Old Timers and Camo

[Legolas]

If anybody gets a deer this year wearing a powder blue wedding tuxedo with the white ruffled shirt I would like pics! LOL  

[Red Beastmaster]

A few years ago someone on one of the sites did a bit of experimenting with different camo patterns and black & white photos. He stood in ground cover as well as some treestand shots. Some hid the hunter better than others with the big patterns coming out on top.

Then he tried a very loud Hawaiian shirt just for kicks. That shirt was far and away the best camo of the lot!

Fuzzy fabrics like wool or fleece don't reflect light like smooth shiny fabrics. Wear what you got but stick with big patterns and non-reflective fabrics. I would never spend the money for new name brand camo.

Warm weather deer hunting I wear an old Predator Brown jacket and camo jeans. Colder weather I wear an Asbell wool pull over and green wool pants.

[Kingsnake]

Heck---I just saw the title of this thread and checked in to see what qualifies to be called "Old Timer."     :D  

Kingsnake

[Roger Norris]

No camo in this picture except my hat. Asbell wool Timber Ghost plaid, and dull green moleskin pants.

[Roger Norris]

[centaur]

I'm in there, center of the picture, wearing Asbell wool and green wool pants. Commercial camo might work, but so does wool plaid. I'm an old timer, too.

[Charlie Lamb]

never wear plaid!

[Charlie Lamb]

and stripes.... it's tacky!!   :D

I stalked and shot a doe with a blue T-shirt and faded blue jeans, I also had deer spot me hidden in a brush pile when fully camoed.  Turkey, on the hand, can looked right into your wallet to see if you have a turkey tag.

[KSshrewman]

That's funny right there..        

[achigan]

Originally posted by Charlie Lamb:
and stripes.... it's tacky!!    :D  

[ChuckC]

Charlie, but while the deer are pointing and laughing (plaids and stripes), you are drawing down on them. .

ChuckC

[Pointer]

I've had luck with any dull earthy colors...greens and browns. I wear camo too but I don't feel like I absolutely need it. I hunt from the ground all the time...u just have to sit still

[Bladepeek]

I think that picture of Roger Norris is great. No camo, but you really have to look for him to pick him out. If it was a video and he nodded his head, he'd pop right out at you. I still think deer and humans are attracted instantly to movement.

Ever have something catch your eye from the side and then have to really struggle to find a little sparrow that flew into a bush? Or the flip of a deers tail that tells you instantly something is there, but it takes a bit to pick it out from behind some rather open cover?

[LB_hntr]

I own very few camp clothes anymore and almost never where camp. I do have a camp vest I wear to keep my harness shoulder straps out of the way bit that's about it. 99% of the time I hunt in green or kahkis cargo pants and a place shirt.
My wife says I dress nicer to go hunting than I do for anything else...lol

[Echatham]

LB_hntr i don't wear clothes around camp either... sometimes just a vest though.        :p

[TraditionalGuy]

Originally posted by LB_hntr:
I own very few camp clothes anymore and almost never where camp. I do have a camp vest I wear to keep my harness shoulder straps out of the way bit that's about it. 99% of the time I hunt in green or kahkis cargo pants and a place shirt.
My wife says I dress nicer to go hunting than I do for anything else...lol

Remind me not to share a camp with you anytime soon, haha

[LB_hntr]

Lol...dang auto correct on stupid cell phone...lol
Meant CAMO.....lol

[dingas]

In Roger's photo the only way I could find him was to look for the camo cap. It sticks out to me. Both colour and black&white. Centaur's pic I had to look a while...

[NBK]

I too agree that camo is overrated, and you can certainly be very successful without it.
However, playing the devil's advocate I'd point out that virtually every predator in the natural world, i.e. tigers, lions, great white sharks etc. have a coloration considered camouflage for their primary habitat.  I wear both and don't sweat it.