Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Around the Campfire => Topic started by: osage outlaw on October 18, 2013, 10:19:40 pm
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Somehow some of my camo hunting clothes shrunk a little since last season. I stopped in a Dick's Sporting goods store today to see if I could find a cheap long sleeve shirt and a light jacket. I had a coupon in my pocket for $10 off my purchase so I was sure I could find something. I walked into the large camo section and was shocked. The prices were outrageous. Its all high tech scent control material. $40 for a long sleeve shirt. $120 for a light jacket. Just a simple face mask was $25. I asked a worker if they had any plain material clothing. All he could find was a couple of cotton shirts. I decided to hang on to my coupon and left. I couldn't believe that all they carried was the high tech stuff. I wondered how I was able to kill so many deer over the years wearing old fashioned camo that didn't destroy every scent molecule on my body. On the way home I stopped at the local wal-mart and found some plain camo. I got a shirt and jacket for less than the price of the fancy material shirt. I hope the deer don't mind.
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It's just that the deer have evolved so very very fast, Clint. Once upon a time you could shoot a deer with a .243, but nowadays those little bullets bounce off and the deer flicks their tail like a skeeter landed on 'em. Gotta use a super magnum belted laserguided depleted uranium tracer-every-third-round kinda gun.
Same goes for camo. Deer now see in infra-red with photoreceptors in their eyes that can distinguish color down to half-angstroms.
Gosh, and to think people used to hunt wearing red and green plaid wool jackets that weren't even digitally 3-D printed. I heard some of 'em carried a baked potatoe in each pocket to keep their hands warm.
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Clint, I just bought a nice gray plaid flannel shirt from a local thrift store for $3. That and a pair of jeans will do the trick for you. ;) A Woolrich wool plaid over shirt will work good when the temps drop. I stopped buying camo years ago. I still use what I have but am thinking more traditional these days. Camo used to be my favorite color but the marketing crap has turned me away.
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Clint, I just bought a nice gray plaid flannel shirt from a local thrift store for $3. That and a pair of jeans will do the trick for you. ;) A Woolrich wool plaid over shirt will work good when the temps drop. I stopped buying camo years ago. I still use what I have but am thinking more traditional these days. Camo used to be my favorite color but the marketing crap has turned me away.
You gotta take what Pat says with a grain of salt. He carries a hunters blind with him everywhere he goes so it don't matter what he wears. He just sits down on a stump and spreads his beard out.
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Its getting pretty white John. I'm gonna have to start hunting snow country. ;D
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Yea it's crazy how the price of those camo clothes has ramped up.Really if a person just sits still and pays attention to the wind direction that's all it takes.
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PAT B'S COMING TO SOUTH DAKOTA!
Ed brings up a great point, too. Best bloody high tech camo in the world is worthless if you can't sit still.
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Wish I was John. One of these days! ;)
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Yeah, as someone who is just getting in to hunting, it is ridiculous. My buddy is fully sold on spending hundreds of dollars on the latest hi-tech camo, and I just bought a used wool Columbia camo jacket for 25 on craigslist. It doesn't fit me very well, hopefully the deer don't mind.
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Osage JW is right I been be'n stubborn about the high tech get up sent blocker, heat seeker arra's with 38 cal bang bang ends and all. I'm sure that is why I have not filled a tag in a few years. Guess our old school stuff just don't work no more. :'(
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X10 to what Pat said. I wear mostly earthtones very lil camo. I also have gotton some vintage Woolrich on Ebay cant beat it.
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Oh yeah, killed a yodel dog on the ground 7yds with recurve gray Kroomer plaid shirt no headnet BDU pants. Wind dead in my mug!
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Its getting pretty white John. I'm gonna have to start hunting snow country. ;D
Pat you can still hunt down here, just sit in the oaks with all of the Spanish Moss ;D. I wear BDU pants and any camo shirts I have, but most of the time I just slip a leafy net suit on and go. You sweat so much down here I challenge them to prove to me those charcoal suits work here.
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This is my favorite camo outfit ever. It has a few holes in it, missing a couple of buttons, and has a nice patch on the knee. It was my Dad's. I was wearing it when I took my first deer in the 6th grade. I wore it for years and was pretty successful in it. Unfortunately once I got married, it shrunk to and doesn't fit anymore :'( I want to find a light brown shirt and pants and try to make my own camo with RIT dye and maybe some walnuts.
(http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r55/clintanders/Hunting%20Indiana%20Buildalong/SDC10849.jpg)
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If I didnt wear some form of camo up here, Id never kill a deer. These guys get hunted like no other state and muted, earth tones wont take you far, heck camo barely conceals you. I pretend Im hunting turkeys and cover every inch of solid color and skin up. Stupid deer........;)
Clint you just a tight wad.
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I gave up camo three yeas ago, no drop in deer sightings or shot opportunities. I came to the conclusion that camo clothing is the second biggest con in the hunting industry today, the so called scent lock clothing has first nailed first by a long shot.
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Google search the law suit filed against Scentlocks claims about eliminating scent.
