Item: Fleece-lined Camo Hunting Jacket & Pants for Kids and Youth
Rating: 4.5
Author: Greg

New View Kids Camo Hunting Jacket & Pants Review — Real Hunting Clothing, Built at Kid Size

Our Rating

4.5 / 5 ★★★★☆

Current Price

$129.98 USD for the set

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Jacket: Fleece-lined Camo Hunting Jacket for Kids and Youth
Pants: Fleece-lined Camo Hunting Pants for Kids and Youth
Tested size: Large, NV Reeds
Sizes: S, M, L, XL

Pros

It is actual hunting clothing scaled down, not a costume — quilted fleece lining, reinforcement panels, knit storm cuffs and a proper hood, all built the way the adult garments are
Eleven pockets across the set (five in the jacket, six in the pants) — a kid can carry a caller remote, a knife and a snack without a pack
The soft brushed face fabric is genuinely quiet against a chair, a rifle stock and brush, which is what actually matters when a kid fidgets on stand
95% polyester with 5% spandex means the jacket moves when a young shooter mounts a rifle instead of binding across the shoulders
Three camo patterns — NV Tree, NV Leaf and NV Reeds — so you can match the kid to the country rather than taking whatever is in stock
$69.99 jacket and $59.99 pants on sale, and both carry a warranty: 12 months on the jacket, 24 on the pants

Cons

Sizing runs to S–XL with no published measurement chart, so ordering for a growing kid means asking support or sizing up on purpose
The fleece lining makes this a cold-weather set — it is warm for early-season sits, and the brand positions it for spring, fall and winter
The outer fabric is listed on the label but the padding weight is not published, so there is no fill figure to compare against other cold-weather kit

Every hunting family runs into the same wall. You can outfit yourself from a hundred different catalogues, and then you go looking for the same thing in a size that fits an eleven-year-old and the options collapse to a handful of costume-grade camo hoodies with no lining, no pockets worth the name, and a pattern that looks like camouflage from ten feet and like a bedsheet from fifty.

That gap is the reason this review exists. New View Hunting builds a kids’ and youth line that is the same clothing as its adult range, scaled down — fleece-lined, quilted, reinforced, and cut with the pockets a hunter actually uses. The jacket is $69.99 and the pants are $59.99, which puts a complete young hunter’s outfit at $129.98.

We ran the set the way a kid actually uses it: a full afternoon of calling stands on an orchard edge, seated, with an electronic caller out front and a scoped rimfire across the knees. Here is how it held up.

A young hunter in the New View kids camo jacket and pants, hood up, seated in a packable camp chair on an orchard edge with a scoped rifle shouldered — The whole point of the set, in one frame. Jacket, pants and hood in **NV Reeds**, on a real calling stand. Note how little of the kid reads as a person — that is a pattern doing its job at working distance.

At a glance

Jacket$69.99

Pants$59.99

The set$129.98

Shell95% poly / 5% spandex

LiningQuilted fleece

Pockets11 across the set

SizesS–XL

PatternsTree · Leaf · Reeds

Warranty12 / 24 months

A note on the pattern

We ordered NV Tree and the carton that arrived was labelled Reeds, Large — so everything photographed here is NV Reeds, the dried-cattail print. It turned out to be the right accident for the ground we hunted, but check the carton label against your order before you cut the tags off.

In the Box

It arrives in a plain New View Hunting carton, garments bagged individually inside. No frills, and nothing damaged in transit.

The carton. The NEW VIEW HUNTING wordmark and a shipping label, and that is the whole presentation.

The camo jacket sealed in a clear poly bag resting on the open New View Hunting carton — Each garment comes sealed in its own poly bag. The carton label is where the size and pattern are recorded — worth reading.

The bagged camo jacket and pants stacked together on a wooden surface — Jacket and pants together. Bought as a set they cover a young hunter head to ankle for **$129.98**.

