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Turkey vest worth a look

DMTJAGER

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Found this vest that had 4.7/5 stars after 93 reviews at Amazon. If you order it from the TideWe website and use discount code SUB10 it's $90 TYD
Looks pretty well made and in my opinion as well laid out as any other vest I have looked at. Comes in two different camo patterns as well as a removable kick stand seat system.

I ordered one and will post a review once I get it and give it a going over.
 
Found this vest that had 4.7/5 stars after 93 reviews at Amazon. If you order it from the TideWe website and use discount code SUB10 it's $90 TYD
Looks pretty well made and in my opinion as well laid out as any other vest I have looked at. Comes in two different camo patterns as well as a removable kick stand seat system.

I ordered one and will post a review once I get it and give it a going over.
Looking at the same one. Very interested in your feedback.
 
Hmmm...$20 for bottomland. It’s ridiculous, but I can’t help considering it. Damn Hunter marketing.


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Got the vest today but as I am on my midnights rotation didn't have enough time to give it as complete of a going over and evaluation as I will need to as I needed to get some sleep.

Initial impressions is its very well made and well laid out in terms of pockets and location of pockets and how they are configured.
But until I set the vest up for hunting only then will I be able to give it a satisfactory evaluation in terms of the vests ergonomics.
The vest has a huge amount of adjustment so it will absolutely fit hunters of quite large dimensions. If I were to level any criticism thus far towards this vest it would be hunters of average or below average size might find the vest too loose fitting if dressed for the warmest of turkey hunting temps. On the other hand if you find this vest to small you're either a truly enormous person (think "The Mountain"
from GOT big) or you desperately need to go on a diet.
Bare in mind I'm 6'-2" and 260lbs and I still could've increased its size by 40% best guess.
I will caution this is only a most minimal of a use based evaluation but again based on a very limited use the back support system and seat cushion worked very well and were very easy and fast to deploy and use. The seat cushion is held in the upright position against the back of the vest by strong magnets and will remain in place untill you need to deploy it prior to taking a seat.

The snap buckles that hold the seat in place while in transport mode in conjunction with the magnets are easy and fast to connect or disconnect and will get much much easier with minimal practice
Once you unsnap the buckles (simple one handed operation) deploying the seat cushion and backrest takes literally only seconds. Once the snap buckles that hold the seat inplace against the back of the vest are unsnaped deploying the cushion and backrest is a minimal effort one handed operation that with minimal practice will become entirely intuitive to do.

I only tried it out on my living room rug as I didn't want to try it in my yard incase I wished to return the vest.
I couldn't help but notice how well it supported me and how comfortable the seat cushion was. I'm a large heavy guy with hip issues and the cushion gave me more than sufficient comfort while seated on a hardwood floor with only a thin rug as separation. I can absolutely see being able to be seated for 2 or more hours and be more than acceptably comfortable.

I will say although the backrest gives very solid support and good comfort I must give it a minimal criticism in I personally feel it reclines you ever so slightly to much and wish it allowed a slightly more upright seated angle, but I find the seated angle is absolutely acceptable and others may find it perfect and it is absolutely not a deal breaker for me. I suspect the angle was chosen based on sitting at such an angle as to maximize your knees up position to allow maximum use of your legs to support your gun in the ready position. Just a guess but while seated it seamed that way to me as the straighter your back is the harder it is to pull up your knees in a seated on the ground position.

I have been turkey hunting for over 35 years and for 30 of them at least I have been in a constant battle of always trying to find that "PERFECT TREE" in the "PERFECT" location that wasn't either covered in poison ivy or located in a dence thicket of mutiflorose thorn bushes or faced with simply no trees at all to sit against.
Add to this both of my hips have issues resulting in ever increasing levels of serious discomfort but especially my right hip makes sitting in anything less than relative comfort and remaining still essentially impossible. This vest it seems solves those problems for me.

Entered some 6 years ago the turkey hunting chair. Yes the Turkey hunting chair solves all my problems and are without equal in terms of comfort and allowing you to set up literally anywhere you want must or need to and they give you much needed additional hight off the ground for maximizing your field of view while seated and I will continue to use them when practical as in when hunting alone or with my adult friends, but my sons both still need them and would find it very difficult to hunt without them. So this vest eliminates having to use one and there for carry one less chair which when we are running and gunning on public land one less chair to carry is a significant plus to maximizing our mobility.
Tomorrow I will load the vest up for hunting and give it a serious work out in my yard doing stimulated hunt set ups and deploying the seat & cushion and accessing my calls once seated.

