Recommending M65 Jackets
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- Опубліковано 8 вер 2024
- I am a big fan of US M65 field jackets which are very good all weather coats, the inside liner is removable if you want to use it in warm weather or keep it in for cold and wet weather. The jacket has a hood that is zipped under the collar and 4 front pockets.
M65 jackets are either available as surplus or reproductions, quality can vary a lot depending on manufacturer but overall the design is excellent.
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I will never forget the time we lost the truck keys at the pier after a day of deep sea fishing in Jacksonville right before Thanksgiving. My brothers gave me hell for wearing my 80's m65 jacket. I was the only warm one when we all hunkered down in the truck to wait for my grandfather to bring a spare key from 200 miles away. That was a rather cold night on the coast.
I have an Alpha M-65 made in 1967. It’s certainly better quality than most jackets made today. Although it’s over 50 years old, it still looks new except for a little fading. All of the hardware works and I believe it will still work for 50 more years.
Yeah well made M65 jackets are brilliant coats.
I love my '69!
I love M65 field jackets, my father got me one as I was a kid because he bought them as well so I pretty much grew up with that jacket. Still love it today. I really like the big pockets, you can easily put a bottle in it, some gloves or even squeeze a 2 liter Tetra pak in each of the bigger pockets. I wear it pretty much all year, it gets wet in the rain but it never got wet underneath so far.
As far as I know Alpha Industries makes the best version because of the material its made off. Expensive but its a jacket you can wear for a very long time.
Yeah I like them a lot, at some point maybe I will get the classic green one.
I got a black one and often had the olive green one as well, not really good as camo but it looks good. Good M65 jackets are really worth the price
Found one of these in the back of a surplus shop for $40 it is a great jacket that i can wear all year with or without the liner
Wish you covered more history on it, like it's use in 'Nam.
As said used by the US army from around the 1960s onwards, so it was used anywhere the US army was.
I mean like how effective it was in 'Nam during the monsoon seasons and eventually how popular they became after the war. Nice vid though, I have one based on Travis' from Taxi Driver.
Just picked up one of these in OD green with a liner for $25 at my local flea market. It’s the bee’s knees
Cool the OD M65 is the classic.
I wonder what size should I get since I'm relatively short (5'4" to be exact). I was thinking on getting a medium but fear that it will be too big for me.
Dreadrow314 medium would probably be fine length wise, but I would pay more attention to shoulder width and chest size. But it’s never a bad thing to have a little extra room in a surplus jacket
@@Pattern51lover thanks for the advice
Looks very nice, i haven't had a jacket like that for years but in my teens and younger i had many like it, especially the u.k army jackets, by the time i was 16+ i've only worn bomber jackets and my smart crombie style overcoat.
Watched Dead Man's Shoes yesterday and that bloke had a green M65 jacket in it with the liner removed like Rambo and the Terminator, I really like the M65 as it's a very good all around jacket and you can get it in whatever camo or colour you like really.
i have alpha and helikon m65 jacket but prefer and recommend helikon
Cheers for the advice
Good way to improve the hood of the m65 field jacket is to get the m65 parka hood. It will just botton into the back bottons of the collar.
Interesting but I don't really have an issue with the actual hood.
Ah, I see you're a man of culture as well, nice skyrim map behind on the wall mate! :D
The M65 in 2:52-is also known in germany as a Schimanski Jacket, based on a famous TV character.
Also, i got an east german respirator but i cant find the name of it, it looks like a US Acme style mask.
Is it this
www.gasmaskking.com/german-asm
Weaponsandstuff93 Oh thanks, this mask is made for idiots, in good condition and easy to take apart and put together.
I've got a surplus Austrian one and I think It's great. Real rugged feel to it and the darker shade of green is a bit more neutral to me. Got it for £25 and it didn't come with a liner, I do have one for it but I'm considering one of the bundeswehr liners that are floating around
Cool, in theory any of the M65 liners should fit provided that the button holes are in the same place.
I own two, both are the green OG-107 shade. one was made during the late 60s early 70s, and is old and tattered, and my new one is beautifully preserved and was made in 1967, and has aluminum zippers. I love the large pockets, and how you can button a linear in when it’s cold outside. I’ll soon have the 612th Tactical Fighter Squadron patch on the left shoulder and Air force Name tapes on mine, since that was my Grandpa’s unit.
