What is up? Everybody jumped my right. Paul knees across from us today. Paul, you must be in between hunts or something like that. I am exactly in between aunts. You nailed it. We caught you. Yeah, he did. It's it's like spotting a. Oh, I don't know like star rally stage or something in the fall on a party. I honestly, I feel like people who search for those are they say it's like spotting a nice. That's right. Think about it that way. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Think about it in terms of that. I'll be roaming the woods of North Idaho in two days. So getting close. Very nice. I was going to say this is a 10 minute talk. We're burning up time. But we don't get the knees very often. So Paul, where have you been? And then you said where you're going, but where you been? Where are you going? Well, I'm just back from a long run. I was out in Colorado and Nebraska did a little bit of stuff with a local BHA out there. We did a vortex cabela's experience down in central Colorado for analogue. And then I actually went over to southern college.

Colorado helping some guys on a muzzle loader elk hunt out of Fort Carson there. Military guys out of Fort Carson. So had a great time. Did a little call on for him. Got a couple bulls that come in. But you know, hunting being what it is. No dead bulls were taken. But we did. We did manage a cow elk in a couple of years. Oh, man. It was fun. It was a great hunt. Yeah. Yeah. That's great. All right. Fantastic. Now we got unfortunately because I want to just talk hunting stories for the rest of the tent. We got to get to the task at hand, which is.

Rifle covers slash rifle scope covers. We've got a couple, I guess, you know, integral systems here, one of which I'll note. So I'm going to say the ones that we have, which we've got the stealthy hunter rifle, rifle cover. So that's Ryan Lampers. He's doing this one. It's really cool. And then the one that we don't have here. I'm going to describe it. It's the solo hunter rifle cover. So that's Tim Burnett. So another another guy that's doing a lot of hunt video type stuff like that. And then we have.

The air armor. And this is more of a scope cover. Looks like it. Yeah. A lot of padding on there. A lot of padding. Very durable. Greg McCale. Another TV guy. This is this is kind of his one of choice. We did. We did like a sheep hunting kit podcast. Kind of like five essentials. So we're kind of kind of re. I'm going to re go over what he liked about this one. But and then and then we have Paul here tons of hunt experience. Doesn't use rifle cover. And I'm looking for you guys. Just so.

On me on a rifle cover. I've had some experience. I'll give you some feedback on what mine has been. But yeah, I'm not a I'm not a big user. So I'm looking forward to hearing the pros of running these things. You did say though that there's kind of one situation where you feel you're you're pretty. There is. Yeah, there's one where I mean I do. And it would be more of a you know, a tire sleeve cover in the rifle. And Mark, I know you find it in Alaska. Good bit too. And this is any time I'm in a in a small boat and inflatable something like that running.

Around in saltwater. You're getting a lot of spray on the rifles. And I'm telling you that's the one time I'm trying to cover my rifle is best I can. Yeah, you know, usually a full sleeve just because of saltwater is. I mean you you can go a day and you can see all the rust starting in places on the rifle. So, you know, that is the one time I'm pretty religious about trying to use a cover if I can for sure. Well, and I'll say this the reason why my solo hunter rifle cover is sands the discussion here today at least physically is because I'm just coming back.

From Alaska. And so it's with all my stuff that it's still kind of like the virtual gear bomb that is one of my rooms downstairs right now. So that's that's there. But so the first time so I haven't historically used a rifle cover really ever in my life. And my buddies and I my buddy Joey Pibern and some other buddies were hunting black bears fall black bears up in the Alpine. And both of them had a rifle cover like it was like that.

That style of rifle cover. I didn't it was August. I'm like, I would I need the same force Bluebird weather like what's going great right. We set up our tents. I just left my rifle out overnight. Oh, yeah, it froze frost on everything. My water and in my Nalgene's froze and I look at my rifle in the morning. And it's just like coated in a layer of frost that the rifle itself the scope everything. So now I'm like, you know, trying to you know like. Oh, it should be nice to see through my rifle scope if I'd like to shoot. And so that was wherein I was like.

You know what? I should probably look at getting one of these things. So that's the style that I've used predominantly. It's more of like a almost like an elastic sleeve. It goes over the complete rifle open at the bottom. And it's a simple almost like tension. You pull it off. You slide it off. And basically we sell for the neoprene rifle scope covers. But it's for your hold on pretty much kind of different materials.

Okay. And we'll see if MC Ryan can like, you know, get a picture. So it can join the party here. Let me ask you. I mean, I've used that same case mark. And you know, my like when I used it, I felt that the fact that it allowed moisture to come in underneath it and

depending, you know, depending like if you had the rifle leaning or in a boat or whatever it was, it seemed to me it got still got pretty wet inside.

Did you feel that it was so in the situations that I've used it. It's worked well. And it's had enough air flow that like yes, it can like, you know, maybe absorb a little moisture or or trap moisture, but it also doesn't, I guess it leaves

enough room in the scenarios that I've been in that it almost like is better than some other solutions that really want to, if it gets wet and there's going to hold it in against the lenses of the optic or something like that.

But I haven't like, I guess what I can't say that I've done is like pull the rifle out in the midst of like just a torrential downpour and seeing what what the lenses look like. So I guess I can't speak to that. But the one thing I can say is I like it for

number one, just kind of like, you know, general storage, perhaps if you're outside and also on, you know, a backpack style hunt, the way that I have been securing my rifle as of late is just using the side straps of a stone glacier pack. And I actually put the butt of the rifle in the pocket. That's here. And I use water bottle.

Yeah, now rifle holder. And then I use the straps and kind of like secure it to the side. And I like that because my rifle stays protected, right. If I need to dump my pack, even if I kind of like, you know, it kind of rolls over on the rifle a little bit, you know, I'm not getting a potential, you know, barrel obstruction. I'm not dunking up the scope. If it, you know, lands in a little bit of moss or some dirt stuff like that. I'm keeping the action clean.

And then also, you know, when you're in that mode, you could be like going through a bunch of brush and stuff like that. So you're just like protecting your rifle from.

You know, just getting junk and leave sticks, needles, whatever. And it's not like a huge weight penalty. So that's, that's what I've been doing with that.

I mean, if you don't bring tape for your muzzle, covers your muzzle.

Yeah, that's a huge part of it. I mean, the fact that you do, you can see it on this one here. I mean, you do have that muzzle protection. So even if you, if you happen to forget to tape that muzzle over.

That's, I mean, that's, that's huge keeping stuff out of the muzzle. So that's, that's definitely a concrete advantage of it there.

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