Looks like an awesome product. Dave’s giving off some major Ben Kenobi vibes😂

In the army we used  to wear our Pancho's on the back of our pistol belt with blousing rubbers. Worked real well.

I would love a rain poncho made out of this material, something made to work with the swagman

Shut up and take my money!  Wow, I love this.  It'd be perfect for Eastern Canada late winter hunts, with mixed precipitation.

reminds me a LOT of a Native capote, only shorter and in oilcloth instead of wool/leather

Looks great Dave. Tentsmiths ought to make a winter anorak or smock with their awesome canvas.

"An Historical Account of the Expedition Against the Ohio Indians, in the year 1764".



"...I propose a sort of surtout, to preserve men in a great measure from both wet and cold. Take a large checked shirt, of about half a crown sterling per yard, for it should be pretty fine; cut off the wrist-bands, and continue the opening of the breast down to the bottom; sew up the sides from the gussets downwards; rip out the gathers in the fore parts of the collar as far as the shoulder straps, and resew it plain to the collar.



The shirt will then become a sort of watch coat like a bed gown, with very wide sleeves. Take a quantity of linseed oil, and boil it gently till one half is diminished, to which put a small quantity of litharge of gold, and when it is well incorporated with the oil, lay it on with a brush upon the watch-coat, so that it shall be every where equally wet.



I suppose the watch coat, hung in a garret, or other covered place, and so suspended by crooked pins and packthreads in the extremities of the sleeves and edges of the collar, that one part shall not touch another. In a short time, if the weather is good, it will be dry; when a second mixture of the same kind should be laid on with a brush as before. When the second coat of painting is dry, the grease will

not come off and the surtout is an effectual preservative from rain; it is very light to carry, and being pretty full on the back, will not only keep the man dry, but also his pack and ammunition.



The sleeves are left long and wide, to receive the but <sic> end of a firelock (secured) and to cover it below the lock. The coat is double breasted to be lapped over, according to which side the rain drives. A man will be kept dry by one of these surtouts as far as the knees. If from the vicinity of the enemy, it is improper to make fires at night, he may place his pack on a stone, and sitting upon it, change his shoes and leggins, and, if he pleases, wrap his blanket around his legs and feet, then drawing the watchcoat close to his body, it will keep him warm, as no air can pass through it, and, leaning against the trunk of a tree, he may pass a tolerable night, both warm and dry.



It would be of service to have a small piece of the same oiled linnen <sic> to put under the hat or cap to carry the rain down to the watchcoat or surtout, otherwise whatever wet soaks through the hat or cap, will run down the neck, and thereby in some measure defeat the design of the watchcoat. Perhaps it might be useful to mix some dark or greenish colour with the oil of the second coating, to make the watchcoat less remarkable in the woods."

I would narrow the the sleeves at the wrist otherwise when your reaching up to do anything water will soak your sleeves underneath.

Back to the basics! I like that.

Dave I’m from southern Ohio along the Ohio River and shade river in meigs county and your videos have helped me a lot beside what my dad and papa have shown me about living and surviving off the land and stay safe during cold weather. Your a hero of mine for real Dave. Nothing but mad respect here for you my friend. Stay safe brother.

Quick little mod...
I sewed a large BDU button inside the front about a foot below the neckline. This is the perfect size to clip a morakniv sheath to the button.

Simple but Valuable piece of gear. Bonus Obi-Wan vibes

I do like the practicality of it.  I'd sew on some loops and toggles to keep it closed rather than rely on a second piece like a belt.  A case where knowing some Marlinspike Seamanship is a very good thing!  For folks who enjoy the woods, I cannot recommend highly enough that you get a copy of the Ashley Book of Knots.  This is the gold standard that every bushcrafter or homesteader should have.  As much as I like the look of this rain coat, it really could benefit from some of the marlinspike seamanship shown in the Ashley Book of Knots.  And, the ABOK is just full of things you can use around the camp and home, things you've never thought of.  If they could use rope and pulleys to move ships in dry dock, imagine what you can do around the house!

Dave Canterbury: woods jedi.

I miss the old Long hunter series videos... thanks for years of teaching...

looking great Dave, I still remember watching those damn dual survival days hard to believe it's been a damn decade

That hood probably seems like heaven during a ice storm  .

I'm betting you could pair it with some 550 cord for a handy shade or rain cover between a few saplings as well. If you needed a more stationary work site for tool maintenance, cooking, or other camp type tasks, but while away from camp.

Looks good and no doubt made well and would hold up but, personally, I like having either a zipper or, perhaps, one or two rows of buttons with loops on the other side to close the rain coat up. If you need that shamog for something, or what ever you use to hold the coat closed in rain, then you're not as protected from elements. And even with fasteners to close it you can still open some of them and pull it open at the top to ventilate if needed. Again, just my preference. As I said, good idea over all. Oh, one other thing, I've worn those oil cloth coats and find that if you're in really cold and windy conditions those things do not keep you warm unless you're outer wear is made for said conditions and you're using the oil cloth coat simply as rain cover or a wind block....plus, the one I had got really stiff in the cold: I was in Wyoming during a very bad winter with temps in single digits at the time and it was extremely windy at that time to boot. You didn't mention the approximate cost of that oil clothe rain coat.

Dave, I'm so glad you talked tentsmith's into adding a hood to the watchcoat. I had bought a watchcoat from the previous owners and wanted a hood, now I am a reinactor
and knowing it wasn't correct I still wanted a hood, after all some capotes have them. As I was ordering an oilskin tarp from the new owners of tentsmith's I asked them
if they had considered making a model with a hood. They said no,but being new owners they were looking at new concepts. So, I ordered enough extra oilskin material,
made and installed my own hood. It is crude but effective and looks like a non tailor on the frontier had done the work. It has character I guess you would say. The lined
oilskin hood they make is a dandy also. The new owners seem like good folk. Again, thanks for all you do.      YMHS,    campdog