New study on deer vision...Do you stick out like a sore thumb???

[Cat Herder]

They see blue really well...

http://www.outdoorlife.com/blogs/big-buck-zone/2014/07/video-new-study-sheds-light-what-deer-see

I found the part where it talks about the anatomy of their eye indicating they do not have to be looking directly at you to see just as well as if they were...Might explain a few things...

 

[Laufen]

Red camo just won't probably make the "fashion" cut for most hunters.

 

[GeauxLSU]

Good link but I don't understand what is 'new' in that study?
It has long been known that blue is the primary color that 'stands out' in the wild for them (furthering that an entire industry sprung up with UV inhibitors) and that movement is the absolute hightest acuity they have regardless of color. So what is 'new'?
A test using colored LIGHT seems odd to me. Using non luminated color panels would seem to have proven far more practical (IF the goal was to detect visual ability in the wild).

 

[Comanche]

I stay about 15-20' up a tree.

My biggest fear is not camouflage but scent control and my own movement.

 

[Kornbread01]

Way back, right as the 500 square inches of orange became law, I used to spend every spare minute deer hunting, I could muster. Having NOT been schooled on various color spectrums & visual wavelengths at that time, I took it upon myself to experiment. Had a stand, high up in a leaning tree where all sorts of deer came through all the time. I would wear different colors , as I sat very still , for many days, kept a notebook. Most of the time deer would just wander by, like always sniffing, listening , looking up, down, all around. BUT every time I wore a solid blue outer garment, rain, shine, sun or cloudy those critters would spot me from way out, tense up & sometimes turn & go the other way. The solid bright orange would occasionally catch their attention, but not like the blue!