Originally posted by 30coupe:
Originally posted by Hoyt:
I don't think you have to use camo to fool deer..some of the time, but I'm a true believer in ASAT.
Many times I've been in a stand about 8' high with nothing between me and deer as close as 1 step from tree and not got busted.
Happened again yesterday afternoon at 6:00pm I hear two little thuds and think to myself a deer just jumped that ditch behind me. I didn't get my head turned all the way around and there was a 4pt walking straight towards me at about 10 steps.
I had trimmed a couple of big limbs when I got up and as he got directly under me he put his head down and smelled the limbs. Went on semi alert and no more than 10' between us and me wide open facing him he stares at me. Then just turns and walks away downwind. I use a Bee Smoker and smoke my clothes and it does work too..has several times this season.
Everything the same and me with no camo I think I would have gotten busted..with anything but ASAT I think I probably would have. Almost same scenario happened a couple wks ago with same ending..just walked away.
I've had very similar experiences while wearing wool plaid and Cabela's wooltimate jacket and pants. Not much of a camo pattern on the wooltimate, but the wooly texture must make you about invisible to deer. I have an old black, brown, and grey wool plaid jacket that I wear most of the time until it gets cold enough to don the wooltimate. I haven't found a warmer hunting garment. I just wish they made it in bibs instead of cargo pants. [/b]
I've also had "similar" experiences wearing solid red coat, hat, etc., but there are times when I know I should have been picked out no matter what. Those times I know I should have and didn't I've always been wearing ASAT.
I know some Tree Saddle users who hang off a bare tree that swear by it also.
I had an ASAT Field Shirt draped across a bare fence 10 ft. from my tent one yr and didn't notice it for a couple of weeks. A friend passed me by on a grassy road shoulder after a hunt..said he didn't see me.
I could be all wrong, but it's one of the few gimmicks (the pattern) or whatever that I believe works.
I switch over to Cabela's Wooltimate and Berber Fleece with Outfitters Camo during the cold months.
Just can't make myself pay what the cold weather ASAT cost.