Several years ago I used to get so frustrated when hunting from my hang-on stands, the deer would notice me standing there even when I was perfectly still. I thought how do they see me with all this great camouflage I’m wearing? I got to thinking that if the deer are color blind, I need to think black and white. I was doing a photography class at the time and I was doing some black and white photos which gave me an idea. I hung my different camo patterns on the clothes line, I lay down on the ground and took black and white pics of each one against the sky. Wow, what an eye opener, they all made a perfect silhouette against the sky.
This all happened in the early 90s when different new camouflage patterns were starting appear on the market. I started searching for a better camouflage for tree stand hunting and found one called Predator Deception. This pattern has a lot of large white patches that break up the silhouette. I took some pics of it hanging on the clothes line, I was impressed with how well it broke up the silhouette.
That was a game changer for me, I rarely got picked off except when one would catch me moving. This pattern has also been very good for ground hunting.
Now days there’s a lot of good camo patterns available, I have good luck with Kuiu’s vias camo pattern.
But I still notice a lot of hunters going to the woods with camo that has all dark shades and no white patches. The camo with larger patches of white seems to work best for me.
This all happened in the early 90s when different new camouflage patterns were starting appear on the market. I started searching for a better camouflage for tree stand hunting and found one called Predator Deception. This pattern has a lot of large white patches that break up the silhouette. I took some pics of it hanging on the clothes line, I was impressed with how well it broke up the silhouette.
That was a game changer for me, I rarely got picked off except when one would catch me moving. This pattern has also been very good for ground hunting.
Now days there’s a lot of good camo patterns available, I have good luck with Kuiu’s vias camo pattern.
But I still notice a lot of hunters going to the woods with camo that has all dark shades and no white patches. The camo with larger patches of white seems to work best for me.