Cool
Wish i bought the M65 in Choc chip camo when i was looking in my surplus but it is now gone
Shame
What was a bit of a surprise for me about this jacket was that its' liner can be used by itself (since on one side it has buttons and on the other it has button holes).
even the helikon that people say it's the best copy, is made in china now, and it's written on the ticket inside. Mine came today, from Poland, from the official site, it's good quality not saying it isn't, but just a warning for those who think they will get the same label as the people that uploaded reviews of their m65 classic nyco from Helikon these past years. The 2021 version has changed labels inside, even the carton that used to have the jackets drawing is different. The jacket seems the same, but that made in china thing is bugging me. We'll see.
Definitely would go for the olive green M65 for my tastes. I like the British army windproof smock, they come in MTP, desert, but I do not like to wear camo patterns. There are copies of this jacket though and the best one I've seen is the Särmä Windproof Smock in green over at varusteleka, but damned expensive.
Is that the water-proof one or just the water-resistant one?
I have the goretex DPM raincoat they made that seems fairly similar as well as the similar Flecktarn variant Germany used, might get a DPM smock at some point though if it is significantly different.
Water resistant.
I prefer the M51 field jackets which are much the same as the M65 but have button cuffs and no built in flimsy hood. The collar on the M51 is also better and you can button in a liner and a proper hood if you want. I do have a 1970s era OD M65 and my advice is if you want a M65 to buy a surplus US military one rather than the fashion or army wannabes ones because the quality is better and they'll last longer.
As I said my tan M65 is a surplus one from somewhere as it has all the NATO numbers in it and no obvious clothing brand label. Does anywhere still make M51 jackets?
If I was to buy a replacement jacket though I'd probably go for something a lot more modern.
Oh yeah, I'd go for a modern jacket over a surplus one too, like a ACU or maybe a MTP smock. Your tan jacket may be surplus but it isn't an American military jacket. The label is wrong for US gear and that NATO number doesn't mean anything either. I'm guessing that it is a Chinese copy, though there is nothing wrong with that. Read the label carefully and you'll see it is a tad sloppy. It still is a good piece of kit nevertheless.
@@HanauMan You're probably, right, except for boots, I don't think the US ever issued any clothing in straight tan. Until the '80s everything was OD green and after the '80s everything came issued in camo pattern or another.
Just the video I needed thank you very much
Cool
I think the website military 1st sells flecktarn m65
Loads of places do.
Hey what about the mk2 one the Canadians had?
have one of these. really bulky and i use it as my winter jacket if i still wanna look some what stylish xD
the hoods not great but if the rain sneaks up on you and its all you got
it feels like the best hood in the world.
Yeah exactly it's a convenience thing
Would you recommend the polish pantera m65?
I’m 6”3 and slim. What size should I go for?
Jacket color arena donde la conseguiste quizá en ebay?
Tengo una jacket color verde olivio del 80 la conseguí por 40 dolares en Mexico Monterrey
Saludos
What are your thoughts on the Czechoslovakian M85 jacket?
I don't have one but they look pretty decent.
For winter, it’s absolutely unbeatable. I’d put it up against the fishtail parka, infact
Best commercial milspec m65's are propper and helikon i think
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Duke of Judea tru spec too
What's the difference between the giant field jackets and the regular ones? Is it just the length or is it supposed to have more room as well?
One is a winter/arctic parka and the other is a "3 season" field jacket
Nice
Thanks
I have a 6 inch phone and it fits perfect in the top pockets , nothing sticks out.
That's good, I wonder if the pocket size varies on different M65 jackets.
Nothing sticks out, thats what she said.
Alpha industries is a good company for reproductions
Helikon tex m65 is better than alpha industries m65
Alpha is a good company for genuine issued ones as well
what about bandit?
@@petarstojanovic3278 brandit is nice bramd but they are not even vlose to alpha, helikon or proper..
It’s a shame I grew out of my old m65 I had the green liner it was very warm.
You could always get a bigger size one.
I doubt i will I use an old Soviet Telogreika out side in the winter and a denim jacket out in public, I might get an old East German officers greatcoat like you have next year.
Yes those are very nice but not great if there is rain.
Do a testing of the PDF gas mask please 🙏
I can't as it's too small for me. But maybe I should for a laugh at some point.
I have a prestien m65 in acu. I have a friend who has two liners and the acu m65 but we don't have hoods. Did they make acu hoods for these? Hopefully I get a liner
No idea about that sorry.
