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Cold weather outer wear

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I am looking to get some new outer wear for the ice season. I know there is Ice Armor and Vexilar but I haven't yet compared prices. Are there any others anyone would recommend? Which provides the best protection from the cold and wind along with keeping you dry when out in wet snow or kneeling over an ice hole?

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mww24 Experienced

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do you get cold easy or are you warm when most people are cold? will it be just for ice fishing or would you use it for hunting snowblowing or other winter activities? there are a ton of great products out there. How much are you willing to spend?

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the Snosuit is a sweet suit. very spendy though. I have the ice armor extreme going on its 4th season this year. very warm and still waterproof. I broke one of the buttons on the side by the boot cuff. it was my fault though. Mine is almost too warm when your walking out on early ice. I wish i had one with less insulation for early ice. Frabill also has some other suits that arent quite as spendy as the snosuit that look nice in stores.

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I have the Strikemaster suit, my buddy has the Frabill FXE suit, another buddy has the Vexilar suit, and yet another buddy has the Ice Armor suit. We all fish together and have talked over the differences of the suits, and there is one conclusion..... were all warm, and were all dry, and everyone has plenty of pockets. So.... If you want one, just go buy the one that pops in your eye because there all great, and most cost around the same ammount.

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I have the Ice Armor suit. Every time I wear it I think of how glad I am to not be wearing Carharts anymore. No more wet legs and they don't wear me out like the heavy Carharts do.

Exactly! I wore Carharts for alot of years, then I wore my ski gear out one time and started wondering why I didd'nt do that sooner.

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We all fish together and have talked over the differences of the suits, and there is one conclusion..... were all warm, and were all dry, and everyone has plenty of pockets. So.... If you want one, just go buy the one that pops in your eye because there all great, and most cost around the same ammount.

I totally agree that they will all keep you warm, and it is the old Ford/Chevy debate, but I sure do have a peace of mind knowing that my Arctic Armor will give me a fighting chance if I might ever find myself in the drink. Sure the odds are low, but for around the same price (or less in the some cases)? It's a no brainer to me.

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I especially feel good about wearing my Arctic Armor on first and late ice. The flotation factor is a biggie. The bibs are as warm as any bibs of any type I've ever worn. The coat isn't quite as warm, but if you buy it a size bigger and layer under it, you got it nailed!

I have the AA Plus.

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im sure its a great selling feature of AA to state that it floats, but personally it sounds like to me a great reason for some do live dangerously....the way some talk on here it makes it sound like a very good reason to go out under very unsafe circumstances, ill just wait till ice is foot thick and go, no reason to tempt anything dangerous or stupid just because of a floatable suit.

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im sure its a great selling feature of AA to state that it floats, but personally it sounds like to me a great reason for some do live dangerously....the way some talk on here it makes it sound like a very good reason to go out under very unsafe circumstances, ill just wait till ice is foot thick and go, no reason to tempt anything dangerous or stupid just because of a floatable suit.

I haven't read comments from anyone participating in this thread that said, or even implied, that AA was "a very good reason to go out under very unsafe circumstances."

We all know that ice is never "safe," and even if you wait until it's a foot thick, you can still go through on the unexpected thin patch.

A floatable suit is a safety measure no matter when you go on the ice, and as such is a valuable garment. Buying or recommending them to others is in no way a suggestion to do anything stupid or dangerous on the ice.

It's kinda like assuming a guy is going to go out and court death because he just bought life insurance.

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sorry your comments make no sense to me, if the ice is "never" safe, then no one (or almost no one) would ever be on it.

...and to your comment regarding ppl going out "under unsafe circumstances", almost every other person on here giving thumbs up to the floating suit states they go out earlier on first ice or stay out later on melting ice because of their "safety net suit". Wether implicitly stated or not, some comments are steared that way and i was merely stating if it aint thick enuff to drive on, i wont walk on and kinda crazy i think to buy a suit just to give false sense of security in potential bad situations. If u can float in a suit in freezing water, great, i just dont ever take a chance of possibly going thru, thus no need for that type of suit. p.s how much is a floating suit?

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THERE IS ALWAYS A CHANCE OF GOING THROUGH. I also limit the amount of risk I am taking but it would be stupid of me to believe that there is no possible way to go through the ice. I did not purchase my AA suit to give me a false sense of security. I do however like the fact that I will have a better chance of getting out alive because my suit is keeping me above water than I would if wearing any other suit.

Dave

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amateurfishing,

I don't care how much ice there is on a lake "it is never 100% safe".

A good example of this is up on the sauk river chain of lakes. there is a area on horseshoe lake called the meth hole. it is called this because of methane gas coming from the bottom of the lake. this gas will keep this area open all winter and in cold winters like last year it will skim over and look like the rest of the ice in the area. there can be 2 feet of ice next to this area then it all of a suddenly goes to 1 or 2 inches of the meth hole area. so again "ICE IS NEVEVR 100% SAFE".

as for a suit. I like my strikemaster suit I got. I did talk to the reps on saturday and they said the suit will be like $190.00 for both the bibs and the parka at the ice show. also they have e-newsletter that comes out with specials on their products(it comes out like once a week or every other week).

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