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Camouflage Everything?
Uploaded on September 08, 2009While preparing my hunting gear for the up coming season a visiting friend remarked about much of my gear is not camouflaged. He wondered why.
There are pieces of equipment I don’t think are wise to camouflage such as flashlight, knife, the tent and truck. Personally when it is time to come off the mountain I do not mind looking down and seeing my camp or truck which if they where camouflaged might be not so easy to see. While field dressing if my knife ends up on the ground it sure is nice to see it, dittos flashlight.
Are there pieces of equipment you prefer not to have camouflaged?
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I'm with you Charlie. As far as I'm concerned if it goes in my pocket or pack it should be bright orange. I've lost enough knives and such.
Yea buckhunter and it really is a pain the --- when you lose the knife before you are done.....
My sentiments exactly. Having a camoflage GPS, flashlight, knife, rifle, etc. just makes it harder to find if you drop it.
Gloves are the big thing. I am always dropping a glove and if they are camo, they are darn hard to find!
I laugh at the TV hunters who are decked out in camo from head to toe and their guide has on jeans (the absolute worst color there is for UV), a solid vest, and light or black cowboy hat during their stalk. Good for business though.
I friend of mine once propped his Realtree camo rifle up against a tree while we were dragging an elk out and it took him almost an hour to find it.
I have dropped virtually every piece of equipment i hunt with. Camo ensures it gets lost. I just decided this year a brightly colored arrow will get lost less frequently than a camo arrow, so i bought a dozen. The camo truck doudles as a blind i guess? i prefer to get out of the truck to hunt, and get far away from it.
My dropping things and losing them has become something of a joke to my friends and family. See, I don't need any help there. If you camo'd something that doubles or triples the 'where the f*** is it?' factor for me.
What kills me is the total amount of crap that is produced in some sort of camoflage pattern. My guess is about 5% of it has some sort of true usefulness. Just how many factories in the Orient are devoted to making camoflage things????
I'm glad there are other who feel this way about camo everything. I nearly lost my Jeep late one evening in a river bottom. It was dark green with a faded black top and I'd parked it right by a freshly blown down treetop. This was well before GPS and in that bottomland, everything looks the same---few landmarks. I'd already walked past it off to one side when I just happened to turn and look back--don't know why--- and saw it, thus saving myself from a mosquito-filled and hungry night. Ever since then, evry hunting vehicle I've owned has been brightly colored.
I'm really on the same page with sgaredneck about losing stuff. I don't dare buy expensive knives. Of course the cheap ones usually come in camo-----
After being very thankful my truck was maroon and sliver as I came off a mountain in Colorado at slightly the wrong angle pointing away from my truck - those bright colors caught my eye and saved one heck of a lot of steps. There was no way a friendly Cabela employee was going to talk me into buying a camo tent for an upcoming caribou hunt.
At the airstrip some of the other hunters were teasing about my canary yellow tent. However, during the excitment of chasing caribou we ended up a long way from camp with only my compass. The rolling tundra landscape can easily hide a tent. To my hunting buddy's great relieve the compass got us aimed in the right general direction and as we crested a knoll that little yellow tent was a very welcome 7 mile beacon.
A couple of other hunters were missing for 3 days needing to be air rescued, perhaps their camo tent was not such good a beacon. Air rescue is not trivial expense.
Thanks for all the comments they have made me chuckle and brought back a flood of memories of hunting bloopers. LOL
Camo has really gone crazy in the past 5 years or so. And there are so many different types of it out there now, a person/hunter can blend in with any surrounding. Up here in Canada the snow always messes with the camo equipment anyways that its sometimes pointless to buy camo winter jackets, or big heavy camo wool pants. Although, I must say I enjoy the look of camo. Something about it makes me feel more hunter-ish. Maybe its just me.
All in all, great posts here.
Heres to away with camo flashlights!
Cheers
Maybe orange camo... I like to make sure I'm not mistaken for anything else.
Though i don't own any, I can see the usefulness of orange camo in gun-hunting situations. I once thought it was silly, but have changed my view.
I spend a fair bit of time hunting in a camo shirt or jacket and carhartts either black or brown depending which is on top of the stack. If I'm on a real backpack hunt more than 2 days, then I lighten the load, but still hunt in solid pants mostly in a neutral color.I have some scentlock stuff all camo, but I use it only for whitetails more or less. I'm just not a huge camo guy, but I'm not opposed to it either, except for the obvious gloves, GPS compass knife etc.
I have never seen the need for full store bought camo. I usually hunt with my bow in a pale green wool shirt and a faded pair of wool pants. Never had a problem. The rest of my hunting items are exactly as I bought them. I do paint my miniature flashlight flo orange as well as my military compass and my brass waterproof match container. Never want to lose that stuff in the leaves.
