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On August 16 we had the typical dry hot weather the high elevation desert is known for in western Wyoming and Brandon Mason and I were chasing antelope. He had the tag in his pocket and I had the responsibility of capturing his hunt on film. The hoody provided a cool experience in the desert heat as well as concealment from a w

This year I had the opportunity to put Sitka’s Core Lightweight Hoody to the test in multiple areas across Wyoming. True to form and the Sitka brand, it performed very well in multiple early situations on several species.

On August 16 we had the typical dry hot weather the high elevation desert is known for in western Wyoming and Brandon Mason and I were chasing antelope. He had the tag in his pocket and I had the responsibility of capturing his hunt on film. The hoody provided a cool experience in the desert heat as well as concealment from a wary buck that caught me in the open setting up a camera tripod as we waited. He never saw me and I was able to capture the whole encounter on film.

I also brought the Ascent Hoody with me to Wyoming’s famous region G for the mule deer opener. I was leery of having the piece pull double duty as a base layer and warm weather shirt for afternoon glassing. On the way to one of my favorite basins the weather took a turn for the worse in a matter of minutes and I soaked the Hoody. After setting up my shelter I was able to “cook” the hoody dry in short order by firing up my internal furnace with a Mountain House meal and coffee. The synthetic material performed well in the high country.

There are very few single items in our homes that protect much of the evidence that we actually exist. Birth certificates, social security cards, payment stubs, bank notes and of course our heirloom firearms, all these end up inside our secure safes. We put these precious documents and family treasures inside the safe expecting them to be protected in the case of theft or fire.

But what about when other things happen? Like a humid climate? Liberty safe has a solution for that too with the Eva-Dry Dehumidifier that takes the moisture from inside the safe and stores it safely to prevent corrosion on firearms.

Paper’s worst enemy is moisture in the air and over time its integrity is worn down when humid climates work against it. Steel rusts and so it is very easy to see why removing moisture from the air inside a safe is so important.

Give the Eva-Dry Dehumidifier a look, it might just be the key to preserving the integrity of some of the most valuable physical items in your safe!

A couple of weeks ago we released an article here on the blog covering one of the more gruesome poaching cases we have seen in quite a while. This spurred a conversation between Ike and I on why we report incidents like this, which of course will continue. Then we discussed whether or not sharing these articles shaped new opinions and prevented poaching, or are we just preaching to the choir? Ike’s conclusion was that we were preaching to the choir many times and based on the responses on Facebook I have to agree with him.

So naturally the next thought was how do we arm the choir? What can we do to give hunters tools to show what to do for conservation rather than just simply take a beating on social media because of poachers?

With this discussion it was very timely to see a few posts from the RMEF on their Facebook feed.

To go along with this, make sure you are following the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation on Facebook. They have been working to share quality information about conservation efforts that net positive things in our hunting community. Efforts to make sure the non-hunting public sees the good we do for the animals we hunt.

At the end of the day it is our responsibility to create a strong enough message for our friends who don’t hunt to follow along and recognize how much we do for the game we pursue. A short scroll through social media and it doesn’t take long to find anti-hunting comments all over hunting pages.

From East To West – Todd Helms

Most of my hunting out West is night and day different from what I did back in Michigan. Spot and stalk, calling setups, still hunting, none of these methods have anything in common with whiling away hours in a treestand other than the patience required to be successful at each. When I took a look at the details the Huntstand app provides it dawned on me that many of them were wonderful crossover applications. For example, I often hike “off-trail” or use game trails when accessing glassing points or hunting locations. These routes are not found on any map and if I want to share them with a friend who has never been into the area using Huntstand would be easy and effective to get them to and from the place they need to be.

I am a journaler. That said, having the ability to use Huntstand to create custom profiles where I can record information and reference it from hunt to hunt is another aspect of this app that is attractive to me. Having the ability to look back to weather, wind, animal sightings, solar/lunar cycles, etc., makes creating a game plan for future hunts in the same areas all that much easier.

The Huntstand App does possess many qualities that lend themselves to being useful to the western hunter. Check out the full features of the app at http://www.huntstand.com/