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The Hunt Backcountry Podcast

381 | Engineered Gear from New Zealand’s Rugged Mountains

The Hunt Backcountry Podcast

by Exo Mtn Gear

Sports, Sports:wilderness, Health & Fitness, Wilderness

4.42.8K Ratings

🗓️ 14 December 2022

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

As an engineer and mountain hunter, Matt Vincent is always looking for ways to improve his gear. Lighter, stronger, more efficient. That pursuit led Matt to design and produce his own gear, which he sells via MTNGear.us (and MtnGear.nz) We speak with Matt about his life in New Zealand, the hunting opportunities there, and how his personal pursuits in NZ's rugged mountains lead to his products — including the MTNStick and the MTNGear Bipod. https://www.mtngear.us/ https://www.mtngear.nz/ $10,000 Independent Gear Giveaway — https://exomtngear.com/giveaway — Enter before December 23, 2022 LEAVE A MESSAGE: https://speakpipe.com/huntbackcountry or [email protected] Podcast Episode Archive: https://exomtngear.com/podcast

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Hunts Backcountry podcast.

0:25.6

This is episode number 381, and our guest is Matt from New Zealand.

0:32.2

Matt is born and raised in New Zealand.

0:34.9

He is a hunter and an engineer, and he combined his engineering

0:39.4

experience and his hunting experience to create some great products for mountain hunting.

0:46.2

You may have heard me talk recently, in fact, just in the previous Monday Minute episode

0:50.5

about my experience with the Mountain Gear bipod. And we speak with Matt, the creator of

0:56.8

that bipod. Matt is also one of the companies and small independent brands that we are

1:03.7

featuring right now through our independent gear giveaway. So once again, that giveaway is going on

1:10.5

right now as this episode is released

1:12.8

in December of 2022, and that deadline to enter is December 23rd of 2022. So if you're hearing this

1:20.8

and you haven't already taken a look at the giveaway, all the great prizes up for grabs,

1:25.8

be sure to head over and check that out.

1:28.5

We do speak with Matt about more than products. As I mentioned, he's from New Zealand,

1:32.8

and they have a very unique hunting culture and hunting opportunities, even for folks from

1:39.1

the U.S. or other countries to be able to go to New Zealand and Hunt. And so we do talk about that and more.

1:46.7

This conversation kind of picks up right in the middle.

1:49.7

As Steve and I started this call with Matt, we just dove straight into chatting and we pick up

1:54.8

the conversation accordingly.

1:56.6

So here it is.

1:57.5

I hope you enjoy it.

2:09.9

Thank you. So here it is. I hope you enjoy. How's the TAR numbers right now?

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