Camoflauging your stand
 

I am trying to find the best way to camoflauge my treestand. I am going to use a Gorilla Silverback Magnum. The tree I'm going to hunt out of is in the front edge of a clearing that has clover. I have a good back drop of thick forest to break me up but I still feel in the open. Any suggestions on how to better camo up my treestand??

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What i do is...When i cut down the branches for my shooting lane instead of tossing them in the woods i take and weave them through my ladder and put a couple up by the seat, but not too many so they dont get in the way. Hope this helps. Unless thats a climber...in that case ur on your own. lol sorry.

BB90

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I believe Aussie Guy posted a pic of his stand painted with the ASAT camo. If you don't mind could you post it again?

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I clip some branches from either shooting lanes but usually on my way in and pull them up and stick them into the holes on the platform of my climber. Also some on the backside from the cables and maybe on the sides from my back pac. Get creative.:D When I'm finished I leave them up there for next time and replace them when they no longer work or look real.

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I bought a spray can each of forrest green, flat black & brown primer. Painted the whole thing with the primer, then put a bunch of green on it & hit it with the black. I think it came out well & none of the deer laughed at me. I'v used grey primer in place of the green before & it worked well especially on ladders.

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I believe ther was a Viper X4 on here not too long ago and he had it all painted up with Olive Drab,brown,Tan andBlack camo pattern's .Maybe he'll read this and step in ,I believe he was using a Krylon paint that he picked up in Walmart. I'm thinking about doing the same on my new ViperX4 as well this summer.

nubo

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I'm going to try something for my ground blind, after this past christmas i went out and found some imitation christmas trees,that i'll assemble on branches and surround my ground blind. I hope this will look very natural. Rich

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I think you may have been talking about me.;)

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Hey Muzz that looks terrific.......transfers much better than trying to do ASAT on a stand.
I have the rest of mine done in a sort of hodgepodge shadow style with a lot of contrast, but yours looks reaaly good with that Predator high contrast look. Any sort fo foliage at all added there and that'd be tough to see.

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I always paint/repaint our stands, ladders, climbing sticks and
other accessories every summer. I've used various 'flat'
spray paints with good success, but prefer the 'textured paints
used on outdoor furniture. Main colors are black, dark brown,
grey and a couple of shades of green.

I also use synthetic leaves/limbs on all of our setups that are
in the 'open' and/or are on trees that drop their leaves early.
I use camo duct tape to tape them to the stand and on the
tree. This has really helped some of our setups.

It's a lot of work painting 25+ stands, 18 ladders, 5 sets of Lone
Wolf climbing sticks, and all the padlocks & chains, however I
definitely think it's worth the extra effort.

I'm not sure how much the 'camo' paint helps with the deer, but
it sure makes are stands and ladders tough to see with humans!;)







If you look closely, you can see the chains for our Chippewa
treestands hanging on the fence...I even paint them.


This is the stand I shot my buck out of this past fall. This picture was
taken last March after I "prepped" the tree. It was a locust tree and
I knew I could get "skylined" pretty easily, because leaf drop would
occur early and the several deer runs I was covering were all below
me (I always take pictures when preparing trees so I know how it will
look from where the deer are standing). I decided to put up a few
fake branches when I hung the stand in August....the rest is history:).


This is how everything looked this fall.

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I paint all my stands in a "Predator camo" pattern. I paint it all light grey and then put black and brown branch type streaks. ( it sounds funny but the key is the light grey) Then I buy "Sneeky Leaf" fake leaves and put 6 to 10 on it. My stands are 18 to 22 ft up and you DON'T NOTICE THEM AT ALL....there very hard to see!

Good Luck!

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I mentioned how important light grey was.....look at the photo above my first post.......picture some light grey streaks and spots.......it totally turns into the sky!

Later!

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I spray my stand with a camo that matches the terrain. I then use limbs I cut while clearing my shooting lanes and use the bungie cords that hold the climber in place when packing to hold the foliage under the stand for added cover.

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i like to use the dollar store 15 foot roll of pine garland. its easy to break up into small sections to wrap around the different parts of a tree stand. i also love to cover my ladder stands like 80% with flat tan spray paint. it vanishes in the woods. just pick up a branch and spray through it onto the stand. use several different sizes to add variety. i will never use green brown or much black again. charcoal gray maybe. if you put the stand up early in the season the game will get use to it camo or not. if you sit still with 3-d leafy camo on youll be in good shape. even when they look right at you as long as you dont move and they dont smell you you should be o.k.knowing when to draw when they are close and not looking or head down is what seperates the boys from the men and filling the freezer;)

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Muzzyman ! Yes I was talking about you .but I wasn't 100% sure ,but I knew once you read this you'd reply .I'm going to try exactly what you've done with your stand because it look's excellent ,so if you have any tip's for me I'd appreciate it if you could ,such as sanding ,screening and painting .I want to know exactly what you did to prep your stand .Please e-mail me .

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Two Beard's your stand's look pretty awsome as well ,pretty hard to see in the tree's .

nubo

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One thing you could try is Camo Clad. I have not tried it myself but I am going to try it on my stand this year.

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All your stands look great. How long does it take to do a complete paint job with the fine details such as muzzy's?