The hang tag: two adults and a child walking in, over the line "Keep Listening To Hunters."

Close view of the hang tag artwork showing the child figure walking between two adults carrying gear — Closer. **The child is in the middle of the drawing**, which tells you exactly who the youth line is for and why it exists.

Design and Build

The fabric

An orange and black New View Hunting neck label reading FABRIC 95% Polyester 5% Spandex, LINING 100% Polyester, Made In China, with a size L tab beneath — The label, stated plainly: **95% polyester, 5% spandex** shell over a **100% polyester** lining. The spandex is the detail that matters on a kid.

Close-up of the NV Reeds camo print showing pale broken stalks over a dark brown ground — NV Reeds up close: pale broken stalks over a dark brown ground, printed at a scale that stays busy rather than resolving into blobs at distance.

Five percent spandex sounds like a rounding error and is not. Children mount a rifle badly — elbows high, shoulders hunched, a lot of movement to get behind the scope — and a rigid shell fights that every time. A little stretch means the jacket follows the shoulder instead of pulling across the back, and a young shooter can get the gun up without the coat telling them not to.

The face of the cloth is brushed soft rather than slick. New View calls it a patented super-silent material; what matters in practice is that it does not rasp when it drags across a chair frame, a rifle stock or a branch. On a stand where the kid will fidget, that is the single most valuable property in the garment.

The lining

The inside of the jacket collar showing olive fleece lining against the camo shell — Olive fleece carried right up into the collar, so there is no cold seam against the neck.

Close-up of the olive quilted padded lining inside the jacket body — The body lining is **quilted and padded**, not a single layer of fleece glued in. This is a cold-weather jacket.

This is the part that separates the set from the camo hoodies it competes against. The lining is a padded, quilted fleece carried through the body, the sleeves and the collar — the same construction you would expect on an adult cold-weather jacket, at kid scale. New View does not publish a fill weight, so there is no number to quote, but the loft is real and the garment has genuine warmth to it.

Close-up of the olive zip slider on the camo jacket with a cord pull attached — A one-way zip with a corded pull and a noise-damping tab at the top.

The jacket hem showing camo shell folded over the olive fleece lining with bound stitching — The hem: shell folded over lining and bound, rather than a raw edge with one row of stitching.

The New View Hunting label stitched into the quilted olive lining with the size L tab — Labels stitched into the lining rather than printed on it — they survive the wash.

The camo hunting jacket worn, photographed from behind indoors, showing the hood down and the full back panel — On, from behind. The cut is generous through the body — deliberate, because a kid wears layers under it and grows through it.

The details that get used

An olive reinforcement panel set into the shoulder of the camo jacket — An olive reinforcement panel at the shoulder — where a sling and a rifle butt live.

The olive forearm panel on the jacket sleeve with the ribbed knit storm cuff below it — A matching panel on the forearm, and the ribbed **knit storm cuff** below it. Both are adult-garment details.

The knit cuffs deserve their own mention, because they solve a specifically child-sized problem. Kids’ sleeves ride up. A ribbed cuff that grips the wrist keeps the sleeve where it belongs when a young shooter reaches forward onto a forend, and it keeps cold air out of the sleeve while they do it.

A young hunter's hands on a scoped rifle, the olive knit cuff of the camo jacket sitting neatly at the wrist — The cuff doing its job. The sleeve stays put with the hand extended onto the forend — no bunching at the elbow, no bare wrist.

Close view of the ribbed olive knit cuff closed snugly around a child's wrist — Closed at the wrist. On a cold stand this is the difference between a kid who stays out and a kid who wants to go home.

Across the set there are eleven pockets: five in the jacket, six in the pants. That sounds like a spec-sheet number until you watch a kid use them. A young hunter who can carry their own caller remote, their own knife and their own snack does not need to ask an adult for anything for two hours — and a kid who is not asking is a kid who is sitting still.

