I used other solar chargers in the past thinking they would be awesome and they were not awesome at all so this anchor is a I think it's a 21 watt two Port used this for the last couple years and I never run out of power um and what's cool about this is you know it's got like you know full sun is awesome and it charges your phone up like that um but if I'm gone for the day and I leave my shelter and I've got a couple bars I want to grab on my dark energy or all bars maybe I've burned through all my power I'll just plug this in I'll either set this outside of the tent with this underneath it underneath the shelter and I'm grabbing that sunlight all day and by the end of the day I'm coming back and my bank is fully charged again now I've even with some of these shelters light comes through like the dyneema shelters I've left this inside my tent and still filled a charger in a day with the power that it grabs so you know ideally you're getting sunlight full sun but even on the non-ideal conditions you're still grabbing power so I much prefer to have the ability to grab some just in case you know once these are gone they're gone and you can't get anything else and you know if you need to charge your communication device or a phone for maps or whatever it's best to have something like this in my opinion it's 14 ounces it's not going to kill you on weight and it's just unlimited power so um communication device and reach many really easy to use sync it with your phone you're able to text your wife and stay married that's good it's really good and then also it's got the SOS button on there so if all else fails something happens you hit that they will message you and then you respond um to let them know the emergency it's pretty slick system um kind of just peace of mind and again you can communicate with your buddies tell them you got a buck down communicate with the wife let her know how you're doing it's also very good at sending your location so you know Senate location to my wife no big deal but I have a lot of buddies that I still don't want to send my location to so make sure you turn the location services off or they will know exactly where you're at uh contractor bag pretty easy heavy duty contractor bag it's just always in the bottom of my backpack for whatever I need it for um lighting so Peaks came out with this this is the The Duo Duo for there's white light there's red light so there's six different levels of lighting here you've got you've got bright white which is a thousand lumens and then you've got a lesser and then you've got an even lesser which I'm using it on the third level of lighting I don't know how many lumens the uh the bottom level is I pretty much use that 99 of the time it's nice to have the Thousand Lumen uh capability just because great country you know you're breaking down a bowl middle of the night you hear something whatever just light up the the night with a thousand lumens it's nice to have or if you're hiking out in Cliff Country um it's always good to have the ability to just you know shine a huge light on it also the red light capabilities it's got a bright a medium and a low setting as well hiking in on areas or cruising up a ridge or something like that where animals might see us we're running the red light we're also running red light in our camp life if maybe you know there's animals that could see you know our lighting when we're camped we just run it red so they can't pick us up and we're not spooking anything out of there so it locks which is really important um we've all probably had had light that doesn't lock and somehow some way it inevitably gets turned on in your lid and you come back and it's a dead battery so real solid light also you know metal housing on here is pretty slick it's chargeable which again trying to get away from batteries lithium batteries are super expensive and you have to pack extras this just runs off your power bank you can take this off if you want um slick light from Peaks trekking poles another item from Peaks equipment just don't go anywhere without trekking poles anymore um I think everybody knows that these are invaluable if you're going long distances up Steeps down Steeps with weight you know these things are just game changers honestly I always run small baskets on here you can kind of just screw these off either go no basket which I would not recommend ever you're probably going to break a pole or you know get your these poles just stick into the soil I see a lot of guys running them like this and they're always jabbing it way too far in and rolling it over just a good way to break it and you're always having to pull it out of the dirt just this small basket works great obviously those big powder baskets not necessary for anything that we do we're not skiing but leukotape on one I got usually have some duct tape on it as well and I got some electrical tape on here but really quality pull uh the upper two parts are carbon the lower one is aluminum which is kind of The Best of Both Worlds there drink cup coffee cup is going to be I just run this little seed