We used to do alot of hunting down around Leon. Not alot of heavy thickets so to speak, but I did start wearing a belly protector on my boys after my buddies dog ran into a barbed wire and ripped her whole chest open. As they will do, she kept hunting and we never noticed the wound for sometime. Spent the day looking for a Vet to get her sewn back together. After than, like another poster said, if I have brush pants on, so do my babies. My $.02 worth