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Would snow camo stand out too much during early season?

HuumanCreed

HuumanCreed

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Found a used Alps Outdoorz Trail Blazer pack for cheap online so I snapped it up (being shipped). Thinking about using it as my main pack next season. Only issue I see is that its Snow/Winter Camo pattern. It look really bright to me, maybe its not as bad once I actually see it in person.

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Yes I know, camo doesnt matter as long as its not blue etc etc...

But for early season hunt without snow on the ground, it just look so white to me, just to my HUMAN eye's it stand out a lot. Anyone use their snow pattern gear during the early season and notice anything?

I've been meaning to try the DIY dyeing your pack with RIT. Might even do it just for fun. I am 99% its all in my mind and its psychological, but I just feel more exposed in the early season with so much white material. I assumed that's why the original owner is selling it so cheap. And from looking online, its not a very popular pattern too.
 
HuumanCreed said:
Found a used Alps Outdoorz Trail Blazer pack for cheap online so I snapped it up (being shipped). Thinking about using it as my main pack next season. Only issue I see is that its Snow/Winter Camo pattern. It look really bright to me, maybe its not as bad once I actually see it in person.

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Yes I know, camo doesnt matter as long as its not blue etc etc...

But for early season hunt without snow on the ground, it just look so white to me, just to my HUMAN eye's it stand out a lot. Anyone use their snow pattern gear during the early season and notice anything?

I've been meaning to try the DIY dyeing your pack with RIT. Might even do it just for fun. I am 99% its all in my mind and its psychological, but I just feel more exposed in the early season with so much white material. I assumed that's why the original owner is selling it so cheap. And from looking online, its not a very popular pattern too.
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Broadside camo has a ton of white in it and people down south love it for early season archery and even spring turkey season.... If you are hunting elevated, the back pack will blend with the sky line and the brightness of the white fades out as it gets darker outside. I do not personally think it’ll matter
 
Fl Canopy Stalker said:
Broadside camo has a ton of white in it and people down south love it for early season archery and even spring turkey season.... If you are hunting elevated, the back pack will blend with the sky line and the brightness of the white fades out as it gets darker outside. I do not personally think it’ll matter
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Whoa, I have never seen that pattern, look really nice actually.
 
Wow, apparently I’m in the minority but no way I’d use white. The contrast of white is basically a warning flag to deer, look at their tails. When you’re walking through the woods with white or getting something out of a white pack in a tree you’d basically be waving a warning flag to them. I’d agree that camo matters very little to a deer but contrast does and nothing sticks out like white. If the pack is stationary up high in a tree, yeah then they probably are not going to pick it up. I’m not saying every deer in the woods is gonna pick it up and run off into the next county but it’s just a small thing that would be working against you. So, definitely not a pointless question.
 
BenG said:
Wow, apparently I’m in the minority but no way I’d use white. The contrast of white is basically a warning flag to deer, look at their tails. When you’re walking through the woods with white or getting something out of a white pack in a tree you’d basically be waving a warning flag to them. I’d agree that camo matters very little to a deer but contrast does and nothing sticks out like white. If the pack is stationary up high in a tree, yeah then they probably are not going to pick it up. I’m not saying every deer in the woods is gonna pick it up and run off into the next county but it’s just a small thing that would be working against you. So, definitely not a pointless question.
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I don’t think their vision is really all that good, and they don’t seem to focus in unless they see movement. Besides the sky is usually white or grey depending on the frontal system... And one of the perks to the saddle is you can keep the tree between you and the deer. I know people that absolutely love broadside and it has a whole lot of white. I mean if weldabeast is killing them in his magnum PI shirts, I’m not thinking white would hurt... I try to camo myself from other people, don’t need other hunters (or game wardens) interrupting my hunts
 
Plebe said:
Deer are red colorblind, so you're wearing a gray shirt with small blue and yellow highlights.
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Yep, this is a far cry from going out there in a white T-shirt. It's probably very good camouflage from the deer's perspective. And no, I'm not saying a deer can't be killed with a white T-shirt. Lot's of deer could probably be killed with a white tyvek suit on. I'm just saying if you are trying to be undetected on your walk or don't want a deer to see you getting in your pack for something then white is probably the worst color. Sometimes the small details make all the difference in the world, other times they don't matter at all.
 
Weldabeast said:
That's what she said
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Whatever that means, your picture has little to do with white. If you want an apples to apples comparison, there is literally an apples to apples comparison you can read about. There was a deer vision study done with yellow and red apples and it produced some strong conclusions.

Red plaid was a favorite of northeastern hunters for many decades and worked fine even when hunting from the ground because red doesn't look red to deer. So red doesn't move the bar for me.

Because deer eyes are engineered to have a primary focus at ground level, you can likely get away with colors that stand out to them when elevated if you don't provide them with other signs of your presence.

I would paint or dye (if the material will accept it) the pack myself.
 
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