of summit insulated that's about the right size for uh good morning cup of coffee water bottle so a lot of people would probably say this is too heavy to pack this is a GSI microlight I don't want to say it's like 13 ounces so yeah it's a little bit more weight but what it does give you is no plastic number one so I can put hot water in there it's just stainless inside and it also keeps hot water hot all day just because it's insulated and more importantly it keeps cold water cold on those summer days so I can fill this up in a creek and midday when it's 90 degrees I still have ice cold water in this thing versus any other bottles like plastic nalgines or whatever it's going to be lukewarm at best if not hot so I've gone to packing a little bit extra weight and taking this GSI microlight just won't go back from that and that was a good that was a good find a couple years back uh one of the pieces that also does not get thrown into my pack always even on some of the late season trips you know if I'm hunting the Badlands or whatever I'm not taking these micro spikes but these um these are invaluable if you are say late season crusty snow hunting around a glacier hardened snow going down steeps wet steep grassy areas Huckleberry fields in the North Cascades for example when they're wet trying to stay upright is part near impossible so I started using these a long time ago these just micro spikes and these things have just been money I mean I can't say enough good about them they hold up really well yeah they're pound of weight but um well worth it if you're cruising on snowpack that's hardened or whatever just real slick conditions even just a trail that's frozen solid those things are really nice to have on your trips kill kit kill kit goes in obviously one of these kit sacks I've Got Game bags license got some extra blades I've got some cordage I've got my knife so um cordage I usually carry about 50 feet in Gray's country if I'm hunting um you know Montana for the most part I'll double or triple that at times because we're hanging stuff a long way up and we're hanging almost everything food wise meat wise it's just a lot of extra when you're in Griz country so I'll pack a little more cordage um game bags you know like spring bear trips mule their trips I'm running these rack saw game bags these are four boned out meat for the most part now we'll run bare quarters in these things and um and they work great for that they're they're just a really really good packable game bag um you know they've got they're just super lightweight which is great there's five bags in this kit right here and um and yeah I I dig these things a lot I've been using them for years but I don't think you can find a better lightweight uh bag the size of it's perfect for slipping in your pack um graxaw makes these ones and it's just a great lightweight way to go for game bags licenses uh like I said a couple extra 60a replaceable blades I run this goat knife they've got a couple knives that I really like uh this one is kind of a newer version this is the ibex I want to say this knife is just over a half ounce something crazy like that uh super super lightweight um you know easy to handle use this on Spring bear this year and liked it a lot on top of that I always have two knives and that's the one that I just always live in it's always around my neck and that is the Nitro tur from goat um super I think it's 1.8 ounces something ridiculous it's a one piece which I really like there's no fail points on it it's got a Nitro V steel which is been a really good holds an edge really well I can also sticky it up which I forgot I do have for that a little Work Sharp a little sharpener in my kill kit as well in case I need to stick it up it's rare that I have to while I'm in the field but I keep it in there anyway another piece that I use a lot is a tarp and in fact this year spring bear I mean I don't even know how many times I was under this tarp or our group was under this tarp just rain Squall after rain Squall this is just a 10 by 10 it's a DST from seek outside fits in this little kitsack really well it's got all the cordage attached to it so it's a quick setup if a storm rolls in I can get this thing set up with trekking poles and get underneath it and keep glass and keep dry it's just just a great setup so the DST has just been a really nice tarp lightweight um I really I really like that and I'll generally pack it especially in the springtime uh poop kit easy I do both a little bit of paper and wipes um why not real simple some guys get one or the other I just do a little bit of each let's look I do carry on some hunts spring especially the stone Glacier makes a little pack cover super small weighs hardly anything I just keep that in the lid and I'll slip that on if things get ugly in a hurry all right solo trips scouting trips early season August type hunts I'm usually living under this seek outside of eolis uh super roomy just using my trekking poles to set it up um just a small handful of stakes uh four sometimes six six if I'm guiding it out I think the shelter