EPISODE 161: Backpack Reckoning with Aron Snyder

It was about an hour and 15. I think the squirrel and I sniffed Yeti so much that my head immediately took on the shape of a flat wing. This is Tim Burnett with Solo Hunter and you're listening to my favorite podcasts, brave Bowman. Just Randy Black. Eagle, that's not how we operate, just drop the mic and walk away, that's how everyone knows you want every piece of equipment or kit in your

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to have two purposes in the case of the phelps bugle, it's a bugle, too He is friendly. of some play time, you know, at camp, wiffle ball bat, especially if you find those mushrooms.

I have my special t-shirt that Tana Avery made me for the world. Okay, he's a hunter. You can also sound Strider if necessary and the hobbits, what are they called? that packet, I don't know if I'm supposed to say that you can cover it and have at least 85 ounces of water in an emergency situation, so Phelps is out of it, yeah, Phelps was pretty smart when he made this pill, yeah, the calculation I won. Not just because the name, I know it makes you feel harder and they are bright green, you can't miss it. I think this was probably made in Switzerland, it could have been made in the US.

I'm not sure Phelps is at least half Swiss. Friends, welcome to Bowlin's brave podcast. I'm here with Ron and a friend, we're at my house in Evergreen Colorado, it's cool huh, it's raining today, it doesn't rain very often in Colorado, yeah, it's a little annoying, really. Looks like I didn't really leave it running, but we're going out hunting tomorrow night or Friday morning, that's right, we excitedly made a video that everyone should watch if you haven't seen it. already from our preseason scouting activities, yeah, it went well and she really, yeah. I made some shots climbing trees, you climb trees.

I didn't find room, yeah, hanging our food on the trees, which wasn't as easy as, yeah, it got there. I got a migraine, it was a bit of a strange trip, we didn't leave until ten or eleven and at night with no headlights, but the food is hanging bright truck, yeah, oh yeah, sure, so I guess it's a good time for a good review the team. at least the gear that I carry, what I have on the bow, how I set it up and then where I have everything placed and then this is actually a package that we haven't released yet from Cafaro.

In fact, my partner in crime will be mad that we're making a video about it, but he'll get over it, so the truth is, this is the perfect opportunity for me, selfishly, to see what's in A

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as of the most current time period because I have to pack my bag I basically have two days to get that package without saying Brian weighs until the last minute none of that just has to do with the solar eclipse okay so with that let's make it A

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tell us what's in your bag, all your gear, we're going to even get to your bow and what we're backpacking, taking with us on this elk hunt again, the surroundings or the weather we're going to have.

We will be dealing with and why we took what we did. I'm going to float the other camera in and out of the frame so I can get some close-ups of what Aaron is talking about. We'll make some cuts into that so you can, if you're watching this, see exactly what it is, close-up view of the urns, yeah, okay, we're okay, Aaron, what do we want to start with, we'll start with a bow and just go from one thing to a skill and the next check so we already did a video on the bow so I'm going to go into too much detail on that but I have this is a Hoyt Buffalo.

I have Quattro limbs with a carbon core. These are black. vintage eagle arrows with 350 spines and I have killer 250 grain broadheads in the front and in this seat this configuration that I have here I have two of these buffalo, this one has a 6 arrow strap in the Selway quiver here I have 5 heads broads and then here this arrow is back and I have a little broadhead there and I just put that strike on this arrow right where the tip used to be and it works pretty slick yeah other than that that's my bow setup. I have more arrows that I'm packing with me in a narrow tube just some backup arrows in this case I'm going to Winchester to shoot arrows at grouse or something so that's the bow now this is just the clothes this isn't in my backpack this is what I'm basically going to wear on me what I wear on my body these are the first light leggings these are actually tight socks that I've gotten used to when I wear low cut socks I usually wear tights or first lights if I want to do the full calf sock , where it goes to the knee, I almost wear the first light and I actually have the first light sock here is my backup.

