I was fortunate enough to receive a asbell wool medium weight pullover for christmas. It is the first one I have ever had. It is well made and the perfect outer garment to wear hunting. Combined with a compression shirt (remington /walmart kind) and another wool shirt you will be warm but not bulky.I am sure many of ya'll have figured this out long ago.

I have a Asbell pullover and the colder it get I just put on more wool I never wear cotton just wool. Layer with two wool sweaters and then the pullover.

I've got several of them. They also used to make a windstopper vest that was the ticket in late season December hunts in Idaho. The Asbells make good, usable stuff.

Long sleeve tee shirt, golf wind breaker and pull over.

asbell stuff is awesome. Very warm and blends in good.

I like mine real well. God Bless

Gonna Get another soon too !!!

Have 2 of their pullovers already and received another one in heavy weight wool for Xmas with a Zipper front. The zipper front is the way to go. Their pullovers are very nice and priced right.

I just bought a "Timber Ghost" pullover for myself for Christmas. Wore it once and liked it. Not much cold weather here in Carolina and the season is over, but I look forward to next year.

I received a heavy weight pull over for Christmas, just in time for an early Arctic blast! The real test will be on Monday with a high temp of -9! I love layering in wool and my new pull over is the perfect top layer.

Asbell wool is good stuff.

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Have to say dollar for dollar a great piece of wool. I have owned KOM and Columbia, and it stacks right up with them for a lot less !!

I wear a Zip hoodie almost every day. Need more...ordered a Haversack

I had one like Hillbilly but screwed up and washed it in cold and hot and shrunk it up. I sold it down at the Baltimore shoot and basically gave it away. I loved mine thinking about geting the zip up one next.

Cold water if you wash it all the way.

im thinking about ordering one,what would you recommend,med. weight or heavy weight?

I have "Little Delta Plaid" which is labeled Extra Heavyweight on the website. I don't find it to be overly heavy at all.

For every day I wear a T Shirt or a long sleeve Thermal under it. For Hunting I wear 2 to 4 layers under it. It makes a big difference on a cold sit. I generally don't put it on until after I sit down for a while.

"Timber Ghost" will be my next one

Rubby I would get the extra heavy weight. I have a couple in the medium weight and the one I just received for Xmas in extra heavy weight is perfect. Its just a bit heavier than medium. Go with the Timber Ghost pattern. It blends in perfect against tree bark and with brush. Any of the weights will work during early or late seasons, with wool, its all about how you layer underneath it.

I too have the Timber ghost and when the snow hits the ground, it is a great pattern!

I've got a vest, one with hood and one without. I sewed full length zippers in all of them..don't like struggling with pullovers. Evening Stand Green is my favorite

I also have two and highly recommend to anyone. I also like the Timber Ghost pattern. cbc

I had one and sent it back. I have wool shirts that would be warmer. Granted they don't have a hood, but that's why I wear hats.

Glad to see others like them, but I didn't. To their credit they took it back no questions. I did have to pay the postage, but I guess those are the breaks when you shop on line.

TBB

Great people to deal with and a very well made functional product.

If you get a chance to visit them in person at one of the shows you can go into sensory overload. What to pick, which pattern, which style.

Our two came from Kalamazoo last year.

I got one for Christmas too. From my son, daughter and brother. It's very comfortable. I always liked the look of wool plaids. Use to buy the wool rich red and black plaid buffalo shirts. It's well made and I like the deep pockets too. It's a brown plaid pattern. I'm sure I will blend in with the brown leaves on the ground this year. Can't wait to try it out. Don

Wife got me one Christmas 2012. I don't remember the pattern.

can you guys with the asbell zip up's tell me if the zipper has that small inside flap that runs with the zipper and blocks the openings in the zipper when wearing it,, I guess like any winter jacket with zippers.

Teresa's Sherpa vest with neck Gaiter is a must have when the temperature plummets. This vest bought me many extra hours in the stand. Thanks you Teresa.

I just converted to trad archery and I couldn't be more happy with my decision it's so much funner and challenging I never thought about hunting with plad bc I use scent lok and sent blocker but u guys are changing my mind they look great ...I think it's just a mind game not having camo on lol

Your going to find out real quick that 99.9% of the modern camo is made to please your eye while making you appear like a black blob to a deer. These light toned plaid colors are incredible at breaking up your outline to deer. Only thing that compares is predator and Nat gear. God Bless

X2 WV Mountaineer, espescially if you use laundry products with uv brightners and flowery smells, then you look like a glowing smelling dark blob.

