Clothing for the Cold

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Dave Canterbury, David Canterbury, The Pathfinder School,Bush Craft ,Survival skills, Historical Lore, Primitive Skills, Archery, Hunting, Trapping, Fishing, Navigation, Knives, Axes, Fire, Water, Shelter, Search and Rescue

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morning folks Dave camera at the Pathfinder school I've had quite a few requests lately asking you know what do I wear in a winter time or what kind of clothing do I recommend in winter time and I did a video probably two or three years ago

about winter clothing and I haven't done a video since so I thought today being that the last two days have been between minus eight minus thirteen here in Southeast Ohio I did some squirrel hunting this morning I've been out there for several hours and I thought maybe I'd go over the clothing that I'm wearing with you in this video first of all I wanted to show you something real fast is just a quick modification and I did not do this modification myself I took this a gun to a gunsmith and this is the single-shot H&R 12-gauge that I use all the time with these sub caliber adapters from short lane arms and I took this gun to a gunsmith friend of mine and had him put both a rear dovetail sight and a front blade sight on this single shot 12-gauge so now I have a smoothbore what they used to call a rifle gun it's a gun because it's not a rifle and has rifled sights and they called those rifle guns back in the 1700s and there are several accounts of rifle guns being sold accounts of rifle guns being lost with ads and newspapers you know looking for or for sale one rifle gun and rifle gun referred to a smoothbore a weapon with rifle sights I have a flintlock that's a rifle gun it's a 62 caliber this happens to be 12-gauge which is about 70 to 73 caliber 71 round ball is what I shoot out of a modified choke but now that it has the rear sight and the front blade sight that gives me advantage for elevation and windage when shooting the eight-inch rifle adapters like the 22 long-rifle nine-millimeter 357 45 long colt things of that nature so I want to say that real quick because it's not an expensive modification my gunsmith charged me right out a hundred bucks and I know for a fact that front sight alone cost thirty five so he didn't charge me a whole lot for his time and energy and he had to build the rear dovetail sight himself

out of a piece of metal stock so if you got a gunsmith that you know that you can talk into doing that for you it will definitely improve your 21st century long hunter kit by making your 12-gauge a rifle gun so let's get to the clothing that I'm wearing okay you're going to hear me contradict some things in this video probably from past videos and also from what you hear a lot of times on the internet because there are certain things that are standard survival practices that when it comes to bushcraft and things like that I'm not a big believer in and the first one is the old saying that cotton kills okay cotton kills if you get it wet in the winter time and you're stuck with it that's a fact but you can still wear cotton clothing if you are wearing other layers of clothing that can get wet or that you can take off the cotton so that you can dry it out cotton is a natural material natural materials are always going to be better insulation than any man-made fiber like a nylon material so generally what I wear is we'll go start with the feet we'll go up okay I have a pair of - 33° socks on and they're the thickest pair of wool socks I can get that don't cramp inside the boot and that's important you want a little bit of air space inside that boot to be able to trap warm air most the time if you get cold when you're sitting still standing or sitting in a tree stand and your feet get cold it's because you don't have the proper amount of air space inside that boot trapped to keep your foot warm and you've compressed the installation of your sock so I like to wear the pull-on type boots these boots are buck arctic pros they're the boots that I wear almost every day in the wintertime especially if there's snow on the ground my feet have never ever been cold in muck Arctic pros so I've got - 33 degree socks on that a wolf merino wool followed by the boot now you could wear a thinner merino wool sock underneath the heavier wool sock and there is a lot of theory about layering your extremities just like you layer the rest of your body and there's nothing wrong with that I have never had problems with being cold with just a single pair of wool socks on and the Arctic pros if I had a thinner pair of boots on maybe like a wetland booters thing like that made by muck then I may choose to go with two pairs of socks above that I have a pair of minus 33 degrees black merino wool long underwear underneath that and then I have canvas type denim material that's cotton obviously on top of that so I have that insulated layer against my skin of the merino wool that's going to retain insulation value even if it gets wet so if I get wet you know up in here I can take the pants off I can dry the pants over the fire while I'm standing in front of the fire getting the wool dry but the wool is going to keep me somewhat warm especially standing next to the fire while I'm drying out the cotton pants or the denim canvas pants and that's what's important to understand is that you can wear cotton or natural materials but you've got to have something you've got to make a sacrifice somewhere where if I'm going to wear that I'm gonna have something underneath it that can get wet and still going to be warm like the merino wool and - 33 degrees in my opinion it's probably the best brand next to icebreakers and then wool power would be number three as far as insulate of long underwear type things go above that I have on basically a minus 33 degrees long black long underwear shirt followed by a linen hunting shirt as a handmade linen hunting shirt same as the ones I wearing a lot of my videos that you guys see it's made out of a heavy thread count-- linen like I said they're custom made there are natural fiber so again if they get what they're gonna get cold I have the merino wool underneath that and in over the top of that second layer layering my body I have a Leicester River bushcraft wool Boyle bushcraft shirt 100% wool 100% warm 100% bomb-proof as far as I'm concerned I've had this one for several years and you cannot beat this thing in the wintertime the only issue you'll ever have with this top piece of garment is if you are on a four-wheeler going 50 miles an hour and it's not going to cut the wind or if the winds are 50 miles an hour you're staying out there it's not going to cut the wind in which case like we talked about in the last kit video I did I pull that watch coat it's made out of oil cloth out of my hammer sack and put that on over all of this as a wind breaking wind shearing layer I wear just a pair of wool standard gloves and these are just a military-issue wool gloves I don't think these are American issue I think these were some other country probably Germany or something like that but they're 100 percent wool and then over the top of that I wear a pair of mitts that are wool lined leather on the leather on the palm and the thumb and beaver on the back these things have never ever let me down a good pair of military Arctic mints same thing if you got a pair of those good military arctic mitts you're never going to get cold in them as long as you've got something else like wool underneath them not a big fan of the mitten type things that go on your hands underneath them I'd rather have the gloves so I've got that finger dexterity if I need it still keeping my hands covered okay

