Badlands' Approach pattern will flat make you disappear in Western sagebrush territory. I particularly like Sitka’s Subalpine pattern it blends superbly with a wide variety of vegetation and terrain. Nowadays manufacturers take this light/dark element more seriously some of the modern computer-generated digital camo, as well as those that utilize natural predator imagery (think Kryptek, with its reptilian pattern) render hunters very hard to spot in the woods. One that was particularly hard to spot is an old pattern called “Predator”. Some patterns did not conceal well at all, while others made it rather difficult for me to keep track of my clients in the woods. That camo pattern has since fallen out of vogue.Īs an outfitter and guide I watched hunters wearing various camo patterns with interest. At a distance he simply looked all greenish-black and stood out starkly against the background. He was wearing a semi-dark leaf, bark, and twig pattern camouflage. Dark-on-dark camouflage is mostly ineffective I remember sitting on a Rocky Mountain ridge years ago and watching my brother stalk a buck on the far side of a canyon. Ideally, those shapes will feature significant light-and-dark contrast. If you need to get up close and personal when hunting (bowhunting, for example) you will be harder to spot when wearing something that reduces your human shape to an illegible blob of random shapes. Game animals are adept at picking out shapes that don’t belong in the woods-especially upright human forms. Early bowhunters like Fred Bear, Saxton Pope and Arthur Young often wore plaid clothing in earth-tone colors, and nobody is fool enough to say those hunters were ineffective. Snipers, bowhunters and hide-and-seek aficionados all benefit from some form of camouflage.īut not all camo is created equal, nor does clothing need to feature an actual camouflage pattern in order to provide a disguise. It’s intended to make a searching eye pass over without detecting it. After all, we like to look good in our camo, right? But do we really need it? The answer to that question depends on the situation.Ĭamouflage, by definition, is a disguise a masquerade a smoke screen. The cooler it looks the more likely we are to buy it. The same adage can (and probably should) be applied to camouflage hunting clothing. When I was a kid learning to fish an old-timer once told me, “Most lures are bright-colored and fancy so they catch fishermen.” In other words, manufacturers make their lures eye-catching so fishermen will buy them.
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