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Hunters try to account for the deers senses, approaching from up wind so they cant smell you. Sneaking so they cant hear you, it makes sense that you'd also use camo so they cant see you.
Most of the hunters I know go for the hi vis orange camo so you stand out to humans but not deer since they cannot see the colours.
But if you’re moving slowly, isn’t that enough? The camo still seems useless in this context. I get wearing orange but as far as I can tell, the camo pattern is entirely useless.
Breaking up your silhouette is the advantage, but for deer specifically the woodland color palette isn't doing anything. However its really common to hunt more than one kind of animal, and fowl in particular have great eyesight.
That being said, plenty of old timers hunt okay in standard outdoor gear and use the environment for their concealment. The high end stuff is absolutely for the larpers.
Right I’m just thinking of it with regard to deer hunting which afaik is the most popular type. Duck hunters, turkey hunters, sure… camo would help. But there’s so much “lifestyle gear” specifically depicting deer hunting which is all camo print.
It still breaks up the hunter's pattern and is still an advantage to look like sticks and leaves even if deer see sticks and leaves differently than we do.
Is this a fact or speculation?