weighs like 11 ounces or 12 ounces it's the Cuban fiber dyneema version of a neolas it's just awesome to have like I said there's a ton of space under there two guys could fit under it very easily I can pitch this thing almost anywhere as well so that's kind of my early season go-to tent now it doesn't have a stove Jack so if I want to have a stove Jack with me on an early hunt or a spring hunt where weather is likely I will bring seek outsides Silex this is a seal nylon tent so I can actually have a stove Jack in it and burn inside of this where I wouldn't want to burn and create that kind of heat in a dyneema tent so super lightweight I want to say with steaks with guidelines with the actual shelter itself it's like 1.5 pounds or something like that super lightweight and I use that a lot even late season hunts when I want my stove I'll just bring a small stove bring this if I don't have anybody with me and this is all I need uh late season or if I'm hunting with a buddy we use this uh Cimarron which is another seek outside uh shelter um I don't know the exact weight on this but it's super light this is the Cuban fiber version or dyneema version as well you can see this is about the size of it for two guys plus a stove plus a giant pile of firewood all your gear with ease this is the way to do it I mean it's such a lightweight system that it's hard not to in fact always just bring this on a lot of our hunts but with two guys this is very spacious ton of room and it goes with us a lot and uh with more guys than that you have to use a different shelter we usually do a Red Cliff also from seek outside and that would be more of a three-man plus stove type setup um steaks love playing with steaks always there's some good ones there's bad ones there's a lot of stakes that will roll over on you if you have to use a rock or whatever to put them in the ground I don't like that so I'm always searching for better steaks these are a pretty simple design from Dak uh great steak I've used these a lot they hold really well super lightweight they also just kind of stack on top of themselves they don't take up any space at all and then uh last year I tried some of these I found from on the Z packs uh it's just kind of a nail head type steak titanium very lightweight extremely lightweight and I can still use a Rock Drive these things in now the design doesn't have a whole lot of grip out here to keep the stake in the ground I don't have them pull out very often but if I'm worried about it or if I'm a real soft soil or sand I'm just finding rocks and sticking a rock on top of it and not having to worry about my steak popping up in the middle of the night but I do like the nail head because sometimes you're just dealing with frozen ground whatever and you kind of have to use a rock to pound those in and for all the steaks out there that you try to do that with and they roll over that just makes me angry and I don't like that so always looking for better steaks and these two designs have been the best that I found um glass and pad what can I say about the glass and Pad um this is what I've been using for quite a while it's my own glass and Pad actually and uh two-sided you got the orange on one side which late rifle season I will affix to the back of my pack a little extra orange on the back if you got antlers coming out I will also use this to run over my bow so when I attach my bow to my pack early season I put this over the top when I run this you know the straps around it I'm not putting straps to cables I'm not putting them to my strings so this takes all the pressure off that so I'm not grinding on my bow strings and then also we use this for starting fires it's really good at creating a wind to start cold weather fires and then obviously you know just for glass and it's got a lot of insulation in here so it's been pretty slick it's kind of a staple in our systems these days dive into some cook systems real fast so I've got two different systems here they're both jetboils spoon from Peaks equipment just a long titanium spoon so I've got the minimo which I've used for I don't even know how many years a lot of years this one is so old probably 10 years old or something little paper towel in there to keep anything from rattling um you know this thing is about as efficient it's the most efficient stove that I've ever found and I've played with a lot of them trying to find you know if there's something that's sipping fuel a little less I would go with it but at this point I have yet to find one other than a jetboil that sips such little fuel so very efficient it's got the flux rings on here it's got a regulator on it so I can toggle this to a light orange flame if I'm trying to simmer something you know render some bare fat for cooking bear nuggets or Grouse also it's got the torch so I can go total blue flame Crank It Up and just boil in water it's great for that but I like the I like the minimo for a lot of reasons the wide top for cooking meat in here like I said it's got a toggle so I can get it really um light orange to where it's not just burning