Camo Selection

[ArmedBear]

It seems to me that, unless you're in an open tree stand, shirts matter more than pants. A broken pattern can disguise motion, to a degree, especially in cover with broken shade, or in the breeze. That might buy you an extra second or two when shouldering a gun, in some situations.

But if you're out walking around, that's hard to disguise. It's hard to argue against brown or olive pants, especially since you can wear them out to dinner the next day and to work on Monday. After washing, of course.

The last camo shirt I bought, I got because it's Trek-Lite tech fabric for hunting in 115 degree heat. The camo didn't cost extra, and I couldn't think of where I'd wear the shirt other than hunting anwyay. I don't much care for hiking until it gets down to about 110.

 

[MCgunner]

I've actually been issued and paid to buy great hunting clothes for the past 22 years. BDU's work rather well in most areas.

When they become unserviceable for duty wear they usually go in the hunting bag for wear. I do like to have different patterns to pick from so I have just a couple of others for wear out here.

I applied for a job about 1 hour from Dallas. Maybe we can shoot some birds if I get up that way. Best!

I got white tyvek suits from the plant and used them goose hunting before, put on to lay out in the rags.

I haven't mapquested it, but I think you're closer to Art in Tucson than in Dallas. ROFL It's a big state. He's out west of Big Bend. Even for me, Dallas is a 7 hour ride.

 

[WuzYoungOnceToo]

ROFL It's a big state. He's out west of Big Bend. Even for me, Dallas is a 7 hour ride.

"The sun has ris', the sun has set...and we ain't out of Texas YET!"

 

[Lennyjoe]

Good point!

 

[Art Eatman]

Well, just run I-20 west and turn left at Monahans. When you get to Ft. Stockton, it's only another 150 miles.

We're not short of elbow room, though, and it's never boring...

, Art

 

[Nathanael_Greene]

Realtree for the symphony, Mossy Oak for the opera, and plain ol' woodland camo for the ballet.

 

[Jim Gwyn]

WuzYoungOnceToo said "I think far too much to-do is made over this camo pattern vs. that camo pattern."

I heartily agree. The questions are:

1) What are you hunting?
2) What is the cover?
3) What season is it?

Unless you're hunting turkeys or people (playing paintball) color isn't terribly important IMO. The things to do are to break up your outline and don't be moving where the prey can see you.

My $ 0.02 worth.

 

[WuzYoungOnceToo]

Realtree for the symphony, Mossy Oak for the opera, and plain ol' woodland camo for the ballet.

Obviously a man of taste and breeding. Of course, the real test is if you can successfully pair an appropriate wine with the raccoon chili.

 

[jrfoxx]

Military surplus woodland camo.cheap, and I suspect more than good enough for my hunting purposes.

 

[MCgunner]

Military surplus woodland camo.cheap, and I suspect more than good enough for my hunting purposes.

Yeah, an I've been wearing a M65 field jacket for over 20 years for hunting ain't ain't worn it out, yet. I think standard military woodlands is good nuf for about anything. The only thing I've found better is 3D. I think all this treebark, realtree, etc, etc stuff is basically just marketing, a way to get rich. I pay no attention to it. I could have gotten my Mossberg in a branded pattern and, guess what, they wanted 50 bucks more for it. I got it in "OEM Mossberg pattern". I really got the camo for its ruggedness and the cool factor, though. I'm not convinced that waterfowling, you need such though I guess it don't hurt. Now, if I hunted turkey a lot, I could see where camo on the gun would be desirable.

 

[Kurt S.]

I'm your typical Texas deer hunter, I usually hunt over a feeder from an enclosed stand. I generally start the season with jeans and a lightweight cotton longsleeve shirt. Towards the end I'm in jeans, a flannel shirt and an M65 in plain OD green. It rarely gets below 30 degrees where my lease is in east Texas.

For the rare occasions when I have to be in a tree stand, I have (what I think is) a set of French tigerstripe pattern BDU's. And a British camo pattern Goretex foul weather set for overwear when it's cold/rainy. I got both of them from Sportman's guide a while back.

For dove hunting, I'm with the khaki's crowd pretty much.

 

[pfrnkln]

Up here in NY - deer season is any camo I can find... on sale - usually...
or my old mil stuff which works great. I must have a whole 3 or 4 pieces of camo....
HOWEVER!! My son is in the military and is getting old dad a brand new set of digital ACU's shortly - cant wait for bow season to try em.

I guess I am to old to worry much about camo as all the years i did early season in jeans and winter in carharts... but now days - it dont hurt to have SOMETHING to break up your human shape - I DO however agree on the face net - I always were one under my trusty old boonie cap.

Happy hunting

 

[redneck2]

The post about washing in Tide and UV brighteners is 100% IMO, at least for deer.

I can distinctly remember four situations where my camo should have hidden me from deer and they still spooked like I had a flashing light on my head. Now I use the scent free soap with no UV brighteners.

If clothing companies didn't come out with the new "perfect" camo pattern every year, how would they sell anything new?

 

[stevelyn]

ASAT=All Season, All Terrain.

I have a few photos of myself where my buds play "Where's Waldo".

http://www.asatcamo.com

 

[roo_ster]

I haven't mapquested it, but I think you're closer to Art in Tucson than in Dallas. ROFL It's a big state. He's out west of Big Bend. Even for me, Dallas is a 7 hour ride.

Yup.

I have business in El Paso/Las Cruces every once in a while. I fly from DFW, while colleagues from Tucson drive into EP/LC.

I have driven down toward Art's neck of the woods a couple times. Takes about as long to get there as it does to get your feet wet in the Atlantic ocean from DFW.

My FIL in Mathis, TX (1 hr north of Corpus Christi) is a 7-8 hour ride.

My dad used to be in logistics and had to explain s-l-o-w-l-y to the corporate types that it made more sense to service Dallas & the rest of eastern Texas from Little Rock, AR, and Chicago than it did to service it from El Paso.

 

[ScottG1911]

I like the new Realtree AP and APG, they cut alot of the dark spots out of it to give a more natural look. Mossy Oak I rather hate due to 75% of it being black, a completely un natural color in the environment

 

[skinewmexico]

I think most camo is too dark, and the pattern is way too small. Unless you're sitting against a tree in a magazine ad. I also think it's odd that many of the major manufacturers recommend not matching the camo pattern on your shirts and pants. And here is my favorite, homegrown camo test and explanation. http://www.whitetail.com/camo1.html