Anyone else "camo up" for Ontario rifle season - deer?

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Just wondering because I used to be a "traffic cone" a long time ago - full blaze parka, pants and hat. Now it's full camo with exception of the blaze orange vest and hat. For whatever reason, I'm more successful - probably just BS luck.

I picked up a fantastic deal on Browning's Quest line of Gortex - coupled with their Micro-fleece, and some Under-Armour base layer I was weather proof...
 
My jacket is camo because it's hard to find good gortex raingear that's not camo. Otherwise I don't bother, though I do wear neutral colours, dark green wooly pants when it's cold enough. I've had a cow moose walk within 12 feet of me dressed like that, with blaze vest & hat, so I doubt if the camo makes more than a pshycological difference. Most camo patterns are too intricate IMO, and tend to look like a solid block of colour at any distance.

It might be worth your wihle checking your hunting clothes under a black light to see if they glow blue... apparantly deer/elk/moose see UV as a true colour, making the lovely camo pattern kind of redundant.
 
I wash mine with that non-scented stuff from LeBaron...I have a UV flood at home, I'll take a look at it under illumination and see if it glows as much as the blaze orange...
 
stormtrooper1015 said:
Just wondering because I used to be a "traffic cone" a long time ago - full blaze parka, pants and hat. Now it's full camo with exception of the blaze orange vest and hat. For whatever reason, I'm more successful - probably just BS luck.

I picked up a fantastic deal on Browning's Quest line of Gortex - coupled with their Micro-fleece, and some Under-Armour base layer I was weather proof...
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I have yet used camoflauge to hunt big game and have harvested animals every year for 40 years- probably BS luck as well.


Edit: Forgot to mention that I don't ware any blaze orange. Usually I ware earth-tone colours and a red and black checkered coat.
 
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Went into "man-land" after dinner, dug out the camo and the UV flood... Nothing glowed, except for anything blaze orange, which lit the room like a giant sun.
 
If I'm hunting crown land with lots of unknown hunters about, and I'm walking, pushing deer, I'll be the guy in the neon orange overalls. But if I'm on stand, it'll be the legal minimium orange. I've shot some big deer in full orange. Even though deer are not supposed to see orange, I understand they see it as a white or grey, possibly very bright, and that makes every movement you make easier for them to see.

Hunting in Orange makes lack of movement more critical than ever. Try to use soaps with no UV brighteners, and or use a UV killer.
 
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