Hoytail Hunter

Last year before I started wearing ASAT camo I'd get picked out muchmuch easier. And whenever deer picked me out and looked at me, it was game over everytime.

This year, I've killed a doe and 2 bucks, one being a mature buck. All these deer happened to come from a direction I was completely not expecting so they ended up eye to eye with me. The doe looked directly at me when I drew, stared for 5 seconds then dismissed me, and continued on like normal. The smaller buck came from behind me and stopped at 15yds looking at me 8ft in the tree. It stood there for at least 30 seconds then kept on like normal allowing me to arrow him. The mature buck (220 dressed) just appeared out of nowhere, was directly in front of me at 13yds,and looked dead at me 12 feet in the tree. He stared for about10 seconds then cautiously altered his route around me.

The comparison I really want to make is that last year, even yearling does would take off like hell when they saw me. This year, I arrowed a mature buck after he inspected me for 10 seconds. These are the same deer from the same woods. The only thing that changed is my camo.

So what do you think? Is ASAT that good or are my experiences justthat coincidental with not so intelligent deer?

Germ

I have had the same thing happen in 2007. I got busted by a doe, she eyed me up. I drew my bow and shot her.

Hoytail Hunter

See that's why I ask if it's coincidence. You had it happen once last year. I had it happen 3 times this year and in a row at that.

GregH

I found the same to be true with Ultimate Camo. It was like I was invisible to the deer! [:-]

RobinAim Low

ASAT is that good, IMO. It has proven itself to me many times. No camo is majic, but I know for sure ASAT is the best I have used.

Germ

Gregh the differnce is the deer do not even see me in UC I have shot two doe with UC, no issues at all. I have yet to be picked off either. In the right tree UC is Ultimate[8D]

Where ASAT rules IMO is in the open

GregH

That's what I'm getting at. I have no experience with ASAT.

HuntingBry

I had been wearing MOBU earlier this year and as the leaves started changing I started getting busted. I pulled out my ASAT 3d suit and had a buck come 5 yards under my stand without me knowing it, and I still shot him.

I'm a believer that open pattern camos are that good.

kevin1

I had aquired some factory second ASAT last year and tried it out during the late archery seaon here. I was sitting on a stool behind a small fallen cedar, smelling of Deer Dander. I was facing west since it was morning and there was a large bedding area behind me where the returning deer would go after feeding on a nearby ridge. I heard something walking through the leaves behind me, which pretty much had to be a deer, so I waited for the inevitable blow and sprint since the wind was blowing in the deer's favor. To my astonishment the deer approached literally close enough for me to hear it sniff me, it didn't sound alarmed in the least.I figured that the Deer Dander had gotten it's curiosity aroused, and it had walked the 30 yards from the bedding area to see who "the new deer" was. I'm fairly certain that it could see something, it just didn't perceive me to be threatening until I turned to look at it. Once my head turned that young buck snorted and covered that 90' in amazingly short order,and even then it paused at the edge of the cedars to stare in my direction before bolting. LOL

Hoytail Hunter

And right out in the unbostructed open I was with all 3 of these deer. With the doe I just picked a bare trunk tree in the middle of an acorn grove. She had a full open view of me at 30yds and was not alarmed even after I drew. The smaller buck was even closer at half that distance. Worst, or should I say best of all, the mature buck was even closer yet,facing me looking dead at me eye to eye and still allowed me to shoot him!