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In this clip we want to talk a little bit about your gloves and your hats. These little
things will make a very big difference and a very critical difference staying comfortable
in sub zero weathers. Just like with the silk clothing, you start with a silk liner and
work your way up. And you do this both with your head covering and on your gloves. You
start with a silk liner and then go over with polypropylene liner. And then on top of the
propylene liner, I prefer to wear a glommit, which is a glove-mitten combination. This
is a wool glommit, and by working it this way, I now have my fingers free to adjust
things. To pull the trigger, to shoot, to get things out of my gear without having to
take my gloves off and get my whole hand chilled in that manner. And then also for foul weather
purposes, you can get a leather shell to put over top of the mitten that will also still
have a little crease in it where you can get your finger out to work the trigger. Okay
the other consideration and this is where most of your heat loss will come from, is
around your neck and from your head. So your head covering and around your neck become
very, very critical to maintain your body heat in sub zero temperatures. A nice silk
scarf wrapped around your neck will increase your body temperature while you're on stand
by a good fifteen to twenty degrees. This keeps the heat, from too much heat form escaping
around your neck and your open collar area and this also works as a regulator so you
can regulate your body temperature. When you start getting too warm, you can open the scarf
or take it off and then put the scarf back on. Okay the same thing with using a silk
face mask first and then followed by wool and on top of the wool, you can put a weather
cover. This is where people that wear glasses really have a problem. Because now all my
moisture, all that's coming evaporating out of my body escapes around my glasses. So keeping
glasses thawed out in these temperatures is hard to do. So try to wear plastic lenses
or go to two pair of glasses and you take one pair off. You stick them in your pockets
so they warm up, and then you're constantly switching glasses. So if you're handicap like
I am where you have to wear glasses all the time, this becomes a little bit of a hassle.