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🗓️ 21 February 2018
⏱️ 73 minutes
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On this episode of Gritty Bowmen I sit down with Ted Gartner and Chad VanCamp to talk about the new Garmin Xero sight.
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0:00.0 | And I think, you know, in defense of state wildlife agencies, I mean, they're in a tough spot, man. |
0:06.5 | You know, there's all sorts of technology and it's tough to either write in or write out a particular technology |
0:15.0 | because it continually changes and, you know, they're not in the business of, you know, writing a particular product in or out of the books. |
0:25.0 | And it's tough for them, so I get that. And that's something that we understand and, you know, struggle with along with the agencies. |
0:33.5 | But at the end of the day, Garmin, I assure you, went into this product category, wanting to make a tool where hunters could be more successful and do right by the game you're hunting. |
0:49.0 | When you went to the engineering, one of the questions that I asked was battery life and it's electronic and what are all the failure points and it's got this digital read out. |
0:58.5 | What happens if that gets bumped or the digital goes haywire, gets cold, freezes, what if the battery dies in the middle of your hunt as a skeptic, I'm expecting all these failure points. |
1:09.5 | I mean, if you're walking around with a rangefinder in your pocket and a sliding site, you are effectively doing the exact same thing that this site does. |
1:18.0 | It's just removing the need to pull it out of your pocket with 25, 30, 40 yards. |
1:24.0 | All right, folks, welcome to the Gritty Bowman podcast. We're coming at you from Texas. Where are we in Texas? |
1:31.5 | Inside a bracketville, Texas, about 20 miles from the Mexican border, I believe. |
1:36.5 | I keep spending a lot of time on the Mexican border the last month. |
1:41.0 | What does that mean about you? |
1:42.5 | I haven't crossed it. |
1:45.5 | I am here with Chad Van Camp. |
1:49.5 | Right? Van Camp? |
1:52.0 | Yeah, it was taken in during. |
1:53.5 | At first, I thought it was Van Camp. |
1:55.5 | I get that a lot. |
1:56.5 | But it's Van Camp and then we got Ted Gartner. |
1:59.5 | That's right. That is correct. |
2:01.5 | Ted Gartner, both from Garmin. |
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