Thus far the seat has lived up to my expectations and baring discovering a major flaw the vest is a definite keeper.
 
Got the vest today but as I am on my midnights rotation didn't have enough time to give it as complete of a going over and evaluation as I will need to as I needed to get some sleep.

Initial impressions is its very well made and well laid out in terms of pockets and location of pockets and how they are configured.
But until I set the vest up for hunting only then will I be able to give it a satisfactory evaluation in terms of the vests ergonomics.
The vest has a huge amount of adjustment so it will absolutely fit hunters of quite large dimensions. If I were to level any criticism thus far towards this vest it would be hunters of average or below average size might find the vest too loose fitting if dressed for the warmest of turkey hunting temps. On the other hand if you find this vest to small you're either a truly enormous person (think "The Mountain"
from GOT big) or you desperately need to go on a diet.
Bare in mind I'm 6'-2" and 260lbs and I still could've increased its size by 40% best guess.
I will caution this is only a most minimal of a use based evaluation but again based on a very limited use the back support system and seat cushion worked very well and were very easy and fast to deploy and use. The seat cushion is held in the upright position against the back of the vest by strong magnets and will remain in place untill you need to deploy it prior to taking a seat.

The snap buckles that hold the seat in place while in transport mode in conjunction with the magnets are easy and fast to connect or disconnect and will get much much easier with minimal practice
Once you unsnap the buckles (simple one handed operation) deploying the seat cushion and backrest takes literally only seconds. Once the snap buckles that hold the seat inplace against the back of the vest are unsnaped deploying the cushion and backrest is a minimal effort one handed operation that with minimal practice will become entirely intuitive to do.

I only tried it out on my living room rug as I didn't want to try it in my yard incase I wished to return the vest.
I couldn't help but notice how well it supported me and how comfortable the seat cushion was. I'm a large heavy guy with hip issues and the cushion gave me more than sufficient comfort while seated on a hardwood floor with only a thin rug as separation. I can absolutely see being able to be seated for 2 or more hours and be more than acceptably comfortable.

I will say although the backrest gives very solid support and good comfort I must give it a minimal criticism in I personally feel it reclines you ever so slightly to much and wish it allowed a slightly more upright seated angle, but I find the seated angle is absolutely acceptable and others may find it perfect and it is absolutely not a deal breaker for me. I suspect the angle was chosen based on sitting at such an angle as to maximize your knees up position to allow maximum use of your legs to support your gun in the ready position. Just a guess but while seated it seamed that way to me as the straighter your back is the harder it is to pull up your knees in a seated on the ground position.

I have been turkey hunting for over 35 years and for 30 of them at least I have been in a constant battle of always trying to find that "PERFECT TREE" in the "PERFECT" location that wasn't either covered in poison ivy or located in a dence thicket of mutiflorose thorn bushes or faced with simply no trees at all to sit against.
Add to this both of my hips have issues resulting in ever increasing levels of serious discomfort but especially my right hip makes sitting in anything less than relative comfort and remaining still essentially impossible. This vest it seems solves those problems for me.

Entered some 6 years ago the turkey hunting chair. Yes the Turkey hunting chair solves all my problems and are without equal in terms of comfort and allowing you to set up literally anywhere you want must or need to and they give you much needed additional hight off the ground for maximizing your field of view while seated and I will continue to use them when practical as in when hunting alone or with my adult friends, but my sons both still need them and would find it very difficult to hunt without them. So this vest eliminates having to use one and there for carry one less chair which when we are running and gunning on public land one less chair to carry is a significant plus to maximizing our mobility.
Tomorrow I will load the vest up for hunting and give it a serious work out in my yard doing stimulated hunt set ups and deploying the seat & cushion and accessing my calls once seated.

Thus far the seat has lived up to my expectations and baring discovering a major flaw the vest is a definite keeper.

Given that I'm not a pro wrestler or a linebacker, it sounds like this might be too large. The dude on youtube looks fairly average and it seems to fit. ARe there different sizes?

 
Is the back pouch big enough to haul a turkey out in? If so how does it ride on your shoulders with 20# in there?
 
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