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Hey all!

This is my first real post so I'm sorry if it's not in the right forum or what have you. I'm looking for good camo for hunting in the BC area wilderness. I don't know any of the lingo or what the price ranges are or where to even buy decent stuff. I'm 6'3, 170 lbs for reference and have been a hiker for a decent amount of time. This is obviously going to be aimed at deer and elk.

Thank you for your time an consideration!
 
Gun or bow hunting? If you're hunting with a gun i would imagine you would be wearing hunter orange for deer/elk. The type of camo you wear doesn't really matter. I've heard deer see blue really well. So i would avoid wearing anything blue, but realistically animals will see movement before anything else.
 
Try camofire dot com when you know what you want. Really good place to buy camo, although I haven't bought any for a while they always had good deals in the past.

Orange not required in BC.
 
Power Pill said:
No orange in BC? How do you keep from shooting each other? lol
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No blaze orange requirement in B.C. or caliber restrictions unless it's for bison.

It's going to depend exactly on what the terrain is you are hunting for the pattern you pick. Honestly I think you're better off picking quality clothing that will keep you warm and dry than you are to pick a camo pattern. I've got lots of unusable came gear that gets soaked as soon as a cloud passes over. Look at Sitka, and kuiu as good brands but don't overlook just plain green, quality hiking gear from companies like arcteryx and outdoor research.
 
Ok well I'm open to that too...i have a really nice shell that is in a lighter green.... I've seen some arcteryx jackets but they shoot for 800.
 
The swirls and patches of colours on almost all camo blend together in the near distance to become one blob of gray, brown or green anyway so it doesn't matter.

Camo hunting gear for big game in my opinion is 85 percent marketing gimmick.


Neutral earth tones are just as good.
 
I do like some of the neutral Earth Tone jackets, but unfortunately I bought my backpack when I was just hiking. It's a really nice osprey backpack, but it is blue. Does anybody know how to dye Fabrics or know of any tutorials or videos on how to do that properly?
 
whatever camo you feel like getting, try it on and move a little to figure out how noisy it is.
I've experienced high end noisy camo and quiet cheap Remington camo.
 
I wear a US woodland camo rain jacket for the coastal areas. Works well with plenty of pockets and durable construction, as well as strong rain resistance in the forests. Further into the Interior, I wear German flecktarn which blends nicely in some of the more arid areas. For pants I just got a pair of OD green hiking pants from Eddie Bauer that are soft and quiet.

Waterfowling, the camouflage is very useful, so I have a Realtree Max-4 UA hoodie that works very well if I'm standing still in the marsh.

With that said, you have to use your hunter's sense:
1) vision (scan for movement, irregular objects - a burnt out stump can be a black bear in a clear cut!)
2) listen carefully not only for your game animal but other critters like Red squirrels who will squack when something is on their turf! (works both ways as it alerts other animals about your presence!)
3) fox walk - tread lightly, pause and have a look/listen, continue.
4) read the wind
 
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I switched from Sitka to first lite. Great quality and most importantly it’s comfortable. What you buy really depends on your style of hunting. If you are sitting in a blind/tree stand or road hunting you’ll be dressed completely different than if your hiking all day in steep, nasty terrain.
 
Power Pill said:
No orange in BC? How do you keep from shooting each other? lol
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This comes up from time to time, I can’t remember the last hunter shot by another hunter in BC. A fellow shot himself a little while back. Recently another guy shot a husky or something thinking it was a wolf. But mistakingly shooting other hunters it’s just not an issue in BC, different hunting culture is my gut feel on it, seasons are long, tags are available, no rush to shoot the first moose you think you might see. Also severe penalties for shooting under mature animals in most horned and antlered species, so you have to know what you’re shooting precisely down to the last point and whether that point is even long enough to count. If you’ve taken five minutes to count tines, or check horn length and confirm you’ve got the right species in front of you it’s really hard to shoot a dude.

My experience on camo as an outfitter/guide in BC is it’s three quarters fashion. I still like it especially for mountain species across bare rock, it does help on stalks there. I’ll take every advantage.
 
Depends on the area you will be hunting, I don't really use anything commercially produced. I dislike real tree camo, it does work though. I have a set of west German camo gortex rain gear, its army Surplus. Full pant with suspenders and a jacket, it is a damn good match in BC forrests. It's light and dry as well as wind proof and is big enough to go over clothes, it's not noisy when walking. I've noticed a recent shipment of it hitting the army surplus stores, pm me and I'll tell you where you can find some, jackets were in the $70-80 range.

I have always preferred army surplus gear, it's meant to be lived in by soldiers and camo patterns are usually pretty much on point when it comes to breaking up your shape visually in the woods. The east and west German patterns are my favourite.

Between the greenery and Oregon grape changing color and dead brown foliage last season if I was sitting still I was very hard to see.
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