 When I was a kid, Oprah did this show where it was Oprah's favorite things and it was her just talking about all her little favorite whiz gadgets and things and stuff. You know, I don't know if you remember that. Maybe she still does it, I honestly don't know. Look at me. I'm Oprah now, bitch. Hello everyone, Dylan Schumacher, Citadel Defense and we are going to show you the ultimate tactical Christmas gift guide thing. So this is basically just a list of all my little favorite things. We're not talking about boom boom sticks or anything like that, but we are talking about just kind of all the little widget gadgets things that make life a lot easier. All the different, you know, sustainment gear and just different pieces that you can put in your stocking or your Christmas gift. Hopefully you can just send this video to your wife and be like, hey baby, buy me stuff off that and we'll be cool this year. So I hope that this is a helpful guide to you. I will of course have a bunch of different affiliate links down in the description box below. So please feel free to use that if you find it helpful. And if something from this video catches your fancy. So Merry Christmas and I hope that you have a wonderful, joyous season celebrating the arrival of the king. So with that, here we go. All right, first up is this Rothko jacket. I'll roll some beef footage in here so you can see it. But I've had this jacket for, I don't know, two or three years now. I wear it a lot. It is a really fun, nice jacket to have. It's functional in the field. It's functional around town. You can get it in a variety of colors. I've done a review on it. That's somewhere on this channel. I like this jacket. I would recommend it to you. And when paired with some good base layers, you can wear it down pretty cold. So that's also pretty nice. But would recommend this nice sporty Rothko jacket which leads us to our second item which is this marina wool base layer. This one is a smart wool base layer. I don't know if you can see the fancy little logo right there. I'm actually wearing it so I'm not gonna take it off for you. But again, I'll roll in some beef footage. But this base layer is my favorite base layer that I have ever worn. I've worn a bunch of different ones. I have a pair of long underwear that aren't bad. I'll probably include a link to those below as well. But this marina wool smart wool base layer, it's just 100% marina wool, is the best base layer that I have ever worn. It regulates temperature beautifully and it's a great base layer for when it gets anywhere below 60 degrees. It's gonna do a fantastic job. And I've worn this out to classes that I've taken where we're running around a bunch and then we're stopped. And we're running around a bunch and then we're stopped. And this thing does a fantastic job. It's wool so it has all those wonderful properties of wool. It's the only base layer I'm gonna wear at this point going forward. So smart wool base layer. This is the 250 base layer, just so you know. Next up, continuing our winter theme here are the rat's boots. I've talked about the rat's boots a couple different times before, but I love the rat's boots. Big, big fan of the rat's boots. Again, pull anything below about 60 degrees and you are gonna be set with the rat's boots. You can just up your socks as it gets colder. But I've worn these down to five degrees, zero degrees with good socks and I've been pretty good to go. So highly, highly, highly recommend the Marine rat's boots. I think they're probably the best boots all around. They are Gore-Tex lines so if you're somewhere hot or in the summer, you know, they're not gonna work. But like I said, anything below that 60 degree mark which is about three seasons of the year where I'm at and they shine wonderfully. Big fan of the rat's boots. This might sound weird, but a good role of athletic tape actually goes a long way. I'm a big fan of carrying athletic tape in my kits, around my kits, on my shelf, because you can use it for a variety of different things. I like the athletic tape because sometimes you need a little grippy grippy and that's nice to have. Yes, I also use electrical tape. Yes, I use duct tape, but athletic tape is a hidden secret that I really like. Also, I don't have a role out here right now but lucho tape, which I will include in the description box below, that stuff is phenomenal for blisters and any other kind of body ailment related thing like that, cuts, bruises, but cuts, blisters, anything like that, that stuff works wonders. So tape, always good to have. This is my current favorite shot timer. This is the Pocket Pro. Now, to be fair, I did break this one after a couple of years and it doesn't work so hot anymore, but it does work great for dry fire and I can still use the timed feature. So I have tried two, three different shot timers and this one honestly is my favorite and whenever it comes time to buy another one, I'll just buy another one of these. Really, really enjoy this. You should have a shot timer both for training and for dry fire type stuff. I'm a big fan of dry bags. In my bags, I try to do the bag system, right? So I have bag, little bags inside my big bag and then I can get to what I want easier. So I'm a big fan of using dry bags for that. One, they weigh nothing and two then of course they waterproof everything, right? So if you had to do a crossing or if it rains really hard or whatever, I don't ever have to worry about that because it's all inside dry bags. So as much as I can, and I don't do it all the time but as much as I can, I try to use dry bags to store my kit. Again, they don't weigh anything and they keep everything compartmentalized and they are then of course waterproof, which is super nice. So have a good set of