everything now I will take that if I'm not taking my stove because it's so dang fuel efficient now I've also gone to this is the mini Mo this is a Mighty Mo from jetboil what I have inside here is just a lighter weight version same really good regulator on here so I'm able to get that light orange flame if I'm wanting to simmer rehydrate Foods cook bear meat um you know render some bear fat whatever cook some mushrooms up you know this this thing regulates the heat very very well now it does not have so I I've gone to this little toke cook system which I'm loving a lot it's got basically top bottom to it super lightweight you can use this if you want but if you're just again coconut Meats Grouse bear whatever this thing fits the bill because it's got that wide mouth to it this is a lighter system than the minimo problem is because this doesn't have flux Rings it's not as efficient with fuel the advantage is you can cook with this on a stove much better than you can with something with flux rings this Jacks you up about what an inch and a half almost two inches off of your stove that you got in your shelter so it takes a long time to boil water you also have to peel off the neoprene around the jet boil um if you want to use it on the stove now this one you don't stick it flat on there boiling water now you're not using any fuel whatsoever and it boils water extremely fast you can just use it set it by fire too if you want to boil it that way but if you run out of fuel and you have a stove or just build a fire this works way better than this system so late season when we have a stove I'm bringing this I'm not bringing a whole lot of fuel because at night I'm just going to have that fire ripping anyway and I'm just going to use the fire to get my boiling water for my meals same thing in the mornings for coffee doesn't take too long to to get that that water boiling hot so all right by no harness so I ran this Stone Glacier vinyl harness for a number of years now last couple and um just love everything about it super lightweight I love the front flip option I could never go back to a backflip ever once you go to a front flip it's kind of the best thing for sure in my opinion um nice little pouch on the back here I can slip my phone into it I always carry an extra Rangefinder battery back there any little tools I need for say my tripod head whatever I've got here in my final harness right in that back little pocket wind checker real easy this is where I carry my earplugs if I'm on a rifle hunt late season um as far as ear plugs go these are just a little custom molded you just take two parts I think radians is the company that makes these find them at little pharmacies whatever put two parts together mix them up put them in your ears custom molds to your ears plug them in it's what I use for earplugs so and those just stay attached to my bino harness always um which is a big help in not for getting ear plugs as far as hunting and Grizz country I run this rasco harness sits right under the stone Glacier bino harness it's just a Kydex sheath there fits my I got a Smith and Wesson 10 millimeter m p this thing is what I'm taking if I'm going into Grizz country spring bear trips whatever I'll have that on there fits really nice with this specific bino harness so I love that one of the pieces of gear that you can't see here obviously is the uh the mapping tool that I'm using I'm running that uh Gohan Explorer app been using that used it all spring dropping waypoints setting tracks using it for public private all that kind of stuff it's got some pretty cool features for solo guy it's got this new Rangefinder feature which man you just in your range finder you grab a distance say your 350 hit your app hit range finder type in 350 you point it basically in the direction it drops a waypoint at 350 yards so it'll drop a waypoint right on the buck you're going for or maybe you just shot an animal and you want to know exactly where it fell and you got a long way around or a long way down and up and you know country's going to look the same on the other side so dropping a waypoint when you got a visual on it is pretty sweet and that's in that explore app so I've been using that a lot um playing around with it plus they got a pretty cool new feature where you can download like every single layer so for Montana right here I just basically download all layers in one bit one button push and now I've got everything they don't have to remember to go back when I'm downloading offline maps and remembering to have every layer on so it just has everything included it's pretty slick Optics um I won't go too deep on Optics right now you know it's always tens or twelves it's just specific to whatever trip I'm going on I think it's pretty Universal you know a set of 10 by 42s or a set of 12 by 50s those fit into this Stone Glacier real easily what I have in here right now are a set of 10 by 42 uhds from Vortex it's a good fit and those things are those things are money um range finder I'm running the little Vortex HD it's a 4000 so it reaches out there quite a ways um even