Originally Posted by
Muley Hunter
Sabot..That's no proof. Those animals could have never seen you or your gun.
I don't even know how game see silver. You all probably don't either. It might be fine, and it might not.
Until I know for sure. I'd rather not use it.
I'm picky that way.
But that is the point... the gun is the least of your worrys as most often its image is broken up by what the animal has to look through to see you.
Even out in the open, if the animal had a good view of you the gun would be the least of the give aways... A brightle blued barrel is more reflective than the new stainless barrels.
Silver to a deer is going to appear as a light washed shade of grey. The silver color will be in the wave length area of 450 and that should show up as a shade of grey and then add in brush, branches, sun and shade and the whole thing becomes broken up...
And the bottom picture of the buck saw every thing coming... I was in the open he was 70 yards away - he watched me raise the rifle (slowly) and i am sure he saw the smoke out of the barrel... He never twitched until he fell....