dry bags. Let's talk about gloves and glove liners. These are my current glove liners, they're crap. Don't buy these. But I do want a pair of Marina wool glove liners because I'm moving to Marina wool and wool in general as much as I can over polyester because polyester probably isn't that great for you. So those are polyester, they're crap. I'm gonna get rid of them. I will put a description or a link to the glove liners that I want and that I plan on buying this year in the description. These are the Army Wool Glove Liners. They're the Trigger Figure Trigger Finger Mitten Liners and I've had a lot of good success with these, big fan of these. I don't know if I'll have a affiliate link but I'll try to put a link somewhere down there to them. You might just have to look on eBay. I've also liked the Trigger Finger Mittens from the Army. Again, also on eBay. I've, some people don't like them. I've had good success with them and my hands get cold easy so I like the layered system. You know, when I can put a glove liner inside another glove liner, if I can do that here. There we go. And then I can put this inside a real glove. My hands are gonna be toasty. We're gonna be good to go. So I'm a big, big fan of layering the systems like that. Like I said, I just wanna get a different actual glove liner here. Okay, let's talk about some little things here. First of all, let's talk about water, okay? So there's really kind of nothing but the gold standard for the water purification tabs here. One of these is a purification. The other is like a neutralizer thing, whatever, okay? Some kind of water purification tab. I also like the Sawyer Water Filter, Sawyer Mini, which I will put in the link below there. Those are good to go, kind of wide standard. You know, everybody has that. I am also gonna try to move over to the HydroPak water filter system. So I currently have a HydroPak. This is a two liter. I like this thing a lot. It's a great way to carry extra water in your pack. They also make a filter that goes in line with this system. I don't have that yet. That's in my Christmas list. So maybe you might wanna add that in, but I like that because then I could just use this whole thing as a dirty water bag. I could get a bigger bag and use that as my filter. That's kind of the system I'm gonna try to move to because I really think that these are cool bags and enjoy using them. They also have a 500 liter one that accepts the Sawyer Filter. So I'm also gonna do that. So again, I can sew my whole water system in together. That's what I really like for water filtration. This is just a camelback. This is a three liter camelback. They have a couple different profiles as far as like long and skinny or whatever. This is kind of my favorite general profile one. It's a bit wider, but it's not nearly as long. And so it just fits in every pack that I've had. And I like this one a lot better as far as the profile in general. Now with things like the yoke packs and stuff, you're gonna need that long, skinny one. But like I said, I've had a lot of success with this one and I'm a big fan of this shape profile. Let's talk about different multi-tools. I really like the, this is the Leatherman wingman. I like this one because it has a scissors in it. So for kind of general everyday urban life stuff, having a scissors is nice rather than a Saw. They do make one with a Saw as well. And then this is the one that I most often carry my kit because it accepts different bits. And I really like the ability to field repair a lot of my gear. So I have a bit set and then these bits and then I can repair the gear. This is a Leatherman Skeletool. One downside about the Skeletool, I will be honest with you, these are not spring loaded, the pliers. So you have to manually kind of do that. And that is kind of a pain, I'll be honest. The wingman is spring loaded, that's nice. But again, I like the ability to have those bits to repair gear. And this is one of the cheapest ones that I've found that has that feature. So that's why I use it. This is just some knife blade thing that I really like. This is a RUIC, R-U-I-K-E. I don't know if that'll come in there. But this is kind of my go-to folder blade to have in my pocket when I'm doing stuff. It's just nice to have a folder blade. I like this knife, it's a good size and it's held up pretty well. So if whatever it's worth, I'd recommend this one. Okay, so let's talk about notebooks and note taking gear. This is a tactical notebook cover. I really like these. You can get them in a bunch of different sizes but this one happens to fit a composition notebook. So I think that's cool. Like I said, you can do different sizes. Big fan of this. I like that it has pocket here so I can carry all kinds of pens, whatever. Also, always have a Sharpie on you. That's usually a good idea. Put a link to that down there. This is my right in the rain pen. As you can see, I broke it at some point but it's always nice to have one of those or just use a pencil, like that's the other option. This is a right in the rain notebook cover and a right in the rain pad. Again, big fan of this. This is a Fisher Space Tech pen for again writing in the rain or you could just use that pencil. Again, as always, have Sharpies. Multiple colors of Sharpies is also helpful. You never know when you might have to write on something that's less permeable. So big fan of keeping all this. The thing I like about notebook covers is it keeps the writing utensils with the notebook. That might sound silly but then it's in one unit. Yeah, it's a little bit more bulky and it can be a pain but that way it all stays together and you don't lose it and you don't have one without the other because otherwise you're kind of in trouble. So those are my kind of