on bow hunts I'm using the same range finder angle compensation everything and it's also nice say if I'm putting a stock in on something you know you know this isn't just for putting a range on something within bow range but I might be looking you know 2 000 yards across and I'm tapping a bush and then tapping where the animal is just to see you know the distance between you know the bush and where he is to determine whether whether I can make a stock or not so having a rangefinder that really reaches out I found to be invaluable so that's kind of why I'm using this one it's been great grabs yardage really fast real Snappy I've been using this 65 millimeter uh razor for years from vortex um it's kind of just a happy medium you know it's not it's not like the biggest um 85 mil 95 you know 115 mil objective on there it's just kind of what I'm willing to pack and it's going to tell me what I need to know I don't really glass up a lot of animals um with the spotter I'm using my linos for that I'm using that to just verify determine whether I'm going to go make a stock anyway so that's that's the happy medium that I'm willing to pack is a 65 mil objective and so that's why I run that particular spotter it doesn't um you know bog me down with too much weight the tripod this is a slick 624 it's super old that thing feels like an antique at this point I'm pretty sure they still make those slick 624s but it's just been tried and true I've used it forever there's definitely heavier versions that are going to be maybe a little more stable but again that's what I'm willing to pack it's I think it's about a two pound tripod I've got this Outdoorsman's micro pan head on there super slick um it's just smooth everything about it is smooth so I've been using that works great with the binos works great with that 65 mil spotter as well um rifle real fast I'm not going to dive too deep in on the weapons that I'm using obviously my early season stuff is with this PSE bow back here my late season stuff or rifle hunts is going to be with this this is my back country setup it's a Weatherby Backcountry TI super lightweight it's just what again what I'm willing to pack wanting to pack this is not a gun that I would say is going to shoot a thousand yards I don't shoot that far so I try to get within 300 yards always if possible sometimes I'm still you know 350 whatever but and I'll take that shot but the goal is always 300 and so I carry a super lightweight rifle so I'm not packing that poundage on the mountain this is a sub five pound rifle Bare Bones once I top it with the vortex 4 to 22 lht it's 6.5 pounds with the bases and rings and everything on it so six and a half pound setup it's super light I run a lightweight trip or bipod on there that's that Spartan uh Haviland Pro with the extendable legs this thing has been great for me Works awesome it's on a magnet I can just pop that off when I'm carrying it on my backpack and then obviously you see a cover on here this is one of my covers it's um it's a stealthy Optics and Crown cover keeps junk out of the barrel um keeps your your Optics clear and then I also run a TI Pro muzzle break on there side port which I really like that break I run that thing on all my rifles it's just been a great break all around um and that's kind of that setup won't go too deep on the weapons stove setup I should have probably went into this when I was talking about shelters but this is what I'll run late season even some spring trips when we're still getting that garbage weather I'll run a stove this one happens to be a large U-turn stove I think it's one and a half pounds it's super light folds down you know super skinny slips into your pack really easier on the back and then um here's what the pipe comes in I run a little bit longer pipe than probably most just to keep the Sparks from landing on top of my expensive teepee I run a seven and a half foot pipe on the Cimarron which we use most of the time so you know it's up there a good foot and a half which allows those Sparks to kind of dissipate a little bit more every foot you add I think is another ounce and a half so it's not bad I'll add a little bit of length to the pipe just to keep less Sparks from landing on the on the shelter especially the dyneema uh when I'm packing the stove oftentimes late season I'm going to pack what I think is like the best saw on the planet and that's this silky Pocket Boy they've got a bunch of different sizes but the teeth on these things are incredible like you can cut through anything in these things and it's just uh super small pretty lightweight use this for you know what you're able to do versus you know what I used to do is just kind of Break Stuff on rocks use leverage to kind of bust my firewood up and get it piled up for the TP life now I just bring this a little bit of a weight hit I think it's seven ounces but it's allowing me to get a lot larger chunks of wood that are going to burn longer in the stove much easier and this thing buzzes through dead wood really quick which is great so I'll pack that a lot of times you know obviously