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Best Camo

Well a deer is brownish grayish and if they are still you can quickly lose site of therm. So it really doesn't take camo to blend in. Therefore ole Fred was EXACTLY right. I've started hunting with my tan or gray Prana pants because they are so much more comfortable to wear than any hunting pants I've ever worn. I'm going to turkey hunt in them too. I will wear a camo of some sort up top.
 
Rakkin6 said:
That's the key right there, camo will not perfectly conceal you. Camo aids in breaking up the human silhouette it helps if you pick a stand with other things in the background to breakup your silhouette also. Has for me I use Mossy Oak Breakup a lot because that's what Academy Sports carries in their Magellan line. Throw on my old BDU from time to time also which is an underrated pattern or my multicams.
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That's exactly right. Camo is only as good as the person wearing it. As soon as you move the camo becomes moot. It's not meant to conceal movement. It's meant to blend you with the vegetation, and the vegetation isn't walking around.
 
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Predator camo never caught on or was very available but very good large pattern that doesn't just turn into a brown blob at 100 yds.
 
I know I'm bout to be hammered for this but personally I think bottomland is the best and as far as clothing goes I'd say Sitka for warmth. I have both and love both but there is something about that sitka jacket that makes me grab it over my drake. But as far as "camo" goes during gun we look like a freaking highlighter anyway
 
Tweeter said:
I know I'm bout to be hammered for this but personally I think bottomland is the best and as far as clothing goes I'd say Sitka for warmth. I have both and love both but there is something about that sitka jacket that makes me grab it over my drake. But as far as "camo" goes during gun we look like a freaking highlighter anyway
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No hammering from me. There's a whole lot more to high end hunting clothes than the camo print. Buying high quality, durable, warm, quiet, ergonomic, good fitting, well thought purposeful designs is never a bad idea when you consider the time spent wearing it year after year. Sure you could buy cheap overseas sweatshop stuff for less money and if that makes you feel smart then by golly enjoy every short minute you get from it. I personally prefer paying once for quality and never having to do it again. Same concept can be applied to pretty much every aspect of consumer life, not just hunting clothes.
 
I kill most my deer in whatever i wore to work or in my timber bibs and plaid wool lined jackets, turkeys its got to be old school greenleaf and bottom land just because thats how it is😂 i just love the old school mossy patterns i dont think the bird really cares either way😂
 
I don't think camo is that important to hide from deer. Like most said, staying still is best camo - though I can't sit still for nothing. LOL. But, I agree with others - big, wide open patterns with light colors, LIKE ASAT are the best by far. Especially tree stand hunting. If a deer is looking up at you, it's looking at light colored background (the sky). Tight patterns just become a blob at distance. If I wasn't so cheap, I'd buy ASAT. But, I just wear whatever I find at a thrift store or on clearance. Sometimes just regular non-cam clothes. The only real advantage of camo clothes is they make me feel like I'm going hunting! LOL
 
Many years ago, Bowriter (John Sloan) hosted a youth hunt down in Alabama. My son and I were in attendance. After the first afternoon hunt, he gathered all the boys and their fathers in front of a big fireplace. Bowriter began to speak about Deer hunting and the best camo patterns. He asked the boys what color was hardest to see in the woods. A hand shot up and Bowriter called on the boy. The kid yelled out green. Bowriter explained that was a good answer, but green trees were easy to see, so green was not the answer. Another hand shot up. Bowriter asked the boy for his answer. The kid looked around for a second and said black. Bowriter chuckled and said your getting warmer. I saw my sons hand slowly raise. (It was sort of like that scene from the water boy when Bobby Boucher raised his hand and his friend was trying to get him to stop.) Bowriter called on him. With a big smile on his face my son said brown. Bowriter told him he was correct.

Then Bowriter spent the next 20 minutes talking about ASAT camo. When Bowriter was finished, I leaned over to my son and asked him how he knew brown was the answer. He said because everytime we go hunting I can't see the deer until you point at it. So i figured it must be brown.
 
Sooo… my son-in-law laughs at me (and maybe some of you), but I found I like my overpriced Sitka… more for performance of layering but "I" like how it looks. Breaking up your human pattern is important but Fred's right!!! There's only one color that I always avoid on any of my hunting gear and that's Blue which is a color deer can "see"…
 
Had a guy tell me why his fancy Stika jacket was the best pattern a few years ago at deer camp. He was telling me this while putting on a pair of blaze orange bibs over it had to laugh.
 
348Winchester said:
No it's not. There are many companies that offer wool hunting shirts. You can also find them easily on ebay.

I only wear wool clothes for hunting. It can't be beat.
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My entire WV hunting club all used to wear Woolrich coats to hunt in. There were about 12 of us on any given morning that would put on one of these and hit the woods. We looked like an army. Nobody every froze to death, or even complained about getting cold after a rain. Only complaint was how heavy they were. I don't think any of us have worn a "richy" coat in the the last 10 years, favoring coats with newer more breathable, warmer, dryer fabrics. I still have mine and cherish it, but I doubt I ever wear it to hunt in again. Here's my good friend Chase in his about 10 years ago with a nice Cheat Mt buck.

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I've always liked the original mossy oak bottomland For turkey hunting. But for deer hunting I seldom wear camo. Red and black shirt, LLbean green pants. Why would you need camo for deer hunting when you're wearing fluorescent orange. Imo
 
Willysman said:
Why would you need camo for deer hunting when you're wearing fluorescent orange.
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You wouldn't. Nor would you need it when sitting in a blind or shooting house. You wouldn't need it when you're so far away that a deer can't see you, anyway. I've seen several threads showing off bucks that were killed hundreds of yards away. If you're killing a deer that far away you could be wearing an outfit that would make RuPaul envious and it wouldn't make a bit of difference.

Where camo might offer some advantage is for bow hunters who have to be dang near spitting distance from deer before they can shoot it. A bow hunter doesn't just simply control breathing while they pull a trigger from 300yds away. They have to get into position and draw that bow all while the animal is virtually point blank. Many, many times the deer will pick out that movement and look straight at the hunter. If it interprets a human shape or anything it cannot identify then it's gone and so are your chances at a shot. Well chosen camo in that instance can make a notable difference. A buck I shot this year was inside 5 steps of me at one point before I shot it and I was on the ground. He looked straight at me for several seconds to determine I was not a threat, then ignored me. Being statue still, on one knee, having a 4ft diameter oak immediately behind me, and my camo made the difference. I had no cover. The camo and my knelt stance while holding my bow outstretched is all I can figure made me seem like a big lump on the side of a tree or part of a fallen branch. Had I moved a wink he'd have bolted. Had I been standing I think he'd have bolted. Had I looked unnatural in any way he'd have bolted. I'm 110% sure the camo helped. Maybe not the biggest factor but it did factor and in a moment like that, every edge counts.
 
I've always liked Advantage and Advantage Timber for hunting the side of the mountain. Granted that's during late bow/early gun. Late season I like Realtree Hardwoods and I have Sitka for late season. Turkey hunting I've always used Realtree and Mossy Oak Obsession.
 

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