How many are you wearing tomorrow morning? It'll be 16 at 6 am and it won't reach 20 until 10 am. I'm going to wear my base layer scentloc bottums and top. Next I'll pull over my thermal one peice with the dull zippers. Followed by a standard hoodie and my scent loc all season jacket and insulated scent loc pants. For my tooties I'll wear a pair of dress socks with my Cabelas thermal socks topped with my muck boots. I'll bring 3 sets of gloves light, standard and waterfowl extremes. Oh and a face mask. The fireball whisky will be in my Tahoe along with my cigar for later of course. Can't neglect those insides.
It was 10 degrees last week in the morning when I sat. I wore my Under Armour Cold Gear base pants, regular jeans over those, with a thick pair of bibs from Cabelas on top. For the upper body, I wore a DriFit shirt, one of those waffle/thermal shirts, UA hoody, UA Rut Scent Control jacket, and a Cabelas wind shear 1/4 zip pullover on top. I hate wearing gloves while bowhunting, but is wore the UA Cold Gear liner gloves and kept my hands in one of those muffs that straps around your waist. The one thing I need to get better gear for is my feet, I thought they were going to get frost bite. I wore some moisture wicking socks, with merino wool socks on top of those. My boots are 2,000 gram rubber boots. New boots are on the soon to buy list for sure.
8 the other day. I go with set of the old style cotton base layers. Then on bottom it's some Berber fleece wind shear pants from cabelas with a set of goretex Uninsulated bibs over that to knock the wind off. On top over the cotton layer its a long sleeve polyester pull over shirt I picked up at Walmart. Then a Berber fleece jacket then a goretex Uninsulated jacket. Feet get a pair of Cabelas cold weather liner socks. Then cabelas cold weather heavyweight socks with toe warmers stuck to them. Then either Wolverine 400 or 800 gram boots. Whichever ones are on the boot dryer. One is about as warm as the other. In fact I think the 400s are a little better. If I don't sweat I do great. If I sweat I'm screwed especially on my feet. I think that's the trick to staying warm. I need a new set of base layers very badly. I think my "newest" set are 20 years old. My dad bought them to go elk hunting back n 94 then as we both grew (me up, him out) I got hand me downs and he got new.
I wear my, Redhead 2.0 long sleeve t-shirt, flannel, blue jeans then throw some insulated coveralls over it and a insulated parka. I'm never cold
When it's cold, I wear a Scent-lok base layer with a Scent-lok fleece layer. A 1/4 Zip Scent-Lok pullover and my Scent-Lok Commando pants and jacket. A benie, UA Liner gloves, a muff, two pair of wool socks with toe warms on them. I can survive for a while, but if my feet or hands get cold, I'm done. Last weekend I actually used a pair of those battery powered socks I got as a Christmas gift. They worked pretty well actually.
You know I never thought to ask but how long are you guys sitting? I can do pretty well up until the 4 hr mark after that is where I can't get warm for nothing.
4-5 layers. Polypro or capilene, scentlok baseslayers, fleece layer, scentlok outer layer, extra down jacket in my bag. My hands usually start to freeze and go numb pretty fast this time of the season. I just started sticking adhesive backed toe warmers onto the inside wrists of the outside of my base layer. If that makes sense, don't put them inside your base layer, they could burn you, but do stick them on the outside of your top, on the inside of your wrists, where the vanes are, so they warm up the blood flowing in and out of your hands. It really works.
When it get super cold like this I would ditch the rubber boots and get a nice set of 1,000-1,200 gram leather/cordura/etc hunting boots. Use a set of the stick-on toe warmers in each boot with one on top and one on the bottom of your toes. You'll be snug as a bug in a rug. The air activated hand warmers need air to work. Rubber boots don't breathe and they stop working within 1/2 hour or so. I hunted all day last Saturday with temps in the low teens in the morning warming up to low 20's during the day. Bottoms: Under Armour Cold Gear 4.0 Scent Blocker S3 Merino Wool Expedition Weight Gamehide Monster bibs Top: ScentBlocker S3 shirt (thin, moisture wicking) ScentBlocker S3 Merino Wool Expedition Shirt Milwaukee M12 Heated Hoodie (greatest thing ever) ScentBlocker Fleece jacket I also don't leave home without HotMocs for my feet, my HSS hand muff and 1/2 dozen hand warmers when it's below freezing.
Yep, that's the plan. I normally wear a pair of Rocky insulated lace up boots, but they are only size 13, so I can't wear more than one pair of socks. I will be boot shopping next week sometime after I kill a buck (hopefully).
