Getting in.

[swampthing]

This post is going to be in segments.
There are a lot of stories about/how "the perfect set-up." One important aspect is...  You have to "get there" in order to "set up." Allow me to open up the big picture a little more.
 You still hunting your way in. {now look at the middle of the picture, over that rock and through that opening and you will see a camo shirt hanging from a branch a chest level}     You can easilly be silloeted when you are in dappled light and don't have a dark backround.

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This effect is not a hard fast rule but somthing I have not discovered until recently. Going one step further... hiding... camo is very helpfull in that regard, but I've noticed that my pesky silloette is with me, see the shoulders of the shirt on the right portion of that bunch of branches, directally above the fallen trunk in the middle of the frame, it is a little more shaded and darker than the surroundings, snipers call it tree cancer.    Looks like a poncho, it is a shirt.

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Another point of view is walking in a brushy area were you have much more cover to hide in. Your silloette is pretty unnatural and can be picked off rather quickly by the constantly alert quarry. Shirt is in middle of frame next to the 2nd tree trunk from the front

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Real thick blowdowns are a little better but you are still a dark silloette . Even though the "screen" difuses it some.

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I think an important part is getting in. One must also "get to", or go from, spot to spot, in order to utilize those set-up/vantage points. Route selection might not be working in your favor, or you might just have to crawl to get you silloette out of there.  
Note: camo is the new, lighter colored, more open realtree APG HD.  
Hope you've enjoyed part-one. Part-two is to come latter on as my little one is waking up.

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Alright. Without getting into guille suits. Silloette's are an important factor in being seen. I find that there is one more way to skin the proveribal cat. Large stripes, spots, combos of the two, all work good, as well as color blending, like animals do. If you look closely at the first picture, next to the shirt, another camo shirt is hanging next to it, it is a neutral gray camo.   Here is the same pic zoomed in a bit.   Even zoomed in the non matching color is not highly contrasted, or is it any much lighter or darker than the surroundings.

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Now for the second scene. If you look at the picture there is a grey shirt on the other side of the brush pile. To me it does not look like anything and has no real shape just kinda there but non alerting or standig out. Now zoomed in you can see it a bit better but still not like a flashlight or a dark blob.  

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It is tough to get a perspective as the camera has a much different field of view and depth perception than my eye. As I'm trying to illustrate that getting in starts at a distance. This works both ways as the quarry is also trying to "get in," and will be at a distance before it will be up close.

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Pic #3 now has one trying to slipp around. That grey shirt is all the way to the left of the pic, notice there is no silloette, the camo in the middle may blend in with the colors better, but it can't do this without a silloette, the grey just looks like dappled light.  

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I have numerous pics of this, at varying ranges, but one thing remains. Animals sometimes don't come in to you "set-up" straight on, many will circle to enter from a different angle, your color match camo is pretty invisable with a dark or similar colored backround, not so without it "behind" you, {from the quarry's perspective.}
"Getting in" is not easy and is a very sporting way of "attempting" to hunt. From what I have found there is no perfect "set-up," but by using the others perspective as a means of planning your tactic is definately a viable option for us.  
 Note pic #4 has the grey shirt in it also.

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Happy turkey season to you all.

[bofish-IL]

About five years ago I was in South Dakota antelope hunting. There were 4 of us in the hunting party. A freind and I split from the other two and walked away the opposite direction.

Hours later as we were walking back we spotted the other two hunters about 200 to 300 yards off. One was dressed in full camo the other in camo pants and gray shirt. We both commented how the one in full camo stuck out more than the person with the grey shirt.  The camo guy looked like a dark blob moving along. I decided then that a lot of camo made today is to dark for most situations.

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Those asat and predator combos look pretty good too, I'd like to see some photos at 25+ yds to see if they show the same effect that neutral grey does.