I think they're gone but we'll find them again they're not gonna go far hey folks
Ike Eastman here and I want to take a break and just talk about the new Sitka
Apex line that I'm wearing they have a pants they have a hoodie they kind of
did something unique
I'll show you a couple of the pieces here
What they've done is
they've built a hoodie specific for that early September mid September you know
when it's early in the morning and it's in its cool its unique in the sense that
it's got panels certain panels are certain materials for instance this
panel which is be like from here down is merino wool the panel on top which your
backpack shoulders touch it's a poly blend these fabrics are specific for
this you can't get this fabric in anything else the reason is it's Gore
Sitka is Gore gore-tex home by Gore and so they went to the manufacturers of
textiles and said we want a fabric that does this this this and this so this
fabric is very durable it's built for durability on top if anybody's been with
a backpack on very long it starts to pile which means it starts to roll the
fabric up underneath your backpack straps after a couple years of use this
fabrics built so it doesn't do that it has some insulation layers in it it's
got a hood with a mask for bowhunting it's got a pocket in the front so it's
built for underneath your bino harness that you can get still get to it and
it's got segregated pockets inside of it so stuff like calls and and your GPS and
stuffs not rolling around in there as you're trying to crawl and stalk that's
the Apex hoody pretty freakin cool check it out for a full review I did write an
article on on this in the EASTMANS' HUNTING JOURNAL magazine the other one
is their pants it's the pants I have on right now now these once again are the
same fabric as the top of that hoodie so it's stretchy material
very durable extremely light these are like wearing pajamas they're amazing
also has the pockets with the segregated pocket inside so whatever you put inside
their GPS cell phone wind check or whatever is segregated so they're not
rattling around inside they're beating against each other making noise one of
the things that both of these have is it has removable knee pads and removable
elbow pads which at first I was kind of skeptical going why do I need that that
just seems like another gimmick or another thing until you start using them
for instance today I was crawling around in in this there's cactus and and cockle
burrs and rocks and all kinds of stuff and once you get used to it
you aren't really looking where you're crawling which is an amazing thing you
don't think about it until you have them where you can just kneel down it doesn't
hurt you're not ending up with cactus in your elbows or your knees pretty
amazing stuff plus they're removable I will tell you though they won't drive
you nuts at first I thought I'll be taking those out but I'll try them the
first day they're amazing the other thing these
have that I was a little skeptical about is the cuff size the cuffs pull this
boot the cuffs are not not very big they're actually really really narrow
cuffs and I thought are you kidding me are these like the hunting version of
skinny skinny jeans this is not they're never gonna fit around my boot this is
gonna be a pain they're done on purpose it was done so that when you put a gator
on you don't have that pile inside the Gator causing friction etc against your
skin or or just not the gear not working properly and you think yourself why do
you need Gators you're walking around in the desert well one other things cockle
burrs get into your boots they get into your socks and make a pain when you just
collect them here take it off and shake this off this material is like sticky
it's so your shirt stays tucked in doesn't slide out this goes all the way
around the bit the band of the pants that's the things that Sitka thinks of
these were really designed by hunters for hunters so this is the Apex line
pants the hoodie they're really really comfortable the hoodies great for using
with sun shade or cold sleeping in your sleeping bag so check
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