"can you guys with the asbell zip up's tell me if the zipper has that small inside flap that runs with the zipper and blocks the openings in the zipper when wearing it,, I guess like any winter jacket with zippers."

Tajue17, No, there isn't a flap on the inside. There are folds on both the left and right on the outside that cover the Zipper.

took you guys advice just order an extra-heavy in timber ghost,thanks-randy

Folks sure do like them, but my experience was a bit different. I bought one but found quickly that I did not like it. I am tall and on the thin side, so I felt like I was wearing a wool tent -- a boxy, shapeless garment with tight arm-pit holes and floppy sleeves that were too short. The cool breezes blew up the bottom, and I simply could never find an occasion to wear the over-sized hood. I found the wool was only medium quality (hence, perhaps, the problems with shrinkage -- say, GFA, how about washing and shrinking that wool BEFORE you make the garment, that way it would already be felted and even denser?) On mine, the pocket stitching came apart after a couple times wearing it. Finally, I once wore it under conditions in which it got really wet. I hung it to dry in the house, and it still shrunk. SO, for the money it is probably a good garment if it fits and you like it, but I found that it was not for me...

One of Teresa's zip ups but I do have a vest pull over. mike

Got a timber ghost zipper model for Christmas, very comfortable and warm, was home for the holidays in St.Louis, Mo. had some cold days so I was able to test it out. I feel the price was very reasonable as well.. item shipped on a Thursday afternoon and was received the following Monday great product and service.

I have five of them from Teresa . And love them.

Asbell pullovers are fine for their intended purpose - the top item in a layering system. They do not have a tight weave (such as a Filson product), nor are they particularly warm on their own. The hood is huge. On mine I darted the sides for a closer fit. That being said, I own several because I love the earth tone plaids, the roomy fit and the ability to layer warmer stuff underneath. SVH

I purchased one and I traded it off. Like stated elsewhere it is fine for it's intended purpose. I have a Cabelas Berber fleece pullover with a wind shear lineing that is 10x warmer.

Since Christmas we have had some wicked cold temps here in the northeast. I have spent hours outside running the snow blower, scraping ice and laying down ice melt. My base layer was silk-like long johns and shirt, ski pants and fleece shirt and a Theresa zip-up as my upper outer layer. Of course my head and hands were covered, other than the exposed skin of my face I never felt the cold at all.

Officially in the asbell club now. After reading reviews from this and other threads I finally ordered one. Should have it in a few days. Thanks guys

I called and Mrs Asbell made me a lightweight one for Florida,zip up, hooded dark green solid very nice.

I really like Teresa's wool jackets. I have two. One was a pullover which I had a full length zipper sewn into. I like it much better now. This Christmas my Wife bought me a zipper jacket with the hood in Timber Ghost, & one of Teresa's wool bandanas. I'm wearing them a lot. I was apprehensive about the wool bandana, but I've worn it since Christmas & it hasn't irritated my neck. It's super warm too.

ttt

3 yrs. ago I got a Timber Ghost pullover for Christmas and love it. For those that washed theirs and experienced shrinkage, how much did yours shrink? The reason I ask it that I got the biggest size and it is very big on me. I was thinking I could wash it and it would shrink to fit me.

Stinkbait

Before you do ANYTHING to it, make sure you do some reading on "Blocking Wool". My sweater's fit has changed to fit me as I have worn it. Don't try to just get the perfect fit before you wear it.

Agitation in a washing machine will shrink it. Hot water will shrink it. The Dryer will shrink it.

I have put mine in the Dryer on "Delicate" or "Fluff" when coming home after hunting and it was damp but I don't leave it in for long and I check the fit.

I have several. My favorite is a double thickness vest with hood.

I like em but not as warm as my sleeping Indian

Has anyone used the blanket weight oullovers? I was considering one of those for cold weather.

All our family wears for bowhunting and trapping. I prefer the hooded pullover because it doesn't allow air up the bottom of it as much as a zippered jacket and to me is less apt to catch on branches in the woods. We all have evening stand brown. I am ordering a timber ghost right off in a size larger to allow more layering in this sub zero weather.

Stinkbait1,I bought a 2XL in a light tan plaid,I thought I would make it a little darker with RIT dye....put it in washing machine on delicate for about 4 minutes,hand rinsed it,then blocked it,put it on towels to dry....It now fits my friend who is 5'9" and weighs 175#.

I got 3 of them...no problems with the order, but I decided to wash them for some unknown reason..I think one might have been a little too big. I just washed in the sink and pulled and stretch as they dried. The thickest and the one I wanted to shrink a little is way too small now and the thinner ones didn't shrink.

