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The Hunt Backcountry Podcast

MM 292 | Stabilized Spotters, Suppressor Covers, Downhill Knees, and More...

The Hunt Backcountry Podcast

by Exo Mtn Gear

Sports, Sports:wilderness, Health & Fitness, Wilderness

4.42.8K Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Steve and Mark answer your listener-submitted questions on this Monday Minute episode. They discuss image-stabilized spotting scopes and question their purpose and benefit. And speaking of gear with questionable value, they answer a question about suppressor covers. They also discuss recommendations for people who struggle with knee pain on downhill hikes, the results of the Exo Experience Photo Story contest, what is going on this month, and more... The Hunt Backcountry Podcast is brought to you by Exo Mtn Gear: https://exomtngear.com/ EXO INSIDER NEWSLETTER — https://exomtngear.com/newsletter ASK YOUR QUESTION — [email protected] LEAVE A MESSAGE — https://speakpipe.com/huntbackcountry VIEW & SEARCH THE PODCAST ARCHIVE: https://exomtngear.com/podcast

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0:00.0

Well, Steve, happy Monday. It's December, full on Christmas season, which I know you love. You got the house fully decorated. Oh, yeah, fully decorated. Got the lights up over the weekend with the kids. It's actually pretty fun weekend. My wife was out of town on a short vacation with her mom. And it's just me and me and the kids. It was like a daddy rules weekend.

0:24.1

My wife was like, what does that mean?

0:27.0

We just do whatever we want, eat cookies and stay up late.

0:30.1

No, we had a lot of fun.

0:31.9

Did a bunch of different activities and got them winterized the trailer, had them do that. Like I basically didn't do it, but just had them do it, showed them how to do that. That was fun. Yeah. Just a bunch of stuff like that. Try to teach them little things, you know? Yeah, for sure. Yeah, it is hard with kids because sometimes it's like, I just need this done, right? And you just want to do it. and then there's other times you have to force like all right we can take more time get them

0:57.9

involved and slow down it's not going to get done as quick or maybe as well but you're

1:02.1

you're teaching them as you go yeah that's and it's not like I'm so impatient with things

1:08.7

I just want to have done and move on to the next thing so it's something I've I struggle with as a father at times for sure is having that

1:13.7

patience. Like, okay, let's just, we got all weekend now. Like we'll just, we'll work on this

1:18.2

thing or that thing. And that was, it was good. Yeah. Cool. Well, yeah, just a real quick heads

1:24.8

up in terms of Christmas. if any of you guys are listening

1:28.6

made anything from us back to pretty much shipping next business day and then lead

1:35.6

times we do have posted if you guys are buying Christmas gifts for a hunting buddy or something like

1:40.5

that you can see kind of the ordered deadlines on the website. And then something we

1:46.1

pretty much never mentioned until this year rolls around and we probably should like, oh,

1:51.0

you know what we should let people know that we do have gift cards. They're digital only. So you're

1:57.3

not going to get a physical card. But that also means their instant delivery via email.

2:01.7

So if there's some sort of like last minute thing, that's always an option.

2:06.0

But otherwise, yeah, as always, we're kind of caught up from the sale in November, excited about this season.

2:13.3

And here to help if you guys have questions from an exo perspective.

2:16.7

You guys have the kind of the office

2:18.3

christmas party on friday right this Friday uh yeah it's it's not the office Christmas party it's the

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