- Specialty
- Quiet fleece-lined camo hunting clothing for men, women and — unusually — kids and youth, plus packs and heated gear
- Category
- Hunting Apparel
- Website
- newviewhunting.com →
Our verdict
New View Hunting earns its place here for one specific and unusual reason: it takes youth hunting apparel seriously. Most of the industry treats kids' camo as a novelty category — an unlined hoodie in a print that looks like camouflage from ten feet — and the result is that a lot of children get taken hunting badly dressed, get cold, and do not go again. New View builds its kids' range with the same quilted fleece lining, reinforcement panels, knit cuffs and pocket count as its adult clothing, at a price that survives the fact that a child will outgrow it in two seasons. The set we reviewed did the two things that decide whether a young hunter lasts an afternoon on stand: it kept them warm and it kept them quiet. That is a genuinely useful contribution to the sport, and it is why we recommend the brand.
Background
New View Hunting makes hunting apparel — jackets, pants and complete suits — along with packs, heated gear and accessories. The brand describes its products as “practical, dependable hunting clothing … shaped by hunter feedback,” and frames its mission around families: that hunting is “more than a sport — it’s a legacy,” and that the job of the equipment is to carry that legacy across generations.
That is marketing copy, and we would normally skip past it. We are quoting it here because in this particular case the catalogue actually reflects it. The hang tag on the garments we reviewed carries a line drawing of two adults and a child walking in together, over the words “Keep Listening To Hunters.” The kids’ range is not an afterthought bolted onto an adult line — it is the reason the brand is interesting.
How we use New View Hunting
Our first New View review is the kids’ camo hunting jacket and pants — a fleece-lined youth set in 95% polyester with 5% spandex, at $69.99 for the jacket and $59.99 for the pants.
We tested it the way a young hunter actually uses it: a full afternoon on a predator calling stand, seated, hood up, with an electronic caller out front. It scored 4.5 out of 5. The quilted lining kept a child genuinely warm through a long sit, the brushed face fabric stayed quiet against a chair and a rifle stock, and the five percent spandex in the shell let a young shooter mount a gun without fighting the coat. The pockets turned out to matter more than we expected — a kid running the caller remote out of their own pocket is a kid participating rather than being supervised.
What sets New View apart
The apparel market’s blind spot is well known to anyone who has tried to dress a child for a cold stand. Adult camo is a crowded, competitive, well-specified category. Youth camo mostly is not: it is thin, unlined, short on pockets, printed in patterns that do not break up at distance, and sold on the assumption that it is dressing-up clothes.
New View’s answer is to build the youth garments the same way as the adult ones. The construction we photographed — quilted padded lining carried into the collar and sleeves, bound hems rather than raw edges, stitched-in labels that survive the wash, reinforcement panels where a sling and a forend ride — is the same thinking you would expect on cold-weather clothing for an adult.
The camo patterns are shared across the range too, which has a practical consequence: a parent and a child can hunt the same ground in the same print, and the kid is not the weak link in the setup.
What to know before buying
Sizing is the one place the listings could do more. The youth range runs S to XL without a published measurement chart, so ordering for a growing child means using judgement or emailing the support address on the hang tag. Our Large fitted with room to layer, which is the right way for kids’ outdoor clothing to run, but a chart would take the guesswork out.
The fleece linings also mean this is cool- and cold-weather clothing rather than a year-round range. New View positions it for spring, fall and winter, and that is accurate — it is excellent from the first frost onward and warm for an early-season afternoon in the sun. Fill weights are not published, so there is no number to compare against other winter kit.
One small practical note from our own order: check the carton label against what you ordered. We ordered NV Tree and received NV Reeds, which happened to suit the ground we hunted, but it is worth confirming before the tags come off.
Bottom line
New View Hunting is on this list because it builds the thing the category keeps not building. A child who is warm, quiet and carrying their own kit will sit out an afternoon and want to come back; a child in an unlined novelty hoodie will be cold in twenty minutes and bored in thirty, and that is how hunting families lose the next generation.
The youth jacket and pants set is a complete, properly built outfit for $129.98. If you have been putting off taking a kid out because you could not put them in anything decent, this is the brand to look at first.
Why we recommend them
The youth line is real gear, not a costume. Quilted padded fleece lining through the body and sleeves, olive reinforcement panels at the shoulder and forearm, ribbed knit storm cuffs, a hood cut to break up the head, and a corded one-way zip. Every one of those is an adult-garment detail, executed at kid size.
Eleven pockets across the youth set. Five in the jacket, six in the pants. It sounds like a spec-sheet number until you watch a child carry their own caller remote, knife and snack for two hours without asking an adult for anything — which is exactly what keeps a kid still on a stand.
Quiet is the priority, and it shows. The face fabric is brushed soft rather than slick, and the zips have noise-damping pulls. That matters more for a young hunter than an adult, because an adult can decide to sit still and a ten-year-old cannot quite manage it.
Three camo patterns across the range. NV Tree, NV Leaf and NV Reeds, in both adult and youth sizes, so you can match the whole family to your country instead of taking whatever the kids' rack happens to stock.
Warranties on kids' clothing. Twelve months on the youth jacket and twenty-four on the pants. Most children's outdoor clothing is sold with no stated cover at all.
Product lines
What they make.
Kids' & youth gear
Fleece-lined camo jackets and pants in sizes S to XL, plus a 30 L youth camo pack. The part of the catalogue almost nobody else builds properly — see our full review of the jacket and pants set.
Men's hunting clothing
Quiet camo jackets, pants and complete fleece-lined suits, including a 13-pocket suit and insulated cold-weather sets.
Women's hunting clothing
Jacket and pants in the same quiet fleece-lined construction and the same camo patterns as the men's range.
Packs, heated gear & accessories
Camo backpacks including a youth 30 L, heated apparel, and the smaller accessories that round out a kit.
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