Camo Question

[Dazzler]

I've been reading and there have been several mentions of switching up camo late season.

Currently I run full MO Bottomland.  Should I be concerned if I'm just going to be up against a tree or some blowdown?  I've always focused on movement vs camo pattern.

I hunt in N. AL thick woods with several trees to sit.  My season is 30 MAR-30 APR.

  Is it more of having something else in your tool box for when its needed?

[Plush]

Some people love to get crazy with camo. I think it is really overrated to be honest. You are right in focusing on your movement over camo. Sure switching up camo to better match the terrain is great and if you want to spend some cash go for it. It could/will help, but not terribly much in the grand scheme. Turkeys see movement...not the technicalities of your camo pattern.

If I tried to get crazy with camo I would go insane. I hunt nice oak ridges, then dense areas, and then swamp. What am I going to do? Bring a basket of different options for when the terrain changes?

But like I said if you got nice cash flow and want to buy some different camo it can be beneficial.

[GobbleNut]

Camo is more about status among your fellow turkey hunters than it is about turkeys seeing it.  If you want to be viewed as a serious turkey hunter, you have to wear the latest and greatest camo.  Everything has to match perfectly, including pants, shirts, jackets, cap, headnet, socks, and even your underwear.  In addition, your shotgun has to match everything else.  Anything short of that and you are viewed as a wannabe. 

Of course, it can't be a brand new outfit, either.  It has to show signs of wear,...and maybe even has some dirt on it.  If you got brand new stuff, then take it out and fling some mud on it right away.  If you wear it right off the rack, then you are automatically relegated back to the wannabe status. 

Naturally, all experienced turkey hunters know all of this and dress accordingly.  None of us want to be looked down upon by our peers,...at least not before we get into the woods and demonstrate that we don't have a clue anyway. 

 

[BKnisley]

Turkey hunting gospel GoobleNut!   

[Sir-diealot]

lol GoobleNut

[SD_smith]

Different strokes for different folks. I prefer to wear something similar to my environment. You break out some HTC Green too early out here and it's like wearing blaze orange. My go to for hunting Ponderosa Pines is Greenleaf and when I'm on the prairie I'm wearing Kings Camo desert brush. Greenleaf looks black on the prairie at a long distance.

[Dazzler]

Think I'm gonna stick with my bottomlands and brush In if needed.

Hunt pretty much the same area and there are plenty of trees to back up on.

Just wanted some feedback since I don't have any peers to criticize my fashion sense in the woods.


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[g8rvet]

LOL Gobblenut. 

I have killed several birds wearing my dark brown Wolverine cotton duck pants I wear to work.  Once even had a green scrub under my leafy top.  So I had muck boots, solid brown pants, green scrub with leafy camo over it and killed the bird in my avatar.  I know because that day I was working and radiographed that bird at work before I cleaned him. 

Whatever you wear, if you look like a dark blob, you better have a dark blob behind you (tree).  just be still.   

[Plush]

You break out some HTC Green too early out here and it's like wearing blaze orange.

I bought a Winchester SXP Longbeard not too long ago and this year they changed the mossy oak pattern on it to something with these bright as heck green oak leaves. I had the guy at the store go through all 12+ shotguns they had to find me the one with the least green on it.

I am trying to pray there isn't a bunch of snow on the ground when season hits...let alone have green friggen leaves. Might as well go out into the woods with a big rainbow stick to wave around.

[Dazzler]

Came across some family owned ASAT leafy suit camo. 

Anybody have experience with this stuff?

[ChiefBubba]

Camo is for folks who can't sit still. This year I hunted in dark brown khakis and a Camo shirt. Had hen so close I thought she was going to walk up to me. She came in on my off/right side so there was no brush covering. Bubba

[Bowguy]

Everything is sat has been said. Sit still it's over rated

[Paulmyr]

Camo patterns are generally designed to attract hunters. You don't need 5 different sets of woods camo.

[Marc]

In all seriousness...  I feel it is far more important to wash your hunting clothes in non-color brightening detergent... 

Turkeys can see UV, and color brightening detergent really increases UV (from my understanding).  I actually wash my clothes in some detergent my wife purchased specifically for hunting and camouflage.

As far as camouflage...  I believe you can park a car in the middle of a field and hunt from it, as long as the turkey does not see you move in the car.

The more the camouflage blends into the background, the more it helps hide "subtle" movement.  I generally put on what I have, but if I can match my surroundings, I will.  I would not go out and specifically buy new clothes to match the tree I am going to sit against though.

[LaLongbeard]

I've never worried about UV brightness of my clothing. I don't wash my hunting clothes a lot when I do I use Tide, never had a deer or turkey react. I had two longbeards at 5 feet not yards and they never mentioned my detergent or why I was so close to the hen they just heard lol. UV brightners, Hecs suits, scentloc, ozone machines etc etc are just scams perpetrated on the gullible. I wear Mossyoak bottomland everyday of the season never had a problem. Sitting in the sun were something can reflect light, or movement are the things to avoid.