You mean UCP, ACU is the name of the uniform pattern while UCP or Universal Camouflag Pattern is the name of the camo pattern.
@@Riceball01 ACU and UCP mean the same thing to most people while it is technically correct to call it UCP everyone knows what someone means when they say ACU even if they are technically incorrect.
@@Riceball01 i know, most know it as acu.
@@jesses.7107 I know, for some reason confuse ACU with UCP. The easiest way to keep it straight in your head is to remember what the last letter in each stands for. (AC)U for uniform and (UC)P for pattern as in Army Combat Uniform and Universal Camouflage Pattern. While the Army is still using the ACU but in OCP (Scorpion/proto-Multicam) the Air Force has decided to completely ditch their ABUs and have adopted OCP and are, apparently, calling their new uniform OCP, so it's OCP in OCP.
I will disagree with points that you made are pros of m65 jackets and its clones. They may be warm and I don't doubt this, but they are quite heavy in comparison to modern counterparts (like softshell jackets and gore-tex and gore-tex alike membranes) and the material itself will soak water when you are exposed to rain for a long time when you don't put a wax impregnation. And also pocket placment and overall constuction of jacket is outdated, in modern jackets external chest pockets are avoided because they would be uncomfortable when you wear jacket under equimpent, especialy tactical and bulletproof vests. My 6 years experience with Ubranie Ochronne wz128 (model from 2008) with gore-tex membrane copy and ability to zip into it a polar blouse, made me think that this type of jacket are more superior to m65 and its clones because. If you want to discuss about jackets, uniforms or camouflages please respond to my comment.
Have a nice day and also happy and calm Easter.
Obviously a lot of modern jackets can be better, not doubting that, but M65 jackets are great because they don't cost very much in the UK, lots of the modern replacement jackets are £100+
Yeah, the price is important when buying clothes, especially new. But sometimes you got to have a good skill in searching or luck to find new jackets or uniforms in good prices. For example I bought an italian waterproof uniform made from gore-tex clone membrane in vegetato camouflage (woodland variant) for 190PLN which will translate to around 40gbp. But finding this kinds of deals require following military picnics or sitting in front of computer spending hours on ebay and similar sites.
@@radosawbusiak2002 I'd argue that a cheap M65 is more than adequate for every day wear where the cons, like pocket placement, isn't a big deal since most people aren't wearing
body in their day to day lives and most that do are wearing their body armor under their clothes, so once again pocket placement isn't an issue. However, having worn an actual USMC issu M65 during the winter in the high desert, I can tell you that they absolutely suck when it's windy. Without the liner (which isn't standard issue) the wind cuts right through the jacket and summer weight, cotton BDUs don't offer much warmth. With a wooly pully sweater under your cammies with an M65 then you'd be fine, until you go indoors to a heated environment.
The other thing that sucked about the M65 is that, at least in my Marine Reserve unit, weren't standard issue, you had to recquisition one from supply if you wanted one. And because they weren't standard issue not everyone had one, this meant that when in formation on a cold winter's (cold being relative since I did drill in the San Diego area) morning you couldn't wear one unless everyone else had one. Luckily, wearing a wooly pully sweater underneath your cammies was permitted and really helped on those cold mornings.
what size and waistline? thanks!
Started wearing mine in the 70's. Your woodland in the video, looks a bit "lean cut/slim fit and unless it's Rothco, Alpine Industries etc... the folks in the fashion industry have gotten a hold of it and would not be a Mil-Spec jacket. Those jackets suck and cost way too much money.
Do you recommend Mil-Tec M65?
They seem to be pretty good, not got one myself but my other Mil-tec coat is a very good replica/well made etc
Weaponsandstuff93 what about helicon?
Offffffffff topiccccc but have you considered getting into Airsoft YouTubing?
I've said loads of times why I don't really do much airsoft stuff, so I certainly wouldn't do videos on airsoft stuff unless it's gear setups.
Weaponsandstuff93 ack ok I haven't really heard much about it on this channel and was wondering if you were interested I know it's really popular in the UK haha
My main reason is trying to organise to go with people on the few Sunday's it's actually on near me is a nightmare.
Weaponsandstuff93 That's understandable I have the same issue where I am :/, when you actually get a group it's really fun tho and great experience for shtf situations.
This is not a genuine M65 woodland field jacket used by US army.
He stated that in the video
Valla porquería de reportaje, y el chaquetón " M 65 " no es original te recomiendo que quites la trocheria de video