two go-to things for covers for notebook stuff. Hope that's helpful. Let's talk about tourniquets. Now you should have some tourniquets like some real North American rescue tourniquets and stuff. This is not that. You should have those. I'll put a link down there for those. This is a rhino rescue tourniquet. This is some, I don't know, I'm assuming Chinese foreign made stuff but I will say this is the best of the foreign made ones and I'm not necessarily suggesting this for real world use but I am suggesting it for, well it's blue so you guessed it, for training purposes. You should have some training tourniquets so you're not beating up on your real tourniquets and these I've had other Chinese tourniquets that have just fallen apart because I'm not gonna spend $30 on a training tourniquet. These I think coming around like eight or 12 or something like that, dollars and I like having these around because if I lose them or if they break or whatever I don't care but so far they've held up pretty well and they tighten up painfully tight which is what happens when you tighten a tourniquet down. So I would definitely recommend these as a training tourniquet to have around, again when you're sitting around watching TV you should be practicing putting a tourniquet on. Radios, so this is the Baofang AR152 which is designed to be like a PRC152 it's just kind of like the knockoff version and then this is a Baofang UV5R with an extended battery. I put a different antenna on here off the AR152 same antenna that I had from a different AR152 and then a little push the clock thing which is nice, I have a couple different ones of these. I will put links and all this stuff down there below but the UV5R is nice, they also make a waterproof version which I have somewhere in my kit but that'll be in the link down below. It's nice to be able to have different radios around. The UV5Rs are great because they're essentially disposable they're like 15, 20 bucks a pop you should own several because they're super nice to be able to use for a variety of different purposes. This one is a little bit more battlefield oriented I don't know how you were gonna say that but I really like this one a lot and it's got 10 watts of power and a monster battery so it'll last you out there in the field which is really nice. Pick your poison. When it comes to batteries there's essentially three types of batteries everybody needs, right? There's the CR123s, there's the AAAs and there are the AAs. Now I know some people are using the 18650s and kind of some other batteries or the CR2032s and stuff, that's cool knock yourself out but the way I like to organize batteries and one of my buddies gave me this for Christmas this year was a little early present and I'm gonna continue to do the system and pass this wisdom on to you is this is a Megpole DACA pouch with the window in it and then we have these little battery holders here which I've been using these before, these are great but he bought me those in different colors for the batteries and then of course I can put all my batteries in here so that I have one consistent system for the batteries. These DACA pouches are great in general for a variety of things, not just batteries they're water resistant I don't know how waterproof this will be but unless you're dunking this I think you're gonna be quite all right so I like having this as a system just to keep all my batteries in one place. Let's talk about cordage, you should have paracord and just like tons of it specifically you should have some kind of working color so in this case it's like some multicam blackworks, coyote brown, green, whatever pick your poison and then I like keeping red paracord handy because anytime I wanna mark something that's a sensitive item or important item or medical having a red paracord around to mark that is super helpful so keep some red on hand keep, you can never have too much just working the line on hand because you're always gonna use that for all kinds of stuff and then in here I just have some cheap, foldy blade you should just use whatever old blade you don't want anymore this is an M-Tech, USA some cheap Chinese thing I think it cost me like eight dollars at the time that's nice to just have in there and then a lighter you should keep a bit lighter inside your bag so that you can cut your cord, burn your end cord and then it's done and I just keep this all in a fancy plastic bag here so you should have some kind of system for your paracord also when we talk about tourniquets this is a Blue Force gear tourniquet holder and this is designed to slide in between rows of molly top and bottom and then it just has elastic bands that holds your tourniquet on I've used these and zip-tied these to stocks on my guns I put them on my kit they're pretty versatile because it's just two big rubber bands on a stick and you can just kind of make that work however you need to make it work and I've had a lot of success with these just stuffing them in various places they're probably overpriced but I don't know they are helpful and they are effective so having a couple of these lying around it is usually a good idea knives so this is the Cold Steel SK-5 not the mini, the full size I've been a fan of this knife I haven't beat it up a ton, I'll be honest with you but from what I have used it, it's been great I love that it comes in a Secure X sheath it's this kydex thing so that's not going anywhere I've lashed this to all kinds of different kit and gear and whatever it's always been great and again, I love that it holds independently so I can lash it to whatever and I know it's going to be secure and it's not going anywhere big fan of that this is my kind of everyday defensive blade this is the Blackhawk B-Warnd blade reversible