early season probably not necessary but it's nice to have that Pocket Boy silky saw oh let's dive into food real fast I didn't plan on going too deep into food I feel like I could talk for an hour on food this is just kind of like a daily from what I'm packing on most hunts it varies bag to bag nothing's the same every time I kind of have to mix it up but generally a pound and a half to two pounds two pounds on those late trips when it's really cold long nights we're burning through a lot of calories just with the weather at times usually in the summertime you know August September I'm down a pound and a half if that I don't really count calories I just kind of know what's going to work but basically each day bag you know I've really been enjoying these uh Peak refuels the breakfast Skillets the biscuits and gravy those things are really really good for for breakfast now I also do my own egg scramble you can do these Skillets for dinner too which I'll do often I also do my own so I've got a freeze dryer so I'll use that to make my own scrambles omelets I can basically get like probably 10 12 Meals off one freeze dry run and uh so I love doing that just utilizing a lot of the veggies I get from the garden even building out my meals I'm using Meats from past hunts to create lasagnas curry dishes spaghettis you name it and I'm just building my own but if I'm not building my own I'm running a lot of these Peak refuel meals as well also Heather's Choice meals man she's got a lot of good ones the shepherd's pie is one that I've been digging a lot chicken and rice as well and and she's also got some really good breakfasts that I'll use on occasion the rest of the bag I usually do like a trail mix macadamias nuts pecans almonds little shredded coconut you know some craze and stuff like that sometimes some dark chocolate will go in there I've got a few different bars that I'll end up running perfect bars hard to beat those those are just delicious peanut butter I got these little no-bake cookie snack bites from Kelly Jean I've been using these a lot high in fat loaded in calories I think there's 240 in this little package here so that's good make my own little coconut cookies peanut butter balls with basically just honey peanut butter and oats and then sometimes I'll add like seeds and nuts and things like that it's just kind of fun to play around with different snacks one of the things I make in the freeze dryer as well as the dehydrator is a lot of fruits and berries pineapple kiwis bananas strawberries tangerines I can freeze dry or dehydrate about anything sometimes I'll make leathers and I'll slip those in my bag as well so it never gets old you can just mix and match cheese I always take cheese whether it's the baby bells or these Tillamook slices those things are good and then I'll do a pack or two of Lono life bone broth um this is just the the grass-fed beef this is a Thai curry these things got like 10 grams of protein in each stick and they're just good little sea salt in with that and um it's a good way to start the day that's kind of just a basic you know daily meal like I said pound and a half to two pounds just mixing it up a couple of those companies though Peak refuel and Heather's Choice are good quality food and they got tasty meals uh coffee kit probably the most important kit I'm going to talk about today let's empty this puppy out so coffee um if I'm not doing just some dehydrated stuff you know I'll use the Black Rifle coffee wild Society builds some pretty good little packets as well pretty comparable um all you either use those or I'd prefer and what I'll usually do is just bring real coffee I'll weigh it out giving myself you know about a half an ounce per day of coffee and then just weigh that out for how many days I'm going to go and how I'm using this back there is uh with this little GSI filter it's a really fine little filter that you can either pour it over if you're fancy I'm not that fancy so some people do the pour over thing I don't do that I just seep it right in there put a big scoop of coffee in it hot water let it seep and that's my coffee system and you got like real coffee on the mountain hard to beat that in the morning also this little filter can be used for straining water if you get some scuzzy stuff that's got some crud in it just use this and this will filter out all the junk so I definitely use that a handful of times in the past um also what I keep in my coffee bag is just some daily things that I take as far as supplements um so I've just got a bag like for this trip we'll have I've got my CBD capsules I take those 50 to 100 milligrams every day when I'm hunting uh just keeps me fresh keeps me um recovering better and keeps away the inflammation so I'm a big fan of CBD it's actually our own brand stealthy nutrition all these supplements are turmeric take turmeric daily every morning also immune probiotic goes in there and then I got a little sleep gel if I need to get us some sleep and I can't fall asleep it's got a little melatonin in it knocks me out usually don't need help with sleep but