A trick that I failed to mention earlier with the pop up is to break up the outline with "native" brush and limbs. Here in alabama we have a lot of ever greens like pine, cedar and others and once I set the pop up up I gather some branches and lay them on the top. I also will get some longer ones and stand them up at the corners. This seems to make it a little less noticeable to the deer.
By the way. Deer are color blind in that they see colors differently than do humans. It has been proven that the camo that is hardest to see for a deer is the blaze orange, grey and black stuff. I saw pictures once of different camos laid over patches of brush in natural color as compared to the color spectrum that deer have and it was amazing. Most comercial camos are strickly for "people" looks and stand out like a sore thumb to animals. EVen the human eye can assatain that very few of the modern day camos even contain the more natural colors of the forest. When one looks out through the forest one sees a distinct change from the forest floor,( which is more the color of the old "brown" work coveralls) and the tree portion (which is more the color of the ole original pine bark grey and black camo.) Neither of these are very pretty to the human eye so modern camos do not use them. PRETTY SALES!
I think for hunting from a tree stand you are much better off wearing the old grey and black random square patterns found in earlier camos. From shooting houses and pop ups wear your tux, they will never know the difference.
By the way. Deer are color blind in that they see colors differently than do humans. It has been proven that the camo that is hardest to see for a deer is the blaze orange, grey and black stuff. I saw pictures once of different camos laid over patches of brush in natural color as compared to the color spectrum that deer have and it was amazing. Most comercial camos are strickly for "people" looks and stand out like a sore thumb to animals. EVen the human eye can assatain that very few of the modern day camos even contain the more natural colors of the forest. When one looks out through the forest one sees a distinct change from the forest floor,( which is more the color of the old "brown" work coveralls) and the tree portion (which is more the color of the ole original pine bark grey and black camo.) Neither of these are very pretty to the human eye so modern camos do not use them. PRETTY SALES!
I think for hunting from a tree stand you are much better off wearing the old grey and black random square patterns found in earlier camos. From shooting houses and pop ups wear your tux, they will never know the difference.