ScentLok’s Featherweight Long Sleeve Crew arrives in Realtree XT-3
Two-a-days. Every football player who’s ever sweat through an August practice knows the drill – you don’t dress for the game you want, you dress for the heat you’re standing in. Early-season whitetail hunters will soon be living the same reality: it’s 80-plus degrees, the sun’s still high at first light, and the last thing you want is a shirt working against you while you’re hanging stands, checking cameras, or easing into that first sit of the year.
ScentLok built the Featherweight Long Sleeve Crew for exactly that grind, and it’s now available in the brand’s newest camo pattern, Realtree XT-3. “We built the Featherweight Crew for the part of the season nobody glamorizes, those sweaty, bug-bitten scouting trips that happen long before opening day,” said Steve Allie, Director of Marketing for ScentLok.
Built Like Athletic Gear, Because it Basically is
The Featherweight Crew borrows its DNA straight from the training-camp playbook. It’s the lightest shirt ScentLok makes, built from a smooth, breathable polyester that wicks moisture and dries fast — the kind of shirt that doesn’t care whether you’re hauling a climber up a ridge or just knocking out summer chores. Flatlock seams keep it from chafing on long days, and it layers clean under a vest or light jacket once temperatures start easing down.
The Fusix™ Difference At the core of the Featherweight Crew is ScentLok’s Fusix™ technology, a treatment engineered to target odor-causing bacteria at the fiber level rather than masking scent after the fact. Where older scent-control fabrics often stiffened up or lost stretch once treated, Fusix™ was built to hold onto the fabric’s natural give, meaning the shirt still moves like an athletic tee even after it’s been treated to fight bacteria and odor. That matters most in August and September, when a hunter might wear the same shirt through a sweaty scouting hike, a trail-camera check, and a stand-hang all in one trip. Fusix™ is doing quiet work through every one of those miles, keeping the bacteria that cause odor from building up before they ever have a chance to give a hunter’s position away.
The Silver Alloy™ Difference
Layered alongside Fusix™ is ScentLok’s Silver Alloy™ technology, built around a silver salt solution applied directly to the fabric. Silver has long been used in performance apparel for its natural ability to inhibit bacterial growth, and ScentLok’s application is engineered to be dyeable and durable — meaning it’s woven into the fiber itself rather than sprayed on as a surface coating that washes out after a season.
The result is a treatment that keeps working wash after wash, hunt after hunt, for the life of the garment. For hunters who wear the Featherweight Crew from late-summer scouting all the way into archery season, that long-term durability is the difference between a shirt that controls scent on day one and a shirt that still controls scent on day sixty.
“This is the shirt our own team reaches for first once the mercury climbs,” Allie added. “It doesn’t feel like hunting gear until you need it to be.”
Why Realtree XT-3 Matters The Featherweight Crew already had a following among hunters who needed something for the stretch of season before the leaves start turning. Adding it to the Realtree XT-3 lineup gives those hunters a pattern built for exactly that transitional window, green enough to blend into standing foliage, broken up enough to hold together as things start to change.
Featherweight Long Sleeve Crew FEATURES:
- Fusix™ technology helps destroy bacteria and control odor while maintaining a supreme stretch
- Silver Alloy™ technology inhibits bacterial growth for the life of the garment
- Feather-light, breathable polyester designed to prevent overheating
- Moisture-wicking construction keeps hunters cool and dry
- Flatlock seams for chafe-free comfort
COLORS: Mossy Oak Bottomland, Realtree APX, NEW Realtree XT-3 and Loden (solid color)
SIZES: S – 3XL MSRP $69.99