Where is your anchor point? A facemask/beanie interfere with my shot more than something around my neck, I liked the full hood for Northern MN.
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Can't see where a beanie would interfere with anyone's anchor as it covers the top of the head and at the most to the bottom of my ear lope. Which gives me room to anchor with my index knuckle behind jaw bone in the pocket under the ear lope, directly to area. vs through the hood.
Now I can understand a facemask interfering, but stated I use a balaclava, neck gaiter type and pull it down for a shot, where it stays close around the neck, vs a big collar at the neck, where my whole lower face from chin and mouth area ( string to corner of mouth) to area behind jaw and under ear ( for hand anchor) are exposed for a direct on skin contact.
I know I've read many complaints about the big collar, and even read a few misses because of the bowstring catching it, so it's not just me with this view. Even if I cinch the collar real tight the cinch straps hang in the way of the bowstring, where they need a way to secure them from dangling. I realize it can work for bowhunters if you cinch down the collar real tight and keep the cords out of the way, but can understand others having issues with it too. I just think one using this jacket has to be very diligent of the collar position at all times, because the sharper down shots is where this collar will interfere, say if one was to loosen it up as the day warmed for ventilation. So I'd rather not have the big collar if given a choice, so it wouldn't be an issue regardless it's position during a hunt.
Here's the closest pic I could find of my similar anchor with similar hood and collar, don't want to anchor my hand through the hood like that and want the string area on lower mouth and chin area exposed where the collar can come into play and get in the way especially on downward shots.
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