Camoflauge Clothing - What pattern should I use?

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Camouflage Clothing - What pattern works? 

 

  Have you ever considered there may be a downside to concealing yourself with these great looking new camouflage patterns? The way camouflage appears to the human eye is almost totally irrelevant for hunting, because most animals have quite different visual systems. For example some wildfowl have FIVE basic colour sensors where humans only have THREE (usually called red, green and blue, although in fact our "green" sensor has about 80% overlap with the "red" sensor.)

 

In contrast, most non-human mammals (including deer) have only 2 colour sensors, but for nocturnal and crepsucular animals (animlas active at dawn and dusk) the "blue" sensor extends much further into ultraviolet than it does for day-dwelling creatures like humans. (BTW, this means you should never wash hunting camo in any laundry powder with "fabric brighteners"; if you do that, then to a deer your camouflage will actually be glowing.)

The upshot of all this is that if you evaluate your hunting camo by "how hard I am to see against the sage brush" you get a camouflage pattern that works against human vision; The camo may or may not work against your prey, but is much more likely to get you involved in a hunting accident. Where another, less skilled hunter, may mistake you or the sounds you make for the game he is after.

In contrast, many camouflage manufacturers now make good hunting camo that incorporates bright safety colours that happen to be invisible to deer.