Doco Overboard
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I know a guy who wears....wore a brown leather jacket and blue khakis with diesel oil on them sometimes.
Bomber?I know a guy who wears....wore a brown leather jacket and blue khakis with diesel oil on them sometimes.
Bomber?
Straight, with endless sleeves sometimes I think. SOon to be need FLAK if he doesn't stay out of my little heavy square cardboard boxes they drop off sometimes.
Deer have better noses than a dog and they say a dog can smell every ingredient in a cake separately.
Now, think about the premise of "cover" scents.
Go in the woods you’re hunting, find some of the aromatic tree species that are in the area, break a bunch of small green limbs and combine with green leaves, boil in a pot and condense the steam from it and collect in a spray bottle.
Poplar , sassafras and sweet/ black gum. Pitch pine and cedar work good.
I haven’t washed my lightweight coveralls in 8 years or more.
Use a xx75 arrow shaft as the tap from the lid of the pot.
A hunting gadget supplier rep once told me "I could shit on a log and sell it to hunters"
I know a guy who wears....wore a brown leather jacket and blue khakis with diesel oil on them sometimes.
+1000Deer see and pay a whole lot of attention to...
Two eyes, right abreast from each other bridging the nose.
A million years of instinct reacting to something that has meat eater written all over it.
The best cam0 you can have for deer hunting is a face covering or something that breaks up the outline to your face/neck.
Again, +1000. For the same reason movement gives you away, notice, when deer stop moving, they disappear. Because of their counter shading, they become 'background'. Solid colors are the best camouflage...until you move.If camo is so important why haven't deer evolved to look like Mossy Oak? Because deer have as much camo as they need like most animals, counter shading light on the bottom darker on top with a color grayish brown and they have with white dapples when young. How many deer do you see in the woods or fields unless they are up moving around. There are plenty of deer around but if you go looking you won't see them so their camo works for them.
Eric Sloan who wrote "A Reverence for Wood", "American Barns and Covered Bridges" and many other books also wrote one "Camouflage Simplified" for the War Department in WW II which had a chapter #4 on "Concealment In Nature":
http://www.easy39th.com/files/Camouflage_Simplified_1942.pdf
Byron (outrider) tested HECS a couple years back and even posted in this thread he saw no noticeable different from it.
The only things I have noticed in deer hunting that works is
1. an OZone closet that descents your clothes and leaves ozone on your clothes and binds to scent trying to leave you. Its half life is short so you need to run it the day before you hunt.
2. A black light for checking your clothes. We all have that old pair of camo and some old washed out camo will glow in UV and deer see that, turkeys too. Some poly clothes have fibers mixed in that glow like the rainbow in UV. I got rid of some clothes after buying a black light flash light.
Most hunting stuff is sold to catch the hunter, not wild game. Take most popular camo patterns and put a guy in deep shade under a tree and he looks like a black blob. Shadow grass for waterfowl, which I have some of, looks bright compared to the surrounding reeds in the morning sun. I learned a long time ago analyzing camo at 3' was a waste and needed to be done at 30 yards. Also, none of the camo patterns works as good a shut up and sit still.