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Postman:
I got a ghillie this november as a anniversary present, but bagged my first stickbow deer in mismatched camo in october.  I think the ghillie helps my number one cause of blown setups - the Squirrel fun police didn't spot me at 3 feet and freak out. I have a white / black plaid baja pullover that works great in snow, also.  Too much pressure here for buckskin - I'd get crossbowed or shot with a rifle.

iowabow:
Deer are colored blind. We used colored blind people during world war II to spot camo tanks and postions from the air because camo doesn't work well in black and white. Deer also have eyes on the side of their head so depth perception is difficult but if the head is moved up and down the system works great. That is way if a deer is trying to pick you out from the background they will move there head up and down to break you up from the back ground. So camo will not work because it is related to a binocular color illusion. Camo is an attempt to create a line converging probelm that the mind cant solve easily by breaking up the shape of the body and merging it with the background. Now color has three componets value (deer can see this) intensity and hue. If you are human and looking at a person in camo these three are used to trick you. Intensity or brightness in color and warm colors advance in a landscape. Additionally bold or very dark or white values will also advance due the relative value of a setting. So deer could care less about intensity and hue and it make sense because value contrast is the alert. The change in light and dark is the blinking caution light for the woods. If you do not create this value change there is no trigger for an alert. Think of yourself as a projecting flat plane rather than an over lapping plane,shape, or form. Camo is a great system if you are human to human because it cover all the bases. So my solution for deer has been to make sure that when I place a stand that I have a real good and close back cover. So for example I might place a large dead cedar behind the stand or set a stand in a shingle oak because it holds its leaves during the winter. This makes it difficult for the deer to make me move in relationship to objects far behind me. my point is we are a shape in in reference to other shapes and if there is no reference then we are no shape. Movement in relationship to the background presents a shape. This is more of a discription than anyone really wants to read sorry for being long winded.

Postman:
Well done explanation, and why I  always have a nice confusing backdrop to my setup, whatever I hunt in.  There was a theory a few years back that UV  brighteners in laundry soap could cause a camo - clad hunter to glow to a deer's different wavelength sensitivity.

iowabow:
Thank you! I was thinking this morning that it make sense that predators often have eyes more forward because of their lack of movement in a stalk (lion waiting in grass or on a limb) in contrast to an animal that moves from food area to food area. Each benefit from eye placement respective to function. I didn't know about UV but sounds interesting does anyone have a link to that data or article. I got busted by a doe once this season because I was following her with my bow as she was walking in, their eyes pick up everything.

Little John:
I suppose camo works fine, but I just hate to look like all the other hunters in the woods and in town at Wal Mart with camo right down to their bic lighters. I use dull green wool jeans, Earth tone shirts, and wool sweaters. You can find the wool sweaters in the thrift stores and  in nice hunting colors. I like the off white sweaters for hunting in the aspens. And an Art Young style wool hat.

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