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Re: Camo
[Re: spacejunkie]
#8517376
01/30/22 05:30 PM
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Joined: Nov 2009
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jskin
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Seldom wear it. Not gonna get camo’d up to sit in a box blind. If I was hoofing it I probably would. Haven’t bought any in years!
"While we are postponing, life speeds by"
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Re: Camo
[Re: Reloder28]
#8517385
01/30/22 05:42 PM
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LeonCarr
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I prefer camo while hunting. Do I think it necessary, absolutely not. I just like it. Same here...some of the most "deer-killingest" people I know are the plaid flannel/blue jeans/brown coverall types.
"Whitetail Deer are extinct because of rifles with telescopes mounted on them." - My 11th Grade English Teacher
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Re: Camo
[Re: spacejunkie]
#8517547
01/30/22 10:00 PM
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Joined: Aug 2006
Posts: 11,657
colt45-90
Texas colt45
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Texas colt45
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my grand dad wore red plaid shirt under overall's
hold on Newt, we got a runaway
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Re: Camo
[Re: Biscuit]
#8517670
01/31/22 12:01 AM
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Joined: Oct 2004
Posts: 22,483
Superduty
"The Regulator"
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"The Regulator"
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'It's Only Treason if You Lose."
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Re: Camo
[Re: spacejunkie]
#8517678
01/31/22 12:07 AM
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txtrophy85
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I wonder how many people here who don’t wear camo strictly are whitetail only hunters out of a box blind?
For it is not the quarry that we truly seek, but the adventure.
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Re: Camo
[Re: txtrophy85]
#8517687
01/31/22 12:22 AM
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Joined: Feb 2010
Posts: 11,658
GusWayne
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I wonder how many people here who don’t wear camo strictly are whitetail only hunters out of a box blind?
All of them
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Re: Camo
[Re: spacejunkie]
#8517693
01/31/22 12:27 AM
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Joined: Dec 2012
Posts: 11,941
Simple Searcher
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In my younger years I wore camo anytime I was hunting, whether I needed camo or not. As it wore out or shrunk I did not replace much of it. I still wear it, but more when I need to now.
"Man is still a hunter, still a simple searcher after meat..." Robert C. Ruark
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Re: Camo
[Re: spacejunkie]
#8517903
01/31/22 11:42 AM
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Posts: 913
BigfootWallace
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No camo here. I'm not sitting either, I usually try and walk at least a mile or two everyday in the the woods looking for hogs. Beats going to the gym for exercise. I'm not about to go change into camo to do that.
I see the high dollar camo around that is "cool" now and 99% of the time it's some weekender from Dallas wearing it. No thanks
Last edited by BigfootWallace; 01/31/22 11:59 AM.
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Re: Camo
[Re: spacejunkie]
#8517915
01/31/22 12:19 PM
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Joined: Jul 2014
Posts: 6,380
onlysmith&wesson
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I always have, and still do wear camo 100% when hunting. I divide my time between a blind, spot and stalk and still hunting from the ground, usually prone. I can't say not wearing it wouldn't work, I wouldn't know. I know wearing it works. I park a long way, maybe a mile sometimes. I see that slow walk along the edge of the dirt road I park on as a spot and stalk opportunity. For hogs, you bet. Just last week in full camo, broad daylight along a gravel creek bank I walked the bank with the brush behind me. I see the hogs, they're looking right at me, maybe 25 yards, they don't know what I am, boom, dropped two, hit another.
Here's one, a few years ago I posted this hunt. I'd killed a buck, on the river. Wide open sandy river bed, probably 80-100 yards wide with zero cover. I was in full camo from laying prone in the weeds on the bank. I'm on my knees working on this buck, cutting towards the pelvic bone. I could not believe this big group of hogs, in the middle of the river bed, coming right me. My rifle was next to me on a bipod, I let them get maybe 40 yards before I shot one. I'm convinced they smelled the kill, didn't have a clue what I was and because I wasn't standing and in full camo they would have came right in and started eating.
An unethical shot is one you take, that you know you shouldn't.
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Re: Camo
[Re: spacejunkie]
#8517956
01/31/22 01:16 PM
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Joined: Jan 2013
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TLew
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I wear camo, may not be full camo depending on weather. A few reasons for it:
- It's quieter and built for purpose (windproof, waterproof, warmer, etc) than a lot of my normal clothes - I put on new clothes before I go out for a hunt, regardless if it's a sit in a box or somewhere else to minimize scent - I don't care if it gets dirty or bloody since it blends in
All of that said, I'll sit in a box blind in jeans if the weather is nice, and I'll sometimes go hog hunting in a hoody.
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Re: Camo
[Re: spacejunkie]
#8518000
01/31/22 02:13 PM
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Joined: Dec 2017
Posts: 822
Red Pill
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I generally wear camo when deer hunting. I use an open tower stand, and I have trees behind me. It's also my warmest, most outdoor-oriented clothing, as others have mentioned. In the past I've had deer (and a skunk) come right up to me while in camo. Would they have also done so if I wasn't in camo? Possibly.
