Looking to purchase some good camo for bow season coming up. Where is a good place to find Marpat or Multicam bdu? Looking for a good quality set.
Looking to purchase some good camo for bow season coming up. Where is a good place to find Marpat or Multicam bdu? Looking for a good quality set.
What are you hunting? I'm no scientist, but my understanding is that what animals see and what humans see are significantly different. What hides you from one may not hide you from the other.
The patterns you asked about were engineered to hide you from people. That would seem a little dangerous for hunting purposes. I would focus more on camo specifically designed for hunting. Realtree, optifade, mossy oak, etc. There are patterns geared toward the terrain and the animal.
Last edited by El Cid; 04-23-12 at 10:46.
Before you suggest that licensing, background checks, or other restrictions for the 2nd Amendment are reasonable... Apply those same ideas to the 1st and 4th Amendments. Then tell me how reasonable they are.
Having hunted hard for the last 18 years, I would have to agree with this. I have used many different types of cammo to hunt everything from ducks and geese to deer, elk, antelope, moose, bears, coyotes etc. Most of the big game animals I have taken in close with a bow, and some with a muzzle loader, so I have seen the importance of good camo to get in close.
That being said, I can say the best camo HANDS DOWN for bow hunting, in my opinion, is the leafy wear type cammo. This camo breaks up your silhouette much better than normal camo, and I have consistently gotten much closer to animals with this camo than any others. If you really want good hunting camo (especially for bowhunting), I would try this type of cammo.
http://www.leafycamo.com/field_lite.html
Cabelas usually has a good selection of leafy camo. Hope that helps!
I'm not a bow hunter but I wear multicam coyote or turkey hunting.
ETA; works well in the desert southwest at least.
Last edited by Packman73; 04-23-12 at 16:31.
Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see no remedy but force. - Oliver Wendell Holmes.
I've never worn MARPAT bowhunting, but I did wear a multicam.
In central Vermont (late october), I had a button walk right up to me while I stood (on the ground) in a treeline right around legal light. I was wearing scent control. He spooked when I moved. I didn't take the shot but it would have been the easiest shot I ever had.
Better camo is always better camo, but people tend to overthink it a lot of the time, whole generations of bowhunters wore nothing but plaid shirts and did just fine hunting from the ground.
It is bad policy to fear the resentment of an enemy. -Ethan Allen
Mostly I bowhunt for whitetail and will be in a tree. Around 20'-30' up. I would like to use it also in the spring for turkey. The leafy I would be afraid of affecting the string.
multicam with there digital color fading seems to work the best on people and animals from my experience.
"I must study politics and war so that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy."
-John Adams
"The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing."
- Albert Einstein
“Those who surrender freedom for security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.”
- Benjamin Franklin
Bookmarks