New coat

**SaltMuck** · 10-28-2019, 04:55 PM

In the market for a new waterfowling coat. I’ve had a bunch of hunting coats over the years, but always go back to a tried and true Cabela’s coat. I’ve had a couple of Drake coats and DO NOT want another, so please save the Drake recommendation. Looking at a Sitka Duck Oven, but it appears to be a mid layer with little/no waterproofing. What say y’all?

**wskinner** · 10-28-2019, 04:59 PM

A waxed coat and a wool liner. You’ll spend just as much as you would on a Sitka, but without looking like the military camo pattern of some African country.

**Duck cutter** · 10-28-2019, 04:59 PM

Drake

**Chessbay** · 10-28-2019, 05:09 PM

I have a duck oven and it’s awesome.....you’ll need a shell over if it’s wet.

**Tater** · 10-29-2019, 06:37 PM

Originally Posted by Chessbay

I have a duck oven and it’s awesome.....you’ll need a shell over if it’s wet.

Then it’s far from “awesome”

**Chessbay** · 10-29-2019, 08:20 PM

Originally Posted by Fish

That there boy looks like a member of the muppets cast. I'll let you decide which.

Ralph?

Originally Posted by Tater

Then it’s far from “awesome”

I get you really just want to argue or pick shit apart, but it’s like a wool sweater.....it’s warm, but not waterproof. Of course you know that, but still to want to pick it apart.

**BOGSTER** · 10-28-2019, 05:14 PM

There’s a reason that folks have used waxed cotton and wool as long as they have.

And....

You don’t have to look like everybody else at the ramp with Sitka and Drake.

**12341234** · 10-28-2019, 05:19 PM

I have tried a variety of jackets most are warm or I can layer. Getting wet has always been an issue. I have not had a jacket that keeps me completely dry when it rains or on a rough boat ride. Just made a purchase on a neoprene jacket for this year.

**BOGSTER** · 10-28-2019, 06:04 PM

Originally Posted by 12341234

I have tried a variety of jackets most are warm or I can layer. Getting wet has always been an issue. I have not had a jacket that keeps me completely dry when it rains or on a rough boat ride. Just made a purchase on a neoprene jacket for this year.

A true Gortex rain coat in brown camo is your friend.

I got tired of getting wet.

**JABIII** · 10-28-2019, 06:14 PM

Originally Posted by BOGSTER

A true Gortex rain coat in brown camo is your friend.

I got tired of getting wet.

Some shitbird stole mine out of a parking garage in Charleston by popping the window out of the hardtop on my Jeep in 1986. I am still pretty mad and hope that whoever it was has found Jesus after having a long run of Aids.

I do still have my original MO Bottomland real GoreTex Wigeon. I treat it like a crown jewel...

**Highstrung** · 10-28-2019, 05:19 PM

Who looks cooler

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**Chessbay** · 10-28-2019, 05:33 PM

Originally Posted by Highstrung

Who looks cooler

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Those duck buster chokes might give you a slight advantage, but not much. Plus, I know you have a Sitka vest on under that Barbour.

**Highstrung** · 10-28-2019, 05:37 PM

those are beretta chokes, and I do love those sitka shirts with those fluffy comfy liners. Not the itchy feeling tiny waffle lining, dern devil ass feeling garments

**JABIII** · 10-28-2019, 05:42 PM

I don't own any Sitka. I was recently hemmed in by a herd of Michigan yankees who get out and kill lots of shit. They swore by it. I think the comment that swayed me was "They did what Patagonia did, only they did it for hunters."

I remember Salty Nut telling me about Sitka like 15 years ago at a Duck Run...

**Fish** · 10-29-2019, 05:39 PM

Originally Posted by Highstrung

Who looks cooler

20191018_195620.jpg

That there boy looks like a member of the muppets cast. I'll let you decide which.

**JABIII** · 10-28-2019, 05:29 PM

Filson has a new partnership with Mossy Oak including their original grease coats and a new "high tech" model that I am looking to hear some feedback on...

https://www.filson.com/men/outerwear...n-jackets.html

**scswamprat** · 10-29-2019, 06:16 PM

Originally Posted by JABIII

Filson has a new partnership with Mossy Oak including their original grease coats and a new "high tech" model that I am looking to hear some feedback on...

https://www.filson.com/men/outerwear...n-jackets.html

im looking hard at that jacket, may bight the bullet on it before the trip up north....

**Highstrung** · 10-28-2019, 05:31 PM

I'll have to admit, that was an old lighter weight barbour waxed wading jacket... I have a few, my main hunting is a heavier solway.. I wore that light weight one hunting in the pouring ass rain, like pouring for a solid six or seven hours one morning when that front moved in on us last year.. I was drenched. I'm talking water logged my body was hurting wet. The wax was pretty thin on it though. You have to keep up with those things.