Steve happy Friday, but this coming out Monday Monday minutes. You're hitting the road with the fam, which is cool since you know, you've been kind of hunting and gone. I gotta spend some time with the fam offline.

Yeah, absolutely man, looking forward to doing a week long road trip kind of down to the Grand Canyon area, explore down there and load up with two kiddos and hit the road looking forward to it.

That's cool. We had questions from our recent elk hunt that we talked about. So we'll just pretty much hit on those on this Monday minute because it's timely and relevant. But just always want to throw out there if you have other questions, not about our elk hunt can be about anything.

Send those to us at podcasts at xamongear.com. We'll get those on a future Monday minute. But one of the questions we had on the elk hunts what boots did you wear?

Yeah, we had a lot of there must have been we went to take a picture and camp and again we were so busy we were terrible at it, but we've probably had 10 pairs of boots in camp between you Tyler and I and we all happen to wear the same size.

So it was literally like pick the litter on whatever you wanted to do.

Yeah, yeah, I brought you brought you brought your crispy's.

Chris, Chris, he's in Solomon's Tyler. Tyler's been wearing. It's a it's a Hanvog booth that they just came out with and I know he had it on the sheep hunt.

He was kind of still breaking them in on the sheep hunt. So he had a little like tiny bit of trouble with it as far as I caught spots go.

But then the more he's used him since then he's he's really, really liking him. I wish I knew that I'll try to Google the name it.

And then yeah, I had the two that I was most interested in are the Hanvog Alvastones. So I I've been got a pair of those and it was wearing around town did some hikes they they had some serious promise for me as far as what I've been looking for in a boot something that's still flexible.

Something's going to give me ankle support is I got to take you out chucker hunting for about a two hour hunt before we left town and you got to experience kind of like understand why I'm that chucker hunting kind of inspired me to start looking for a boot that I could at least find that's quasi comfortable.

Yeah, side. Yeah, side healing frozen ground. Yeah, and you got to keep your eyes up looking for birds. It's just way different to me than big game hunting.

And then what else do we have? Oh, there's a new one completely random. I had never ever heard of them. But it's it's I don't know how to pronounce it's it's a KU. So it's a KU.

I believe that's how it's pronounced just literally it like one of those like couldn't sleep at 1 a.m. search and enter webs found found them and they had like read the about us and it's like, ah, that seems like they're interested in making a quality boots.

Just you know how they how they you can just see how they communicate on the website right that it's not trying to hide things and yeah, order to pair just like, oh, just get them check them out if they don't look good.

You know, just send them right back. And they look pretty good. And so I've got those. I called their.

Oh, man, I can't remember team 10 good 10, ENG you light.

Yeah, that's what it is. And man, I was impressed with it. I need a I wore it for your hunt.

And you know, put some miles on it basically a brand new pair of boots that only had a few days in town and at my feet kind of were tired.

And then I was honestly like they didn't feel fantastic, but they didn't feel bad either. And then we went to pack your pack your bowl out.

I had had much I didn't have very high expectations like I have my feet kind of tired and this is probably going to suck slap you know throwing a hundred pound pack on and hiking out of here.

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