Rubber rain gear weight

jofes

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Has anyone figured the weight on HH impertech or other fully rubber rain gear? It's difficult to find on the website. I've had some FL SEAK that wetted out last year in AK and thinking about making the switch.

Thanks
 

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I wear Grundens Hercules for work. It’s about the heaviest stuff you can get. I’ll try to get a jacket and bibs weight for you tomorrow after work. I also have some lighter rubberized Grundens I’ll weigh too. It’ll at least give you an idea the top end. The bull is the real killer though.
 
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jofes

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I weighed my stuff for ya.

My Impertech Jacket (large) is 20.3 oz
My Impertech pants (medium) 20.1 oz
Thank you! Do you trust them busting brush?
That's lighter than the FL SEAK at 26 for the pants and 23 for the coat
 

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Thank you! Do you trust them busting brush?

Absolutely!!!!

My Jacket is 11 years old and replaced the pants 2 years back when they started to leak in the crotch.

I use HH impertech on everything from truck hunts, quad hunts, waterfowl hunts, backpack mountain goat hunts in the east kootenays (south east BC) and on Vancouver Island hunting timber blacktail. Pretty much some of the nastiest bush/slopes in BC. Very durable.

It really shines when traversing slides/brush that is soaked, thick and never ending. It does not wet out. That said, it doesn't breath so you need to manage perspiration. I typically wear lightweight merino base layer underneath and do not zip the coat (use the snaps). Every now and then, stop, drop the pants to the knees and open the coat for a few minutes to dump heat.
 
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I too lived in HH Impertech when I lived on VI as well as the interior of BC. I worked in Forestry for 20 years and wore them whenever we had crappy weather, beating bush or on the ocean for fishing. To be honest, the pants delaminated/broke down before they would leak, probably more from the chemicals used in pile/broadcast burning, using chainsaws and fueling up anything from ATV's, to chainsaws to boats to helicopters. The jacket just kept on going but eventually the seam split on one shoulder.

I would buy them again if I didn't have Grundens for fishing, bought as a gift for me.

You can't go wrong with HH rain gear.

Cheers

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limpet

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Grundens Neptune pants L: 19.3 oz
Grundens brigg jacket L :3 lbs 3 oz
Grundens Hercules bibs L: 3 lbs 6oz.
I wouldn’t use the later for anything but truck hunting and beating the worst brush but they’re bomb proof. The Neptune stuff is pretty solid. I’m not afraid to sit on sharp gravel in them.
 
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Has anyone figured the weight on HH impertech or other fully rubber rain gear? It's difficult to find on the website. I've had some FL SEAK that wetted out last year in AK and thinking about making the switch.

Thanks

A postal scale calls my 2011 XL version:
Coat: 27.05 oz
Bibbs: 28.15 oz

If I'm sitting still, they keep me dryer than the proverbial "popcorn fart". If I move, or even twitch, I sweat like a Kardashian in a spelling bee, and the Impertech keeps all that sweat inside.

Packing a dall ram 5 miles down the drainage felt like being in a hot tub. Luckily, we got a spell of wind & sun that let us turn the gear inside out to dry. We were glad there were no cameras in that drainage to record us in our skivvies during the drying process.

FC
 
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