Clint, I have a favorite camo shirt, too, my palmetto camo. Everytime I put it on it seems like I bag something or get a shot.
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Google search the law suit filed against Scentlocks claims about eliminating scent.
Clint, I have a favorite camo shirt, too, my palmetto camo. Everytime I put it on it seems like I bag something or get a shot.
and thats how you got Cathy...she fell for the shirt, lol
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Naw,, she loved me for my sparkling personallty ;D.
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I think this whole primitive archery thing is about passing on traditions, and for that matter, taking up traditions. When Clint posted the picture of himself in his Dad's camo, I got a little choked up. That's just the heart and soul of why this grips me so deeply. Passing it on and carrying it on.
Clint does it the hard way, he doesn't look to buy his advantages in the woods. He earns 'em and learns 'em. And he has the red arrow this fall to prove it!
"I am nothing, if not a creature of habits." -Remnar Soady speaking on his traditional hunting garb, "Escanaba In Da Moonlight"
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it really saddens me that people figure they can buy success.
I grew up on a farm in the early 80s.
time to hunt was far and few between until all the crops were off.
if a young inexperienced kid could kill deer wearing dirty blue jeans and a dirty flannel shirt reeking of cow manure and diesel fuel with his hand me down ben pearson recurve and by playing the wind.
than almost anyone should be able too.
i'll stick to my plaid wool or if I'm feeling real fancy my second hand leafy suit.
they can keep there high $ crap
Kevin
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I killed my first long beard with a shotgun at ten yards wearing a pair of blue jeans. And he never knew what hit him.
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I have nothing against those,that feel they need it.Its their choice and money,they can spend it on whatever they want.I only take exception to those,that tell me i need to have it, to be a real hunter and have success.
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For deer, I've taken more without camo than with camo. Waterfowls another story and where it every hunt.
I've been buying camo for my son as he grows every two weeks and I can't afford $80 for a popular name brand sweatshirt. The marketing is ridiculous along with the cost. My daughter wants and wears camo, but doesn't want it with pink all over too.
I have a few articles from my hunting mentor that I wear when out and think that is very cool Clint. It's gotta make your dad proud :) I got that same shrinking problem too, what gives? >:D
Tracy
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I found a picture of the first time I had success with that camo
(http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r55/clintanders/firstdeer.jpg)
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Who's the skinny, little kid?
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I hit dicks sporting goods up right after the first of the year. I live close to one so it's not a problem to check every couple days but I got a setup for my boys at 75% off
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I agree you don't need camo just break color pattern and sent lock ya if your down wind game over. :o But I wear camo because there is nothing better than being the talking tree when a fellow hunter goes sneaking buy >:D
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But I wear camo because there is nothing better than being the talking tree when a fellow hunter goes sneaking buy >:D
Don't you find the resulting smell offensive, not to mention ruins the set-up for future hunting?
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that must of been before you moved on to the
HUSKY clothing isle >:D
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My clothes have always came from the husky isle
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Yep! That shirt looks Husky ;).
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Unfortunately you guys are all wrong. I bought a new pair a realtree camo pants on Friday afternoon because I tore the rearend out of my other pair. Just after daylight Sat morning I had 5 does walk out and present a shot. I choked and missed :-\ but I had to be the shiny new camo that gave me the shot opportunity. There is not no other explaination. Also my buddy was wearing a new pair of camo overalls and had 3 small bucks all present shots. He passed but the camo did its work.
I suggest everyone goes out and buys brand new state of the art camo if you want to be a successful hunter. ;)
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Depending on the weather, if it is cold, and snow on the ground, I wear my German military wool pants, German civil defense wool jacket, or my Swedish military, wool pants and my Swedish military wool coat, none of which is camo, and though I may look like an escaped prisoner of war, I am warm, and comfortable, and I have no problems with deer, walking close to me. In the warmer weather, like here in Florida, I wear,blue jeans, and camo T shirt, with my camo sniper net shirt, and or my sniper veil draped around the tree limbs, or bushes. Sometimes, I just wear a regular shirt, with the camo net shirt, and blue jeans, and sneakers. I do have some German Flecktar parkas, and pants, that I will occasionally, will wear. But like it is said, it doesn't matter if you have all the latest high tech camo, if you move around, or SMOKE, or make noise, it doesn't matter. I have a set of Brittish Chemical warfare pants, and jacket, with charcoal lining. It smells. I have to leave it hanging on the clothes line for a couple of weeks, to get the new clothing smell, and whatever else was on it, out. The reason Eddie snared Cathy is she didn't recognize him for what he was, in that shirt. Those are good camo shirts, but especially in areas, that have palmettos. And rattle snakes. :o Another good pattern down here is the jump suit , or shirt, or jacket, and pants with the marsh reeds pattern. It is good for the saw grass, and other grass type weeds here in Florida. But just plain ol clothes work just fine, if you take the time to find a good place to sit, or stand, or if you are walking, stalking etc. Doesn't matter a lot, as long as you take your time. They are going to catch movement.
Wayne