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Equipment & Gear => All Other Gear => Topic started by: trophyhunt on September 21, 2016, 04:53:59 PM

Title: Kuiu Yukon rain gear, tested, passed!
Post by: trophyhunt on September 21, 2016, 04:53:59 PM: I spent a couple nights in the backcountry this past week, anyone that was hunting Monday on the west side knows how wet it was. I wore my Yukon rain gear, tops and bottoms, all day through waist high huckleberry bushes. It was like walking through a pool! I figured my sleep that night was going to be very miserable. Got back to my pup tent and my pants, shirt were dry! Not bone dry but just barely damp, very much impressed with my purchase, worth every cent! My only two negatives, they are a bit loud against the brush and a bit heavy for backcountry packing, but again worth every penny.
Title: Re: Kuiu Yukon rain gear, tested, passed!
Post by: BullMagnet76 on September 21, 2016, 05:19:51 PM: :tup: Love my Kuiu Yukon raingear, worth every penny
Title: Re: Kuiu Yukon rain gear, tested, passed!
Post by: Antlershed on September 21, 2016, 06:41:25 PM: Yep, tested mine out Monday and Tuesday in the backcountry as well. Worked great! :tup:
Title: Re: Kuiu Yukon rain gear, tested, passed!
Post by: shanevg on September 21, 2016, 06:45:26 PM: Love my Yukon gear! Just be sure to keep it clean and spray at least once a season with DWR spray. The brush will eventually wear away the DWR layer and it needs to be restored.

Had my Yukon jacket for 4 seasons now hunting in Westerb WA and SE Alaska and I love it!
Title: Re: Kuiu Yukon rain gear, tested, passed!
Post by: trophyhunt on September 21, 2016, 07:34:17 PM: Quote from: shanevg on September 21, 2016, 06:45:26 PM
Love my Yukon gear! Just be sure to keep it clean and spray at least once a season with DWR spray. The brush will eventually wear away the DWR layer and it needs to be restored.

Had my Yukon jacket for 4 seasons now hunting in Westerb WA and SE Alaska and I love it!
do you clean it some other way than putting it in the wash on cold? I definitely want to take care of it, thanks.
Title: Re: Kuiu Yukon rain gear, tested, passed!
Post by: shanevg on September 21, 2016, 08:01:00 PM: i spray it off with a hose whenever I get home and wash on cold a couple times a season. They do have laundry detergent that adds the DWR but it costs the inside and outside of the jacket which diminishes the breathability so I like to rely on the spray.
Title: Re: Kuiu Yukon rain gear, tested, passed!
Post by: Ieatelk on September 21, 2016, 08:33:11 PM: Tag

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Title: Re: Kuiu Yukon rain gear, tested, passed!
Post by: Antlershed on September 21, 2016, 08:48:55 PM: This is the stuff Kuiu suggests using
http://www.kuiu.com/hunting-accessories-field-gear/nikwax-softshell-duopack/63007.html?dwvar_63007_color=Clear&cgid=field-gear#start=17
Title: Re: Kuiu Yukon rain gear, tested, passed!
Post by: trophyhunt on September 22, 2016, 07:12:03 AM: Quote from: Antlershed on September 21, 2016, 08:48:55 PM
This is the stuff Kuiu suggests using
http://www.kuiu.com/hunting-accessories-field-gear/nikwax-softshell-duopack/63007.html?dwvar_63007_color=Clear&cgid=field-gear#start=17
Thanks I will have to get that for sure.
Title: Re: Kuiu Yukon rain gear, tested, passed!
Post by: deerhunter_98520 on September 22, 2016, 04:07:07 PM: I need to get some of that ordered also....spaced it out when I ordered my rain gear