I'm looking for a tough, full length with tapered leg hunting pant suitable for hot climates. Most pants I've tried are two loose fitting in the lower leg and they rub when I walk. Cowboy cut Wranglers are great, but wrong color and too hot.

At first I thought you needed to know a technique for cooling off by panting.

I wear the Filson 6 oz. cotton pants. Mosquitos can't get through them either.

jim

5.11 Tactical pants lots of colors room for movement but not baggy. http://www.actiongear.com
Doyle

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full length with tapered leg hunting pant

Don't know of any with the tapered leg, but you might look at the following:

LL Bean Tropic-Weight pants

cabelas BDU Pants

Ripstop BDU

Regards,

Terry

Thanks you guys, but still looking for something with the tapered leg. Jim, was the pant you recommend the Cover Cloth with the oil finish or do they make one without the oil finish?

Orvis made a pant a few years back that was very tapered in the leg. Sounds like what you're looking for. I don't remember what they called it, but it had the usual cargo-type pockets typically seen on safari clothing.

Watch thier site, you'll know them when you see it.

Why not just buy a pair you like, and get them tapered at any shop that does alterations. Lots of pants don't come hemmed, so since they go to the tailor, do both at one time.. The place I go to charges $8 for hem and taper...

SBT, one thing you need to do is buy only pants, and shirts that can stand a "HOT" iron! The camp staff will ruin any synthetic you leave for laundering. The Wrangler are perfect, and the color isn't a problem! I like to hunt in shorts, but if you are in good Buffalo country, you will be in good Tsetse fly country as well, so long pants, and long sleeve shirts are a blessing!

SBT,

The pants I used are called "Safari Cloth". I got them 2" larger and then washed in water (they shrink), they were camp staff proof.

The cloth is very fine weave, 320 threads per inch IIRC.

jim

Jim,
Other than price, those are perfect. http://www.filson.com/product/index.jsp?productId=20922...9836.2069840.2075076

Or you could check some of the online auction sites... safari cloth is a good search

filson safari cloth pants

Lee makes regular cut jeans in both olive and dark khaki. I also think Levis makes similar colors as well.

I believe Lands End sells olive green and khaki or brown colored jeans.

I have a pair of khaki colored jeans from LL Bean that served me well in RSA. More comfortable in the East Cape than looser fitting cargo type pants that seemed to bind while climbing.

RCG

Have you looked here?
http://www.tagsafari.com/browse.aspx?pg=1&catid=100261

Frank

These are good people with great products

/www.long-grass.com/menstrousers.htm

Doyle

Although I usualy wear shorts while hunting in Africa, I do wear trousers here in Australia due to our snakes. I find green or brown "Cotton only" Combat Trousers from USA'S "PROPPER INTERNATIONAL" to be good in hot conditions.
Cotton is a must to provent chaffing.

If you can't find what you're looking for, buy a couple of pairs in the material and color you do like, then take them to a local tailor for alterations. It's a simple job, and not very expensive.

I've used ripstop for years, suirrel hunting, and it does a decent job repelling briars. Would it be too noisy stalking in the african bush?

Mad Dog

I feel happy with

Cabelas 7-pocket STRETCH pants

The stretch fabric is a blessing when one has to walk beyond 15 miles per day.


Cabelas camo DENIMS are great too, very strong but a bit STIFF.

Don't forget

SUPER MESH 7 button shirt


but tell the frigging laundress the shirts have to be COLD washed

It depends on where you're hunting. If it's in western Tanzania, the tsetse flies will eat you up if you wear the thin Cabela's pants that zip off into shorts. They bite right through those things. You certainly don't need anything fancy but some jeans that are light brown in color are hard to beat. I know Carhart makes some that are ideal.

I'm a big fan of jeans too, at least in dry climates. Wrangler makes their cowbuy cut jeans in brown, tan, grey, and olive green. That's what I wore on both my safaris and for a lot of hunting here at home.

I've used both the Cabelas cargo pants and the Carharts. I thought both would be great, but the way I walk, the baggy legs rub together and make way too much noise. Brown Wranglers might be just the ticket if not too hot. Can a tetse fly bite through a pair of Wranglers?

Obviously some of you guys are pretty damn tough. I couldn't imagine wearing jeans in the Selous, just a bit hot and humid for me.

There are no perfect safari clothes, so you just have to come to the best compromise between coolness and toughness against thorns and bugs.

Regards,

Terry

My 2 cents

TagSafari is absolute cheap garbage. The quality is low. In addition, I ordered 2 sets from them, they sent me one shirt with their gigantic company logo on it (no thanks) and one pair of pants was 2 inches smaller in the waist and 4!!! inches longer in the leg, when compared to the identical pant in a different color

I found it is best to buy clothes in the country you hunt in. Less expensive, and suited, by demand, to the locale. Ask the PH to stop at a gunshop for hunting clothes before you hit the concession.

Terry,
You said it was too hot and humid for jeans when in the Selous... What time of year were you there? In July it's 52-56 degrees at night and tops out at 82-84 each day. Up in your Land Cruise in the early morning a sweater and coat were needed as well as a hat and gloves. Jeans were never too hot and loose fitting ones were ideal throughout the day, especially when tsetse flies would bite right through anything thinner....

I was there the first two weeks of September. Never needed a coat in the morning.

Regards,

Terry

Try firehose material. Comes in different weights. See them at http://www.duluthtrading.com

John