hey guys scott reekers here with eastmans hunting journal
and i am here today to review the Bora Vest from Kryptek
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last year i had the privilege of testing Kryptek
Altitude series and to say that i was impressed would be an understatement
at the core of this altitude series is the Schoeller C-change
technology and you're probably wondering why in the world
is this dude doing a tree hugger type thing holding a couple pine cones
well i'm not holding it for grins and giggles okay
i'm holding this because Schoeller took a hard look
at what has god created they and they said
okay this is what is in nature we want to mimic the way things work
in nature so C-change technology is where it opens and closes based on
the climate just like a pine cone does so you can see
how this pine cone is much tighter you can see how this pine cone is open
when i started sweating going up the trail this vest was opening up
letting heat out as it was getting cooler the vest
it closed and so it kept and retained my body heat
i'm a huge fan of vests any of you who have read my reviews before
on clothing know that i love having a vest as part of what i did i had an
insulation piece up on this high country trip and i love having a
vest it's just a great way for me to add some insulation at a
lightweight option this Bora vest is exactly that and
you can see because of this technology that mimics nature
it is at the top of the line from a technology standpoint
next up you will see that we have on this vest
a great athletic fit and i'm a big fan of this fit because i'm a big guy
and if you have looked at any of Kryptek's ad you will see that most of
them are big guys as well and so i really enjoy that because it's
a fit that really fits me well it's a fit that doesn't feel like a
five foot two model was what was used it was actually like
humans that had some size to them and i really appreciate that bit
but that doesn't mean those of you who are on the shorter side aren't going to
find that fit they have all the sizing options that are there
but the athletic fit just fits really well fits a variety of body types
and you can move in it there's a full range of motion
that you can see i'm wearing the vest right now over the top of this armatec
merino infused base layer and this Bora vest is on top of it
i could use this for most of my early season scouting trips
from late august all the way into early archery season
or moving into you know we've got september 15th for rifle mule deer
opener here in a lot of the state of wyoming
or like in colorado where you've got some of these early high country hunts
this is could be what you would wear for a lot of the day
you might pull your insulation or a soft cell jacket over the top
but this would be a system that would function very well and you'd be able to
use it to your advantage and have a great hunt
a great comfortable hunt so getting back into some of the
creature comforts that are there well you can look right here and you can
see this chest pocket that i've got it's a cell phone if it's a cell phone
perfectly so a lot of people like to have that available
because how many of us are using it to phone scope in the back country
i used it all week for this last week scouting mule deer and having the phone
scope close at the chest is nice you know when
you're sitting and you're wanting just to have a great way to do it because
pulling it out of your pants pockets is not fun
so i love having a chest pocket so the Bora vest has that
you'll notice the cuts you know you can see that they're stretched there
it's not like this is made to be tight to skin and so
you can see that this is an extra large on me you know i'm six foot four four
and a half and so you can see that it fits really
well and tight not a little guy either so you can see that i've got good range
of motion with that so that's a practical side now one of
the things that's a pet peeve is when we get a piece of clothing for
the back country that doesn't have zippers on every single pocket
when that doesn't happen there might be some few choice words set around the
office because we are all human and we lose things and
if we have open pockets we're more likely to do that so every one of us has
lost something in the back country and a lot of times it has to do with having
pockets that don't have zippers on them in the right spots
any jacket pocket that i have i wanted to have zippers because i usually put
valuable stuff in there one other thing to remember
about the Kryptek Bora vest is it does have a DWR coating nanosphere
technology where the water will flow right off the
top of this so if you get caught every one of us has done it get caught
out in the open one of those high country rainstorms
all of a sudden you've got a little bit of water not an issue for the borah vest
so some vests don't have that technology this one does so that is definitely a
great point to remember when you're looking at the Bora vest
two great ways to get the Bora vest from Kryptek number one
at kryptek.com number two buy three gift subscriptions on eastmans.com and
you can get this Bora vest for free thanks for coming along for this review
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