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Re: Camo
[Re: Reloder28]
#8518004
01/31/22 02:17 PM
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Joined: Nov 2014
Posts: 7,789
Mr. T.
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I prefer camo while hunting. Do I think it necessary, absolutely not. I just like it. Same here.
Cabin rental in Pagosa Springs, Co. Sleeps 10, If interested please PM me.
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Re: Camo
[Re: spacejunkie]
#8518025
01/31/22 02:39 PM
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Joined: Jun 2015
Posts: 5,956
Jgraider
THF Trophy Hunter
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Not much of a camo guy, except for a couple of cold weather jackets.
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Re: Camo
[Re: spacejunkie]
#8518041
01/31/22 02:58 PM
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Joined: Jul 2019
Posts: 14,296
Hudbone
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We used to pick up paying customers at CC Intl who had pants, shirts, belt and shoes - all in matching camo. Usually bought recently. I would tell them the glare from the crystal on their high dollar watches would provide to be a nuisance, but wasn't exactly right. It only proved to be a nuisance when they discharged their firearms.
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Re: Camo
[Re: spacejunkie]
#8518126
01/31/22 04:09 PM
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Posts: 6,077
Wilhunt
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Green camo long sleeve shirts only. Always in a blind.
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Re: Camo
[Re: spacejunkie]
#8518260
01/31/22 06:11 PM
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Joined: Feb 2009
Posts: 5,872
GLC
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Pretty well always. I am a bow hunter. I need all the edge I can get.
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Re: Camo
[Re: spacejunkie]
#8518471
01/31/22 10:04 PM
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Joined: Nov 2012
Posts: 646
themoonrulz
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Give me a good reason not to and I'll stop.
A real hunter never returns empty handed. Spending time in the wilderness temporarily satifies the soul, but leaves us longing for more.
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Re: Camo
[Re: spacejunkie]
#8518748
02/01/22 03:07 AM
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Posts: 325
Giblett
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Bird Dog
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Blue jeans and camo shirt year around why buy 2 different sets of clothing. NASCAR shirt if i dress up.
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Re: Camo
[Re: spacejunkie]
#8518858
02/01/22 12:04 PM
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Joined: Nov 2005
Posts: 2,343
copperhead
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Wear it mostly during fall and winter.
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Re: Camo
[Re: spacejunkie]
#8518871
02/01/22 12:32 PM
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Joined: May 2006
Posts: 9,794
ILUVBIGBUCKS
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I only wear camo when it is not cold enough to put on my carhart......or if I'm going to walk and rattle.
High fence, low fence, no fence, it really doesn't matter as long as you're hunting!
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Re: Camo
[Re: spacejunkie]
#8518887
02/01/22 12:46 PM
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Joined: Nov 2021
Posts: 20
Howard L
Light Foot
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Light Foot
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Just saw a FB page for a new to me camo company called wtfcamo. They claim that their new breakup camo was designed with Deer vision in mind. Any one seen this new camo. www.wtfcamo.comPlease let me know your thoughts.
Last edited by Howard L; 02/01/22 12:55 PM. Reason: Correct spelling
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Re: Camo
[Re: spacejunkie]
#8518889
02/01/22 12:49 PM
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Joined: Jul 2019
Posts: 14,296
Hudbone
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Ain't never gonna wear anything with that acronym.
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Re: Camo
[Re: spacejunkie]
#8518915
02/01/22 01:25 PM
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Joined: Aug 2021
Posts: 507
65x55
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Kind of reminds me of that dazzle camoflauge they put on some ships in WW1 and WW2.
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Re: Camo
[Re: spacejunkie]
#8518935
02/01/22 01:47 PM
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Joined: Nov 2005
Posts: 32,602
sig226fan (Rguns.com)
duck & cover
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duck & cover
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Mostly wear camo when deer hunting. As for the blind comments, usually I start in a blind, so yeah I can be fine with my jeans, which are khaki colored Riggs jeans, and a t-shirt; but invariably when I am wearing just earth tone clothes, I'll have to track someones deer, and see something not coming to a feeder that I want to go try and stalk...
Good points that camo is usually designed for outdoors too;
Seldom wear camo for dove hunting, and I dove hunt 30 plus days a year; being still is the key, and hopefully in the shade...
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Re: Camo
[Re: spacejunkie]
#8519051
02/01/22 03:55 PM
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Posts: 1,331
Dave Scott
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If I'm sitting in the open against a tree trunk, I wear olive drab pants to blend in with grass, etc. and a grap/brown plain flannel shirt to help match the tree. gloves on hands, some sort of face mask. I think the "fuzzy surface" on flannel wool has some sort of property that doesn't spook deer.
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