There are some pursuits in life in which gear becomes critical. Quality is not, shall we say, optional.

And backcountry hunting is one of those because sometimes when gear fails you much like serious mountaineering

Your your whole experience can come unravel to the point where it can actually affect your ability

not just to succeed but to survive. And man I'm delighted to welcome back

today an old friend of mine this is Rob gearing with Spartan

precision thanks for joining us here my friend well I'm delighted to be back

here Joseph it's always a delight to spend time with you and your English wife.

Yes, definitely my better half.

And she hasn't lost her accent at all after all these years.

But no, it's great to be here.

Love engaging with you and talking about what's been going on and

we've had a couple of hours this morning catching up and got some exciting plans.

Yeah, good to be back.

We do and I can't wait to just swap a few stories with you and get some details on your new products that you've been inventing and coming out with during the COVID. It's giving you plenty of time to really focus on some new things I hear

It certainly has I guess we shouldn't really get deep down into the the Wies and what's for about COVID.

We could spend hours talking about that,

and I'm sure everybody's had enough of it.

But yes, it did give me a big advantage

in the fact that it locked me down for a little while.

Not that I didn't get locked down, I still went to Scotland, I still did things,

but I couldn't rely on planes or boats anymore.

But what it did do was it gave us time to sort of concentrate and

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