Camouflage clothing, yay or nay?
- Thread starter Rhythm & Soul
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Speak for yourself! I can wear whatever I want in my province.
Turkeys do have very good vision. Most birds do.
Deer are not colorblind either. Their eyes are structured differently than ours though. We have 3 different cones in our eyes (the part that deals with color perception), they only have 2, they lack the one that picks up light in the red/orange spectrum. They pick up blues very good though, so avoiding blue clothes is advisable. They have more rods (low light vision), so they have better vision at dusk/dawn than we do.
The biggest thing that'll give you away to deer is smell though. Cover scents are a waste of money IMO. Unless you stop breathing and stick a cork up your arse you'll never beat their nose that way - your breath will always smell like the breath of a predator, and while you can certainly add scents that wont spoke game, you'll never be able to get rid of the bad ones. The only way to beat their nose is by playing the wind.
I wear camo because thats what a lot of my hunting gear is. If I'm going to buy gear specifically for hunting, I see no reason to NOT get the camo stuff. Then again, when its hot like it was last weekend bear hunting, I'll go out in a green t-shirt and some brown shorts or whatever.
Milanczar
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
Camo on a firearm is an excellent way to spend frustrating time looking for it when put down....... 
For animals it is noise, movement and smell with visual detection without movement secondary.
For animals it is noise, movement and smell with visual detection without movement secondary.
Camo on a firearm is an excellent way to spend frustrating time looking for it when put down.......
For animals it is noise, movement and smell with visual detection without movement secondary.
I would say a camo gun has its advantages in the turkey or duck blind. Deer hunting though? I totally agree with your sentiment.
For deer, smell is #1 - you'll never fool their nose. Sound is important too, especially unnatural sounds like Velcro or talking.
fortunately I live in a province that has decided to let hunters decide what they want to wear, and not some nanny province that thinks it needs to prescribe what you can wear while hunting.
So I wear what works, mostly older army gear with lots of pockets as the outer layer and nice warm under layers.
so yes camo is what I wear.
It wasn't always this way, when I was a kid we had to wear red or orange and there was no hunting on Sunday, but we could use handguns
Consider yourself lucky
I have been shot at twice wearing blaze orange
I wore cammo for 20 yrs prior moving here and wasnt shot at once
Hunting from a ground blind during deer season here in
Sask you need to wear blaze hat n jacket, any reason why????
Dumb arsed laws
And you need to remain perfectly still.
A motionless person in drab olive or drab gray is virtually invisible to many species (birds are a major exception), whereas nearly every species on earth can spot even small movements of a person in camo.
Yep.
Learning to sit still, and to move, when you look around, slowly and smoothly, goes a lot longer way to staying unnoticed, than any camo pattern you might spend too much money on.
When I wore camo at all, it was generally Issued Kit, because I had it, it was free, and it got replaced for free if I managed to wreck it.
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When you figure out how to trick their ears and noses you let me know.
This trumps any visible attempt at concealment.
They are surviving in the wild for a reason.
Camo is a marketing strategy for the human eye, not the critters.
This trumps any visible attempt at concealment.
They are surviving in the wild for a reason.
Camo is a marketing strategy for the human eye, not the critters.
When you figure out how to trick their ears and noses you let me know.
Well, you asked, so:
- Remain as quiet as possible (footwear choice has a huge impact here)
- Stay downwind
nowarningshot
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
Mostly, being rather crippled, i go for rather short walks.
Camo is helpful for that.
When driving out for the walk, its important to wear camo, so deer cant see you in the pickup.
Absolutely hate coverall style camo.
More importantly, take your time, watch the noise, walk into the wind. Foot high ears and sensitive noses are no match for us. Going for walks when its windy is golden, too much noise to peg your clumsiness, and the scent is diffused.
Camo is helpful for that.
When driving out for the walk, its important to wear camo, so deer cant see you in the pickup.
Absolutely hate coverall style camo.
More importantly, take your time, watch the noise, walk into the wind. Foot high ears and sensitive noses are no match for us. Going for walks when its windy is golden, too much noise to peg your clumsiness, and the scent is diffused.