I usually carry an extra pair and then these are the ones that fit, I actually don't think I will. I'm going to use, but these are the corrugated guide pants. In fact, I have them there because I'm leaving them in the car. I'm going to use the Kanab, because they can ABS, so with the Kanab the important thing is that they are a little calmer is the season before, so I'm not worried about them drying out as much, where the guides will dry out. Zucchini will dry faster than these, but they will dry quickly enough since it is an earlier season.

First, like Kanab, which explains it to people who don't know what they're made of, so these are the Kanab 2.0 and they're a ripstop merino wool blend, they don't stink, that's the other thing you can use. for quite a long time and they never smell bad, especially in the crotch area, they have stretchy material in the crotch and back here on the right above the buttons so you still have full flexibility in your legs. I'm also using them to be completely honest. I've killed three animals with these pants on and I need all the help I can get with the fighting stick, so probably as much as the luck of the draw with these pants as anything else, I don't have the Corgi handlers on.

I have earned my luck. I'm going to use the Grizzly hunting guides, so the cannabis news. I have my special t-shirt that Tana Avery made me for the world. Okay, it's hunter, it's synthetic, it will smell bad after a few days without washing it, but I love it. Tana to death and she did this for me, so she didn't do it, that's it, yeah, that's not a lot of them, plus, it's a cut sleeve, yeah, and let's admit that helps you make calls better of Phelps and help. You kill more elk. I hope that's what Jason told me anyway.

This is the first lightweight arrow fleece with a zipper and zipper collar. I don't know what the technical name is, but I've had good luck with this arrow wool. Forest dries a little faster than standard merino. I was lucky enough to be able to test all the arrow wool for several months before they went on the market. This is the softshell. I'm not. I hate telling a lie. I generally never wear soft shell clothing, but I like how this makes me feel more durable because it had a cut and we're not backpacking. I think we're only going about 4 miles so weight isn't really an issue, can we see that? in your frame later, later, well Slater, so I'll probably leave, I'm wet, bring this just for the safety factor in my own mental state, it'll make us feel better, I might not use it too, so which I just threw that away anyway. in the bag to have it, so that's pretty much what I'm using now here just to get out of the way.

This is because everyone knows that you want every piece of equipment or kit in your backpack to have two purposes in the case of the phelps bugle it's a bugle, it's also kind of like playtime, you know, at camp, the wiffle ball bat, especially if you find those mushrooms, is too, you can sound more strident if you need to and the hobbits, you can cover it and have at least 85 ounces of water also fell out of everything an emergency situation, yes, Phelps was Pretty clever when he did this and it's bright green so you can't miss it.

I think this was probably made in Switzerland, it could have been made in the US, I'm not. I'm sure Phelps is at least half Swiss so here's the package I have here and I will say that I don't have a full sales pitch for First Light, obviously we are sponsored by First Light at the moment. I'm a friend of Kenton. What you want to do regarding clothing is my suggestion: evaluate the type of area you are going to, the time of year, in the case of elk season, I don't bring a lot of clothes, I bring an extra one. a pair of socks an extra set of underwear I try to wear my merino wool base layer, obviously it was a sleeveless shirt, but I mean my service, my things that really count.

I want to be made of merino wool. I only bring one pair of pants, those are the pants I wear. in general I have the merino base I have a kind of fleece layer on top I have a puffer jacket and then a rain jacket and that's all I bring normally I have that softshell again like I said if it was in quotes Serious con in the backpack. I wouldn't bring that soft gel, but just make sure you get good quality synthetic merino clothing when you come in, so in this pack, what's that pack called? I don't know if I'm supposed to say these packages. called The Reckoning actually hilly, yes, The Reckoning.

