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Author Topic: Do you hunt in camo clothing or go "natural"?  (Read 611 times)

Offline Arkansaslongbow

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Do you hunt in camo clothing or go "natural"?
« on: June 07, 2012, 03:49:00 PM »
I am trying to rely less and less on modern day camo; I do hunt in a ghillie suit often but am wanting to get away from buying what companies say I "need" to be successful;

What do you use?

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Offline Killdeer

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Re: Do you hunt in camo clothing or go "natural"?
« Reply #1 on: June 07, 2012, 04:04:00 PM »
Game warden said that the next time he caught me out there "natural" that he was gonna field dress me and run me in.
Never had that reaction thirty years ago.

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Offline ron w

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Re: Do you hunt in camo clothing or go "natural"?
« Reply #2 on: June 07, 2012, 04:06:00 PM »
:biglaugh:     :biglaugh:    :biglaugh:  yea, me to!
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Offline jimmerc

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Re: Do you hunt in camo clothing or go "natural"?
« Reply #3 on: June 07, 2012, 04:13:00 PM »
Sometimes in modern camo, sometimes in jeans and flannel shirts- never natural- I'd be ripped to shreads in minutes!!!
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Offline Shedrock

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Re: Do you hunt in camo clothing or go "natural"?
« Reply #4 on: June 07, 2012, 04:22:00 PM »
Carhart pants and plaid shirts.
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Offline straitera

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Re: Do you hunt in camo clothing or go "natural"?
« Reply #5 on: June 07, 2012, 04:26:00 PM »
No commercial camo in 35 years
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Offline YORNOC

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Re: Do you hunt in camo clothing or go "natural"?
« Reply #6 on: June 07, 2012, 04:28:00 PM »
I prefer camo, not because its any better, I just like it. Some of mine is 20+ years old.
You dont NEED anything except a bow and arrows, but if you like the look of a pattern, be it new, old,high tech, plain jane, plaid or whatever...go for it.  
Whatever YOU feel better in.
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Offline Kapellmeister

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Re: Do you hunt in camo clothing or go "natural"?
« Reply #7 on: June 07, 2012, 04:32:00 PM »
The closest to "au naturel" I've come when hunting has been in a breech cloth (not alone, though... that would scare all the deer into the next county!) under a knee-length walnut dyed linen hunting shirt.

I have too much camo to abandon it completely, but I'm preferring the 18th clothing and the plaid wool lately.
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Re: Do you hunt in camo clothing or go "natural"?
« Reply #8 on: June 07, 2012, 04:58:00 PM »
I wear a wool poncho just to break up my pattern
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Offline JV Rooster

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Re: Do you hunt in camo clothing or go "natural"?
« Reply #9 on: June 07, 2012, 05:08:00 PM »
I like plaid!
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Offline Igor

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Re: Do you hunt in camo clothing or go "natural"?
« Reply #10 on: June 07, 2012, 05:12:00 PM »
Plaid/flannel or wool....


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Offline Covey

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Re: Do you hunt in camo clothing or go "natural"?
« Reply #11 on: June 07, 2012, 05:15:00 PM »
Wool and army surplus camo is about the extent of it for me. Really like the wool plaid patterns and is usually what I wear. Works real good!

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Re: Do you hunt in camo clothing or go "natural"?
« Reply #12 on: June 07, 2012, 05:18:00 PM »
nat gear
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Re: Do you hunt in camo clothing or go "natural"?
« Reply #13 on: June 07, 2012, 05:53:00 PM »
I knew the "natural" theme would get some bites.

Highest tech stuff I can find - Sitka Gear. Comfortable, effective, and well-designed with hidey-holes everywhere.

I have no doubt far less expensive "Natural" clothing would hide a non-moving hunter just fine though.

Except --I won't use any type of clothing that claims to be "scent-control" -- never fooled me the first go round and won't do it now after they lost the lawsuit.

Offline SaltyDawg

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Re: Do you hunt in camo clothing or go "natural"?
« Reply #14 on: June 07, 2012, 06:05:00 PM »
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Do you hunt in camo clothing or go "natural"?
I wear camo break up stuff like a leafy, or ghillie suit.

Occasionally, especially when it is real hot I will go all natural, but I'm hairy enough to pull it off as long as I have my back turned to the GW.

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Offline DennyK

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Re: Do you hunt in camo clothing or go "natural"?
« Reply #15 on: June 07, 2012, 06:16:00 PM »
Going natural along with bowhunting frogs is a no-no here in Michigan.
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Re: Do you hunt in camo clothing or go "natural"?
« Reply #16 on: June 07, 2012, 06:32:00 PM »
Both, whatever I feel like that day

Offline ChrisM

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Re: Do you hunt in camo clothing or go "natural"?
« Reply #17 on: June 07, 2012, 07:56:00 PM »
I am moving more to flannel and cheap cotton camo for the hot days.  Too much of the "good" camo has a sheen to it from the high tech material.  I have a hard enough time without shining in the woods.
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Offline gringol

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Re: Do you hunt in camo clothing or go "natural"?
« Reply #18 on: June 07, 2012, 08:01:00 PM »
I'm afraid my "natural" camo would only by effective in the snow.  That would cause other problems...

cheap camo for me.  mix and match, whatever is quiet and cheap.

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Re: Do you hunt in camo clothing or go "natural"?
« Reply #19 on: June 07, 2012, 09:02:00 PM »
Killie you can go natural in Jersey, we are all weird here.Just watch out for the briars.
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