Best Camo?

[mstrophyhunter_21]

Ive got mossy oak camo. Ive never tried any other kind. What kind you use. Oh, and hears a tip. Get or make a Cedar made box to put your camo in and leave it there for a day or two. After you do this when you put your camo on and enter the woods. The deer will never smell you. Give it a try, it works.

[shocktower]

Make bags for this ,and you must be careful not to use aroumatic ceder or spanish cause it will smeel too much

[quigleysharps4570]

Day Desert during muzzleloading season here. Things are turning brown. During Dec. rifle season it's Advantage Wetlands. Anything green is way out of place around here.

[deerslayerky]

I Live in East Kentucky in the mountains i use mossyoak Obsession during early bow season when everything is green And Mossyoak breakup when all the green is gone and everything is browm,gray and black in the wood's these are the best two camo's i have found that work for me ! GOOD HUNTING & GOOD LUCK !!!!!

[Spoon River Valley]

I hunt Central Illinois Spoon River Bottom and use an old tried and true pattern...Skyline Apparition. My wife sews and I came across a full bolt of the stuff a couple years ago and now when my camo gets to be a bit faded...she makes new! Lucky me.

[Jester]

Bushrag ghillie suit. I made this from an old pair of jeans and a sweatshirt, some fish net and odds of fabric from a local store. Get something that blends with your environment. Sew the fish net to the shirt and pants, then rip your fabric into varying length strips and start tying. You can add to it when you get out to your favorite spot with natural objects there. Good luck.

[FUR-BANG]

DEER SKIN

The deer will walk right up to ya and you can just throw a rope around their necks

[Antler3]

DEER SKIN

The deer will walk right up to ya and you can just throw a rope around their necks

yea if your lucky enough to not get shot first !! Good hunting !

[Dcolwill]

I gotta wonder how limited is the average hunter's knowledge of the prey and how gullible are they to the sales people's crap.

If you are hunting deer then they are totally colorblind so it don't matter what shade of green or grey you're wearing. Your family can explain it to the mortician after you've been shot because a huter trying to acquire target on a running deer, didn't notice you directly behind his target.

If you are hunting deer, wear orange.

Deer can see movement so they make orange with limbs all through the material so it does help to break up your shape when you move.

The best camo for deer hunting is to hold perfectlly still. they can't see you until or unless you move.

[T-bird]

My favorite is Mossy Oak Forest Floor -- works really good in the winter woods of MS. I like Mossy Oak Break Up and Realtree Advantage Timber too.

[ole3030]

Deer are colorblind. but Crows aint they see orange - they'll give your position away every time - oh well -- safety first

[carnivore]

30-30 I've got an idea to fool turkeys I know they can see colors, but I had some pretty nice toms walking and feeding under me with all my orange on , so I been thinking that i should throw one of them there orange vest up over a limb and camo up and hunt hard 20 yds. away this spring and bust me one of them dummy toms for thinking everything was OK. wataya say?

[ole3030]

sounds like a plan - I'm still lookin for that multi-million dollar idea that embodies the "perfect" (if there is such a thing) marrige 'tween safety and effective huntin' technique. --

[ole3030]

OOO OOO -- mebbie TRY THIS!!

http://www.deerhuntingchat.com/ptopic402.html

and put some ORANGE on it

[carnivore]

Or pick something from the inflatable line a little more towards the natural red head.lol!!

[ole3030]

I do apologise for turnin this into a joke thread....
sincerely

[carnivore]

your right back to hunting and using any method that works!!

[gamester]

To decide which camo is best, take a picture of where you're hunting and get something to match. I have two different cammos I use. One for treestand and a different one for ground level hunting.

Deer DO see color, they just see it differently than we do. People, as with most animals active in daylight, have even light spectrum sensitivity(trichromatic), colors with heavy yellow (like blaze orange) appear bright and is easily seen from a distance. Blues, greens and browns etc appear dull and drab to us and easily "blend" in the surroundings.
Deer have eyesight of nocturnal animals, lessened sensitivity in the yellow spectrum and hightened sensitivity in the blue spectrum (bichromatic). They see blues, greens and browns as brighter colors and they see yellows, oranges and reds as dull, drab colors that easily blend in surroundings. Deer don't see the many different shades of color that people see. Deer are not actually "color blind", they see color from a different perspective (spectrum).

source...

http://home.adelphia.net/~geffert/deervis.htm

[gamester]

I gotta wonder how limited is the average hunter's knowledge of the prey and how gullible are they to the sales people's crap.

The best camo for deer hunting is to hold perfectlly still. they can't see you until or unless you move.

There's a good point.

Why do most "outfitters" sell such expensive camo outfits made of such NOISY fabric??!?
I had a novis hunter hunting with me this year who had a 200 dollar outfit that made a loud "SWISH" sound every time he thought about moving. OH... but it sure "looked" good
I wear a $50 dollar jumpsuit I got from K-mart that blends in well enough and is virtually silent.

