Welcome to the Hunt Backcountry podcast in the fourth episode in the series that we're doing called the Backcountry Blueprint.

To remind you what the series is, or maybe if you're somehow tuning in for the first time in this fourth episode,

we have data from 1,500 hunters that we didn't intentionally survey for the purpose of this content.

It was part of a separate project we were doing, but we realized that we had all this hunter data and

these insights about backcountry hunters that were worth summarizing, talking about, and expanding

upon. So in this episode, in the fourth episode,

we're talking about building a gear system that you can trust.

And really the question that drove all this data was the opposite of that.

We asked, what gear weapon or equipment failures have stopped you on your hunt?

Either they cut a hunt short or it stopped you from being successful.

So not just gear that, oh, I didn't like it or, oh, I had this minor issue with it,

but what were the true gear like failures?

What were the equipment issues that changed the

outcome of a hunt entirely, negatively? So we have five things that stood out. We discussed those

today. We get into what the hunter said and those five common themes, and then Steve and I expound

upon that. And to be honest with you guys, as you'll hear in the episode, we fully agree with some of themes, and then Steve and I expound upon that. And to be honest with you guys,

as you'll hear in the episode, we fully agree with some of them, and on some of them, based on

our experience, with a lot of backcountry hunts, I think some of these gear issues are kind of

excuses in certain ways. But we'll get into that.

As always, we encourage you guys to get out there and validate what these hunters said

and what we say with our experience.

We hope that this Backcountry Blueprint series

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