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I'm curious - last year I kilt my first deer and just happened to lazily go out there, well after sunrise, and did nothing according to "the book". I was not wearing camo.

It got me thinking, are there any other hunters who don't bother wearing camo? Have you had success?
 
Im always going to have my camo on but mainly because those are the clothes I keep stored in a "scent management" way and out of habit. I am not sure it really matters but am no means an expert. With blaze orange vests and headgear on I cannot see how it makes much difference.
 
I dont wear camo all the time. Camo made now and days aint worth a flip for deer hunting. Deer dont see all those pretty colors we humans think look good, lol. Being still is the key, 99% of the time movement gives you away. The best camo made is ASAT!!!
 
Ground blinds or shooting boxes I will wear jeans and orange if it's not too cold. If it's cold I wear my camo bibs cause they are very warm.
 
plenty of deer killed before camo came out. I wear it just because it's comfortable but i've also killed with blue jeans or overalls and a flannel shirt. always have thought it was funny that we wear camo and then have a big ole blaze orange vest and hat on.
 
What I want is a pair of those orange coveralls with limp patterns on it to break up the solid orange. Color doesn't really matter that much, but breaking up the outline does. A solid block of anything will stand out, but a bunch of lines like what's in nature will hide you better.
 
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I killed a 136" 8 point with a bow at 12 yards. I was sitting on a dove stool wearing khaki pants and a brown fleece jacket that I had worn to work that day. I had already passed 2 does and another buck that afternoon. I wear camo lots of times due to weather conditions, but for deer hunting, I don't believe it is necessary.
 
Look, everybody knows that you can't kill deer without wearing the newest camo. Nevermind the fact that most deer are killed while people are wearing the brightest color orange known to man OVER their expensive camo clothing. I always wear camo while turkey hunting. I occasionally wear it duck hunting, but just as often wear solid brown or dark colors while hunting in a blind. But for deer, if I wear camo, it's usually because it's cold and most of my cold weather clothing is camo. expensive camo is the most overrated/gimmicky product on the market for deer hunting, imo.

 
In my experience, no one thing does the whole trick. Each thing (camo, being still, scent management, playing the wind, calling, rattling, etc.) helps a little, and a good system that includes a few or several helpful things mixed with a little luck are worth the shot. Pictures like the one above are certainly nostalgic, but aren't exactly 100% applicable to today's sport. Sure, blood-letting may have worked a couple times, and it may even work on a couple things today. On those things, go for it, but for the rest of the ailments, I'll take modern medicine.

Camo, by itself, isn't going to help you kill a deer unless several other planets are lined up. If you killed a deer sans camo, and "not by the book," several things had to be the case for that to work. In that instance, there were enough things going for you that camo wasn't the necessary edge you needed. No, their vision isn't the same as a turkey's, but camo certainly isn't hurting your hunt. Even if all it does is boost your confidence a bit, that's worth it when the ole swamp donkey you're looking for comes by.

All that to say: obviously it's not what Bill Jordan wants you to think it is, but it's not necessarily pointless, either.
 
In the mornings, I'm usually wearing camo because that's what my bibs and parka are. But quite often in the afternoons I end up with just brown or olive sweater and wool pants on--no camo. And I've killed as many nice bucks in the afternoon as I have in the mornings.
 
I wear what's cheap at Walmart, lol

Killed deer in T shirt, sweater, drab green jacket, blaze orange (duh) it doesn't matter because it's your movement that the deer notices.
 
my hunting jacket is solid olive green color. My buddy asked me the other day if I owned a camo jacket. I asked him "why do I needed one"?

last week wearing it I was sitting against a tree and had two deer walk within 15 feet of me and look right at me. Never spooked. Some days I wear plain green or brown pants hunting.

scent control, earth tone colors, and control your movement is what I think the key factors are.
 
BSK said:
In the mornings, I'm usually wearing camo because that's what my bibs and parka are. But quite often in the afternoons I end up with just brown or olive sweater and wool pants on--no camo. And I've killed as many nice bucks in the afternoon as I have in the mornings.
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Pretty much the same for me.
 
Also, I once read an article in F&S, I believe, about a guy in WI that never owned camo. He grew up very poor and only used thermals and sweat pants/shirt.
This guy would buy grey sweat clothes and trickle bleach on them to make a camo-y pattern.
 
IMO, it's all over rated. Camo, being a scent free freak, taking an hour to get to your stand that's 200yds. away, and being 25,000ft. off the ground.

2 days ago I went out, and killed a doe for meat after having passed on 2 small bucks, and really nice 8, several other doe, and 2 button fawns. I didn't wear camo, take a shower, spray down, get in a blind, climb a stand, and I was smoking cigarettes the whole time!

I was wearing blue jeans, a black hoody, and gym shoes.......
 
Not only is all the "hunting camo" just a majoring on minors and a bunch of merchandising, most of it isn't really even much good at breaking up your outline. Mossy Oak? I call it "Mossy BLOB", and I have no idea why patterns like ASAT aren't more popular than they are...other than that they don't sell the stuff at Bass Pro or Walmart.
 
Remember before Real Tree and Mossy Oak had these patterns all camo was pretty much the same with the blotchy green-black-brown-tan? Plenty of deer were killed then. I guess I still wear camo even with an orange vest and cap over it because it is the warmest stuff I have and subconsciously it feels like I am more hidden even though in reality I probably am not. That and those are the clothes I scent proof to the best of my ability. Been closed up in a rubber tub with fresh cedar and dirt wafers for almost a month lol. I wouldn't do that to my regular clothes.
 
TboneD said:
Not only is all the "hunting camo" just a majoring on minors and a bunch of merchandising, most of it isn't really even much good at breaking up your outline. Mossy Oak? I call it "Mossy BLOB", and I have no idea why patterns like ASAT aren't more popular than they are...other than that they don't sell the stuff at Bass Pro or Walmart.
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any of those camo patterns will look good in certain places, not all woods look the same... Personally I find the Mossy Oak Obsession pattern to be great for turkey and early deer season, it blends in great. But it's just peace of mind more than anything, that deer is going to see you if you move at the wrong time, no matter what camo you are or aren't wearing. In fact I think a bunch of moving sticks/leaves/tree bark is going to be more noticeable than a moving solid color... Say a plain brown shirt drawing back a bow, your arm will blend in with the rest of your shirt better than a high contrast camo pattern would.
 

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