[carnivore]

Your on the right track with that colorspectrum thing best I can tell. one of my brothers drives a champagne colored truck and when we take it down to camp we see deer and turkeys close to the road all the time, another drives a hunter green and we see animals from that truck, but mine is a 2000 dodge and the color is called electric blue and i've seen very few from that truck and the animals that i do see are always hauling a$$ in the opposite direction. I think that blue must scare the heck out of deer and turkeys.

[ole3030]

Your on the right track with that colorspectrum thing best I can tell. one of my brothers drives a champagne colored truck and when we take it down to camp we see deer and turkeys close to the road all the time, another drives a hunter green and we see animals from that truck, but mine is a 2000 dodge and the color is called electric blue and i've seen very few from that truck and the animals that i do see are always hauling a$$ in the opposite direction. I think that blue must scare the heck out of deer and turkeys.

well there's an excuse fer me to go buy a new truck lol - I got a blue Ford

[Fili]

i may be a little late on the subject but i agree with gamester. being quiet, still and patient is the best camo.

oh yea, and sometimes lucky.

[skullbuster]

every time i stop and look at the woods from a shooting distance,all i see is black,especially in higher areas ,also,doesn't most game animals all have brown,whie and black colors on them and they are difficult to see,natures camo.

[bambeklr]

I buy whatever walmart has in xxxL-xxxxL in stock. The only thing I dont buy there is parka's. They sel scent blocker and all now. I did buy some seclusion 3-d conifer this year. I am huntin mainly cutover. All pines shouild work pretty good.

[cynic]

I hunt high. I have found that by hunting higher in the canopy i have a natural cover. I have hunted in everything from shorts and tennis shoes to scentlok from 25-30ft up it doesn't matter

[bambeklr]

I use my climber alot and have been looking for some of that skyline camo that is light colored whotr with branches in it. I get in a climber and go up a lone pine tree on my lease about 40 feet. Nothing but sky up there where I go. Need some different camo I think. It wil come in handy in the afternoons where the deer skyline you.

[Tennessee_deerhunter15]

i use mossy oak obession and mossy oak break up

[Mr.Buck101]

Tell your wife you are going hunting for a week and will not miss her and she will beat you black and blue and that is good camo cheap.

[NYBuckhunter]

I usually use Realtree Advantage Timber. I am slowly replacing what I need to with the Realtree Advantage AP. Im not going to go out and spend a bundle on all new stuff just for a new camo pattern, Ill eventually get it all the same.

[DocHolladay]

I like RealTree, but have used BuckThorn for the past 2 seasons. I am waiting on a new camo company to start manufacture. I am a ProStaffer once it starts getting produced. May have some prototype gear in November at an Illinois hunt I am going on.

[DEERSLAYER07]

I love the new realtree AP. It blends in anywere and everywere.

[truk]

well this may age me, but in my area the camo that i am wearing and rarley get noticed in is treebark superflage, yes its old, but in great shape. yes i do take care when washing it and i do use a uv blocking agent.

[stealthhunter11]

Depends on the kind of hunting you do. If im still hunting or moving very, very slowly through the woods I will ALWAYS go with a ghillie suit which I feel is by far the best camo you can get. If im tracking one (snow) and on the move constantly and moving fast i usually go with mossy-oak and/or army camo. The camo wont really matter when your moving like that anyways.

[WTAILHUNTER]

Ive got mossy oak camo. Ive never tried any other kind. What kind you use. Oh, and hears a tip. Get or make a Cedar made box to put your camo in and leave it there for a day or two. After you do this when you put your camo on and enter the woods. The deer will never smell you. Give it a try, it works.

I would say just make sure what ever your using for scent that smell already exist in the area your hunting.

Same with food...
I have a buddy who puts out apples everywhere he goes even if there isn't an apple tree for miles and guess what he never gets a deer(at least not a mature deer)... I know..I know he doesn't listen to me...lol

I never use a scent and (would not use a food) that is foreign to the area I'm hunting.

[Brow Tine]

I like the real tree pattern and its fairly in expensive on some items of clothing

[WIDeerSlayer]

Camoflauge is probably the most overall looked subject in the ethics of hunting. of course you need the natural colors; like green, brown, etc. but any broken up pattern works just as well as the other, the realtree and mossyoak companies have got everyone thinking their material is better because it's cleaner, and more high priced. Thanks

[WTAILHUNTER]

Camoflauge is probably the most overall looked subject in the ethics of hunting. of course you need the natural colors; like green, brown, etc. but any broken up pattern works just as well as the other, the realtree and mossyoak companies have got everyone thinking their material is better because it's cleaner, and more high priced. Thanks

Yup I can agree with that...

[CamoCop]

Realtree APG

[new hunter]

I get my gear from the ARMY&NAVY store.Cheap, strong and does not fade BDU military clothing.I bought a button shirt,pants,tee shirt,jacket or coat,poncho and hat in woodlands camo for about $65.00