Duck camo, help me choose my outfit.

[JTO]

just noticed this! the base of the shell warps. one side sets further back

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Wrong thread?

 

[Karhumies]

Wrong thread?

yes

 

[enfieldspares]

You need to blend in. To look like what else would be seen near where you are. To become part of the immediate local environment. Be what the duck would expect to be seeing. Think outside the box...like they did with what was called "a stalking horse".

Or maybe wear something like this:

 

[Foxyboy43]

My favourite pattern is Danish M84 (flecktarn without the brown). Pretty much the same overall tones as the Swedish splinter camo, but with the dappled effect of the German one.

OMG!
I really shouldn’t get up so early - I misread this as Swedish sphincter camo.
Nite all…..

 

[seedawood]

Yea, no decoys, no land cover. Just a kayak, camo and a flight path they like to take.

currently trying out the DPM, seems to work well so far

face cover doesnt always work with my glasses unfortunately but i keep the sun in my back

this is a peat swamp, whatever looks like land will swallow you and the "islands" rearrange in the wind. one moment its dense fog, an hour later its clear, and then its back. A challenging environment. I am currently half beached on a clump of vegetation.

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Key words are "other hunters", if they're common enough that you see them the duck will certainly be well educated. You need to break up the outline of the kayak as well as your self, I would be thinking odd shaped camo net with floats on the edges covering everything, the more you look like a lump of detritus the better (lucky for me...) also straight black lines don't happen in nature, I would get some camo bow tape on that paddle and your gun barrels. My personal favourite for that setting would be M90.

 

[Karhumies]

yea unfortunately everyone goes to this swamp, permission thing. Its a lake owned by a cooperative (people who own a percentage of the water area) and us hunters rely on those cooperatives selling permits to their lake or in this case swamp. on opening day its wild west, ducks falling left and right, arguments over who got what bird, getting showered in pellets from all sides (falling from the sky)

then its silent. And its a couple of hunters picking off high birds with xfull steel chokes as they fly over. Hopefully things improve later this season.

 

[Bowland blades]

What camo does not really factor that much at all when on an evening flight , moving about or being silhouetted is where the attention to detail matters

 

[nic531]

movement is the worst enemy. I mainly use green (plus the mud from the marsh) and NEVER wash the jacket etc with washing powders, just water

 

[Karhumies]

movement is the worst for any game. But in my Limited experience birds are alot more perceptive for color and shape, at least pigeons are. And for pigeon the same rules seen to apply as humans, camo lowers the chanses of falling under scrutiny. A dark shape that doesnt belong, a flash of a strange colour, a dark brown patch in a bright green field. I dont know if duck is perceptive like that but the pigeons here certainly are.

movement stands out and alarms imediately, but even in a treeline i have had pigeons avoid me while wearing khaki when they would come right in when i wore flecktarn in fall.

 

[Heym SR20]

Looking at the OPs original photos it looks like your cammo has a shiny surface. Nae chance of remaining unseen. You need drab, soft finish. My duckshooting smock is a deerhunter bonded fleece in a mid green and it works really well on the foreshore.

Ducks will see anything shiny a long way off.

 

[Karhumies]

Looking at the OPs original photos it looks like your cammo has a shiny surface. Nae chance of remaining unseen. You need drab, soft finish. My duckshooting smock is a deerhunter bonded fleece in a mid green and it works really well on the foreshore.

Ducks will see anything shiny a long way off.

The original fotos in the first post are juet examples from google, i dont have pictures of myself in every outfit. I wear ragged old surplus. The dutch m90 is like your brittish stuff exept a little darker yellows.

m05 is actually IR compliant

the flecktarn and swedish m90 splinter camo are a different story, those are rain gear, lots of nylon.

 

[Karhumies]

To refer back to the original post tho, this whole thread is semi serious. hunting camo is a cool excuse for us smelly gunwielding slobs to have fashion discussions and pretend its all about practicality.

That out of the way, i tried a full set of swedish m90, the knockoff brandit stuff since the swedish army doesnt make uniforms for a beer keg with a beard.

Surprisingly the stuff is incredibly effective in the swamp. I had multiple other hunters row by me and never notice me sitting IN FRONT of the vegetation 50 meters away.

Il ask my wife to make a picture soon since my camera is a potato, but hanging the jacket on a stick between the reeds its pretty hard to spot unless you know whete to look. Seems the fairies across the baltic knee what they where doing designing that weird blocky grey and green camo, it kinda messes with your head when it comes to siluette. And the light green colour dominance with those dark segments plays tricks in the light.

It certainly doesnt look like surounding vegetation but unlike the DPM and flecktarn wich look like darker solids from a distance that m90 doesnt give any sharp outlines.

Does it help catch more duck ytho, YES or maybe i had a lucky day. Il choode to attribute it to the outfit so i have an excuse to buy more items in it.

The BPS i ordered comes in synthetic tacticool black so i think il give the furniture a spraypaint makeover. They actually sell templates for that camo. What to do about the metal tho, dont want to mess with the Blued finish in a way i cant easily undo. Any ideas? is there a product for that like a tape or something?