Ep. 157 | How Cold Weather Affects Your Hunting/Shooting Equipment

Vortex Nation Podcast

Sports, Vortex Optics, Shooting, Scope, Gun, Long Range, Wilderness, Hunting, Riflescope, Vortex, Vortex Nation Podcast, Binoculars, Vortex Nation, Optics, Rifle

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🗓️ 23 November 2020

⏱️ 78 minutes

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As the temperatures drop, there’s no mistaking the fact that we feel colder and time spent in the woods or on the mountain gets a bit more uncomfortable. Sure, the right gear and a healthy dose of mental toughness can simply get you through the cold temps, but how about your gear? What affects does the cold weather have on your optics, electronics, firearm, bullet, etc? Also, even if you “Feel” fine, what sorts of things can be happening to your body in extreme cold that you should be aware of? Ryan Muckenhirn joins Jimmy and Mark to discuss all these things and more! As always, we want to hear your feedback! Let us know if there are any topics you'd like covered on the Vortex Nation™ podcast by asking us on Instagram @vortexnationpodcast

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Vortex Nation podcast brought to you by lovers of hunting, shooting, public lands, the Second Amendment and good food. What's up everybody? Here we are with Mr. Ryan Muckin around across the table. Mark, do my left as usual.
0:23.8	And the topic at hand today is cold weather.
0:27.8	And this isn't to be kind of like,
0:30.1	man, it's getting cold, but it just is is cold weather is a fact of life and it happens and it
0:38.0	oftentimes happens during hunting season and is, there are effects that the cold, cold
0:46.4	temperatures can have on gear, on you, yourself. And let's bring some of those up because I know sometimes Ryan you're on the
0:55.6	phones all the time and there's this there's this almost a line in the sand if you
1:01.5	will we're across a certain date and a lot of people are out in the field and we start getting lots of questions that are cold related and you know you might be thinking yourself it's not that cold and you might be totally fine in whatever cold
1:14.7	weather you're in. But physics still occurs. You know? Your feeling of cold is 100% of perception.
1:21.6	Everybody gets cold the same way. Everything is the same temperature. It's how you perceive it. So you may be perceiving it as not that cold. But things that don't have feelings, just all they feel is temperature and whatnot. So Ryan, what are some things that happen?
1:34.6	I know obviously electronics are affected.
1:36.5	That's one of the biggest things that we see,
1:38.0	things like anything with a battery in it, really.
1:40.7	So for your gear, and then there's also, I'll just say a piece of equipment, like when we talk about our optics, there is, there's external
1:49.8	fogging and things that can occur.
1:51.6	Yep. Which are a pain in the butt to deal with. And obviously we have optics, you know, that are fogging in things that can occur, which are a pain in the butt to deal with.
1:53.4	And obviously we have optics, you know, that are fog-proof, waterproof, but we can't waterproof
1:57.6	the atmosphere and the outside of things.
1:59.9	Yet.
2:00.6	Yet.
2:01.2	Working on those force fields, but I mean mean that's something that can happen so
2:05.0	external effects of fogging and whatnot and then also you as the hunter or shooter
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