pocket clip you can move it back forward on either side so that's really cool and just a kind of defensive blade one bad thing I will say about this knife is that if you're playing with it a lot and you're opening and closing it it'll get really sticky and it won't open and close very much but other than that great knife, enjoy it never had to stab anyone but it's sharp headlamps so this is a slonic headlamp big fan of this thing it is bright as you can see and would recommend that thing to you also, you should have like a dedicated red headlamp which is in my kit somewhere it's not on the table but I will put that in the link in the description box below but having different headlamps this is more just kind of a working headlamp like if I actually need a headlamp to see stuff manageably not for really tactical use but just for everyday life use and or like range cleanup use but my red headlamp of course is much more for technical use so that I can use that to duck under a poncho or whatever super helpful ponchos by the way, don't have a poncho out here but you should have a poncho I'll put a link down there for that too I'll put my favorite one that I've used so far down there back to our cold weather theme real quick here so beanie cap this is just a green skull watch cap I really like this one this might be a condor I honestly don't remember some poly... oh, this is a Helicon Tex nice this is a Helicon Tex one and this one's great highly recommended I've used this for a couple of years now and had really good success with that so I would recommend that you should have some hand warmers in your kit in general especially as you go into winter it's nice to be warm and not freezing all the time these are my favorite socks these are the darn tough socks and these are the T4022 that might be a T4022 the darn tough socks and I have had great success with these again, anything under 60 degrees I'm putting these socks on I also have some much thicker smart wool socks that if I can find I will link below as well and those are great when it gets real cold but these socks have served me really well I own three pairs of them now I'm a huge fan and the darn tough if they have a problem they'll just replace them a balaclava so I have a couple different balaclavas this one's representative I will try to put a link in the description box below but having a balaclava is super helpful the identity stuff is great but mostly I'm just talking about practical use like being able to protect your neck and keep the wind off your neck and or I like the balaclava because I can shove this down around my neck when I need but then I can put it on if I'm wearing a helmet and I don't need necessarily need a hat on yet but I need something to keep the wind off me the balaclava is gonna work great field stoves so this is the MSR pocket rocket little stove this is nice I also don't have it out here it's somewhere in my kit I'll have to find it but I have the esbit little stove and those things are great for like warming stuff up this is good for actual cooking because it'll get hot enough it is loud but it will get hot whereas the esbit's good for like warming stuff up it does burn very quiet which is very nice but if you need to warm up hot cocoa, can of beans whatever that thing is fantastic if you need to do any real actual boiling cooking whatever this one's your ticket let's talk about a couple different consumables I like these large biodegradable wet wipes I like these because one they come in a pack of 20 so they're not, you know it's just not a monster pack of wet wipes so you can cut down on weight and two, they're pretty large they're much larger than a standard wet wipe and so I think that is a cool feature and helpful, you know to keep yourself clean and not like a dirty neanderthal so highly recommend those I'd probably buy them again I will buy them again but there are other brands out there do what you want I just like that they come in a small pack and they're large lighter, you should always have a big lighter oh, that one's getting a little sad but helpful to have a big lighter I like these little fire sticks this is one thing I just broke it in half to fit it in my little fire bag these are cool little tinder items if you ever need to start fires when you're camping or for your backyard little fire or whatever they burn for a decently long time and allow me to pile sticks on so I've had a lot of success with starting fires with these you do need to keep them dry but they're pretty cool chem lights you should obviously have some chem lights a variety of different colors and a variety of different signaling purposes for all of your tactical needs I have chem lights I like having chem lights CLP this is the official Break Free Mill Spec CLP the thing I like about this one is it's aerosol it's an aerosol can rather than just pouring it out and so this helps me get it into suppressors better if you want to do that whole thing like on my Huxworks can I like to spray some CLP in there they tell you to do that in the manual to help prolong the life of it so I always try to spray some in there before I shoot it and or again into the chamber of your gun or on a bolt carrier whatever I just find the what's it called the aerosol better and this can has probably been running me for like two, three years now so maybe you shoot a lot more than I do but my point is you will get a lot of use out of this don't shy away from the aerosol can okay a couple of other semi-random items one, a scale now I'll be honest this is the Amazon basic scale I'm gonna try to find a better scale for you I like having a scale on like a this is like a luggage scale I like having a scale the way my kit this one isn't that great all right so maybe don't