{"id":3653,"date":"2015-05-18T18:44:12","date_gmt":"2015-05-18T22:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itinerantangler.com\/blog\/podcasts\/?p=3653"},"modified":"2015-05-19T08:11:50","modified_gmt":"2015-05-19T12:11:50","slug":"sitka-whitetail-with-polygiene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itinerantangler.com\/blog\/podcasts\/2015\/05\/18\/sitka-whitetail-with-polygiene\/","title":{"rendered":"Sitka Whitetail Refresh with Polygiene"},"content":{"rendered":"

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My friends will tell you that I do as much hunting as I do fishing. \u00a0Having come later to hunting, I’m not as skilled as I would like to be. \u00a0In the last couple years, though, I’ve been taking big steps to remedy that; learning to bow hunt, for example. \u00a0Or learning to call turkeys on my own. \u00a0As a result I’ve been getting more and more interested in hunting technology.<\/p>\n

Sitka is bar none my favorite hunting company. \u00a0They are partly owned by WL Gore, meaning they get access to the very best technology way in advance of their competition. \u00a0I love their gear–the build quality is simply the best I’ve ever encountered. \u00a0My biggest objection, however, as a whitetailed deer hunter, is that their former Forest camo pattern (a Gore Opti-Fade technology, which looks a lot like military digital camo and which allegedly works well on cervids) was far too green for conditions on the ground where I hunt–especially if I wanted it to do double duty as a turkey pattern. \u00a0Turkeys see in full color (actually in more than full color compared to us). \u00a0Contrary to what competitors will tell you, turkeys do not see digital camo any better than any other kind of camo. \u00a0I had multiple birds within eyesight\u00a0throughout the season; hens and jakes especially, but also gobblers. \u00a0I never felt the camo was anything other than excellent.<\/p>\n

Sitka seems to have heard this enough from hunters, especially in the Southeast, that they finally made a change. \u00a0For 2015, the Whitetail pattern is completely revised to look like the photo above. \u00a0It’s very close to the old Open Country (which I own a lot of), to the point that you can mix and match.<\/p>\n

As usual, there’s more to the product than just color. \u00a0Sitka also has added high technology, like the new Polygiene anti-microbial layer. \u00a0Polygiene is a technology based on silver chloride (which they say is made from recycled silver). \u00a0Like many heavy metals, it inhibits bacterial growth.<\/p>\n

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I wore the lightweight crew shirt above on multiple 6 to 10 mile hikes during turkey season this spring. \u00a0It was warm down here\u00a0in Georgia,\u00a0but the shirt never smelled the slightest bit funky. \u00a0From what I can tell, the technology works. \u00a0Even better, the fit and finish on the shirts are just plain excellent; they have a high loft waffle textured interior.<\/p>\n

This seems like a really strange thing to say on an outdoors site, but the ladies truly seem to like this shirt. \u00a0For whatever reason, I’ve had multiple strangers compliment me on it.<\/p>\n

Whether you’re trying to impress deer or, I guess, women, you can’t really go wrong here. \u00a0I’m even planning on bringing this on a decidedly non-hunting outing: my honeymoon to Iceland, next month.<\/p>\n

Rating: <\/strong>5 stars out of 5, will buy another.<\/p>\n

Available:\u00a0<\/strong>At Sitka dealers and online via sitkagear.com. ($69)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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