Favorite Whitetail Jacket

[Squirrel Master]

Whatever walmart had on clearance 5 years ago when I bought camo last. Y'all are high rollers!!

 

[Gutshot007]

The kind with deer blood on it .

 

[Rd7fox]

Late Season--Older Cabelas Whitetail Deluxe. Gore-tex, thinsulate, plenty of good pockets, HD zippers, quality throughout. Good ole days I know. Glad I still have 2 of them. And yes I'm a Sitka fanboy.

 

[Reedler]

I’ll echo the Sitka Stratus. Hard to beat the versatility!


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[Brushcreekbill]

FL catalyst
I add a puffer underneath when it gets cold. Just got a stone glacier Grumman so far I love it. But it’s not great as an out layer when there’s briars

 

[Texasbuckeye]

Would be helpful for people to put their intended use in their posts too. Rifle hunting vs bow is a different animal, and different jackets.

I’ll Say for bow my go to is sitka stratus early and mid season and fanatic later season.

For rifle, its just whatever is appropriate for the weather.

 

[camping1601]

Original Sitka Fanatic jacket. It's not near as bulky as the newer versions. I use it for archery and rifle

 

[Gutshotem]

Early, Peloton 240

Mid, fanatic

Late archery, fanatic with a midlayer puffy

Late gun, Kelvin WS hoody

 

[LostArra]

It's got to be around 20 and or really windy before I wear a jacket. My old Cabela's Wooltimate/windshear vest is about my most versatile piece. Paired with insulated bibs and the right layers I can hunt pretty cold temps. I just don't like too many layers on my arms.

 

[markanderson12wi]

Hard to beat anything from Sitka, from 85 and sunny in September all the way down to -30 windchill in late January Ive been very impressed. I personally buy all mine used from the sitka buy sell trade group on facebook.

 

[bobinmi]

My base is always a kryptek Alaios pants with a cronos hoody top.

Early season I wear a cadog jacket
mid season I switch to the Vellus
Late season I still use the vellus the majority of the time but I go with the aegis when its abominable out there. Paired with the aegis bibs I've never been cold in that combo. (assuming decent base layers)

 

[westonhoma]

Sitka Stratus system is hard to beat

 

[Rxtim83]

Alright, questions in the title. Been doing a bunch (some might say too much) research on jackets for whitetail tree stand hunting lately and want to generate some more opinions. So what’s everyone’s take on jackets? Let’s break it into early season, mid-season, and late season.

For cool early season hunts and into mid season I like the mossy oak gamekeeper harvester set or the first lite source jacket (depending on which camo I decide to wear).

I got the First Lite solitude set on sale last year and have really liked it so far for cooler mid season into late season.

 

[Traindriver]

Sitka Apex Hoodie is a bad mojo for bow hunting if layered for really anything from early season to most of late with exception to those plummeting days.

 

[cb122]

Sitka Stratus is extremely versatile.

 

[LitenFast]

Early- Sitka Kelvin active hoody, the half sleeve one
Mid-Sitka stratus
Late-Sitka fanatic


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[Yoder]

My favorite jacket is my Wooltimate pullover. For how lightweight it is, it's the warmest jacket I own. That and my 3 in 1 MT50 Parka from Cabelas cover almost all hunting situations. The parka is great. You can just wear the shell in early season, just the liner or both when it's cold. If it's pretty warm with no rain I'll just wear a merino base layer.

 

[eltx]

This thread has been super helpful. I was looking for a late season fleece set up for Texas (morning temps 20s-30s) and checked out the Stratus system, which would have been great but I seem to fall in between Sitka’s sizing where a medium was too tight and a large was comically oversized. Ended up going with Kryptek Vellus jacket and pants which fit great and hit exactly what I’m looking for.

 

[Predator_SD]

For Whitetail it’s easy and doesn’t have to be expensive. 99% of the time for me it’s an appropriately layered Predator Camo vest/jacket over a solid 1/4 fleece of any name brand you wish with a merino wool baselayer. I’ll often lash an insulation layer to my stand if it’s going to be colder and will put that on under my Predator jacket/vest.

Layering is key there is no one jacket for each season, you have to layer up and down based on need. I’ve had a lot of the bigger name brand stuff. None of it is worth the price cause none of them can layer up or down as needed and that’s truly the key here.

Good merino base layers are more important.

 

[Doc Holliday]

40 degrees and above I layer a couple of lighter weight things with an insulation layer as needed

Below 40 I’ll have the Sitka incinerator jacket and bibs

**Im a tree stand hunter so not moving for 3+ hrs at a time