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Lil-Rokslider
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New guy from the foothills of the Appalachian mountains in Georgia here, with some questions. First of all, this forum is so informative and I greatly appreciate the collective knowledge base here. I have not done any western hunting but I’ve become interested in it because sitting in a deer stand over a food plot in South Georgia is just so boring. We have a pretty rugged mountainous area nearby called the Cohutta Wilderness and I intend to try some western style backpack hunting there in the upcoming season
I have a backpacking/fishing trip up Slough creek and over Bliss pass scheduled for the last week of August. I wanted to buy a solid, but packable, rain jacket for the trip, that I could also use on hunts out west in Colorado/Wyoming/Montana. Ideally, I would also use this jacket as a general purpose rain coat here in North Georgia and maybe as an outer shell for skiing. Now to the question:
I have started looking hard at the lightweight Firstlite Vapor, but I can’t find a whole lot of reviews on this site (or anywhere else about it). I’ve read the threads mentioning it, but it seems like in the majority of them a lot of people mention the Kuiu Chugach, as a better alternative. The firstlite is decently cheaper, I like the company and the fit of their clothes I have a firstlite catalyst in XXL and it seems a little bit big (doubt I could do a XL) I like Kuiu as well but their sizing seems all over the place. Does anyone have any recent experience with the vapor? Any alternative suggestions? Thanks in advance.
I have a backpacking/fishing trip up Slough creek and over Bliss pass scheduled for the last week of August. I wanted to buy a solid, but packable, rain jacket for the trip, that I could also use on hunts out west in Colorado/Wyoming/Montana. Ideally, I would also use this jacket as a general purpose rain coat here in North Georgia and maybe as an outer shell for skiing. Now to the question:
I have started looking hard at the lightweight Firstlite Vapor, but I can’t find a whole lot of reviews on this site (or anywhere else about it). I’ve read the threads mentioning it, but it seems like in the majority of them a lot of people mention the Kuiu Chugach, as a better alternative. The firstlite is decently cheaper, I like the company and the fit of their clothes I have a firstlite catalyst in XXL and it seems a little bit big (doubt I could do a XL) I like Kuiu as well but their sizing seems all over the place. Does anyone have any recent experience with the vapor? Any alternative suggestions? Thanks in advance.