MissouriWhitetails.com
"Camo"
an article by D. Todaro
I don't know about the rest of you,
but to me, there isn't anything better than camo. Put quite simply, I love
camo. I'm not talking about just one particular pattern either. I'm
talking about 'ALL' camo, every single brand available.
My obsession with camo is something that I simply can not seem to overcome.
Take my camo hunting clothes for example. If I would go and unpack it all
and arrange it nicely on my bed, it would be apparent that I don't just stick to
one pattern or brand, heck no! Variety is the key here, I'm telling ya'.
You just can't be wearing the same pattern to the same woods every single day
during hunting season. In fact, you have to mix and match. What I
mean is, and as an example, you should wear a hat that is Realtree HD, a shirt
that is Mossy Oak Breakup, and pants that are of some other pattern. You
just can't be wearing everything that matches. If you did, it just seems
to me that you would be making yourself way too obvious in the deer and turkey
woods. Do you see what I'm saying here? If you are wearing a variety
of camo patterns, your going to be less noticeable. In other words, when
wearing several different camo patterns at once, it allows you to be better
concealed, more broken up to a deer or turkey's eye. Now do you follow?
Makes sense, doesn't it?
Have you ever really paid close attention to how other people wear their camo?
Maybe you haven't, I don't know, but I have. Maybe it's a girl thing, who
knows, but it seems to me that there are several different styles of how people
dress themselves for hunting season.
1) The "I Slept in my Camo and Just Rolled Out of Bed" look.
2) The "Mix and Match Camo, I Don't Give a Hoot" look. (My
preference).
3) The "I'm Dressed for the Camo Runway" look.
4) The "I Wear This Camo 24/7, 365 Days A Year" look.
(Another of my faves)
5) And the "I've just Spent My Kids Inheritance on My New Camo and
Don't I Look Pretty" look.
With all of this said, can any of you relate? If so, which one of these
camo adornment styles are you?
Let's try and break it all down.
The "I Slept in My Camo and Just Rolled Out of Bed" look. Now,
if I were a betting kind of gal, I'd bet that we have all done this at one time
or another. Am I right? Ok, I'll be the first to confess, so there!
This particular style comes in real handy on the ever so important opening
morning. You see, if you dress in your camo the night before, you'll save
on valuable time, allowing you to get to your stand on time. Makes great
sense, doesn't it?
The "Mix and Match Camo, I Don't Give A Hoot" look. Now, this my
friends is my absolute favorite style. This is the kind of style in which
you can let it all hang out, so to speak. What I mean is this: There
are NO photographers for Cosmopolitan magazine out there in them there deer or
turkey woods, so who gives a hoot what you look like.
The "I'm Dressed for the Camo Runway" look. Let's see now.
I'm not going to mention any names here, but I do happen to know of one or two
people to whom are totally convinced that while they are out there in them there
turkey and deer woods, photographers for Cosmopolitan are sure to venture by
their deer or turkey blind.
The "I Wear This Camo 24/7, 365 Day A Year" look. Is there
really any 'bad' time to wear camo? I am aware of one particular
person, and again, I won't mention any names here, that has been wearing the
same set of camo 24/7, 365 days per year X 10. I think it would be
safe to say that this particular person has had this same set of camo on for so
long, that I seriously doubt it is EVER coming off. That is, not
unless it is broken off of him in small pieces, since it has become something
that would resemble a suit of armor. Oh well. I guess that if
someone came by at the last minute to go hunting, he couldn't say he wasn't
ready, right? So, maybe this isn't such a bad thing after all.
And finally, the "I've just spent my kids' inheritance on my new camo and
don't I look pretty" look. Hmmmmm! Enough said on this one.
At any rate, do you remember when no one even wore camo, because it wasn't
available? I do, and I often think about the Indians running around the
woods in their birthday suits years ago, hunting deer and turkey. Can you
even imagine that? Those blackberry thickets and itch weed must have been
brutal. Ouch!
Camo, camo, camo! Everywhere you look nowadays, there is camo. Camo
undergarments for him and her, camo bed linens, camo curtains, camo pillows,
camo rugs, camo toilet seats, camo lamp shades, magnetic camo for your vehicle,
camo sunglasses, camo telephones, just to name a few. Don't ya' just love
it?
MoHuntress