Camouflage patterns

Yeah, the Kate Shelly Bridge is kinda an inside joke between me and me... If anyone from my neck of the woods (central Iowa) saw it they'd know where I live. I'm a poor college student so I don't travel much, but if you ever make it out as far as Iowa that would be nice. I'm assuming from most of your photos that you're a Californian? I'm still shocked that you get that close to birds with tie dyed clothing! One of my farmer friends tied orange strips to his fence thinking that might conscern the turkeys enough to not come through the fence. To his suprise, the turkeys started leaving the woods a different way and started wandering into his neighbor's fields instead!
 
Most of the hunting patterns available today are made to look good on the rack, in the store.
At distance they blob together and don't break up the human silhouette.
The leaves and branches that look good in the store should look good in the woods, but if the colors and shades don't match, they look like a human shaped pile of leaves and branches.
I like the camo in the link, it has large blocks of color (for distance) broken up with smaller bits (for closer view, or under magnification such as binos or scope).
The digital stuff works the same way, as does the flecktarn.
My favorite for running 'round my neck of the woods is an Italian jacket and tiger pants. Here is the jacket in the background
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For sheer style, I like the British desert pattern. Looks to me like a Hawaiian shirt in muted tones :D
 
Well, that's the old one! the new one is the Desert DPM! I really like the Woodland DPM, it gives a very good camoflauge!
 
ethies said:
pricecw, I agree money is a HUGE factor in this. I think that the folks at mossy oak and realtree could sell a drowning man a glass of water. I think I've seen the picture to which you refer. Its amazing how different things look in black and white. Still, game birds have excellent color vision (including the ability to see into the UV spectrum) and I can't imagine that all of these patterns work equally well.
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Yep, Point I was trying to make is you don't have to match head to toe. Buy some good camo to add when you need. Best thing is it tends to break you outline a bit more because the texture changes around your waist (ie undergrowth to brush). Anyway, birds are quite a bit different, there you just want to not look like a person or their favorite predator. Best to look like grass.

--Carl
 
Carl said it best. Military camo is for the human eye and hunitng for the animals. 2 completely different things.

I have always liked the British DPM pattern but have seen the effectiveness of the new digital patterns up close and its astonishing when done right.

Skam
 
Hunting patterns are usually designed for specific terrains and seasons. Military camo patterns are usually developed to work in many terrians. They do not always work good in all areas, also there are some IR issues included. Also the design ie; pocket locations are designed for more general and combat needs as opposed to hunting garments that are designed to more specific needs of certain types of hunting. The purpose of camo is break up the human form. Whether it is an animal or human I'm not sure how much a specific patern matters as opposed to the movement or scent of a person when hunting or in combat. Animals and people are attracted to movement. If there is little or no detectable movement the color/pattern as long as it doesn't leap out like blaze orange (In the forest or in an urban setting) probably is secondary. Also last but not least is the cost factor. Patterns to match specifc terrains and seasons would result in too many gov.t $$
 
I'm not a specialist, but looks like bow hunters consider Asat camo to be far better then anything else (at least in "flat" camo). And fact is it looks like to be efficient. That said I've never seen it in reality.

Anyway, two important points:
Camo on face/head will highly decrease your visual signature. That's really amazing how adding Baclava and gloves is efficient. You could also use face camo paint but it is far less convenient.
Breaking the "shoulder-head" line is also a good trick and can be done pretty easily with a large piece of clothes.

Of course all this won't replace moving slowly, or even better not moving, avoiding noise etc...
 
Evolute said:
I have to stalk and closely approach wild animals almost every day for my job, and for most animals, a rainbow tie-dye with a red and black checkered flannel is as effective as "real" camouflage.
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In black and white, your average Hawaiian shirt looks just as good as Mossy Oak :).
 
rdelliott said:
That is an absolutely flat-out brilliant photo. I'm completely gobsmacked.
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I agree. Your web collection speaks very highly of your skills! Nice work.
 
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