Camo Considerations

Tip : Camouflage works because it creates visual confusion. It disguises your recognizable form by breaking up your outline. The whole idea of camouflage is to blend into the environment.

Look at your hunting habitat to determine the predominant color tone of that terrain. The pattern of shapes also influences your choice of camouflage patterns. The tree trunks of a mature forest are a dominating shape, presenting a vertically oriented overall scene.

Help your camouflage help you. Stay close to the cover you are trying to blend into. Don't skyline yourself on the tops of ridges and hills. Walk sidehills so you are not silhouetted against the sky. Stay in the shadows; don't "spotlight" yourself by sitting out in a sunny spot. Use every advantage the habitat gives you to enhance your camouflage effect.

Fabrics with a tough, "hard" finish are more weather and abrasion resistant but are noisy when scraped by brush. "Soft" finishes like wool, synthetic fleeces, napped cotton and flocked nylon are much quieter.