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Fred Asbell is still making wool clothing.

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Sleeping indians, is what they become after they is done being drunken indians

"Silent Predator clothing strives to make only the finest quality wool hunting gear. Created in Winnipeg, Manitoba by a wide range of outdoor enthusiasts, Silent Predator truly knows the cold and how to keep warm in."

Cool! I'll have to check them out.

i tried the Rampaging Negroes clothing but it just wasn't the same

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Big whoop
What's the story behind the photo?

You play strip poker at deer camp?
Your hunting buddies must be better looking than mine.

The bear was cold.
Tried to steal his wool duds.

SI Clothing was located in Jackson Hole & obviously, you've never been there.

There's a bluff rock formation not far from the airport, north of town that looks like a sleeping Indian chief in head-dress & that's how SI clothing got it's namesake.

Sleeping Indian Mountain

Ted Ranck was a great guy, RIP.

MM

True to some degree, but the right weight wool, with the right undergarments for a given day is still hard to beat & when silence is golden, wool is still king, IMO.........fleece is the only thing close for quietness.

Lots of the synthetics are fairly good, but not quiet at the silence of wool.

JMHO, JMMV.

MM

I won't argue that it is expensive stuff but I'm planning on getting 30-40 years out of my KOM stuff. After 26 or 27 years they are still in pretty fair shape and the do have good mojo going for them.

It doesn't have to be bone chilling weather either as they're flexible depending on layering underneath of course.



Even works for spring gobbler, most days....





And more recently......



The quality of the build, size and location of pockets, zippers and lack of ANY type of fading all add to the value, IMO. I sure don't hunt as much as lots of you guys but I'd guess between spring and fall my KOM gets 50+ days of action each year and the only laundering it's ever had is from Mother Nature.

Lots of good options these days and that's a good thing.

I have KOM that I use and love the stuff for hunting on a stand, but I agree it is very expensive.

Grey Wolf Woolens is what I would purchase today if I had to do it again. My Son has this and it seems to have a much tighter weave which blocks wind better than my KOM and the GWW is as tough as nails. I highly recommend you google them.

KOM or Filson is some pretty good stuff.Quality does not come cheap.

For those that love SI, I was at the Harrisburg outdoor show this past weekend, and it seems someone bought the SI business and is back in business producing their line of wool again. The booth was swamped and I didn't get a chance to really talk to the guys, but I did talk to the guy selling Silent Predator wool just a couple booths down and he was pretty impressed with what they were selling.

Stopped in that booth myself. Some really nice stuff.