#118 - Why You Should Consider Quitting Camouflage

The By Land Podcast

Out of the blue in 2017 I realized I had been sitting on a pile of camouflage hunting gear that I only used once a year during the hunting season. For the remainder of the year, it sat in boxes gathering dust. Literally thousands of dollars worth of camo that I wasn’t using and wouldn’t use anytime outside of the hunting season.

I concluded it was time to quit camouflage and swap those items out with solids in order to optimize my purchases. Since doing so, I haven’t looked back.

This episode is a spin-off of the original article I wrote called “3 Reasons You Should Consider Quitting Camouflage.” It has since become my MOST popular article on the site so I figured I’d do a full episode going through the 3 reasons I think YOU should consider quitting camouflage as well.

Show Notes and Links

• Episode introduction
• Clearing the air and setting the stage
• How I came to quit camouflage
• Reason #1: Cost Savings
• Reason #2: Camo is more about marketing than camouflage
• How we got into this camo fiasco in the first place
• Camouflage as a marketing tool
• Reason #3: More Options
• What and how deer and elk see
• Ultraviolet
• How to choose a camouflage pattern
• Final thoughts
• The original article with links: https://byland.co/blog/2017/12/11/3-reasons-you-should-consider-quitting-camouflage
• Visible Light Spectrum: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color

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