The print, at the scale you actually see it

The NV Reeds print across the back of the jacket in daylight showing the full scale of the pattern — The print across the back in daylight. Long pale stalks over dark ground, at a scale that matches real dead grass rather than shrinking into noise.

The camo pattern across the shoulders of the seated young hunter — Across the shoulders. The pattern runs continuously over the seams, which is what stops a garment reading as panels.

The camo jacket sleeve resting against the flat coyote-brown fabric of the camp chair — An accidental control shot: the jacket against the **flat coyote fabric of the chair**. Same colour family, completely different behaviour — one breaks up, one reads as a shape.

The hood and shoulder of the camo jacket against the plain seat back of the camp chair — Hood and shoulder against the seat back. Solid colour is what an animal picks out; broken print is what it slides past.

That pair of frames makes the argument better than any spec sheet could. Both fabrics are roughly the same tan-brown. One of them disappears into dry brush and one of them does not, and the only difference is that one carries a broken pattern.

On the Stand

Wide view of a young hunter seated in a camp chair at the edge of an orchard, small against the dry ground and brush line — Set up on the orchard edge. From here the kid is a shape with no edges — the reed pattern and the low seated posture are doing the work together.

A grass and dirt row running between two lines of orchard bushes — The row we hunted. Dry ground, dead grass and broken shade — exactly the country the Reeds print is drawn for.

We ran the set on a proper stand: caller out front, kid seated and settled, hood up, waiting. A few things came out of it.

The pattern works at the distance that matters. NV Reeds is a broken vertical print with a lot of pale stalk over dark ground, and at forty to eighty yards it does what a hunting pattern is supposed to do — it stops resolving into a person-shaped object.

A tan electronic predator caller sitting on bare dirt and sticks a short distance from the stand — The caller out front. Everything about the afternoon was a real stand rather than a photo session.

Close view of the tan electronic caller with its aerial up, resting on dry dirt and twigs — Aerial up, speaker facing the row. Set it out from the stand so anything coming in is looking away from the kid.

The pockets are the feature nobody photographs. A young hunter running the caller themselves has a job, and a kid with a job sits still.

A young hunter's hand and camo sleeve working the keypad of an electronic predator caller remote over dry ground — Running the remote themselves. This is what the pockets are for.

The caller remote in one hand and the scoped rifle held in the other — Remote in one hand, rifle in the other — and the cuffs keeping both sleeves out of the way.

Over-the-shoulder view of the seated young hunter operating the caller with the rifle across their lap — The whole stand run from the seat, without standing up once.

The hood is the underrated piece. It is generously cut, goes over a cap, and breaks up the head and shoulders — the outline anything downrange reads first. A kid who will not wear a facemask will usually wear a hood, and the hood gets you most of the way there.

The hood of the camo jacket photographed from behind, blending into dry ground and dead vegetation — From behind, against dead ground. The head is the first thing anything picks up.

The seated young hunter from directly behind, hood up, against dry dirt and sparse grass — Straight up the back. Hood, shoulders, ground — three tones of the same thing.

The young hunter sitting very low in the camp chair, mostly hidden against the dry ground — Low and still. Seated cuts the silhouette to a fraction of a standing one.

A wide view across a dry clearing toward an orchard with the seated young hunter small at the edge of frame — Across the clearing. Find the kid. That is the review, really — **this is what $129.98 of correctly specified clothing looks like at range**.

Quiet matters more for a kid than for an adult. An adult can decide to sit still. A ten-year-old on their fourth stand of the day cannot, quite, and what saves the sit is that the fabric does not announce every adjustment. The brushed face on this set is genuinely soft — against the chair, against the stock, against brush.

A young hunter with the scoped rifle shouldered from a seated position, hood up, in the camo suit — Rifle up from seated. The jacket moves with the mount rather than binding across the back — the spandex earning its five percent.

Side-on view of the seated young hunter with the rifle shouldered and the hood up — Side on. Elbow supported, sleeve where it should be, nothing snagging.

