By Land Podcast
This podcast is about learning how to have better backcountry experiences and understanding why spending time outside matters in the first place.
I have conversations with people from diverse outdoor backgrounds to learn from them and hear their personal stories. I cover everything from backpacking, hiking, hunting, conservation, and outdoor skills to the broader role the outdoors can play in our health, perspective, and everyday lives.
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-Emory, By Land
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#118 - Why You Should Consider Quitting Camouflage
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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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