Camo Colors.

[giles]

I think you are right joe. In ohio unless it is late spring to early fall the woods is a pretty brown gray and tan place. Especially if you are hunting on the ground. If you are turkey hunting or early season deer hunting patterns with more greens would make sense.

I find it funny that a lot of the high end camo patterns resemble patterns from the 70's and 80's bow hunter magazines. Just shows that ideas come full circle. The wide band geometric patterns seem to to have a lot of merit in breaking up the human silhouette. I always thought the 90's and 00's realtree and mossy patterns that tried to replicate trees and sticks was an odd way of blending in. In recent years they have really opened up those patterns starting with realtree apg.

I just wear multicam ocp uniforms out here. It is the prefect color for easter WA, marshes and the mountains. The multicam is inexpensive, durable and have well thought out pockets. Even in the evergreen forests multicam blends in pretty well. Evergreen forests are dark and lack undergrowth. Other than moss and lucien eight feet and down is brown.

I also hunt using multi cam, surplus. I sit on the ground for 95% of my hunts and it seems to work just fine. Never found a reason to spend big money on camo unless it was a button up shirt.

 

[bowhunter1023]

You're ugly even in camo.

 

[giles]

You're ugly even in camo.

Have you seen your ears?! Probably hear me typing this...

 

[bowhunter1023]

Have you seen your ears?! Probably hear me typing this...

I've spent 36 years trying to grow into them. Even got fat to try and fill them out. If you look at the men in my family, our ears out pace the growth of everything but random hairs! I'll die with ears longer than my pecker.

 

[giles]

 

[Kempire]

Don't mean to hijack the thread but what do you all think about mixing camo (i.e. realtree pants, mossy oak pattern shirt etc)? Are you head to toe in one pattern or more grab and go?

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[Outdoorsfellar]

I must be loosing it. I looked & looked at those pumkins & didn't realize there was a woman laying there until I read 5Cent's post.

 

[Chass]

Don't mean to hijack the thread but what do you all think about mixing camo (i.e. realtree pants, mossy oak pattern shirt etc)? Are you head to toe in one pattern or more grab and go?

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Mix n match cause camo patterns are really just to please the hunters eyes. Guys have got it done wearing a blue teletubbies costume in the tree. Most important part of clothing is comfort so you're not moving around and getting busted.

 

[Kempire]

wearing a blue teletubbies costume"

Is it sad that my kids have subjected me to that show so many times that my immediate reaction to your comment was "wait...there was no blue one!"

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[Big_Holla]

Missed this thread the first time around. Very interesting on the green factor, never really thought of it other than being in a tree or blind with green leaves around. For me I feel a lot of the camo patterns are too dark or too congested with so much detail that once you get to 20 yards it just looks like a dark blob anyway. I love the Predator patterns, primarily the brown and fall gray. Also have the Vertigo pattern I like for open treestand hunting. Haven't tried the ASAT brand yet though. Maybe I'm wrong but it looks more suitable for ground hunting a bit more than treestand?? As far as your question Kempire on mismatched camo I recall someone in my past saying it's best to do that in case one pattern matches your background better than another and in any case it breaks up the full body silhouette by having two distinct different patterns.

 

[xbowguy]

I must be loosing it. I looked & looked at those pumkins & didn't realize there was a woman laying there until I read 5Cent's post.

Don't shoot the Pumpkins Kevin!

 

[Kempire]

.....I recall someone in my past saying it's best to do that in case one pattern matches your background better than another and in any case it breaks up the full body silhouette by having two distinct different patterns.

That makes a heck of a lot of sense

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[gjs4]

One of the dumbest moves ive made was selling an entire ASAT FL collection a couple years back. That pattern is awesome and does well. Predator is another. Camo has transitioned into pattern selling hunters on blending them in, when the earlier patterns like these did a much better of breaking up the human shape. ASAT and Predator would remain in the hunt if their gear didnt suck.

With regard to color, deer see everything in a different spectrum than us so it is a hard sell, especially with green IMO. Have heard blue is the one they ick up best. White, white which is ideal for breaking the patterns up as mentioned above is most concerning based on how deer react to another raising its tail. Aside from winter, that seems to be an attention grabber. Then again, we haven't touched on UV yet...