Posted on 02/02/2009 10:58:07 AM PST by JoeProBono
Gary Linam likes to hunt in style. When he and his hunting buddy Mike Self venture into the Dogwood Flats outside of Huntsville, Ala., they drive a four-wheel drive Jeep decked out with a DVD player, Sirius XM radio, backup cameras and a GPS system. Linam dresses head to toe in camouflage."We're all about the camo," Linam says. "We've got the camo seat covers, steering wheel cover, but the cool part about it is the paint job on the outside." Linam's Jeep is a work of art to hunters, anyway thanks to a local artist.
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Blaze orange is required in most states for hunting, particularly when other hunters are present; deer and some other mammals see the blaze orange as gray. The point of camo is simply to break up the outline of your image against the background. Most of my friends and I wear two or three different camo patterns when waterfowl or turkey hunting simply because we’re too cheap to buy complete sets of the latest rage in camouflage. But the different camo have similar coloration and patterns.
What’s most important in hunting is to remain relatively motionless and undetected by your prey. All the camo in the world is of no help if you prematurely mount your shotgun or rifle when the animal is looking in your direction.
That’s really, REALLY creepy.
That is true. It still doesn't stop some idiots from shooting at noise and movement in the brush. When elk season would open up back home you could sit in your back yard and listen to the gunfire. It sounded like Vietnam at times. The local papers would have all sorts of stories of hunters with various injuries inflicted by other hunters who had “Buck fever” and didn't identify their target. It really gets the adrenalin flowing to have a couple of rounds of 30-06 go in your direction and have some moron say “I'm sorry thought you were a elk/deer/whatever”
If a turkey used the sense of smell, you’d never kill one! I’ve never seen another animal catch even the smallest smidgeon of movement.
Thanks for the info!
Just don’t paint em black and white like a Holstein...
I have seen truck interiors in Holstein hide so it won’t be long before some cowboy extends that to the exterior on his F150 deer stand...
I’ve never seen that graphic ... saved it. Thanks.
Saw a guy all camo’ed up out in our square today.
Have no idea what he thought he was hiding from.
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