Actually, wool will keep you warm when it`s wet. Wool is a very good material for clothes. Merino wool is even better.
Wool stays cold when wet. New high tech clothing is the way to go. Lightweight and warm. Wool is very old school.
Actually, wool will keep you warm when it`s wet. Wool is a very good material for clothes. Merino wool is even better.
Showed my granddaughter a wool hunting shirt I bought at the PX in 1970. She said "No wonder it's out of style." I told her that style is just something to make folks spend $$. Wool was keeping people warm 100s of years ago. It's keeping people warm now. And it will be keeping people warm 100 years from now! Practical never goes out of style. So much for "old school". Wonder where "light weight and warm" will be 100 years from now?Actually, wool will keep you warm when it`s wet. Wool is a very good material for clothes. Merino wool is even better.
Over the years, I purchased a vest, jacket, and Cabelas Wooltimate park http://huntingfishingplus.com/best-wool-hunting-jackets/ when they went on sale. I really like things, but I rarely wear a park. I found that I really didn’t like the heavy and bulky outer layer, especially for bow hunting. My favorite choice for very cool seats is the Wooltimate MTO50 rain coat, over layered layers of merino wool. If it's actually cold, for example, 10 degrees with -20 windmills, and I go hunting with an open tree stand, then I will put one of these stickers on my back.
I've done both-like the new school Capalene and the like to skin than layering depending on weather.
Merino wool early season. Gets cooler, stack regular wool on that, gets bitter cold, put goose down on top of all that. They ain't a synthetic made that holds a candle to the old stuff. Like the wool hat in my picture. (Had it bout 5 years now) I've sweated in it and it never gets smelly like a ball cap. I'm completely sold on wool.
I just started wearing merino wool and I'm sold too. Better than the polyester "tech" tee and long johnsMerino wool early season. Gets cooler, stack regular wool on that, gets bitter cold, put goose down on top of all that. They ain't a synthetic made that holds a candle to the old stuff. Like the wool hat in my picture. (Had it bout 5 years now) I've sweated in it and it never gets smelly like a ball cap. I'm completely sold on wool.