I'm not doing it just because the name, I know it makes you feel stronger, Bend, I gave this one a name, bender, name the other one, but because, to be honest, I mean, that's what the League scam is like. National. It's exactly time for this year's shoot. I liked the name and it is as difficult to name a package as it is to design it. Actually, ah, but this was something, it was kind of fun, although I'll talk about the package later, but this is it. a new package and there was a lot of input that came from the guys and the teams until the end, you know, different hunters, we have several mouths, two testers, so anyway and this is the new Ranger green color that I really like.

I guess I shouldn't really talk about it, but I can't get into trouble, so right now, the way I have this set up back here, I have my warning decoy, now let's get someone to say what you should put. orange on this and you could get shot and you're right but when I go hiking I usually put it in the back of my pack during bow season, rifle season I probably wouldn't do that so we have this backpack. I have three compression straps that go one, two, three and I have three that go from here to the frame, so this works independently of each other.

That's my hand-to-hand lure. I usually use this. I don't go too crazy with the lures I use. I don't bring the handle that comes with this. I just opened this up and I usually jam it on a stick or a bush or something behind me, some kind of pumice stone sometimes I don't need it sometimes I do, we're having some pretty thick words. When Anthony and I used it and then, you know, in the desert areas where El Chrome was, we actually mounted it on our bows on the stabilizer, oh yeah, and it works that great, we're cool, yeah, I've used hunting of turkeys that way.

It works really well for me when I call alone, especially I always set the heads behind me as much as I can, so okay, the way I have the

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set up here, these move up and down. the vertical compression straps, so depending on where you need them, you can move them up and down on this tape here, but I have it without a lid, the snow collar folds up into a lid, mainly because Bryan and I have packed in the backpack. our food in our shelter, so keep that in mind while I'm going through this.

I'm not going to have a shelter in the backpack, it's hanging on a tree, so I have this zipped up for my daily stuffing for my multi-stuff of the day and then I'll empty it out and go through it piece by piece right here this is a lens Canon 2.8 14 millimeter is my wide angle that I bring this is an ape case I think this is what is called yes, ape case, I have silica packets in there so that the humidity helps, you know, because it's raining quite a bit. This is my Canon 5d Mark 3. I have a 35 millimeter 1/4 on this here.

This is another ape. In case I threw them away, I don't keep my share of binoculars in my backpack. I only have space not to forget them again. We have a little extra room in the backpack just because we've hung our food, but this is a chest harness from Alaska Guide Creations on this chest harness here I have a lens pin and it's just a standard to clean my optics or my camera gear this is my Petzel I turn on my headlamp we went over this a few times but it's like a half ounce headlamp and it's pretty slick it works great especially for an emergency light you should see it up close it's pretty small , buddy, yeah, so how's your head going?

It's good to be confident that I can make this happen. With a new headset you look good, cyclops. The great thing about this is also that you can hold it as if it were the last light on your helmet. I've had it once in a couple of years, at most, a long time and it's small, you can always have it. Well, the only thing you can do too is I put it on my wrist and turn it on like this and if I'm readinga map, you can do this instead of holding it in your head or whatever you can. just take this off, turn it back on, you know, turn it back on and it will spin in circles so you can shine whatever you need to make a pretty nifty system, in my opinion this is one of those things that everyone should have and as a backup in his backpack which we didn't have on our little scouting trip, no we didn't have it because I didn't have my chest harness, which wasn't very smart of me, on the other hand, here I have my a lawn knife, I have extra sheets in there, this is a I don't know who makes that exotic match cap, it's just long lasting survival matches, it has a striker on the bottom right here and it's practically indestructible. there's in here, it's hard to tell on the cap that there are more strikers and since I like to make fire so much, I started to bring it with me more often here, I have the tape of my labels on the back of this, let's see what I do.

I have marking tape on my tags, hey that's what we put on the BC bear hunt when I marked it the first time mm-hmm. I have some extra Haviland blades, a lens cleaner like that and in the front I just had a big bottle of wind care, sometimes I put it here and I have 10 HDS electric razors here, but I think for this honey I can I ended up using my 8, but then I have this remanufactured ivory model. real automatic locks so they don't slide through my buckles. What I did for people who wanted to know is I just cut them and then I have these open females, so when I cut the old females you have to write There's a lot of work here, especially when you do it the other way around.