buy the Amazon basics one but if you can find a good luggage scale that is helpful we'll see if I can link down below but no promises this is a snap cap big fan of having these I have these for both my rifle and my pistol practicing malfunctions dry fire stuff like that I'll put my snap caps back are down in the description box this one has a metal rimmed cartridge like casing so they last a lot longer than the plastic ones it's a plastic tipped round but then it's an actual metal casing here so a big fan of these and I think they're worth the money don't lose them but they're definitely worth the money because you can beat up on them for a long time and they're gonna last for flashlights so this is the Streamlight USB light and this one has actually died it's not very reliable anymore as you can see it kinda so I do wanna rebuy this this is a great light and I used it for multiple years I like that it's USB rechargeable so I'm a big fan of this little light and we'll again buy this again would recommend it to you it did originally come with a pocket clip but I lost that out on some hike I slipped and fell in ice and kept the light but the pocket clip got lost so the other one I like is the Streamlite excuse me Protac 2LX I think this one's about 500 lumens they might make bigger, brighter, better ones now I'll see what we can link down below but big fan of this sucker it takes two CR123 batteries and again it packs a punch so this is my typical defensive light and then before this broke this was kinda my everyday task light you know you can mix and match whatever but I like this as a little everyday task light cause it's so tiny I mean look at that and then I can just, I always can have it this is a more dedicated like proper defense light that I try not to burn the batteries on let's talk about watches I have two watches to recommend to you the first one is this Timex Expedition this is a more, a cheaper, more affordable watch does all the stuff waterproof, tactical if it gets beat up who cares you can always go the Casio route I just like the Timex the other one, this is my staple Nixon this is kinda my everyday watch and I do like this one two things I don't like about it is it's expensive it was like a hundred bucks or something and replacing the band is I haven't been able to do it and I've tried like eight or ten times you're supposed to be able to take these screws out but I haven't been able to do that and my keeper broke on here as you can see so I just kinda grabbed a different random one and that's kinda been working it I've been slummin' it but other than that it's a great watch I really like it it works at formal events as well as in the field so I do like the Nixon and like I said I really like this one that I will put on some times for me to know I'm gonna be in the field only and I'm gonna go to classes this one's great I also like that the light up button is in the front and that way I don't accidentally activate it anywhere else so fan of that this is some old this is not an originally old but this is modeled after the old style Alice rifle cleaning kits, right? And I like this because it folds up pretty well you could actually use it and like molly it in or whatever or clip it into molly if you wanted but this just has a couple things in here some lube, some, one of these whatever those are cotton swabs I can't think of the name and then I did stuff a toothbrush in here nope it comes with a brush that's nice so it's just a quick little weapons cleaning kit I like that it has a rod in there so that if I need to punch out a loose casing or something my gun's not dead I can feel the repair so decently light I could trim some stuff down in here but I like having the lube and all the cleaning stuff in one little kit and then I just shove this sucker somewhere in my pack so I don't know if this will be available still I haven't been able to find them recently but if it is available I'll put a link down there otherwise having a nice tiny little kit like this that goes in your rack is usually a good idea and you don't have to store it in a fancy container it could just be in a gallon Ziploc bag this is a, I believe this is a cold steel training knife and I really like this because this is just a rubber training knife and when you're doing any kind of fancy combatives with your boys and you're practicing this is good it's also good for your sons to train your sons to be dangerous my son who has stabbed me to death with this more times than I can count and that'll give you some respect for knives so have some kind of cool training knife this one's great I love that it's kind of modeled after the double edged blade like a real fighting knife so I would recommend this sucker for you let's talk about night vision there are two things here that I'm gonna recommend to you one is this case so this case is a rain tactical case I don't know if you're gonna be able to see that there but I really like this case you could supposedly Molly this in I'll be honest I've never done that I'm not losing my night vision over these two straps of Molly right that's not gonna happen it probably is fine I'm just not gonna do it but I like this is because it's a pretty small profile case and it just fits you know PBS 14 you can stuff that in there and then this will fit inside your rock really well I'll usually leave it folded up inside my helmet it'll fit inside there so I like that it has a small footprint it's padded it's probably about quarter inch of foam lining in here so it's gonna be pretty safe and pretty well protected it does have these two what are these called places for batteries that's what those are and I just labeled one use so I know which one is in use because you always take your night vision