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No. The real lesson is not to point your gun at something you can't identify. Call names all you want, I'm good with it.

I feel the same about the technology & comfort/fitment.
Thankfully some of the companies (KUIU and FirstLite) offer solids. I guess Sitka does as well but not to the extent as the other two.

I didn’t use my gun/scope to identify
I thought it was deer moving through the timber and drew.
I know it’s hard to comprehend

"Drew" as in drew your bow? You said crosshairs and rifle so I suspect you're referring to "drawing" your rifle, which sounds very movie like. Either way, blaming a person's admittedly dumb attire choices for you having their "head in your crosshairs" is Biden level dumb and 100% on you. 100%.

I wear mostly neutral solids but I also have camo. When I factor in wind, noise, movement and eye contact I am not sure I see a difference in how successful I am at stalking close wearing camo or solids. I think it’s funny when you read an article or hear someone say “deer don’t see… (this color or that).” and then extrapolate that if they wear that color, somehow they will be invisible to the deer. Hilarious. I am severely colorblind, in fact I have an unusual type of color blindness and on top of that my mind interprets colors differently depending on the background they are up against. However, when I don’t “see a color” the object is not invisible or even without color, it’s just not being seen at the same wavelength someone else is seeing it. I can pick game out the brush like it’s no ones business. I’d be cautious about “knowing” what a deer sees and doesn’t see.
What I do like about camo is not being seen by people at certain times of the hunt. I am walking in or out of an area or someone glasses the hill you are on only to come up and talk to you.
It’s amazing how unaware many hunters are. I’ve sat on a hill and watched hunters push deer 250-300 yards ahead of them even with the wind in their favor, just from walking.

No it is very easy to comprehend. You actually couldn't identify what was coming through the wood, but pointed your gun at it anyway. Every year people get shot because someone "thought it was a deer". You are wrong, but can't admit it.

Hind sight is always 20/20. Can’t take it back and won’t apologize for it .
Real world situations happen fast , and internets perfect Hunter ethics worriers have never done anything wrong in the field.

Yep. Never done that. Nor would I blame the potential victim if I did.

Olive or brown for me.

LOL.

I do remember reading a study that Deer & Deer Hunting magazine did about which color spectrum deer see most vividly and it was the blue violet end of the color wheel. The blues are on one end of the spectrum and the reds are on the other as far as wave length. I'll still wear a camo breakup pattern given the choice, but my deer tend to see movement before they spook due to a color choice. One of my biggest bow bucks came one day during the peak of the rut when I'd forgotten my camo coveralls and I was sitting on the ground in a red plaid shirt and blue jeans.

Dang. A bunch of elk and deer have seen my OD GREEN wool milsurp pants and dark GREEN down parka. I must mesmerize them as they'll stand there totally ignoring me until I do something dumb like moving at the wrong time. Then they look at me and wander off into the brush.
Who's Cohen? Is he a Jew who owns a camo clothing store or something?

Bradley Cohen, the lead researcher in a 2014 University of Georgia (UGA) study, calls whitetails an “anti-predation machine.” For starters, their eyeballs are positioned in their head to provide 300- to 310-degree views of their surroundings, including about 65 degrees of binocular vision to the front. The only area they can’t see is the 50- to 60-degree cone behind them. And because they easily detect the slightest motions within their huge visual side-to-side arc, the whitetail’s eyes are more than a backup safety system.

Further, the whitetail’s eyes are most sensitive to colors in the blue-spectrum – the light that’s most available at dusk and dawn when they’re most active.

Man, I try to avoid camo, mostly. That being said I do own some Sitka Gear, and believe it's pretty high-quality stuff and a fair price when you find it on sale. Much of the latest technical hunting clothes only come in garish camo patterns.

Speaking of trying to look stylish while deer hunting, do these gray and orange gaiters clash with my navy blue jogging shorts?

Those gaiters should keep the chiggers from your ankles, but man do I pity your balls.

Dude, watch how and when you quote people.

I am insulted.
I am OFFENDED!

Your inner Jeffo O coming out? Laffin’.

Elk never seemed to mind my blue plaid wool shirt . . . maybe they thought I was a vertical pond. Always understood the wind and motion much more important than color or pattern.

I drink camo beer during hunting season. Seems to work fine.

Good ole busch ice drink all day and still function.