Now I have the female there. This is an automatic lock. They don't slide. I have an FHF rangefinder case here and then I have the new Vortex rangefinder inside. there, this is my sleeping system, it's just my sleeping mat, my pillow and a sheet for the floor, a cloth to tie on the floor and this is not a Cafaro, take it out again right now, we already have our shelter hanging in a tree that we packed in Cafaro. Tut and the poles actually don't ask you we may have left those poles not where we hang everything else that is on the ground on the ground maybe it needs to be determined maybe we are cutting a stick for the center poles either way that's it my pillow pad and floor cloths, this is my backup camera gear, backup batteries, lens cuffs, hurricane blower, something that can be squeezed, I have a lens pin here, I have a small multi-tool, stuff normal, backup SD cards, nothing special, this is a waterproof case.

I only carry a couple of backup SD cards, although it seems that with the video recording I may be changing, that I hear a lot more than I'm used to. This here is not the lightest system, but it is a wide head case and I just wrapped it. a lens towel around it, which are backup broadheads and then I covered it with this so that when I crush it they don't bounce all over the place. I don't normally do that, but I don't know how many arrows I'm going to shoot, so I have Pat in there.

This is my Possible bag with a bunch of other stuff in it and we'll go over it in more depth in a minute. These are all my clothes that I have as backup. so this is the new first lights ultra lite puffy jacket oh that smells like earth these inland cookies i don't know what are technically cold but then this is the halstead fleece this is the ultralight waterproof jacket pants for the rain and then a base layer and I get all that this is a big picture that you take and that's all I bring for clothes compared to you know, obviously what else was in the other bag, this is my stove , I have a spoon here, the really long spoon. this is the ever new Evan's kitchen set, everything however you pronounce it and I have two different bowls and cups here, so get it out of there, I'll fit it in that's what I drink my coffee with. it's what I make my ramen and noodles with this is a Soto wind master stove, everything that goes in here is excellent, with all this stuff, eleven ounces and then it goes in a pull out drawer, I usually have a container of fuel there, but we already packed. that's hanging on a tree, but usually that goes inside too.

These are two waterproof bags and I always bring an extra couple. This is nothing. I'm going to put boneless meat. This is usually for camera equipment, just helps. whatever in a monsoon this is my toothbrush but it's pretty simple there's not much in its contact solution toothbrush toothpaste in a contact case because I'm blind and it's in a removable case Cafaro extra small which is a normal wide slippery Cafaro bag. It doesn't have to be wide, but I like the space, so now it's empty in the main bag here. I'll go with a slightly different system.

This is a tripod. This is a traveler. It is one of the smallest versions. pretty ultralight and then I have the outdoor micro panhead on top of that with these kits, those are expensive, it's one of the big ones, I think the 7 iron is what I bought; yeah, $700 for these, mine was a thousand, yeah, and I know they're a little bit lighter, you know, compared to some, but you're going to pay for them, that's for sure, but they are very good tripods and in This head I'm not going to do anything out of glass with a big tripod. splatter this is what I'm going to use for my camera and then if I'm putting glass on a tripod with my binoculars but this works great especially for glass and what binoculars it comes off with it's a little bit harder to make smooth videos with the. yeah it is but it's ok to do steady state videos oh yeah I don't like it yeah it's definitely not made for video this is just a Nalgene bottle and then this is the human gear water bottle cap that many people ask.

