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#10MinuteTalk - Building a Whitetail Optics Kit — What’s Right for You?

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🗓️ 18 June 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Serious whitetail hunters use optics and use them well. They are integral to their hunt and their success. Long distance scouting to hardwoods glassing, east to west, bow, rifle, and muzzleloader – optics are a difference maker. So, what should a whitetail optics kit look like? Good question. Tune in as we talk optics for North America’s most popular big game animal.

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0:00.0

What is up everybody? I am coming off an epic bear hunt with a buddy of mine. I'm joined by Eric Barber.

0:10.3

Eric I am Eric I'm riding a bear high right now. I love it Marco I am on cloud nine. Yeah

0:16.4

I wish I was the buddy that was on the hunt I know I I mean just the hunt could not have gone better I'm on cloud nine it made my

0:27.8

spring me my year even more so than the turkeys. Those were great too.

0:33.2

Oh man. Lots of good highs this spring. It's been a good high.

0:37.6

Good. Roll that right into fall. Keep that momentum going.

0:40.9

Now you weren't on the spare hunt. I was not. But you're

0:43.7

actually leaving for one here very shortly. Yeah, yeah. As we record today it is

0:48.5

June 3rd I leave the 12th for Alaska. Very very excited. Hopefully you will be returning here in a few weeks

0:55.9

on your own bear high. I'm hoping so. Just fantastic tales to tell. I'm hoping so. This is like my first like real bear hunt. So I'm like very, I mean we hunted that would have been.

1:08.8

Oh, sure. 2019. It was almost to the day day I got a memory yesterday in my little like

1:16.0

Facebook memories or whatever but that we were you know filming and had a lot more

1:21.4

other people in camp all that stuff this is like my first like time actually like holding a bear tag so I'm pretty pumped

1:28.4

This is gonna this is gonna be neat you're going on I was on like a like more like a mountain bear hunt and you're going on a

1:34.4

coastal bear hunt which is really neat and I've done that style of hunt in the past and I am very

1:40.0

excited for you because it's going to be a blast. Yeah, it's cool anytime you do any sort of hunting whether it's you know bear hunting deer hunting whatever where you got kind of like a combo thing going on and that's what the coastal thing is really cool. Like you have fishing and hunting

1:55.3

baked into it versus like anytime you're doing just one thing like it's always

2:00.3

awesome you know it actually helps you kind of hone your focus a little bit more.

2:04.5

But up there this time of year, the days are like crazy long.

2:07.8

They're forever.

2:08.8

So, you know, we're actually going to be pretty close to some results to this up there.

2:12.7

We leave the 19th, so we'll just miss it by a couple days,

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