Clothes for Whitetail

Do you get cold on a deer stand or in a duck blind? You don't have to, since modern outdoor clothing offers better insulation and moisture-wicking than ever before. Pro hunter John Sloan says staying warm in the outdoors is a simple matter of owning and knowing how to use these new clothing technologies.

Sloan says the clothing industry has made some huge leaps in technologies that help keep hunters warm. A few years back, sportsmen just had to suffer through a cold spell, but no longer.

He says that perspiration is an enemy to staying warm. You've got to wick this moisture away from your skin, and polypropylene fabric is the way to do this.

"When I first started hunting deer, there was no such thing as insulated clothing," he recalls. "The advancements in cold weather clothing have just been tremendous. It still comes back to the basic fact that you do not wear cotton. You wear polypropylene, under garments, under layers that wick away the moisture and cover them with layers of wool, good insulation material."