then above that the only thing I do is if it's really really cold outside I'll wear a kerchief that we've talked about in past videos and it's usually either linen or merino wool depending on the weather and when I say really cold I mean colder than right now and then on top I've got this leather bomber cap that is fur on the outside it's quilted on the inside with some insulation in it and then it can be dropped down and unbuckled so that it will cover your ears totally if you need it like this and you can button it underneath as well if it was really really cold outside it has to be absolutely freezing for me to ever do that generally speaking I wear it with the flaps up and they come down almost to the bottom of your ears as it is and this hat is usually the first thing that comes off when I started walking or tramping through the woods because the thing is so hot but it will definitely keep the heat from escaping from your head and neck and that's important to understand the other thing I want you to understand that I explain to my students a lot is your extremities are just as important if not more important than your core and I wouldn't say if not more important but just as important as your core the reason for that is all of your Bloods going to circulate if your extremities are freezing cold and that blood circulates out to that cold area and comes back you're already at a lower temperature here than you are here if you're circulating blood out there and it's coming back even colder every time and circulating again and again and again your body's going to have to number one work harder to keep itself warm burn more calories and more metabolic energy and number two your feet your hands up fingers or your head or your feet are gonna freeze so you've got to keep your extremities covered just as well with layers as you cover the rest of your body and that's important I think a lot of people forget that so I want you real quickly today just walk through what I wear for a very cold weather environment in Ohio minus eight degrees minus 13 degrees that's very cold weather we don't get weather like that but about once every 10 years and it's been like that for the past week in Ohio pretty consistently in the negatives so yeah if you live in Minnesota or someplace like that or the Canada where it gets you know minus 20 minus 30 you know minus 8 might be nothing to you but again you know if you live in Florida 32 degrees is probably for reason to me 32 degrees is very comfortable so it's all environmental that's what I wear in this environment I can't speak for your environment but I wanted to give you that quick tidbit today of advice because a lot of people have been asking me and a lot of people have asked where I got this shirt where I got this shirt and this is a boreal bushcraft shirt from Lester rubber bushcraft the other shirt underneath it is a handmade hunting shirt they're not available I had handmade by a seamstress I've got seven of them that she made me so I appreciate joining for this video I thank you for everything you do for me for my school for my family for every one of us that is affiliated with the Pathfinder school Pathfinder TV self-reliance Outfitters and soon to be the hunt channel I'll be back another video soon as I can thanks guys you