Howdy all,

Have to add in a few cents worth of science knowledge here.

First: Deer do not see in black & white. They have dichromatic vision, humans have trichromatic vision. That is, deer have cones that distinguish two types of colors, we have three. Both mammals have rods which work in dim/dark situations.

Second: This equates to deer cones being ~10X more sensitive to short wavelengths (blue/UV), and possessing the ability to see yellow (blue and yellow sensitive cones). Humans have basically blue, green and red cones.

Third: Unlike trichromatic mammals, dichromatic eyes only see the two colors---yellow and blue/UV---plus white/black/grey. The lack of the third type of cone equates to the inability to see the blended colors we see as humans (such as blaze orange).


With that information, now look at the camo patterns and realize that deer see UV brighteners (blue/UV) and varying degrees of yellow (degrees based on various yellows and intensities of brighteners).

Sorry, but ASAT (which I own ) and Skyline get my vote for the deer woods. Turkeys, on the other hand, have more retinal properties than humans, so the more colors I wear the happier I become.

The new RT and the new MO work great for turks, but for deer the various browns and greens just turn to greys which equates into the dreaded " blob effect" we all strive to avoid.

Most of the deer science I noted was taken from a research paper (1993) presented by Dr. Karl Miller, conducted by Murphy, Miller, Marchinton, Deegan, Neitz and Jacobs (" Photopigments of white-tailed deer" ), the turk paper is somewhere buried on my desk (until Spring rolls around )

S&R

Edit: PS> Matt, thanks for the test. I do a little photography, and I can' t think of way to photograph just yellow/blue AND black & white. You would have to combine filters. May be able to take the pictures on digital and then go to Photoshop or Photo Editor and filter out everything else, but the blacks may be distorted and require a paintbrush. Sounds like a bunch of work, but I know you' re good with the ' puter