Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Backpack Hunting What is your mid-season 20F-70F degree but with chance of snow/rain clothing system?

A huge factor is whether you are going to come into a heated shelter each night or sleep out in the wet with a minimal backpack shelter. Keep your torso warm and dry.

No cotton anywhere. 20-70 F and likely rain is my everyday hunting situation from Sept. 1 till Christmas though 30-50 degrees and raining is average. Others may wear what they choose but here is what I actually wear. It is MUCH easier to dress for weather that STAYS below freezing.

My ensemble: thin wool dress pants, synthetic briefs, synthetic T-shirt, (long sleeved T on obviously cold days), light wool or acrylic shirt, and from there out it depends on how much and how fast I'm moving, plus how hard it is raining. If still hunting forest slowly as rain picks up from light to average coastal rain, I will put on a light Gortex hooded jacket with hood folded and sometimes put a fleece camo jacket or wool shirt over it to keep it quiet. If I get too cold I will add a nylon shelled fleece vest or a fleece pullover under the Gortex outer shell.

If it is raining very hard or wet brush is soaking my pants, add rain pants over the wool pants but that sure can get hot. I leave off the rain pants and just get wet if hunting near a road in light rain and expect to be back in a shelter soon after dark. If sitting more, definitely add rain pants over the wool pants. I carry a small closed cell foam pad to sit on.

If it is obviously a clear sunny day, I may wear thin brushed nylon peach finish hiking pants. Gramicci is my favorite. Love them. Super light weight. Yesterday I wore those in sub-alpine with a light Columbia nylon fishing shirt and no T-shirt in sunny 65 degree weather.

Gortex wide billed Florida flats fishing cap with a flap on back. I carry a thin fleece neck gaiter with chest flaps front and back to pop on if I stop moving for awhile. Gaiters go inside my wool pants, for quiet and so rain does not seep down inside them.

For walking fast on an approach hike in steady rain, I often wear rain pants with nothing under them but synthetic briefs. Ditto for upper body: rain shell over minimal synthetic T. And still sweat.

I carry super thin synthetic long johns but rarely put them on, only below 20 if hunting slowly is my rule of thumb for adding a layer on my legs.