Wooltimate woes

[Tater John]

fabric dye?

[kennym]

Nice job Arrow!!  Mine isn't that good a job!! 

[Sam McMichael]

I also suspect you have a UV issue.

[Basinboy]

I’d bet it’s uv as well. Try to find some of that Asko UV wash. Not sure if they are still making that stuff.

[kennym]

That was my first guess so I washed it in the uv wash stuff

[arrow30]

i think sometimes they just happen to look up at you, and think ..WHAT IS THAT!

[kennym]

Too many seeing me makes me irritable ... 

[Sam McMichael]

I'll tell you why I doubt that the problem is the color of your clothes. When I was a young hunter, the only camo I owned was military woodland camo. I used it in dark as well as light backgrounds and in thick brush and bare backgrounds. As long as the wind was right and I didn't move around, deer consistently looked right through me. However, when I later got commercially made camo, I got spotted all the time. In short, I think color is one of the least important attributes of a suit of camo - just my opinion going back to 1964.

[Tim Finley]

I had a Sitka jacket that I was wearing while hog hunting in Texas every time I lifted my bow to shoot they would bust happened about three time in one night, so I took it off and put my shirt on over it and the next bunch that came in I shot one no problem .
 I have a friend that wears snow camo in the tree stand he says it blends better with the light sky behind him . I had a King of The Mountain blowdown pattern that is light gray it worked good in the aspens and poplar groves but I thought I was always getting spotted in other trees .Maybe you just need a cotton shell over it .

[Cyclic-Rivers]

Hey kenny, sorry you're having this issue. I have not had an issue with mine. I also have top and bottom.   Last year had a 140 buck and doe bed looking right at me about 40 yards out. They didn't peg me until 3 or 4 hours later when the sun came out and I couldn't hold it anymore. 

[Lori]

We hunt on the ground and quite often don't wear camo, it seems that camo for deer may be over rated.  Rule number one, never stare at a deer, especially their eyes. 

[MCNSC]

I have a jacket, although I don’t wear it often because it doesn’t get cold enough very often. I’ve never had an issue with deer seeing it. I’m betting UV. UV killing sprays work , Haven’t used them in years but when I did I noticed a huge difference in the way squirrels reacted to me, deer should be the same.

[greg fields]

Like Tim above, I wore a Sitka jacket one night and 2 different spike buck picked me off in a tree from 70 yards away...  I figured the first one was just a freak accident, after it happened an hour later, I never wore it hunting again, just totally lost any confidence in it...
Its time for either a new paint job on the coat, or time to go shopping....

[kennym]

I wore my other wool tonite, the ol reliable, and several deer looked up at me. Maybe they are just conditioned to scan the trees for blobs...

No panic , but I still didn't like it.

[arrow30]

they are just coming by to see the infamous  KENNYM   ...they all heard you dont shoot.

[GCook]

After the leaves drop you are a blob that wasn't there yesterday. 
Mature animals know something is up.

[abbatoys]

I have had mine for about 20 years now with no issues. I have heard complaints about it since being taken over by BPS.

[Eric S]

I'm not saying it's your problem but your beard looks white in your avatar.  My buddy has a Santa white beard and always gets picked off without a facemask??? Ymmv

[kennym]

It is white! But I keep it covered with a facemask...

[Terry Green]

Kenny, you can't just 'rit dye' it.  The PH has to be right for wool to take dye.  No one needs to argue as I have bought 6 million pounds of dyed wool in a years time. 

However Kenny, you can use a permanent market to STAIN the garment.  Staining is different than dying. I did this years ago on a "too light' wool garment and it worked like a charm. Dark Brown Permanent market.