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Old 01-08-2009 | 07:04 PM
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Default RE: How a deer sees Contrasting shades

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Anyone else have any insight on this topic?

Shane
I don't know if you'd call it insight. Maybe just an opinion of sorts. I think you really need to qualify things by stating in what situations certain camos will be used.

For instance, on the ground I think you could use almost any of these high fallutin camos put out by RealTree and others. Just try to match the natural surroundings as best you can.

When treestand hunting it's different. I don't think you need to worry about matching camo to a particular tree or bark pattern/coloring. To do so would be assuming that a deer is looking at you face on all the time with the tree directly behind you, which probably is not the case all the time. How many people actually take the time to look up at their treestand from several different angles and see what it looks like up there? Through the branches and leaves the sky comes through as one of those background colors and it's fairly light. Much lighter than that tree, and kind of splotchy too. To that end I personally think that Predator Fall Grey can work very well as a treestand camo as well as ASAT. The reason I like Predator is that it really has no pattern. Just random splotches.

Now later seasons when the leaves have dropped I think Fall Grey is good too, but I do wonder just how good some sort of snow camo would be. Maybe have somebody wander around your tree taking black and white pictures from different angles and distances would provide more insight.
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