when I was a young hunter
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Originally Posted by
Steve Ashton
No one seems to have mentioned that Deer and Elk are essentially red-green color blind. Their color vision is limited to the short blue and middle green wavelengths of colors. As a result, deer and elk can distinguish blue from red, but not green from red, or orange from red. You can hunt in blaze orange as deer and elk see this as gray or brown.
When I was a young lad hunting in the 60's we always wore a blaze orange hat and a blaze orange vest
........mostly so other hunters didn't mistake you for something you weren't ......the deer and elk seemed oblivious to the colours...... it was stealth and slow and careful movement that usually had the most bearing on success. I have had to sit as still as possible for 10 minutes or longer as an animal stared intently at me to decide if I was the reason for a quick dash into bush or to just keep on feeding and watching if I moved ............ I think all this "camo" gear is just a bit of marketing ......breaking up the body outline is the important issue regardless of colour....... just my opinion though...... and I gave up hunting a long time ago