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Base layer?
« on: April 22, 2014, 03:31:11 PM »
What are you guys rolling with on your base layer? I've used under armor compression for the last few years and I'm thinking about making a change maybe to Merino wool.

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Re: Base layer?
« Reply #1 on: April 22, 2014, 03:41:44 PM »
Merino merino merino! I have underarmor I and won't wear it hunting anymore. I prefer the core4element wool and first lite. Doesn't smell after one or heck even five days of wearing it like ua or polys you just have t be careful washing and drying it.
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Re: Base layer?
« Reply #2 on: April 22, 2014, 03:43:03 PM »
Merino all the way.  UA is useless in hunting applications to me. :twocents:

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Re: Base layer?
« Reply #3 on: April 22, 2014, 04:27:38 PM »
I like Icebreaker and Smartwool Merino!

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Re: Base layer?
« Reply #4 on: April 22, 2014, 04:59:32 PM »
Beautiful that's what I was looking for I was also looking at the first light definitely going to pull the trigger

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Re: Base layer?
« Reply #5 on: April 22, 2014, 05:11:43 PM »
Merino merino merino! I have underarmor I and won't wear it hunting anymore. I prefer the core4element wool and first lite. Doesn't smell after one or heck even five days of wearing it like ua or polys you just have t be careful washing and drying it.

So I'm curious now as to how to take care of it washing and drying? Not so much at home but in the field if you needed to?

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Re: Base layer?
« Reply #6 on: April 22, 2014, 05:22:32 PM »
First lite!
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Re: Base layer?
« Reply #7 on: April 22, 2014, 06:01:22 PM »
Filson wool long johns for me.

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Re: Base layer?
« Reply #8 on: April 22, 2014, 06:04:04 PM »
Do whatever the tag says. I wash cold and hang dry
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Re: Base layer?
« Reply #9 on: April 22, 2014, 06:06:30 PM »
Underarmour
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Re: Base layer?
« Reply #10 on: April 22, 2014, 06:11:42 PM »
Underarmour

Try merino wool, you won't go back to ua for hunting
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Re: Base layer?
« Reply #11 on: April 22, 2014, 06:24:22 PM »
While my son, daughter, and I do still own and wear synthetics (like UA), we prefer merino wool for all of the reasons already stated, plus it isn't any more expensive than UA.  We own Icebreaker, Core 4, Russell Outdoors, and some Stoic.
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Re: Base layer?
« Reply #12 on: April 22, 2014, 06:35:46 PM »
Core4 tops are on camofire for the next 4 hours
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Re: Base layer?
« Reply #13 on: April 22, 2014, 09:50:59 PM »
Core4 tops are on camofire for the next 4 hours

Thanks for the heads up.  Just cost me a bunch of cash.
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Re: Base layer?
« Reply #14 on: April 23, 2014, 10:11:31 AM »
I use merino from first lite and Core4.  All good stuff. 

 


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