often my buddies do so I always have some sleep gels in there and then e-charge this is our own electrolyte drink super clean it's got good flavor to it and um I just pack it like this and I'm good to go there stay hydrated lastly talk about boots early season these are what I'm stocking mule deer in or whatever animal with my bow generally these are stockistens [Music] um a kid makes these um just does a really good job these things are really well made they're very quiet on stocks now one thing I've noticed if if you're stocking in real crunchy country with a lot of grit these things are great they keep your feet from getting all tore up and a bunch of spikes and a bunch of needles in there but you can get even quieter if you put a sock on top of this leather moccasin then you're just as quiet as it can be and you know what I've found when you double up socks in steep country to try to be quiet as those socks end up slipping and you can't get good grip whereas this is just pinned to your foot and socks don't slip on those as much so it's a good system for early season spot in stock uh real quick I don't use these a whole lot my feet don't sweat like a lot of folks sweat but you know good for late season if you're hunting wet snow uh sleety type conditions if um if you just like on the cusp of freezing not frozen inevitably you end up somehow getting water in your boots and you want to dry them out what we'll do is uh typically that time of year we'll have the stove and we got this heat getting created in the shelter we'll take the tripod we'll Jack it all the way up and we'll tie our boots to the tripod as high as we can in the tent slip these into right here on the top it pulls that hot air in dries out your boot this thing runs on just your any power bank that you're using just plug it into that and this thing just sips power like hardly any surprising how little it uses and the fan just dries out your boots so the next morning you've got dry boots again even in the mornings when you get that fire ripping you're putting your food your foot into a dry boot as far as these boots themselves these are kind of what I live in these are a crispy laponia these are the 2.0s I don't I've used the the 1.0 for a lot of years last year in August started out the season in these and I use them all last season and all through spring season really waterproof all leather real soft boot you know they're they're more like a tennis shoe but they're all Leather So these things have been really really good for me soft sold you're not going to get the longest life on these soles um that's for sure but this is a boot that I will replace every year they're just that comfortable and they're not as expensive as a lot of other boots are so highly recommend these if you're able to deal with a soft sold boot stiff sold boots I'm not a fan of I just don't do good in them so I try to avoid them and that's why I have gone to a boot just like this laponia right here I love those things and that's more of an early season I will use those up until I absolutely cannot use them in the cold weather and once the weather especially here late November whatever you know that's the only time I'm going to use an insulated boot um you know my feet generally stay pretty warm but there are times when they don't stay warm it's really hard to keep them warm and I will go to a boot like this Wild Rock from crispy it's got 400 grams of insulation in there uh it just keeps your toes from freezing up on you on those late late minus temp type hunts so that's what I'll use late late season and then the laponias pretty much up until I can't stand the cold anymore the raft you can see right there um we use these rafts a lot surprisingly and uh that just separates us from people it gets us into areas you know that uh there's no trail head just places that people don't look at as much so this particular one is a caribou from alpaca um very lightweight just over five pounds it's got a cargo zipper I can get all my gear I can get all this inside the cargo zip zip it up blow it up use it float my gear down zip across Rivers back and forth float my way out it's just a legit system and like I said we use it to separate from people that aren't willing to do those extra take those extra steps and cross rivers and with how light they are you know they slip on my pack real easily that with the ore it's pretty pretty slick system uh and I think we're pretty well covered everything on this table and on the ground so um yeah with that that's pretty much my gear list for 2022 like I said I covered a little bit of early season stuff I covered the late season stuff and uh you know we're still in summertime maybe I'll add something here there to try it every year I like to try a new piece or two but at this point I'm pretty well locked into what I've got here I got a lot of faith and confidence in it and uh this is what I'm going to be running through through this season so that's it [Music]

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Length: 75min 30sec (4530 seconds)

Published: Thu Sep 22 2022