Thread: How necessary is camo?

Gidday mate.
I have been deer hunting pretty much continuously for 67 years now, and I say if you want to get shot by a buck feverish newbie, wear camo. Camo is designed to hide you from humans, and does it well. For animals, It doesn't matter a hoot what you wear. The rule is;- if you move, you'll be seen, and if you don't move, you won't be seen. It's all about fashion mate. In the 1960's we all wore a black woolen singlet, shorts, and Anson boots with ex army cloth wrap around ankle gaiters to keep river shingle out. We shot hundreds of deer, and camo was unheard off. Camo is fantastic if you're a retail gunshop owner laughing all the way to the bank. Someone else mentioned blaze orange - another good way to get shot because at some times during the summer season, red deer can take on a remarkably similar hue in the Toitoi at 300 metres and more. Ming blue is a good alien colour in the bush, and some Swannys were made with blue tartan which was good. These days, in my 85th year, I hunt on flat ground in a mixture of rainforest, pines and pasture paddocks, a completely different hunting style to the Tararuas, and requiring different techniques, but my clothing is whatever I happen to have at the time.