Camo upgrade.what ya think?

[Cajun Blake]

check your clothes for UV brighteners , and research the subject matter on the www

[Burnadell]

Suit yourself (no pun intended) about the camo, but, like others, I do not believe it was the camo. Sometimes it just seems that deer have an unreal ability to sense something is wrong and vamoose. Chuck Adams hunted in jeans and plaid shirts and eschewed the need for camo...until he started getting paid to wear camo.

[Burnadell]

check your clothes for UV brighteners , and research the subject matter on the www

Blake, I have to admit I am skeptical about how anyone knows what a deer sees and believe those pics are manufactured by the camp manufacturers that don't use the UV brighteners. Marketing 201.

[zztex]

Blake, I have to admit I am skeptical about how anyone knows what a deer sees and believe those pics are manufactured by the camp manufacturers that don't use the UV brighteners. Marketing 201.

This

[Redbeard31]

Try a leafy suit.

[DapperDan]

check your clothes for UV brighteners , and research the subject matter on the www

Pretty much what my camo looks like on a night pic from my game cam... except brighter.


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[Cajun shooter]

Man, 20’ - 25’ up, down wind, plenty of back ground, no movement, only my eyes not covered.... what the hell else could it be? Had another guy wearing different camo and had the same thing happen. Except she only spent a few seconds looking at him and went back to eating.


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Look, I was on the back side of the trunk of about a 6' diameter tree, up in the branches, perfectly still and she was literally behind a bunch of yaupon on the other side of a creek.

I was completely covered from head to toe in Scent Lok camo, face mask (only eyes showing, gloves everything and she freaking looked up and started blowing. The wind was 90 degrees to us, blowing right between us. [emoji15]


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[Cajun Blake]

Blake, I have to admit I am skeptical about how anyone knows what a deer sees and believe those pics are manufactured by the camp manufacturers that don't use the UV brighteners. Marketing 201.

This

interesting reads ...https://www.huntingnet.com/articles/...ion-story.html

.... "The testing revealed that deer are basically color blind as we describe it humans. They can’t see red or green. They had two sensitive areas when it comes to color. One was at 537 nanometers or Yellow and one in the short wave length…at the left edge of human vision, at 455 nanometers. This describes the color Blue. They see only Yellow and Blue .... "


http://www.kokomotribune.com/sports/...7ec3bbb05.html

...." Humans possess what is called tri-chromatic color vision, meaning our eyes contain three types of photo pigments. This enables us to see short, moderate and long wavelengths of light, corresponding to blue, green and red colors.

The eyes of whitetail deer contain only two types of photo pigments, giving them dichromatic color vision. Scientists believe deer can primarily see short wavelength blue light and moderate wavelength light perceived as something between red and green. So the hunter orange they see may actually appear to be gray or brown..... "

[Cajun shooter]

Suit yourself (no pun intended) about the camo, but, like others, I do not believe it was the camo. Sometimes it just seems that deer have an unreal ability to sense something is wrong and vamoose. Chuck Adams hunted in jeans and plaid shirts and eschewed the need for camo...until he started getting paid to wear camo.

There's several old time very experience hunters that poo poo the whole idea of camo (Dr Robert Sheppard wrote the book "Whitetails". I'm beginning to lean in their favor.


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[Drycreek3189]

Blake, I have to admit I am skeptical about how anyone knows what a deer sees and believe those pics are manufactured by the camp manufacturers that don't use the UV brighteners. Marketing 201.

I'm in this camp ! Researchers think they know what a deer sees, but only a deer knows what he sees. Notice my post put UV glare in quotes. I still don't believe camo patterns mean squat to mammals, at least not nearly as much as they mean to waterfowl.

The thing about deer hunting is, you don't know where those deer are when you're hanging those lock ons or putting up that ladder. They know their woods intimately, it's their house. You are an intruder. No matter how stealthy you think you are, you are still an intruder. Hell, it's a wonder we ever bowkill a deer if you think about it. Lots of things have to come together to kill a deer within, say, 30 yds. Some skill, some knowledge, some plain old luck. Sometimes that luck is bad.

Rereading my post I should add that I've tried and used many different brands and patterns of camo, I use the scent free detergent, and the crap that removes uv glare, scent killing sprays, Ozonics, Nose Jammer, Scent Thief, etc., ad nauseum. I'm a damm hypocrite !

(But I still don't believe your camo was the culprit)

[DapperDan]

interesting reads ...https://www.huntingnet.com/articles/...ion-story.html

http://www.kokomotribune.com/sports/martino-researchers-offer-insight-on-whitetail-deer-s-vision/article_36e605f0-b5e4-11e7-a45b-8797ec3bbb05.html

.... "The testing revealed that deer are basically color blind as we describe it humans. They can’t see red or green. They had two sensitive areas when it comes to color. One was at 537 nanometers or Yellow and one in the short wave length…at the left edge of human vision, at 455 nanometers. This describes the color Blue. They see only Yellow and Blue .... "

Makes sense. Getting the black light out when I get home.... lol. Fiancé will be confused though. I’m usually taking clothes off with the black light, not putting them on...[emoji23][emoji23][emoji849]


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[Cajun Blake]

Makes sense. Getting the black light out when I get home.... lol. Fiancé will be confused though. I’m usually taking clothes off with the black light, not putting them on...[emoji23][emoji23][emoji849]


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as others have mentioned, it's not your camouflage clothing, to many other variables: scent from boots, clothes, hair, tobacco products, deodorant, whiskey breath, etc.... , silhouette outline, UV ???, etc....

FWIW, Fred Bear and our forefathers hunted in red/grey flannel shirts and killed boatloads of animals.

[Landrover]

interesting reads ...https://www.huntingnet.com/articles/...ion-story.html

.... "The testing revealed that deer are basically color blind as we describe it humans. They can’t see red or green. They had two sensitive areas when it comes to color. One was at 537 nanometers or Yellow and one in the short wave length…at the left edge of human vision, at 455 nanometers. This describes the color Blue. They see only Yellow and Blue .... "


http://www.kokomotribune.com/sports/...7ec3bbb05.html

...." Humans possess what is called tri-chromatic color vision, meaning our eyes contain three types of photo pigments. This enables us to see short, moderate and long wavelengths of light, corresponding to blue, green and red colors.

The eyes of whitetail deer contain only two types of photo pigments, giving them dichromatic color vision. Scientists believe deer can primarily see short wavelength blue light and moderate wavelength light perceived as something between red and green. So the hunter orange they see may actually appear to be gray or brown..... "

This is what I understand to be correct also.

[WCB]

Movement and scent are what kill us. And things out of place.

I’ve seen my heavy fleece coat in a game cam pic and it was blinding. Have been wearing it and deer never saw me. So...

And I wear ScentLoc in Realtree cause I look good in it.

[Hunterlo70]

Harvesting deer gas been a part of tradition way before camo was even invented but, if you're looking for recommendation, I do like the g-force outdoors stuff.