I forgot to tell them to hold the cap, the cap, the cat, yes, the human team cap, and it's good if you're wearing a ladder pin because I think it has the cure for cancer, I haven't washed it in a while that when you fill the water you are not contaminating this lid, when you use a ladder pin to purify the water, you screw this on and then you have a clean mouth to drink from. I don't know if it helps. a lot, but it makes me feel better that I'm not going to get beaver fever, well, not only that Susanne has a couple of those bottled water bottles and she's driving down the road, yeah, she's opening the lid to take a drink and she's in danger of spilling on you, yeah, every time you hit a bump or whatever and that reduces the month, spout down so you never do, it's like drinking from a soda can, you won't get splashed, yeah, I'm sure this is a Phelps game, Polish, with easy estrus, this one did it for me, says Cafaro International, he does a very good job on his game calls.

I have a Triple X version. I still have September and the brave Bowman, yes, I have the September Izzard, yes. that's what we used last year so it's hanging in the room now this one had one I have the orange one so I never lose it it's a little brighter these are actually I don't think we're supposed to talk about this these are super secret Jason Phelps mouth calls that I can't show you because it's top secret but they're here and then I have an empty grizzly chew can that I keep my diaphragms in when you put them in my pocket that's all here this is a purse like those little rubber squeeze ones yeah yeah those work well too this is just the first light neck gaiter and this is their new beanie that was in my side pocket Here this changes a little bit throughout the day obviously when I'm hunting during the day, this is an ultralight water bladder.

I'm not one hundred percent sure about this, but it's not super super durable, it doesn't seem like it. but it is a light hydraulic backpack, that's who makes it. We already have a 10 liter bladder hanging on the tree back there. I just carry this with me at all times. It weighs about 2 ounces, an ounce and a half, so I always keep it in my backpack. That way, if I don't have water available during the course of the day, I have my Nalgene and I have this. Sometimes I use an MSR drom light. I like the platypus, it's indestructible and I know it will work, oh.

Yeah, so you definitely have to go with what you know, so when I have this backpack full, this bottom pocket, when I'm good, when I'm hunting during the day and everything is compressed, I actually put the day hunting gear in this, but when the backpack is full. my arrow tube or my tripod or whatever goes in this pocket and since all of these compression straps work independently of each other, meaning the sides and the back, I'll just strap my arrow to burn my tripod on the back now that you say they work. standalone show me the side of the pack so close what that means is it actually has a pretty good setup so here I have this that has the large spotter in the tripod pockets so you can compress them separately for daytime hunting and generally what I What you do is uh and that compresses your entire bag so that your entire load is compressed, but in the front, if your ties are tied in the front, you know, yeah, I'll compress them and then we have the velcro there so you can roll this up.

So, obviously, web maintenance, but now in backpack mode, like Brian was saying, these work separately, so now, separated from the lateral compression exactly, I can buckle this and tighten it up to where now I can tie my bow there and, if So , when I unbuckle this, obviously the loop comes out where before or in some situations with different backpacks, these didn't work independently of this strap, but they went all the way around, so when you unbuckled all of them, the compression was lost in the bag. where with this system you still maintain compression on the sides but the back is independent.

I'm not doing a great job of explaining this, but I am packing a heavy load of meat and I don't have this. As flat as I make it now, for example, if I want to tie my bow, I can compress the sides so that the carrot load is more comfortable when coming out, plus everything I want, but I don't want the place to be crushed. or crush my boyfriend this I can just tie it up and put enough tension on it to hold my boyfriend tripod whatever yeah without breaking it and then obviously if you need to get to something you can unzip them and unzip it from the top or lower.

Another thing we did was make friends who are like mine. I have to go over the top, yeah, and it's like I have to unpack half my backpack to get that because, you know, especially day hunting, where it's a really big day of hunting, you can just and you're in the bottom of your backpack, the other thing is we put buddy straps around the bottom so you can put three pockets around it or an analogy with bottle pockets or whatever you want, you mentioned it, the cool thing about that is In fact, you can access a lot of your gear because sometimes I put all my stuff inside the pockets in the front, yeah, and then I put my spotter and my bow and my tripod on top and the next thing I know I can.

