Home Forums Hunting & Shooting General Big Game Looking like a dark blob- reconsidering my opinion on camo

Oink. Oink. That sucker is a pig 😁

Knee pads are always a good addition in my locale.

Sitka, KUIU, First Lite, have provided me with some excellent hunting gear. Expensive? Yeah, I guess.

But after 30 years of wearing military BDU pants, and coats that soaked up the rain, adding weight to an already difficult hunt.

I was grateful to find newer technology clothing that shed rain, wicked sweat away fast. And being much lighter with tougher fabrics wasn’t a difficult trade up for me.

As far as camo patterns. I mix and match my clothing to the hunt I’m doing. I prefer solids, but if the same clothing is in camo and on sale. I buy it over paying full price for solids.



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That's the only way I wind up with camo as well Beav, if the price is too good to resist.

Same. I'm a sucker for good equipment – clothing included.
I'm just funnin' the fellers that would potentially need psychotherapy if the gaiters didn't match the pants that matched the jacket that matched the hat that matched the gloves.

Laffin…

I rarely match. Oh, the horror.



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By the way, I’m deer hunting right now. I’ve been glassing since before sunrise.

I’ve glassed so much I’m certain I’m gonna be permanently crossed eyed. No Blacktail bucks seen, yet. I did glass up two very nice 5x5 bulls with a spike hanging with them. No cows around them.

It’s rare that I have cell service, since I do in this spot, reading and posting gives my eyes rest from the bins.

Here’s a stock picture of a pair of KUIU Attack Pants my wife bought me as a Christmas gift 2 years ago. I love KUIU Attack pants, in solid colors only.

These pants are beyond fuggly! I refused to wear them until this summer when I started wearing them as work pants on the property. I did make a few trips to the feed store where another customer said, those are interesting looking pants…Interesting isn’t a word I’d use to describe them.



Back to the glass.

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It seems to me like wearing medium-shade earth-tone garments of a mix and match approach works about as well as anything. That and staying still. A brown deer or a fawn/brindle dog can step out in the woods and freeze and I have a hell of a time picking them out until they move again. Same goes for a bobcat. They just disappear. I actually prefer the earth-tone hunting clothes, but most of the stuff that's made how I need it generally comes in camo, so that's what I buy. I do agree that too much of today's camo is rather dark. I'd probably just as soon have outerwear in the old 1940's military olive drab.

JG, that's way better camo, for your area, than this is for mine !!!!!!!

You're wrong. Deer walk right past me in full flo orange when there's snow. It looks white to them. Or at least light gray

They're great around aspen trees or rocky terrain. I buy KUIU for the material more than the pattern though.

Camo is of no consideration. You were moving, then you stopped, that's what spooked 'em.

Fuggly is a matter of opinion I suppose, I have those pants in that pattern and I think they are about the best camo available for a sheep mountain or snow bound territory.

One of our hunting group used to make fun of a buddy for wearing the old olive gray European army surplus wool pants instead of camo. WTH does it matter when you are sitting in a blind or stand not moving? The main reason I buy camo is that most of it comes in water resistant, quiet, and warm fabrics. OD green is hard to spot if it’s not moving.

You can sit in the middle of a new cut hay field in a Santa Suit if you have the wind and don't move and kill Deer. wind and movement will give you away way before what ever your wearing. Rio7

Are you being serious? You only have a single “color” in the background of your picture and your wearing that color from head to toe…you couldn’t get better camo than what you’re wearing. 😉