do you camo/test your equipment?

[340mag]

now if your one of those guys that enjoy taking 400-500 yard shots at ELK you need not read this,
but for those of you that truely enjoy the challange of getting in close before firing, and think a great deal of the satisfaction is in getting into well under 100 yards if you can, with a strong preferance for archey ranges before shooting ELK, you,LIKE I HAVE probably found that PROPERLY used CAMO is a BIG HELP!
BUT I can,t see wearing camo if you want the full potential,(WHICH IM A HUGE BELIEVER IN) and doing the job 1/2 way!
if you carry a rifle or scope with a highly reflective surface (flashy) or carry items that can click, clank and squeak while you walk,have a pak frame that constantly bumping your rifle as you walk,your wasting your efforts,
and I can,t see doing a 1/2 way job on any of my camo,(like with no face or hands camo, or a sling thats got CHROME buckles or sling swivels that squeak when they move)and your wasting your efforts,yet at times I see guys from thousands of yards away during ELK season, due to the sun reflecting off rifle stocks and barrels, theres several methods to stop this. I have a custom painted flat dull camo stock and a camo cloth sleeve that snaps over the scope & barrel, theres other ways to stop the highly reflective surfaces, what do you use!

how many of you gentelmen take the time to camo your rifle/equipment or at least dull the reflective surfaces and check that none of your equipmentmakes noise while you walk??

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its a simple plan! have the skill and use equipment that will effectively drop an ELK from 500 yards, like a 250 grain bullet from a 340 wby,then get into 50 yards before firing to allow for extra/ultra precise bullet placement!

 

[Mr.Redneck]

Completely camo, except for nose and eyes, due to having to wear glasses to see. Everything blends from feet to head, I am a big fan of gatornecks for camo of neck and face for two reasons, they'll keep you warm in the cold, and if it's warm, they tand to help keep the bugs off of me. I also have used some camo face paint and muted the letter on my bow, and while hunting from a tree stand, the quiver of my bow is always off, and hanging from a hanger as to eliminate the fletching of 5 extra arrows from busting me out. I too have seen many guys who went all out in one perspective, then let their big white face stick out like a sore thumb or sore whatever you like to call it. I use the same camo set up for gun hunting, except wear an orange vest and cap, and have a gunbrella for my muzzleloader. But what is even more important to me, is to be scent free. I you have the best camo in the world but smell to high heaven of cologne or body odor, the deer/elk will not let you get within a mile of them, unless you have a really good windage on them. Don't only disappear to their eyes, Disappear to their nose. I might even venture to say that scent control is even more important then camo, but I may be wrong.

:CAMO rocks:

Doug