hey guys Ike Eastman here with Eastmans Hunting Journals today we will talk about base
camps sometimes you just need a base camp antelope hunting or elk hunting or
something that not a backcountry hunt something you can drive to Brandon let's
talk about shelters one we have behind us today the name of the company is
bare-bones living a bare-bones outdoor and this tent it has some innovative
features that we've never seen in a wall tent before and it's big I mean it's the
biggest wall tent as far as not footprint but actual Heights and stuff
I've been ib you know the Headroom is amazing it's got nine foot tall peaks
and six foot tall sidewall so a guy like me - 6 foot 2 that usually has problems
of bumping my head inside a wall tent and the that's virtually non-existent
one of the key features of this particular tent in my opinion is a
ventilation it's 12 different windows in this tent design and there's tons of
mosquito netting and if you're hunting in warm temperatures you can really get
the air cooking through there so you can throw down really fast part is that door
yeah the door that's right behind us right here is magnetic all the way up
and down let's talk about size footprint how many people you put in this
especially bunk bed cots I use the bunk bed cots a lot of camo cot bed
systems and you can easily fit six guys in here with hunting hunting gear and
everything if you get in there you go wow this isn't a tip it's it's big loop
right and it's got a large floor print but not too big where it's hard to find
a spot to set it up it's 12 feet long by ten and a half foot wide and so it's
just enough room to have all your gear in there without being you know a little
heavy on space wasted space especially when the temperature drops you're
trying to heat up a large space with a little smaller tent stove right it's
really easy to regulate the temperature and get it cooking in there some of the
features on this tent there's some really really unique stuff that that a
lot of guys have been having to retrofit their wall tents with this green or
whatever what what are some of the cool things on this thing
well the rubberized roof top that goes over the top kind of serves that old
outfitter tent function as snow will just slide right
off of that it's actually it actually has little eaves that come out you know
that the water drips out away from the tip down over and down the wall exactly
so if you have the tent properly guide out I mean there's not going to be any
water or snow piling up and creating moisture piles right on the edge of your tent
it can but it's got floor so you can do a stove and a floor comes with it with a
stove mat yep so it's water or a fireproof so it doesn't melt through the
floor we've got a bathtub floor similar to a lightweight backpacking tent that
has a benefit for several inches well this has a bathroom floor that goes up I
think it's foot and a half of the sidewalls at least and it breaks down
into four nice little bags you can put the back your Jeep or whatever yeah it's
actually three very bad yep three bags
today we're taking a look at yet another unconventional wall tent and our wall tent
series that we're doing and as you can probably tell I'm sitting in a teepee
now most teepees are pretty labor-intensive to set up but this on
the other hand is not you can take one person as little as eight and a half
minutes personally I can do it between 15 and 20 this is a 15 person tent that
canvas material is made out of a cotton polyester blend this extremely
lightweight and easy to care for this entire setup
besides the stove breaks down and fits into this approximately 5000 cubic inch
backpack and weighs only 44 pounds which is simply mind-boggling and you can get
it with options that has a floor in it if you choose with the stove with the
drying ring it also has one of the features of this tent that blows my mind
I've never seen in any other tent structure is an integrated venting
system with draw cords that's right over here and you can open and close the peak
of the roof to allow it to draft from up underneath especially from the vent
that's over here on the side and either take warm air out of here if you're
burning the stove a little bit too hot or in the summer time or in warm
antelope weather like we're hunting in now it allows it to keep it fairly cool
especially when there's a breeze it really vents well the door also has a
screen door on it and a double entry and it's very easy for a guy my size I'm 6
foot 2 to get in and out of it's no problem at all like a normal TV as you
usually have to squat down pretty far to get in there are multiple guidelines to
make sure it's extremely secure in windy condition here we have the
stove that comes with it in this complete package right now we don't have
it all the way extended up but the stove in the stove pipes the spark arresters
and the insulator to prevent any burning that goes on through the peak of the teepee
all fit right inside this and it fits inside its own convenient box that tentipi
sent to you all this is available through Mansfield outdoors here in the
United States tentipi is a Swedish company and Mansfield outdoors can hook
you up with any size of teepee virtually from 15 person all the way to 2 person
and they have not only the canvas materials but ultralight synthetic
materials as well
today we're up in the high country enjoying some shelter from a tent wall
tent from Buckstitch Canvas Saddle and Tack out of Cody Wyoming
Buckstitch has been in business for a long time they've been making outfitter
wall tents for a long time they really know what they're doing all of those tents
from Buckstitch Canvas are made with Sun forager marine grade canvas and what
that means is the Sun forager compound that's applied to the tents make it much
more mildew resistant and mold resistant and just much easier to handle and take
care of now every single one of these tents is reinforced in all the right
places the ease the grommet seems everything is has 6,000 pound tensile
strength and one of the great things about this tent is that if you're
looking for the quintessential base camp Outfitters tent I mean this is it this is
what everybody thinks about when you think about a wall tent all the tents
from Buckstitch are made to order and so you tell them the size the type of
tent poles that you want in it the arrangement of the windows if any the
stove the stove jack where you want that in the roof so you don't have to have it
stuck at one end you can have it more towards the middle of one of the
sidewalls if you prefer to get that heat more evenly distributed the doors on
these canvas tents have hook and D loop closures along with velcro backing to
seal out the wind you can also get a floor that goes in the tent everything
is custom ordered they have tents from size nine by twelve all the way up to 18
by 33 and they have add-on options as well which you can check out on their
website at Buckstitchcanvas.com the add-on options include awnings porches
and on rooms and the list goes on and on they're super easy to set up they also
have the capability of being set up way in the back country without the tent
poles you can purchase from them you can actually use Lodge poles of it as they
have the lodgepole sock that goes through the peak of the roof and use the
a-frame configuration to set up the front and the back thanks for joining us
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