That's exactly right, Hammy. I'm not worried about the deer picking the strap off.. but years ago, I started noticing that I could visibly pick my stand out through the woods from 100 yards away or more by scanning for that thick, black horizontal stripe against the light-colored oaks I generally hung in.

It dawned on me that if they were that visible to me, they were to others out in the woods, too. I began breaking that "line" up by streaking it with gray primer after that.