I can't access anything inside my bag, yeah, or any of those pockets without taking out all my stuff, yeah, irritating, and that's all Brian just listed along with other things other guys have listed, you know what. we heard, you know, when we messed with multiple different ones. ideas so you have a lot of straps here but obviously for net maintenance you just roll them up but since this can be used with or without a lid now I fold it and buckle it they can also be moved down in the Pack these vertical straps and I will tuck them inside so it won't be so messy.

Oh, I forgot my gloves here, so we have loops on the top of this snow collar so you can carry a belt pouch if you want. You can take it off if you're going to put a lid on, so the idea and how we changed this a little bit differently, there are tabs up here so you can put K clips on the lid so the little one works like a book so you can just pass the lid over the top of this and these straps here will snap onto the lid or you can put strap clips with straps on the lid so the lids adjust up and down or in this case take them off completely.

I do not need this. space because we already packed enough things. I have it completely flat. I have a pocket up here and it didn't take me long to flatten it out, but it lays pretty flat and then I have my bags here to hunt during the day if I need to and I didn't do a very good job of cleaning that up now. The other thing we did with this is if you're going to use a cargo rack that has a sewn in. on the meat rack, these straps here, when you detect, separate the frame from the bag, the straps that I was talking to you about hooking the lid, you can use those straps to go back to the frame once everything is taken apart, compress all together with a load.

In the middle I'm not a big fan of charging racks, but this has everything everyone bothers me about to make them happy. The loading rack down here and I'll try to hurry through this. Make the video too long. Make this the right charging rack too. here you have two points ofdifferent fixation at this time. I've pinned them really tight at the bottom, but when you want to separate them, pull them apart and then you have this shelf here and there's the shelf, obviously the bags upside down and half hooked, but you can hook the shelf back to these loops here or you can hook this raised shelf up there.

Oh, I see, it will work either way. I just threw them into the other thing that Bender did that we're at again. You can place the meat right on your back and then you can place the bag over the top of the meat and they ask us even though we have a compression system that works like a loading rack, we ask a lot of each rack, so With this bag we did it and then folded it. I don't know if you can say it got as far as where you can put the water bladder between the frame and the bag.

This is kind of a velcro system here and what you can do is have the water bladder put here, slide between this like a loop here, velcro loop, put this with velcro so now the water bladder stays instead and when you're hunting during the day, instead of reaching into your main bag, you can just open this up. like I did with three buckles, you don't have to untie anything down there, just one, two and just read the three, the three buckle clips, yeah, and then you can put the clips, yeah, under those and you can get right to your water bladder, that's cool, dude, yeah. yeah, nothing, yeah, that's Bender all day, look, and that's what happens when you don't ask for help.

I was Bender, he just comes up with those things, so I don't use my bladder that way, so sometimes he'll forget where Bender is. He usually doesn't forget a lot of things like that, so between the two of us, like this bag, for example, Bender Eyes, yeah, I mean, I came up with what he needed and just gave him some basic ideas. Hey, we need this and this and then Bender makes it cool and really functional. A ton has been asked of this bag, especially since it can be zipped down like this tab with loops at the top center with zipper, telescope and tripod pocket, all that, anyway that's what we have, that's the bag I'll be using, we've been testing it for about eight months and came up with the cool name.

I arrived well. I figured Bender came up with the one he had for the bear and that's the lumberjack and it will come out, these will come out at some point and I'm not sure when here I have the only squeezy call that I use anymore I don't know if it works but maybe Sometimes I get dehydrated or there's a giant bowl and I get a little nervous and my mouth gets a little dry and I can't miss a call. I can always press this. Now there are times when I kneel and you listen. which isn't always a good thing because it's my fat ass that presses the call while I do this, sometimes it doesn't sound so bad, it's a win-win and then I have Sony rx100 and I usually keep it in my belt pouch against your spot. and shoot the camera, just your spare, this could, yeah, it's if I don't have my big DSLR and there's a photo I want to take.

