Welcome to the Gritty Podcast. I am your host Brian Call and I'm joined today. I'm a brother the Gritty Bromine. How are you Brent?

I'm well. Thank you.

Today we are going to do a little Q&A session where I went on a little trip with the family to the lake, spent some time with them this weekend.

I have my own university. I have to get an hour and a half to do that because I will be gone basically hunting for like four months, three months.

I should have divorced me. I've been trying to frontload some real family time with the kids and the wife. I actually crave it myself and want to do it.

It's been pretty awesome hanging out with my kids in the lake and swimming.

Did you get any fishing? Or was it just swimming?

It was just flat out swimming and eating food and relaxing in hammocks.

I've been really enjoying that time this summer but I have been away and we've been getting tons of questions.

It always happens like this in July, August. Everybody is ramping up to get on their hunts and they just have a million questions they are coming through.

I'm going to start with questions that I have been getting on YouTube. I'm just going to answer them on the podcast. Hopefully this is useful to a lot of you.

It answers a lot of questions, not just one at a time, ones e2s e-mail.

It's the same thing I'm going to do with some of the DMs I'm getting. I'm just going to try to respond to those in a series of podcasts that Brent and I are going to do.

Hopefully you like this. This is useful. You get something out of it. Before we get started, I want to remind you to use the code Gritty at mountain ops.

I want to tell you right now they just came out with the Merino wool top.

The battleground. Is that what they call it?

Well, the hoodie is called the battleground. It's the battleground hoodie and there's a zip top and there's a regular crick.

Whatever they call it. It's actually a really nice Merino top. I wore it on the bear hunt I did with Ryan and I the early season bear hunt we did in April.

May. I really liked it. I loved it in fact. I've said this before. I said this earlier after we got back and we did a little post hunt review of the gear and stuff we used.

The thing with the Merino is it just doesn't stink. It's so comfortable and it stays comfortable for seven, 10, 15 days of pure sweat and grime.

It's still comfortable when you climb and you're sleeping back on a backpack hunt and you sweat in it all day.

Normally with any other type of garments, synthetic, I want to take it off. I can't even sleep. It's a stickier cardboard.

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