DWD,

no offense taken. However, I do research on ruminants, and can attest that they have very poor eyesight. The camo industry is at best a good farse...it's been well proven that deer see mostly in dichromatic vision, mostly blues and yellows. That fluorscent orange vest we don in the fall looks like a big lemon to deer.

With that said, camoflauge allows us to blend in better, ie. when we move we look like the natural surroundings.

You cannot compare plains hunting with up in a tree, period. A 6ft figure moving with no background does not compare to slight movement up in a tree.That would be similar to determining if a prairie dog sticks his head up with a whitetail in the brush flicking their ear...big difference.

Iwasn't stating that the deer would not have seen the movement. He probably would have. But if the movement wasslight and gradual, it most likely wouldnot have alerted the deer to a foreign body at that distance. As Dave is a seasoned hunter, he chose caution.

I've been in the same situation. You see a monster buck, workingin the distance, with no inclination in your mind he's within shooting range. After not moving for 10 minutes and watching the animal work his way in, watching the rack grow logarithmically in size, you then realize that the beast is within 40 yards and very shootable. Onlyproblem is your bow is either in the holder or on your lap, and when you could have movedis now well past.

So you suck it up and freeze...

But to say at 100 yards you can'treposition your bow and prepare to draw...well, let mejust say if I waited for a deer to go behind a tree everytime Imoved my bow, I would have wasted countless efforts in the past 20 years...

S&R