Hey, guys, even in deer season, I go full camo as much as possible...the deer where I hunt are SMART! Today, however, the radios came in handy- five of us went (stalk) hog hunting (and got two!) and one of the guys used his to direct us close enough to where we could hear him "whoop!" We hunt in the Lower Delta of of I-65 here in Mobile/Baldwin Counties and the noise of the Interstate completely covered his .22 long rifle shots. Even 200 yards off the Interstate, I was 30 yards from him & barely heard him shoot several times at another pig. We were using .22s since we're hunting hogs during squirrel/rabbit season & have to use rimfires here in the Management Areas. Needless to say, I would have never known he'd needed help packing those pigs out without the radios today...BTW, one was about 275 lbs. & the other about 200...we had to drag the former, but we could pick the latter up, using saplings.
Yep, I know of guys who hunt in jeans, etc. They do quite well, in some instances. We have to use blaze orange, too, except for turkey season, where stillness & camo RULE! In deer season, I usually get up in my tree stand & stay for hours, moving v-e-r-y slowly to either eat or drink some water. It's fun to have a deer (non-shooter) walk around underneath & not know I'm there. One time, I had seven yearlings walk underneath me & I was only 16' up (had a back injury, couldn't go any further up, so got up high enough to take the orange off). Even in these situations, if I'm hunting with someone else, I don't turn the radio on until I'm back on the ground & hooking up with the ride out.
Burlap, huh? RADIOS GOT GHILLIE SUITS!
Cool idea, though!
Art, I hope I can call turkeys this season as well as you call fox! I just wish I could owl-hoot as good as other folks....Chawbaccer, I see your point- well taken. I just want every advantage I can get, especially when I can take the orange off! If we're 12 feet up a tree/stand, we can take it off & I didn't want anything glinting in the sunlight!
As for animals' sight: I've been told that if you wear clothes that've been washed in regular detergent, deer can see the phosphorus glow and thereby avoid the hunter- is this true? This is why some hunters wash clothes in special soaps, to avoid this possibility; anybody know about the phosphorus deal?
Thanks- an interesting thread!!!!