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    Default camo jackets and blow up life jackets????

    ok I know some of you guys hunt feilds and some of us hunt from boats each has their own way of hunting! but for the most part as duck hunters we come across water at some point were we use boats or waders. I was thinking why don't the camo jacket makers make a style of jacket with a blow up life jacket intergraded into it??? I think it would be great if some how they could use this type of blow up life jacket in there camo coats......I think then there would be no excuse fo not wearing your life jacket and then you can wear it and be able to move well .....let me know what you guys think of this idea?

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    Default Re: camo jackets and blow up life jackets????

    Not too long ago I seen this guy on TV dressed in some type of camo clothing , specail made. he jumped into a swimming pool to demostrate and floated. saw it on the ODC.

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    Default Re: camo jackets and blow up life jackets????

    t.d.,
    We hunt out of layout boats and aluminum boats, off rock ledges, and out of tubs. We're always in chest high waders.
    I can understand your wish for a less restricting life jacket, but I guarantee you those inflatables are nowhere near rugged enough for the hunting I do. Barnacles and nails and sharp rocks and dogs would always have me questionning if it would work. Also, if you get flipped out of the boat when you're in heavy gear, activating it quick enough could be next to impossible.
    Just my 2 cents.

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    Default Re: camo jackets and blow up life jackets????

    My water hunting consists of 6" deep water! he he he. Acutally we take some boat rides up river and we just wear floater coats for that and when we deke into the marsh we just wear camo.

    I love lying on dry barley fields!

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    Default Re: camo jackets and blow up life jackets????

    bob I can see the problem to a certian degree with them not being rugged enough for the hunting you do or I do for that fact .... but have you seen these jackets ? I have and I know alot of guys wear them lobster fishing maybe NSwhitetale can tell us more about them when he gets out of the woods ( he wears his lobstering) as far as "if you get flipped out of the boat when you're in heavy gear, activating it quick enough could be next to impossible." they are Automatic Inflation as well as manual

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    Default Re: camo jackets and blow up life jackets????

    If I hunted waterfowl out of boats I'd wear my camo Stearns float-coat. I wear it for fishing on the great lakes, and I have worn it out goose hunting on a cold day before I bought my "good" hunting suit. Never had any problem shouldering a shotgun in it.

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    Default Re: camo jackets and blow up life jackets????

    I have one that I wear lobsterfishing. It has a pull release and an automatic release which is great if you get pulled overboard and hit your head on the way over and are unable to pull the cord yourself.
    suppose I could get a modeling carreer


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    Default Re: camo jackets and blow up life jackets????

    I am pretty sure they have some with a small co2 tank in a pocket. If you fall overboard, you pull somethin and your jacket airs up. I thought something like this has been in a couple bass pro catalogs. I could be wrong though.

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    Default Re: camo jackets and blow up life jackets????

    Well, I couldn't find what I was talking about, but I did find this...

    click here

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    Default Re: camo jackets and blow up life jackets????

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    suppose I could get a modeling carreer


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    Yeah!!!...but only for 'UGLY stick' fishing rods!!!!
    ROFL

    Bob

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