21st Century Longhunter The Oil Cloth Watch Coat

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back in the woods back in the back in the world afternoon guys Dave Canterbury the Pathfinder School in the mid 1750s William Smith wrote a letter to his commander

Henry bouquet describing the need for his soldiers to have something called a watch coat and he described this watch coat in his letter to his commander as an open front hunting shirt or an open front shirt with the cuffs removed that would wrap around and be waterproofed by the use of oil presumably linseed oil and heat and thyme and linseed oil was something that they used quite often to waterproof fabrics with and my buddy Steve Davis has a pretty good video on that on my channel on how to waterproof something using linseed oil I searched around and I found a company called tent Smith and they're out of New Hampshire right here in the USA that make a couple of really nice products and one of those products that they make is the watch coat and they've used a 21st century mentality and that's what I like about it so well it's classic 21st century long hunter mentality to recreate this coat by using oil cloth and if you guys are familiar with the Pathfinder haversack many people own these it's made out of oil cloth so that is exactly what the tinsmith company uses to make a lot of their products and one of those being the watch coat I had them send me a couple of products one of the things that I had them make for me was a custom case for my or custom sleeve for my double-barrel 12-gauge muzzle loader and it's basically a sleeve that's got a lining inside of it a nice soft lining and it is waterproof by being made of all cloth my gun slides inside of it really nice and then it folds over and can be tied off and that gives me a really nice sleeve for my 12-gauge to protect it from the weather so this is one of the products that they make that I would highly recommend as far as being a very good american-made product but the product I'm really excited to show you is the watch code okay so I have my watch code right here my Pathfinder haversack and as far as rain gear goes you know frog talks are a pretty reliable solution to rain gear although they're not very good in Eastern with an environment with all the thorns and brambles and things that we have here they get tore up pretty easy but if you're going to be out in the open

frog togs are a pretty good way to go for rain gear this watch coat rolls up about this big and I really haven't tried to compress it too much but it fits right in the bottom my haversack very very easily I actually have standing on this end right beside my water bottle but it's about three and a half inches in diameter here maybe four and probably seven eight inches long so we're going to fold this thing out and show you what she looks like stay with me guys okay guys so I've got a piece of rope here and you could wrap piece of rope around this garment or your belt whatever the case may be depending on whether you one of your tools on the outside or tools on the inside and what this really is is an 18th century style hunting shirt made from oil cloth that's been split up the middle exactly what it is it's very lightweight you can see when I hold it up you can almost see through the through the fabric it's got a beautiful oilcloth feel to it it's almost like an Australian duster type garment they make a plenty big so that you can wear them over clothes and things like that

this one is an extra-large and it is large for sure and then what you would do with this is you would wrap this thing around itself like this and then tie belt around it or a piece of rope whichever you choose to use I usually carry a piece of rope with me simply for the fact that I can use that piece of rope for a wool blanket if I decide to wear that for a match coat we'll talk about that in other videos as well so at this point you're just going to wrap this rope around pull it over and tie it off real simple just like we tied the Roycroft pack frame off and everything else except they're not really worried about getting this off so I'm going to let put a knot in there so I get undone if I need to and now I have something that's long enough that my hands are not going to get what I want to tuck my hands into it but it's pretty easy just to pull it out to get my hands out it gives me good coverage and none of the stuff was ever meant to have a hood on it that's why this doesn't have a hood the hunting shirts of the 18th century didn't have hoods because they generally wore some type of White Bear hat whether it was a tricorn or just a wide brim hat of some kind that would repel the water off of their head generally they were made of wool as the hat is that I have on now so now I have rain gear that goes way down below my knees that's what I like about that to get this camera down a little bit for you guys so you can see how long this thing and see it goes down to almost my shins give me full coverage it has plenty of room in the sleeves underneath so that I can move around it gives me good freedom of motion but it's going to be good and 100% waterproof and that's what I like now they make this design as a pullover you can buy this thing and pullover or you can pull it buy it and open front and I like the open front mentality of this thing because then it's easy for me to shuck it off the problem with pullover stuff is is that when you try to pull off you've got to take your hat off and your headgear off and all that other stuff and then when you're pulling that up and your shirts coming up and all that mess is going on and it's and it you know it's just uncomfortable to do that sometimes so I've got a couple pullover anti racks I wanted something that was not pullover that I could just stuff into my haversack very small wearing my backpack and keep it with me and I think this is going to fit the bill like I said this is total 21st century long hunter mentality right here and I absolutely love it I can't wait for it to rain tell you truth I've been praying for sunshine for about two weeks cuz we got so much three weeks cause we got so much rain out here in Ohio and now we're getting a bunch of sunny days right in a row and I wish it rained just so I could really give this thing a thorough test you know the other thing that's really good about this oil cloth is that not only is it water repellent it's also very wind resistant so if you get a really heavy windy day and you're just looking for a light outer layer to stick on to break the wind oil cloth is a good ticket for that you can put that thing on it's going to cut the wind it's pretty windy out here today I've got on two shirts it's fairly chilly even though it's a fairly nice day but I put this thing on and now I can't feel one bit of wind hitting my clothes but I'm going to put the tinsmith link on the bottom of this video so you can go to their website and check it out it's called the watch coat they also sell gun sleeves like the one that they made for me for my double-barrel pet rizzoli 12-gauge my cap lock my percussion cap and some people would call them and you guys can look at that too I appreciate you joining me for another video out here I thank you for everything you do for me for my school for all my pathfinder affiliate supporters sponsors and friends and I'll be back with another video as soon as I can thanks guys

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