View over the hood of the seated young hunter as the scoped rifle is brought to bear — Over the hood, on the shot. The hood does not fight the cheek weld.

The camo sleeve of the jacket with the hand extended onto the rifle forend — The support hand out on the forend, sleeve staying put.

The seated young hunter with the camp chair's mesh side pocket within easy reach of the camo sleeve — Settled, with everything in reach. Nothing on the ground, nothing to hunt for when the stand ends.

One practical note on the chair. The kid is sitting on a packable camp chair through all of this, and that pairing matters more than it sounds — a seated young hunter stays still far longer than a standing or kneeling one, and sits below the skyline while they do it. We reviewed the seat used here separately in our Helikon-Tex Traveler Lightweight Chair review; a light chair and a quiet suit are the two halves of the same problem.

Sizing and Fit

The set runs S, M, L and XL, and New View does not publish a measurement chart alongside the listings. Our Large fitted a young hunter with room to layer under it, which is the right way for kids’ outdoor clothing to run — generous through the body and sleeve so it survives a growth spurt and a fleece underneath.

The practical advice: buy for next season as well as this one. The knit cuffs and the adjustable waistband on the pants take up a lot of the slack a size up would otherwise leave flapping, so sizing generously costs you less here than it would in a fitted garment. If you are between sizes or ordering for a smaller child, email the brand for measurements before you buy — they publish a support address on the hang tag.

Warmth and Season

This is a cold-weather set. The quilted padded lining runs through the body and sleeves, and New View positions the range for spring, fall and cold winter. In practice that means it is excellent from the first frost onward and warm for an early-season afternoon in the sun — worth knowing if your season opens hot.

For late-season sits, deer stands, winter predator calling and cold mornings on the range, it is exactly the right weight, and it is doing that job at a price where you are not agonising over the fact that the kid will outgrow it.

Pros and Cons (the Honest Version)

What it does well. It is genuinely hunting clothing at kid scale — quilted fleece lining, shoulder and forearm reinforcement panels, ribbed knit storm cuffs, a proper hood, a corded one-way zip, and eleven pockets across the set. The brushed shell is quiet in the ways that count, and the five percent spandex means a young shooter can mount a rifle without fighting the coat. Three camo patterns let you match the kid to your country. And at $129.98 for jacket and pants, with 12- and 24-month warranties behind them, it is a serious outfit at a price that survives a growth spurt.

Where to go in with your eyes open. There is no published size chart, so ordering means using judgement or asking support — worth doing before you buy. The fleece lining makes this a cool- and cold-weather set rather than a year-round one. And the padding weight is not published, so there is no fill number to compare against other winter kit. None of these affect how the clothing performs; they are things to know before you order.

Who Should Buy It

Buy the set if you are taking a kid hunting and you are tired of the choice between a novelty camo hoodie and nothing. Buy it if your young hunter sits stands with you in cold weather and needs to be genuinely warm to last the afternoon. Buy it if you want them carrying their own kit — the pockets are the difference between a kid who is participating and a kid who is being supervised.

Buy the jacket on its own if they already have workable trousers; buy the pants on their own if you are replacing the half of the set that wears out first. Bought together, they are a complete outfit.

Final Verdict

The New View kids’ camo hunting jacket and matching pants do something the apparel market mostly does not bother to do: they treat a young hunter as a hunter. The construction is the same thinking as an adult garment — quilted lining, reinforcement where the sling and the forend ride, knit cuffs, a hood cut to break up a head — executed at a size that fits a kid and a price that accepts they will grow out of it.

On a real stand it did the two things that decide whether a young hunter lasts the afternoon: it kept them warm, and it kept them quiet. Everything else on the spec sheet is secondary to that.

If you have been putting off taking a kid out because you could not put them in anything decent, this is the answer, and $129.98 is a fair price for it.

Rating: 4.5/5 Stars

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