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I like blue jeans because I can work and play without having to change. Saves on the wordrobe cost.

I been wearing blue jeans and blue denim wool lined jackets while hunting for over 30 years. Black baseball cap however.

For me it's not the camo aspect of it, but the material like others have said. I can't stay warm enough in jeans and the cotton absorbs water. I have some other material pants I prefer to wear and they happen to be camo. Although the closest I ever had a buck to me on the ground I was wearing a mid 60's full length RED snowmobile suit. Thing never knew I was there until my arrow went wizzing over his back! haha

Confessed "Wrangler Warrior"....laffin! with 300 days of sunshine per year in Montana why not?

I can see not wearing jeans when it's wet.....but for the west in September/October?

Does someone seriously(as in "with a straight face"),suggest you NOT wear jeans?

WTF else would you wear?

Thats not a boat dock I'm standing on....it's a homemade raft that I made 6 river crossings on wearing blue jeans...I'm probably lucky to be alive...NWT's South Nahanni River, September 1991.



July of the same year. Grayling tasted pretty good.



Great memories from back in the day...

I am wearing a wool sweater....

I think color film had just came out.....laffin!

I remember a caribou hunt I did in the NWT a few years ago. Most of the guys were completely dressed in camo Gore-Tex, teh type with fuzz on the outside to make the stuff quieter.

I wore the same sort of Gore-Tex jacket, but also wore jeans. If it started to rain I pulled on real rain-pants, because I have learned the hard way that Gore-Tex isn't worth a damn if you have to sit or crawl on wet caribou moss.

The guys in miracle-fiber pants came dragging in every day, the fuzz on the outside of their Gore-Tex pants completely soaked, making the pants weigh at least 10 pounds. In fact many of them looked like gangbangers, with their pants hangin' low.

Meanwhile I was in dry, comfortable Carhartts!

All the way west?

Carhartts, the heavy duty ones, or I have some Colombia pants made of a similar "canvas"-type fabric. Stop bramble thorns much better, and shed water a little better too if the underbrush is damp.

Denim, especially old denim, offers almost no resistance to thorns and plus it soaks up water like a fargin' sponge.

I love it when the weather let's me wear cotton, but I can do better than jeans. I mostly wore thin capilene under the canvas Colombia's up elk hunting this last season. Lacking moisture cotton is awesome stuff and the capilene helps a bunch if you do get wet from dew on the brush or the like.

Now in NM, which has areas much like the Montana and Wyoming pics here, we wore jeans all the time and didn't really think twice about it.

JB - So you might say you had a... Carhartthis?

Great pics Pat and great story MD

Dude,

If that's the raft in the Moose story you told me, I have to say you must be insane!

: )

Very cool picture though.

OSD, that was it!....Here's denim shot for you! My camo is covered up with my jean jacket. What I remember most about this day is the wind blowing at least 40mph all day.

Ha!

scenar, awesome pics i love your old guiding pics.

i wear carharts all the time when im hunting. i find they get water proof when i were them guiding and they get covered with moose blood and grim. i find they hold up better than jeans but im not a wrangler guy.

Ironic the Great American Hunting Pant has its origins in France...

I've never hunted in anything but jeans. If its really cold, the carhartts get put on. If its really wet, I stay inside.

It's not uncommon for me to be wearing jeans.

+1.

Used to be Levi's but now strictly Carhartts. They come in different weights and hold up well, have about 10 pair. That and the Puma lounge pants is it.

Lightweight raingear if it's raining which is mostly a rarity here.

Sam,

I go with either Carharrts or Wranglers, depending on conditions. Like those heavy Carhartts for pushing through rosebushes when hunting birds in NE Montana!