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Hunting Closet: How do you Organize Your Hunting clothes and gear?

1.5K views 31 replies 25 participants last post by  Morsey913  
#1 ·
I'm looking to build out a closet to store all my clothes, gear, bows, guns, ammo, etc. Not looking for a fancy room. just trying to build something cost effective with a small footprint. Something like this...
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What do Ya'll have?
 
#2 ·
Welcome to AT from northern Illinois. I store my hunting clothes in ziplock bags and then in totes organized by base layers, mid layers, jackets, and gloves, hats/caps, socks….have these in a closet in a room in my basement. I have another bigger tote for my backpack, safety harness, seat cushion. As for my bows I hang them in my workshop when not using them and have arrows in arrow cases. Nothing as fancy as your picture.
 
#8 ·
I use a small tote for different set ups and they stay stacked in the closet. One for turkey season, one for treestand sits, one for ground hunting, and so on. Works well where you cycle out what tote is on top based on time of year. All the clothes go in 2 bigger totes with 1 being for warm temps and the other cold weather gear. Simple but doesn't look as good as the picture haha
 
#10 ·
What Rapids and this post describes...but larger totes stacked in a storage room in the basement across from my 'man cave' archery room. Organized by camo pattern and season, with a piece of masking tape labeled on the end for easy ID. Pants/bibs on one side, tops on the other with base layers, hats and socks on top. In my archery room there is a closet with a shelf that holds my boots, other non-hunting outdoors clothing and packs on top on the shelf.

During season, I get out the desired tub and hang everything I anticipate needing on hangers or pants hangers. It all goes outside to air out for several hours, then hangs in the basement by the slider. Before a hunt and after a hunt, the recently worn clothing gets rehung outside for a few hours, then into a large duffel with my boots, saddle and such to head to the woods. I put on my outer layers at the vehicle before heading out to the woods. Reverse on the way home and then back outside to air. I launder my base and inner layers much more frequently than my outer layers because I work at keeping them as uncontaminated as possible.

Whatever you build a closet from is going to be the source of odor for your hunting clothing. If it is wood, then your clothing will smell like lumber when you take it out. If in the garage, they will pick up odors like a sponge that potentially make the way in. That is why lid-sealed plastic totes work well in an indoor setting and the tub odor is quickly dispelled by hanging outdoors. If scent is not your concern, you can hang them anywhere you desire...'just hunt the wind'.
 
#15 ·
That is way to nice and small for all my stuff! Looks pretty awesome though.

I have a bunch of hangers in my garage so we do our best to try to hang stuff up there but it becomes a pile of stuff at times. I have myself and 3 kids that hunt so I have a ridiculous amount of gear. I also waterfowl hunt to so I have a 18' boat, floater field decoys.

Clothing when I get around to putting it away goes into a bunch of totes.
 
#16 ·
Thank you all for the idea's! I currently use a few Pelican mobile office foot lockers with clothes in contractor bags. Works pretty good but i'm constantly having to pull them out to find what I need for the hunt. A buddy of mine uses a coat rack that has a dust shield covering the rack that he puts on his porch with some cedar sticks for sent control. Seems I just need to get a few more totes and organize by clothing types and some shelving for the gear. Again, Thank you all. Off to the good ol Home Depot I go.
 
#25 ·
I organize mine by stuffing all my clothes in different duffel bags, then when I want something to wear like tomorrow for turkey hunting, I just dig through a bag until I find something. After a time or two, I pretty much just have to dump the bags out to find something, then stuff it all back in. My hunting stuff just migrates between my turkey vest and hunting packs, until I can’t remember what I did with half my stuff, and have to turn my building upside down to find everything. I gave up on trying to be organized a long time ago. I just can’t do it.
 
#30 ·
All of my hunting clothes get stored in scent safe bags like in deer310sg's pic above. I have one bag for warm weather, one bag for cold weather, and 2 more bags for all the stuff I don't normally use. The bags stack up in the corner of a walk-in closet.

This system works really well. When I travel to hunt, I just need to grab one or 2 bags and throw them in the truck, and I have everything I need.

Bisch