I like Wal-mart for the entertainment!! You never know what kind of craziness you will find in there!! Haha! As far as keeping warm, I wear under armour cold gear base layers, under armour cold gear socks, UA camo hoodie with my UA ridge reaper suit and UA hurlock gloves and I seldom get cold!
The Under Armour Treestand baselayers are pretty tough to beat. These are fleece lined and have worked well for me this year. Bottoms: Under Armour® Treestand Base Layer Bottoms : Cabela's Tops: Under Armour® Treestand Base-Layer Top : Cabela's Historically you couldn't even find these on their website, but now I think they have them listed as the Base 5.0. As others have mentioned, the key is to get to the stand without sweating. I have other buddies that are wearing the Cabelas Thermal Zone Stand Hunter series Base layes and they say they are even better than the UA ones I have listed above: Bottoms: Cabela's Thermal Zone® Stand Hunter Bottoms : Cabela's Top: Cabela's Thermal Zone® Stand Hunter 1/2-Zip Top : Cabela's Hope this is helpful.
Generally wear UA base top and bottom Flannel lined pants a long sleeve shirt of some sort Walls rip stop coveralls in realtree AP. one or two pair of socks walmart insulated scent control camo boots $40ish and actually seem to work and very comfortable. Walmart?....meh....whatevs I spent too much money on my Carbon Element to waste on $240 boots, lol.
Military issue polypropylene underwear. Very warm and good at wicking moisture. The sportsmansguide sells three pair of tops or bottoms for around $20. May be even cheaper at an Army/Navy store.
I'm from Canada where it's actually cold and I just go out in my polar bear jacket and pants lined with seal blubber. Lmao Up here our season gets cold!!! I normally wear multiple layers, IMO the more thin layers the better. Big thick sweaters and such for me make me feel like a Michelin man which doesn't help when drawing bow, and IMO don't keep you as warm as multiple tshirt a etc. I have guys who hunt with me who wear like 4 thin long sleeves rather than one sweater. Now I'm a real sweater, a lot like shaq lol. So I wear my ua base layer. A tshirt, then a thin long sleeve. Then a ua hoodie which is nice it isn't thick and bulky. Then I wear the ua ridge reaper outer.
- Silver Tech light weight base layer top and bottom - Cabela's PolarTech Polar weight layer top and bottom - Cabela's Berber wind sheer fleece mid layer top and bottom. - Scent Blocker Smackdown top and bottom. Coldest weather I've sat in is high 20's and mid 30's on an all day hunt, and I didn't even think about being cold. I think the real key is the wind sheer (very quite piece of clothing). Even when winds were gusting up to 35 mph I stayed warm. I'd like to get a heavier Scentblocker outer layer next season, but so far this is combo is treating me well!
Scent blocker base layer. Under Armour base layer game hide lost Camo bibs and 1/4 pull over and I'm good
I started using sitka this year and so far im pleased. Merino base with traverse second layer then the kelvin layer topped with the fanatic bib and jacket will handle anything I will face in ky. My boots are 2000 gr thinsulate for cold sits. I only need the polypropylene sock on most sits but extreme cases I will top with a wool sock. You can change socks at the stand if you don't have a cold weather boot like this. I've done this in the past abd works well. My head is my key and I use a skin tight face mask made by wig wam and a neck gator if need be. I carry these in my pack and adjust accordingly. The key to the base system is it needs to be good at wicking moisture, avoiding sweat is best but not always possible. Merino wool is good at wicking moisture. This past weekend I sat 4 hours in 30° weather with wind gust up to 20 mph and a sustained 15 mph wind.30 isn't that cold vut that kind of wind can make it cold and I was toasty the whole sit and I'm somewhat cold natured Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I317 using Tapatalk
I slipped the shoulders of my heater body suit yesterday morning and grabbed my bow all in under 3 seconds. About 10 seconds after that I shot a buck and I was only about 13-14 feet high due to shot angles. He didn't see me move until I drew when he was at 10 yds.
this^^^...and get rid of anything cotton..socks, undies whatever...they hold the moisture...of course gloves and equally important is a decent hat, not a ballcap but something better
