Hunting Gear Podcast - Hunting Packs & Junk Gear
Sportsmen's Empire - Whitetail Hunting
Sportsmen's Empire Outdoor Network
4.8 • 615 Ratings
🗓️ 19 March 2026
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Join us for a lively chat with Aaron Hepler from the InCamp Podcast, where we explore gear, pranks, and real hunting stories. Whether you're an outdoor newbie or a seasoned hunter, this episode offers practical tips, gear reviews, and entertaining anecdotes to enhance your hunting experience.
Key Topics Covered:
- The importance of testing and practicing with gear before hunting
- Practical experiences with trail cameras, SD cards, and troubleshooting
- Hunting gear tweaks and upgrades: backpacks, packs, and accessory organization
- Insights into cell cams, their evolution, and future trends
- Real stories of user errors and safety tips on climbing and gear handling
- Strategies for staying hydrated and managing elevation sickness
- The value of brand loyalty versus trying new gear
- Lighted arrow knocks and considerations for electronics in hunting
- The significance of ethical scouting and hunting practices
Resources & Links:
- Reveal Cellular Trail Cameras – Advanced cell cams for real-time property monitoring
- Vortex Optics – Trusted binoculars and optics
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Transcript
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| 0:32.7 | All right, everybody, this is the Hunting Gear podcast. |
| 0:36.3 | I'm your host, Dan Johnson. It's a guest, Mr. Aaron Helper from |
| 0:40.5 | the in-camp podcast. That's correct, right? The in-camp podcast. It's in-camp podcast, but it's helper, |
| 0:47.8 | but dyslexic, so it's Hepler. Hepler. Oh, my God. I, dude, I should know better because not only have I had you on other podcasts before, |
| 0:57.9 | but it's literally spelled out right in front of me. |
| 1:00.5 | And if I knew how to read, then I would have been able to say that. |
| 1:05.3 | Well, I'm telling you, it's dyslexic, man. |
| 1:07.5 | It's backwards, you know? |
| 1:09.0 | I know. |
| 1:09.8 | Have you ever seen those, um, those little puzzles that they put and you're, you look at it, you just glance at it and it's all these mumbo, jumbo words all jumbled up. Yeah. But then your brain takes over and fixes it. Yeah. And it's like you can read the full sense. You know exactly what it says, even though |
| 1:27.8 | every word is misspelled. Yeah, exactly. And that's kind of how my last name is for sure. |
| 1:32.3 | Yeah. Yeah. All right. We'll get a different last name. That's easier, buddy. Okay. |
| 1:37.5 | So, so you can cut this out, but I got to tell you. So I have a buddy, and this will keep a secret because I know nobody listens to this. |
| 1:48.1 | So my friend at work told all the girls that we work with, like all the female nurses we work with, |
| 1:55.1 | that during nursing school, he was a male dancer. |
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