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Eastmans' Elevated

Episode 55: Sitka Gear with John Barklow and Eric Gilmore

Eastmans' Elevated

Brian Barney

Sports

4.7558 Ratings

🗓️ 4 September 2017

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

In this episode Brian, Guy and Ike sit down with John Barklow and Eric Gilmore from Sitka Gear. They talk about the fabrics, function and design of Sitka products. They also get into the rigorous testing Sitka does on their clothing and camouflage patterns. As always they start talking hunting and some of the great adventures the guys have coming up this season.

Transcript

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0:00.0

To have passion in life is everything. Watch your apprest. Oh, yeah. 200 inch box. They just look so impressive when they're wide. Especially running away. Welcome to this week's episode of Eastman's Elevated. It's like a think tank for outdoor activity. Sounds exactly like my hunting. Just always thinking about it, always trying to evolve it and make it better. Here's your host, Brian Barney.

0:22.5

Hey, what's happening, guys?

0:24.8

A new episode of Eastman's Elevated here.

0:30.3

So today on the podcast, I have the final episode from the podcast tour I did with Guy and Ike Eastman.

0:31.6

So we sit down with a couple of the guys from Sitka, John Barclow and Eric Gilmore,

0:37.0

and just a great couple guys. I know John's

0:39.8

listened to the podcast before and a diehard archery hunter, and same thing with Eric, and they've got

0:45.5

some good hunts coming up this season, and we get into that a little bit. And we also talk about

0:51.2

Sitka and their rigorous testing and how they find their fabrics and a bunch of interesting stuff in there.

0:57.4

Sitka is also the sponsor for today's show.

1:00.7

They're building such good quality gear.

1:04.2

You know, they're the original ones that brought technical mountaineering gear to the hunting market.

1:08.7

And they just continue to evolve their company. I'm just so

1:12.5

impressed with their designs, their fit. They really work hard to give us hunters the best gear out

1:20.6

there on the market. And then their camo patterns, you know, I always like their open country.

1:26.2

And then they came up with this new subalpine. And I've

1:29.6

been using this on the last few hunts I've been on Hawaii and spring bear and then antelope in the

1:37.1

open prairie. And it just does so good to blend into the brown grasses, to the green of the spring.

1:43.5

And it just seems like everywhere I take

1:45.1

that pattern, it blends in really well.

1:47.2

So super impressed with that.

1:50.1

Over there at Eastman, so it's just that exciting time of year where we all got hunts

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