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EP 028: Randy and the Mad Scientists who create Sitka Gear

Hunt Talk Radio

Randy Newberg

Sports, Education, Wilderness, How To

4.62.4K Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2016

⏱️ 116 minutes

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Summary

Randy talks performance apparel design, testing, and manufacturing with Sitka Gear's John Barklow and Eric Gilmore. Topics include; good isn't good enough, from idea to end product, planning products three years in advance, the Sitka Dungeon, apparel engineers, challenge to get Gore-tex certified, new products, Timberline Pants, Windstopper, to build it you have to live it, bean counters versus product designers, product-focused mindset, failure is not an option, warranties are worthless in the Brooks Range, Fat-tire bikes, drawing tags in Nevada, signing a non-disclosure agreements, Dairy Queen and Starbuck sponsorship.

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0:00.0

Hey folks, Randy Newberg here. We are in Rainy Boasman, Montana today and I have

0:07.5

two wonderful guests who have decided to join me this Friday before Memorial Day

0:12.4

weekend and we're gonna talk about some really cool stuff. These are like mad

0:18.4

scientists guys here of the product, the clothing world. So a lot of you out on

0:25.9

our hunt talk web forum ask all these questions about well I wonder how this

0:30.8

happens. I wonder how that happens. Well in the next hour or so you're gonna get

0:35.8

to understand how really high quality performance clothing gets made from

0:41.8

start to finish. But before we get into that I just want to quickly go through

0:47.6

the wonderful people who make this podcast possible. Go hunt.com. Many of you

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hear about this insider research service they have. It says be your own hunting

0:59.4

consultant and it couldn't be more true. Just a little testimonial to that.

1:06.6

Thanks to Utah issuing their draw results the other day. There was a deer unit

1:12.3

that I really didn't know that much about and then I started reading about it in

1:15.2

the insider from Go Hunt. And don't be mad at me but I drew the one non-resident

1:20.1

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1:25.8

the insider and you sign up. There's a promo code from that that we use

1:32.8

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1:39.4

you're gonna get the new the Gerber scalpel blade their vital knife is what

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1:49.7

click on insider. If you sign up and use the promo code hunt talk you're

1:54.1

gonna get a free Gerber vital knife. The other one Orion Coolers you know that

1:59.7

we had Damon on here not very long ago. Damon Bungard from from Orion and

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