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I'll be on a muzzleloader elk hunt in northern Colorado in Sept. I have good rain gear but it is bulky. Is there such a thing as packable rain gear that works well?
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My KUIU has been tops. Highly recommended!
"What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as freedom should not be highly rated." Thomas Paine
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Cabelas sell a set advertised as packable and it is. It's pricey and not very durable. I bought a set and they didn't last one hunting season. I If you kneel down in the grass,you get holes.Sage brush tears them apart.I bought the Bass Pro ones and have been using them three seasons now. Not quite packable,but you can stow them in your day pack.It's a trade off. Packable vs durability
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My KUIU has been tops. Highly recommended! Rick, do they only have one "packable" model? Other than some talk on here and some ads I'm completely clueless about their products. Which one do you have, if I might ask? Thanks, Geno
The desert is a true treasure for him who seeks refuge from men and the evil of men.
In it is contentment
In it is death and all you seek
(Quoted from "The Bleeding of the Stone" Ibrahim Al-Koni)
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I don't know if it is still available, but I own a jacket and pants I bought from Cabelas in the mid '90's. It was called their Whitetail series, and has a soft poly outer with GoreTex lining. It packs down to a very small size, and has been worn on nearly every hunt I have been on for over 20 years now. Most durable outerwear I have ever owned. It can be worn in fairly warm weather, or layered up for colder conditions. It is indeed waterproof. I don't know if their current MT050 series is similar, but if it is, it is quality stuff.
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anything with goretex that you want to be water proof has been a joke to us. FWIW. New it works for an amount of time, but I don't have a single piece of gore that hasn't gotten us wet somewhere.
Hence when it matters I refuse to trust the stuff.
At home its fine, if it soaks through and it will, I can go home and get warm and dry.
We can keep Larry Root and all his idiotic blabber and user names on here, but we can't get Ralph back..... Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, over....
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