Southern Style

Upgrade Your Hunting Gear With These Stylish Finds

Field goods never looked so sharp

Hunting products staged in a tree

Photo: David Prince

• Vision Quest: Image-stabilizing binoculars make glassing from a boat a breeze, and the new ZULU6 HDX from SIG SAUER pulls double duty as a great pair for hunting ($1,200; sigsauer.com).

• Dove Love: Perfectly sized for a hot day in the dove fields (or quail woods), Duck Camp’s waxed canvas shell and game bag set keeps clutter to a minimum ($169; duckcamp.com).

• Bird Bundle: Hung from a tree or fence post, this monogram-able strap from Birdstrap Leather Co. protects doves from fire ants and Fido’s chompers ($110; birdstrap.com).


Hunting products

Photo: David Prince

• Wear and No Tear: The iconic brand Duck Head blurs the line between field tough and bar ready with these cotton briar pants with wet-wax-finished canvas overlays ($198; duckhead.com).

• Tush Cush: The lightest field chair YETI’s ever made, this easy-to-stash folding camp throne holds up to 350 pounds in a twill that won’t make you sweat ($225; yeti.com).

• Classy Carry: Crafted of waxed twill canvas and vegetable-tanned bridle leather, Wren & Ivy’s Legacy gun sleeve can readily be packed for travel hunts ($200; wrenandivy.com).

• Muck Tamer: From the neoprene and natural rubber construction to the kick-off heel, the Chene Scout Deck Boot makes muddy treks painless—and comes in Mossy Oak patterns ($120; chenegear.com).


Hunting gear items on a table

Photo: David Prince

Groaning Board: PECOS’s portable table has a 3,200-pound capacity, so it’ll never buckle on you; an accessory cutting board nestles in neatly ($700 and $175, respectively; pecosoutdoor.com).

• Blade Beauty: The sharp, clipped point on the Benchmade Wildcoast knife hints at its utility: It slices and dices as well as it breaks down fish and game ($350; benchmade.com).

• Stud Woofer: The new Turtlebox Cub speaker is a cantaloupe-sized concert hall. Waterproof and drop-proof, it will run for nearly five hours at full volume ($330; turtleboxaudio.com).


T. Edward Nickens is a contributing editor for Garden & Gun and cohost of The Wild South podcast. He’s also an editor at large for Field & Stream and a contributing editor for Ducks Unlimited. He splits time between Raleigh and Morehead City, North Carolina, with one wife, two dogs, a part-time cat, eleven fly rods, three canoes, two powerboats, and an indeterminate number of duck and goose decoys. Follow @enickens on Instagram.


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