I bought a Little Miss Sew and Sew sewing machine from Walmart for $26.00 and put full length zippers in all of them.

I have the gray blanket weight anorak. I love it. Large pockets, chest warming pockets, half zipper, and a draw string at bottom to stop wind coming up.

Wore it out yesterday in 6 degrees and it was warm with only a waffle knit under it.

I have been wanting one or two of these for quite a while. I like the timber ghost and evening stand brown patterns.

I have read somewhere that the sizes run a little small, or maybe it was to buy larger and shrink em a bit to tighten up the weave? Any comments on those statements? I usually wear an XL with sweaters, am 6'3" and about 230# (gotta get back down to the 200# I dropped to 5 years ago but then slowly went back up). I want the evening brown for early season with probably just a tshirt or flannel shirt under and the timber ghost late season with more layers... also would like to hear from any guys in Ontario and how comfortable they have found em here in this weather?

I usually wear (late season) a thin merino shirt, flannel shirt, thick brown wool sweater and last a Golden Bay red/black wool coat that is wool exterior but a poly fake fur/sherpa fleece type interior. Keeps me super warm but in a strong wind I sometimes gotta tell myself to man up a little more ;0)

T Shirt, Wool Pendleton and an Asbell Zipup and I was riding my Bike in 20f.

dingas -

In my experience, they are pretty roomy for their size. I'm 5'10" and 170lbs. and my Asbell pullovers are size medium, with plenty of room for layering underneath.

"I have read somewhere that the sizes run a little small, or maybe it was to buy larger and shrink em a bit to tighten up the weave? Any comments on those statements?"

For me, the problem was not sizing large or small, but basic design. Small arm-pit holes, billowing body with nothing to stop the breezes from the bottom, and a totally useless floppy hood.

When mine shrunk (without heat drying!), the fit problem got worse -- the arm holes even more tight, and the body shrunk shorter but not to a better fit around the chest or lower torso. It simply became a shorter wool tent. I would strongly suggest that you do not purchase with an eye to shrinking it yourself. In my experience, there is no such thing as "shrinking a bit" with these garments.

As I mentioned in an earlier post, I wish these garments were made from wool that had already been shrunk BEFORE it was stitched.

Trillium, I washed mine this past fall before bow season and followed the washing instructions EXACTLY as they appear on the Asbell's website. Mine did not shrink.

I have hung mine outside for two or three weeks in the rain and sun and they are fine.

I have two of them the first one was a pullover but it didn't have a long enough zipper in the throat to vent when the weather warmed up. I had a full lenght zipper put in & LOVE it now.

The second one is a full length zipper with a hood. Both get a lot of wear.

When my CC Filson wool vest wears out I'm going to try one of their vests too!

It's the absolute best article if clothing I've ever purchased for hunting.

I purchased one of the pullovers, I traded it off. I felt is wasn't warm enough for my tastes. I picked up this sherpa lined wool coat off Ebay for $15, it is easily one of the warmest coats I have ever owned.

Teresa Asbel's products are made for the bow hunter(G. Fred Asbel is her model and design coordinator). They are made for layering. The arms fit tighter for string clearance but not to tight. I personally prefer the vest but that is just me. The hood is made large to accommodate a Fedora(Check out Fred Bear and G.Fred pictures), but can be made to work with most any head cover or you can buy the garment without the head cover. The wool is not as closely woven as KOM, Sleeping Indian, etc. therefore it is not as warm, but it is also not nearly as expensive. If you need something really warm try the long hunter in gray wool sold by Ron LaClair(made by Teresa by the way). I have found that cost is paramount when discussing anything with the traditional archer/bow hunter. This is the market Teresa is concentrating own. I have bought, used, and sold KOM, Sleeping Indian and others, but continue to use Asbel wool products year end and year out. The competition, even in non-wool products(Sitka Gear), is far more expensive. Thanks Teresa for providing a great product at a fair price. If I shrink it and it doesn't fit I'll buy another and still have money left over.

Wild bill, I concur, great post.

Bought two Asbell (evening stand brown in the lighter weight wool and morning mist) pullovers from a gentleman here on the Classifieds and I am very happy. A drawstring around the bottom of the pullovers would make them about perfect. I really like the pockets and the hood. I'm 5'9 and about 145 and the medium fits me very well for length in the body and arms but is pretty big around the chest and waist. Keepers for sure!

The zip up was my son's CHRISTmas present. I looked it over, and it is quality. As mentioned, not as tightly woven as my Swandris, but it will layer well in our mild deer season

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