I like the optifade but I would have to take out a second mortgage on the house to finance it.

 

How do we know what/how deer really see anyway? just curious

 

I agree completely. Fashion camo is designed to capture the hunter...and his wallet.

 

It's a little more than that. Fit is real important to me, I like clothes that fit archery type movement and don't have flappy sleeves etc.

I really wish Predator would hook up with someone that could provide gear made for Archery hunting, it would sell well I'm sure!!

 

I walked out to a hunting area on the last day of the season here. I noticed a black blob about 100 yards away. This guy stuck out like a turd in a punch bowl, sitting in his climber 25' up a tree. I wasnt even looking at him when I saw him, and the 12 year old kid that was with me asked what that black thing was in the tree. I wont say what he was wearing, but it was one of the more popular patterns that you hear about.
I am not an expert on deer vision, but when you stick out that much, I would think that the deer would see you. They may not know what you are, but they will be extremely cautious of you.

 

As of late, I would love to drop a couple hundred dollars on a couple sets of Predator camo... but I do not have that buried in the coach cushions.

There is a guy that goes hunting on our deer lease. He smells, and not of cover scent. His camo is an old rain jacket, with random colors all over it. Yet, this dude kills deer every year. In fact, he killed the biggest one out of all of us last year, a monster 9-point.

I know of many people that have stories like this. Makes you wonder...

 

There's a lot more to hunting than buying a bunch of junk.

 

what funny is they show you a guy in say Realtree or Mossy oak silouetted againt a light colored background. now if you put that person in a pine tree with a dark background or a huge oak tree wide enough to provide solid back cover they blend in just fine. but they dont want to do that, because that would prove they have no basis for an arguement.

heres the real deal.. if you hunt in a place where your in the branches of a tree and do not have a dark background or a wide enough tree to provide solid back cover, then Asat or some of the branch camos work great. if you hunt in thick timber with lots of big mature trees or in big pines, you darker camos work better.

any hunter will tell you that blending in with what cover you have available is what works best. actually no one camo works best in all situations.

light colored objects show up really well in front of dark backgrounds and dark objects show up really well in front of light backgrounds.

adaptaion to what works in your area is what is needed.

Tony

 

any hunter will tell you that blending in with what cover you have available is what works best. actually no one camo works best in all situations.

No, I wouldn't tell anyone that, cause it ain't true. Short of a ghillie suit, you will be very hard pressed to blend in with any surroundings. That's why it is necessary to break up your outline. Deer do not recognize a small, irregular sized shape, no matter what color it is. And that's what a good camo does. They do, however, recognize the human silhouette, even if it's covered in sticks and leaves. Most camo does not break up the outline, so no matter where you are, you have a big outline, and at a distance, that really sticks out. It's that simple.