Livetahunt
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I use the Under Armour spandex pants and shirt for hiking and insulation. I like it. I own some stuff from other manufacturers also that is cheaper.
Under Armour is costly though. It was VERY hard for me to fork over the cash, but I did and have gotten a lot of use from it. Wear the stuff to play flag football, snowboarding, and hunting.
The other brand stuff is usually a little cheaper.
Brian Latturner
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Under Armour is costly though. It was VERY hard for me to fork over the cash, but I did and have gotten a lot of use from it. Wear the stuff to play flag football, snowboarding, and hunting.
The other brand stuff is usually a little cheaper.
Brian Latturner
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Personally I think its good stuff. Me and several of the guys I hunt with wear the shirts for the archery hunts. I don't wear the skin tight stuff, I buy it so it fits like a normal t-shirt. I like the way it seems to adapt to the different temperatures. If you watch the retailers in the Summer they will have sales. Personally, I think its worth the money, but again I only hunt during the archery dates.
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Yep, It's expensive, but you only need 2 sets.
I have worn it in AZ hunting at 87 degrees and all winter in NY for work outside. Great stuff. The skin tight (what they call compression fit) is nice once you get used to it, you can layer for extreme cold and not feel bulked up.
I understand LL Bean has something similar but cheaper. Haven't had a chance to try it.
Ed
I have worn it in AZ hunting at 87 degrees and all winter in NY for work outside. Great stuff. The skin tight (what they call compression fit) is nice once you get used to it, you can layer for extreme cold and not feel bulked up.
I understand LL Bean has something similar but cheaper. Haven't had a chance to try it.
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Love it and wear it throughout the various seasons. The cold gear is outstanding for winter and the heat gear is good in early fall or spring. It ain't cheap, but, it's good quality. I'm lucky cause I live about 15 minutes from the factory and they have an outlet store with some great prices on closeouts and 2nds.:7
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I just have to chime in with everyones opinion above, it is very expensive and I also had a hard time spending the cash the first time, however I have spent countless days hutning in this stuff anf it is wirth its weight in gold for sure. A very good investment.
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I have one of their cold gear vests. While it's nice to wear around town I wouldn't trust it in cold weather. It pales in comarison to my Sitka timberline vest. Their base layer are pretty nice for warmer weather. I have a few pieces of those.
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"I use the Under Armour spandex pants and shirt for hiking and insulation. I like it."
LMAO...no man should "like" spandex sorry...
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LMAO...no man should "like" spandex sorry...
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UA makes the greatest work out stuff on the planet and I like their Boxer Briefs and longsleeve Ts for cool weather but so far I have not liked UA for cold weather. I am still an REI Polypro MTS Zip T-Neck and long bottoms guy. They come in three different weights, well like iron and do the job as good as or better than all of the others I have tried. Patagonias Capilene stuff is also pretty good.
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I love under armor. A good way to get it for cheaper is if you check out Sport Chalet during their spring sale when they clearance all the cold wear gear off. Ive got quite a few peices and i absolutely love it. And its durable to boot. I do structural concrete so im always snagged on tie wire, rebar, form cuts, taper ties, you name it. This stuff is awesome. ive had mine for about 2 years now and i think the shirt has 1 little tear that was sustained last year when we had to go to alaska for a few weeks of work. It can get soaking wet and still keep you warm. its awesome IMO.
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"It can get soaking wet and still keep you warm."
Come on now. I call BS on that one. I am a UA fan too but let's not get carried away here.
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Come on now. I call BS on that one. I am a UA fan too but let's not get carried away here.
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What details. We got shipped up to Juneau alaska last september to help Secon build a bunch of precast barrier rails for their freeway project. Nothing special, lots of hours, lots of rain and lots of wear. The cold weather gear is awesome hands down.
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What were the temps? What model/name UA products(s) were you wearing? What if anything did you wear over or under them them?
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Then you must have been working your a$$ off and there must have been no wind chill. I like my UA but I don't think you could sit around in the stuff, wet, in those temps and not get chilled.
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You said "It can get soaking wet and still keep you warm."
And how did you get it soaking wet?
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And how did you get it soaking wet?
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You said you had jeans on over the leggings and a t-shirt on over the Cold Gear Mock. Was it a regular Beefy Tee kind of T-shirt?
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do we want to know what he had for breakfast that day also? I also have found that if your pants get wet your UA cold gear will help keep you from getting a chill. It traps the heat and keeps the wet pants away from your skin. And you really can't get UA soaking wet because of what it is made out of. It just does not hold water, sweat etc.
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LAST EDITED ON Jun-07-09 AT 01:50PM (MST)[p]Forgive me wanting to get the details before concluding that his claim "It can get soaking wet and still keep you warm" is not valid.
If he was soaking wet from a combination of sweat and rain in 40-60 degree temps he would have started to chill the minute he stopped working and generating heat. The UA gear he describes has very little thermal quality to it, its primary function is to "wick" not "wisk" moisture away from the surface of the skin and I don't think that it does that as well as a number of other fabrics. In any event, wicking moisture away from the skin is a good thing (because wet skin loses heat at a rate of around 20+ times faster than dry skin) unless of course you are moving the moisture to the cotton jeans and t-shirt you are wearing over the UA. Cotton is an extremely poor insulator, even worse when it is wet and it takes a very long time to dry.
Wetness/water/moisture from rain, sweat or any other source in cool or cold temps is a bad thing. Wet=cold. Dry=warm.
He was "warm" because he was physically active and exerting himself not because of the UA. And that would not be any different if he were wearing products from REI, Patagonia, Duofold, Carhartt or Kmart. Once he stops running his motor at high RPMs he would have begun to chill because his cotton clothes would have provided him no insulation from the outside temperatures that were 40 to 60 degrees lower than his resting body temperature. That is not opinion, it is science.
As I said, UA is very good stuff and I was one of its earliest promoters but let's not attribute super hero powers where they are not warranted. It's just polyester.
Wade
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If he was soaking wet from a combination of sweat and rain in 40-60 degree temps he would have started to chill the minute he stopped working and generating heat. The UA gear he describes has very little thermal quality to it, its primary function is to "wick" not "wisk" moisture away from the surface of the skin and I don't think that it does that as well as a number of other fabrics. In any event, wicking moisture away from the skin is a good thing (because wet skin loses heat at a rate of around 20+ times faster than dry skin) unless of course you are moving the moisture to the cotton jeans and t-shirt you are wearing over the UA. Cotton is an extremely poor insulator, even worse when it is wet and it takes a very long time to dry.
Wetness/water/moisture from rain, sweat or any other source in cool or cold temps is a bad thing. Wet=cold. Dry=warm.
He was "warm" because he was physically active and exerting himself not because of the UA. And that would not be any different if he were wearing products from REI, Patagonia, Duofold, Carhartt or Kmart. Once he stops running his motor at high RPMs he would have begun to chill because his cotton clothes would have provided him no insulation from the outside temperatures that were 40 to 60 degrees lower than his resting body temperature. That is not opinion, it is science.
As I said, UA is very good stuff and I was one of its earliest promoters but let's not attribute super hero powers where they are not warranted. It's just polyester.
Wade
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I hear what your saying. I would just like to see you get right to the point like you just did instead of going at it. But I'm with you and under stand what you were getting at.
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