Base layers

hyresmack said:
Can't see thinking so hard about shirts. It's a shirt. I wear a tshirt. If you layer it right, don't matter if it's 0 degrees or 50 degrees you don't sweat and don't need to wick.
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I'll take a page out of your reply book, if you ain't sweating you're just not working hard enough 😂
 
Okay guys, I Sweat! And I sweat a lot, always have. It doesn't matter if it's zero degrees or 60 degrees. Once I break a sweat it just keeps coming. Has absolutely nothing to do with conditioning or the clothes I'm wearing. Thus, I generally don't wear anything that is cotton except for my briefs. When cotton gets wet it stays wet. You need a base layer of a wicking type material and then a layer or layers of polyester or wool, or a combination of each. Wool is a great material for a shirt or jacket. Even if it gets wet it still has insulating qualities and will keep you warm. No Gore-Tex or similar material on your upper body. It does not breathe well enough. It's okay for rain gear in a duck blind but that's about it. This knowledge comes from decades of hunting everything from upland birds to elk and moose. And hunting in all conditions from sub zero to the 90's.

Years ago I was elk hunting in Colorado with a friend. Cold and lots of snow. He was wearing a big game outfit consisting of bibs and a parka. All lined with a Gore-Tex type material. I had my wicking base layer over wool pants, a wool shirt and a wool jacket. We had quite an ascent to climb first thing in the morning. By the time we reached the area we planned to hunt we had both worked up quite a sweat. My clothes let me breathe but his did not. By afternoon he was still wet and developed hypothermia. By the time I got him off the mountain he was one sick dude.
 
Dakotazeb said:
Okay guys, I Sweat! And I sweat a lot, always have. It doesn't matter if it's zero degrees or 60 degrees. Once I break a sweat it just keeps coming. Has absolutely nothing to do with conditioning or the clothes I'm wearing. Thus, I generally don't wear anything that is cotton except for my briefs. When cotton gets wet it stays wet. You need a base layer of a wicking type material and then a layer or layers of polyester or wool, or a combination of each. Wool is a great material for a shirt or jacket. Even if it gets wet it still has insulating qualities and will keep you warm. No Gore-Tex or similar material on your upper body. It does not breathe well enough. It's okay for rain gear in a duck blind but that's about it. This knowledge comes from decades of hunting everything from upland birds to elk and moose. And hunting in all conditions from sub zero to the 90's.

Years ago I was elk hunting in Colorado with a friend. Cold and lots of snow. He was wearing a big game outfit consisting of bibs and a parka. All lined with a Gore-Tex type material. I had my wicking base layer over wool pants, a wool shirt and a wool jacket. We had quite an ascent to climb first thing in the morning. By the time we reached the area we planned to hunt we had both worked up quite a sweat. My clothes let me breathe but his did not. By afternoon he was still wet and developed hypothermia. By the time I got him off the mountain he was one sick dude.
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Nice post- lots of good information and real life experiences!
 
Good info Zeb. Totally agree on Gore Tex. Great for rain gear (it's what I keep in my boat) but definitely doesn't breathe. My Merino wool, I can take right out of my washing machine and damn near wear it. It air dries in about 15 minutes. A tip for you Glock, don't dry your new wool in the dryer. I partially shrunk one of my wool shirts in the dryer when I used to dry it for about 15 minutes. Just let it hang dry.
 
And on the topic of real life experiences. I used to have a pair of polyester base layer bottoms, I believe Under Armour (don't quote me on the brand tho). And boy, did those things not breath. I wore them deer hunting once, sitting in a stand in 20 degree temps. By the time I got back in the afternoon, my legs were wet from sweat. And the inside of the long underwear were soaked. I threw them away 😂 those suckers didnt breath worth a damn.
 
The polyester I've worn seems too breathe just fine.
Like always: your mileage may vary.
 
5 stand said:
The polyester I've worn seems too breathe just fine.
Like always: your mileage may vary.
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I've had other poly stuff that breathed fine too. So it was weird. Either I got the bad pair or something with that model didn't work right haha
 
Dakotazeb said:
And I sweat a lot, always have. It doesn't matter if it's zero degrees or 60 degrees. Once I break a sweat it just keeps coming.
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Haha. This is me too. I generally do not hunt when its 60 degrees out but I definitely hunt when its 0 degrees out and in 30 minutes, I'm sweating.

Its not about getting cold for this guy. Its about wicking away the moisture. No one wants to walk around with a swamp ass.
 
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