Photo by Cliff Gardiner & John Keller Q: Between a pair of hunting bibs and a base layer of long johns, what’s a good middle layer for cold-weather hunting? —Dominic DeJulio, via OutdoorLife.com A: Layering is one of the most fundamental, and most fundamentally misunderstood, questions of hunting preparation. The easy answer is that there is no single answer. Instead, you want to layer according to your activity level and the ambient temperature.

I am not a fan of polypropylene compression layers unless I’m going to be sitting still in very cold weather. I find that they get sweaty and clammy pretty quickly. …read more