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Thread: To camo or not to camo...That is the Question!!!

  1. #61
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    Re: To camo or not to camo...That is the Question!!!

    I use camo. It obviously helps but isn't required.
    There seems to be this group of folks who attempt to be cool or super hardcore by saying camo is lame. Likely to support their believe that they are so good they don't need camo.

    Camo absolutely helps. Especially if you're hunting in close quarters with an animal. If you're in open country and shooting at distance than I think the choice to not use camo is a much easier one.
    Here in the West Kootenays where a lot of your interactions with animals are within 100-150 yds I'd argue that you need some sort of camo. Even just a shirt. I just got busted by a bull at 25 yds and it wasn't till he saw my white face that he spooked. He still followed my down the mtn in think 2nd growth thinking I was a bull pulling a cow away. That's after being about 8-10yds from me and seeing my movement through a few young pines and firs.

    Extra bonus of camo is that you reduce the usage and extend the life of your gear because you won't wear camo as much around town. I have a few pair of hiking pants prana zions and arcteryx that I used to use for both hunting and around town but now they are so dirty I have to only use them around the house or hunting. If I had a dedicated pair of camo hunting pants previously, I would've resisted the temptation to use my hiking pants and not have ruined them.

    Almost like having work clothes or dress pants and button up shirt. If you wear them to work only, that set up can last you years but if you wear those same clothes both at work and around town/the house then you'll burn through them quicker.

    I see camo as my work clothes and I only use them to hunt and I'll be using them for a long time.

    So I really don't look at the camo debate as a 'is it needed or not'... I put on the camo and it's business time

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    Re: To camo or not to camo...That is the Question!!!

    Quote Originally Posted by dapesche View Post
    I see camo as my work clothes and I only use them to hunt and I'll be using them for a long time.

    So I really don't look at the camo debate as a 'is it needed or not'... I put on the camo and it's business time
    Exactly what I came to say.
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    Re: To camo or not to camo...That is the Question!!!

    No camo for this guy. I get all my hunting clothes from Value Village and look for the green, grey, light brown wool pant bottoms from old school 70's style suits. Super comfortable, quiet, warm, very water resistant and dry quickly. And they only cost $5-$10 bucks per pair.

    I don't think camo is at all necessary to get into bow range, but if it gives you more confidence then fill your boots - whatever it takes to put meat in the freezer.

    Can't stand wearing orange either - don't like to give away my location to others.

    But I will absolutely slap on my orange toque if I've got a set of antlers or a bear hide Protruding from my pack; or if im hunting in really flat open country where there's no timber or hills to absorb any stray bullets
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    Re: To camo or not to camo...That is the Question!!!

    Gortex rain gear made by companies like Arc’teryx is way louder than Sitka’s gear. I finally got camo after years of using my typical field gear for the bush. I’m way more comfortable now and quieter. Mind you, twice I’ve had deer come up to me within 10 m while I was wearing a cruiser vest and hard hat. I stayed completely still and it wasn’t until they winded me that they realized what I was and took off. So camo is not the be all and end all. I do like watching hunters walk by me with no clue that I’m there.

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    Re: To camo or not to camo...That is the Question!!!

    Deer detail vision absolutely sucks. They are functionally blind by human standards. They are really sensitive to motion and have an insanely wide field of vision. I feel very confident not wearing camo and hunting at close range.

    on a side note, I raise sheep that just about have the same vision as deer. Every lambing season I draw the mama ewe into a safe barn by taking her lambs and getting her to follow me. At first I would just hold them in close to my body and the ewe would run around kind of freaked out. She could hear her lamb but not find it no matter how close she was to me. I learned that I had to hold the lamb out at arms length so she could see it’s silhouette in order for her to follow me properly. Their detail vision is truly terrible. Move, make a sound, or get winded and they have the advantage.

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    Re: To camo or not to camo...That is the Question!!!

    I also don’t worry much about the noise made by rain gear. It’s all pretty quiet once it’s raining hard enough for me to bother using it.

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    Re: To camo or not to camo...That is the Question!!!

    I have pictures of my Dad and a bunch of buddies with lots of deer in the days when they used .303's,'94's and 12 gages, scopes? what are they?
    Not one of these gentlemen are wearing camo, some are wearing wool red checker pattern, most are just in their work clothes.

    These days it seems like you can't buy hunting clothing that isn't camo.
    MM

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    Re: To camo or not to camo...That is the Question!!!

    I'm not a camo fan myself but I also don't have a strong opinion against it. Without being a wildlife myself I have no idea if the animals have an advantage over my stanfield or a realtree coat? The camo patterns seem to be doing well for the marketing of the hunting apparel companies. maybe that's what it is more than function. keeping up with the Jones' of the hunting community.
    I know that camo patterns work at hiding things from my eyes [ a guy sitting in the trees dressed up versus the guy sitting in brighter clothing ] but I'm not sure if wildlife views it the same?

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    Re: To camo or not to camo...That is the Question!!!

    Honestly I’ve snuck up on deer wearing my halli Hanson rain gear as if I were invisible. Camo is not the be all end all.

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    Re: To camo or not to camo...That is the Question!!!

    Quote Originally Posted by MOOSE MILK View Post
    I have pictures of my Dad and a bunch of buddies with lots of deer in the days when they used .303's,'94's and 12 gages, scopes? what are they?
    Not one of these gentlemen are wearing camo, some are wearing wool red checker pattern, most are just in their work clothes.

    These days it seems like you can't buy hunting clothing that isn't camo.
    MM

    SEE POSTS # 3 & #35 north of Germansen

    #3-I always wear something red when hunting so I can be seen by other hunters.
    The biggest moose we ever got. I was 6’1” & 200 lbs.
    3 years earlier in 1969 in the same area (see post #35) shot the moose with a .303
    Moose hunting pics! (huntingbc.ca)






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