RE: Camo. is it a must?
 

The pourpose of camo is to have lots of shapes and shades on you so it breaks up your outline, not to make you the same color as your surroundings.
Since deer do see differently than us, it doesn't matter what color your clothes are but being the same SHADE as your area helps.
This covers small movement sometimes, and makes it harder for deer to pin point you.

It is not required but it does help sometimes.


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RE: Camo. is it a must?
 

A flannel shirt and Levi's worked for many years .I have always got my deer so when I sometimes wear cammo I couldn't tell if it helps or not . When I move at the wrong time ,make noise ,or otherwise goofup even the cammo don't help. It does look sharp in the pictures though. LOL

RE: Camo. is it a must?
 

i want to know where you people can wear a flannel shirt and pair of jeans out in the woods, i know id get hypothermia

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RE: Camo. is it a must?
 

I also agree that movement is the key. I also feel that I need all the advantages that I can have while hunting. I have heard from many hunters that blue jeans are the worst thing you could possible wear. That deer can see that shade better than others???

RE: Camo. is it a must?
 

I'm reviewing a paper right now on deer vision. This work was presented by Dr. Karl Miller (name might ring a bell?!) at the annual meeting of the Southeast Deer Study Group. His group conducted this study back in 1993. You can get a copy online...the title of the paper is "Photopigments of white-tailed deer."

Deer are dichromatic---they can basically see two colors. The findings indicate these colors are blue & yellow (based on the photoreceptive cones within the deer's eye). However, they do not see colors inbetween, just varying intensities. Any colors between blue & yellow, and beyond yellow towards infrared, are mostly seen as shades of black, white & grey.

The biggest finding was the intensity at which deer see short wavelength light (at the U-V end). Deer detect low frequency light about 8 times greater than humans---hence, watch out for those U-V brighteners in detergents. The heightened intensity does not commonly occur in nature.

All of the earth colors are going to appear yellow or gray, and anything on the blue end is going to appear blue. To a deer, blaze orange & red look the same as Mossy Oak---varying degrees of yellow. And a deer's yellow cone is less sensitive than a human's, therefore a deer cannot detect the intensity difference between regular and flourescent orange.

Bottom line and the authors' primary conclusions---just be still and stay away from the U-V brighteners.

That's why wearing blue jeans from a treestand isn't all that unnatural---think about your backdrop from a deer's perspective---a blue sky. Also, staying 15 feet up a tree, about 5 feet above their natural sight of vision, seems to help as they don't really look up unless they either smell or hear something suspicious <img src=icon_smile_wink.gif border=0 align=middle>

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RE: Camo. is it a must?
 

Most of the deer in the B&C record book were taken by hunters wearing blaze orange.

If you break up your human outline such as sitting against a big tree and you dont move, deer cant see you.

RE: Camo. is it a must?
 

Here's the deal:
If you are hunting (as in Bowhunting) then you do need camo clothing!

If you are harvesting (as in hunting with a gun), anything will do!

With a gun you can take the pleasure of killing anything within 200-300 yards... don't tell me that qualifies as 'hunting'!

RE: Camo. is it a must?
 

so, does using an advanced compound bow with all the trimmings qualify as hunting? or only use of a simple bow? or how about rocks and sticks? NO, i've got it, it ain't hunting unless you use your barehands! Give me a break, it is not up to you to define &quot;hunting&quot;.

RE: Camo. is it a must?
 

Wether you or I harvest deer from 20 yrds or 200 yrds. It's hunting!

There are many way of which to hunt, the priciple always remains the same.

KEEP HUNTING THE GREAT OUTDOORS & GOD ALIVE, PASS IT ON!