Ep. 36 | Ultralight Hunting – How Light Can You Go?

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🗓️ 17 December 2018

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

Ultralight hunters make up a strange mix of total nerds and freak athletes – almost all bound to conquer some of the roughest terrain on the planet in search of rare and unique game. If you’ve ever been forced to listen to their endless stressing over ounces or studied their kit and all its strange gadgets and wondered to yourself – “Why don’t you just do more pushups and carry normal stuff?” – Perhaps this podcast will change your tune. International man of mystery and ultralight hunter extraordinaire Dave Hamilton joins Jimmy, Mark, Erik Barber (Not known for his ultralight-ness), Ryan Muckenhirn and long-time western guide Paul Neess to discuss this highly technical, nerdy and awesome topic. From tips to keep your pack contents to a minimum and extreme ultralight gear that gets the job done – all the way to dehydrated water - we cover some serious ground here. As always - let us know if there are any topics you'd like covered on the Vortex Nation podcast by asking us on any one of our social media platforms and using #VortexNationPodcast. Already listened, but want the show notes for reference afterwards? You can find them here: https://vortexnation.wordpress.com/vortex-nation-podcast/

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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. All right everybody we're going to talk about the topic of lightweight hunting or just in general considering the weight of your pack and
0:26.1	your entire kit when you head out in the field pretty much anywhere and to do so we've
0:31.1	brought in actually we got a pretty big crew here for the
0:33.3	podcast this time, so we've got Jimmy and Mark and then going around the table we've
0:36.8	got Eric here scribbling something down in his notebook. We've got Ryan Mukinder
0:40.6	and he's been on the podcast a fair amount of times. We have Paul Nice
0:44.1	who also has been on the podcast and he told a crazy awesome story last time.
0:47.9	Maybe we'll hear some more awesome stories. That was in the Blood Trail podcast, so check it out.
0:53.6	And then International Man of Mystery, Dave Hamilton.
0:58.9	So we've mentioned him a couple of times,
1:01.8	actually we've talked behind his back on the podcast a time or two about how
1:06.8	Light weight savvy he is and so we had to bring him on we had to bring him on to talk about some of this stuff.
1:12.8	He's got his laptop up, which I know on there is some pretty crazy Excel spreadsheets.
1:16.8	It's pretty heavy to bring to the podcast.
1:18.8	Yeah, actually, I was to bring it.
1:20.8	Your role in surprisingly heavy to this podcast.
1:24.0	So anyway, talking about lightweight hunting.
1:27.0	Now there's kind of a buzz phrase, if you will, these days.
1:32.0	Paul, you've been hunting for quite some time you're a guide for how long again it was
1:36.9	oh a long time about 18 years yeah a lot of high-altitude stuff a lot of sheep
1:42.3	hunting high country
1:43.4	middle deer goats so yeah I've counted ounces in my time you have okay so even I
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