Ep. 011: A Systematic Approach with John Barklow

East Meets West Hunt

Beau Martonik

Sports, Wilderness

4.9 • 796 Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2018

⏱️ 101 minutes

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Summary

On this episode, I talk with John Barklow, Big Game Product Manager for Sitka Gear. John was a huge part of helping me understand layering systems and inspiring me to test out different combinations in a variety of settings and weather conditions. His extensive military training experience along with many big game hunts has inspired him to build some of the best clothing in the world. Topics: Who is John Barklow Science behind technical clothing Base layers - Merino Wool vs. Synthetic Mid Layers Outer Shell - Windstopper, Goretex layers Insulation Layer - Synthetic, Treated Down, Down Synthetic blends Everybody's body is different when building a system Rewarming Drill Last layer for backpack hunts - sleeping bag - down vs. synthetic How to start building a system on a budget Sitka Gear Apex System and Mountain Hauler 6200 Elk Hunting talk Resources: Rewarming Drill: My Variation of the Rewarming Drill Eastman's Rewarming Drill Rewarming Drill Article Dynamic Rewarming Drill Instagram: @sitkagear @eastmeetswesthunt @beau.martonik Facebook: Sitka Gear East Meets West Outdoors www.sitkagear.com www.eastmeetswesthunt.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Are you an adventurer looking to take your hunt to the next level and you're in the right place.
0:05.8	Welcome to East Meets West Hunt with your host, Beaumartonic.
0:19.7	All right, we're live.
0:21.8	John Barkle, welcome to the show.
0:24.9	Thanks, Bo.
0:26.4	I'm stoked to be here, buddy.
0:27.7	Help you out.
0:28.7	Yeah, man.
0:29.3	How are you been?
0:31.3	Been good, been good, you know, kind of middle of summer and shooting a lot,
0:36.8	training a lot, mostly in the mornings or late
0:39.9	evenings, it's been so hot out here.
0:42.1	Yeah, you've been having that hot weather.
0:44.2	You've got to formalizing my hunting plans and, yeah, you guys been getting baked.
0:48.7	Yeah, yeah, I didn't know if it was the same out in the West or not, but it's been,
0:53.1	it's been pretty brutal here.
0:55.8	Yeah, where I'm living here in Montana, it just maybe last week started getting hot.
0:59.8	So nothing to complain about.
1:01.7	A lot of good moisture, a lot of tall grass.
1:05.2	We're still getting rain.
1:06.5	So, you know, the hope is that there's going to be really good antler growth.
1:10.9	And, and, because we because we had a hard winner.
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