[email protected]
http://www.hardscrabblemountain.com/
are the two contact points I got from Cathy this morning.

Mary

Several of us CO shooters wear a vest made by Jackie and Wade Chipman in western Canada. Very well made, top quality materials and workmanship. Our only complaint is the zipper must be a "metric" or a Canadian standard type. The zipper is on the left side of the vest. You get used to it. I don't have any contact info.

Aren't zippers like buttons in that if they are on the other side of the vest, that means that you're wearing a girl's vest?

Normally I would go along with the zipper and button thing, but if those Colorado guys are just practicing in the kind of weather that was posted in the CH, they can wear their zippers anyway they want. A couple of weeks ago, I was going to the BA range for a SB match, I passed a time & temp sign, it was 7:40AM and 44 degrees, that is cold here!

JB...it was 22 F here on Thursday at 8 am...they are predicting snow flurries/sleet today in warm sunny Florida during a global warming cycle.

Innocent

Bob, I have a jacket I bought up there in the great white north that has the same problem. Zipper pull on the wrong side. Other than that it is a good jacket. Damn Canadians! They probably say the same thing when they buy a jacket here in the states. Damn Yanks!

Innocent wrote:JB...it was 22 F here on Thursday at 8 am...they are predicting snow flurries/sleet today in warm sunny Florida during a global warming cycle.

Innocent

I think us liberal types have fallen back to the more ambiguous term "climate change". Can we send this back to the poles where the glaciers, polar bears and penguins want it? Sheesh. It isn't "warming" so much as the poles sprang a leak.

Cold winter or not, I'm sure looking over the new vest Hardscrabble advertised the other day through Cathy - http://www.hardscrabblemountain.com - Leather for support and mesh for, umm, ventilation. Or, in the Commander's case, airing out.

And I bet the zipper is on the right side.

I sent an e-mail to Marco Sanchez asking if he can do a mesh/leather vest. Will share his response.

Bob

Innocent. I was just in Fla. and it was fine. I forgot how temps below 68 sends everyone scurrying for there snuggie.

AD9...68 is when you see the yankees wearing shorts and us crackers in down filled coats. This stuff in the 20's sends us into hibernation, especially if it is wet as well, which it has been today.

Innocent

Jason wrote:Aren't zippers like buttons in that if they are on the other side of the vest, that means that you're wearing a girl's vest?

Maybe so Jason, but it still does not make me shoot as good as a girl. On the upside....I must admit ,that vest makes me look real fine on the line.

Woohoo! Bob was the first one to get the slight reference "shoot like a girl" there!

Jason wrote:Woohoo! Bob was the first one to get the slight reference "shoot like a girl" there!

I thought it was a given!

Innocent, The temps here are 11 with a nice breeze off the ocean. I may just go swimming.

Marco can use perforated kangaroo skin to make a vest which may be cooler in the summer. He's not sure of the exact price but he's estimating $300 - $350.

I appreciate him looking into this but it's just too pricey for me.

Bob