out when you're done using them and then the other one's there just for a spare so it's cool to be able to have that in here and again keeps the batteries keeps the night vision keeps everything you need right there and it's a minimal footprint so I really like that case the other thing I like is this is a Butler Creek a little flip cover and this is not it's intended use this is like a scope cover but you can make it your nod cover and you just drill a little hole there in the front and then you stuff this on your nod I'll find out what size I got and put that again in the description box you can just order it but I like that as a system for a nod I know that a lot of guys are using the IRS now which is cool and I might move over to that but if you want the poor man solution just get this little flip cover thing and this has worked fantastic for protecting my nod and making sure it doesn't get damaged. Let's talk about sleep kit first of all I have the Recon 3 Gen 2 sleeping bag and this sucker says good down to about 23 degrees I found that to be fairly accurate once it gets under 30 it gets pretty cold in this bag and that's when I was in the sleeping bag with a set of Equix level 2 waffle top and bottoms on and inside this baby bag and I was just on the edge of being too cold so you know 23 is probably pushing it I'd say probably just under 30 and it's you're gonna be like I said on the edge of being comfortable there but I do like the sleeping bag a lot it's super helpful I would not hesitate to buy their other ones they have like up to a Recon 5 which is supposed to be down to a lot colder so that's cool and I would buy that without hesitation it's been a very good sleeping bag I just don't know if it goes as cold as they say it goes but super nice this is just a Bivvy bag this is the official Bivvy bag for the Army the modular sleep system Bivvy I have this one in Woodland I doubt I'm gonna be able to find an Amazon link but go out and buy one of these they're nice they're nice to have I can't speak for the rest of the modular sleep system because I haven't used it heard good things but I can attest to the Bivvy being very very durable so I highly recommend the Bivvy particularly when it gets cold I don't like to use the Bivvy when it's warmer because otherwise I just sweat and that is uncomfortable but when it gets cold the Bivvy is great let's talk about rucks so this is the yoke pack there's a couple different rucks that I really like for everyday tactical guys tactical minute man people one is the yoke pack I'm a big big fan of the yoke pack so there's a couple different companies that make them t-rex arms makes them eagle this is an eagle industries crossfire makes a version but I like the yoke pack big fan of having that expandable beaver tail in here you can stuff a helmet in here a coat you know pretty much anything you need I've stuffed big like a man pack radios in here this thing is cool really cool highly recommend the other two which I don't have an example out here to show are the rush series from 511 those are fantastic packs I have owned a couple of those maybe just one I can't remember now but those are great highly recommend love the rush series the other one then is the first tactical backpacks which I will try to link below as well those are great highly recommend those I have one of those that's there like 24 hour ish size it's like a 30 liter pack and I have beat the daylights out of that thing and it keeps ticking so I highly recommend that backpack as well this is just representative here but this is a smock this is a British smock this one's actually a military surplus one that my buddy got me for again early Christmas present thank you you know who you are I love you I'm a huge huge fan of the smock I own two different smocks I think Americans underutilize the smock we need to embrace the smock life they are great I love all the pockets I love that you can store a bunch of stuff on your person that's cool I love that it is a pretty good layer like if I run with like a base layer like a good like Marina Wall base layer and this I can get down I don't know probably the 20 maybe a little bit colder weather wise so that's really cool that you can you can run pretty cold with it I love that it serves this kind of a great overcoat for stuff so again they're pretty wind resistant and I mean like it's it is windy in the state of South Dakota where I live it is windy and the smock does a great great job of fighting the wind and it's not even the windproof version it's just it's just a smock they do a really really good job I love that they come with a hood so again cold wet rain snow they're pretty versatile to be able to keep most of that off you is it waterproof? No under like a sustained downpour you're gonna feel it but again it's a really good layer to keep most of the weather off of you as it goes and still be breathable they're not Gore-Tex line they're nothing like that so big fan of the smock again anytime we're under I don't know 60 degrees 65 degrees I'm probably putting a smock on because I think that they allow an amazing amount of versatility to carry stuff on you keep you warm and keep the weather off of you even as it gets pretty cold so highly recommend the smock well everyone if you've stuck around this long I hope that you found that helpful that is all of my favorite things this year that I have or that I could think of so if I missed anything or I get done filming this I'll be sure to try to add them in the again the description box below so feel free to check down there for any secret missed items that I just happened to forget in this video happy Christmas shopping Merry Christmas and I hope that this brings you lots of good cheer do brave deeds and endure