A knife should be yellow or orange an a flashlight shouldn't be camo because you could set it down and lose it
You don't need a camo truck. Looks kind of stupid, but if your an outfitter, its kind of like a badge. Just hunt in dark colors and have a silver truck.
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My dropping things and losing them has become something of a joke to my friends and family. See, I don't need any help there. If you camo'd something that doubles or triples the 'where the f*** is it?' factor for me.
What kills me is the total amount of crap that is produced in some sort of camoflage pattern. My guess is about 5% of it has some sort of true usefulness. Just how many factories in the Orient are devoted to making camoflage things????
I'm with you Charlie. As far as I'm concerned if it goes in my pocket or pack it should be bright orange. I've lost enough knives and such.
Yea buckhunter and it really is a pain the --- when you lose the knife before you are done.....
My sentiments exactly. Having a camoflage GPS, flashlight, knife, rifle, etc. just makes it harder to find if you drop it.
Gloves are the big thing. I am always dropping a glove and if they are camo, they are darn hard to find!
I laugh at the TV hunters who are decked out in camo from head to toe and their guide has on jeans (the absolute worst color there is for UV), a solid vest, and light or black cowboy hat during their stalk. Good for business though.
I friend of mine once propped his Realtree camo rifle up against a tree while we were dragging an elk out and it took him almost an hour to find it.
After being very thankful my truck was maroon and sliver as I came off a mountain in Colorado at slightly the wrong angle pointing away from my truck - those bright colors caught my eye and saved one heck of a lot of steps. There was no way a friendly Cabela employee was going to talk me into buying a camo tent for an upcoming caribou hunt.
At the airstrip some of the other hunters were teasing about my canary yellow tent. However, during the excitment of chasing caribou we ended up a long way from camp with only my compass. The rolling tundra landscape can easily hide a tent. To my hunting buddy's great relieve the compass got us aimed in the right general direction and as we crested a knoll that little yellow tent was a very welcome 7 mile beacon.
A couple of other hunters were missing for 3 days needing to be air rescued, perhaps their camo tent was not such good a beacon. Air rescue is not trivial expense.
Thanks for all the comments they have made me chuckle and brought back a flood of memories of hunting bloopers. LOL
You don't need a camo truck. Looks kind of stupid, but if your an outfitter, its kind of like a badge. Just hunt in dark colors and have a silver truck.
I have dropped virtually every piece of equipment i hunt with. Camo ensures it gets lost. I just decided this year a brightly colored arrow will get lost less frequently than a camo arrow, so i bought a dozen. The camo truck doudles as a blind i guess? i prefer to get out of the truck to hunt, and get far away from it.
I'm glad there are other who feel this way about camo everything. I nearly lost my Jeep late one evening in a river bottom. It was dark green with a faded black top and I'd parked it right by a freshly blown down treetop. This was well before GPS and in that bottomland, everything looks the same---few landmarks. I'd already walked past it off to one side when I just happened to turn and look back--don't know why--- and saw it, thus saving myself from a mosquito-filled and hungry night. Ever since then, evry hunting vehicle I've owned has been brightly colored.
I'm really on the same page with sgaredneck about losing stuff. I don't dare buy expensive knives. Of course the cheap ones usually come in camo-----
Camo has really gone crazy in the past 5 years or so. And there are so many different types of it out there now, a person/hunter can blend in with any surrounding. Up here in Canada the snow always messes with the camo equipment anyways that its sometimes pointless to buy camo winter jackets, or big heavy camo wool pants. Although, I must say I enjoy the look of camo. Something about it makes me feel more hunter-ish. Maybe its just me.
All in all, great posts here.
Heres to away with camo flashlights!
Cheers
Maybe orange camo... I like to make sure I'm not mistaken for anything else.
Though i don't own any, I can see the usefulness of orange camo in gun-hunting situations. I once thought it was silly, but have changed my view.
A knife should be yellow or orange an a flashlight shouldn't be camo because you could set it down and lose it
I spend a fair bit of time hunting in a camo shirt or jacket and carhartts either black or brown depending which is on top of the stack. If I'm on a real backpack hunt more than 2 days, then I lighten the load, but still hunt in solid pants mostly in a neutral color.I have some scentlock stuff all camo, but I use it only for whitetails more or less. I'm just not a huge camo guy, but I'm not opposed to it either, except for the obvious gloves, GPS compass knife etc.
I have never seen the need for full store bought camo. I usually hunt with my bow in a pale green wool shirt and a faded pair of wool pants. Never had a problem. The rest of my hunting items are exactly as I bought them. I do paint my miniature flashlight flo orange as well as my military compass and my brass waterproof match container. Never want to lose that stuff in the leaves.
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