for Deer do you use a Face Mask

[stagetek]

Yes, always. One of those very light weight ones with the two elastic bands. In a pop-up blind, I'll wear a black one.

[Stump73]

I have naturally grown camo mask on my face.

[dbd870]

Always

[zepnut]

I also wear a light weight face mask.

[rolltidehunter]

yes, and it helps.

[reddogge]

Yes, a homemade mask all the time because I feel naked without it. Hate paint. Deer look right through me on the ground.

[RGKulas]

While I like the spandoflage or other elastic/clinging face masks, It hurts like hell since I wear BTE hearing aids and after a few hours its a bit painful to crush that hearing aid into your skull but I still wear it as I think covering that white face helps.

I have one of those tight stretchy ones.  One day I went out and it was hot, too hot to wear my Swanee wool, so I left it in the car. Wearing a leather Arvis hat, white and red plaid wool shirt and khaki brown pants, at least I had my face mask and my Nifty seat.  I was still hunting anyway and would probably not get a shot.  When I stopped, parked my butt on the Nifty seat, I ripped off that face crusher to hydrate and eat my apple, a small 8 pointer came walking up.  Red and white shirt, white beard, I did not even have my hat on and my sweaty bald head was probably reflecting like a car mirror.  That little buck walked with in 20 feet of me.  I thought, 'you poor blind fellow', I thought he was blind and considered putting him out of his misery.  He looked right at me like I was not there.  Then another hunter fully camoed and straight down wind of him and me walked across an alfalfa field about 200 yards away. The little eight pointer flopped to the ground about 15 feet from me and did not take his eyes off  the other hunter until he was out of sight.  He then got up and browsed his way around the bend and out of sight.  I have no clue why he could not see me, sitting there with my back against a baseball bat sized tree.  I still hate that face crusher mask, I still have it in my pocket and I still take it off as soon as I can.

[K.S.TRAPPER]

That's because it dosent matter, IMO neither does camo. Wish I new how many I killed wearing blue jeans and no headnet no sent killers or cover ups. Not little bucks or yearlings either!

But I still own camo that I've collected over the years and happens to be so of my warmest and most comfortable if needed. I could see were camo and face mask could help on a over hunted ranch like many were they hunt over feeders night and day. Those deer are raised to look for hunters there whole life and that's all they know.

Tracy

[Ryan Rothhaar]

Nope, if I don't have enough cover that they can catch me because of "no mask" then I need to find a better tree.

I only shave a couple times a week tho (cause I get lazy), and seem to always get too busy to take a shower on the weekend or very often when I'm on vacation hunting, so maybe I'm naturally grubby    

R