I have it ready, so anyone who's probably watching this is going to ask me: Hey, where's your toilet paper? your wet wipes whatever we hang the toilet paper wet wipes food the Tut this is our shelter game bags kill kit all those things are already hanging on a tree I have all my multivitamins there things like that and then this here I could be a separate podcast on its own, but this is my archery kit, bow stringer, judo wax tips, I have an extra shelf there, super glue, this one has a sinner's serve tied around this lighter, I have a backup string there, I have a Stringer and I have all kinds of stuff on this thing.

This has migraine pills. Water-colored pills. Batteries. Band-Aids. A patch kit like a tenacious tape. I have chapped lips things like that I have moose urine because it makes me feel like I'm trying harder when my boots are like cow boots and they heat up the garmin 401 and then I have my compass on the bottom I think it's an m9 this is a lighthouse that I'm actually trying out this year is a black diamond this is a sexy new stick one of the coolest and most durable face paints this is pretty slippery I'm going to make a swatch so you just rub it on and then you rub it on you apply it and it dries Stronger than a woodpecker's lips and won't come off.

The nice thing is that you just take a damp cloth, rub it and it comes off, but you like the smartest system I found and it dries almost immediately. it comes off, it breathes pretty well and then you just take a cold or warm cloth and rinse it off, it comes off right away so it's a tough face paint and actually the Rocky Mountain guys, especially the year they showed it to me now what I look at like Braveheart is that compass that matters yeah I mean if you look if you feel like you looked up or tougher here I have leuco tape and then this is what I look like look these are my Harry Potters so if any time I do it.

If I know right, if my contact lenses ever break, these are just Wiley X, they are super durable, that's why I have them. I try not to use them because I look like a fool with this is my super high. -futuristic technology Jetsons battery charger it's too dark The power is stuck back to back we may end up staying there quite a while and with that we're going to try to update people on Facebook things like that so we'll probably need to recharge our phones So I have two of those and I tied some duct tape to them and why did my dark energy go to a different charger?

The biggest thing I found with whole dark energy is that they don't break or I haven't broken any yet you know they have proven hashtag destruction for example I just haven't fried anything the anchors worked pretty well but what they end up frying, you know, it's not one in three, I didn't even work for more than a week or two, yeah, that's been my experience, it's been bad, new, Trent's the same way I am, you're wrong about these . I haven't had any problems like that, they don't seem to die that quickly either. in cold climates, I don't know if that's true, I haven't done any, you know, like super deep tests, but I threw it in the freezer, you put it in the freezer, you had a fight, that's the easiest way to tell. if it shuts down faster, throw a Reaser, it worked fine, I mean it takes away some of the battery life, but it's not that bad.

The other thing I like about you putting it in water, oh yeah, the first thing I do with everything, even my At this point I throw them right into the bathtub just to make sure their water person you put it in the water and It worked yeah, yeah, it worked well, you know, I don't like it when I pull this one out. I didn't know if there was any moisture leaking from the lid, but it's rubberized here, so it's a pretty tight seal, so I saw a little bit of water up here, but nothing was getting into the outlets or ports, so that I had good luck with dark energy.

So far I've been using them for six and seven months and I feel like an idiot because I have camel face paint on, but yeah, they've been super good and I just needed more juice so I glued two together. I myself have dark energy. and Katie, Bryce and my brother and we've been using it for about two months and they haven't let us down yet, they give me a lot of loads, they're durable so that's me. I am very happy with it, yes for sure, this is a classic SteriPEN, mine is better than yours. I think the fire starter kit, these are my backup contacts, this is basically a combat gauze, compression bandage type, this right here is not melatonin, it's filled with a mix of emergency pre-workout and enduro that it's just a plastic model it's a plastic model so that's the quick version but that's definitely what I'm taking because I'm going to leave this package here because we're going in tomorrow after we unload the capsule so Brian's wife won't be divorce him while he looks for all his stuff in a little metal box, so okay, yeah, we're good.

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