All right, Steve, gear of the year. It's that time again. I looked, we've been doing this since 2018. So quite a few years of history, 2018, 19, 20, 21, 22.

We're at the six year now, pretty crazy.

Yeah, it's kind of fun to go back through those

and see what we were, yeah, I mean,

sometimes it seems like not much changes, but also you go back and go oh yeah forgot about this forgot about that like it's more dynamic than I feel it is at times.

Yeah we'll look kind of briefly at some of the previous lists and maybe if we want to highlight here on the podcast anything that stands out from that, but we'll also have links to all those previous lists and then a link to obviously this year's list and then on that also a bunch of you guys the listeners of the show will have some of your suggestions in there as well.

So we got some great feedback from you guys.

We don't have time to talk through every single one,

but we're gonna add a list of some of your recommendations.

So just be sure to check out the link if you want to see links to what we discussed today,

links to listeners and what you guys shared, and then our previous years,

gear list.

But I did want to start here Stephen just say that

anything we talk about today is I guess independent as objective as possible and

not sponsored because we don't do that. I feel like that's important to say because yeah there's quite a bit out there gear reviews and things and you just don't know is it influenced paid

etc and I don't know we remain independent and pretty much every area of

gear Steve yeah it was just it's not like XO is the sponsor. It's not where a podcast that needs sponsors to to function, right, to justify our time doing it. So we obviously XO is the sponsor for it, we get the marketing out of it,

allows us to be sponsor free and with the exception of backpacks we can be pretty,

say whatever the hell we want frankly which you know I think obviously adds to I guess to some people that don't understand the value of that maybe,

just how much is bought and paid for out there in the hunting industry.

But the, I would say, you know, 95% of reviews,

there's some affiliation going on behind the scenes right where

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