So who is rocking the plaid this coming season?

Moose

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Break out Grampa's old hunting coat and hit the woods ;)


 

oldest school

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It is silly camoing up to sit in a tower, box or blind.
I really like a black broken pattern HUK light weight down jacket that is made for fishing. Incredibly warm , light and just the right length to protect your lower back.
I cant make myself wear in up in an exposed stand when i know it would work fine. Just a mental deal.
Deer ime cant find you if you dont smell or move.
I dont own any plaid but surely it "works" just fine.
 

Rescue44

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In one place, author says, "Ungulates see yellow, black, white, shades of gray and blue".
Then farther down, author says, "To deer, red looks green.". So...ungulates see green, also?
 

UpATree

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I had some blue paracord I used for my haul line. I sometimes would put it away but not always. I know now that even a little of it is like a bright strobe light telling them to haul butt away from me.
 

Aaron H

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I'm an old guy, started hunting deer about 1970, and we wore plaid shirts. I remember a button buck that came to stand the length of my Marlin 35 lever action rifle from me. Yea, it was just a buck fawn but it stood there looking through me as I stood still watching his eyes not much more than 3 feet away from me. I wear camo now but for most of my deer hunting I could wear jeans and a t-shirt. I don't let get as close as I used to.
 

timber

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Always thought the plaid was a northern thing. Not something you saw around here in eastern N.C. Started hunting around 1963-64 so didn’t come up in the camo hype. Did have a foreigner come hunting one time with a member in the early 70s decked out in blaze orange coveralls. But growing up was all dog hunting with shotgun only. You wore what you worked in a lot of times
 

timber

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He probably heard how y’all shoot at anything that moves.




Well was good size club had thousands of acres of private land we hunted and killed a hell of a lot of deer. But to my knowledge the only one ever got shot was me. That wasn’t deer hunting we were dove hunting in September Guy had a old 00 buckshot mixed in that day. I caught one. Still carrying it around in my leg after about 50 years
 

Hunterreed

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Dan Fitzgerald and Larry Benoit rocked them well into the era of camo.Fred Bear didn't have a choice unless it was the marine jungle fatigues that stuck out like a sore thumb. I remember buying faded surplus woodland camo fatigues, if I could have found green plaid back then it would have worked better. I wore an od green military trenchcoat that was probably Korean war era that worked pretty good in my area. Figured it made me look like a young cedar tree with my skinny legs sticking out the bottom, deer and squirrels would walk right by me while still hunting on wet leaves. I wonder if blue and black plaid would work?
 

pattersonj11

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My favorite hunting shirt is a green/tan plaid red head button down that my wife gave me from a discount sale for like $3. It’s a work shirt. Covered in oil, gas, chainsaw lube, and all kinds of exhaust gases.
 

QBD2

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Ain’t got nary fancy woolen plaid(they cost way to much no colder than it gets here)but I’ve killed a *couple* in jeans and a flannel shirt(y)
 

dobber

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his cracks me up.,,,, folks getting all camo'd to hide in a house,,,,
i actually giggle to myself when layering up for deer hunting in November, the t-shirt is camo, the sweater is camo and the jacket is hunter orange - its about what i have on hand vs trying to trick a deer just in case it sees me in a tshirt lol
 

woodmoose

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I've got a whole lot more warm camo hunting clothes than I do warm black hunting clothes, I ain't never been accused of being Johnny Cash when I'm out trying to kill a deer. That's why I wear camo to the box blind :cool: .
Heck even Johnny didn't wear black to hunt, or plaid, or camo....
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Johnny sporting the Mannlicher stock,,, nice
 

45/70 hunter

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I still have grampas plaid hunting jacket!!! He passed in 1994. I need to kill one wearing his plaid coat and using his old .410 (slugs, he didn't use a rifle). Be the equivalent of pouring one out for my homies!!

The little 410 slugs pack surprising punch. I've found the most accurate to be Federal 2.5" 1/4 oz (109 gr) and Silver Bear 3" 97 gr slugs. I've shot several deer inside 35 yards and so far all have dropped.
 
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