need help choosing a camo pattern!

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i hunt around Santa Fe, NM. im really frustrated because i cannot find a camo pattern that best suits my needs and the enviroment. there are alot of juniper trees, sage brush along with open prairies with little grass. nothin too expensive like Kings. pretty much what i can buy at bass pro.
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heres moreless what kind of an area i usually hunt in
 
Don't worry too much about the pattern. Buy whatever you can afford and put the rest of your money in the fuel tank. Sitting still will bring you more success than anything else.
 
You can get a pair of camo coveralls from Sportsmans Guide, or Cabelas for just a few dollars. I prefer coveralls because I can take them off easily, and not look like John Rambo on the way home. Gloves, face masks are inexpensive too. I think anything that helps break up your outline would suffice. Good Luck.
 
Since you are in a vegetation sparse area, why not find a pair of khaki colored coveralls and add what little color you need, if any...As Predator Strikeforce said,,, sitting still will do you better than the most expensive camo...

An alternative would be to make your own ghillie to match the area, it just takes more effort and time...
 
Originally Posted By: mark shubertBam Bam, out on the grassland, I've had pretty good luck with really faded Carhartts, or regular camo (pretend to be a small bush!)


Ditto that. I've been using Predator Brown and I really like it. It's great up against those junipers. A brown ghillie top would also be excellent. I have the Sapper suite from AllPredatorCalls and I'm invisible in it in our terrain.

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Here's me in Predator Brown standing against a pine tree in my backyard:
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Dunno why your picture won't post- I tried it myself and it wouldn't. Must be a Facebook thing.
 
Even though I really like camo, mainly been buying sticks n limbs but I have shot more coyotes wearing Carhartt tan than anything.

I really like this stuff

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Originally Posted By: JackindistressNat Gear works really well in that kind of terrain.

I'm wearing Nat Gear in my avatar, but after taking pictures of myself in the field, I'm sold on big blocky patterns.
 
As a general rule while you should be camo, movement is the biggest factor in being seen....

Having said that here is something I've done while bow hunting to get that extra bit of camo...I have a few round elastic straps...They are the type of elastic you see inside the waist drawstring of a wind breaker or like the material those bands that girls use to secure their ponytails with...Anyhow I knotted them so they fit snugly around my chest and waste...I put the bands over whatever camo I'm wearing and then slip grass and stuff under the bands here and there. It gives you a 3D effect and obviously matches the background well....

Off the subject of camo, you can take the same kind of band and wear it around you chest...Slip you binoculars under it and position it so it is over the bino straps right near the eye pieces. The band will prevent the binocs from swinging around as you hunt, but when you want to use then, just bring them up to your eyes and your elastic strap will just crawl up the bino strap and you can look at what you want to see. When you put the binocs back down the round elastic will almost always crawl right back down to the binos eyepieces.....

It's a cheap and effective solution to swinging binoculars....
 
+1 on Nat Gear.

I've been to Santa Fe a couple times, and I think the digital camo would look pretty good in that terrain, but I'm no coyote.
 
Digital ACU works good in the sage here in the southern part of the state. I just got some ASAT but haven't used it enough to have an opinion. Like everyone says though, sitting still is the key.
 
Digital camo is good, too. Here's a picture of me in a Walls jacket. I was really surprised at how the digital kind of made it's own pattern:

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Here's a picture of me in Nat Gear:
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I dunno... it just doesn't break me up that much.

Don't overlook WWII. This is a 3' x 7' piece of WWII mesh camo that I cut a slit in and am wearing as a poncho. Cost was about $5 and you can ball it up and store it anywhere and wear it over just about anything. The poor man's ghillie suit.
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Go to Walmart in Santa Fe and get the camo that they are discounting. I was there last weekend and got two sets of insulated coveralls and two jackets 1 of them was insulated for around 85 bucks. I am sure they are lower now if there's any left.
 
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